We are sorry to announce that King’s Lynn Arts Centre Trust closed its doors on 31 December 2015 after four years of successful projects, exhibitions and performances.

We have been working with a talented young man called Shravan, who is currently taking his Bronze Arts Award. During the award he made a stop motion animation; as part of the 'Share' section of the qualification he is required to teach others the skills he has learnt.

Shravan has made a delightful Youtube tutorial called 'How to Make a Stop Motion Animation for Beginners' so that you can make your very own animation! WATCH HERE!

To coincide with Remembrance Day on 11th November, artist Marcus Vergette has given as a gift to King’s Lynn Arts Centre an interactive sculpture, entitled “Silent, Beat, Silent”. The 500 kg bronze bell is situated in the Shakespeare Barn Courtyard, where any visitor is able to come and ring it in honour of those who fought for freedom during war times.

One of our new European Volunteers, Alessio Graldi, was given the challenge of installing and curating an exhibition by local photographer Jim Tuck. To document the development of the installation process Alessio created a stop motion film using photographic stills.

Some of our regional artists and supporters have already noticed the absence of the Eastern Open from our programme this year and we wanted to explain. 2015 would have been the 46th occurrence of this annual exhibition for 7 counties of the Eastern Region and so it has been a difficult decision to cease offering the competition. However, over the past few years the take-up for the exhibition by artists has decreased, whilst the costs for running it have increased. Although Sponsors have been good enough to cover significant cash awards, these have gone directly to artists and have not helped to cover the costs of organising and running such a major competition. As an independent charitable trust, we have a duty to be cautious and the Eastern Open had become a drain on our resources. We shall review the situation for 2016 and apologise for the disappointment of those artists who have been loyal over many years.

Arts for your future
European Training for Youth Workers!


King’s Lynn Arts Centre Trust is looking for youth workers ready to experience a European Training!
From 7th to 15th November 2015 in Machiennes North of France, 9 European Countries will meet and exchange on how to use visual art as a means for education!
For further information, please contact Elise Prosniewski at [email protected] or 01553 779095

Our former Marketing and Administration Intern, Season Lanckmans, created this video montage of our large scale Hungarian Ceramics exhibition 'Forma Hungarica' from the Graham Cooley Collection.

At King’s Lynn Arts Centre we are committed to embedding environmental sustainability at the heart of our business, both in our own ethos and in our commercial interactions externally. As an organization we intend to raise awareness in our audience and to lead by example so as to evidence sustainability to unlock new funding sources.

We are now looking for new volunteers who are willing to give their time in the KLACT garden to recreate this colourful and peaceful space that visitors will be able to enjoy this summer!

KLACT received Social European Funding for its new project based on textile!

This project is supported by TCHC.

On Friday 13 February a group of West Norfolk Young People embarked on an exciting visit led by by King’s Lynn Arts Centre’s Assistant Director, Elise Prosniewski, to Adfir - a host organisation in Réunion. The project was funded by Erasmus +. The Arts Centre has applied for funding for a return visit to King’s Lynn in August.

Liam Briscoe, King’s Lynn Arts Centre’s European & Education Awareness Intern, is providing us with a daily blog detailing the ten day trip.

Months of hard work have now come to fruition as the King's Lynn Arts Centre Trust has been accredited as a European Voluntary Service (EVS) organisation!

It is with great delight that we can now announce the success of our garden volunteers' work.
They have earned an award from the Royal Horticultural Society and Anglia in Bloom in the 'It's Your Neighbourhood' community programme.