Arrivals + Departures

Following its US premiere, presented in New York by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in March- April, Arrivals + Departures returns to the UK to start a tour to outdoor festivals across England.  

Commencing with Brighton Festival, the boards will be located in the historic Pavilion Gardens in the heart of the city.  Visitors and passers-by can contribute names by asking a guide on site between the times specified or via arrivalsanddepartures.net, anywhere in the world. 

Listen to Yara + Davina on Radio Reverb. Local people in Brighton tell the artists about the song they would like played at their funeral, ahead of the Arrivals + Departures opening:

As part of a special programme of related events, the public are invited to engage more deeply with the themes of birth and death. This will includes the special one-hour radio show and podcast for local radio station Radio Reverb, in which listeners are asked to submit a song they would like played at a birth or at their funeral. Other online events include:

• Birth Café: Sunday 2 May, 2-4pm (GMT). Hosted by Laura Godfrey-Isaacs.  
• Death Café: Tuesday 4 May, 7-8.15pm (GMT). Hosted by Louisa Parsons and Nicolette Thornton, Brighton Death Café
• Re-defining Grief: Thursday 6 May, 7.30-9pm (GMT). Panel discussion hosted by Emma Curtis (Funeral Celebrant and Grief & Resilience Therapist) with special guest Cara Mair Funeral Director (founder of Arka Original Funerals) and YARA + DAVINA
• Brighton’s Stories: Saturday 8 May, 7.30 – 9pm (GMT). Marking the closure of the Arrivals + Departure boards in Brighton, this year’s festival guest director and poet Lemn Sissay will be reading every story that has been submitted during the festival period. This event will be live-streamed.