SPOTLIGHT – is an ambitious evening of performance

Saturday 27 August, 4pm-10pm, FREE, All welcome

Spotlight is an ambitious evening of bold, experimental and specially-commissioned, performances, installations and interactive activities parading along the seafront from St Leonards to Hastings on Saturday 27^th August.

Join is this August Bank Holiday and celebrate the opening of this years Coastal Currents Visual Arts Festival.

Twelve performances and interactive events have been commissioned for Spotlight featuring established and emerging local, regional and international artists developing a range of exciting interventions from installation, live performance, moving image, sculpture, and sonic & light interventions.

Look out for pedal-powered soundscapes; an illuminated procession of bespoke bicycles; The Lost Plot- a large outdoor sculptural intervention; Liquid Glass – a participatory intervention of sound & projection; interactive LED badge-making and tracking throughout town, and Cabinet of Wonder- a theatrical life-drawing from a Romany wagon.

Spotlight is large-scale outdoor arts event, creating a challenging platform for all artists and performers involved and an exciting event for all the community to freely enjoy.

Performance Schedule

Saturday 27 August, 4 – 10pm

4pm – Liquid Glass – St Leonards Gardens to Bottle Alley on Hastings Promenade

5pm – Bohemia Ukulele Orchestra – Bottle Alley, Hastings Promenade

5.30pm – From Pier to Eternity – Hastings Pier to Crazy Golf, Hastings Seafront

6pm – Radiator Arts & Sea Shanty Singers, Swan Boat Lake, Hastings Seafront

6.30pm – Official opening of the festival with wine & light refreshments – Stade Hall & Stade Open Space.

7pm – The Tiny Travelling Tightwire Show! – Stade Open Space, Hastings

7.30pm – 8.30pm – A variety of performance & interactive activities, Stade Hall & Stade Open Space, Hastings

8.45pm – From Pier to Eternity - SongCycle, Harold Place Underpass, Hastings

9pm- 10pm – The Lost Plot, Wellington Square Gardens, Hastings

For detailed up to date information on SPOTLIGHT, call 07841757866 or email info@coastalcurrents.org.uk