Family Day
Artist-led workshops and activities throughout the building
Friday 1 November, 12.00pm to 4.00pm, Free drop-in
Family Day is back! Explore the galleries with self-led packs, pop-up activations and intergenerational artist-led workshops.
Join artists Ruby Campion and Yanaëlle Ritter to explore activities that respond to Towner’s collection, exhibitions and Eastbourne’s unique place in our shared landscape.
Our activities will spread out over the whole building, and you can join us at any point from the creative making led by Ruby and Yanaëlle to self-directed activity packs which can be used anywhere in the building.
More info coming soon…
Access information
We will be offering a designated quieter, seated area and a self-led activity pack for families and groups who would prefer a more relaxed experience.
We have sensory bags including noise-cancelling headphones and fidgets available to collect from the ground floor foyer to use for your visit.
About Ruby Campion
Ruby is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice explores the use of storytelling to reshape our relationship with the world around us, particularly the natural environment. They engage with objects and artefacts, working to question conventional hierarchies of usefulness, embracing materials subject to change and decay over time, reconnecting with natural cycles and processes of change.
They are a recent graduate from the University of Brighton Fine Art course where their study focused on sculpture, process, and performance; exploring sense of place and meaning through movement with found objects and puppetry work. They have developed and supported workshops centring experimental play and found objects as well as practical techniques in ceramics and painting.
Currently, their practice is moving towards artworks offered as gifts to places, people, and communities as opposed to work intended for conventional gallery spaces.
About Yanaëlle Ritter
Yanaëlle Ritter is a contemporary dance artist based in Eastbourne. As a choreographer and performer, she often collaborates with musicians and creates dances for specific sites like parks, beaches, or outdoor artworks such as the Dance Diagonal mural at Towner. Teaching dance is at the core of Yanaëlle’s practice. She facilitates creative contemporary dance classes for children, teenagers and adults across London and Sussex, for organisations including Sadler’s Wells, The Place, Trinity Laban and Eastbourne Dance Space. Yanaëlle also co-directs Company Concentric, a circle of collaborators with whom she designs and delivers performances, events and community projects.
Yanaëlle Ritter (Thiran) (@yanaelledanse) • Instagram photos and videos