Thursday 14 December, 2023. Lewes Prison library.

Continuing our series of events at Lewes Prison, Craft-D led a workshop with prisoners - ahead of a forthcoming poetry slam - on the art of slam poetry. Craft-D is a rap poet and two-time battle rap champion whose writing moves between poetry and contemporary hip-hop. 

Wednesday 29 November, 2023. Lewes Prison library

Start of a series of LLL events at Lewes Prison. Philosopher Andy West led a presentation and conversation about the famous Italian renaissance artist Caravaggio, whose violent life and prodigious talent created a series of moral dilemmas. Andy West is the author of The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free (Picador, 2022). It tells the story of him visiting his dad, brother and uncle in prison in his childhood, to him teaching philosophy in prisons today and what he learnt along the way.

Tuesday 28 November, 2023. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

The latest one-man show by Caribbean-British wordsmith, John Agard. In Waiting for Shakespeare, John Agard took on the character of FOOL, now a famous chat show host, whose imminently expected guest is none other than The Bard himself. But would he arrive on time or would the afterlife express be delayed? 

Saturdays 30 September - 21 October, 2023. Fitzroy House, Lewes.

A series of events to accompany the WONDER exhibition at Firzroy House, Lewes, featuring curiosites by 20 artists. 

Sat 30th September. John Agard: Prospero, Caliban, Cricket & Other Glorous Uncertainties. Launch of a new book collecting together John Agard's cricket poems.

Sat 7th October. Polina Shepherd / Pam and De Femmes: Songs from around the Wondersphere. Singer Polina Shepherd's evocative renditions of Yiddish & Slavic songs with her own piano accompaniment and Pam & De Femmes eclectic brand of multlingual musical exuberance.  

Sat 14th October. Sussex Flutes with Keith Waithe: The Fitzroy House Flute Experience. Sussex Flutes (Sue Gregg, Victoria Hancox, Anne Hodgson & Nicole Leclercq) were joined by Guyanese flautist Keith Waithe in an evening combining classical repertoire with Waithe's own compositions.

Sat 21st October. Alinah Azadeh / Razia Aziz: We Hear You Now. Artist, writer and cultural activist Alinah Azadeh and co-writer Razia Aziz performed texs celebrating and inspired by the soundscapes landscape accompanied by live soundscapes created by musicians Dirk Cambell and Adam Cambell.

Tuesday 20 September, 2023. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

Lives of the Artists #7: EDGE OF CHAOS. Internationally recognised 'land artist' Chris Drury discussed the development of his work through 45 years of Eco-Art. The event was the latest in a series of conversational events illustrated with projected images in which local artists talk about how and why they do what they do in the way that they do it. 

Sunday 16 July, 2023. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

Tormenta Flamena (Flamenco Storm) led by dancer / choreographer Ana Dueñas León presented 'Mi Andalucía', a tribute to the the music and dance of the Flamenco heartland. For this event, Ana was joined by stunning singer Inma Montero and regular musicians Ramón Ruiz (guitar) and Antoñio Romero (percussion).

Friday 26 May, 2023. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

Bob Dylan expert, Michael Gray, shared the greatest album tracks that the groundbreaking singer/songwriter never released, covering a period from the early sixties to the 1980s. An evening in two halves with audio recordings giving all the background and context from an acclaimed pioneer of Dylan Studies and the author of three major books on his life and work.

Tuesday 18 April, 2023. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

An evening of discussion & talks presented by Penned Up, a project that that organises literature festivals in prisons and involves prisoners in the process. The evening featured a talk with projected images by ex-prisoner/now-artist Gary Mansfield and prisoner writings from Penned Up workshops read by actor Tommy Oldroyd, plus contributions from art tutors working at HMP Lewes. Hosted by Penned Up's co-director, David Kendall.

Spring 2023 touring project exploring the collaborative intersection of poetry and film. Intimate conversational events at which contemporary examples of poetry on film were introduced and discussed by the poets and their visual collaborators.

Thurs 13 April, The Depot, Lewes: filmpoems by John Agard & Millie Dobres and award-winning video miniatures by Mark C. Hewitt & Matt Parsons. With guest interviewer, Catherine Smith.  

Sun 16 April, Southsea Community Cinema, Portsmouth: Maggie Sawkins presented filmpoems created with Lewes artist Abigail Norris for her award-winning production Zones of Avoidance; plus Mark C. Hewitt & Matt Parsons on their surrealistic video sequence Les Coffrets and Caribbean poet John Agard's film collaborations with young documentary filmmaker, Millie Dobres. 

Thurs 20 April, The Rose Hill, Brighton: poet Maria Jastrzębska and filmmaker Wendy Pye showed and discussed the three Snow Q filmpoems alongside a screening of three video pieces by Mark C. Hewitt & Matt Parsons.

