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Public Art Lothar Götz
Dance Diagonal 15 June 2019 to 31 May 2024

German artist Lothar Götz has transformed the exterior walls of the gallery with his new large-scale, colourful geometric artwork, 'Dance Diagonal'.


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Exhibition Turner Prize 2023

Towner Eastbourne is hosting the Turner Prize 2023, the world’s leading prize for contemporary art, as the centrepiece of our centenary celebrations.  One of the best-known prizes for the visual arts in the world, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. 


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Exhibition Ravilious Gallery and Collection Library
Ongoing display

Since the 1930s, Towner has developed one of the largest public collections of work by Eric Ravilious (1903–1942) as well as extensive archive materials.


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Michael Rakowitz The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

Towner Plaza

27 September to 14 April

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and trouble making. His work has appeared in venues worldwide and addresses the history of colonialismand extraction in Museums.


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Helen Cammock Garden

Winter Garden

27 September to 14 April

Helen Cammock presents a new work running alongside Turner Prize 2023.


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Nathan Coley I Don’t Have Another Land

Eastbourne Library

Autumn 2023

I Don’t Have Another Land is a contemporary text sculpture by the internationally renowned and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist Nathan Coley.


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Jason Bruges StudioEastbourne Experiments

244 Terminus Road, Eastbourne

Dates to be announced soon

Jason Bruges is a multidisciplinary artist and designer, based in London. Internationally renowned as a pioneer of the hybrid space between art, architecture, and technology. Jason Bruges Studio x Eastbourne Experiments coming soon.


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Eastbourne ALIVE Walking Tours

Eastbourne Town Centre

Saturday 2 December, Sunday 10 December & Sunday 17 December

Eastbourne is ALIVE with art and creativity waiting to be discovered. Join us for a festive tour of the public works situated in the town centre and find out more about the artists and stories behind them. Three tours on three weekends in December led by one of our young ambassadors, supported by Talent Accelerator.


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Devonshire Collective presents Rottingdean Bazaar Skill Cut Winner

Eastbourne Pier Arcade

Autumn 2023

Skill Cut Winner, 2023, is a newly commissioned public artwork by Rottingdean Bazaar. Commissioned in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.


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Take the Space presents Akila Richards REST, MY RESISTANCE Creative Writing Workshop

DC Learn Studio

Monday 4 December 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Writers, poets and artists are warmly invited to join Akila Richards in a creative writing workshop responding to the topic of Creative Rest. Participants will explore their responses through music, breath, prompts and creative meditation.


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Compass Arts: The Big Conversation Continues Film Screening

Towner Eastbourne Cinema

15:45 Wednesday 6 December, Free Admission, Booking Required

The Big Conversation continues with the screenings of two films by Compass Arts as part of Eastbourne ALIVE. Art Chose Me, by Rohan Van Twest and Pursuing the Interior, by Ebony Albana & Zephan Casini. Free Admission, booking required.


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Devonshire Collective presents Adam Moore Still life

Eastbourne Pier

30 September—22 December 2023

Still life, 2023, is a newly commissioned public artwork by Adam Moore at the end of Eastbourne Pier. Commissioned by Devonshire Collective in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.


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Stuart Waters A Queer Collision

Eastbourne Operatic and Dramatic Society

21 & 22 December 2023

A Queer Collision is a mash-up of private and historical queer stories that is both funny and poignant.


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Devonshire Collective presents Madeleine Pledge superstructure (public images)

Marine Parade Gardens

30 September - 22 December 2023

superstructure (public image), 2023, is a newly commissioned public artwork by Madeleine Pledge in Marine Parade Gardens. Commissioned by Devonshire Collective in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.


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London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass at The Huddle

Langney Shopping Centre, 64 Kingfisher Dr, Eastbourne BN23 7RT

Saturday 9 December 2.00pm - 3.00pm

Get your Christmas off to a magical start with live music from one of Britain’s finest orchestras here on our doorstep in Langney Shopping Centre in Eastbourne.


