MOMENTS GATHERED

EXHIBITION 

BN9 STUDIO

Aug 6 – 23 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat | 10am – 3pm Sun

Free 

Living and working in East Sussex, Quayside Arts Collective is a group of artists who met through local art classes and discovered a shared passion for creating and exhibiting work together.

PEACEHAVEN ART & CRAFT CLUB

EXHIBITION 

ATRIUM

Aug 11 – 23 

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat | 10am – 3pm Sun

Free 

An exhibition of works by artists and craft makers who meet weekly to socialise and share their creative passions.

peacehavenartandcraft.weebly.com

THE DIPPERS

THEATRE

THE SIDINGS

Aug 22 | Sat

Shows at 1pm, 2.30pm and 4pm (40 mins duration) | FREE

Step back to the seaside and meet the women history forgot.

Before beach huts, before lidos, before swimming became a leisure pursuit for all, there were the Dippers: the working-class women who guided bathers into the sea, season after season, in all weathers.

Created by Michele O’Brien Amy Rose and Teresa Grimaldi, The Dippers is an immersive free outdoor performance that brings these forgotten figures vividly back to life. A purpose-built replica small-scale bathing machine takes centre stage, surrounded by costumed characters, whimsical puppetry, automata and music.

Rooted in community and shaped by local voices, this is a show for everyone — curious children, seaside nostalgists, and anyone who has ever stood at the water’s edge and wondered.

Free to attend. No tickets required. Just turn up and be swept in.

Supported by Arts Council England and Dorset Council

Part of the Undercurrents programme for Summer 2026 at the Sidings. Produced by Look Again Newhaven and Towner’s BN9 programme.

PLAYFUL COLLAGE CARDS

FREE CREATIVE WORKSHOPS

THE SIDINGS

Aug 23 | Sun

11am – 1pm | FREE

Look Again want to inspire children and young people to be creative and believe in learning through play (for all ages). Join them for a summer season of FREE family friendly creative workshops every weekend at The Sidings during the Summer Holidays.

Join artist Amber Elise in a playful exploration of shape and colour. Use collage to create your own greeting cards or postcards to share with family and friends.

All ages welcome (help will be needed for under 5’s)

Part of the Community of Kindness project funded by Lewes District Council

Free, drop in (no need to pre book). All children must be accompanied by an adult.

CONNECTIVE THREADS

EXHIBITION 

ATRIUM

Aug 27 – 30 | Thur – Sun

10am – 4pm Thur – Sat | 10am – 3pm Sun

Free 

A mother and son exhibition bringing together the artistic output of Val Brewin and her son Nev Brewin. Val works with textiles, mixed media, found objects and creates abstractions of the natural world. Nev is a painter and incorporates wood, found material into his, mainly abstract artworks. He is inspired by natural and urban landscapes.

facebook: Valerie Brewin Art,  Nevil Brewin Art

@nevbrewinart 

nevbrewin.com

WICKER MAN NIGHT

FILM

THE SIDINGS

Aug 27 | Thurs

7.30pm – 10.30pm

£12 book tickets here

Join Dr David Bramwell and White Wall Cinema for an evening celebrating one of Britain’s most iconic cult films. Expect stories from the making of The Wicker Man, folklore, film history and a screening that rewards both devoted fans and first-time viewers.

An unforgettable night exploring one of British cinema’s strangest masterpieces.

Part of the Undercurrents programme for Summer 2026 at the Sidings. Produced by Look Again Newhaven and Towner’s BN9 programme.

OUSE VALLEY FOLK FESTIVAL

MUSIC

THE SIDINGS

Aug 28 – 29 | Fri – Sat

Various prices | Tickets and information here

The Ouse Valley Folk Festival celebrates the rich musical heritage of the Ouse Valley alongside the artists and ideas shaping its future. Across Friday and Saturday, the programme brings together traditional music, contemporary folk and folk-adjacent sounds, creating a welcoming festival that honours the past while embracing new influences.

Friday features Goblin Band, Bloody Bones and DJs, while Saturday welcomes Nick Pynn & Kate Daisy Grant, The Kites, Rob Abbott, Pemma and Paul Hartnoll’s Folk Horror Electro Techno Disco Roadshow, alongside Ouse Valley Morris, performances from Folk Against Fascism, storytelling and family-friendly animal mask making with Stealthy Rabbit. Whether you’re a lifelong folk fan or simply curious to discover something new, it’s a chance to experience one of Britain’s richest musical traditions in a fresh and welcoming setting.

Part of the Undercurrents programme for Summer 2026 at the Sidings. Produced by Look Again Newhaven and Towner’s BN9 programme.

MAKE YOUR OWN ZINE

FREE CREATIVE WORKSHOPS

THE SIDINGS

Aug 30 | Sun

1.30pm – 3.30pm | FREE

Look Again want to inspire children and young people to be creative and believe in learning through play (for all ages). Join them for a summer season of FREE family friendly creative workshops every weekend at The Sidings during the Summer Holidays.

