Family Day

Our two quiet spaces are The Ravilious and Collection Library (first floor) and the Cinema foyer (ground floor).

We have sensory bags including noise-cancelling headphones and fidgets available to collect from the ground floor foyer to use for your visit.

Extra noise cancelling headphones are available, please speak to a member of the team in Studio 1 to collect a pair.

Join us for activities across the whole building, led by artists Kyla Jardine and Laura J. Furner!

We'll announce more information on activities and themes in January 2026. 

Recommended for ages 5+

Please note:

Caregivers are required to stay with their dependents for the duration of the session

This session takes place across the whole building, there's no wrong way to experience Family Day!

Make Space will open for Quiet Hour from 11.00am and to everyone from 12.00pm

Towner has step-free access, spaces available for buggies, a baby-change and cafe on the ground and second floors.

We encourage you to book your free tickets for this event you can drop-in at any time between 12.00 - 4.00pm.

If you'd prefer a more relaxed, supported experience, you can book onto our Quiet Hour (11.00am - 12.00pm). Numbers are limited with a relaxed atmosphere for families and a higher adult-child ratio. Booking required.

For any enquiries or access requirements, please contact mollie.howells@townereastbourne.org.uk

Kyla Jardine (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist working with poetry, performance, and storytelling. Her practice is rooted in a lifelong love of language and the power of words: a way to explore memory, identity, belonging, and transformation. She uses storytelling to create connection, and also to question what is left unspoken.

Her work is shaped by rhythm, image, and atmosphere, drawing inspiration from music, visual art, and the textures of everyday life. She treats poetry and narrative not just as words on a page but as experiences to be seen, heard and felt.

Kyla has performed widely across the UK’s spoken word scene, from grassroots spaces to headline stages nationwide. Alongside her artistic practice, she is an experienced facilitator who cultivates inclusive, playful spaces where people of all ages can build confidence in their creative expression.

L.J Furner (they/them) explores relationships between the human and more-than-human, interrogating how connections with nature can reveal different ways of viewing our lived experiences.

Their work centres sustainable practices, embedding nature within the creative process. They use natural and upcycled materials to make work that support sensory ways of thinking about landscape, touch and memory.

Queer ecologies are at the heart of their work, exploring modes of being in the world beyond the restrictions of human categorisation, working through these ideas by interweaving natural forms with human acts of ‘making’.