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12pm
Sat
Be part of
a brand new,
24h / Non-Stop
24-hour multi-
arts festival
in a beautiful
seaside setting.
FREE
22 - 23 June 2019
#FirstLightLowestoft 12pm
@FirstLightFestival Sun
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Welcome 24 Hours of Festival Highlights
Welcome to First Light, a brand new festival Enjoy the Sounds of Summer
to celebrate the mid-summer weekend in With live music from Talvin Singh, First Light
Ensemble, A Man Called Adam, The Fontanas,
Lowestoft – Britain’s most Easterly town. The John Ward Band, Horn Factory
From rolling sand dunes and moonlit Dance with the sand between your toes;
sea to grassy gardens and a traditional watch an award-winning film on our big
Dancing in the Moonlight
With our Silent Moon Dance Disco*, Body
British seaside promenade, this is a screen; take a moment to yourself in Percussion, Dance Through the Decades, Tea-
festival that celebrates a unique position well-being tipis; peek inside the beach Time Tea Dance, Baby Loves to Boogie, Dance
in time and space in a stunning setting. huts to see works by our artists-in- Like Beyonce
residence or simply wander and see what
The festival opens with the beat of a you discover. DJs
drum as the clock strikes midday when Across four venues including Gilles Peterson
a procession of people and percussion This festival is about shared experiences. (DJ Club Set*,) Flying Mojito Bros, Faze Action,
leads the crowd through the site to join Make this the one time you let the kids Jack Hemingway, Ben Osborne, Neal Birnie
Talvin Singh at the main stage on the stay up and watch the sunset together (Suncut), Luna Cohen Solal, Our House x Keep
sands of South Beach. This kicks off as a family. Spend the hours of darkness On Dancing, BobyGlo, Nathan X, Richard Haugh,
the clock for 24 hours of excitement, with friends on the beach, see the stars, Purple City, Smoove Groove, Jimmy Green…
exploration, creativity and discovery have a midnight feast, do something
with over 100 activities taking place different, and get ready to welcome the Kids Wild Beach
non-stop during the day, through the dawning of a new day together. Become a Cosmic Pirate with Jonny Duddle’s
pirate stories, Gareth P Jones’ Aliens in
night and on into the morning beyond.
Lowestoft and stories of Lowestoft Folk and
First Light is much more than a free make the beach your playground with Suffolk
This is a festival for thinkers, for multi-arts festival – forget what you’re Wildlife Trust’s wild beach activities.
dreamers and for fun-seekers. Pick the expecting, what you usually do, what you
brains of some of the UK’s top scientists, think you know – join us on the beach, Film
authors and broadcasters. See world- and see where 24 hours can take you! Grab a spot on the beach and put on your
renowned musicians at a rare free show. headphones for Danny Boyle and his epic film
Wayne Hemingway, Genevieve Christie & ‘Sunshine’*, be inspired by collections from
Clare Matterson Suffolk Short Film Festival and pop in and out
of Arena Night & Day’s 24 hour film throughout
the festival.
Well-being *Limited capacity ticketed event:
Soothe body and soul with 24 hours of
firstlightlowestoft.com/tickets
yoga, meditation, hand and head massage,
reflexology, Kinesiology, health checks, plus
singing and writing activities. Find out more at
www.firstlightlowestoft.com
Night Market & Maker’s Market @firstlightfestival
East of England creatives showcase their artisan
skills in jewellery, print, homewares and more.
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Festival Highlights
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CLAREMONT PIER
REC AND TOWN CENTRE
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Sunrise on the Beach Aurora Science Dome D
Immerse yourself in pianist Federico Albanese’s Explore Lowestoft’s ancient coastline and deep
By the Deep Sea before Talvin Singh takes to ocean with science stations and spotlight talks SHORE
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the stage for a magical reworking of his opus from the Natural History Museum and Cefas.
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‘Light’. As the sun climbs over the horizon, re- Take part in solar study and moon-gazing with
tune your senses for a beach installation of Mike the Norwich Astronomical Society and make
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Challis’s Dawn Chorus recording from Carlton rockets with Rocket Man.