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Eastbourne Studio Pottery Let's Create Together

Eastbourne Studio Pottery

November 2023 - May 2024

Eastbourne Studio Pottery is inviting local groups to take part in artist-led workshops between November 2023 and May 2024. Each workshop invites six people from two different community, arts, health, or education-focused groups, plus independent businesses in the local area, to create together as a catalyst for conversation and the cross-fertilisation of ideas.


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Coffee & Art: Bold, Bright, Brilliant – original prints by Alistair Grant

Urban Ground Café on South Street & Urban Ground Café on Bolton Road

December 2023 - May 2024

In celebration for the Turner Prize 2023 exhibition coming to Towner Eastbourne and the town, Eastbourne-based independent businesses Emma Mason and Urban Ground are collaborating on a project to show a selection of original prints from the Emma Mason Gallery in the beautiful Urban Ground coffee shops in central Eastbourne.


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The Big Conversation

Unit 20 (opposite New Look), The Beacon, Eastbourne BN21 3NW

21 November 2023 to 12 April 2024, 11.00am to 4.00pm

Situated in Eastbourne’s Beacon Shopping Centre, The Big Conversation, curated by Compass Arts, represents artists whose lives have been impacted by a myriad of social issues and structures.


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the blackShed gallery presents Liz Wilson OF CONFLUENCE - an Immersive Installation

234 Terminus Road

25 November 2023 - 10 December 2023

OF CONFLUENCE emerges as an ensemble of animations, sound and sculpture exploring the arterial route of a tidal river, namely the river Rother. In conceiving the work, Wilson was drawn to the subsequent bulges, spillages and blockages forming vast salt marshes creating transitions between land and sea. 


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Cinema
Exhibition on Screen REMBRANDT from the National Gallery London and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (PG)
9, 14 December

This film showcases a landmark exhibition, featuring unprecedented loans from around the world – a unique opportunity to experience the passion and innovation of Rembrandt.


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Devonshire Collective presents Nadina Ali Love, Empathy, Respect, Dignity

Eastbourne Redoubt

30 September—22 December 2023

Love, Empathy, Respect, Dignity is a newly commissioned public artwork by Nadina Ali, in collaboration with Devonshire Youth Collective and Sanctuary. Commissioned by Devonshire Collective in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.


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Sophie Wright Meditation Pods

Eastbourne Library, Seaford Library, Hastings Library

December 2023

Three meditation pods have been created by young people aged 16 to 24 and placed in East Sussex libraries where visitors can enjoy a reflective moment.


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Cinema
May December (15)
7 December

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman star in the intoxicating new psychodrama from Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, Safe). 


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Tish (U)
7 December

Tish Murtha, a pioneering British photographer who used her camera to expose social inequality in the 1970s-80s, is the fascinating subject of Paul Sng’s (Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché) terrific new doc.


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Stage photo. Billie Piper has fallen to the ground and is being held by another actor. She is wearing a polka dot dress and her hair is dishevelled.
Cinema
National Theatre Live Yerma (15)
7 December

Filmed live on stage at the Young Vic, Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie) returns in her spellbinding award-winning role.


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Event Quiet Time
Thursday 7 December, 9.15 to 10.00am

Quiet Time sessions are available during the Turner Prize exhibition at Towner. Where possible, lower lighting will also be turned up, while sounds and sensory stimulants kept to a minimum.  


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The Tales of Hoffman (U)
8, 10 December

Revealed anew in a remarkable 4K Technicolor restoration, Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 musical phantasmagoria is a dazzling take on Jacques Offenbach’s 1881 opera. 


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National Theatre Live The Book of Dust (12a)
9, 28, 29 December

Eighteen years after his ground breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe. Broadcast live from London’s Bridge Theatre.


