On Monday 6 July as part of the national campaign #LightItInRed, Hever Festival Theatre turned red.

The campaign was inspired by Germany’s #NightOfLight2020 and is a joint project created and managed by Clearsound Productions Ltd in partnership with Backstage Theatre Jobs forum. The project encouraged venues across the country to light red on Monday evening to raise awareness at this critical time for venues and staff in the arts and live event industries.

Our Technical team did a fantastic job of making the Festival Theatre glow bright red, a symbol of us standing in solidarity and support of all our colleagues in the Arts and Live Events industry and made more poignant as the winter covering has not been removed this year, closing off the venue for the first time in 39 years.

‘We have been overwhelmed by the support of our audiences, they are very understanding but their message to us is clear – be back next year. Our Festival has been in existence for 38 years, we intend to be back, bigger and better. Most of our 2020 Season events have been moved to 2021 and we are adding more events to the summer programme over the coming months.’ Ailsa Molyneux, Festival Director.

Hever Festival Theatre work with the technical company Visual Elements Ltd. The Kent based company, also forced to lay dormant, who supply technical support to the live events industry were delighted to be able to highlight their creativity at a number of venues in their portfolio by lighting 10 of them red on Monday evening including: Chatham Historic Dockyards and Dulwich Prep in Kent, Tobacco Dock Wapping, The Bike Shed Shoreditch, Cromer Pier and of course they could not resist lighting Hever Castle and Hever’s famous ‘Blue Corner’ which was transformed into ‘Red Corner’ just for the evening.