SO Festival 2010 is over! The four fantastic days of exhilarating events have come to an end.
We're now starting to plan for 2011 and want to know what you thought to this year's festival of dance, street theatre and music. If you visited Skegness during the festival please take a few minutes to complete our online survey.
East Lindsey District Council and event producers, Magnetic Events, have heralded this year’s SO Festival a tremendous success.
An estimated 30,000 people flocked to Skegness over the four days (22nd – 25th July), including Bill Morris, Director of Culture, Ceremonies and Education for London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, who wanted to find out more about SO Festival 2010.
Skegness illuminations are one of the highlights of the season and this year they will be switched on in style.
The illuminations will come alive as part of Plasticiens Volants performance on Saturday night!
Come down and see a switch-on unlike any other!
Coming to SO Festival 2010? Bringing your digital camera or camera phone? Then let us see your snap shots by posting them on the SO Festival 2010 Facebook wall.
We'd love to see the festival through your eyes.
We've added a page for videos about SO Festival 2010 - it's here.
We'll be updating it regularly throughout the festival and have started by uploading a short flick about the launch of Traffic Art.
The transformation of Tower Esplanade into a work of art officially started today with the Leader of East Lindsey District Council, the Mayor of Skegness, local business and hoteliers picking up paint brushes and joining Bangladeshi artist Ra Kajol.
Over the next ten days the 4,000 square metres of pavement – the size of a football pitch – will be transformed into Traffic Art.
Arts and Crafts Market, Tower Gardens, Sunday 25th July 2010
Are you a local artist or craft maker and fancy being part of one of the region’s biggest Arts and Cultural Festivals? The new biannual SO Festival 2010 in Skegness will take place from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th July and will attract audiences of many thousands over the festival weekend.
On Sunday 25th July 20 stalls are available for Lincolnshire and East Midlands artists and craft makers to become part of the SO Festival Arts and Craft Market being held as part of the Sunday Programme ‘SO Chilled’ a Music in the Park event in the beautiful Tower Gardens, on the the busy Grand Parade on the seafront Skegness. Opening times 1-6pm
We want the good quality art and crafts work that is colourful and creative, by artsists and craft makers from across the spectrum! Whether you’re a painter, a craftmaker, or a sculptor or other visual artforms, we want to hear from you!
Places are limited, so if you are interested, please email sofestival@e-lindsey.gov.uk with a brief description of your work ( on no more than two pages of A4 and example images and any website links you can provide. All art and crafts works must be suitable for families and people of all ages and backgrounds and offered at a range of affordable prices.
Deadline for expressions of interest is Friday 2nd July 2010.
Did you know that during SO Festival 2010 the Open Weekend 2010 takes place?
From 23-25 July, the Open Weekend 2010 will celebrate the fact that there are just two years to go until the London 2012 Games.
Hundreds of events across the UK, from sport to art, dance to exhibitions, will be staged over the weekend.
To publicise the Open Weekend, Olympic Gymnast Daniel Keatings visited Skegness recently and invited the East Midlands public to join in the celebrations.
The SO Festival 2010 Programme containing details of the main attractions at this year's four day extravaganza has been published! Visit the downloads page or click here to download your PDF copy of the SO Festival 2010 Programme.
Callout for dancers to work with Made By Katie Green and the SO Festival 2010
Choreographer Katie Green is looking for dancers to work with her company to create an outdoor dance performance for the SO Festival in Skegness on the 23rd July 2010.
This opportunity would suit professional artists, dance graduates, and those with at least one year of dance training at HE/vocational level.
Audition details:
23rd June
10 - 1pm
at The Dance Box in Lincoln
(8 Dixon Way, Lincoln LN6 7DG)
Please confirm your attendance at the audition by emailing katie@madebykatiegreen.co.uk .
If successful at audition, you will be required to attend daytime rehearsals from the 19th - 22nd July, with performances throughout the day on the 23rd July in the Tower Gardens in the centre of Skegness. It is likely that the Monday (19th) and Tuesday (20th) rehearsals will take place in or around Lincoln, but you will need to be prepared to travel to Skegness for rehearsals on the 21st and 22nd July so we can spend some time on site before the final performance. I will endeavour to work around work commitments wherever possible, but have tried to keep the rehearsal period short and intensive in order to avoid taking up too much of your time over a longer period.
If you have any questions about the project, please email Katie on katie@madebykatiegreen.co.uk .
www.madebykatiegreen.co.uk
The SO Festival promises four fantastic days of free entertainment! From Thursday 22nd through to Sunday 25th July be prepared to be entertained and amazed as Skegness is transformed into a colourful carnival of dance, street theatre, music, comedy and more!
For any press/media enquiries please contact the SO team on 01522 842800 or email sofestival@lavapr.co.uk