Meet our Sponsor - an interview with Oliver Miller
An interview with Oliver Miller, founder of auction house Bishop & Miller, EA Festival’s 2024 sponsor.
How do we make art and culture thrive in East Anglia?
How do we make the art and culture scene flourish in this part of Suffolk? The number of iconic and seminal artists from East Anglia -- or connected to this region -- is staggering. From Gainsborough to Maggi Hambling with loads in between including Constable, Cedric Morris, Paul Nash, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and on and on -- not to mention the performing arts.
Our partnership with County Broadband
EA Festival has partnered with Essex-based County Broadband for its inaugural weekend in East Anglia this summer. The company is supporting the festival by providing the Hyperfast connectivity needed to livestream the programme, expanding the company’s work to provide excellent broadband connection to local communities.
A post for Earth Day
When I first started the festival, a few friends asked me, “That’s fantastic but what are you doing for the environment?” (It’s worth pointing out that I founded a clean air NGO in 2009 that has since become the leading organisation of its kind in the Pearl River Delta, based in Hong Kong. In short, I’m not a newcomer to environmental discourse.)
It’s about connecting the dots
One of the main reasons I started the festival was to encourage the development of more connective tissue within and between the creative community of East Anglia. I don’t say that as some kind of pre-fab marketing shibboleth but based on a sincerely held intention.
“Nothing is boring”
One fantastic thing about wading into an industry about which you know nothing is the lack of baggage about how things “have always been done in our industry.” Among my observations about festivals and some of their time-honoured practices: