Tormenta Flamenca: 'Origenes'
Sunday 21 September, 2025. All Saints Centre, Lewes.
Tormenta Flamenca (Flamenco Storm) a troupe led by dancer / choreographer Ana Dueñas León presented 'Origenes', a new show that returned to the roots of flamenco. Ana eas joined for this performance by guitarist Ramón Ruiz and singers Inma Montero and Danielo Olivera.
FLYWEIGHT
TOUR 2025
Weds 14 May: Square Tower, Portsmouth / Thurs 12 June: New Park Studio, Chichester Fringe / Weds 16 July: Komedia Studio, Brighton / Tues 22 & Weds 23 July: Ventnor Arts Club (Ventnor Fringe) Isle of Wight.
The preview tour of FLYWEIGHT, a new multimedia live literature production written and performed by award-winning poet Maggie Sawkins, that explores the unlikely theme of boxing, and in particular, female boxing. The work combines poetry with nuggets of research, complemented by entertaining visuals by artist/filmmaker Matt Parsons. Developed by LLL in partnership with Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy and directed by LLL's Artistic Director Mark C. Hewitt, the work toured from May to July 2025.
Lives of the Artists #8 - The Legacy of Lee Miller
Antony Penrose in conversation
Sun 13 April, 2025. All Saints Centre, Lewes
To close LLL's anniversary weekend, a special in our 'Lives of the Artists' strand of events. Antony Penrose in conversation with LLL's Artistic Director Mark Hewitt discussed the life and legacy of his mother, Lee Miller, with projected images. Antony Penrose is director of the Lee Miller Archive and Roland Penrose Collection, at Farley's in Sussex.
Poster photo © Lee Miller Archives, England 2025. All rights reserved.
John Agard, Grace Nichols & Keith Waithe: Caribbean Re-Soundings
Sat 12 April, 2025. All Saints Centre, Lewes
Continuing LLL's 30th anniversary weekend of events, poets John Agard and Grace Nichols were joined by "poet of the flute" Keith Waithe to present a lively evening of poetry and music from three Guyana-born Sussex-based artists. The event echoed a reading held during LLL's very first week of events in April 1995, Caribbean Soundings.
Nick Pynn & Kate Daisy Grant
Fri 11 April, 2025. All Saints Centre, Lewes
Kicking off a weekend of events to commemorate LLL's 30th anniversary, Nick Pynn and Kate Daisy Grant presented a concert in two halves. In the first half, one of Nick Pynn's legendary multi-instrumental solo sets, and in the second half joined by singer Kate Daisy Grant to perform songs from their album, Songs for the Trees.
Works in Progress #7
Weds 18 March, 2025. All Saints Centre, Lewes
Supporting new writing for theatre. An evening of professionally performed rehearsed readings featuriing one complete short play - Out of the Rain by Neil Noon - and extracts of four others - Butterfly Kicks by Louise Monaghan, Sandcastles by Lorraine Mullaney, Bury the Wren by Rachel Mae Brady and Civilization and its Discontents by Mark C. Hewitt.
Pam and De Femmes: Musical Cabaret with Guests
Wednesday 29th January. Westgate Chapel, Lewes
Continuing a new series of events at Westgate Chapel, Pam and De Femmes hosted a musical cabaret with guests. Well-known in Lewes for their unique and eclectic brand of multilingual musical exuberance, they presented an exhilarating array of songs in an astonishing variety of languages. An international celebration of the love of music. Guest performers included Caolan Walpot on Celtic Harp, Lewes-based Hungarian singer Viktória Túlkan and Portuguese actress Marta Carvalho.
John Agard: King Kong and the Conference of Monsters
Tuesday 10 December, 2024. All Saints Centre, Lewes.
In a first try-out of a new work in progress, John Agard – Queen’s Gold Medallist and GCSE poet - became the iconic outsize gorilla to chair a conference of monsters. Performing alongside talented Portuguese actress Marta Carvalho, the show drew on monster lore from a diversity of cultures, weaving a mischievous narrative that spoke to anyone seeking to embrace their inner monster!
Slavic Voices: Christmas Concert
Saturday 7 December, 2024. Westgate Chapel, Lewes.
Led by Polina Skovoroda-Shepherd, SLAVIC VOICES presented a beautiful Christmas Concert of choral music, featuring musical styles from all around the Slavic world. £0 or so singers presented everything from Orthodox chants to beautiful classics by Tchaikovsky and Schnittke to gritty authentic folk songs,
LLL at HMP Lewes: Colin Grant
Tuesday 22nd October, 2024. Lewes Prison library.
Commencing a new season of events at Lewes Prison, writer Colin Grant was in conversation about his book 'I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be' as a Black History Month special event.
Tormenta Flamenca: 'Flamenca/Flamenco'
Sunday 14 July, 2024. All Saints Centre, Lewes.
Tormenta Flamena (Flamenco Storm) a troupe led by dancer / choreographer Ana Dueñas León presented 'Flamena/Flamenco', an exploration of the masculine and feminine impulse within traditional Flamenco dance. Ana was joined by singer Inma Montero, as well as regular accompansts, guitarist Ramón Ruiz and percussionist Antonio Romero.
Geneva Convention
Tues 11 June, 2024. All Saints Centre, Lewes
Following its premiere at Brighton Fringe Festival, the Lewes performance of an intriguing new experimental play written by LLL's Artistic Director Mark C. Hewitt. Performed by an international cast of four female performers with music by Norwegian jazz percussionist Thomas Strønen, the work takes for its structure the four parts of the Geneva Convention: Wounded & Sick / Maritime / Prisoners of War / Civilians. "Wow! Powerful - Sensitive - Touching - Moving." (Audience feedback)
Martina Evans / Anthony Joseph
Tues 16 April, 2024. All Saints Centre, Lewes
LLL welcomed two leading poets who drawing on different cultural traditions to bring something unique and different to British poetry. Anthony Joseph's Sonnets for Albert won the 2022 TS Eliot Prize and the 2023 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature. Irish poet Martina Evans' narrative poem sequence The Coming Thing was published to critical acclaim in 2023 and was a TLS and Irish Times Book of the Year.
Works in Progress #6
Weds 10 April, 2024. All Saints Centre, Lewes
Supporting new writing for theatre. An evening of professionally performed rehearsed readings featuriing extracts from six new plays by local playwrights. Bitter Water by Rachel Mae Brady; Safe Home by Josie Melia; Mama Weer All Crazee Now by Louise Monaghan; Sandcastles by Lorraine Mullaney ; Geneva Convention by Mark C. Hewitt; Dying for Me by Neil Noon.
LLL at HMP Lewes: David Kendall
Wednesday 20 March, 2024. Lewes Prison library.
Continuing our season of events at Lewes Prison, writer and literature activist David Kendall ran a workshop for prisoners linked to his 10 x 10 writing challenge, an annual competition that runs across a dozen or more prisons in which participants are invited to write a 100-word story.
LLL at HMP Lewes: Darren Charlton
Wednesday 28 February, 2024. Lewes Prison library.
Continuing our series of events at Lewes Prison, a special event for Vulnerable Prisoners as part of LGBTQ Month. “Thrilling zombie epic meets gorgeous gay love story” is how one critic put it. At HMP Lewes, the author of WRANGLESTONE came to HMP Lewes to talk about how his book and how he came to write it.