Tuesday 31 January, 2023. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

Poets Jackie Wills and Grace Nichols in conversation, discussing Jackie Wills' book On Poetry - Reading, Writing & Working with Poems and its praise of Grace's seminal early collection, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, about which Wills wrote: "her poems lodged themselves in my mind for the originality of their language ... a way of thinking that celebrated the female."

Tuesday 13 December, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes.

Lives of the Artists #6: MAKING SENSE. Marco Crivello in conversation with LLL's Artistic Director Mark C. Hewitt, discussed the development of his work from his early improvisations with form, colour and tonal relationships to his preoccupation with 'noticing' and the use of found objects and bricolage.The event was the latest in a series of conversational events illustrated with projected images in which local artists talk about how and why they do what they do in the way that they do it. 

Sat 22nd October, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes

A warmly appreciated and artistically diverse evening of fun and profundity, featuring words from multi-award-winning poet George Szirtes and poet/musician Zena Edwards with music to open and close by astonishing multilingual local songsters Pam and De Femmes.

Tues 4th October, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes

A talk/performance on the history and practice of Sound Poetry. Galician writer, performer and musician Xelís de Toro gave an overview of the artists and art movements that developed 'phonetic poetry' - from Dadaists Hugo Ball & Kurt Schwitters in the early 20th century to French Poesie Sonore  to British 'Concrete Poetry'. Illustrated with archive images and short performances from the various works that were referenced. 

Thurs 29th September, 2022. Zu Café, Lewes Bus Station

Goodbye to the Bus Station. On this day, LLL and the artists with whom we had shared a studio space at Lewes Bus Station said goodbye to all that in an evening of music, poetry and speeches. With performances by artists who had been involved with the space for many years. Music was by Pam and De Femmes, with poetry readings by John Agard, Grace Nichols and Mark C. Hewitt.

Tues 13th September, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes

Fifth in a series of LLL midweek rehearsed readings showcasing new writing for theatre and performance. Three works were presented. Coleridge in the Afterlife by John Agard; Flowering  by Olga Matsiupa; Civilization and its Discontents (Prologue and Epilogue) by Mark C. Hewitt.

Coleridge in the Afterlife was performed by the author. Other actors were Leann O'Kasi, Melissa Sirol, Marta Carvalho, Edward Taduran-Bradley and Sam Cox.

24th-29th May, 2022. Brighton Fringe Festival.

LLL Productions presented this riveting Anglo-Portuguese performance for a one week run at the Lantern Theatre in Brighton. Performed by actress Marta Carvalho, the original text (‘Labirinto de Amor e Morte’) was written in Portuguese by Galician theatremaker Moncho Rodriguez, and this was the first substantial run of dates for this new English version, co-translated by Carvalho and LLL's Artistic Director Mark C. Hewitt. "Beautifully translated, cleverly staged and so vividly performed." (Audience Feedback)

Sun 15 May, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes

Choreographer/dancer Ana Dueñas León brought Tormenta Flamena (Flamenco Storm) back to LLL for another exhilarating performance as part of our programme of events and productions for Brighton Fringe Festival. Once again she was joined by singer Jasmine Vllalobos, guitarist Ramón Ruiz and percussionist Antonio Romero.

6th-8th May, 2021. Brighton Fringe Festival.

A second run at Brighton Fringe Festival for Prison Dialogues, this time presenting the play for five performances over three days at pop-up venue The Rotunda Theatre, in Regency Square, Brighton. The play, written by LLL's Artistic Director Mark C. Hewitt, and consisting of alternating male and female dialogues, was performed by Sonny Jaiteh, Tommy Oldroyd, Araba Jane, Leann O'Kasi and Sarah J. Lewis.

Saturday 30 April, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes

Lewes launch of John Agard's latest poetry collection, Border Zone. The Guyana-born poet, who moved to Lewes in 1978, has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous satirical fables and this event featured a selection of poems from the book.

Tuesday 19 April, 2022. All Saints Centre, Lewes

LLL kicked off its 2022 programme by bringing together three outstanding poets with enduring links to LLL for an evening of shared insights, great lines and good-humoured cultural connection. Mimi Khalvati is well-known to many in Lewes for her outstanding poetry seminars, while Maria Jastrzębska and Maggie Sawkins have links to LLL through previous live literature productions.

Sat 11 December, 2021. All Saints Centre, Lewes

An evening of two halves. In the first, a screening of black and white lockdown filmpoems resulting from two writer/filmmaker collaborations: poet John Agard with documentary filmmaker Millie Dobres and playwright Mark C. Hewitt with digital artist Matt Parsons. In the second half, a preview of Fool's Half Hour, an entertaining 'fool-eyed lecture' / poetry performance by John Agard with projected visuals. 

Sun 14 November, 2021. All Saints Centre, Lewes

Tormenta Flamena (Flamenco Storm) led by dancer / choreographer Ana Dueñas León presented TABLAO, a journey through the tradition and evolution of Flamenco. For this exhilarating one-off performance she was joined by singer Jasmine Vllalobos, guitarist Ramón Ruiz and percussionist Antonio Romero.