This year the annual festival received no public funding so hats off to the organisers for keeping the show on the A259. Events have been organised between Eastbourne and Rye, including the Open Studios trail over the first two weekends. There’s painting, sculpture, photography, music and cinema. Oh, and In your shell-like, a poetry sound […]
An interesting cast of writers have been booked to talk at the latest edition of this well-curated festival, which has been running since 2018. These include Tom Crewe, one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023 and winner of this year’s Orwell Prize for his historical novel The New Life; Nigel Planer, of Young […]
The 52nd edition of this popular festival offers a fortnight of arts-related activities and events, including author talks, tours, concerts and drama. Highlights include talks by Baroness Brenda Hale, President of the Supreme Court (of spider brooch fame) and Radio 4 presenter Michael Rosen, concerts by folk guitarist Martin Simpson and the Fay Hield Trio, […]
Disregard George V’s last words, and head down to Bognor for a weekend of folk music, much of it for free, centred round the Waterloo Square area of town. There’s a ukelele festival, a ‘Shanty Showdown’, a dance festival and music sessions from the likes of Celtic/Klezmer/you-name-it band The Jigantics, Cornish folk rockers 3 Daft […]
Shoreham Wordfest makes its return this autumn with a wonderful programme featuring high profile writers and performers alongside showcases of local creativity. Appearing this year will be Lemn Sissay, who will be giving a talk on his new poetry collection Let the Light Pour In. There are also theatre productions, including a version of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives […]
Selected as one of the best shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe by Time Out, The Times and The Stage. What if success doesn’t look like winning a Nobel Prize (or just managing to get a mortgage) but is more about becoming your true self? Sufficiently disillusioned with her theatre career that she shoved cake into a woman’s […]
The first live performance at the newly refurbished Corn Exchange will be the latest show by physical theatre company Gecko. Kin is their eighth production, and there’s bound to be a youthful audience: Gecko, whose shows reflect the complexities of modern life, are a recommended practitioner on GCSE and A-level theatre and drama syllabuses. Kin […]
The Berlin-based Colombian experimental electronic musician, composer and sound artist Lucrecia Dalt performs from ¡Ay!, The Wire’s album of the year 2022. ‘…philosophically daring, technically ambitious, and a joy to experience.’ 8.6/10 Pitchfork ‘A Stunning Sci-Fi Pop Opera.’ The Quietus ‘On ‘¡Ay!’, the tropical music of Lucrecia Dalt’s childhood becomes avant-garde sci-fi.’ NPR
