Today's idea - The Moving Image Exhibiton

Today, "See movement and time unfold" at Hove Museum in their new exhibition which opened last week. The exhibition, The Moving Image, contrasts how movement is shown in both photography and art, and whilst aimed at families, children, and students, it looks set to be interesting for all human beings.

"Eadweard Muybridge was a 19th century photographer who was the first to develop photographic sequences of moving objects. Placing studies in his famous series Animal Locomotion alongside paintings, engravings and drawings selected from Brighton & Hove Museums’ Fine Art Collection, reveals how artists can represent movement even within a static image.

Muybridge’s studies – including cats, horses and elephants – show his understanding of motion as an event taking place in a sequence of phases. Traditionally in fine art, however, movement is communicated through a single significant moment. The Moving Image illustrates the many ways in which we can ‘see’ movement and time unfold."

The Moving Image will be accompanied by activities for families, such as the creation of flicker-books and optical toys.

Moving Images is free and runs until September the 1st. Find it on the top floor of the Hove Museum, and find it on the map here.

Find some kids and go to see Penguin, the puppet show

I was considering if writing a kids-related event was a bad idea, but I'm excited about this one as opposed to disinteresting kids' nonsense, although I feel I'm too old to attend. 'Penguin' is a lovely puppet show that's come to Brighton and become immediately sold out.

I saw the book 'Penguin' on which the show's based (I imagine it doesn't stray far from the plot line) in the Tate Modern bookshop during summer and got very excited. Kindly someone bought me the book for Christmas which whilst this may be going a tad too far, it's very nice and I'm not-so-secretly thrilled it's come to Brighton.

"Long Nose Puppets are proud to present their spectacular new show Penguin, adapted from the award winning book by Polly Dunbar. Ben is delighted when he rips open his present and finds a penguin inside. "Hello, Penguin!" says Ben. Penguin says nothing. What can Ben do to make Penguin speak? Follow the twists and turns of this wonderful tale, in which a silent Penguin turns marvelously eloquent and a little boy finally gets his heart's desire."



Twists and turns there are, and today is a good day to see it since it's one of the few that isn't sold out. Today you can see it at 11am and 2pm, and if you have kids they'll love it - get babysitting for the excuse to go. It's very cute and adorable, there's a lion involved, and you might like it too.

"Penguin is a perfect peach." Write Away

"Hilarious and really rather cute" Bookseller

Buy tickets online from Komedia.

If you're looking to go another day, a list of available dates can be found on the Komedia website.