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performed by the First Light Ensemble.
Check out the Art in the Huts installations and
Interstellar Ideas on the Green The Library of Limited Resources on the beach,
Explore the moon and cosmos with Dr Kevin watch as sculptor Tobias Ford installs Pakefield
Fong and Professor Carolin Crawford, examine Man before symbolically setting it alight, have
seaside couture with Amber Butchart, share a go at a beach Cyanotype or be part of a FEAST
ideas of Doggerland with Julia Blackburn, collaborative festival weaving project.
focus on crime fiction with a local connection MAKERS
MARKET MOON CAMPFIRE
with Harry Brett plus late night open mic and Sport by the Shore DANCE
improvisation. Arrive early and be part of Park Run then have a go
JAPANESE FIRST LIGHT
at Volleyball, ultimate frisbee and surf life-saving GARDENS STAGE FOOD ZONE
before joining in Sunday’s Speed of Light 5K .*
*Enter via the First Light website TENNIS PAKEFIELD
KENSINGTON
BEACH HUT ART MAN
COURTS INSTALLATIONS
GARDENS
FREE
COSMIC
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Discover
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Carlton
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WORKSHOPS
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Comedy • Children’s theatre • Talks
SCIENCE ZONE
Play readings • Local artists • Live music
Late night entertainment
Marshes
Stroll into The Broads
CEFAS
SUFFOLK
SHORT FILMS
OPEN AIR
CINEMA
BEACH BAR
from Lowestoft
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Carlton Colville
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Follow Carlton
Marshes for THE LIBRARY OF KEY
LIMITED RESOURCES
wildlife news, events &
www.hightide.org.uk
( SHELTER INSTALLATION)
nature reserve updates Toilets Bar
Food
WILD BEACH CAMPING, Information
01728 573 101 CIRCADIAN First Aid Bicycle Rack
AND MOON GAZING
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Saturday 22nd June - 12 noon until 12 midnight
All information in the brochure is correct at time of printing and subject to change without notice
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Opening
Parade
Sunlight Stage Talvin First Light A Man Called The John The Rabble Gilles Peterson -
Horn Factory The Fontanas Sundown Set
Singh Ensemble Adam Ward Band Chorus
Moon Dance Stage Body Percussion with Grounded 2Faced Dorothy’s Shoes presents 2Faced Moon Dance
Movement’s Dance Dance the Ragroof Teadance Dance Faze Action Ben Osborne
Avalon Rathgeb Through the Decades Silent Disco
Beach Bar Sonny 'Scully' Corey Sonny 'Scully' Corey Faze Action Neal Birnie (Suncut) Jack Hemingway The Milkshake Boys Keep On Dancing x
Evans Hemingway Evans Hemingway Our House
Interstellar Ideas The Art of Seaside How We Got to High Tide Your Place in the
Trashion Timesong with Lowestoft Noir with Sea Sagas with Open Mic /
on the Green Walkabout Fashion with the Moon with Theatre: Cosmos with Prof.
