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Introduction
The
Brighton & Hove Virtual Festival brings a new
dimension to the festivities and general carrying on
that take place in Brighton and Hove during the merry
month of May. There's the International Arts
Festival, a Fringe Festival, Europe's largest
festival of street theatre and our own virtual take
on the whole thing.
This is the sixth annual Virtual Festival and, as
in previous years, we've prepared a number of events
and projects that will use cyberspace to enhance and
expand the Festival.
Brighton & Hove Virtual Festival 2003
is organised by Sussex Community Internet
Project.
SCIP started running the Virtual Festival in 1998
as the Internet, email and web pages started to hit
the public consciousness. Many people were starting
to hear about the wonders of the Net but relatively
few were actually getting access to it.
In the past five years we have run two big events
in the Corn Exchange, a series of outdoor events from
Rottingdean Beach to Hove Lawns, via Pavilion Gardens
and St. Anns Wells Gardens. We've held events in
community centres, libraries, bars, cybercafes, pubs
and (of course) in cybercspace.
We have run taster sessions for young people, old
people and all ages in between. We've looked at
business uses for the Net, its influence on education
and the ways that it can help build stronger
communities. We've been trying to put technology in
its place - showing it as a tool for information and
communications for everyone, not just the few who can
afford it.
Taking the hype out of
hyperspace...
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