Eastbourne ALIVE

Towner’s Friday Late on 2 August!

In addition to the exhibition spaces being open until 8pm, this month’s Friday Late includes a programme of free events and live music as well as dinner & jazz offer at Light. 

⭕️ Circles
Drop-in workshops
3.00pm to 5.30pm,
Free drop-in

Drawing on themes found in Maria Amidu’s exhibition: in the perpetual back and forth, artists Anne-Marie Watson and Babalola Yusuf invite you to a series of interactive audio-visual workshops.

🎼 Harp Lifting Concerts
Fiona Hosford plays the harp
5.30pm to 6.20pm
Free drop-in

Sussex harpist Fiona Hosford will be playing the unconventional venue of Towner’s lift.  Drop in and enjoy on your way to our exhibition spaces or stay for a ride in our unusually spacious lift.

🎧 Chalk & Sound ()
Girls Twiddling K***s with Daisy Stewart-Darling
6.30pm to 7.30pm
Free, booking advised

Catch an exclusive live recording of the celebrated Girls Twiddling K***s podcast, founded and presented by musician and sound artist Isobel Anderson to highlight the work of women making music with technology. Isobel will be joined by sound artist Daisy Stewart-Darling.

🍸 Friday Late Jazz Night at Light ()

6.30pm to 10.00pm, dinner from 5.30pm.
Table booking advised

Enjoy live jazz throughout dinner service at Light with the Terry Pack Trio. Band leader and bassist Terry Pack is joined by pianist Joss Peach and guitarist Andy Williams. The restaurant is open until 10.00pm.

Find out more about the Friday Late and book places on

Shifting Ecosystems💡

Multi-sector partnership and mutual understanding increased across Eastbourne throughout the period of Turner Prize 2023 and Eastbourne ALIVE programming. Partners feel extremely positive about both the contacts and learning gained.

Read our full evaluation report or the summary document on our website eastbournealive.com

Evaluation and figures by RMR.

Visit VOLT gallery this Saturday for the launch of Riviera by Navine G. Dossos ()🪬

Navine G. Dossos has worked with over 50 Eastbourne residents through the creation of 24 stencils relating to the neighbourhood: its history, its population, its businesses, its flora and fauna and its location in the town. Together they have developed a Devonshire Ward-specific language of symbols, featuring palm trees, local gelato, a movie camera and the pier. These elements have been brought together by Dossos to fashion a rich and vibrant textile.

The community is now invited to come together at VOLT, take 2m of fabric each, for free, to then create a variety of items and clothing of their own.

Riviera is a public art commission led by Towner Eastbourne () in collaboration with Devonshire Collective (), supported by Eastbourne ALIVE.

Exhibition open from 27 July to 15 September 2024.

Don’t forget to pop over to 214 Terminus Road to experience the Arts in Mind pop-up The Elephant in the Room!

Last day tomorrow, Saturday 20 July 2024, 11.00am – 4.00pm. The exhibition is supported by Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE and free to visit.

Participating artists:

Sue Baker
Stephen Cogger
Julia Janes
Sue Kyriacou
Janet Mazumdar
Aaron Nixon
Andew Saggers
Liz Squires
Christine Trayers
Rose Whitney

Eve De Haan's 'It's nicer to be nice, a healing garden' enjoyed by a participant in the Eastobune ALIVE Walking Tour in Feburary 2024.

Read our evaluation report on our website (link in bio).

East Sussex College Group Eastbourne campus Art & Design and Media students staging an intervention at Towner Eastbourne, presenting their joint manifesto for Eastbourne in November 2023 as part of

Read our evaluation report on our website (link in bio).

Arts in Mind x Towner present: The Elephant in the Room

Visit 214 Terminus Road between Wednesday 17 July and Sunday 21 July 2024, 11.00am – 4.00pm, to explore a collaborative pop-up of artworks by members of the Arts in Mind group who have been working with artists Michaela Ross and Ella Hempsted. Expect innovative ideas with a punk aesthetic by a collective of creatives whose practice is in painting, collage, animation and audio-visual installation. The exhibition is supported by Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE and free to visit.

