Now & Upcoming

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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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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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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Towner Plaza
27 September to 14 AprilMichael 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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Eastbourne Library
Autumn 2023I 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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244 Terminus Road, Eastbourne
Dates to be announced soonJason 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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59 Terminus Road, opposite Metro Bank
September 2023 to April 2024
Eastbourne Town Centre
Saturday 2 December, Sunday 10 December & Sunday 17 DecemberEastbourne 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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Eastbourne Pier Arcade
Autumn 2023Skill 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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DC Learn Studio
Monday 4 December 6.00pm - 8.00pmWriters, 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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Towner Eastbourne Cinema
15:45 Wednesday 6 December, Free Admission, Booking RequiredThe 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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Eastbourne Pier
30 September—22 December 2023Still 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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Eastbourne Operatic and Dramatic Society
21 & 22 December 2023A Queer Collision is a mash-up of private and historical queer stories that is both funny and poignant.
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Marine Parade Gardens
30 September - 22 December 2023superstructure (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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Langney Shopping Centre, 64 Kingfisher Dr, Eastbourne BN23 7RT
Saturday 9 December 2.00pm - 3.00pmGet 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
November 2023 - May 2024Eastbourne 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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Urban Ground Café on South Street & Urban Ground Café on Bolton Road
December 2023 - May 2024In 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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Flatland Projects, Beeching Road Studios
11 November 2023 to 21 January 2024Flatland Projects is incredibly excited to present Unfinished Sentence II by Tarek Lakhrissi.
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Unit 20 (opposite New Look), The Beacon, Eastbourne BN21 3NW
21 November 2023 to 12 April 2024, 11.00am to 4.00pmSituated 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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234 Terminus Road
25 November 2023 - 10 December 2023OF 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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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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Eastbourne Redoubt
30 September—22 December 2023Love, 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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Eastbourne Library, Seaford Library, Hastings Library
December 2023Three 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Beacon Centre
12 December 2023, 10.00am to 12.00pmWriggle Room is a free drop-in workshop for under-5s and their carers, developed by Katy Beinart and Lydia Hunt.
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Wednesday 13 December, 2.00pm to 2.30pm
Free, drop-inJoin a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.
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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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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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£10 / £9 Concessions & Towner Members
Sunday 19 November, 2.00pm to 3.00pmGo 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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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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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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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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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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Thursday 21 December 2023, 1.30pm
Free, drop-inTowner’s Conservator Dr Corinne Farmer will be shedding insight on Turner Prize 2023 nominee Barbara Walker’s impressive drawing technique.
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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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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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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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£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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Hotels along Eastbourne Seafront
Open Daily, 10.00am to 10.00pm, Free AdmissionExhibition curated by Compass Arts, revealing new and different perspectives through the eyes of neurodivergent artists.
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Towner Eastbourne
2, 4, 7, 9 February 2024Inspired 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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Port Hotel
until December 2023To 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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Wednesday 10 January, 2.00pm to 2.30pm
Free, drop-inJoin a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.
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£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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Thursday 18 January, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Free, drop-inA chance to network with Blue Monkey Network members and visitors before a walk & talk through Towner's galleries
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Saturday 27 January, 2.00pm to 2.30pm
Free, drop-inJoin a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.
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£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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at The Birley Centre
3 February 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00Join Turner Prize artist Rory Pilgrim, at an event shaped in response to Pilgrim's practice.
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£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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Wednesday 14 February, 2.00pm to 2.30pm
Free, drop-inJoin a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.
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at The Birley Centre
24 February 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00In 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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£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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at The Birley Centre
16 March 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00
Wednesday 30 March, 2.00pm to 2.30pm
Free, drop-inJoin a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.
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at The Birley Centre
6 April 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00
Saturday 13 April, 2.00pm to 2.30pm
Free, drop-inJoin a member of Towner’s curatorial team for behind-the-scenes insights into the Turner Prize exhibition.
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