Friday, 4.50pm - SKEGNESS will become a major part of the international arts scene next year as the only UK venue for the groundbreaking SEAS festival.
SEAS is a spectacular arts initiative involving 10 countries from around the Black and North Seas. It launched in May this year in Odessa in the Ukraine, and will travel around Europe until it reaches Skegness for its finale in September 2009.
East Lindsey District Council has been working on the project since 2006 and will deliver it in partnership with Skegness Town Council, Lincolnshire County Council, the University of Lincoln, and Arts Council England.
A staggering £285,000 of funding has been contributed for the event by the partners.
Around 100 international artists will descend on Skegness to offer a varied and diverse programme, including dance, performance, video, and even art pieces which the audience become a part of.
ELDC arts project officer Nicki Gardner and Samantha Neal spoke to Skegness Town Council about the project at its meeting on Wednesday.
Mrs Gardner leading the project, explained the festival would not only put Skegness on the map in terms of the arts and make it the focus of national and international media, but would also be used as an educational tool to foster relations between the town and the university, and get local students involved.
She said the council needs suggestions for venues a little more obscure than a threatre, such as outdoors, in a shop, a hotel, a nightclub etc.
Do you think such a prestigious festival will boost the town? Email us CLICK HERE
The full article contains 273 words and appears in Skegness Standard newspaper.
