Record numbers flocked to Lowestoft over the weekend as First Light Festival 2025 attracted massive crowds.

Huge crowds for First Light Festival 2025. Picture: Mick Howes (Image: Mick Howes)

The multi-arts festival - celebrating the first midsummer sunrise in Britain's most easterly town - featured dozens of award-winning performers, live music, DJs, poets, comedians, fashion parades, workshops, wellbeing zones, art, unique sculptures, sports, talks, science and activities to entertain everyone.

Huge crowds for First Light Festival 2025. Picture: Mick Howes (Image: Mick Howes) As the temperatures rose, a sun-soaked midsummer weekend packed with entertainment aplenty transformed Lowestoft's South Beach, Kensington Gardens and the Upper Esplanade.

Huge crowds for First Light Festival 2025. The opening parade. Picture: Mick Howes (Image: Mick Howes) The fifth First Light Festival - with the theme of 'From the Seabed to the Sky' - started in style with a spectacular walking parade that featured the Marina Samba Band, schools and community groups as well as Lowestoft's own giant puppets Sol, Neptune and Spectrum.

Huge crowds for First Light Festival 2025. The opening parade. Picture: Mick Howes (Image:........

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