West End star to attend three-day climate festival
West End musical star and two-times Olivier Award-winning actress Janie Dee will be in town next week - but she won't be performing. Or will she?
Instead she'll be at Newhaven’s community centre, The Heart of Newhaven, supporting Earth Haven, a three-day climate festival which will focus on ways we can celebrate, protect and fight for our planet.
Featuring talks from local experts, workshops, a clothes swap, live music, kids’ activities, and more, the event, which inspired by Janie who founded the London Climate Change Festival in 2019 and who held a number of talks in Newhaven last August while performing her Beautiful World Cabaret at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since then she has gone on to produce and curate a whole raft of Beautiful World Cabarets in London’s West End and around the country in which performers such as Maureen Lipman, Wayne Sleep, Rob Brydon, Griff Rhys Jones, Alastair McGowan and Olivia Williams, have joined her in celebrating the earth and encouraging us to help the climate crisis.
Earth Haven begins on Thursday (September 25) at 7pm with a series of climate talks from Edinburgh-based environmental experts, and continues on Friday at 7pm with a Pop-Up Fair which includes a sustainable clothes swap, live music, stalls hosted by local eco-conscious businesses and initiatives, food and art. And on Saturday, from 10am to 1pm, there will be foraged art and storytelling for little ones and grown-ups alike as part of the Doors Open Day programme.
The Heart of Newhaven is on Newhaven Main Street opposite the tram terminus.
Tickets are free and available on Eventbrite.
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