Lindfield Arts Festival 2019

16 - 22 September 2019

Colouring Competition

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This year we are hosting a colouring competition! We are inviting all residents of Mid Sussex under the age of 12 to show off their artistic talents and get a chance to win prizes!

Contestants can choose to colour in the image of either Luke or Lucy, which were designed by the winner of the 2018 Lindfield Arts Festival Bursary, Tom Mackewn.

The competition has three different age categories; under 5’s, 5-7 and 8-11. The winner of each category will be chosen by the winner of the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival Bursary alongside a Lindfield Arts Festival Trustee. The winners will each receive a prize of vouchers to a local craft shop to continue to encourage their artistic talents!

Contestants can either download the pictures of Luke or Lucy from the links below to print out and colour in or they can pick them up in person from the Lindfield Arts Festival Stand on The Common on Village Day, the 1st of June 2019. Entries can be submitted in person to our Village Day Stand or they can be sent in the post to: Lindfield Arts Festival Competition, 1 Pine Cottage, Pondcroft Road, Lindfield RH16 2HQ. The closing date for entries is the 3rd of June 2019 and the winners will be contacted after this date, before the winning entries are then posted on our website.

Good luck and get colouring!

The image of Lucy can be downloaded here.

The image of Luke can be downloaded here.

More terms and conditions can be downloaded here.

 

Brightly coloured and full of life

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Lindfield Arts Festival has a fresh new look to celebrate it’s 10th anniversary. Designed by local artist and #LAF designer Sarah Reynolds, this is a colourful, creative and completely innovative look to the marketing you’ll see for this year’s Festival.  Watch out for the newsletter, articles in Lindfield Life for more news of the developing programme.

Let us know what you think of this image.

Festival fundraising is underway with an event at Paxhill and Tamasha attracting many guests. Book now if you want to join us, places are going fast and are nearly sold out.

Planned fundraising events will include a dinner at The Limes in conjunction with Southdown Cellars [probably in June 2019] and a pub quiz later in the year.  Lindfield Village Day, you will find us on The Common with more information on the September festival, a colouring competition and a raffle for large M&S Hamper thanks to NatWest sponsorship along with the opportunity to buy a #Bagforlife #LAF shopping bag  for just £5.00.

Events and activities will begin on Monday 16th September, and end on Sunday 22nd September with a full day of family activities and performances on Saturday 21st September.

More information from enquiries at lindfieldartsfestival.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Super prizes from our locals

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You will have seen or heard that Lindfield Arts Festival is holding a couple of fundraising events in the next couple of months or so.

The first, 29th March 2019 at Paxhill will feature Jo Kimber, Jazz Singer and John Moore as well as an exhibition of previous festivals as we celebrate our tenth anniversary. Tickets can be booked through Ticketsource. 

There will also be plenty to entertain you including complimentary food and drinks from 7.30-10.00pm.

Of course as a fundraising evening, you will be encouraged to purchase ‘tickets’ to win The Superprize.  For full details of the prizes, download the full list here.

Lindfield’s local retailers, restaurants and businesses have been so generous, offering vouchers that total over £1000. Yes, £1000 worth of vouchers  on offer to the winning guest. We would like to thank them all, most sincerely for their thoughtfulness and their generosity in supporting the Festival.

Big shout out of THANKS to all of them:

Caragon Boutique
Copthorne Golf Club
Cottenhams Butchers
Denziloe Hair Design
Dolphin Leisure Centre
Field & Forest
Firefly Fitness
Flint physiotherapy
Foxy Feet Shoes
Homesmiths
Kell & Collins
King Edward Hall Cinema
La Touche
Lindfield Golf Club
Linear Health & Fitness
Linear Health & Fitness
Paul’s Greengrocer
Penny Black
Potential Personal Training
Six Physio
Slake Coffee shop
Snowdrop Inn
Somers Vintage Tea Room
SWALK

The Stand Up

Giant 18ft Tree Man at Lindfield Arts Festival!