Join RTS Zines to make your own zine, a mini magazine to share your voice with the world! Experiment with collage, drawing, cutting, and writing to create your own DIY publication.

All ages welcome (help will be needed for under 5’s)

Part of the Community of Kindness project funded by Lewes District Council

Free, drop in (no need to pre book). All children must be accompanied by an adult.

SOCIETY OF SUSSEX PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, PRINTMAKERS & ILLUSTRATORS (SSP)

EXHIBITION 

BN9 STUDIO

Aug 27 – Sept 12 | open Tues – Sun

11am – 4pm Tues – Sat, 11am – 3pm Sun

The Society was originally established in 1924 by twenty prominent London artists looking for respite and inspiration in the Sussex countryside, and set up as a contemporary to The Bloomsbury Group. They are now the longest running group of exhibiting artists in the county. Today SSP keep to traditional techniques of portrait, landscape, still life painting and observational drawing, print making, sculpting, contemporary abstraction and illustration. Many of their artists teach and sustain solo careers as well as actively exhibiting together throughout the year.

@society_of_sussex_painters with individual links to their artists

Part of ARTWAVE 2026

COMMUNITY OF KINDNESS

EXHIBITION / COMMUNITY

THE ATRIUM

Sept 1 – 6 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Weds – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun 

Brighten your day with this exhibition of posters designed by local children and young people from Seaford, Newhaven, Peacehaven and Telscombe. This public realm art project by Lewes District Council and Look Again has seen joyful artworks appearing along the coast – all centred on the universal value of kindness.

Find out more about the Community of Kindness project here.

Part of ARTWAVE 2026

@lookagainnewhaven

Image: Jonathan Bassett

FROM THE GROUND STUDIO II

EXHIBITION & WORKSHOPS – PART OF ARTWAVE 2026

THE ATRIUM

Sept 9 – 20 | Weds – Sun 

10am – 4pm Weds – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun 

FREE

An open collective of young artists creating as a means for active hope, curating exhibitions and building community. Their third public exhibition will include a diverse range of visual art, free creative workshops and live music from members of our collective and global emerging artists. 

@fromthegroundstudio

Part of ARTWAVE 2026

EMERGING SUSSEX: CURIOUS MINDS

EXHIBITION / COMMUNITY

BN9 STUDIO

Sept 17 – 20 | Thur – Sun

Thur 17th Exhibition on from 1pm, then opening event 5pm – 7pm

Fri 18th – Sat 19th Exhibition open 10am – 4pm, with workshops & talks all day

Sun 20th – 10am – 3pm. Prize Giving Event 12-2pm

FREE

Community arts organisation Hospitable Environment return with the second Emerging Sussex; the Sussex-wide open call exhibition for young artists and makers aged 14-25. This year’s theme – set by a youth panel – is Curious Minds, and young creatives are invited to enter up to three works in the exhibition for free. Work can be in any media and exhibitors will have the chance to win prizes of courses, mentoring, exhibition opportunities, memberships and art materials from some brilliant local creative partners including Look Again, Sussex Contemporary, Cement, Newhaven Art Projects, The Pilgrim Potter, Eastbourne Studio Pottery, UDSO and others.

Sign up to join free creative workshops and seminars in the run up to, and during the course of the exhibition, and find out about the creative degree options now available at East Sussex College, including at the Newhaven Marine Workshops Campus.

Find out more about the exhibition & courses here, and follow @hospitable_environment for the latest updates.

Emerging Sussex is made possible with financial support of Newhaven Town Council, Enjoolata Foundation, Chalk Cliff Trust, East Sussex College . The venue is sponsored by BN9 / Towner and Newhaven Enterprise Zone,

Part of ARTWAVE 2026

@hospitable_environment

FRAGMENT PIECES

EXHIBITION 

ATRIUM

Sept 22 – Oct 4 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat, Sun close 3pm 

Free

Textile Art and works on paper by Lucy Farrant exploring decay and rebirth with a reference to human and organic forms. Cloth, paper and garment pieces are deconstructed, burnt, buried and shot. Sometimes they are left fragile as fragments, sometimes reconstructed into new forms. 

@lucyfarrantart

PHOTO FRINGE: NEWHAVEN OPEN

EXHIBITION 

BN9 STUDIO

Oct 2 – Nov 1 | Thurs – Sun

10am – 4pm, Thurs – Sat, Sun 3pm close 

Private View Fri Oct 9, 6 – 8pm

Free

As part of Photo Fringe 2026, this exhibition brings together ten lens-based projects responding to the festival theme Feedback Loop. Developed through the unique context of Newhaven’s BN9 Marine Workshops, the selected artists explore the site’s histories, industries, ecologies and communities, examining relationships between people, place, exchange and collaboration.

photofringe.org @photofringe

Attached. Credit: A Land Within, Marine Workshops Newhaven, 2024. Image credit: Véronique Rolland

MASKS OF RITUAL: TOTEMS & TALISMANS

EXHIBITION 

ATRIUM

Oct 6 – 10 | Tues – Sat

10am – 4pm Tues – Fri (Sat close 3pm) 

Private View 6th Oct, 7 – 9pm

Free

A solo exhibition by artist and ritualist Ulysses Black, bringing together masks, shrines, textiles and talismans alongside accompanying diagrams and words. Each work houses a personification of ritual, exploring the relationship between flesh, object and indwelling presence. Artworks are for sale.

ulyssesblack.com  @ulysses.black

EDWARD PAUL JENNINGS

EXHIBITION 

ATRIUM

Oct 13 – 18 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat, Sun close 3pm

Free

The Eastbourne-based painter exhibits portraits, landscapes and more.