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Seaside Special (12a)
9, 14 December

A love letter to Britain from our friends in Europe, Jens Meurer’s funny, bittersweet and loving Seaside Special visits the town of Cromer, Norfolk as it prepares for its annual end-of-pier variety show in 2019. 


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National Theatre Live Romeo & Juliet (12a)
10, 16, 31 December

This bold new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way.


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Learning
Wriggle Room

The Beacon Centre

12 December 2023, 10.00am to 12.00pm

Wriggle Room is a free drop-in workshop for under-5s and their carers, developed by Katy Beinart and Lydia Hunt.


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Event Turner Prize Curator Talk

Wednesday 13 December, 2.00pm to 2.30pm

Free, drop-in

Join a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.


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Cinema
Napoleon (15)
15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 27, 28, 30 December

Joaquin Phoenix is Napoleon Bonaparte in the new film from Ridley Scott – a spectacle-filled action epic that follows the chequered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor. 


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Eastbourne Film Society Smoke, Sauna, Sisterhood (15)
16, 21 December

In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their deepest secrets, washing shame off their bodies and regaining strength through communion.


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Event Art Store Tour

£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members

Sunday 19 November, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Go behind the scenes and enjoy a fascinating introduction to our impressive Collection of over 5000 works in our bespoke art store.  Starting with the original Victorian bequest, your tour will then cover works by artists such as Eric Ravilious, Duncan Grant, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Alice Neel and Tacita Dean.


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It's A Wonderful Life (U)
17, 22, 23 December

The quintessential Christmas film, Oscar-winning director Frank Capra’s masterful drama features Jimmy Stewart as frustrated, compassionate everyman George Bailey; on the brink of suicide when a guardian angel (Henry Travers) arrives to show him how his community and loved ones would have fared without him. 


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Event Quiet Time
Sunday 17 December, 5.15pm to 6.00pm

Quiet Time sessions are available during the Turner Prize exhibition at Towner. Where possible, lower lighting will also be turned up, while sounds and sensory stimulants kept to a minimum.  


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Family Film Get Santa (U)
19, 20 December

A spirited, sweet-natured and very funny seasonal adventure, Get Santa finds a father and son reconnecting to discover the true magic of Christmas.


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The Red Shoes (PG)
21, 23 December

Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page (played by real-life ballerina Moira Shearer) finds herself driven to breaking point by an obsessive Russian impresario when she’s cast in his ballet The Red Shoes.


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Event Lunchtime Conversation: Barbara Walker

Thursday 21 December 2023, 1.30pm

Free, drop-in

Towner’s Conservator Dr Corinne Farmer will be shedding insight on Turner Prize 2023 nominee Barbara Walker’s impressive drawing technique.


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A Matter of Life and Death (U)
22, 28 December

Peter Carter is a young WWII airman who jumps out of a damaged plane without a parachute. But instead of dying, he finds himself unharmed on a beach. Encountering a young American servicewoman – with whom he falls in love – he finds he must appeal to a celestial jury for his right to live, trapped between a Technicolor earth and a monochrome heaven. 


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Anselm (PG)
29, 30 December, 4 January

Wim Wenders’ (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, Pina) thrilling, reverent documentary takes you inside the boundless creativity of German artist Anselm Kiefer. 


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Fallen Leaves (12a)
30, 31 December, 4 January

New from celebrated Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismãki, a beguilingly sweet-natured love story and tragicomedy follows two lost souls’ path to romance, and the hurdles they encounter along the way.


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Event Art Store Tour
£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members Sunday 31 December, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Go behind the scenes and enjoy a fascinating introduction to our impressive Collection of over 5000 works in our bespoke art store.  Starting with the original Victorian bequest, your tour will then cover works by artists such as Eric Ravilious, Duncan Grant, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Alice Neel and Tacita Dean.


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Promenade

Hotels along Eastbourne Seafront

Open Daily, 10.00am to 10.00pm, Free Admission

Exhibition curated by Compass Arts, revealing new and different perspectives through the eyes of neurodivergent artists.   


