Spring Programme Launch Week: Friday 5 April to Friday 12 April

Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music has announced its first Spring events of 2024 on the week of 5-12 April, with the Choose Love - Projections for Peace, projected oton the Tide Mill, on Friday 5 April, followed by an Un:Wined special, at Saltpeter at Beach Street Felixstowe, on Saturday 6 April, and Disco Skulduggery, a new monthly event featuring DJ Ben Osborne, VJ Girl In A T-Shirt and guests, at the King's Head on Friday 12 April.

The Festival's latest cross platform arts project, Choose Love - Projections for Peace, has attracted over 700 heart shaped artworks submitted by children from local schools, care homes, community groups, Woodbridge and London based art clubs and international artists; including artists who exhibit at Barbican, Chelsea Arts Club and Tate Britain. The youngest participant was 1-years-old and the oldest was 103-years-old. The images will be projected in an art and music event from the Boathouse on to the Tide Mill from 6:30-8pm.

Choose Love is a new cross platform arts project featuring music and light art projected on the iconic 700 year old Tide Mill. The event is a continuation of Woodbridge Festival's annual Projections for Peace, which usually take place on St Patrick's night, but are being projected this year on Friday 5 April. As with all Woodbridge festival events, prices are made as accessible as possible, with free entry to Chose Love and Disco Skulduggry and ticket prices starting at £3.50 for Un:Wined (for ticket and other details see Woodbridgefestival.com). The Festival is also organisng a permanent Choose Love mural site with the Town Council, featuring a selection of the submitted artworks, the site for which is expected to be announced during the launch week in April. Further events are being planned to fellow on from last year's hugely sucessful, nationally praised, Woodbridge Festvial Windrush celebrations; with events being arranged with Woodbridge Reggata at Whisstock's Place on 9 June and further events planned throuhgout the summer. Further new monthly music and visuals events are being organised at 1975 (20 April/ 25 May/ 8 June), and The King's Head (montlhy from 17 May).

Alice Stallard, Woodbridge Festival chair and arts co-ordinator, said: "The quality and quantity of art we've received for Choose Love has been beautiful. This is the latest event in our on-going community engagement activity and we're encouraged every time by the creativity, joy and warmth of the contributions."

Festival Creative Director DJ Ben Osborne said: "The festival started in 2012 with the hope of encouraging more creative activity in our area of the east coast. Events like this, and the fantastic contributions from schools, local residents and arts professionals, shows the appetite for music and art keeps growing."

Other Suffolk shows in the Festival's diary include events in Felixstowe at Saltpeter (3 May) and Beach Street (4 May) and Noise of Art at First Light Festival in Lowestoft (22 / 23 June).

Choose Love is supported by East Suffolk Council and Councillor Rachel Smith-Lyte, Suffolk Building Society and Grove Court Nursing home, an Elizabeth Finn Home.

More information available here.