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vivabrighton<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> 39. <strong>May</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
EDITORIAL<br />
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It started with the Latin word ‘festum’, a feast, more than just a meal.<br />
And then the adjective, ‘festivus’, from which we get ‘festive’. This, in<br />
Old French, turned into the word ‘festival’, which came over with the<br />
Normans, and, still just an adjective, got used to describe certain religious<br />
days, which got all mixed up with all the old pagan celebrations.<br />
As a first-recorded-use example, the OED quotes Milton, from 1598,<br />
‘The morning trumpets festival proclaimed, through each high street’.<br />
Once music gets involved, it’s a short hop from there to an arts festival,<br />
a feast of culture: the oldest in England is the Three Choir Festival in Hereford, Gloucester<br />
and Worcester, which dates back to 1719. The <strong>Brighton</strong> Festival is a relative newcomer: it<br />
started in 1967, which means that this is its 50th edition… which calls for more trumpets.<br />
In <strong>May</strong>, in and around <strong>Brighton</strong>, there’s an absolute explosion of festivals, of all shapes and<br />
forms, which doesn’t start dying down until the end of summer. This month alone, as well<br />
as THE Festival, there’s (take a deep breath) HOUSE, <strong>Brighton</strong> Fringe, the Great Escape,<br />
Artists’ Open Houses, the <strong>Brighton</strong> & Hove Food & Drink Festival, Foodies, the Charleston<br />
Festival, the Village of Type, the Glyndebourne Festival, and, starting off the wellies-and-tent<br />
season, Elderflower Fields. Beyond that… how long have you got? Our theme this month, of<br />
course, is ‘festival’. Within these pages there’s loads of festival-related stuff. We say: pick up the<br />
relative programmes, get some tickets, and indulge yourself. Enjoy the month…<br />
THE TEAM<br />
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EDITOR: Alex Leith alex@vivamagazines.com<br />
DEPUTY EDITOR: Steve Ramsey steve@vivamagazines.com<br />
ART DIRECTOR: Katie Moorman katie@vivamagazines.com<br />
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Jim Stephenson, JJ Waller, Joda, Joe Decie, John Helmer, Julia Zaltzman, Lizzie Enfield, Mark Bridge, Martin Skelton and Nione Meakin<br />
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