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Get a flavour of First Light 2023 with our festival wrap up film. Across Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 June 2023, First Light Festival welcomed audiences of 40,000 for a spectacular feast of creativity and celebration on Lowestoft's South Beach. Find out more about First Light at www.firstlightlowestoft.com

Learn all about Welcome to Lowestoft - a parade project as part of Hi!Street Fest from Historic England and Emergency Exit Arts, delivered by First Light Festival CIC with support from East Suffolk Council. Telling the story of two giant puppets, Farrah the Fox and Sol the Spirit of the Sea, the parade saw community groups and schools march, dance and swirl from the north of Lowestoft to South ...

Hear from volunteers and staff on the impact of First Light 2022 on audiences, artists and the town of Lowestoft.

Find out more about Lowestoft's Post Office and the Letters From the Past project at firstlightfestivalcic.com/letters-from-the-past Written by Luke Wright Film by Mark Hannant Commissioned by First Light Festival CIC for Heritage Action Zone, Historic England, with support from East Suffolk Building Preservation Trust, East Suffolk Council, Hi! Lowestoft, Lowestoft Town Council and Lowestoft V...

East Point Pavilion is the perfect spot to enjoy the sea view, whilst savouring delicious food from an assortment of independent street food traders, alongside barista coffee, craft beer, wine and cocktails from our house bar and café. Enjoy a year-round developing schedule of live music, DJs and performances, alongside a varied calendar of pop-up makers and producers events as well as creative...

Look back on the wonderful, collaborative, celebratory weekend that was First Light Festival 2022!

First Light presents Longest Days of Summer 2021 Highlights! As we turned our faces to the sun and looked to heal and renew after so many months of isolation, many of you joined us to rejoice in Britain’s most easterly midsummer solstice with our dawn livestream, visual art and music on the vast expanse of Lowestoft’s beautiful South Beach, and enjoyed our town-wide art installation that showca...

Monday 21st June 2021 - 4:15am South Beach, Lowestoft Solstice Sunrise at Britain’s most easterly town… The overnight appearance of Adam Bridgland’s Daily Essentials on Lowestoft’s South Beach welcomed in the summer solstice sunrise over the horizon, attracting early risers and brave sea swimmers! Accompanied by Kosmos - Music from around the globe performed, ‘full of passion, sunshine and joy’...

Wheel, an 18ft installation designed by artist John Christie working with Lowestoft based metal fabricator Richard Paine of My Metal Fabrications, evokes a wheel of time, with phrases from a newly commissioned poem of the same name, by award winning poet and author George Szirtes Poet incorporated within it. Wheel was installed on the beach at Lowestoft as the sun was setting on a misty Decembe...

Written by John Ward Performed by John Ward Music Reprise by Pakefield Singers John Ward is well known across the UK’s folk, roots and acoustic scene as a songwriter and performer who uses the history of his hometown, Lowestoft, as the main influence for his work. With his band, John has appeared at many venues and festivals across the UK and Europe, bringing his signature, heartfelt style of s...

How Night Came from The Sea

Dusk Dance

Cocktail Hour with Hedgerow Cordials - #FirstLightFromHome

British Channel habitats and the megaflood hypothesis, Riccardo Arosio #FirstLightFromHome

Glass Bead Hanging Workshop with Clare Burley - #FirstLightFromHome

Sunrise at Lowestoft - Appalachia Waltz, Clio Gould and Jonathan Morton #FirstLightFromHome

First Light Festival features on BBC Radio Suffolk - Matt Marvel

Windsock Kite Workshop with Holly Scholfield - #FirstLightFromHome

ISKNV Investigation - Lake Volta, Ghana, Joshua Grey, #FirstLightFromHome

American Lobsters - A Potted History, Debbie Murphy #FirstLightFromHome

Sunburst Brooch Workshop with Julie Carpenter - #FirstLightFromHome

Combating Illegal Wildlife Trade at Cefas, Philip Lamb #FirstLightFromHome

Pom Pom Bunting and Wreath Workshop with Clare Burley - #FirstLightFromHome

Collage Puppet Workshop with Julie Carpenter - #FirstLightFromHome

Paper Lantern Workshop with Sarah Cannell - #FirstLightFromHome

Flying Icarus Parade Kite Workshop with Paul Gionis - #FirstLightFromHome

Using Artificial Light to Modify Behaviour of Fish, Sam Smith #FirstLightFromHome

How to Make A Sunburst Headdress with Sue Brinkhurst - #FirstLightFromHome

Suffolk Wildlife Trust: Dawn Chorus by Mike Challis #FirstLightFromHome