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Projects Banana Sharks Youth Collective

Hampden Park


Ongoing

Creative sessions developed in collaboration with Willingdon Trees to deliver monthly artist-led sessions promoting positive mental health through creativity for young people.


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Projects The Elephant in the Room

214 Terminus Road


July 2024

The Elephant in the Room was a temporary installation in a vacant shop space on Terminus Road in Eastbourne. 10 artist members of the Arts in Mind group took part showing a mix of painting, collage, sculpture, animation, slides and installation.


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Projects Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE: Give it Some Oomph! Programme
October 2023 - April 2024

Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE have collaborated to deliver bespoke visits to Turner Prize 2023 and artist-led workshops in schools.


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Projects The Findings

Shinewater and Langney


Join us for a series of archaeological digs happening across Langney and Shinewater. Come for an hour, or all four days.


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Projects Give it some Oomph!
November 2022 - July 2023

Towner Eastbourne has partnered with The Turing School and artist Richard Phoenix to develop a student resource, launching for Turner Prize 2023 at Towner.


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Projects Fragile Lands
October 2022 to July 2023

De La Warr Pavilion (DLWP) and Towner Eastbourne are working together to programme holiday activities for families. We are collaborating to deliver an artistic programme for four artists to develop their socially engaged practice across the current academic year.


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Projects Future Collect
2022-2023

Throughout 2023 Towner Eastbourne is partnering with iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) for the third and final year of Future Collect, a project that will reimagine the future of public collections to better reflect our culturally diverse society.


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Projects Acts of Transfer
May 2022

In a half-day workshop, artist Katy Beinart and writer Lizzie Lloyd spoke through some of the issues raised within their current project Acts of Transfer. They were joined by Beverley Bennett and Benjamin A Owen, both working in engaged practice as artists and filmmakers. Together they hosted an afternoon inviting artists to experience the ‘working out’ of these questions together.


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Projects Open Plan
August 2022

Forty-eight artists based in Sussex and Kent have been selected via an open call to come together over four weeks to share space, ideas and processes and support each other in generating new artworks.


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Projects HAF: Sowing the Seed

Shinewater and Langney


July to August 2022

Supported by the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) project, Towner has partnered with GROW Eastbourne to provide creative artist-led activities around nature, food and community connection for children and young people on Free School Meals.


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Projects Wriggle Room
Ongoing, term-time only

Collaborative, creative sessions every Tuesday during term time, working with Willingdon Trees Community Centre and Towner to develop activities for Early Years groups and their carers across Eastbourne.


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Projects England's Creative Coast Engagement Programme
May to November 2021

Running in parallel to England’s Creative Coast’s Waterfronts commission for Eastbourne, an accompanying community programme spanning digital, offsite and open-air deliveries, was led by artist Amy Leung.


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Projects Pause: A Response to Berwick Church
Autumn 2020

As part of the Saving Berwick project in 2021, Arts in Mind made artwork in response to the murals, interior and landscape surrounding Berwick Church. Arts in Mind meet weekly at Towner Eastbourne and make artwork alongside each other in a studio setting to support positive mental health.


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Projects Creative Kit Bags
2020-2021

During the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, Eastbourne Borough Council, Eastbourne Food Bank and Community Stuff provided a lifeline to vulnerable households, ensuring that help was delivered to those most in need.


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Projects Arts in Mind
Ongoing

Arts in Mind meet weekly at the gallery. They make artwork in a supported studio setting, and nurture positive mental health. The group have been meeting and making since 2009 and are currently facilitated by Ella Hempsted and Michaela Ross. During sessions members work alongside each other on their own projects, and also experiment with making work together. 


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