Early Music Festival's last three weekends, from Purcell to Stanmer Park

The Brighton Early Music Festival^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} is past its first weekend and has three to go. This year’s theme is Bringers of Dreams, and the programme runs until Sunday 25 October.

Going needn’t cost much. £5 Prom tickets, for standing or restricted-view places, are sold online and on the door for most events. Under-30s get half-price seats at most concerts, as do people on Universal Credit or Pension Credit, and children under 12 go free with a paying adult.

The second weekend opens with Purcell’s The Fairy Queen on Friday 9 October at 7.30pm at St George’s Church. The London Handel Players are joined by singers from the festival’s Emerging Artists scheme in a semi-staged version of the Shakespeare-inspired masque. Tickets are £32, £25 or £18.

On Saturday 10 October the same young ensembles play a clubnight at The Rose Hill pub, from 8.30pm. Tickets are £8, it’s mostly standing, and it starts earlier than in previous years.

Also from 9 October, Fabrica hosts One Song, a free audio-visual installation by the artist Kadir Karababa. He worked with refugee and migrant communities in Brighton, asking people to share a song that takes them back to the place they first called home. It runs until 28 October at 40 Duke Street, open every day except Monday.

The third weekend, 16 to 18 October, leans on John Dowland, who died 400 years ago. Saturday 17 October is Dowland Day, opening with a 1pm concert at St Nicholas Church by the tenor Kieran White and the viol consort Republic of Viols, playing songs of sleep and melancholy (£16).

In the final weekend, the BREMF Community Choir sings medieval and Renaissance music for St Francis of Assisi, 800 years after his death, at St Paul’s Church on Friday 23 October at 7.30pm (£20).

On Saturday 24 October there is a family singing workshop at Fabrica at 10.30am, for children of primary age with a parent or grandparent. It costs £5 per family.

The festival ends with a SongPath walk in Stanmer Park on Sunday 25 October, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm. Two singers, an oboist and a viol player take part, and it finishes with a glass of apple juice in Home Farm Orchard, courtesy of Brighton Permaculture Trust. Tickets for the walk are £10, and under-12s go free.