Press Release October 2022:

The Fish Friendly Fireworks is an annual AV event by Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music. Environmentally friendly fireworks are projected onto the side of Woodbridge’s iconic Tide Mill lighting up the night sky in a contemporary take on a traditional Fireworks night. Accompanying this event Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music run their Friendly Fish Fireworks Open Call inviting local residents to light up the Tide Mill with their artworks.

This year Woodbridge based artist Alice Stallard is excited to be working with local schools and organizations to run free, community art drop-in events to generate art works for the Open Call. Look out for ‘Matisse at the Mill’ at the Tide Mill and other free, drop-in events that will be popping up about town in the run up to November 5th. Participants are also warmly encouraged to submit their own artworks.

The Open Call is a great opportunity to see your work super-size on the Mill – a chance for a different perspective. For the children involved in the workshops, to have the opportunity to explore different artists and their ways of working whilst exploring their own interests and ideas is exciting, and then to see their artworks celebrated in such a huge and contemporary way is inspiring.

Funded by Arts Council England and East Suffolk County Council.