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The University of Sussex is throwing open the doors of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on Thursday, October 23 for push.to.play – the debut showcase from PATCH, a bold new collective of students, staff and alumni.

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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Now something

00:07really interesting is brewing at the University of Sussex at the Attenborough Centre for the

00:12Creative Arts. Thursday, October the 23rd, it's going to be Push to Play. And it's the

00:17debut showcase from Patch. Now what is Patch? Lovely to speak to you, Jordina. What is Patch?

00:23Nice to speak to you too. Patch is a student, staff and alumni collective from the University

00:30of Sussex. It's a network of people who are all interested in putting on events that celebrate

00:37curiosity and play. And what links all the students and is that interest is it? That is, yeah, that's

00:44what links us. So we all really want to put on things that celebrate the fact that none of us

00:53know what we're really doing. You never really know what you're truly doing.

00:57How nice that you admit that.

00:59Yeah, no one ever does. Events that celebrate research and passion, you know, events that

01:10feature artists that are niche, are a little bit weird, might not get highlighted in other

01:17shows. And yeah.

01:20And this is the debut show then. How do you see Patch developing from here? What are the

01:25aims behind it, do you think?

01:28So we want to keep putting on shows. We are all at the moment associated with Sussex University,

01:36but at some point we might move on to celebrating works that may not be associated with the

01:44university. That's, yeah, we always want to just celebrate what we are drawn to. And, you know,

01:52if we move on from the university, then we might be drawn to something else. But always curiosity,

01:57always play.

01:59Are you thinking in terms of regular events from Patch?

02:03Yeah, perhaps. We're going to be exploring other venues as well. The Attingborough Centre is,

02:08of course, an amazing venue in terms of programme. The programme really, really celebrates electronic

02:17events and it really celebrates the niche, you know, more than other Brighton venues do.

02:26So we absolutely love to keep our events at the ACCA. But if, you know, if we move on to other

02:33venues and, yeah, there are lots of lovely venues at Brighton that we'd love to put together.

02:38And how long has this been in the planning? That you're going public with it on October

02:42the 23rd?

02:43January. Yeah, since January, we've been planning it. It started off as Louis, one of the organisers,

02:51put on a student showcase at the Rose Hill. And I attended and I was absolutely blown away.

02:58The talent that was in Sussex that wasn't, you know, indie. It wasn't rock. You know, lots of the

03:06shows that I've been to before in Brighton really celebrate Sussex University as, you know,

03:12quite normal music with stuff I've heard before. But, you know, this showcase celebrated something

03:17that I don't hear as much of. And that was, you know, modular electronic works. And so

03:24this is really off the beaten track stuff. Yeah. A little bit. I mean, Brighton is obviously full

03:29of electronic musicians. But I don't think Sussex University is celebrated as having incredible

03:36electronic musicians. And of course we do. It's a really big part of the course. But yeah,

03:42it's, you know, kind of overshined by BIM and Brighton because they are the more creative,

03:48but, you know, we're very research based, which is something that you really need for music

03:52like this. And it's such an intriguing variety you've got on the day, haven't you? Fabulous

03:57range of things. You must be pleased with the way it's come together.

04:01Really, really pleased. It's a really good mix of past students, current past students and

04:09staff. I think it's really important to highlight the incredible staff that we have at the university.

04:14Yeah. So as organisers, how will you evaluate the day? What are you looking for on that day for it to

04:22be the sets you want it to be?

04:24Oh, well, the sets I know are going to be great. I have absolutely no worries for the sets.

04:30What I kind of want is I want the demographic to be people who have not yet discovered the Attenborough

04:38Centre or people who have not yet discovered that there is such a community for music like this.

04:44At the university and in Brighton. Freshers would be amazing if freshers could attend and make

04:51like-minded friends and make connections and form communities. That would be my dream for this

04:57event. I'm not worried about the performers. I know they're going to be amazing. The sets are

05:01going to be brilliant. Fantastic. Well, it sounds genuinely exciting. It's University of Sussex,

05:07Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Thursday, October the 23rd, push to play. Do people need

05:13tickets in advance? How do they attend? Yeah. Yeah. So you can buy tickets on the Attenborough Centre

05:19for Creative Arts website with concessions available for students and for, if you want to buy a concession

05:27ticket, buy a concession ticket. Fantastic. And they're also available on DICE, but concession is

05:32not on DICE. So Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts website. Fantastic. Well, I hope it's the success

05:38it deserves to be. And I hope we hear lots more of Patch. Good luck with the whole thing. Hope it goes

05:43brilliantly. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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