AIRPORT-style arrivals and departures boards have appeared in a popular city centre garden.
The boards in the Pavilion Gardens, Brighton have caused confusion among passers-by after they first spotted earlier today.
But it has now been confirmed that the boards were created by artist duo Yara and Davina for the start of the Brighton Festival.
The installation will display names submitted by members of the public as a way of celebrating and commemorating birth, an arrival and death, a departure.
Visitors and passers-by can contribute names by asking a guide in the Pavilion Gardens or via mobile phone or laptop from anywhere in the world.
A specially designed programme of events, centred around the artwork, will be taking place throughout the month, including talks and workshops on the themes of birth, death and grief.
The Brighton Festival will take place throughout May with more than 90 performances, talks and installations, to be held outdoors, online and at select indoor venues with social distancing measures in place, when restrictions allow.
It means Brighton will be the first city in the UK to hold a multi-arts festival since lockdown.
Poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE has launched the 2021 festival programme as guest director, with the theme of "care".
Actress Jane Horrocks, children's author Jacqueline Wilson and poet Michael Rosen are among those to give talks and performances, as well as comedians Josie Long and Mark Watson, plus new work by theatre directors Neil Bartlett, Tim Crouch and Peter Sellars.
In total there will be 94 events, performances and installations from May 1 until to May 31, both as specially commissioned online projects, as livestreams and across outdoor and indoor locations, extending from Brighton to Worthing.
The Children’s Parade, which traditionally marks the opening day of the Festival, will be adapted into a visual spectacle along Brighton’s streets with colourful artwork made by schools and a photographic history to celebrate over 30 years of the event.
From May 17, provided government guidelines allow, live indoor and outdoor performances will open for socially-distanced audiences in venues re-opening for the first time since last year.
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