Amber Butchart Julia Blackburn Harry Brett Jules Pretty Improv
Kevin Fong ‘Burst’ Carolin Crawford
Astrophoto
Spotlight
Cefas Why We Raptor Colourful Cefas Cefas Our Dwarf Cefas
Cefas
The Fossil
Cefas
Aurora Science Zone
intro
spotlight Have the World of spotlight spotlight Yellow Star spotlight
Moon Rockets Celaphods talk Hunter
talk talk
talk
Well-being by the Yoga for All - an Shapes of the Sea Shells & Driftwood Warrior Woman - Warrior Yoga Through Flow with a Ecstatic Fire, Drums and
introduction Chill Flow Yoga Sound Bath Ibiza Sunset Flow Dance
Waves Children’s Yoga - Mandala Making with Sandra Bates Woman the Elements Bro Yoga Dance
Well-being by the On Site Massage 12-12.45pm, One Life Health Checks 12- 5pm, Indian Head Massage 1.15 - 2.30pm, Kinesiology tasters/Indian Head
Waves Therapies On Site Massage/ reflexology plus Town Chaplains & Hand Massage 12-8pm Massage 5-7.15pm
Well-being by the Waves The Terrified Writer Revealed:
Stress Stop Rabble Chorus Health
Writer: Free Your The Visual Free Your
Talks/workshops Management Smoking Sing for Joy Session Squash
Creative Self Creative Self
Circadian
Circadian
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Circadian
Circadian
Circadian
Circadian
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Circadian
Circadian
Making Waves 12-1pm: Clay Pinch Pot, Weaving with Maria Clarke-Wilson, Print to the People 3-4pm: Ceramic Tile Decoration, Weaving, Print to the People, 4.30-5.30pm: Silk Screen Printing, Weaving Print to the People, Writing Workshop -
Workshops 1.30-2.30pm: Letterpress, Weaving, Print to the People, Writing Workshop - First Memory FirstLove 6-8pm: Clay Pinch Pots, Weaving, Print to the People, 8.30-10pm: Mandala Making, Weaving (until 12am), Writing Workshop - First Loss
Sun and Star Sun-gazing
Practical Sun-gazing with Norwich Astronomical Society Rocketry! & Solar Moon Gazing
Gazing Zone Photography
Cosmic Pirates Library Suffolk Library Suffolk Jonny Suffolk Jonny Bedtime Ghost Stories
story- Music story- Music Maritime story-telling Music Stories (12+ and adults)
Storytelling telling Hub telling Hub Duddle
Hub
Duddle
12-8.30pm: Make paper plate sea creatures, pirate hats and patches, kites and flags with East 2-4pm: Folk bag printing, 4-8.30pm: Junk Musical
Cosmic Pirates Crafts Coast College. Clay modelling with Sylvie Gagne. 12-2pm Finger puppets and extreme knitting Instruments and Skull mask making.
demonstration with Suffolk Stitchers and Knitters.
Lower Promenade - Art in the Huts, Jem Finer’s Long Player, Sitestay, Matt Bayfield, Easterley Collective
Jubilee Parade
Paul First Light
The Japanese Gardens Ukeleles Thompson Flying Mojitos Luna Cohen Solal Jimmy Green Frances Shelley Little Big Mouth
Ensemble
The Aquarium Jack Hemingway
Sunshine
introduced
Screen on the Sand by Danny
Boyle
24 hour Film Arena Night and Day 24 Hour Film
(Night and Day)
East
Suffolk Short Films Children’s East Anglian Tides and Times Anglian
Collection Collection Collection
Shore Games, Sports Surf Cadet Session 2-3 pm, Nordic Walking 1-2pm / 2-3pm/ Surf Adult Trial 4-5pm, Ultimate Frisbee with Lowestoft O-go-go 4-5pm, Touch Rugby 4-6pm, Free play volleyball 5-10pm,
by the Sea 3-4pm, Zumba 3-3.45pm, Beach Volleyball 3- 5pm Touch Rugby in the Dark 9-10pm, Glow in the Dark Volleyball 10pm-12am
Lowestoft Lions Light the
Other Beach Activities Library of Limited Resources (all day) Sandcastle record Library of Limited Resources (all day)
Campfire
attempt
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Sunday 23rd June - 00 midnight until 12 noon
All information in the brochure is correct at time of printing and subject to change without notice
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Dawn North Suffolk The Old
