Artist Residency: Lindsey Warnes with new performance work ‘Lido Loves’
Attenborough Arts Centre is excited to announce the support of a new work titled ‘Lido Loves’ by Lindsey Warnes, a Leicester-based writer and performer. This piece is being created as part of our residency programme, aimed at supporting innovative and impactful art in our community.
About the Work
Lido Loves is a theatre piece that explores the personal experiences and stories shared by outdoor swimmers across the UK, the history and importance of lidos within communities, how outdoor swimming can impact on wellbeing and forging friendships and Lindsey’s personal journey of discovering her own love of lidos and the outdoor swimming community.
“My love of outdoor swimming, interest in lidos and visiting them across the UK has led me to discover the rich variety of stories that each swimmer I’ve met has to share,” said Lindsey. “I’ve collected stories from people who have harnessed the healing powers of water and community to overcome all kinds of challenges in life such as recovering addicts and people living with a wide variety of health conditions. And swimming in these beautiful pools can bring such joy. Each lido has a rich history of its own and the closure and subsequent fundraising and re-opening of many of the UK lidos puts these important outdoor spaces at the heart of many communities”
About the Artist
Lindsey Warnes is an award-winning comedy performer who has been creating a wide variety of multi-disciplinary creative work for many years. She writes and performs engaging, humourous, theatre and performance art work, combining comedy, theatre, music, film, dance and cabaret. She has performed work nationwide and across the East Midlands. Attenborough Arts Centre is a space very close to her heart, being an inclusive and supportive venue and having taken part in numerous shows and events there such as Leicester Comedy Festival, Departure Lounge, Gallery Lates and Scratch Nights she has co-produced as part of the small arts collective of Tightrope.
Lindsey is also a creative workshop facilitator, producer and education and outreach manager at The Core at Corby Cube.
On successful receipt of DYCP funding in 2023, Lindsey has been travelling the length and breadth of the UK visiting lidos and outdoor swimming spaces, gathering stories and histories to include in a brand new piece of theatre. She hopes to share a work in progress performance of this new work at Attenborough Arts Centre in 2025.
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