The central objective of the Brighton Jazz All Stars is to advance public education in Jazz and World music culture by the provision of educational programmes and activities in the Brighton and Hove area.

Brighton Jazz All-Stars aims to establish its work in the following areas:

• To facilitate professional development and explore adequate resourcing of the artists development
• To attract and develop new audiences for Jazz, World music and arts, both within the Diaspora and beyond.
• To stimulate public debate and increase awareness of the impact of Jazz World music and arts on contemporary arts practice.
• Encourage the active participation of schools, colleges and local communities in Jazz and World music and arts programmes.
• Research and Develop Jazz and World music arts programmes.

What BJAS want to achieve :

1. To encourage new audiences to experience high-quality arts activities and bring together many art forms such as: visual arts and live music staging the ‘celebrating of the African Ancestry and Iconography’ Brighton.
2. To strengthen the existing programme of educational outreach work through the project, encouraging and developing participation in the arts activity and getting young people actively involved in arts and cultural activities.
3. To present a series of participatory events including workshops, skill displays and performances by young people following outreach work. Developing and understanding and knowledge of African Diaspora visual art, music and poetry in schools and colleges.
4. To use the community contacts and networks of BJAS to encourage underprivileged audiences to attend high-quality events at mainstream arts venues both by involvement in ‘hands-on’ workshops and subsidised ticket prices.
5. To support newly commissioned work and help it to develop its audience. The project will help Brighton Jazz All stars to promote and commission new inter-disciplinary work among African Diaspora-influenced artists, by presenting the work in mainstream venues together with events outlining the main contours of African Diaspora art, thought and practice.
6. The project will stimulate public debate and increase awareness of the impact of African Diaspora arts/culture on the contemporary arts practice in the UK. Also the project will be an education forum for people to see the contemporary of the traditional and provide comparisons to traditions around the world.
7. The project will create an autonomous network of individuals, groups and organisations so that people may be introduced into community arts infrastructures.