Federico
Donald
The Rabble First Light
Grant
Talvin Singh Chorus Pop Chorus Man and
Sunlight Stage Albanense - Mike Chorus Youth Concert
Ensemble Band The Sea
Challis
Yoga Flow with Awakening the
Moon Dance Stage Moon Dance Silent Disco Soul - Mind and Baby Loves to Boogie Dance Like
live musicians Beyoncé
Body Yoga Class
Beach Bar Keep On Dancing x Our House Ben Osborne Hemingways Back to Back
Interstellar Ideas Open Mic / Poetry for Jules Pretty Jules Pretty Candy Whittome - Simon Mayo - A
on The Green Improv Insomniacs Sea Sagas Sea Sagas The Last Hunters Sense of Place
Tales
Davison
Cefas Cefas Cefas Our
Aurora Science Zone Raptor from the
Phil
Spotlight Spotlight Spotlight Beetle Nearest
Talk Talk Talk Rockets Star
Drawers
Welcome Summer Flow Like
Well-being by the Yin Yoga Solstice - Stella, Yin Yoga with
Vinyasa Flow Yoga Moving Moving in the
Waves Water Ian Bentley Meditation heart
Ian & Sandra
Well-being by the Waves Chill Out Zone 7am-12pm: Town Chaplains Hand Massage, 7-10am: Indian Head Massage, 8-11.30am:
Therapies One Life Suffolk Health Check, 9.30-10am: Weight Management
First Light 6-Step Re-frame
Well-being by the Waves & 1.7 mile Health
Talks/workshops Ensemble Walk (Pakefield)
Circadian
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Circadian
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Circadian
Circadian
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Circadian
Circadian
Circadian
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Making Waves
Maria Clarke-Wilson Weaving and Dyeing 12 midnight to 12 noon Printing 9am-12pm, Letter Press 10-11am, Festival Writing Workshop 10.30-11.30am, Clay Tile Decoration 11am-12pm
Workshops
Sun and Star Gazing Practical Solar Gazing Rocketry!
Moon Gazing
Zone
Storytelling Aliens in Storytelling & Suffolk
Cosmic Pirates Music session with
Lowestoft with Music
& Music with Music with
Storytelling Joe Carr
Suffolk Music Hub
Gareth P. Jones Joe Carr Hub
Cosmic Pirates Crafts Make a Pirate Map, Fish on a Stick, Clay modelling,
Pirate Hats and Eye Patches: All 8am - 12pm
Lower Promenade -
Jubilee Parade Art in the Huts, Jem Finer’s Long Player, Sitestay, Matt Bayfield, Easterley Collective
The Japanese Gardens
Non-Such DJs Rogue Shanty Owl & Wolves Jack Hemingway N.String
Suffolk
Buoys & Ben Osborne Ensemble
The Aquarium Gilles Peterson Ben Osborne / Jack Hemingway
Screen on the Sand Sunshine introduced
by Danny Boyle
24 hour Film
(Night and Day) Arena Night and Day 24 hour film
Suffolk Short Films East Anglian Children’s
Collection Tides and Times Collection
Surf Cadets session
Shore Games, Sports Sunrise Touch Rugby Nordic Walking 7yrs - 11yrs plus Adult
by the Sea with Sallyann session available
Gig boats
2.15am Pakefield Library of Limited
land
Other Beach Activities Campfire Feast Library of Limited Resources (all day)
man is set alight Resources (all day)
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How to get to First Light Festival Festival Team
Flipside: First Light is grateful We’d like to say a huge
Adam Barnes to its Supporters and thank you to all of
BY BIKE Sue Brinkhurst
sponsors: our brilliant, tireless
There is an excellent cycle route along the upper esplanade from Genevieve Christie
Arts Council England
the town centre to the festival site, with a bike park on the Upper Ann-Marie Doggett
East Suffolk Council volunteers,
Amanda Edgcombe
Esplanade by Rectory Road. Suffolk County Council
Gareth Evans also to John Christie, Lorna
Lowestoft Town Council
Suffolk DMO Dickinson, Mick Hart, Nicki
BY TRAIN Kirkley Peoples Forum
Lizzie Hall Mayhew, Paul Vogel Design, Lou
Cefas
There are direct train services running to Norwich and Ipswich, and Helen Hayes Laughland, Lowestoft Men’s Shed
