Chalk Stories - Sensing the Landscape

Storyteller Liz Porter and artist/ audio describer Lonny Evans will lead these creative intergenerational sessions in response to The Ravilious Collection.

We will take an imaginative deep dive into the world of Sussex artist Eric Ravilious and his artworks on display at Towner.

Through verbal descriptions and stories, we will feel and explore our way into the Sussex landscape that inspired his work and create and share our own responses.

These sessions are particularly suited to families with visually impaired members, but everyone is welcome.

Please note:

Caregivers are required to stay with their dependents for the duration of the session.

Please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk with any additional access requirements on booking.

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include further interpretation services or other access arrangements we can meet to enable you to participate.

I love stories, songs, walking in nature, and weaving words, sounds, and movement together to explore landscapes in multi-sensory layers. I bring a background in performance storytelling, heritage and access consultancy, and an interest in creative descriptive access.

My lived experience as a visually impaired person feeds into this work, enabling creative play with perception and perspective. My most recent work is with Figment Arts, exploring creative description connected to their Story Maps project.

Lonny Evans has been creating engaged Audio Description for blind and visually impaired people for over twenty-five years. She has worked closely with the Globe, the National Gallery, Historic Royal Palaces, The Imperial War Museum, Tate Modern, The Donmar Warehouse and Canterbury Museums. As a painter with a studio in Brighton, she will bring an artist's perspective to the upcoming Towner event, which will be inclusive, insightful and fun.