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Wriggle Room is Towner’s free, drop-in programme for under-5s and their caregivers on selected Tuesdays during termtime. Our fun and creative sessions are developed by artist Tanvi Kant with Towner’s Learning team, building on a three-year early years’ partnership with Willingdon Trees Community Centre.

Activities and workshops are developed collaboratively with participants and partners at Willingdon Trees Community Centre in Hampden Park.  The programme explores connection to the natural environment around Eastbourne and East Sussex including seasonal trips into the landscapes around us. We also explore new ways of engaging with Towner Eastbourne’s collection and exhibition programme.

Wriggle Room relaunched Towner's early years programme Spring 2022.

Please visit our For Families page for dates.

About Tanvi Kant

Tanvi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hastings. Repurposing reclaimed textiles, Tanvi has been practising elemental hand techniques for over 17 years creating textile jewellery, participatory installations, collage, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited around the UK and internationally.

Her intricate works are made by transforming unwanted saris and dressmaking off-cuts through wrapping, coiling, knotting and stitching. Her works explore emotional landscapes through colour-inspired, tactile and organic forms exploring line and negative space.

She studied 3D Design (sustainable practice) at the University of Derby establishing her award-winning jewellery in 2005 and later extended the participatory side of her practice at the Royal College of Art in 2013.

Tanvi has over 15 years’ experience in delivering workshops within a variety of settings including galleries, museums, higher education, women's charities, public spaces, and residential care homes. Her aim is to demonstrate how readily available materials can be transformed with unashamedly simple techniques. She regularly works with the public and community groups, aiming to help people uncover their own visual and tactile stories through materials and to support intergenerational learning experiences.

Wriggle Room 2022-2024

From Spring 2022 to Summer 2024, Wriggle Room was led by Visual and Performance artists Katy Beinart and Lydia Hunt. They developed creative sessions for under-5s and their caregivers across Eastbourne inspired by the seasons and habitats that surround us through crafts, storytelling and movement.

You can find out more about their time as Lead artists by visiting Wriggle Room: Open Studio or picking up a copy of Wriggle Room in the South Downs National Park, inspired by our visits into the landscape!

Wriggle Room has previously been delivered in partnership with the South Downs National Park Trust.