Celebrating Age 2006 was a unique event designed to highlight the creativity of older people while encouraging us all to reflect on our attitudes to ageing.
An exciting programme of performing and visual arts confronted negative images of ageing and a series of international and national conferences allowed older people to speak directly to policy and decision makers about the support and services they need to lead healthy, active and fulfilling lives.
Information and entertainment at the Brighton Centre complemented the conference activity. An exhibition highlighted the services and opportunities available to older people, while a community stage and café focused a rolling programme of performance and demonstration events.
With more than 50 events, most of them free, there was something for everybody. So if you wanted to dress up and dance the night away on an outdoor bandstand, listen to radical political debate, step back in time to the cinema of 1956, experience explosive contemporary dance on the beach or view the best contemporary visual art produced by older artists from across the UK, Celebrating Age 2006 was for you.
Centuries ago it was famously said “If youth knew; if age could”, We now know that age can do much more than was then thought possible – including helping youth to know more.
Sir Roy Shaw
Member of the Celebrating Age Steering Group,
Brighton & Hove resident
and retired Head of the Arts Council of Great Britain
You can download the full Festival Programme Brochure below or by each section as listed:
Full Festival Programme *[pdf 3,063kb]
Diary of Events [pdf 100kb]
Live & Outside [pdf 306kb]
Street Elders [pdf 298kb]
Live & Inside [pdf 345kb]
Visual Arts [pdf 513kb]
Open Houses [pdf 265kb]
Film [pdf 368kb]
Literature & Debate [pdf 206kb]
Workshops & Learning Opportunities [pdf 288kb]
Brighton Centre [pdf 270kb]
Shall We Dance, Brunswick Square, Saturday 29 July [pdf 253kb ]
*The full festival programme is a very large file (over 3mb) so has also been broken down into sections above to make it more accessible to download.
Celebrating Age is organised by Brighton & Hove City Council and Better Government for Older People (BGOP) in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Brighton & Hove Arts Commission.
Partner Organisations include: Age Concern England, Anchor Trust, Brighton & Hove City Primary Care Trust, Help The Aged and SEEDA.
