Cajun Festival Night

Saturday 9th July. 8-11pm. Doors open at 7pm for cajun dance tuition, 7.30pm for Cajun Food.

Live music with the Cajun Dawgs (http://www.cajunrockers.com/home.html) and friends.
Tickets £6 (£1 for under 16s)
Food £4 (from 7.30 til 8.30 subject to availability), £2 for under 12's portions.

Louisiana Cajun and Zydeco, rockin' Swamp Blues, Country and early Rock n Roll music. A sound track for dancing, loving and crying. tuition on hand from local expert Cajun Dancers, Cajun style food available, bar.

Arlington Village Hall, marquee in the adjacent field.

Tickets from 01323 840 048 / 07980 892 072 or via the Cajun Dawgs website.

Author Signings at the Festival

We have just confirmed that 2 local authors will be doing book signings at the festival, 2-4pm on Sunday 10th July in the marquee at Arlington Village Hall.

Sue Edwards
Memoirs of a WAAF

Life of an 18 year-old in the WAAF in the 1940s, based on original dairies, notes and photos.

RRP £10.99

The true account of 18 year old Daphne Dangerfield who joined the WAAF in September 1942, having only started full-time work a few months before. She was feeling bored and wanted to do something useful to help the war effort, so she joined up. The war was in full swing by then and plenty of other 'service women' were wandering about...

www.waafmemoirs.co.uk

Jill Rutherford
CHERRY BLOSSOMS, SUSHI and TAKARAZUKA, SEVEN YEARS IN JAPAN

Jill Rutherford’s memoir covers seven years in Japan and is one woman’s story of how a middle-aged, rather gentrified British woman, with no influential friends in Japan, very little money, no job and no qualifications to get a job there, could realise her dream of living and working in Japan and survive and prosper in one of the world’s most ancient cultures, where real life is hidden under a veil of good manners and everything takes on a different meaning.

http://jillrutherford.wordpress.com/

www.silverwoodbooks.co.uk

£1 of every book sold through this website will be donated to the earthquake appeal in Japan.

 You can also read the first 30 pages of the book via,

www.freado.com/book/9653/cherry-blossoms-sushi-and-takarazuka

Authors invited

Would any East Sussex published authors like to do a book signing as part of the festival in July?

If you are interested, please get in touch (ASAP so we can include it in the programme which is going to print by 21st April) and we will arrange a suitable date and time for all.

Josie

Deadline approaching for inclusion in festival

All information and ads for inclusion in the Arlington Arts Festival programme must be received by 15th April.

Arlington Arts Festival is launched - News - Sussex Express

Arlington Arts Festival is launched - News - Sussex Express

Children's Art in the Festival Art Trail

Any children interested in showing their work for free as part of the Art Trail, click here. http://www.arlingtonartsgroup.co.uk/2011/03/children-artists.html

Invitation to local businesses

8-10th July 2011 first Arlington Arts Festival -

would YOU like to be involved??

                                                                                           

Events include 4 art shows ( 2 in Wilmington, 1 in Alciston and 1 in Arlington ), guided tours of Arlington and Berwick Churches, classical concerts in Wilmington, Berwick and Arlington churches, Festival Cajun evening in Arlington, a Craft show in Arlington and an Art Trail covering Arlington, Berwick, Alciston, Selmeston, Wilmington and surrounding rural areas.

We have 14 guests coming from france including musicians, artists, craft makers and representatives of the Amis du Patrimoine Ponchois ( on an exchange visit following representatives from Arlington and Berwick attending their arts festival in May 2010 ).

How can you get involved?

We have artists looking for venues who may wish to display their work as part of the Art Trail. You may have an event planned which you would like to include as an Event listing in the Festival Programme. We are selling advertising space in the programme for local businesses, artists and organisations.

5000 full colour programmes will be printed and distributed in the run up to the Arts Festival. Other publicity will involve press releases to local papers and Art/s publications, posters at local venues and events, Facebook, Twitter and Blogspot entries, online advertising and mentions in Friday-Ad. Other local events that weekend include Uckfield Arts Festival and Michelham Priory Game & Country Fair. 

Inclusion in the Festival Programme is £15 for an event listing or for

a business card size advert.

CLOSING  DATE for applications: 15^th APRIL.

Please send completed forms with your cheque payable to Arlington Arts Group to

 Josie Tipler, c/o Magpie Cottage, Hayreed Lane, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 6RR.

email

Event Inclusion in the Arts Festival  £15

Name of Event:

Opening Hours:

Description: (25 words)

Name and contact details of organiser: (to go in programme)

Other contact details if applicable [not to go in the programme]

Entrance: (£ or if by donation who is this for)

Photo - please email a hi-res jpeg with your event name as the subject

Refreshments / Toilets/ Parking/ Disabled Access

To reserve advertising space in the Arlington Arts Festival Programme  £15

Name

Contact Details

What are you advertising?

We will contact you to ask for your advert – the space is approximately the size of a business card – exact size TBC

Art Trail

 Please get in touch if would like to host the work of an artist / some artists for the Arts Festival. We will put you in touch with artists so you can deal with them directly. You will need to decide between you who will be responsible for making any sales, if there is a commission to be taken on sales, and who will be sending the Event