Eastbourne Festival 2012: 7 - 29 April 2012
We are pleased to announce that the Brochure for Festival 2012 is now available. Click on the Festival Brochure tab above to download a .pdf version, or for details of availability of hard copies.
Festival 2012 has attracted a great mix of the traditional and contemporary, featuring popular and classical music, theatre, dance, comedy and the visual arts.
This year’s Streets of Eastbourne opening event will host not one but two stages showcasing a variety of performances including music, dance, theatre, poetry & story telling ditties, plus street dance, hoopla & poi performances & workshops. A street market will meander along the high street linking the two performance stages. There will also be an information stall where you can pick up your festival brochures or book tickets for some of the festival events.There's still time to perform at this event so comedy, dance, jugglers, stilt walkers etc do please contact us if you would like to be involved.
Festival events include Martin Carthy, Rag Mama Rag, Roy Bailey and Tony Benn with 'The Writing on the Wall', Jacqui Dankworth, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart, Albert Lee and Hogan's Heroes, Phil Beer and Juan Martin's Musica Alhambra. Eastbourne Parish Church is organising a series of workshops, concerts and recitals throughout the Festival period, Catalyst Arts will be hosting workshops, and there will be a new visual art event, 'The Visitor', at the Redoubt. Many local artists have registered Open Houses.
The Happening returns to Eastbourne Festival Fringe to entertain & bemuse us with its exploration of eclectic underground art forms which combine mixed media entertainment, live performance, art & music. The Grand Éclair will be making its début appearance with a bijou & intimate Parisian inspired afternoon tea including tea & cakes, static art plus a live tableau vivant or a Parisian inspired chanteuse, and the ever popular Boudoir Burlesque are back.
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