Family Day

Caregivers are required to stay with their children/dependents for the duration of the session.

Free ticket required for this event, we will have a small amount available on the day but advise participants to book in advance where possible.

You do not need to arrive at 12.00pm, just drop-in anytime between 12.00pm and 4.00pm for activities across the building. 

If you'd prefer a more relaxed, supported experience, you can book onto our Quiet Hour (11.00am - 12.00pm). Numbers are limited with a relaxed atmosphere for families and a higher adult-child ratio.

What stories could you wear, and what character might you become? Join artists Ting Cheng and Rose Miller to create imaginative masks using cardboard, leaves, fabric and other curious materials, create familiars with dough, and speed sculpt in our giant lift!

A playful Family Day inspired by autumn, folklore and the stories we invent together.

Free, ticket required.

Why not make a day of it with our £3.50 per person Family Films screenings? Check out our films here.

Studio 1

Paper and cardboard mask and wearable object making with found, foraged and scrap materials. Create an accompanying performance to project to the studio.

Lift

Transform and decorate collaborative humanoid figures inhabiting the lift using super-light, air-dry foam clay.

Make Space

Make your own familiar with salt dough coloured with natural dyes and seasonal scents.

Top Floor Corridor and Ground Floor foyer

Use exisiting characters and shapes or design and cut your own to create a stained glass scene on our light box or window.

Cinema Foyer

What outfit or costume would you wear in your own folktale? Add a drawing or list to this installation. This foyer has low lighting and low seating, with gender neutral toilets nearby. Please note this space can be busy just before and after cinema screenings.

Ravilious Collection Library (Quiet Space)

Plait and weave your own wearable piece or use add to a shared giant plait. This space is unsupervised and is a designated quiet area.

Photos by Will Adler

Towner has step-free access, spaces available for buggies, a baby-change and cafe on the ground and second floors.

Our two quiet spaces are The Ravilious and Collection Library (first floor) and the Cinema foyer (ground floor).

We have sensory bags including noise-cancelling headphones and fidgets available to collect from the ground floor foyer to use for your visit.

Extra noise cancelling headphones are available, please speak to a member of the team in Studio 1 to collect a pair.

There is a Changing Places facility in the building next to Towner, please let us know in advance if you may require one and we can organise access.

For any enquiries or access requirements, please contact mollie.howells@townereastbourne.org.uk

Ting Cheng is a Taiwanese-British artist based in Brighton, working across photography, sculpture and installation. Inspired by everyday life, nature and the objects around us, she transforms familiar and discarded materials into playful and unexpected artworks. Her intuitive approach embraces experimentation, imagination and chance, inviting people of all ages to discover humour, curiosity and new possibilities in ordinary things.

Recent exhibitions include Resonance at Fabrica Gallery and Beyond the Studio at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton. Her work has also been presented internationally at the Taiwan Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Zen Foto Gallery in Tokyo and SALÓN ACME in Mexico City.

Rose Miller is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and workshop facilitator, working across mask and puppet theatre, gallery education, parades, prop making, costume and stop motion animation. She is interested in pageantry, folklore and spectacle.

As a self-taught artist and maker, Rose is committed to demystifying creative processes; unlocking people's innate creativity and democratising art and artistic practices. 

Currently based in Brighton, Rose has worked with organisations including RSC, the National Theatre, Mackinnon & Saunders, Factory Create, Walk the Plank, Manchester Art Gallery and The Lowry.