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Helen Durant Bookbinding

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Bookbinding Courses for beginners and those with some experience.
Half and full day workshops available in small, supportive groups.
Learn basic bookbinding skills and take home an beautiful handmade book.
Saturday 12th October – beginners day workshop.
October 26th and November 9th – half day workshop making a cross structure binding.
For full details and to book please see website.
www.wenhastonbindery.co.uk

Easterly Artists

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Easterly Artists Pop-up exhibition
For 2024, we’re taking over the old “Bet Fred” building in the Triangle section of Lowestoft’s historic High Street and transforming it into an exciting contemporary art gallery. This year, our chosen theme is Connections, to tie in with the Heritage Open Days programme Routes, Networks & Connections.
Connections opens on Friday 6 September and runs till Sunday 15th, so there’s plenty of time to see what’s on show. We’re open every day 10am – 5pm, entry is free and there’s wheelchair access throughout. Look out for the Easterly Artists banners by the entrance.
easterly.org.uk

Ballroom Arts

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Chris Newson & John Ashworth, Summer Show

Wednesday 28th August – Tuesday 3rd September 2024

Courtyard and Ballroom Galleries, BallroomArts, 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AQ 

Maggi Hambling opening show, 6:30pm Saturday 31st August, all welcome.

@chrisnewsonart

ballroomarts.org

Fressingfield Sounds

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The Marmen Quartet

Fressingfield Sounds are delighted to announce their inaugural concert, on Saturday 14 September, 7.30pm at Fressingfield Parish Church. The Marmen Quartet, an award-winning, internationally renowned group, will perform popular Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven string quartets.

With the courage, vitality and intensity of its performances, the Marmen Quartet is fast establishing itself as one of the most impressive and engaging talents in chamber music, demonstrated by recent first prizes at the prestigious Bordeaux and Banff International String Quartet Competitions.

Tickets £22. For 25 years and under, just £5. Find out more, visit the website www.fressingfieldsounds.org.uk or phone 07900 350117 for offline bookings.

For more information about The Marmen Quartet, visit www.marmenquartet.com

Holton Lodge Barn

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Still a few days left to catch the Late Summer Exhibition at Holton Lodge Barn.
A fabulous selection of paintings, prints, ceramics, sculpture and furniture will be displayed in our beautiful threshing barn. Something to delight all the senses!

Leiston Book Festival

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Leiston’s first book festival takes place on Saturday 7th September at the town’s Edwardian Film Theatre. The day will see six non-fiction authors on stage, each with a book that explores our evolving landscape and environment.

The festival has the support of Leiston Town Council, who are covering venue costs, and Sizewell Creative who have funded the website and are helping market the event. ‘We wanted to be different from other local book festivals,’ Robert Ashton explained, ‘and want people to stay for the whole day, so that they can be part of a conversation that will develop as the programme unfolds.’

Tickets for Leiston’s first book festival which runs from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 7th September cost just £30 for adults, £25 for over 65s, and £10 for those under 18. Further details and book via the website www.leistonbookfestival.co.uk

HARLESTON PLAYERS

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DAD’S ARMY CASTING
Due to a cast member having to withdraw from the production we are now looking to recast the role of Private Walker.
This is a wonderful comic role in this much loved British Comedy. We are looking for an actor, playing age 25-45 to take part in our October 2024 production. Joe Walker is one of the ‘younger’ members of the platoon.
He describes himself as a wholesale supplier, but he is actually a black market spiv who sees the war as a chance to make quite a bit of cash for himself, selling supplies that are hard to get in the shops like whisky, tea, chocolate, knicker elastic…
Although he is technically a criminal, he is kind-hearted and helps the platoon in any way he can. By far the most street-wise, sharp and quick-witted of the bunch, his craftiness gets Mainwaring – and indeed, the whole platoon – out of more than a few sticky situations.
Rehearsals are Mondays and Thursdays evenings in Harleston running through August to the production dates at the end of October 2024. If you would like to be involved in this entertaining production email the director Sara Curtis at curtissara155@gmail.com or phone on 07899740166.

The Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft

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The Starling Hotline
Sunday 22nd September

A solo, storytelling play – with music
Written and performed by Jess Morgan

37 year old, self-made, single-Mum Mickey returns to her childhood home on the East Coast of England to sort through the possessions of her own deceased mother, reluctant to pick over the years of estrangement and neglect that characterised her own adolescence.

Instead, Mickey stumbles in on an obsessively compiled archive of voice recordings, documenting the movements of local murmurations of Starlings and the plight of the UKs fastest declining birds – kept over twenty-six years, and logged on more than a thousand non-recyclable C90 cassette tapes.

The show is about climate, community, and citizen science in a pre-internet age.

theseagull.co.uk

St George’s Theatre, Great Yarmouth

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PURE FLOYD
Sat 24 Aug

Pure Floyd – Sound of Thunder Tour 2024
A stunning 13 piece production pay tribute to the pinnacle of Pink Floyd’s live performances with a show reminiscent of the unforgettable Pulse and Delicate Sound of Thunder tours.

After celebrating Dark Side of The Moon in 2023, Pure Floyd are excited to perform the anthemic hits from The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of Reason (renowned for their incredible guitar solos and arrangements).

This breathtaking concert will also include the familiar circular screen, lasers and lighting show that secured Pink Floyd as the greatest show on earth. It will certainly be a night to remember and one that features some truly classic hits from this legendary band.

stgeorgestheatre.com

Butley Mills Studios

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‘Under The Surface’ – a group show by artists associated with The Gallery, Butley Mills Studio (Mill Lane, Butley, IP12 3PZ) from 22 August to 4 Sepember.

Artists include John Barker, Claire Bird, Dide, Laurence Edwards, Tobias Ford, Emma Green, Kate Hobby, Vicky Hussain, Jim Racine, Meryem Siemmond, Chris Summerfield and Deborah Thompson

Open from 11am to 4pm on weekends and bank holiday Monday. Also week days by appointment – thebmsgallery@gmail.com.

Also walk to ‘A Thousand Tides’ at the water’s edge with Laurence Edwards on 31 August at 5pm – this is a free event but booking is recommended.

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