Skegness Events and Festivals

The Skegness SO Festival 2010 will run July 22nd to 25th. We don’t have any information about this 2010 Skegness event, it will apparently be based on the successes of the Skegness SO Festival 2009 and Skegness SEAS Festival 2009.

More details regarding this Skegness festival to follow as we get it…

What Do You Want at Skegness SO Festival 2010?

If you went to the Skegness SO Festival and/or Skegness SEAS Festival in 2009 and there’s something you’d really like to see again during the 2010 SO Event please post a comment below for discussion.

Who doesn’t love a good fireworks display around bonfire night?

The Skegness Royal Hotel, South Parade Skegness, PE25 3EH (Tel: 01754 762301) hosts a free fireworks display on November the 5th 2009. Doors open 6:30PM (bar open) with the fireworks display starting 7:30PM.

It’s free to enter with the option to donate to local Rotarian charities.

Also includes children’s bouncy castle and sumo suits wrestling with hot food available.

Map of Skegness Royal Hotel

Skegness Fireworks Display Review

The Rotary Charity fireworks display at the Royal Hotel Skegness was well worth turning out for, lots of big firework explosions and plenty of them.

Quite a few people turned out on bonfire night despite the rain: started to pour it down 5 minutes after the first firework went up, typical English weather, but it didn’t ruin the night

The SEAS Festival is coming to Skegness on the 25th September – 3rd October. See Skegness SEAS Festival Review.

I’m a little dubious about this Arts Festival, I’ve been going through the list of events and it all seems very adult based and dry, there’s not much at all for families and the fun factor seems to be missing, but we’re willing to give the SEAS Festival a try.

The SEAS Festival seems to be aimed at, as my old mum would say Arty Farty types, you know the one who like to feel self important by pretending they know more than you!

Drives me nuts!! I’m artistic myself and I feel that artists should be allowed to just express themselves without coming out with some ridiculous reason for trying something new and creativity. Artists should have the freedom to express themselves, for no other reason than they want too.

Every year at around the second week in September Skegness Bottons Pleasure Beach closes it’s doors at the end of the summer season with a free fireworks display on the Skegness beach.

For a free fire works display it’s quite good, we’ve been to the Lewes fireworks displays and torch led prosessions in the streets (it’s like 12 hours of fireworks all over the town of Lewes) which are awesome, so we know what makes a great fireworks show.

This year we finally worked out how to use the fireworks setting on our digital camera and at long last got some good quality firework photographs

The fireworks videos turned out quite well also, we rarley try the digital cameras movie making abilities.

First time we’ve put one of our videos online as well (uploaded to Youtube).

Summer of 2009 saw the SO Festival visit the seaside town of Skegness.

The SO Festival started off with a big top being erected on Tower Gardens playing field. Two performances played, a 1940s style Berlin show with Mary Carewe and Sinfonia ViVA (East Midlands based orchestra) and an alternative comedy led by Mitch Benn, with Steve Hall, Alistair Barrie and Ray Peacock.

I personally didn’t see either of these performances since the 1940’s show isn’t my type of thing and the comedy show scheduled for 10pm, well I’m a mother with 2 young teens so it was a no go from the start for us, so on the first night I dumped the SO Festival and went to see the Chicago Blues Brothers at the Embassy Theatre with my kids instead (had a great night out).

If anyone saw the two shows feel free to add a comment below.

Unfortunately Skegness Carnival 2007 was yet another symbol of a bunch of older East Lindsey District/Skegness Town councilors people who have no real idea of what a carnival should be. We missed Skegness Carnival 2008, but Skegness Carnival 2009 (see comments below) was no better.

Just throw the word carnival around freely just to get the crowds in to Skegness. Let’s make it clear, this is NOT a carnival. What it actually is, is a bunch of tractors and cars with adverts attached to them advertising local Skegness businesses.

The only thing that was any good and was in keeping with a carnival theme was the Chinese dragons, we loved those guys. If it wasn’t for them I think I would have gladly let myself get trampled by the crowd.