Family Day
Event
Take over Towner for our last Family Day of the school year!
Friday 29 May, 12.00pm to 4.00pm
Free
About the artists
About Kyla Jardine
Kyla Jardine (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist working with poetry, performance, and storytelling. Her practice is rooted in a lifelong love of language and the power of words: a way to explore memory, identity, belonging, and transformation. She uses storytelling to create connection, and also to question what is left unspoken.
Her work is shaped by rhythm, image, and atmosphere, drawing inspiration from music, visual art, and the textures of everyday life. She treats poetry and narrative not just as words on a page but as experiences to be seen, heard and felt.
Kyla has performed widely across the UK’s spoken word scene, from grassroots spaces to headline stages nationwide. Alongside her artistic practice, she is an experienced facilitator who cultivates inclusive, playful spaces where people of all ages can build confidence in their creative expression.
Laura J. Furner
L.J Furner (they/them) explores relationships between the human and more-than-human, interrogating how connections with nature can reveal different ways of viewing our lived experiences.
Their work centres sustainable practices, embedding nature within the creative process. They use natural and upcycled materials to make work that support sensory ways of thinking about landscape, touch and memory.
Queer ecologies are at the heart of their work, exploring modes of being in the world beyond the restrictions of human categorisation, working through these ideas by interweaving natural forms with human acts of ‘making’.
Access Information
Towner has step-free access, spaces available for buggies, a baby-change and cafe on the ground and second floors.
Our two quiet spaces are The Ravilious and Collection Library (first floor) and the Cinema foyer (ground floor).
We have sensory bags including noise-cancelling headphones and fidgets available to collect from the ground floor foyer to use for your visit.
Extra noise cancelling headphones are available, please speak to a member of the team in Studio 1 to collect a pair.
There is a Changing Places facility in the building next to Towner, please let us know in advance if you may require one and we can organise access.
For any enquiries or access requirements, please contact mollie.howells@townereastbourne.org.uk
Join us for activities across the whole building, led by artists Kyla Jardine and Laura J. Furner!
More information coming soon...
Book a free ticket to get priority access during busy times. You do not need to arrive at 12.00pm, just drop-in anytime between 12.00pm and 4.00pm for activities across the building.
Visiting our exhibitions? Family Day ticket holders get half-price entry to our ticketed show Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism — Towner Eastbourne (discount not available online or in advance.) Under-25s go free.
If you'd prefer a more relaxed, supported experience, you can book onto our Quiet Hour (11.00am - 12.00pm). Numbers are limited with a relaxed atmosphere for families and a higher adult-child ratio.
Photos by Will Adler
Please note:
Caregivers are required to stay with their children/dependents for the duration of the session
Make Space will be open from 10.00am as usual
Photography and filming will be taking place across the day. If you do not wish to be photographed please collect a sticker from staff at the information desk or in Studio 1
