Week 1
Tuesday 1st April – Monday 7th April
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Tuesday 1st April –
A photographic snapshot of the Waveney Region 2008
The Waveney Valley Blog’s Revels Event
Sponsors of the Waveney Revels It can be anything that is local, people, places, work, animals, wildlife etc. including a lot of the projects taking part in the Revels!
We will exhibit it live on the internet via a page on the Waveney Valley Blog indefinitely, and then do the same next year.
To be displayed as soon as the pics roll in!
Photos can be sent to [email protected] now!
Everyone who has their photo added will be entered into a draw for a digital camera!
The draw will take place on the 30th April 2008.
All we need is:
Photo (jpg format, 800 x 600 pixel maximum)
Email address or telephone number
First name (for draw purposes only)
NO NAMES will be added to the snapshots
Kiev Singers
Hungate Church – subject to visa Beccles
A rare opportunity to hear music from the Ukraine, performed by a group pf professional musicians from Kiev. Led by their tenor, Yevgen Safronchyk, the Kiev Singers are coming to the Canopy theatre in Hungate Church at 7.30pm with a programme of songs and instrumental music from their home country and beyond
The first half of the Singers’ programme features Ukrainian and European church music, followed by a group of Ukrainian and Cossack folk songs performed in national costume.
Tickets are £5 available in advance on 01502 712366
Contact: Peter Labon
Email: [email protected]
Drop In and Draw
Lowestoft Arts Centre The Triangle Lowestoft
All throughout the month of April come along to the Lowestoft Arts Centre and come in and draw.
The Cut Arts – Halesworth
Cut Dance presents every Thursday between 4.30 – 5.30pm
Dance classes offered for children with disabilities, along with family and friends.
This is at present a pilot project.
Cost: £3.50 or child or £5 per family
Contact Sophie Wood – 01986 782552 for more details
Website: www.newcut.org
The UpStAiRs Gallery
Feature Gallery Student Show – Beccles 1st – 30th April
The UpStAiRs Gallery is a large gallery that supports artists from our counties only.
Students will be exhibiting alongside the artists on the viewing floor, giving inspiration and encouragement for those who require it.
Over two floors of Arts and Crafts, 9 galleried rooms on the viewing floor, a crafts and jewellery room, glassware lobby, prints and cards room, bodycasting room and fastcast froom for babies, children and couples
Contact: 01502 717191
Website: www.theupstairsgallery.co.uk
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Wednesday 2nd April –
Hans Christian Andersons Birthday
South African Wine Tasting
Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club, Lowestoft – an impressive heritage venue
Wines presented by Stephen Richardson from Mellasat Wines (East Anglia) accompanied by Mediterranean style food by Cibo.
Contact: Elisma Allan – 01502 565609 for more details
M2 The Marina Youth Theatre
in association with Polka Dot Arts – Lowestoft
By popular demand, Polka Dot Arts will be returning with 3 of their hugely successful West End Workshop days. Each action packed day will give participants the chance to work on voice projection, singing technique and script work, whilst learning song and dance routines based on a well-known West End show! A short presentation, free for family and friends to attend, will finish a fun and rewarding day.
Places are limited and sell quickly, so book soon to avoid disappointment!
Each workshop is for children aged 8-16yrs and runs from 10am to approximately 4.30pm, with a presentation at 4pm and costs just £12 per child.
For more information and an application form, please contact the box office on 01502 533200
The Brewery Tap, Oulton Broad
2nd Annual Battle of the Bands
Sponsored by Morling Music and Lowestoft Journal
All Wednesday heats will be £2 entry and have an over16 door policy for those nights only (valid ID essential)
The Brewery Tap is tucked away discreetly in an excellent location of Oulton Broad – a music venue which also sells local brewed ales.
For more information contact website: www.brewery-tap.com
Eastern Angles Spring Tour – Cuckoo Teapot
Venue: St Edmunds Hall, Southwold
A new play by Kate Griffin Directed by Ivan Cutting For fifty years, Gone for a Burton meant the annual migration of young labourers from East Anglia to Burton -on-Trent to do the malting for the breweries. They worked hard, played hard and at Christmas always brought their mums home a teapot from The Potteries. Then one lad brought home a baby.
Contact for tickets: 01473 211498
www.easternangles.co.uk
Swan House Restaurant
New Market, Beccles
Meet Art Exhibitor Tricia Davidson
Our April exhibitor is Tricia Davidson. Tricia, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art under Robert Stewart, says of her work: “I have always been influenced by the Japanese painting and haiku with it’s links to the passing of time and seasons, but also to the work of Pollack, Rothko, Twombly and Clough. I have travelled in India and the Scilly Isles in the past and some of my paintings reflect those experiences. I paint on canvas using acrylics and sometimes add areas of drawing using monoprint techniques laid into the paintings”. The artist will be at Swan House this evening to meet and discuss her work.