@edwardpauljennings

COMING INTO LIGHT

EXHIBITION 

ATRIUM

Oct 22 – 25 | Thurs – Sun

10am – 4pm Thurs – Sat, Sun close 3pm

Private View Oct 23, 6 – 8pm

Free

An exhibition of large-scale works exploring the relationship between inner and outer worlds through colour. Johanna Berger (MA Fine Art, UAL), UK/Chile, is a painter, creative therapist and art teacher, who has worked internationally for over 20 years, and currently lives in Brighton. Coming into Light is an exciting exhibition of her new work.

johanna-berger.com

Image: Dark Light /3, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

WILDER SHORES OF LOVE

VIDEO INSTALLATION

THE ATRIUM

Oct 27 – Nov 01 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun

Artists talk Saturday 31st Oct, 2pm

Free

An exhibition of experimental work on video by writer / theatremaker Mark C. Hewitt, made in collaboration with digital artist Matt Parsons. Shown on loops, the installation includes new work in progress, Wilder Shores of Love; the noirish surrealistic b/w collection, Les Coffrets; and the award-winning apocalyptic Freudian mash-up, Songs of the Chambermaids. Artists talk on Saturday 31st October at 2pm.

More information about the installation will feature on leweslivelit.co.uk

mchblank.co.uk

@mark_c_hewitt

NEWHAVEN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

EXHIBITION / COMMUNITY

THE ATRIUM

Nov 5 – 7 | Thurs – Sat

10am – 4pm 

Free

A display of photos taken in Newhaven by local amateur photographers, with the theme ‘’Best of Newhaven’’. All are welcome to view the exhibition and vote.

Find out more and enter your photograph by the 15th October here.

THE SUSSEX 2026: SHELTER

EXHIBITION 

BN9 STUDIO

Nov 7 – 28 | Thur – Sun

10am – 4pm Thur – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun

Free

CONNECTIONS_AT

EXHIBITION 

THE ATRIUM

Nov 10 – 15 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun

Free

Connections_At presents a vibrant small-group exhibition showcasing photography, paint, print, ceramics, textiles, and mixed media. Our objective is to invite you to view, enjoy, discuss, and be inspired. Curated for your enjoyment, we welcome all – come for the art, stay for the conversation.

@connections_at

NOT FORGOTTEN

EXHIBITION 

THE ATRIUM

Nov 18 – 29 | Weds – Sun

10am – 4pm Weds – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun

Free

Not Forgotten displays the work of two artists who remember in different ways. Veronica Van Eijk finds that nature and her garden bring back memories. Her large paintings start as ‘in situ’ gestural and spontaneous sketches recording the mood, the light, sounds and atmosphere, which her excellent visual recall allow her to interpret in the studio. Michèle Findlay replays significant events of her life through story telling images crafted partly through memory but reconstructed symbolically to convey the impact of life’s experience.

This exhibition reflects these different styles: Michèle’s works is contained within a closed space, reflecting the internal source of her memories, Veronica’s is displayed in the open, unbounded and in the light, recalling the moment of inspiration. Both Michèle and Veronica were born and grew up abroad, in the adjoining countries of Belgium and Holland which has engendered a sisterly kinship and view point which their work may or may not reveal. Only the onlooker can judge.

@michelefindlayart

vaneijkarts.com

Image: Michèle Findlay

NEW PAINTINGS BY GRAHAM CUPPLES

EXHIBITION 

THE ATRIUM

Dec 1 – 13 | Tues – Sun

10am – 4pm Tues – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun

Free

An exhibition of new paintings exploring the tension and balance between the cosmic and the cellular, the infinite and the intimate. 

grahamcupples.com

BOUFFON ARMADA – THE PAINTED REVELATIONS OF THE BARON GILVAN

EXHIBITION 

BN9 STUDIO

Dec 5 – 20 | Thurs – Sun

10am – 4pm Thurs – Sat, 10am – 3pm Sun

Private View Fri 4th Dec 6-8pm

Free

A major solo exhibition unfolding as a pageant of ruin, ritual, and renewal rooted in Newhaven’s seafaring past. Painting and drawing becomes a visionary act within Ovid’s metamorphoses where a cast of sunken admirals, ecstatic fools, and grotesque mystics drift through mental collapse toward moments of clarity, humour, and transcendence.

@thebarongilvan thebarongilvan.com