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The work of photojournalist Steve Malone is utilised by a number of local news outlets. He has been commissioned to document the first Pevensey Food and Drink Festival.
Showing here is his widely seen photograph on World Car Free Day for the Eastbourne safe-cycling group Bespoke, which held a cycle procession calling for a safe cycling route along Eastbourne’s seafront (Sunday September 22).
Talking about his commission to document the first Pevensey Food and Drink Festival, which will see him aiming to capture the spirit of a number of the family events, Steve told Bay Life (20 October), ‘sounds great, I like a challenge”.
His work is be featured both online and in print in the Pevensey Bay Journal.
His initial work will be to document the first ‘taster event’ of the festival to be held at the Priory Court Hotel and Restaurant in Pevensey, with the ‘ghost walk and grill night’. Bay Life understands that there have been a number of block bookings this week. The event is pointing towards a scary success.
The taster event takes place on Thursday October 24, beginning at 6:00pm. The evening is hosted by local historian and writer, Robert Slater, who has been conducting 90 minute ghost walks in Pevensey for 28 years. Tickets are £16pp. Bookings for tables are available direct from the Priory Court and Restaurant, on 01323 763150 (if you dare).
The food festival branded ‘Pevfeast’, is taking a lead from the successful Pevfest music event which ran here for five successful years.
Organisers are aiming to repeat the success of Pevfest, with ‘Pevfeast’, targeting this time, families with themed food events.
A set of food themed events will draw families into the locality to sample the food delights that we have to offer, with carefully shaped plate sized events.
All the food establishments taking part in the event, will ‘receive free publicity from the local press’, explain the organisers.
Their goal is to see that this foodie heaven corner of Sussex is put on the foodie map of Sussex in a special way, tailored to the unique spirit of the locality, as an annual event..
These taster events tasking place, look set to test the water.
In May 2020 the Government is planning to support a very special set of VE Day events on the moved Bank Holiday, right across the country
They say on their planning web platform, “When VE Day dawns on 8th May 2020 it will be 75 years since the guns fell silent at the end of the war in Europe. Years of carnage and destruction had come to an end and millions of people took to the streets to celebrate”.
We already know that the organisers of the Pevensey Food and Drink Festival are planning something special in the locality on VE Day next year.
We wait to see if we will seeing 40 food events across 17 local food establishments on the Day, or perhaps the biggest street party for any village in Sussex.
The work of photojournalist Steve Malone, in documenting the festival, looks likely to add a memorable element to the proceedings.