Contact: 01502 713474
Website: www.swan-house.com
Norman Churches & Archaeology
Parish Church of Ilketshall St Andrew
Illustrated talk by Bob Carr – Archaeologist for Suffolk County Council
Contact: Mrs Catriona Hodge – 01986 781313
Time: 2pm
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Thursday 3rd April –
Bungay County Market
Community Centre, Upper Olland Street, 9.30 – 11am
Homemade cakes, savouries, preserves, seasonal veg & crafts
Contact: Mrs Staines – 01986 781267
Bungay Fisher Theatre Group
Pack of Lies from 3 – 6 April
This play is based on the true story of Peter and Helen Kroker who, in 1961, were arrested and convicted of spying for the Russians. The tale is told through the eyes of the Jackson family – Bob, Barbara and their teenage daughter Julie – the Krogers’ closest friends! The Jacksons receive a request from MI5 to use their home as a surveillance post, the last thing they expect when they agree is for the Krogers to be the suspects. The lives of the Jacksons are slowly shattered as Barbara finds that lying to her friends rips her apart emotionally and physically.
Start: 19.30pm
Tickets: £6 Conc: £5
Box Office: 01986 897130
Website: www.fishertheatre.org
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Friday 4th April –
Marina Theatre – Wrentham Band
Lowestoft
Wrentham Band is a village band situated some five miles south of Lowestoft, on the A12. National grading is currently Fourth Section, although the Band is rated as Class A in our local area. The Band is in great demand in and around Suffolk, and keeps very busy throughout the year. It is recognised as a fine concert band, and is now beginning to make its presence felt on the contesting scene.
Start: 7.30pm
Tickets: Adults £7.50 conc: £6.00 Children £5
Box Office: 01502 573318 or 01502 538179
Contact : Band Secretary – John Woodcock – 01502 741183
The Brewery Tap, Oulton Broad
Music presented by Sibbo and the Chaps
The Brewery Tap is tucked away discreetly in an excellent location of Oulton Broad – a music venue which also sells local brewed ales.
Cost: £4
For more information contact website: www.brewery-tap.com
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Saturday 5th April –
Guided ‘War Walk’ – Lowestoft
Afternoon guided ‘war walk’ leaving War Memorial Museum at Sparrow’s Nest at 3pm.
This guided war walk includes visiting some of the sites of north Lowestoft’s areas worst affected by naval and aerial bombardment during both world war one and world war two, at the same time you can learn more about other aspects of Lowestoft’s wartime history.
The path taken will be suitable for those with buggies and mobility cars. Dogs on leads welcome.
Cost: £2.00 per adult
All children must be accompanied: over 12 years £1.00 – under 12 years free.
All proceeds to Lowestoft War Memorial Museum
Black Dog Art Trail
Bungay
This April Waveney will hold its first ever district wide festival – for local people and tourists. The festival, the Waveney Revels is the brainchild of Waveney District Council’s Arts & Heritage Service Manager, Andrew Kitchen.
Thanks to Suffolk County Council’s financial support, April will also see the first “Black Dog Art Trail”, put on by Bungay’s new art group, Black Dog Arts.
The trail will feature original artworks of Bungay people as they go about their everyday business. Bungay people shopping in Bungay shops, enjoying a pint in a Bungay pub, or a cuppa in a café. Bungay people in the post office or changing a book in Bungay library.
Forty artworks will be created by ten local artists from “Black Dog Arts”, who will produce their pictures with the help of the trail’s Artistic Director, internationally acclaimed artist Bruer Tidman.
The Black Dog Artists will spend some of their March mornings, afternoons or evenings sitting at their easels or sketchbooks in one or other of Bungay’s shops, pubs, cafes or other buildings, sketching the interiors and the building’s staff and users. They may also take photos to use when they develop their drawings.
They will then work up their sketches into finished artworks for exhibition from Saturday 5th to Saturday 26th April (inclusive) in the places that inspired them.
The Black Dog Art Trail will involve twenty shops and other business premises and community buildings in the town. These twenty places will become the “galleries” for the forty original pictures.
Local people and visitors will be able to see these unique artworks in shop windows or inside hanging on the walls of shops and other everyday Bungay places.
A map of the trail will be produced showing where each of the artworks is. A quiz will also be created to encourage local people and visitors to find each of the pictures and answer questions. The correct quiz entries will be entered in a prize draw and a local celebrity will pick the winning ticket on Monday 28 April.
For more information on the trail contact Jan Dungey on 01986 895227 or email [email protected]
Old Lowestoft Slide show
Presented by John Holmes
Marina Theatre – The Orchestra
Lowestoft
A symphonic rock band with a pedigree that stretches back over many years, with roots reaching to the 70’s and 80’s with Electric Light Orchestra, the 90’s with ELO Part II and from 2001 to the present as The Orchestra, heralding a continuing era of unparalleled symphonic rock! Featuring former members of ELO and Electric Light Orchestra part 2.
