and 4pm. Visit seefuture.org/agreenerseaford. Use your imagination to bring a picnic with as little waste as possible and learn about climate change.
Music Arts and cultural events in the Seaford area
Art
Rosemary Drysdale is at the Crypt in Church Street from 29th July until 3rd August with diverse work including mixed media. On Wednesday 4th August from 10am to 4pm the Crypt is hosting a workshop in connection with September’s Tide Mills Project. Cecily Tucker takes over at the Crypt with an exhibition of oil paintings on board which can be seen from Saturday 7th to Sunday 15th August. Most are new paintings including local scenes painted during Lockdown when going out very early in the morning. For details about an exhibition aptly titled Cliffhanger, at South Hill Barn from 7th to 15th August, turn to page 22. Back at the Crypt, the gallery’s summer project takes place from 17th to 22nd August with the final day, Sunday, devoted to an exhibition of output from the project. Seaford Art Club takes over the space from 27th August to 1st September for its annual show. And from 23rd August it’s back up to South Hill Barn until 30th August for a show celebrating Cuckmere and its heritage.
Newhaven Festival
The fourth Newhaven Festival continues on Saturday 31st July with the popular Bar on the Bandstand event when gin, fizz, beer and wine can be sampled. Sessions run from 11.30am until 2pm, 2.30 until 5pm and 5.30 until 8pm. Over 18s only, apart from babies in slings or pushchairs, and disability dogs only. The festival will also embrace Artwave from 11th-26th September and the Tide Mills Project, details in September’s Seaford Scene.
Garden
Geoff Stonebanks’ award-winning Driftwood Garden at Bishopstone and local favourite place to visit, opens on Sunday 1st August at 10am, entry by ticket only, £6 from www.driftwoodbysea.co.uk or 01323 899296. Private visits, at £8.50, are available up to 12th August.
Greener Seaford
Go to the Salts on Sunday 1st August for the Community Climate & Eco Fair between 12 noon
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Composer and musician Nigel Goss’s band Cushion the Blow is at South Hill Barn on Saturday 14th August at 5pm. Tickets on the door. Nigel has also composed music for the Tide Mills Project. Sue Richardson’s Splashpoint Jazz is back at The View (Seaford Head Golf Club) on Wednesday 8 September at 7pm.
Drama
Seaford Little Theatre is staging Mixed Doubles from 20th to 28th August, with tickets available from 30th July. Mixed Doubles takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters, written by Alan Ayckbourn, John Bowen, Lyndon Brook, David Campton, George Melly, Alan Owen, Harold Pinter, James Saunders and Fay Weldon. Directed by Garry Fowler and Sue and David Williams, each is an independent play in its own right, with the sequence linked by anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly. Find any updates and ticket information on www.seafordlittletheatre.co.uk.
Cinema
Seaford Community Cinema welcomes you back with an open air event at Florence House, Southdown Road courtesy of Mairin Colleary. This takes place on Sunday 5th September, gates open at 3pm for the 4pm showing of A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (U) and gates open at 6pm for the 7pm showing of The Greatest Showman (PG) so you can sing along to songs from the Barnum circus story. The season continues at the Barn Theatre in Saxon Lane from Friday 10th September. Tickets at www.seafordcinema.org, from the Tourist Information Centre as soon as Covid regulations allow, or on the door. The programme is subject to Covid guidelines and obtaining film licences. See also page 54.
September highlights
Art Wave Festival, 11th to 26th September, Seaford, Lewes, Newhaven and local villages, www.artwavefestival. org. The Tide Mills Project, 20th to 26th September, www.tidemillsproject.uk Please email events and jpgs to Andrea at andylouhargreaves@icloud.com up to a week before Seaford Scene’s deadline.
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