Participating artists:
Sue Baker
Stephen Cogger
Julia Janes
Sue Kyriacou
Janet Mazumdar
Aaron Nixon
Andew Saggers
Liz Squires
Christine Trayers
Rose Whitney

Huge congratulations to the team at Eastbourne Studio Pottery! What an amazing culmination to the project which brought together 60 local groups and organisations over 35 free artists-led plate-making workshops, resulting in 500 plates.

It has been amazing to work with and have them be a part of the Eastbourne ALIVE Programme.

Eastbourne Studio Pottery’s plates exhibition titled Let’s Create Together opens this weekend! 🍽️

Eastbourne Studio Pottery presents an exhibition of over 500 plates as a result of 35 free artist-led plate-making workshops for 60 local groups, which took place between November 2023 and May 2024.

Each workshop saw six people from two different community, arts, health, or education-focused groups, plus independent businesses in the local area create together as a catalyst for conversation and the cross-fertilisation of ideas.

The exhibition is free to visit and open to all this weekend at Towner:
10.00am to 5.00pm Saturday 6 July
10.00am to 3.00pm Sunday 7 July

This project formed a part of Eastbourne ALIVE wraparound to Turner prize 2023.

You’re invited! 🤝

Join us for a creative sector meet-up at on Tuesday 9 July, 5.00pm - 7.30pm. The speakers will share highlights from the Eastbourne ALIVE Evaluation Report, you’ll have chance to ask questions and network.

RSVP to [email protected] before 5 July.

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Hosted by Towner, Eastbourne ALIVE & RMR.

It’s that time of the year again! 🎾

Devonshire Park is buzzing ahead of Rothesay International Eastbourne Tennis Tournament, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, there will be a number of surprise and delight items to enjoy onsite.

The Tournament will run from Saturday 22 June to Saturday 29 June. Get your tickets and find out more on lta.org.uk

Eastbourne Studio Pottery will be exhibiting over 500 plates by 60 local groups at Towner on Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 July!

These plates are the result of 35 free artist-led workshops held by from November 2023 to May 2024. Each session brought together visiting artists and people from different community, arts, health and education-focused groups. The workshops were designed to catalyse conversation and cross-fertilisation of ideas between different organisations.

The programme was part of East Sussex Arts Partnership’s funding Is it Art? And Eastbourne ALIVE.

Don’t miss the chance to see these incredible, versatile plates with your own eyes on 6 & 7 July

Eastbourne DigiFest returns by popular demand with a jam-packed one-day conference! Join in on the Sunshine Coast on Thursday 10 October 2024 to experience the best of the region’s thriving creative, digital and technology (CDT) sector.

🔦 Learning opportunities
🤝 New connections and partnerships
🌱 A welcoming and nurturing environment

This business-run not-for-profit event, spearheaded by the female-led Chalk Eastbourne CDT community, is open to everyone. Whether you’re an expert or just starting out, there’s something for everyone and all are welcome!

Follow for news and updates!

Our friends at The blackShed Gallery invite you to a FREE cider (and apple juice) tasting event on Saturday 15 June 4.00pm to 6.30pm, accompanied by live folk band The Old Time Trio. 

They have teamed up with Sussex cider producers Bignose and Beardy () to celebrate Martin Brockman’s latest exhibition Free as the Fields, at the gallery and surrounding woodland.

Don’t miss this great day and find out more on

Glasgow’s multiple BRIT and Ivor Novello-winning songwriting giants Travis () announce the ‘Raze the Bar’ Tour, including a show at Eastbourne Winter Garden on 17 December 2024.

Members’ pre-sale - Thursday 13 June 2024
General on sale - Friday 14 June 2024

DLWP is selling tickets for shows at Eastbourne Winter Garden as part of a new partnership, find our more on

Remember when Turner Prize came to Sussex❓

This was the title of the event hosted by the Turner Prize 2023 education partner, University of Sussex, bringing together a panel of key figures for Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne ALIVE and East Sussex Public Health, moderated by Prof Ben Burbridge from UoS.

