Lindfield Arts Festival 2018

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General Terms & Conditions

Bursary Applications have all been received and will be judged in late June 2018. 

The winner of the £1000 Award will be announced at the Preview Evening on 21st September 2018.

#LAF2018 Arts Bursary Award | Please register here – terms, conditions and details her

Local cake makers, there is still time to enter and exhibit at the Festival : Cake Exhibition | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

Local talented craftspeople, we still have a couple of spaces left in the Craft Hall : Craft – Indoors | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here  | Craft – Outdoors | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

We can always use an extra pair of hands. Do you have an hour or so to spare? Helpers  Stewards – Volunteers | Please register here

Food & Drink Producers | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

Food & Drink Vendors | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

Special Events | Please register here

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The Scarecrow Trail will be great fun, join in and make your own.  

Scarecrow Trail with Lindfield in Bloom | Please register here | Guidance, terms and conditions here

Please email hilary.knight@lindfieldartsfestival.com if you are interested in any of the activities below.

The programme is now 99% full. Don’t forget we will be taking registrations for #LAF2019 as soon as this year’s is over.

 

Artists | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

Performers | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

Workshops | Please register here – terms, conditions and details here

 

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Landscape Photography Workshop

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Saturday / 10:30-11:30am / URC

Book now or buy tickets IN PERSON from SWALK – limited space

Workshop with expert Ivor Ottley. £10.

 

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Jo Kimber Vocalist

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Saturday / 12:30-1pm / King Edward Hall

Jo is based in Lindfield and was a professional dance band singer. She found a love of jazz swing after joining ‘Big Band Sounds’ and sings with them, smaller jazz ensembles and solo with backing tracks which include some popular songs as well as jazz standards.

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Dance with Emily

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Saturday / 12-12:30pm / High Street

Dance with Emily is an adult dance school teaching classical ballet, tap and jazz dance in Mid Sussex. They have performed locally for both summer and Christmas performances.

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Rockaoke, opening night is party night!

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Friday / 7:30-11pm / King Edward Hall

Tickets on sale at SWALK

ROCKAOKE are the UKs original, BEST and only SPECIALIST live karaoke band, inviting their audience to “live the dream” by taking to the stage and singing with a live rock band.

They’re back in Lindfield by popular demand following their barnstorming Summer of 16 party in King Edward Hall. This time they’re fresh from a jam packed festival season that has seen them take in Isle of Wight, Bestival and Love Supreme amongst others, play at the Man City League Winner’s party and be booked by Queen to play at the wrap party for their Bohemian Rhapsody biopic.

Now it’s your turn to unleash your inner rockstar!

Tickets £17.50 to include a glass of prosecco and cheese board

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Art Exhibition – Lindfield Primary Academy

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Saturday 10am – Sunday 5pm / Lindfield Primary Academy

A fine art and photography exhibition including work from: Alan Spencer Brooks, Andy Walker, Beth Mercer, Brett Hudson, Carlos Vega, Donna Bayfield-Fry, Felicity Cassin, Georgina Moir, Helen Wiggins, Iona Moran, Ivor Ottley, Jasmine Mercer, Jo Hodder, Jo Swannell, Joe Foster, Julia Badakhshan, Julie Wilson, King Pet Portraits, Laura Morgan, Margaret Ruxton, Neil Giles, Nicola Baker, Sally Parkinson, Sarah Jones, Steve McDonald and Sue Pearson.

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A Window on the Soul – the Art of Diary Writing

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Saturday / 12-1pm / The Bent Arms

Cavan Wood examines how to keep a diary so that it can keep you ! He will be sharing some of readings from the great diarists including Samuel Pepys to the great diarists of today.

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Craft your own cyantype print

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Saturday / 11:30-1pm / King Edward Hall

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The cyanotype photogram process is easy, clean(ish), fast and exciting so they make a great photography project for kids as well as serious artists. Come and join our cyanotype print making drop-in session to learn how and create your own beautiful work of art.

For more information look at Lens Lab’swebsite.

Peter Levenspiel  will run this drop in workshop in King Edward Hall’s Library.

Places may be limited with only 4 or 5 workstations.  Book in advance to guarantee a time slot.

Making the prints will take about 15 to 45 minutes… Explanation, composition, exposure, processing, and you’re done.

 

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Discover Your Inner Artist – Gingerbread Tree

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Saturday / 10am-12pm / 53 Greenways, RH16 2DT

Something you have always wanted to do but never had enough time? Why try this adult only workshop with limited numbers to have an opportunity to create something wonderful.

Book now or buy tickets IN PERSON from SWALK

Saturday 22nd at 10am – 12pm at 53 Greenways RH16 2DT

Maximum group size 8. Adults only.

For adults. Each participant will walk away with a framed picture ready for display

• Do you like the idea of being able to paint well, but just don’t know where to start?
• Fancy getting creative for a couple of hours – time for you, no distractions!
• By the end of it you will walk away with a framed piece of art work ready for display to wow your friends and family.

This workshop for adults could be just the thing you’re looking for….an opportunity to gain confidence with a range of materials and uncover your creativity through some tried and tested processes which will fire your imagination.The workshop is part of the Lindfield Arts Festival 2018; and takes place at The Gingerbread Tree Studio — a place where creativity can grow. Sarah is an experienced teacher, who has led many workshops in how to create wonderful, magical art work, for children and adults of all abilities She would like to help you achieve the same.

The session will cover a mix of structured learning, individual feedback, group inspiration and time to bring your art work to life.  Tea, coffee and supportive banter provided free.

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Alex Hourston in Conversation with Jane Lythell

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Saturday / 7:30-8:30pm / The Big Pink Tent – Common

Alex Hourston’s debut, In My House was published by Faber and Faber in 2015. She was named as a New Face for Fiction by the Observer and the novel was a Guardian Book of the Year. 
Her second novel, Love After Love, is an adultery tale, published in March 2018, which has been described as ‘the kind of controversial novel that will be catnip to book groups,’ and as reading ‘with the pace of a thriller but the beauty of a tragic love story.’

Alex lives outside Brighton with her family.

Jane Lythell

Jane Lythell worked as a television producer and commissioning editor before becoming Deputy Director of the BFI and Chief Executive of BAFTA. Her latest novel, Behind Her Back, lifts the lid on the glamorous world of television.

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