Eastbourne Festival 2010 - a huge success!

Festival 2010, this year, covering three weeks from 3 April included over fifty events comprising music,theatre,comedy, dance, literature and film, over a hundred artists exhibiting at open houses and studios and a week of 'YouthArts' events including a balanced programme of live performance and participation with acclaimed HipHop dance performances from Banxy/KnoLove, active 'Disdance' workshops and artwork on show in the 'Eastbourne 100' and 'Peoples Panels' exhibitions, with live music represented by Indie Band 'My Element' culminating with 'Youth's got Talent' at the Winter Garden.

Many events were sold out at an early stage including the performances by Ska Toons and Mountain Fireworks. The evening of 'Boudoir Burlesque' entertainment proved extremely popular. Good weather produced over two hundred singers for the Eastbourne Shout on the West Lawns. Eastbourne Parish Church hosted lunchtime concerts followed by guided tours of the church and there were opportunities to visit the bellfry. The East Sussex Open at Towner included work by local artists and makers selected by Councillor Greg Szanto, The Worshipful the Mayor of Eastbourne. Friends of the Towner also staged two successful events including a performance by 'Clarinettist Extraordinaire', Tiumothy Orpen and talk by Professor Anthony Slinn on 'The Beauty of the Pre-Raphaelite Period'. There were performances of classical music by Southern Winds, a Choral Concert by Eastbourne College Choral Society and Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra and literature and other events organised by Mark Hewitt, Artistic Director of Lewes Live Lit. Once again 'Eastbourne Festival Alive' brought touring bands and local talent to the Winter Garden.

We are now planning Festival 2011: 23 April -15May 2011. Please contact us if you are interested in taking part or can offer to help in any way. Look out for registration details around November!

Members of the Eastbourne Photographic Society kindly photographed the above events during Festival 2009. Particular thanks to Paul Powici for co-ordinating this and thanks to Jim Ringland, Jeannie Luck,
Keith Deverson and Val McManus for participating.

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