Since the organisation was founded in April 1995 by Artistic Director, Mark Hewitt, LLL has acquired a reputation for inventive, eclectic programming. Working across traditional artform boundaries, LLL brings together spoken word, performance, music, film and visual art in a surprising variety of ways but always with the aim of offering audiences and participants an engaging and memorable experience.

Over recent years the annual festival has taken place at the end of October - often the weekend prior to the famous Lewes bonfire celebrations. The company's plan for the future, however, is to become much more of a year-round production company, working with writers and other artistic practitioners to develop performances and present the written and spoken word in new and exciting ways using a range of different venues.

 

Outside of LLL's events programme, the company continues to run creative writing workshops throughout the year, sometimes independently, sometimes in association with well-established partners, such as The Poetry School or New Writing South. To find out more about workshops run by LLL, look under workshops in the What's On section of this website. If you wish to know more, you can e-mail us at workshops@leweslivelit.co.uk

 

Plans are currently underway to stage a young people's festival of words that will take place in Lewes during June 2009. The project is part of a three-way collaboration with Farnham Maltings in Surrey and Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead, Berkshire. www.festivalofwords.org.uk/