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Supporting, promoting and providing opportunities for young and early career musicians. Based in Sussex UK @culturecreatureuk @coastalcurrentsfestival

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Anyone can submit to be part of the 2026 Coastal Currents Arts Festival brochure.

Put on an event
Open your studio
Experiment
R&D a show
Exhibit your work

This is a chance to use the footfall of the festival to sell, promote or market your work. Access audiences and fill the area with music, art, performance and more…

Submit at coastalcurrents.org.uk/2026submissions

We also take advertising in the brochure so do get in touch if you want to submit your own artwork rather than take a listing.

Music by @statisbeatnik

#Opensubmissions #artfestival #sussex taken in Hastings, East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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Submissions open for 2026
Deadline 1 May
Everyone welcome! Please share. This is an open submission for anyone with an event, open studio or performance that you want to list in the Coastal Currents Arts Festival brochure this year.

Submit at coastalcurrents.org.uk/2026submissions

This festival is made up of grassroots events created, curated and hosted by the creative community.

Independent since 2017 and serving the whole East Sussex area.
#coastalcurrents #community #keepculturefree

Supporting and celebrating the uniqueness of this cultural coastline. taken in East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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Our ‘Commoning the Programme 2’ cohort will next get to experience a workshop with Tina Morris.

Tina Morris is the Director of Hastings based Placemaking Agency, Sweet and Dandy which has been successfully helping transform public spaces with the local community for 11 years now.

Sweet and Dandy curates and manages the Coastal Currents Arts Festival, an annual arts festival for East Sussex every September which promotes the uniqueness of his creative coastline through performance, public participation and high quality programming alongside an open studios programme with more than 130 spaces to visit and interact with artists.

A sister project of Coastal Currents, created to support the music aspect of our creative coast, Audiotrope was launched in 2020 and runs alongside the festival to support young and early career musicians with mentoring, content creation and digital assets.

Tina also is Co-Chair of 1066 Music City, an collaborative group of industry professionals who work together to support the local music industry.

A social entrepreneur with experience across the Care and Culture fields, all projects have a shared theme of supporting communities to thrive, providing skills and platforms for creatives, free access for all and projects grown from the ground-up enabling individuals to have pride in their place.

In this workshop…
We will look at all angles of getting your work seen, from the intricate side of creating digital assets to thinking big when presenting your work. Who are your audiences and how to access and engage them.

Tina will talk about her experiences with presenting and publicising digital projects and take participants through points to consider now, which will help shape future briefs.

📸 by Alexander Bratell and artwork by Malcom Glover, 2018 Photo of a projected artwork and people looking at it Text reads: Commoning the Programme 2: Workshop 3 taken in Hastings, East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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Do you join us for a drink and a chat at the next 1066 Music City event - all welcome!

Reserve a free spot to join us in the back room of the Pig on Thursday 18th September from 6pm.
Stay on to enjoy the open mic in the bar from 8pm.

Reserve a spot here or in bio

eventbrite.co.uk/e/1066-music-city-networking-event-tickets-1603221782509

Music is so important to our area, come strengthen our connections and ideas!
#1066musiccity taken in The Pig Hastings by @ccaudiotrope

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Thank you so so much to all the incredible performers last night! It was such a soulful, magical, good vibrations event because of you guys.

@_poppyprescott you were sensational and kicked off the night just right!

@celestehartley I couldn’t have wished for a better person to put all the thoughts in my head about the world and the importance of taking time, love oh and your dishwasher!

Francesco Bernardini I wish you were on Instagram so I could tag you are you are a genius on the hand pan and had everyone so focused and in the vibe you could hear a pin drop.

Neil Grove the same, wish I could tag you so you could get all the adoration you deserve! I wish you could just follow me around and be the soundtrack of my life!
#blueslove

@manifaestations You know I’ve always loved what you do. So unique, so transcendental and just what I imagined to turn the Stade into a mermaids heaven!

Oh @iyamah_artist thank you so much for travelling down and making everyone fall in love with your voice! Wow! Late night perfection and a wonderful way to finish the evening!

You were all stars and created an evening of such quality it also was so joyful to see the Stade back to life with music after dark!

Loved it all and so did everyone who attended.

Thanks to the Coastal Currents team who have worked with me for 14 years now. We are tiny and seasonal but boy do we have fun each time.

Always a different venue and different challenges so thanks to @eatatcafe for being such laid back hosts and adding to the consciously chill vibe of 2025.

Peace ☮️
Love ❤️

Let’s do it all again next year

Thanks to @hooglytea for sponsoring the goodie bags and @lovehastingsbid for everything else!

