This summer the diep~haven festival continues to build a bridge between France and England, following the movement that began in 2014. This new format is based on a dynamic exchange between two towns, two coasts and two cultural identities. Diep~haven invites people to travel.
The 2015 programme includes questions of ‘The Elsewhere’. Following along the lines of the great 16th century voyages of discovery for which Dieppe was a port of departure, in their movement towards an unknown and imagined heaven on earth and a “New World”.
The festival launches in Newhaven on 5th July and Diep~Haven have commissioned UK arts collective Lost Property to arrange an opening performance. Lost Property’s obvious choice was to involve scattered ritual improv group Thee Bald Knobbers to lead proceedings. Starting at the ferry terminal itself, the performance will bring festival goers into and around the obscure spaces of Newhaven Fort, culminating in a final blast in the middle of the fort’s grounds, and officially opening the festival.
Newhaven ferry terminal / fort
16:00
FREE