Bless our bunting!
It’s the Curious Coastal Village Fete. Back by popular demand and bigger, better and even more curious than before!
Join our hip Rev Colin Durr and our gorgeous grannies for an afternoon of hilarity. With lots of stations to explore and try your hand at, this will be a day of silly fun and prizes to be won, for people (and dogs!) of all ages.
With all the charm and wholesome informality of a traditional English Village Fete, A Curious Town brings you a day with all the norms, plus a few curious twists. Come along between midday and 5pm to gorge yourself on cream teas, Pimms and high quality produce from our market stalls. Take part in vegetable carving, get in a spin with our hula hoop workshop and let your creative side out with flower arranging and cake decorating. Have your face painted, enter the raffle to win fabulous prizes, or get your furry best friend to enter into the dog show - because pets deserve prizes too! With these and many more activities , this is the event guaranteed to make you smile.
And don’t forget to explore the space while you’re at it! The curious will find playful installations dotted around and discover curious musicians and walkabout performers roaming around to entertain you! Keep an eye out for line up details.
This year the Curious Village Fete has joined forces with James Matthew Thomas Creative to bring you an exciting new addition, the Curious Creative Market 🎨 This will be a market for people who love Hastings, love to be creative & love to be curious, including stalls selling stationary, craft, design, books, toys & vintage finds.
3:00pm - Dog show & parade
-A highlight of last year’s fete and the chance for man’s best friend to shine! The categories include: Best Dressed, Waggiest Tail, Best Trick & Most Similar to Owner.
Most activities will be running throughout the day, but some will have specific timings for when you can drop in. Further details coming soon - keep an eye on the website and social media.
Activities include:
Cake Decorating
What’s better than making art? Getting to eat it afterwards! Get creative and channel your art into baked goods, and your cake might win a prize!
Sussex Myths - Paper Pupper Making
In this workshop with artist Adriann Piers you will be creating paper puppets, showing off amazing mythical creatures and celebrating Sussex!
Vegetable Carving
Enter the vegetable carving competition, and carve your own un-beet-able design into a vegetable of your choosing. May the best veggie win!
Steel Pan Drumming
The extremely talented musician and teacher Jim Bernardin (worldmusicworkshops.co.uk) will guide you through this fun drop in workshop on the steelpan drums and other percussion instruments.
Hula Hooping
Local hoola hoop legend Xena Flame will be guiding this workshop in our to twirl those hoops with style
Bunting Designing
Make some beautiful bunting to help adorn the church with your artwork
Face Painting
Whether you’re an animal or an ice queen, a fairy or a football fan, get your face painted and embody your new idently
Giant Games
& more…
ABOUT OUR VICAR:
"Join Revenant Colin Durr for some heavenly hilarity as he welcomes all to his parish church for tea, wellie wanging and lots of unholy fun"
Neil Frost is the co-founder of the multi-award-winning theatre company Mad Etiquette, specialising in physical comedy and clown influenced contemporary performance. He has created comedy shows and character acts both for adults and children, which have toured international and received critical acclaim. "Silliness as an art form" The Scotsman, "Mr. Frost is so endearing that you cannot help but play along" Fringe Review
Community fun for everyone! We can’t wait to see you at the Village Fete.