EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL LIVE 2009 line up announced!

Live music and DJ's: Eastbourne Festival Live has announced a great line up including
The Maccabees and Friendly Fires.

Following a hugely successful event in 2008 featuring Jack Penate, Pendulum DJ’s, Metros, Zane Lowe, DJ Hype and many more, EFL brings together a selection of the UK’s finest new and established artists for a weekend of quality music as part of Eastbourne Festival.

Eastbourne Festival Live takes place over the weekend of 24th - 26th April - check out the Eastbourne Festival Live website for full details.
www.eastbournefestivallive.com

BRIGHTON UNIVERSITY SUPPORTING EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL 2009!

Staff and students from the University of Brighton BA Events Management and Events Marketing courses are providing welcome support to Eastbourne Festival for 2009. Student volunteer, Louise Dobson, is the Festival's Press Officer and senior lecturer, Jayne Luscombe is overseeing the new Friends of Eastbourne Festival scheme. Festival Director, Judith said, "The Directors of Eastbourne Festival are very pleased to be working with staff and students from the University of Brighton. It's great to have the support of this team of experienced staff and committed student volunteers. Their input is greatly valued both for it's practical contribution and as an endorsement of the Festival and their belief in its potential."

FESTIVAL 2009 FIRST EVENTS PLANNED

Plans for the 2009 festival are now well under way, with the programme of events looking to be even more exciting than last year. The festival programme will feature:

• Eastbourne Festival Live: popular live music at The Winter Gardens, last years line-up featured top acts such as Pendulum, Jack Penate, Radio One’s Zane Lowe and Babyshambles. This year’s line-up to be released soon!
• Polish Arts Events: The idea is to create a ‘Poland-by-the-sea’ (Polska nad morzem) through a multi-media exhibition of photos, interviews, text and portraits of Polish people living and working in Eastbourne and the surrounding area.
• Artists Open Houses Event: This year’s festival will again see local artists opening up their studios and houses for the public to view work as well as see the space in which it is produced.
• Redoubt Events: The Redoubt Fortress is to become a ‘hub’ for festival activities including community activities and workshops, performance and exciting new site specific work and installation by the Blue Monkey artists and invited guest artists from across Sussex.
• Towner Gallery to show local work: The new Towner Gallery has invited East Sussex based artists to propose subtle, yet interesting, “interventions” for the public non-gallery spaces for the duration of the festival.

EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL 2009 WANTS TO MAKE FRIENDS

If you love Eastbourne and you love the arts, we’d love you to be our friend!

For 2009 the Festival is being organised and run entirely by volunteers. In order to achieve our aims, we will need support from a range of organisations and individuals. If you care about what we want to do, you can help too. Become a Friend of Eastbourne Festival!

For an annual subscription of £25, you can support Eastbourne Festival, and in return we will make sure that you will benefit from:
• advance mailing of the Festival brochure
• your name (as a Friend of The Festival) printed in the main Festival brochure
• an opportunity to join a free guided tour of selected artists Open Houses or free backstage tour of one of Eastbourne's theatres during Eastbourne Festival
• a Friends of the Festival monthly newsletter
Family membership is available for £40.
To become our friend, simply request an application form by e-mailing friends@eastbournefestival.co.uk or download one from www.eastbournefestival.co.uk

REGISTER FOR EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL 2009 NOW!

In 2009 Eastbourne Festival will take place from 11 - 26 April. It will continue to give local artists and performers an opportunity to showcase their work, as well as aiming to attract the participation of regional, national and international artists, performers and entertainers in the long term.

Are you planning to organise an event?

Events organisers are invited to submit proposals of events for inclusion in the Festival brochure. This year Festival organisers are particularly interested in including events in the Festival brochure if they celebrate Eastbourne, make use of unusual locations, or actively support or highlight the work of artists and performers living or working in Eastbourne. We hope that you will register your event if you're doing something different, pushing boundaries, broadening horizons or building new partnerships and collaborations!

Events organisers can download Registration forms from www.eastbournefestival.co.uk. For full information click here.

COULD YOU SPONSOR EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL 2009?

Plans are now firmly in progress for Eastbourne Festival 2009!

The Eastbourne Festival Community Interest Company are seeking major funding towards next year’s Festival from national organisations, however it will also very much welcome involvement from local businesses.

For £150 companies can become ‘Commercial Founding Sponsors’ with their company logo on the ‘Sponsors’ page of the Festival website, and a link to their main site together with a company logo on the sponsors’ page of the main Festival brochure.

Further sponsorship opportunities will be available for individually negotiated high profile packages including sponsorship of event banners, single named sponsorship of specific events and packages specially tailored to fit individual sponsor’s needs, such as the provision of services up to an agreed value.

If you would like to sponsor Eastbourne Festival, please telephone Julian Sutherland-Beatson on 01323 643727 to discuss.

MORE FESTIVAL 08 PICS

Pictured here are John and Helen Warren who took part in Eastbourne Festival 2008, showing John's ceramics and Helen's paintings in their Open House and garden. John & Helen say "It's great to see that things are happening in preparation for next year's Open Houses, which we are planning to be part of."