Family Day - Quiet Hour

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 a more relaxed experience this Family Day, one hour before the main event supported by artists Kyla and Laura.

Quiet Hour is based in Studio 1 with lower music and lighting to support a more relaxed atmosphere. Families are welcome to visit activations across the building during Quiet Hour supported by artists and support staff.

This ticketed event is for families with children and young people with additional support needs who would benefit from a quieter session with a higher adult to child ratio.

More information coming soon...

Photos by Will Adler

Quiet Hour is designed for families who would benefit from a more relaxed session including those with addtional support needs. Numbers are limited with the majority of activities taking place in Studio 1 with additional adult to child support ratio

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

Families must book a free ticket for this event due to a cap on numbers

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-25's go free!

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.

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’.