September’s arts and cultural scene, compiled by Andrea Hargreaves, offers a tempting variety of festival, film, art, heritage and music. Latest Covid guidelines apply.
Outdoor fun
Seahaven Pride Family Festival is taking place on Sunday 29th August at Martello Fields from 11am until 9pm, tickets from www.tickettailor.com, and the Mayor’s Charity Day takes place at the same venue on Sunday 5th September. Organising that event are Martello and Seaford Rotary Clubs, Newhaven, Peacehaven and Seaford Lions, Seaford Bonfire and the National Coastwatch Institution, allowing more than 40 local charities to take part. The event opens at 10am with music and sports demos from noon.
Cinema
Florence House, at the top of Southdown Road, is opening its grounds, courtesy of Mairin Colleary, to another of its popular open-air film evenings put on by Seaford Community Cinema on Sunday 5th September. Please note that the times have been revised since previously advertised. For children, gates open for A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (U) at 5pm for the 5.30pm showing, while for mums, dads and anyone else who loves a bit of a sing-along, gates open at 7.30pm for the 8pm screening of extravaganza The Greatest Showman (PG). Bring a picnic, something to sit on and, maybe, a mac because the show will go on whatever the weather. There will also be a
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bar benefitting this year’s cinema charity The Youth Counselling Project, Holy Cow ices and Clubby’s Hot & Cold Snacks. Tickets from the TIC, www.seafordcinema. org or on the gate. It’s back to the Barn Theatre on Friday 10th September at 7.30pm, but you might be forgiven for thinking you are still at Florence House thanks to the gorgeous clifftop settings in Summerland (12) (photo above). This film stars Gemma Arterton, the Coastguard Cottages and the Seven Sisters masquerading as the white cliffs of Dover in wartime. Like Summerland, the next film, on Friday 24th September at 7.30pm, has the travails of a young boy at its heart. Instead of the evacuee in Summerland, this time the focus in Minari (12) is on a South Korean boy whose family emigrate to rural Arkansas. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director Oscars.
Music
Trumpeter Sue Richardson is featuring at Splashpoint Jazz on Wednesday 8th September from 7pm at The View, Seaford Head Golf Club. And go to St Leonards Church in Church Street on Saturday 18th September at 1pm to be entertained by violinist Adriana Cristea.
Art
The Crypt Gallery has some interesting exhibitions this month, starting with Brian Ixer, Stefan Much and Amanda Lewis-Clements in the Cuckmere Room from Saturday 11th September to Sunday 19th September. Ixer’s paintings in oils, acrylics and pastels reflect his love of land, sea, nature and tranquillity, and Much and Lewis-Clements are Sussex-based graphic designer/ artists inspired by local landscapes and the natural environment. Meanwhile in the Flint Gallery local artists Carol Trimbee and Chris Hesketh are staging an exhibition called Just The Two of Us. Richard K Potter is at the Crypt from Sunday 26th September until Sunday 3rd October with an exhibition about the natural environment and our place within it. For info about Artwave go to artwavefestival.org.
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