SS Sept 19 Web

Arts and cultural events in the Seaford area
Welcome to the latest update on what’s going on in
our vibrant town, compiled by Andrea Hargreaves.
Art and crafts
Sunday 1st September sees the last day of Artwave,
the area’s celebration of local art and crafts, so make
sure you pencil in the Open Houses you have not
yet seen. For example, Nova House is home on 31st
August and 1st September to black and white photos
by Tony Gaitskell, 47 Southdown Road is seeing Kath
and Chris Dawson’s pottery and photography, and at
11 Beacon Road you’ll find jewellery, ceramics, fused
glass, metalwork, textiles, digital painting and stained glass.
Artist Patrick Goff is painting in his studio at 2 Headland
Avenue, the Fairways Colle ctive will be at 5 Fairways
Road with everything from clothing to paper sculptures,
Onneke Art in High Street is showing local artists’ work,
there are paintings at 16 Hill Rise, mixed media
and sculptures next door at number 18 and
figurative and abstract work at 58 Belgrave
Road. Drop in to the new Studio + gallery
next door to the Crypt Gallery in Church
Street where printmaker Karen Potter and
photographer Malcolm Davidson are joining
forces to show landscapes inspired by the
rugged coast of Connemara and the rivers,
cliffs and Downs of Sussex. Artwave closes at
the Crypt with Seaford Art Club’s show, presented as a
diverse mix of contemporary art and hand-crafted gifts.
Then from 21st to 28th September the gallery is taken
over by Seaford’s Sally-Mae Joseph and her Landscape
of Love exhibition of lively and colourful paintings, prints,
cards and linocuts which all have a connection to her
daughter Debby Van Dyk, who sadly died of cancer last
September, see page 25 Debby and her young family
lived in the town for nearly five years.
Music
Go to Seaford Little Theatre on 30th or 31st August
for A Little Bit of Vaudeville, directed by Graham Tubb,
tickets from Redgolds in Broad Street. Splash Point
Jazz Club on Wednesday 4th September at 7pm has
vocalist and percussionist Raul d’Oliveira joining the
Neal Richardson Trio at The View, Southdown Road. And
on Friday 6th September, doors open at 7pm, Seaford
Sessions are introducing all-girl band Midnight Skyracer
who are playing a sellout performance of their brand of
roots at The Little Theatre in Steyne Road.
Cinema
Seaford’s second Film
Festival, at the Barn
Theatre from 14th
to 22nd September,
celebrates all sorts
of heroes, starting
with Harry Palmer, played by Michael Caine in The
Ipcress File (PG), with a talk and Q&A by Pop Art
specialist Professor Alex Seago, on Saturday 14th
September at 7.30pm. Director Jerry Rothwell
introduces his film, How to Change the World (15),
about environmentalist fighters Greenpeace, on Friday
20th September at 7.30pm. Then it’s on to Superheroes
Saturday with Incredibles 2 (PG) at 10.30am, Black
Panther (12A) at 2.30pm and Mystery Men (12A)
at 7.30pm, with an intro by score composer Stephen
Warbeck. The Breakfast Special the
following day is Fighting With My
Family (12A) at 10.30pm, followed at
2pm by an afternoon of short films by
local film students. The festival finale is
the wonderful To Kill a Mockingbird,
starring Gregory Peck, at 8pm. The
new season, see page 22, begins with
an NT Live screening encore of James
Corden in the hilarious One Man Two
Guvnors on Thursday 26th September at 7pm.
Also coming up...
Seaford Music Society Divertimenti Ensemble, St
Leonard’s Church, 20th October. Seaford Little Theatre,
On Golden Pond, 8th to 16th November. Seaford
Choral Society Autumn Concert, St Leonard’s Church,
30th November.
Are you putting on an arts event in the town? For
a possible mention in this diary contact Andrea at
andylouhargreaves@icloud.com at least a week before
issue deadline.
Photos from top: Incredibles 2; To Kill a Mockingbird.
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