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Move over Stick Man with your stick Lady Love and your stick children three. This autumn it’s all about Arbor the colossal tree man! This sky-scraping walkabout puppet is part man, part tree and towers over you at 18ft tall!

Follow him as he strides between the trees and emerges with his cart full of tree saplings. Arbor tells the story of a tree pushed from his home and his fight to preserve his future. You’ll learn how Arbor came to be thanks to amazing puppetry and beautiful visual storytelling. This special LAF family-friendly event will encourage the audience to plant and nurture their own trees. Arbor will give each family a native tree sapling to take home, leaving a legacy that will last for generations.

Part man, part tree and 18 feet tall. Meet Arbor. Follow Arbor as he strides around, vanishing between trees and emerging with his cart full of tree saplings. Arbor tells the story of a tree pushed from his home and his fight to preserve his future, featuring amazing puppets, and beautiful visual storytelling, we learn how Arbor came to be. Encouraging the audience to plant and nurture their own trees, Arbor will give each family a sapling to take home, leaving a legacy that will last for generations. It was a really nice touch that they hand out saplings to children at the end, it gives them something sustainable and environmental to think about. Derby Telegraph Arbor: https://youtu.be/7VNeLfo2jm4

Fundraising events

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Come and support our fun and exciting fundraising efforts.  Book Now 

Preparations are underway for an exclusive evening of drinks, art and jazz in aid of this year’s Lindfield Arts Festival. LAF patrons Chris and Clare Bradbury will be hosting the ticketed event at their magnificent Paxhill residence on Friday 29th March. For further information email enquiries [at] lindfieldartsfestival [dot] com.  Tickets are strictly limited.  Jo Kimber will be entertaining our guests, marvel at the previous years’ accomplishments and exhibitions and meet the 2018 Bursary winner, Tom Mackewn.

On Monday 29th April the fundraising continues with a dinner at Tamasha with Bollywood entertainment and a superb buffet menu of Pappadoms, 4 types of main courses, two sides, rice and naan bread to share.

As a charity we rely on the generosity of our individual and business donors. Their continued commitment to the arts and the local community will help us bring you an exciting programme of events this autumn.

Paxhill Fundraising event

 

 

Tamasha Restuarant – Fundraising evening with Bollywood entertainment

Applications are Open

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It’s  the 10th Anniversary this year, and Lindfield Arts Festival is already proving to be bigger and better than ever before. For a start, we will have events running from Monday 16th September right through to Sunday 22nd September. There will plenty of performances, activities and workshops for all ages.

And if you want to be part of the festival, now is the time to apply. At the same time, we are looking for Bursary applications for this year’s £1000 award. Express your interest. Our 2018 winner Tom Mackewn is currently designing our #LAF2019 image which we will publicise shortly.

Applications are now welcomed for performers, bands, poets, actors, artists, crafts people, entertainers, authors, workshop leaders and more.  Please read the Terms & Conditions before completing the relevant survey form. We want to hear from you.

We have some innovative attractions to whet your appetite for #LAF2019. For example the Arbor Man will encourage you, as the audience, to plant and nurture your own trees: Arbor will give each family a sapling to take home, leaving a legacy that will last for generations.

Certainly an excellent reason to put 21st September 2019 in your diary.  See video below.

 

The image is from the #LAF2011 festival when Fun Pots ran a design your own tile workshop for children and we made a plaque that was subsequently donated to the King Edward Hall as a lasting legacy.

Welcome to #LAF2019

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Despite ‘rain stopping play’ over the Festival weekend, the LAF team are delighted to report that all feedback has been most positive and that they are ‘up for’ the 2019 Festival.

#LAF2019 is the tenth anniversary and there are some great plans afoot for marking this celebration.  Please watch this space and see how plans develop.

Volunteers, we would love to hear from you soonest.

Performers, workshop leaders and artists, registration documentation will be online from 1st January 2019.

Bursary Applications will also be open on 1st January 2019.