It was an insightful and inspiring discussion about impacts made, learning and findings, partnerships and placemaking, youth voice and next steps for the county and Eastbourne for a lasting legacy.

Stay informed and updated on Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE channels and websites.






This event was part of the Sussex Festival of Idea at Brighton Festival 2024. Photos by Chenying Cannell

Here they are, Artist Sophie Wright and the young people she worked with on the Meditation Pods project as part of Eastbourne ALIVE and East Sussex Arts Partnership fund Is It Art?

Take a look at the photos capturing the project from workshops with young people to first designs to final installations across East Sussex location. Congratulations to Sophie and every single person involved on the incredible project and for wrapping it up in Eastbourne.

New phase begins, as the pods move to the Marine Workshop building in Newhaven forming Wright’s Safe Haven Exhibition. Don’t miss the opening on 5 June, 5.00pm - 9.00pm.

The pods will be available to experience from 6 June - 26 June, Thu - Sat 1.00pm - 5.00pm at Marine Workshop, Railway Quay, Newhaven, BN9 0ER.

How to spend a day at Towner, three steps:

1️⃣ Book tickets to see Emma Stibbon’s thought-provoking Melting Ice | Rising Tides exhibition

2️⃣ Reserve a table for lunch for exquisite food and relaxing atmosphere

3️⃣ Get tickets to one of the Towner Cinema film screenings, check listing and timings on website

With three exhibitions, cinema screenings, family events, shop, cafe and a restaurant - one can easily spend hours being soaked in art, culture and great food & drink at the gallery.

Eastbourne Artists Open Houses & Studios are opening this weekend: 25 & 26 May as well as the following weekend 1 & 2 June 2024.

Image 1:
Gio Martin is an artist returning to Eastbourne, she will be exhibiting her colourful abstract paintings as well as figurative ceramics, cards and lino prints.
Open both weekends at The Garage Gallery on Manifold Road.

Image 2:
Lynn Hanford Day is an artist specialising in the traditional sacred arts: Celtic, Islamic and Hindu, working with watercolour and gold leaf. 1 Trinity Trees (by the roundabout).

Find the full programme in the link in bio and plan your weekends.

Eastbourne ALIVE are proud to support Eastbourne Artists Open Houses & Studios.

         

Come and experience FACTUAL ACTUAL at the Welcome Building on Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 June 2024, 12.00pm & 2.30pm, free entry (booking required)!

Internationally renowned choreographer & visual artist Florence Peake presents a special weekend of live performances in Eastbourne. Re-interpreting and expanding on a performance at the National Gallery in 2021, FACTUAL ACTUAL presents seven large scale paintings on unstretched canvases that hang over a gloss dance floor.

The canvases will be animated by six dancers using a rig and pulley system to hoist, lower, collapse, fold and drag the paintings throughout the performances. Shifting between flat and sculptural forms, the interaction of bodies and paintings will create a sea-like sonic soundscape.

Find out more and book tickets via

Emma Mason Gallery Presents: Forms of Land & Sea by Rob Peel, opening on 24 May.

An exhibition of original prints by Sussex printmaker Rob Peel (1949-2019).

Rob Peel grew up in East Sussex and his memories of quiet, solitary adventures exploring the Downs or the harbour and coastline, provided constant inspiration for his work. Peel studied fine art at Birmingham School of Art and later in London.

The prints in this exhibition are all monotypes and each is a unique image. The images reflect the landscape and coastline around us in Sussex. Peel made his monotypes on the bed of his printing press using a combination of stencils, collage and drawing directly into the ink to produce a range of surfaces from which to build his prints.

10.00am - 4.00pm, Thursday - Saturday, 24 May - 22 June 2024. Free entry! All work will be for sale.

Congratulations to Madeleine Pledge () for being shortlisted for Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2024-25.

Pledge’s work “superstructure (public image)” was commissioned by Devonshire Collective () for Eastbourne ALIVE. It’s been a pleasure to have this fantastic public work be part of our programme.

See “superstructure (public image)” until end Of May in Marine Parade Gardens in Seaside, Eastbourne until the end of this month.