Anchors Aweigh Website Launched

Woodbridge Festival’s Anchors Aweigh Community Art Website has been launched, marking the end of this year’s programme and coinciding with the First Christmas Lights On event in Whisstocks Place on Sunday 10 December (2023).

The new website (anchorsaweigh.co.uk) documents the festival’s succeseful summer long arts project and art trail, which celebrated Woodbridge’s maritime heritage and the 75th anniversary of the landing of HMS Windrush in East Anglia in 1948.

Involving 12 anchors, decorated by 12 community groups, the artworks were displayed in 12 businesses and places of interest around the commercial and cultural districts of Woodbridge. The summer-long exhibition was accompanied by an interactive trail map and attracted over a 1000 visitors.

Following the town-wide exhibition, the anchors were displayed in an interactive art installation in Elmhurst Park during Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music on September 2 and a one-day only art trail during the Woodbridge Harvest Fair on October 7. The anchors were used as part of the procession and altar display for the Windrush Select Committee’s Windrush 75 memorial event at St. Mary Le Tower, Ipswich on October 28. The project included a programme of free AV and Art workshops that attracted participants aged six months to 76 years old.