Burning the Clocks: Fallow Year

Burning the Clocks will not be taking place in 2025. We will be back in 2026!

Burning the Clocks will be taking a fallow year in 2025. This is to allow us time to focus our resources and to strategically review and secure the long-term future for Same Sky. We’re a small but powerful charity that has connected communities through shared art projects since we began in 1987 – but in recent years alongside many other small arts charities we’ve faced immense funding challenges.

Burning the Clocks will return in-full in 2026. The 2026 effigy has already been commissioned with the theme, ‘Magicada’, representing a symbolic rest followed by a noisy awakening.

The massive lantern sculpture designed & built by Same Sky associate artist Nikki Gunson will be displayed publicly this year in Central Brighton on Sunday 21 December 2025. 

If you would like to support Burning the Clocks and its return please consider making a donation by clicking the link above.