{"id":889130,"date":"2026-09-12T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889130\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:02:10","slug":"brightons-art-trail-benches-bring-people-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889130\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton&#8217;s art trail benches &#8216;bring people together&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hannah Allbrooke, head of fundraising and marketing at Amaze, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve just installed one of the sculptures [at Jubilee Library] on the story trail, there&#8217;s 74 book benches in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After the sculptures are displayed, they go off to auction to raise money for us to help support families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to us that this was an accessible and fun experience. They can go out with families and enjoy a tactile, physical sculpture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The art trail has been popular in previous years with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c974y09946xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun the Sheep and snail sculptures dotted around the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Harvey, trail director for Wild in Art, said: &#8220;We work with charities across the UK, we feel they bring people together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s so many people who bring this trail together, we have our artists but also businesses that sponsor the benches.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Allbrooke, head of fundraising and marketing at Amaze, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve just installed one of the sculptures [at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-889130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}