INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL • YEAR-ROUND EVENTS AT THE THINK TANK • MADE IN IPSWICH
SPILL FESTIVAL RETURNS 23 - 26 OCTOBER 2025
THE FULL PROGRAMME WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN AUGUST 2025. TAKE A LOOK BELOW FOR A SNEAK PREVIEW…
Image credit: Jodee Mundy
PERSONAL
Jodee Mundy
You will be able to see Jodee Mundy back in Ipswich this year to perform her virtuosic theatre show Personal. Created in collaboration with her family, Personal uses documentary footage and fully integrated access provision to present Jodee’s experience of being a CODA (child of Deaf adults).
Image credit: Fiona Roberts
MONSTERS
Andy Field + Beckie Darlington
MONSTERS is a film project made in collaboration with school children from across East Anglia, creating a fictional documentary that will use the familiar tropes of Hollywood monster movies as a way for young people to reckon with ecological change. The film will screen in Ipswich as part of SPILL Festival 2025.
IPSWICH AS YOU SEE IT
This spring, our 2025 SPILL Associate Isiah Jordan has been leading a series of free photography workshops for young people in Ipswich
At the end of the workshops, the participants will have their photography showcased at SPILL Festival 2025.
Image credit: Isiah Jordan. Supported by Norfolk & Norwich Festival’s bursary scheme and Eastern Angle’s Boost Bursary
Isiah Jordan
Image credit: Tony Powlett by John Ferguson (2024), commissioned by SPILL as part of THE ICA PROJECT
THE ICA PROJECT
The ICA Project revisited the former Ipswich Caribbean Association building on Woodbridge Road through specially commissioned photography, newly collected oral histories, and archival materials made public for the first time. Take a look at the ICA Memories website to view the exhibition materials, and submit your own.
A SPILL Commission
SPILL PODCAST
Robin Deacon + Guests
Join our Artistic Director, Robin Deacon, as he chats with incredible artists and makers that SPILL has proudly presented, collaborated with, or admired from afar. You can listen by heading to the Podcast section of our website, or on Spotify via the button below.
SPILL is an arts organisation and registered charity based in Ipswich in the East of England.
We work with artists and communities to create unusual and memorable art projects across our town and further afield. We forge local partnerships to bring creative activities to shops, churches, and open spaces.
Our intimate venue and workshop space is called the Think Tank; here we present artist-led performances, exhibitions, talks and screenings, and host our highly-regarded artist residency programme.
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