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Welcome to the Seahouses Festival website! The festival is a community-based event celebrating the diversity and distinctiveness of life on the Northumberland coast. The programme and range of events is planned to provide something of interest for most ages and musical tastes.

We try to make prices affordable and, as far as we are able, completely free! Thank you to all our sponsors, who make this possible.

Friday
Friday 19th June 2009

FESTIVAL LAUNCH
Seahouses First School, at 6pm

Includes the premiere screening of 'Silent Sands', Jimmy France's latest film which explores the natural heritage of the Seahouses area.

Wine and refreshments available. Plus, your chance to own an original artwork by local artist Sarah Riseborough.

Saturday
Saturday 20th June 2009

MUSIC:
On the Harbour Hill Stage: Dan Walsh and 'Land or Sea', 1pm; Nick Pride and the Pimptones, 2pm; Martin Stephenson, 3pm; The Keelers, 4pm; Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle, 4.30pm

On the Methodist Church Stage:
2pm the Alnwick Pipers;, 3pm, Dan Walsh; 4pm, The Cornshed Sisters, followed by a 'Singing Workshop' all welcome

At The Olde Ship Hotel:
Lunchtime Session, with The Keelers performing traditional sea songs, shanties and north east songs.Alistair Anderson in concert. Performing 'The Farne Islands', plus a programme of traditional Northumbrian music. Seahouses Methodist Church 7.30pm. Tickets £10. Tel 01665 721868FILM FESTIVAL: At the Methodist Church.
12.30pm "The Age of Stupid" (2009, 92 mins);
2pm "Cul de Sac" (Roman Polanski, 1966, 113 mins, cert. 15);
4pm "Building The Future: Energy" (Nicolas Brown, 2007, 42 mins)

Food and craft stalls on Seafield Gardens from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Art:
Two unique art projects are taking place - firstly, artist Sarah Riseborough is taking her seascape art into the grand scale when she creates, in situ, a 12 to 15 ft sq painting, on a specially constructed platform adjacent to the Harbour Hill music stage.
Secondly, with the assistance of our local shopkeepers, we will temporarily turn Main Street into a public art gallery - using the shop-front windows to create a unique showcase for the impressive work of twelve contemporary Northumbrian landscape artists.

'Bee-Natural'. Talk event. 2pm, Methodist church. Les Parsons takes a look at the honey bee and bee-keeping.

Noel Hodgson - Northumbrian Poet. Methodist Church 4pm.

Photographic Exhibition by Local History Archive. Methodist Church.
Plus Rag-Rug display.

Sunday
Sunday 21st June 2009

MUSIC:
On the Harbour Hill Stage: 1pm, Seahouses Middle School 1.30pm Kirill Gara; 2.30pm Royal Hunt of the Sun; 3.30pm Monkey's Fist; 4pm The Briganties

On the Methodist Church Stage:
12.30pm, The Sutherans; 1.30pm, Lesley Roley; 2pm, The Fluxes; 2.30pm, The Watchorns; 3pm Blackthorn.

At The Olde Ship Hotel:
Lunchtime Session, with Monkey's Fist - shanties and maritime songs.

A Whale of a Tale: On the Harbour Hill Stage. 11.30am. The Belford Players performing a play with plenty of song and dance, about Saxa Salt who wants to help his poor fishing community and tries build a boat to catch a whale in Greenland.

FILM FESTIVAL: At the Methodist Church.
12.30pm "The Tale of Grace Darling" (2009, 15 mins);
3pm "The Lorax" (25 mins, cert. U);
7pm "In Fading Light" .(Amber Films, 1989, 103 mins, Cert.15)

Food and craft stalls on Seafield Gardens from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

ART:
Exhibition of coastal landscape art by regional painters - Main Street shopfronts. Plus Sarah Riseborough's giant seascape painting project on Harbour Hill.

Photographic Exhibition by Local History Archive. Methodist Church.
Plus Rag-Rug display.

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Venues
Main Stage on Harbour Hill

Methodist Church, Main Street

Seafield Gardens, by Crazy Golf

The Olde Ship Hotel, Harbour Hill.