Mablethorpe, Sutton on Sea and Sandilands

Bathing Beauties Festival 2010

The Longest Linear Coastal Art Festival in Europe

17th, 18th & 19th September 2010

>>> Artists in Huts Application Form (pdf)

>>> www.BathingBeautiesFestival.org

>>> Gazing and Canoodling

>>> map - where to find the beach huts

Festival of Bathing Beauties 2010 - the Fourth FOBB

Now in its fourth year the Festival of Bathing Beauties continues to be a totally unique and dynamic art festival which uses the coastal environment and landscape as the canvas for a innovative art & cultural event celebrating the unique beauty, culture, architecture and history of the Lincolnshire Coast.

The Bathing Beauties Festival is the longest linear coastal art festival in Europe, stretching over a five mile distance on the Lincolnshire Coast from Mablethorpe to Sandilands Sutton-on-Sea.

The Bathing Beauties initial concept was based on taking a traditional seaside icon ‘ 'the beach hut ‘and giving it a creative twist, to bring about a unique collection of contemporary beach huts, appropriate to a new age, changing expectations and locally distinctive known as the ‘Bathing Beauties’. Our Bathing Beauties Festival seeks to use the same alchemy, exploring the traditions of our sea side through a high quality, innovative creative arts festival rooted in the East Coast and its coastal heritage.
The coastal landscape, the beach, the foreshore, the promenade and beach huts come alive over the festival with amazing creative experiences. The beach huts are turned into mini art and craft galleries, theatre spaces, puppet workshops, photographic exhibition spaces with many opportunities for participation. The beach becomes the perfect canvas and backdrop for contemporary art installations, outdoor art galleries, sculpture, shouting poetry at the sea and much more. The five mile promenade from Mablethorpe to Sandilands is dispersed with many art activities, the longest linear dance, the ‘ Beautiful Beach Hut Competition’ and the ‘Bathing Beauties Beach Hut Trail’ and for the more serious coastal art and architecture fans you can follow ‘The Structures on the Edge’ trail down to Anderby creek taking in the new ‘bird hide hut’ and the ‘Cloud Bar’ huts.

New for this year is a pioneering fire procession which will be in the parade on Saturday night. Be prepared for a visually exciting mobile display of fire and pyrotechnics the first of its kind in England.

You will find something for everyone at the festival! visual art, tradition and contemporary, street theatre, sculpture, puppetry, literature, architecture, installations, dance, music, merriment, poetry and procession all in the fabulous and unspoilt setting of the Lincolnshire Coast.

For more information contact Helen Matthews on 07894292641 or by e-mail on helen.matthews9@btopenworld.com