Toad Lickers Collective

Toad Lickers Collective Art collective based in Brighton & Sussex, telling tales, exploring alternative histories and often tempted to lick the sticky back of the art world 🐸

Thank you to everyone who joined us to make shadow puppets at !! It was great to be in such a weird (complimentary) and...
03/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us to make shadow puppets at !!

It was great to be in such a weird (complimentary) and welcoming space with members of the Phoenix Community 🔥Thanks so much to the Caravanserai team who have now packed up to move on to more adventures and to Esther from Cabbage Patches for helping make such cool puppets!

Toad Lickers and Phoenix Food Shop are working together to bring food, art and communities together- follow us to keep in touch ✨

13/05/2026

Meet Tanya, an American Anthropologist who travels to Indonesia in search of truth. What she finds is that the legend of the South Sea Queen is more than a
story... it's her fate!

26 May, 7.00pm
The Rose Hill
Tickets available now - pay what you can available

Some alternate posters for LADY TERMINATOR - see it at on 26 May, 7pmA gender-flipped retelling of James Cameron’s 80s ...
08/05/2026

Some alternate posters for LADY TERMINATOR - see it at on 26 May, 7pm

A gender-flipped retelling of James Cameron’s 80s classic combined with elements from Indonesian folklore combine for pure insanity, intense quotability and unforgettable gratuitous laser eye effects. You won’t have another chance to see this!!

SCREENING AS PART OF THE FEMININE URGE

Tickets on sale now in our bio ✨PWYC available!

Posters from our takeover in March 💚 which is your favourite?First pic by Mike B Designs
01/05/2026

Posters from our takeover in March 💚 which is your favourite?

First pic by Mike B Designs

20/03/2026

This Tuesday, OFFICE KILLER - tickets in bio!

Starring Carol Kane and Mollie Ringwald, New York photographer Cindy Sherman's only feature film follows unassuming loyal office worker Doreen as she reaches her limit in corpo-hell.

✨PWYC available - send us a message if you have any access concerns ✨

Not long to go until our March screening !! OFFICE KILLER is photographer Cindy Sherman’s only feature film , starring ...
10/03/2026

Not long to go until our March screening !!

OFFICE KILLER is photographer Cindy Sherman’s only feature film , starring Carol Kane as a meek secretary whose life is defined by the mundane horror of office culture.

When Dorine Douglas’ job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn’t know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.

Fairy stories, subcultures and ancient traditions haunt our modern cultures and ideas, but are they joyful sprites or mo...
02/03/2026

Fairy stories, subcultures and ancient traditions haunt our modern cultures and ideas, but are they joyful sprites or more malevolent tricksters? 🧚‍♂️

🌓In the shadow of the equinox, Toad Lickers Collective are crossing the downs for a Towner Lates takeover. Find your way through ethereal installations across the building to discover drop-in workshops themed around the light and dark sides of nostalgia, including:

Ground floor
🎱Make a paper fortune teller

Using prompts provided by Toad Lickers Collective, make a paper fortune teller and swap fates with a friend or stranger. Keep to take home or add to the fairy tree.

Second floor
🧪Slime making workshop

Explore the simultaneously generative and destructive nature of slime - from its history as a symbol of childhood rebellion to potential future applications, like the neural-network slime mould that could replace computer algorithms.

Come along to set intentions for the new season, make an offering to the sprites and dream of touching grass. 🌱

🎟️ Tickets can be purchased through , £5 advanced or £10 on the door

Mass hysteria alert! 🤭✨THE FEMININE URGE is a series of screenings in Brighton themed around alternative depictions of f...
04/12/2025

Mass hysteria alert! 🤭✨THE FEMININE URGE is a series of screenings in Brighton themed around alternative depictions of femininity, where violence, psychopathy and dissociation define female leads.

The selected films look at the changing nature of feminine archetypes, with a move towards the ‘girlboss’ as a loyal subject of capitalism. In late-stage capitalism, girlboss culture relies on social expectations of femininity to enact a quiet evil - maintaining the status quo through a veil of softness, care and subjugation.

The women on screen in THE FEMININE URGE represent a dystopian end-point for the deadly combination of quiet servitude and internal rage that capitalist-feminism feeds on, but in some cases also a cathartic and pure form of evil through urge fulfilment that rebels directly against societally-forced identities.

We’re starting with John Waters’ SERIAL MOM in January - tickets are on sale now via

Stay tuned for more exciting news 🗞️ on this killer series 🔪

25 Nov, 7pm THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM 🪱 BrightonGet your tickets at the link in our bio for Ken Russel’s crazy, sexy &...
13/11/2025

25 Nov, 7pm THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM 🪱 Brighton

Get your tickets at the link in our bio for Ken Russel’s crazy, sexy & surreal take on Bram Stoker’s novel.

Starring Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Donahue as the worm woman they just can’t get out of their heads! 🫦

We’re expanding to the midlands! ⚡️We’re looking for new creative friends, venues and galleries to visit and host in, op...
12/11/2025

We’re expanding to the midlands! ⚡️We’re looking for new creative friends, venues and galleries to visit and host in, open access makers spaces, artists we should know and any other recommendations you have! 🖍️

📍Based in South Staffs (near spooky Cannock Chase and medieval Lichfield) and looking all around: Brum, Black Country, Derby, Notts and all the way up to Stoke and Manc…

You may or may not know that Toad Lickers is core run by two of us.🧑‍💻 While one stays and continues our work in Brighton ⛱️, the other is heading home to the Midlands to renovate a narrowboat for a life on the cut (yes my accent is already coming back 🙏).

💭We’re interested in folklore, nature, internet culture, heritage, social history, pop culture, storytelling and the spooky, to name a few!🌿

🤝We started TLC as a way to connect and work with people we admired, host events and get to know our community (and try and make the arts more inclusive). We want our collective to be fluid, so anyone can be a Toad Licker. 🐸

Our dream is to one day go all over the place with our workshops and events.🚀 Head to our website if you want to find out more about working with us or having us come do a workshop. ✂️ We’re also open to collab with other DIY projects and creatives.

Tara-a-bit x

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Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Road
Eastbourne
BN214

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