Lindfield Arts Festival 2019

16 - 22 September 2019

The Open Air Drawing Room

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We are happy to welcome The Open Air Drawing Room to the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival!

The Open Air Drawing Room is Eric MacLennan’s live art show which begins with an antiquated artists drawing group setting up for some landscape painting. Arrival and unpacking of folding stools, easels, flasks, other knick-knacks and sandwiches etc… But this is no ordinary show – for the audience will be drawn into the group!

Inspired by JMW Turner. A story that delightfully mixes historical biography with the fast contemporary world we now occupy. Paint a stone – for Turner – for the Turner Contemporary! Selected from…31 stones – a “mini museum” – each from the coast of the British isles and names after the atmospheric areas of the shipping forecast. These stones were old when Turner was young. They will still be here when we are gone. We consider Time. We consider Art.

Each artist (audience member) also makes a Cyanotype portrait which will be exhibited as a mirror image to the final painting – A Sea of Faces – embracing Turner’s pioneering interest in photography and his desire to find new ways.

This project invites the audience to create art and take part in a world record attempt for a painting that has been created by the largest number of artists!  Co commissioned with Turner Contemporary, Margate who will host the Turner prize in October 2019.

More details will follow soon so keep an eye on our website and sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with the latest 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival news!

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Sarah Gillings, SOS artist

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Be on the look out!  The festival programme has some exciting things to see and do. No more so than a live Cellograff* installation outside Abbott’s chemist, in the High Street on 21st September.

Sarah Gillings is S.O.S, an award-winning multimedia and street artist.

From Disney designer to Street Artist.

S.o.S has been a footwear designer, an advertising agency director and many other creative roles in her life. Her journey into public Arts interactions began humbly hosting an Artists’ Open house, staging public art exhibitions, promoting other artists and finally becoming a professional artist in her own right.  Her style of work in the street brings together ideas of branding, marketing, icons and advertisement into her artwork, which often portray women as the central element in the composition. Her Cellograff* interventions also include British wildlife in unexpected settings and this is the type of work that she will be creating for Lindfield’s festival.

*Cellograff is a technique where cellophane is stretched between any available support making paint-ready surfaces.  This provides a 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.  S.o.S has been using this technique for the last year.

In 2015 S.o.S was awarded a First Class Honours for a Master of Arts program in Inclusive Arts Practice (IAP).  IAP is using art practice for positive social change.

S.o.S won 2 awards in 2015, for a public art design commission at the Brighthelm Centre and the 2015 BrightSpark Award for innovation and original ideas for inclusive spray-paint workshops.

In 2016, S.o.S was offered a place and funding at The School for Social Entrepreneurs to developer spray painting charity.

In 2017 S.o.S founded the UK’s first dedicated spray-painting charity.  Raising funds to provide Therapeutic Arts for those disengaged from society.

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Poi Passion Circus Arts

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We are pleased to announce that Poi Passion Circus Arts will be coming to the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival offering brilliant circus skills workshops.

Watch out for stilt walkers,circus acts and learn how to tight rope walk!

Poi Passion was founded in 2000 by Kate Wright, who has 19 years of experience in the art of Poi and Circus Skilled acts. Poi Passion is a UK based poi and circus training school and agency, specialising in the arts of Poi, Dance and multi-skilled Fire and Glow acts with Circus Skills instructors, performers and entertainers.

More details are to follow so keep your eyes posted and sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with the latest information!

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U-Can-Spray Are Coming Back

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We are pleased to welcome U-Can-Spray back to the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival!

 

Sarah Gillings, Street Artist and her charity U-Can-Spray are back for the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival! U-Can-Spray is the UK’s first dedicated spray-painting charity which seeks to inspire and engage people from all backgrounds into cultural and artistic experiences through spray-painting. After the huge success of their workshops last year we are happy to welcome them back to the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival and will be announcing more details soon so keep your eyes posted! You can also sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with the latest LAF 2019 information.

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Doubles – Joe Garbett Dance

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We are pleased to welcome Doubles to the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival! Doubles brings bursts of colour to the streets in a collision of dance and ping pong!

Doubles is an exciting pop up performance where contemporary dance and Ping Pong combine. The project encourages communities to come together to enjoy art, sport and healthy living.

The highly physical piece aims to surprise passers-by and encourage them to join the pop up Ping Pong party.

The colourful and quirky performances of Doubles began as a collaboration between Joe Garbett Dance and Ping!England supported by Studio Wayne McGregor and Redbridge Drama Centre as part of East London Dance’s dance enterprise ideas fund.

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Liane Carroll – All Saints Church Event

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We are delighted to announce that Liane Carroll will be performing at All Saints Church as part of the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival on Thursday 19th September. Book tickets now!

Liane has been a pillar of the British jazz and soul scene for over thirty-five years. Born in London and raised in Hastings; from the beginning of her musical career at the age of fifteen, she has dedicated her life to creating a deep and abiding connection with audiences all over the world through her exceptional talent, versatility and ability to truly interpret a song.

Her illustrious career has seen her tour the world including an appearance at New York’s renowned ‘Jazz at the Lincoln Centre’, being awarded an highly coveted ‘BASCA Gold Badge Award for Services to British Music’ (2017), appearing at The Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms (2016) and being a regular headline performer at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London for more than 25 years.

Liane’s most recent album ‘The Right to Love’ (2017) reached no.1 in the iTunes jazz charts and received rave reviews including four stars from The Guardian, The Irish Times and The Evening Standard. Along the way she has collaborated with such diverse artists as Paul McCartney, Gerry Rafferty, Long John Baldry, Ian Shaw, Claire Martin OBE and drum and bass outfit London Elektricity.

Equally at home in intimate jazz venues and vast performance spaces, Liane maintains a hectic touring schedule and is in much demand at home and abroad.

This is an event NOT to be missed.

Join us for an evening of music with Liane Carroll at All Saints Church, Lindfield on Thursday 19th September 2019! Tickets can be booked here and more information can be found on our event page here!

We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat!

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We are pleased to welcome the Bootworks Theatre Company to the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival!

At the 2019 Lindfield Arts Festival, The Bootworks Theatre Company will be performing their show ‘We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat’.

This is a show for small town communities, about small town communities which tackles the notions of otherness, belonging, difference, and being, allegorically, a ‘fish out of water’.

While taking its audience on a fun adventure that spans the joys of am-dram ‘warm-ups’ to finding our ‘inner sharks’.

Using the movie Jaws as a stimulus, the show will explore notions of integration, community, immigration and play.

It will be based on Artistic Director (Andy Roberts’) recent move to the small seaside town of Selsey: and highlights strange comparisons Selsey holds to the location of Amity in the movie Jaws.

Step inside and pull-up a seat around the hull of the Orca, as we enter the movie world of Jaws! Get ready to embark on underwater exploration, cage diving and shark hunting… because Selsey Amateur Dramatics has a new brand new director looking to make a splash with their first production. They’re also new to the community and this could be their best chance to make some new friends.

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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.

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.