Poi Passion and circus skills for all
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
“This is a change to play the circus way, have fun throughout out the day “
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Revamp of the studio at Paul Guthrie’s house
Paul Guthrie is having an open house to showcase his new collection of work on Saturday 21st September between 10.00am and 4.00pm. Paul’s previous work has been exhibited widely and attracted buyers from all over the world. “My intention is to create vibrant, original art to lighten the space we live in.”
Lindfield Art Festival means different things to different artists and Paul Guthrie has been preparing his home and studio for the open house weekend. Taking doors off, putting in gallery style lights, fitting shutters to windows to block out daylight – not to mention painting artwork! It’s a busy and exciting time.
Paul has been experimenting with different visual states including camouflage, daylight, ultraviolet light and light emitting pigments. It’s really starting to come together and looks incredibly exciting!
Do pop along and experiment for yourself and see which lighting state you like best.
Paul’s open house is at 41 William Allen Lane on 20 Sept Friday 6-9pm AND Saturday & Sunday 10-4pm
More information about Paul’s work can be found on his website here.
Food at the Festival
There’s no need to be hungry or thirsty over the Festival weekend.
All the cafes and pubs are open as normal and many have activities to enjoy at the same time as taking refreshments.
We’ve also got some amazing and delicious tasting stations in the High Street. This is what you can expect.
The Snowdrop Inn has a programme of events in the lead up to the weekend.
Aquapax are once again providing all our visitors, volunteers, performers and exhibitors with water. Call by the Information Point and collect yours.
Enjoy what ever you choose to eat and drink and seat, smile and chat a while at the Community Table. A sponsored space to congregate whilst you admire the Classic Car Show and listen to the entertainment.
Tamasha is hosting the opening event on Monday 16th September and will be serving street food from the Courtyard on Saturday 21st.
The Limes will be serving other street food in the High Street along with Mialls Boozy Sorbets, Well Buff, and High Weald will all have prominent stalls.
The local Lindfield scouts and Lindfield WI are also prominent offering refreshments either on The Common or in the URC. On the Common you can also find a bar with DJ Greg entertaining you from 1-5pm.
At the Primary Academy, showcasing the art exhibition, will be the Lindfield Bonfire Society’s cafe on Saturday and Sunday.
On Sunday, the art cafe at Leesa Le May’s studio will be offering tea and cakes, and in the evening the Vinyl Capris will entertain you whilst you eat your Hog Roast at the Witch.
Of course our local cafes and restaurants will be open including Lindfield Coffeeworks, South Down Cellars, Somers, Field & Forest and the pubs The Bent Arms, Red lion, Stand Up Inn and the Witch are all open to welcome you.
The Gunpowder Plot, the real story!
Just after midnight on the 5th of November 1605, a stranger was discovered in the vaults under the House of Lords. This stranger was booted and spurred for flight and was surrounded 36 barrels of gunpowder, enough to blow up Parliament twenty times over. The man was Guy Fawkes, his discovery and arrest unravelled the greatest and most audacious conspiracy Britain has ever known, it was also the first to employ gunpowder technology.
The story of the Gunpowder Plot is fascinating, it is the “conspiracy theorist’s conspiracy”, going from daring plan to farcical collapse, it is a story full of twists and turns. Come to hear the fantastical story as told by Lindfield Bonfire Society.
Introducing classical opera to your babies
TREE is an interactive first opera for 0-2 year olds and their carers with music by Debussy, Delibes and Monteverdi as well as familiar nursery rhymes and specially written songs. Hurly Burly invites you and your baby on a multisensory journey through a year in the life of a tree. There are two sessions:
Let me meet you a tree.
What can you see?
Beneath the blue sky
as the summer floats by.
- singing with blackbirds, marching through fallen leaves, smelling new blossom and feeling the wind on your cheeks. With beautiful singing and relaxing music at it’s core TREE will be an opportunity to unwind and have fun for new parents, carers and babies.
A bit about the company:
- Hurly Burly offer new audiences positive and exciting first experiences of opera with the aim of inspiring a lifelong relationship with classical
music. The company was formed by classically trained singers Sarah Forbes and Catherine Carter following a commission from Celebrate
Voice Festival in 2016 to create a piece of theatre for babies. Hurly Burly creates interactive theatre for young audiences with existing
classical opera and song at the core of the work as well as incorporating physical theatre, improvisation, movement and spoken word. The
company create live performances that allow children and their grown- ups to engage and interact with classical music in an entirely age
appropriate environment with the space and freedom to experience and explore as individuals
You can find out more about them through a previous event they attended here.
Cellophane Live Art Installation with Sarah Gillings
At this years Lindfield Arts Festival there will be a Cellophane Live Art Installation outside Abbott’s chemist, in the High Street on 21st September. Sarah Gillings is a an award-winning multimedia and street artist who will create a wonderful street art piece using Cellograff. Cellograff is a technique where cellophane is stretched between any available support making paint ready surfaces, in this case Lindfield’s iconic Lime trees!
Cellograff provides the artist the freedom to create murals in a variety of new locations without the restriction of needing a wall. The translucent nature of the plastic adds a fascinating layer of visual complexity to the mural. Sarah’s Cellograff interventions typically involve inserting British wildlife into unexpected settings.
So come along and watch Sarah create a wonderful street art piece using just spray paint and cellophane wrapped around two trees!
More information about Sarah’s work can be found on her website here, her Instagram here or her Facebook page here.
This event is from 10:00am to 4:30pm on September 21 on Lindfield High Street
A very hungry caterpillar
Can you help make one?
Book now, space limited
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).
Cavan Wood, the Life of T.S. Eliot
“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.
Art Exhibition
We are excited to showcase over twenty-five local artists’ work over the Arts Festival weekend. This year’s Art Exhibition, sponsored by Taylor Wimpey, will be held in Lindfield Primary Academy’s Sports Hall on School Lane on Saturday 21st of September from 10.00am to 5.00pm and Sunday 22nd of September between 10.00am and 4.00pm.
Artworks cover many mediums including oils, acrylics, various printmaking techniques, watercolours, textiles etc. and range from figurative to abstract and conceptual. Many of our artists will be around over the whole weekend so there is an opportunity to chat with them and find out about their work, all of which is for sale. There will also be a promotional table from artists belonging to the Adventurers’ Art Club so if you would like to get involved with a local club, you can find out all about it.
Outside the hall tea and cakes will be available, courtesy of the Lindfield Bonfire Society. Come along and see the incredible work that is being exhibited, and check out the artists attending below by clicking on their name to find out more details!