Bumper weekend of free music & film at the De La Warr
The De La Warr Pavilion presents a packed programme of free live music and film screenings this Bank Holiday weekend.
The entertainment starts tonight (August 28), with this month's Random Fridays event co-inciding with the Coastal Currents 2009 launch party.
In association with East Magazine, Random Fridays brings beat-heavy music from Radio 1 favourite Riz MC, and DJ & producer Evil Ed, to the De La Warr's upstairs gallery from 7pm.
Performance artists Madarms will be presenting Tentation, in which a group of nesting tents come to life, morphing and exploring their environment.
There will also be a screening of Michele D'Acosta's short film The Prince Of Hip Hop. The film documents an underground hip hop party on a New York subway train in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, the Coastal Currents launch party will be happening up on the breathtaking roof of the De La Warr. Coastal Currents guests will be bussed in from the festival's drinks reception in Hastings Town Hall that afternoon.
Both the Random Fridays events and the Coastal Currents roof party are free, and open to all. The evening begins 7pm tonight.
Saturday and Sunday see Fife's Fence Collective and Brighton's Willkommen Collective visiting the Pavilion for yet more free live music.
The Fence Collective has previously launched King Creosote and James Yorkston into the public eye. On Saturday (August 29), Fence will bring The Pictish Trail, The Olo Worms and Rozi Plain to the De La Warr bandstand, for an afternoon of music 3-7pm.
The performances are followed by a screening of Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film simply follows footballer Zinedine Zidane throughout the course of one match. The film will be projected onto the outside rear wall of the De La Warr from 7pm.
On Sunday (August 30), it's the turn of Brighton's Willkommen Collective to supply the afternoon's music. An Ivor Novello nomination for the song Last Of The Melting Snow brought Willkommen Collective members The Leisure Society to prominence earlier this year. The Leisure Society will appear alongside Sons Of Noel And Adrian and The Miserable Rich on the bandstand between 3-7pm.
Another outdoor screening follows that evening, with charming comedy Son Of Ranbow. Garth Jennings' film tells the story of two boys attempting to film their own version of Rambo. The film will show on the De La Warr's rear wall from 7pm.