Lindfield Arts Festival 2019

16 - 22 September 2019

Weaving Workshop with Jess McGahan

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This introduction to loom weaving workshop is open to adults and children.

This workshop will be led by local fibre artist, Jess McGahan on Sunday 22nd September from 10.00am to 1.00pm in the King Edward Hall Library.

Using a selection of fibres, adults will learn how to create a bespoke woven wall hanging, focussing on the basic techniques of tapestry weaving. Children will be taught to make a colourful, one of a kind bookmark of their own design.

All attendees will be provided with a craft loom which they will be able to keep to continue their weaving projects at home.

Materials will be provided to inspire your designs.

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A very hungry caterpillar

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Come along to the Articulture Workshop to enjoy a fun, creative morning for kids!

Art with a horticultural theme for kids. A hands on painting workshop for children from as young as 3 years old. With some simple tuition and a little help from the ‘garden gang’ (and maybe mum or dad) children can produce awesome pictures of trees and flowers to take home with them, egg box bugs and pollinators and also help to create a very hungry caterpillar.

This will be fun for all, but might get a little messy (so old clothes might be best).

Balcombe and Lindfield Dance School Performance

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Balcombe and Lindfield Dance School was founded in 2003 and has grown from twenty students in one branch to over two hundred students in three branches. Students from the aged from two to sixteen years old enjoy weekly ballet, tap and modern dance classes whilst also working towards their exams, dancing at the school’s friendly and fun Holiday Dance Camps and performing at events like Lindfield Arts Festival.

The school is delighted to be performing again at the Lindfield Arts Festival and you can see them perform at the nave in the United Reform Church on Saturday 21st September between 10:00 and 10:45am. More information about Balcombe and Lindfield Dance School can be found on their Facebook page here.

Poi Passion Circus Skills

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Poi passion Kate Wright‘s enthusiastic instructors will host a colorful space and entertain visitors at the Festival.

The lively circus area will offer up to 14 different types of equipment, atmospheric circus music, interactive shows and you’re outdoors so they create a colorful space with bunting. These play areas are designed to bring circus magic and happiness to all ages and abilities!

Diabolo, Flower sticks, Poi, Staff, Hooping, Plate Spinning, Gym Ribbon, Juggling Scarves, Balls and Clubs, Monster Feet, Stilts, Pedal Racers

 

 

 

 

Time: 10am-5pm

Date: Saturday 21st September

Location: High Street/Common

 

 

Cavan Wood, the Life of T.S. Eliot

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“T.S. Eliot  – a spiritual seeker.”  Cavan Wood will tell the story of T.S Eliot, the American who settled in Britain, the radical young man who became the Anglican Church warden. There will be an opportunity to hear Eliot’s best poems. This event is open to people of all ages and will take place on Saturday 21st September from 10.00am to 11.00am in The Bent Arms Function Room. Come along and listen to T.S Eliot’s incredible work.

Who needs a brain?

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Meet neuroscientist, Professor Judith Pratt, University of Strathclyde to find out some fun facts and myths about the brain. 

Prepare to be amazed about how your brain works and draw your own brain to wear and take home.

Time: 10-11am

Date: Saturday 21st September

Location: Lindfield Common Marquee

Hand Bell Ringers

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A handbell is rung by grasping it by the handle and moving the wrist, causing the clapper inside (which is on a hinge) to strike the outside of the bell, producing the sound. … Ringers can then put down and pick up bells as they are needed, and they can also use the tables themselves to create other effects.

Bells are polished frequently and occasionally sent back to their makers for tune-ups (literally) that involve grinding small bits of bronze from the bell to maintain the proper sounding pitch and overtones. But the primary way to keep bells safe from tarnish is to wear gloves when handling them.

Come and see the Lindfield Handbell Ringers again.

Time: 11am-11:30am

Date: Saturday 21st September

Location: URC Lounge

Cumnor House School Choir

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Cumnor House School performing in All Saints Church. 

Watch and listen to the Junior Choir, together with a number of soloists – a cellist, a trumpeter, a horn player and a pianist to make a varied programme.

Creative Lantern Making Workshop

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Creative workshop run by Same Sky. No experience needed. Make a colourful autumnal themed lanterns to be used in the Lindfield Arts Festival parade in December.

Same Sky is an award-winning community arts charity based in the lively seaside city of Brighton and Hove in Sussex. They create magical, out-of-this-world events: luminous night-time parades, fantastical puppets and floats, large-sky fire shows, staggeringly imaginative costumes and concepts. Every step of their creative process is about bringing people together, encouraging equality and belonging through a shared experience of art, and creating moments of magic that will feed the imagination for a long time after.

Time: 10:30am-12pm

Date: Saturday 21st September

Location: Tiger Rooms Stables

Website: www. samesky.co.uk

 

Giles Paley-Philips, Superchimp

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Superchimp is the hero of the rainforest. He spends his days rescuing baby parrots from trees and hippos who are stuck in the mud – no job is too big or too small for Superchimp. He even wears a cool cape, and rides around in a chimpmobile! But despite his bravery, even Superchimp gets scared sometimes… although the person he is most afraid of is not as terrifying as you might think!

When Mum bellows at Superchimp to tell him it’s time to come home, he obediently obeys. It seems Superchimp can be a superhero just as long as he doesn’t upset his Mum and is home in time for tea – which is a lesson any child should know! A tounge-in-cheek way to introduce the topics of helping others, overcoming your fears and understanding rules.

Giles Paley-Phillips, is the award winning author of The Fearsome Beastie, winner of The People’s Book Prize 2012, Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award 2013, Bizziebaby Gold
Award and The US Forward National Literary Award. He has written several picture books and a collection of nonsense poetry.

Karl Newson is a children’s author and illustrator. He spent his younger days making dens, roaming barley fields and ‘playing up the prak’ (park) in Norwich, Norfolk, but he now lives in London, where he mostly just eats biscuits. He enjoys writing and drawing and listening to music from the 1960s.Karl is the creator of The Mudwaffler – a small, forest dwelling bear who reviews books. Catch him at www.Mudwaffler.com!

 

Time: 10am-11am
Date: Saturday 21st September
Location: Tiger Rooms Lounge