An annual, free access multi-arts festival celebrating midsummer on the UK's most easterly beach ☀️🌊

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Save the date! 🌅 First Light Festival returns on 20 & 21 June 2026 for another midsummer celebration on Lowestoft’s golden sands. What better way to welcome the actual summer solstice than with a weekend of music, dance, art, talks, wellbeing sessions and more...
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Have you got your First Light Pocket Guide? 📖 With this year's festival just over a week away, make sure you've got your site map and timetable ready to go so you don't miss any of your favourite acts! Download yours now 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/what…
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First Light Festival is a free access multi-arts festival set across the beach in Lowestoft. On Saturday 20th of June I'll be on the First Word stage performing poetry. Back a bag and come and experience @FirstLight_Fest Here is the full line up! firstlightlowestoft.com/zone…
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The @FirstLight_Fest #Lowestoft is just 10 days away; get there by train! Stay late! We've again teamed up with @greateranglia to run an extra train on the East Suffolk Line calling at all stations Lowestoft to #Ipswich Sat night 20th June. Departs 23:12, arrives Ipswich 00:37.
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For the first time, our DJ afterparty comes to The Venue at Claremont Pier. Dance until the early hours to sets from BBC 6 Music DJ Jamz Supernova and First Light Festival favourites The Hemingways. 🎟 Grab your tickets now! 👉 ticketsource.com/first-light…
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Last chance campers! 🚐⛺ One campervan pitch has just become available and we have limited wild beach camping pitches left — and we always sell out, so don't leave it too late. Grab yours now before they're gone! 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/fest…
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It’s Volunteers Week! 🎉 So we want to say a huge thank you to all our amazing First Light Festival volunteers — we couldn’t do it without you! If you’d like to get involved in volunteering at this year's festival, go to 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/volu…
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A huge thank you to Litter Free Lowestoft, who will once again be supporting First Light with the festival clean-up! 💚 We’re incredibly grateful for your time, energy, and continued commitment to keeping our town clean and welcoming.
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First Light’s Vertical Space is a fun, safe zone for young people to game, connect with friends and get creative. Across the festival weekend, expect drop-in sessions and activities including gaming tournaments, DJ sessions, creative design and more. 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/zone…
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Kick off the First Light Festival weekend at our pre-festival Intergalactic Getdown Silent Disco at East Point Pavilion on Friday 19 June! Slip on your headphones, choose your vibe, and groove into another universe. Grab your tickets now 🎟️👉 eastpointpavilion.com/events…
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Our festival campervan pitches may be FULL, but we still have WILD BEACH CAMPING PITCHES AVAILABLE — and they’re filling up fast! ⛺🌊 Book now and set up camp amongst the sandy dunes for the full First Light experience... 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/wild…
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Retreat into a haven of peace and tranquility at our Wellbeing by the Waves teepee this First Light 🧘‍♀️🌊 Take a look at this year's programme... 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/zone…
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We’re incredibly excited to welcome Patrick Grant — judge on BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee and Founder of Community Clothing — to our Interstellar Ideas tent at next month’s Festival. Join us there for what promises to be a fascinating talk. 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/even…
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Join us for a special Dawn at First Light Festival and celebrate the Summer Solstice sunrise from the most easterly place in the UK with a delicious breakfast of fresh fish, new music, and sun salutation yoga... 🌅 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/even…
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When the Saturday sun goes down and night falls on day one of First Light Festival, head to St Peter & St John Church to enjoy a programme of contemporary classical and acoustic music in beautiful surroundings. 🎟 Book your tickets now 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/even…
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It’s important that everyone has a fun and safe experience at First Light, so we’ve put together some useful tips to support you and your family during the Festival. Take a look 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/keep…
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In 1 month it's @FirstLight_Fest #Lowestoft. Get there by train! Stay late! We've again teamed up with @greateranglia to run an extra train on the East Suffolk Line #Lowestoft to #Ipswich Saturday night 20 June. Departs 23.12, arrives Ipswich 00.37 #firstlight #firstlightfestival
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1 MONTH TO GO! 🌅🎉 The countdown to First Light Festival 2026 is on. Join us for a midsummer celebration on the shimmering sands of Lowestoft’s seafront. See you on the beach! 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com
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We have once again partnered with Latitude Festival for 2026 to give our New Dawn headliners @MAGNOLIABAND_UK, and our Play Break headliners Like Optimists, a coveted slot at the festival in July! 🙌 Catch both bands live on our Sunlight Stage at this year’s First Light Festival
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Head to The Battery of Ideas across the First Light Festival weekend, where @SPILL_Festival present Leviathan — an imagined dialogue between Suffolk’s fishermen and the colossal Leviathan, a mythological sea creature and witness to ecological collapse. 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/even…
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Lizzie Berchie is a singer-songwriter and producer who fuses R&B, neo-soul, jazz, reggae and highlife to create her own unique and infectious soulful sound — and we can't wait to hear it on our Sunlight Stage this First Light Festival! 🙌 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/even…
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