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Phoene Cave presents TRANSIT Eastbourne

Towner Eastbourne

2, 4, 7, 9 February 2024

Inspired by three days of experiential cross-arts collaboration hosted by Towner Eastbourne, lead artist Phoene Cave proposed transitioning these collective improvisations into the public facing non-gallery spaces during the Turner Prize 2023. These act as a response to Eastbourne ALIVE and East Sussex Art Partnership question of “Is it Art?”.


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King & McGaw: The Turner Prize Edit - display at Port Hotel

Port Hotel

until December 2023

To celebrate the Turner Prize 2023 exhibition, special edition prints from King & McGaw’s Turner Prize Edit are on display at Port Hotel.


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Event Turner Prize Curator Talk

Wednesday 10 January, 2.00pm to 2.30pm

Free, drop-in

Join a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.


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Event Art Store Tour
£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members Sunday 14 January, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Go behind the scenes and enjoy a fascinating introduction to our impressive Collection of over 5000 works in our bespoke art store.  Starting with the original Victorian bequest, your tour will then cover works by artists such as Eric Ravilious, Duncan Grant, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Alice Neel and Tacita Dean.


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Event Blue Monkey Network: Turner Prize out of hours

Thursday 18 January, 6.00pm to 8.00pm

Free, drop-in

A chance to network with Blue Monkey Network members and visitors before a walk & talk through Towner's galleries


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Event Turner Prize Curator Talk

Saturday 27 January, 2.00pm to 2.30pm

Free, drop-in

Join a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.


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Event Art Store Tour
£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members Sunday 28 January, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Go behind the scenes and enjoy a fascinating introduction to our impressive Collection of over 5000 works in our bespoke art store.  Starting with the original Victorian bequest, your tour will then cover works by artists such as Eric Ravilious, Duncan Grant, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Alice Neel and Tacita Dean.


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Event Artist Event: Rory Pilgrim

at The Birley Centre

3 February 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00

Join Turner Prize artist Rory Pilgrim, at an event shaped in response to Pilgrim's practice.


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Event Art Store Tour
£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members Sunday 11 February, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Go behind the scenes and enjoy a fascinating introduction to our impressive Collection of over 5000 works in our bespoke art store.  Starting with the original Victorian bequest, your tour will then cover works by artists such as Eric Ravilious, Duncan Grant, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Alice Neel and Tacita Dean.


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Event Turner Prize Curator Talk

Wednesday 14 February, 2.00pm to 2.30pm

Free, drop-in

Join a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.


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Event Ghislaine Leung: Questions

at The Birley Centre

24 February 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00

In her ongoing Questions talks, Ghislaine Leung takes the structure, and demand, of the artist talk to task, stipulating the requirement for no presentation to be given but there instead only be questions asked, to which Leung will respond accordingly.


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A person with bright red hair stands in Towner's Art Store, looking at a label attached to a painting. The painting hangs with many others on a large metal rack.
Event Art Store Tour
£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members Sunday 25 February, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Go behind the scenes and enjoy a fascinating introduction to our impressive Collection of over 5000 works in our bespoke art store.  Starting with the original Victorian bequest, your tour will then cover works by artists such as Eric Ravilious, Duncan Grant, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Alice Neel and Tacita Dean.


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Event Artist Event: Jesse Darling

at The Birley Centre

16 March 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00

Join Turner Prize artist Jesse Darling, at an event shaped in response to his practice.


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Event Turner Prize Curator Talk

Wednesday 30 March, 2.00pm to 2.30pm

Free, drop-in

Join a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.


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Event Barbara Walker: In-conversation

at The Birley Centre

6 April 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00

Join Turner Prize artist Barbara Walker, at an event shaped in response to her practice.


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Event Turner Prize Curator Talk

Saturday 13 April, 2.00pm to 2.30pm

Free, drop-in

Join a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.


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