Photography by @alexanderbrattell taken in eat @ hastings by @ccaudiotrope

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Come on everyone! Ignore the rain! We are all doing sun dances here so don’t let that stop you coming out tonight!

In a year with no ACE funding some would say we are mad to put on a free party with free fizz but we have always been known for bringing the accessible free public art to the area so why stop now! Come show support for the 26th Coastal Currents with your presence!

From 7pm @eatatcafe

@_poppyprescott
Francesco Bernardini
Neil Grove
@manifaestations
@iyamah_artist

And beautiful words from @celestehartley

Free
All welcome
#hastings

Thank you to @lovehastingsbid and all our other small businesses and artists who support us.

Music on reel from @statisbeatnik taken in Hastings, East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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Coastal Currents 2025 Submissions Open
JOIN IN by submitting your Open Studio, Event, Exhibition or Performance now and help make this the biggest festival yet!

SUBMIT HERE
coastalcurrents.org.uk/2025submissions

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS - 1 MAY

We have kept the submission fees the same since 2015, in order to facilitate as many people as possible to be part of the festival. It is an open submissions process so we welcome applications from any discipline.

The dates of the 2025 Festival are:
30 August to 30 September
Open Studios: 30/31 August & 6/7 September

You can choose a single listing, half page or full page in the Open Studios or Events section of the brochure. This will appear in the festival brochure which is distributed across the area throughout July, August and September.

If you would prefer to design your own artwork and purchase advertising space in the brochure - instead of our standard listing format, please email us.

If you have any questions or need any further information visit coastalcurrents.org.uk
or email us at info@coastalcurrents.org.uk

Thanks in advance to everyone who makes it possible to keep this independent community festival alive. Coastal Currents started in 1999 and has reinvented itself every year since, to reflect the amazing creative community on this coastline, so thanks for all your participation, attendance and contributions.

2025 marks my 13th year organising and fundraising to keep this beloved Festival going strong, But I need all of you to make it the best yet! taken in East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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2024 that’s a wrap! Here’s to 2025!
Thanks to everyone who made a year of amazing cultural activity happen! Too many of you to mention but you all play a crucial part in something magical. Much love and here’s to creating, expressing, campaigning, beautifying and doing whatever you can to keep on keeping on! taken in Hastings, East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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This Saturday we have @bad.pedestrian.band live studio session at @savagesoundstudios as part of our 2024 #audiotrope season. Launching at 8pm this Saturday on YouTube.com/audiotrope don’t miss it and go watch all the other talented musicians and bands from this year!
Follow, subscribe, comment, it all helps support grassroots music.
Thanks to @kevinvanbergen and @alice_denny as usual and big thanks to the @aceagrams for supporting us this year! This project has helped many Sussex musicians in so many ways.
Let’s hope we can do another season in 2025 as we had so many young applicants we really want to keep going!
Photography by @samuelgeorgephotofilm
Watch and support us!
#youngmusicians #musiciscrucial #musicmatters #hastings #stleonards taken in Hastings, East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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Music from @rubycolleymusic and @tullisrennie at @white_rock_theatre for 1066 Music City Networking Event

Thanks to everyone who came and those who gave their time to the panel. #1066musiccity #hastings taken in White Rock Theatre by @ccaudiotrope

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Tonight at 7.30pm @white_rock_theatre come along and help support grassroots music!

1066 MUSIC CITY NETWORKING EVENT
MONDAY 16TH DECEMBER 7.30PM
WHITE ROCK THEATRE STUDIO
Register NOW FREE tinyurl.com/1066MCXmas
LIVE MUSIC, PANEL DISCUSSION & NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES

PANEL: Led by ANDY GUNTON. Special guest is SHAIN SHAPIRO, one of the world’s leading music and cultural policy thinkers. Shain’s book ‘This Must Be the Place’ introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Including JULIA HILTON Green Leader of Hastings Borough Council, Old Hastings and Tressell county councillor at East Sussex. Subjects include: What does it mean to be a music city? How can music support the whole community? Do we need a music policy for the area?

LIVE MUSIC: RUBY COLLEY & TULLIS RENNIE @rubycolleymusic @tullisrennie

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES: Discuss the importance of music to the area and how we can better support the industry at all levels.

Support local grassroots music and come along! taken in Hastings, East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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Coming up this Saturday at 8pm we have young musician @tmrarl performing live in Studio Session for #audiotrope

Don’t miss this raw talent and catch up with all the other live studio sessions at YouTube.com/audiotrope

Thanks to @kevinvanbergen and @alice_denny and big thanks to the @aceagrams for supporting and believing in this project as it helps so many musicians!

#localmusic #grassrootsmusic #hastings #stleonards #youngmusicians taken in East Sussex by @ccaudiotrope

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