East Suffolk Partnership especially Bob Peek, Phil Aves,
on-going connections to Cambridge and London Liverpool Street. The Hot Gossip Media – Beccie
East Anglia Art Fund Mark Lanham & the Lowestoft
last train from Lowestoft to Ipswich on Saturday is at 21.07 and to Amer
Yellobelly Lions, Community Engagers:
Norwich at 23.30. Lowestoft train station is a pleasant 25 minute walk Becky Marshall Potter
Natural History Museum Maggie Rayson, Roy Emmerson
along the seafront to the Festival site. John Marshall Potter
Norwich University of the Arts and Dave Eagle, Matthew
Clare Matterson
East Coast College Grafton, SPP Printing, Jo Lloyd
Penny Miller-Williams
BY BUS Rebecca Pickup
Dance East & Mathew Evans, Alex Savage,
Lowestoft central bus station is a 30 minute walk to the Festival Snape Maltings St Mary’s RC Primary School,
Amberley Spillings
Site. For local services the X1, Coastal Clipper 99 and 103 all stop at Norse Pakefield Primary School, Kirkley
Yellobelly – Mary Graham, Lucy and Pakefield Football Club,
Kensington Road. Greater Anglia
Henson St Peter and St John Church,
QD Stores
Hardimans Danny Steel, Town Chaplains,
BY CAR HemingwayDesign: Morgan Sindall Town Pastors, Lowestoft Vision,
For sat nav the nearest post code is NR33 0DG Wayne Hemingway PhotoEast Katherine Hotel, Lord and Lady
Beck Hemingway Somerleyton, David Scott, Stella
Jack Hemingway Raphael-Reeve, Ann Hirst, Henry
Kirkley and Pakefield Football Club, NR33 7LE Programme Partners: Watt, Lowestoft Volunteer
£8 for the day (midday to midnight/ midnight to midday) Sophie Gwynne
Artsadmin Lifeguard Corps, Lowestoft
£12 per car for the weekend Emily Birkett
Cambridge Film Trust Beach Hut Officers, Matthew
Nadia Speranza Roberts, Darren Breeze, Lee
Cefas
Pakefield Church, NR330JZ Kate Costigan Johnson, Friends of Kensington
DanceEast
Saturday ONLY 10.00 - 23:30 East Coast College Gardens, Lowestoft Model
£10 per car for the day MCs Fierce Babe Markets Boat Club, Kensington Gardens
Jonnie Bayfield Fram Makers Market Bowls Club, Agnes Lillas, Zaks
Aline Mowat at Sunrise, Kensington Gardens
Pay and Display Gainsborough House
Tea Rooms, Ollie Platt Events,
The following pay and display car parks are in the vicinity High Tide Theatre
Synergy Audio, CM Lighting,
of the South Beach: Lowestoft Library GoFer, Beccles Bookshop,
Lowestoft Men’s Shed Lowestoft Tourism Group,
Claremont Pier, NR33 0BS Lowestoft Museum Access Community Trust, Joshua
Pakefield Street, NR33 0JS Lowestoft Rising Freemantle,Phoebe Wingate,
Royal Green, NR33 0QL Natural History Museum Helen Dawson, Alex Bond and
Norwich University of the Arts Lowestoft O-go-go, Woodcraft
Clifton Road, NR33 0HF
Norwich Astronomical Society Folk, Suffolk Stitchers and
Kirkley Rise, NR33 0HB
One Life Suffolk Knitters, Martin & Hilary Battye,
originalprojects Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht
Parking in the area is very limited so if you are able to Print to the People Club and Jacqueline Linney.
then please take the train, catch a bus or walk to the Snape Maltings
Suffolk Art Link
site! Suffolk Music Education Hub
Suffolk Shorts
Suffolk Wildlife Trust
All information in the brochure is correct at time of printing and subject to change without notice
University of East Anglia
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We are the official Film Office for
Suffolk Councils, and have managed
360 filming days in the last 2 years
Do you own a property that could be used for filming?
Do you currently work in the TV/Film industry?
Are you trying to get your first break in the Industry?
Get in touch with us and register your details info@screensuffolk.com
www.screensuffolk.com
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