What is Coastival: A Different View? Exciting, challenging, provocative, enlightening … we hope all these things and more.
At Coastival we have taken a deliberately different path for our February event this year and are challenging locals and visitors alike to take a different view of the local creative arts scene, and a different view of Scarborough itself.
Coastival – A Different View is a celebration of the local arts focused on the theme of 'light'. Across Scarborough, venues and local galleries will burst into life with all sorts of events, activities, films, installations and exhibitions, with a fine layer of music too.
Local artists have bought into the Different View idea enthusiastically and creatively and we know you will love the result. From the traditional public and private galleries to local cafes and churches, there is something exciting to see in all corners of the town.
We've packed so much into Saturday 16th February that we could do with 28 hours in the day! But even when the amplifiers are unplugged at the end of the evening gig at the Spa, the fun won’t finish. For the rest of February many of our participating venues will keep Coastival: A Different View bubbling along, so please take the time to visit as many of them as you can.
Enjoy Coastival: A Different View and don’t forget to keep visiting www.coastival.com to keep up with what we are planning for 2014!
The Coastival Team.
For Coastival: A Different View, we are once again delighted to have First TransPennine on board as one of our main sponsors. The company has been on the journey with us since the earliest days of Coastival and without the backing of commercial sponsors like them, we would not be able to bring this festival alive each year.

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