Artists will create a large sand drawing on Skegness beach as part of the build-up to the Tour of Britain men’s cycle race.<\/p>\n
A tour poster, approximately 48m by 40m (157ft by 131ft) will be created on the seafront to celebrate the resort’s role in hosting the cycling event.<\/p>\n
The race will arrive in Lincolnshire for its opening two stages. The second stage will start in Boston on Thursday 3 September, cover 180.2km (112 miles) across the county and finish in Skegness.<\/p>\n
Steve Kirk from East Lindsey Council said the sand drawing would create “a real sense of anticipation and demonstrate the unique character of our coast”.<\/p>\n
Artists Sand in Your Eye will begin creating the poster on the afternoon of Thursday 20 August and continue into the evening.<\/p>\n
As part of the promotional event for the tour, street entertainers Yellow Bus Events will also perform in the nearby Tower Gardens between 11:00 and 16:00 BST.<\/p>\n
The council said performances would include street circus, walkaround musical acts, a motorised piano and performers from Swank Street Theatre.<\/p>\n
Kirk said Skegness was looking forward to welcoming riders, teams and spectators from across the country.<\/p>\n
Stage one of the event will start and finish in Lincoln with a 182.5km (113 miles) route north of the city on Wednesday 2 September.<\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artists will create a large sand drawing on Skegness beach as part of the build-up to the Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}