Tickets: £30
Starts: 7.30pm
Box Office: 01502 573318 or 01502 538179
Website: www.marinatheatre.co.uk
The Brewery Tap, Oulton Broad
Music presented by Heartbreaker
(Paul Rogers and Free tribute)
Cost: £4
For more information contact www.heartbreakerpaulrodgerstribute.co.uk
The Brewery Tap is tucked away discreetly in an excellent location of Oulton Broad – a music venue which also sells local brewed ales.
For more information contact website: www.brewery-tap.com
The Cut – Halesworth
Cibelle
Cibelle (pronounced “See-bell-ee”) is one of the most seductively original artists to emerge from the Brazilian scene. Singer, composer, poet, video artist… Cibelle is chameleon-like in her ability to change her music’s subtle directions as well as her appearance.
Her sound can be described as enigmatic and utterly Brazilian yet, in the same breath, it can then be said that nobody else sounds quite like her. Cibelle’s combination of the bossa-nova sound with a more experimental approach to making music has opened up seemingly limitless possibilities.
Start: 19.30pm
Tickets: £12 Conc: £10
Contact: 01986 873285 Box Office: 0845 6732123
Website: www.newcut.org
The Works Art School
21a Blyburgate, Beccles The Pleasure of Painting
Why not learn to draw and paint, or improve what you know you can do in the same way. There are artists with teaching experience and the willingness to help you.
Tutor: Henry Hay Hunter
Time: 10.00 – 16.00
Cost: £45
Contact: 01502 710310
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Sunday 6th April –
Daffodil Day
Bungay Black Dog Marathon & Half Marathon
This year will be the 26th Bungay Marathon and Half Marathon. Our first events was in 1982, the year after the first London Marathon, and has been held every year except 1996 and now a Bungay heritage fixture. We are now one of the few remaining Marathons in East Anglia and the race attracts runners from all over the country and from abroad.
The Clubhouse will be open for changing, showers, bar, tea, coffee, cake etc. Outside John groom will hot food, Parravanis will provide ice cream and their will be a massage service to ease aching muscles.
The Fun Run which starts at 10.40, keeps to the perimeter of the sports ground so it is entirely safe for children.
Every finisher in each race will receive a memento and there are prizes for category winners.
For further information visit the website or if you are interested in running then there is the Bungay Black dog
Running club website – www.bungay-marathon.co.uk
or
www.bungayblackdogrunningclub.co.uk
Geldeston Locks Inn – Beccles
Sunday 2.30 pm – Music from TOSH
Playing folk, original material, and great acoustic songs from one of the best pub entertainers on the East Coast at one of the Broads most historic pubs, the unique location and the variety of means by which you can access this pub eg canoe, Bid Dog Ferry, public footpaths, cycle and of course by car.
Full details on website – www.geldestonlocks.co.uk
The Swan House Restaurant
New Market, Beccles
Canadian Rick Sheppard and David Sheppard, play American roots music together with Rick’s own compositions. “…a gloriously honeyed sound”. Alan Tabelin, The Lowestoft Journal.
Contact: 01502 713474
Website: www.swan-house.com
The Cut – Halesworth
Young-Choon Park
Recital by young South Korean born pianist began the study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when she was seven. She played the Beethoven Piano concerto No 1. with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. She studied at the Juilliard School in New York and later gained the highest masters degree at the Hochschule in Munich.
Since 1993 she has toured extensively, giving over 50 concerts each year in Europe, Scandinavia and the United States.
Start: 19.30pm
Contact: 01986 873285 Box Office: 0845 6732123
Website: www.newcut.org
Milestones Jazz Club
Hotel Hatfield, Lowestoft
The return of the distinctive electric/acoustic guitarist and composer whose unflashy style draws on contemporary jazz, folk and world musics and the influences of Ralph Towner and Bill Frisell to create a haunting and optimistic fusion. Featuring a revamped Soundial line-up of long-time collaborators Ian East (saxes/flute), David Beebee (bass) and Tim Giles (drums).
Admission – £7 / £6 (concession)
Visit website: www.patricknaylor.com
Milestones is resident at Hotel Hatfield, Esplanade, Lowestoft and opens its doors at 8pm on the first Sunday of every month with an admission price of £7 or £6 concessions – no club membership necessary. For enquiries, information on how to find us or to join visit website: www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk
The Ramblers Assoc
Waveney & District Group – Southwold
Southwold Walk
Meet at water tower on Southwold common 10.30am – 6 miles
Leaders: Kathy & Lionel Hardy 01502 716253
Bungay Fisher Theatre
Maulkin: Causley
As the long-anticipated collaboration Mawkin: Causley prepare for their autumn tour, a frisson of excitement is whipping throughout the British folk scene. It seems that all over England, audiences are clamouring for the cleverly textured tunes and energetic performances that Mawkin: Causley so cheerily deliver.
Start: 19.30pm
Tickets: £12. Conc: £10
Box Office: 01986 897130
Website: www.fishertheatre.org
Do something different
Go somewhere new
– Monday 7th April –
Step into a high street gallery
They’re just commercial picture shops!
No obligation to buy – judge the creative talent on show for yourself.