‘Damian Rice meets Norah Jones’. Andy Barlow’s (from Lamb) new featured vocalist is ‘a natural beauty who performs delicate, soulful melodies with poetic lyrics that embrace the room with waves of emotion’. Accompanied by Rowan Sterk on percussion and James Stathatos on double bass. Check out her new solo release at carrietree.com and her collaboration with Andy Barlow at lowb.co.uk

My paintings are experiential and open up new ways in which we consume our surroundings. I work with layers of thick and thin colour, washed over layers of paint and inks. Traces are left by assorted marks, lines straight, curved or gestural, surfaces wiped, dripped and spattered; all adding to an eventual sense of accumulation and the essence of time.

Graphic design as an extreme sport. Andie Airfix talks about the challenges working with music’s ‘megastars’ including Metallica, Thompson Twins, Stones, Doa, Leppard, Zeppelin and more. Talk dates, Q&As: 10, 11 (Def Leppard) 17, 18 (Metallica) 12, 19, 24 (Music design; Early Days) 8, 15, 22, 25 (Music design; Latter Days) Free exhibition of Airfix’s graphics: 6-25 May, 10am -6pm. Shop, bar.

'Andrew and the Pony' seeks the truth where others dare not, a bit like Indiana Jones where they end up in a cave drinking elixir but without that scary whip and the Nazis. A force majeure of storytelling, song, accompanying evidence via video links. Future reviews might say "The Pony had a lovely smile" (Equine Weekly)

Acclaimed character comedian and internet sensation, Anna Morris, brings her smash-hit Edinburgh, Camden and Glasgow Fringe show to Brighton. A darkly sweet collection of comedy treats and six delightful dolls to charm and surprise you. “A great debut hour…beautifully crafted” (Independent), “Spot on darkly comic characters…one to watch” (Huffington Post) **** (The Skinny) **** (Broadway Baby) **** (Spoonfed) **** (Edfringereview)

Disaster in the Arctic. Only the Captain survives. Should he die with his men, or return home? Hero or coward? A gripping play echoing the tales of Shackleton and Franklin. Captivating new writing from a Chichester Festival Theatre Young Playwright. A perfect insight into the mind of a man completely alone, but with the expectations of an Empire upon him.

Zion Dance Company (ZDC) is not your mother’s dance company. Premiering three pieces of fresh dance-theater that inspire and surprise. A 55 minute evening of exhilarating dance-theater, dichotomy between ferocity and vulnerability, wildness and refinement, ZDC takes traditional dance expectations and slaps them in the face. These fearless dance artists grab tight and do not let go.

Find our bar and boutique stage at The Famous Spiegel Garden where a daily performance space will be on offer for all. Follow @aperolspritzUK for more information on how to apply and audition #321SpritzStage Afternoon & evening slots available.

Professor Ian Parker, co-director of Discourse Unit, will present ‘Neo-liberalism and the Strong State in Higher Education: Psychology today’. The university as an institution has been subject to neo-liberal reforms, with an intensification of surveillance and control and an intensification of interest in individual subjectivity. Quantity and quality in the service of power: welcome to the ‘change agenda’.

Tax evasion, avoidance and non-collection cost £120 billion while benefit fraud was below £5 billion (2010). Katy Clark MP, Mark Serwotka (PCS leader) and Owen Jones discuss who’s really scrounging. With over 24 times as much lost to tax cheats, why do we hear little about them but so much about benefit scroungers? We discuss inequalities in tax and welfare.