What’s On

Still Life Drawing Eastbourne is teaming up with the lovely folks at Ann's Flowers, Beans and Buds to host a Botanical Drawing Workshop.

Compass Arts presents an exhibition of photography and poetry exploring ‘Awakenings’.

Explore a collaborative pop-up of artworks by members of the Arts in Mind group, free entry.

Eastbourne DigiFest returns by popular demand for a jam-packed one-day conference on 10 October 2024! Join in on the Sunshine Coast to experience the best of the region’s thriving creative, digital and technology (CDT) sector.

Still Life Drawing Eastbourne is teaming up with Ann's Flowers, Beans and Buds to host a beginners botanical watercolour workshop.

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

World Poetry Day is celebrated across the globe on 21 March every year. This year, The Poetry Café Eastbourne are joining forces with Eastbourne ALIVE's mission to promote participation in arts across mediums on the theme of ‘Artspeak’. The event will take place at The Fisherman’s Club on Eastbourne’s beautiful seafront on 21 March 2024 from 7.00pm, showcasing the works of invited poets, reading poetry inspired by art.

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

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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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. 

Exhibition of rare prints made from textiles in the 1960s by artist and weaver Ann Sutton.

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.

Flatland Projects is incredibly excited to present Unfinished Sentence II by Tarek Lakhrissi.

Two graduate art students, Connie Ashford and Tilly-May O’Shea, designed and delivered a series of workshops to the students at Robertsbridge Community College with guidance from Head of Arts, Kirsten Laundon, and artist Liz Wilson. This exhibition unveils exceptional work by the students, exploring the theme of ‘Is it Art?’ – a response to the Turner Prize 2023 exhibition at Towner Eastbourne.

The Common Rooms are inviting you to come and immerse yourself in a rich weekend of culture - hearing and learning from like-hearted human beings on what inspires and connects us, how we might live with each other and our environment more kindly and sustainably, and how creativity, art and nature can play their part in enriching and transforming our lives.

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.

Since 2008 the artists and makers of Eastbourne have opened their homes and studios to the public.

Eastbourne Studio Pottery presents an exhibition of over 500 plates as a result of 35 free artist-led plate-making workshops for 60 local groups, which took place between November 2023 and May 2024.

An exhibition of original prints by Sussex printmaker Rob Peel (1949-2019).

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.

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.

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.

Join artist Stuart Waters for an afternoon of provocation, conversation and sharing on Friday 24 May 2024 in Eastbourne.

As part of Eastbourne ALIVE, Compass Arts, The Parish of Hampden Park and the Hydneye present: LOSS by Chaja Verkerk.

The Big Conversation continues… with an exhibition of textile and weaving from the Compass textile group of artists. TEXTILE I’LLTEXT explores the use of text and the patterns of text that are implicit in the craft.

As part of Eastbourne ALIVE, Compass Arts, The Parish of Hampden Park and the Hydneye present: Void and Vessel by Walter Bailey.

“Inspired By” will celebrate the origins of the Printmakers Council, and demonstrate how printmaking techniques and ways of approaching the media has moved on in the past half-century.

Join artist Maja Jones for Cocktails and Collage at Port: Come As You Are - Collage Portraits of Identity, Heritage, and Belonging. Collage evening inspired by Barbara Walker’s ‘Burden of Proof’ Turner Prize nominated work at Towner Eastbourne.

Artists Paul Bartholomew, Paul Crocker and Steve Johnston are presenting worlds within... an exhibition of works created in their joint printmaking studio. The works include techniques such as etching, embossing, block type, collagraphs, relief, monotype and digital print. The exhibition will open on Saturday 24 February 2024 at Emma Mason Gallery.

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.

Guided by artist Sophie Wright, young people aged 16 to 24 met weekly to mind-map creative ideas, meditate and holistically explore wellbeing and safe spaces. Through this process, three meditation pods were created to be placed across East Sussex locations for visitors to enjoy a reflective moment.

Compass Arts are warmly inviting you to an evening of music and storytelling at The Vinyl Frontier. Performances by Milton Hide, Ben Somers and Nick Ryan. Free entry. The programme starts at 7.00pm.

Join Eastbourne-based dance artist Yanaëlle Thiran for The Performance Path, a different kind of walking tour, as part of Eastbourne Walking Festival this Spring 2024.

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

Celebratory close event of Akila Richards' REST Experience in Eastbourne as part of Eastbourne Alive.

Led by Eastbourne-based dance teachers Yanaëlle Thiran, these outdoor sessions give you a unique opportunity to follow and create movements inspired by the lines and bright colours of Lothar Götz’s Dance Diagonal (2019).

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?”.

Join Eastbourne-based dance artist Yanaëlle Thiran for The Performance Path, a different kind of walking tour, originally created for Eastbourne Walking Festival 2022 and returning this September.

In association with Eastbourne Alive, Towner Eastbourne and Charleston.

Rottingdean Bazaar are artists James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks. Their work straddles creative direction, fashion design, video direction, installation, and fine art practice.

Being Human exhibition celebrates the complexities of the human experience.

Flatland Projects is incredibly excited to present My Assembled Selves a solo exhibition by Bristol based Artist Martyn Cross.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, artist Grace Lau invites you to get your FREE photo taken inside a reimagined 19th century Chinese portrait studio. 

Join artist Miss HerNia for a costume making workshop. Applications are open for LGBTQIA+ identifying people between 18 and 30 who live in Eastbourne.

Eastbourne ALIVE are thrilled to be working with Renee Vaughan Sutherland and Florence Wright as they take residency at Motcombe Pool Caretaker’s House as part of the wraparound programme. The project focuses on community engagement, youth voice, wellbeing and creativity in a space that is much-loved by the locals and will highly benefit of the animation of currently disused rooms. The residency concludes with an exhibition from 20 February until 25 Febraury 2024.

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.

You asked, we listened - the popular Eastbourne ALIVE Walking Tours are back! Eastbourne is ALIVE with art and creativity waiting to be discovered. To accompany the Turner Prize 2023 exhibition at Towner, a series of works have been installed in the town as part of Eastbourne ALIVE.

Artist Judith Alder will be celebrating the arrival of the prestigious Turner Prize award in town with her own exhibition, Vital Signs.

It's nicer to be nice, a healing garden is a public artwork designed by artist Eve De Haan.

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.

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

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.

Join Eastbourne-based dance artist Yanaëlle Thiran for The Performance Path, a different kind of walking tour, originally created for Eastbourne Walking Festival 2022 and returning this September.

Found is Clare Somerville-Perkins' debut exhibition and features a selection of her letterpress and screen-printed one-off pieces and small editions.

Join Eastbourne-based dance artist Yanaëlle Thiran for The Performance Path, a different kind of walking tour, originally created for Eastbourne Walking Festival 2022 and returning this September.