Food & a Play
Seasons Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn
The Cut, Halesworth, Friday, 8th December, 2023.
Food Served From 6pm, performance 7.30pm.
A pre-Christmas treat!
Waveney & Blyth Arts are supporting this staged reading of Seasons Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn at The Cut in Halesworth. Discounts for members – a bargain night out!
“It’s a play about love and how unfair it is. And success and failure. And jealousy and self-deception. And greed and envy and lust and gluttony. Just an average family Christmas” (Alan Ayckbourn).
Delicious festive food served beforehand and the bar will stay open afterwards.
Ticket prices:
£8 (reading only)
£23 for food and reading. (£6 and £21 for W&BA members).
Please pre-order food by Friday 1st December. See website for menu. www.thecut.org.uk, 0330 303 3211
Sandlings Sculpture Garden –
FREE entry!
Waveney and Blyth Arts has been curating sculpture trails for about ten years, and we have seen the idea spread around Suffolk and Norfolk. This year we are trying something different and simpler – and free for visitors – a sculpture garden. This is thanks to the generosity of Potton Hall, our sculpture trail partners over the past few years.Potton Hall is a splendid venue for showcasing creative talent: its grounds provide an easily accessible yet remote space for showing and selling artistic and craft works designed for outdoor display. It’s open from 10am to 4pm, has good car parking, an African-themed Yurt Café, formal gardens and a glorious wildflower meadow, all within a rather hidden valley edged by forest and heathland – classic Sandlings scenery. And perfect for a sculpture garden. Between Blythburgh village and Westleton, IP173EF.The Sandlings Sculpture Garden will be open for the foreseeable future.
An introduction to Waveney & Blyth Arts from our trustees.
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Funding
Waveney & Blyth Arts has been involved with artists, organisations and venues – through its membership and its events – for over 12 years. We’re now planning to put a bit of our money where our mouth is, and develop our involvement with the arts community in these valleys.
We have already chipped in £500 to an exciting project, Procession, being organised by the Norwich-based Voice Project. We have a close connection: the choir has members in our area and you may remember our collaboration, Translated by Reeds performed in Diss, Halesworth and Great Yarmouth in 2013 and the performance of Distance Between Us in Blythburgh church last summer.
Procession is an ambitious series of events inspired by WG Sebald’s celebrated journey through Suffolk for his book, The Rings of Saturn. Starting this year and running for three years, there will be community workshops as well as the development of choral music. Read more about it here.
On a more modest level, we are planning to fund one or two projects in our own patch where £150 would make something happen that otherwise wouldn’t. It could be for an individual member or a small organisation. It’s as open as that: applications to info@waveneyandblytharts.com. And if we can’t help financially, we may be able to help in other ways, so do get in touch.