First Light Festival

First Light Festival is a multi arts festival in a beautiful coastal setting. Celebrating one cycle of midsummer sun setting and rising over the beach in Britain’s most easterly town.

A stunning Victoriana-style glass pavilion overlooking the sea, East Point Pavilion opened in June 2022 and has since become a a key hub for events, food and community in Lowestoft.

Led by First Light Festival CIC, the Battery of Ideas Place Partnership is an exciting new project designed to fire up ideas, enthusiasm and involvement in the new Cultural Quarter development in Lowestoft town centre.

Through key programmes, including New Dawn and Playbreak, we’ve supported 180+ local and emerging musicians, at First Light Festival and beyond.

MarketPlace project sees mini-festivals popping up across market towns in Suffolk, with live music, performances, workshops, locally-sourced food and drink as well as children’s activities.

First Light Festival CIC, as part of Sizewell Creative, is producing a three-year programme of creative residencies with the aim of bringing the creative sector into the Sizewell C project. The aim of the residencies is to explore this largely under-documented part of the region’s heritage and history, through the many people who have been part of Sizewell and the effect on the area and environment – looking back to the project’s roots in the 1950s and forwards to the 2030s, to listen to and capture the many voices involved, to record change, adaptation and growth.

This collaborative project explores the relationship between the young local residents of this vibrant East Suffolk location and their town centre, asking what makes a place relevant and attractive to a younger part of the community.

An exciting new project supporting young Kirkley residents aged 15- 25 to contribute to the Kirkley People’s Forum, giving them voice to express what matters to them and connecting them to opportunities, initiatives and projects.

A ’love letter’ to Lowestoft’s old post office, interrogating its history and opening up a conversation about its future before it is redeveloped and repurposed.

Visit our gallery to watch films and see photos of all our past projects, events and initiatives.