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Shelter

Emma Harding teams up with 135 Christ Church CE Primary Academy students to create a Robinson Crusoe shelter in Gensing Gardens. The young artists' clay tiles embellished with monoprints will form beautiful round roofs on the shelter made of repurposed materials. A shelter just big enough for one, with a copy of Robinson Crusoe, to seek sanctuary from the weather, look out and think.

A free outdoor event running for the duration of the festival.

Gensing Gardens,
Charles Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0QD
Access: Level access from Charles Road where
paths are flat and easy walking.

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Self

Artist Susan Miller observes the thirst for knowledge of self and the life immediately about us in Defoe's adventure story. Sue joins forces with local young residents and SouthEastern Rail to create a free installation on scrub land next to a station path and in the station ticket office to trigger thoughts about our own experience as we go about daily business.

A free outdoor event running for the duration of the festival.

Access: Steep pathway from Station Approach
to St Leonards Warrior Square Station
St Leonards, TN37 6HL
Level access from station approach at top.
Steps at bottom of slope from station.

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Imprint

Artist Peter Quinnell with Black Winkle young artists invite you to hunt out their installation of cast footprints in St Leonards Gardens. And to find the imprint of the original maze in the gardens reimagined by the team.

A free outdoor event running for the duration of the festival.

Separately, Peter invites you to take part in his message in a bottle installation in collaboration with Burtons' St Leonards Society also in St Leonards Gardens.

St Leonards Gardens, Maze Hill, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0BA
Access: Level access through South Lodge Arch at the bottom of the gardens.
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Viewpoints

Husband and wife artist team Mark and Isabel Fisher consider Crusoe's moments of distance gazing in the novel. Planning his exit from the island.

They're creating a Robinson Crusoe mural viewpoint on the lower promenade for 6th formers about to embark on life away from their home town. Come sit and contemplate impending journeys with RC, the inventor of the man-bag and trend setter of individual styling.

During the festival, sixth form composers and poets will be performing their work at the site and uploading selfies and film to social media. A collaboration with East Sussex College. And there are treasure boxes of messages from Mark and Isabel and snippets of text for everyone to seek out.

A free outdoor event running for the duration of the festival.

Access: Steps from upper promenade or a slope east of the steps near Goat Ledge Café

https://www.markfisherart.co.uk
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Marooned
Despair
Island of hope
Wisdom
Resilience

A wall mural by Chris W Petts.
A free outdoor event running for the duration of the festival.

Transition Town Hastings gardens next to platform 2, St Leonards Warrior Square Station, St Leonards, TN37 6HL
Access: Sloping pathway from station car park

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Other

Wordsmith Erica Smith and The Literary Shed's A. Vasudevan interact with the natural and staged environment of Warrior Square Gardens, merging the landscape with words and messages in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to explore the theme of the 'Other', and its changing shape in our world today. The temporary installation will utilise various parts of the northern part of the gardens – including the three palm tree 'islands' which represent 'prison', 'garden' and 'fortress' in the novel – to highlight issues in Defoe's writing, still pertinent to modern Britain.

A site map will be available.

Come visit and explore the ‘Other’.

A free outdoor event running for the duration of the festival.
Warrior Square Gardens, St Leonards on Sea, TN37 6DF
Access: Level access.













































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