Lindfield Arts Festival

Arts Festival in Lindfield, West Sussex

Programme Amendments

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The best laid plans can go awry and with over 190 events to organise we have had a challenge or two.  Occasionally performers, exhibitors or venues need to change.  These are a few alterations as of 15th September:

Saturday 21st September


  • Additional to printed programme: Lindfield Bonfire Society talk on “What if the Gunpowder Plot had Succeeded” at 12.30pm – 1.30pm in Bent Arms Function Room
  • Times changed: African Drummers – 11.30am-12.15pm outside Paolinos and 12.45 -1.30pm outside the Bent Arms
  • Time Changed: Lindfield Hand Bell Ringers will be in the URC Nave at 10.30am not the URC Lounge at 11am.
  • Doubles performance at 3.45pm on The Common has been cancelled.
  • Fitsteps Performance in the High Street at 2.30pm has been cancelled.
  • Mask Making at Lindfield Art Studio 1- 2pm only

Sunday 22nd September

  • The Information Point on Sunday will be outside Jackson Stops Estate Agency.
  • Mask Making at Lindfield Art Studio 1- 2pm only

Cartoon drawing workshop: should be fun!

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Come along and enjoy an hour and a half of drawing & laughter in a welcoming, friendly atmosphere. No previous drawing experience necessary.

During this session you will learn how to cartoon & caricature the world around them. You will also be introduced to figurative drawing techniques, simple principles of form and tone which will bring their drawings to life.

All high quality materials are included and you will leave with a smile and a drawing to keep.

Booking is essential as places are limited.

Min age 5 years suitable up to 16 years old. Price £15 per child with £10 for each accompanying sibling/s. Parents are free.

Dance to the Beat workshop

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To The Beat is running a free taster session for children aged 4-11 on Saturday 21st September at the United Reform Church Hall between 2.45pm to 3.30pm!

To The Beat is a company that provides dance camps during the school holidays for children aged 4 to 11 in venues across East and West Sussex. The company was created in 2018 by Lucy Somerville and Terri Johnson, who both have years of knowledge and experience in the dance and children’s education sector. Their camps are jammed packed with activities from dance to art. They focus on all dance genres from urban to classical styles which are suitable for children’s development and performing needs. Your children will learn new skills, develop their movement ability and expand on creativity in a fun and safe environment. To The Beat also specialises in after school clubs and dance parties so be sure to enquire if you are interested. For more information about To The Beat please visit their Facebook page here or their website here.

Introducing classical opera to your babies

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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:

11.00am session
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2.00pm session
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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.

Georgina Moir: decorating a Mask workshop

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Saturday 21st Reserve a space

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Sunday 22nd Reserve a space

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Georgina Moir is a local artist who will be running a free mask decorating workshop for children at the Lindfield Art Studio on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September from 1.00pm to 3.00pm. Come and decorate a mask to take away! Please note there will also be a free Prosecco hour for parents to enjoy while your children are creating! The Lindfield Art Studio are running an art raffle to win an art gift from one of the displaying artists, you can come and see the art that is on display as part of the Art Trail and Open Studio and there will also be space to sit and the garden and soak up the sun!

A very hungry caterpillar

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Can you help make one?

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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).

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

 

 

Who needs a brain?

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Free event, but reserve you place

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

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