Member Activities

Marianne is delighted to be showing dreamy landscapes in oils, and assemblages made from found objects, in the lovely light Gallery Upstairs at the historic Fisher Theatre in Broad Street, Bungay, NR35 1EE. The show runs until Thursday 18th July.

Monday 10am-1pm

Tuesday 1pm-3pm

Thursday Friday Saturday 10am-3pm

also during performances.

Wednesday and Sunday closed.

Please ring 01986 897130 to check as Gallery is sometimes used for meetings.

www.fishertheatre.org         [email protected]

Pollock and Abstract Expressionism have long been associated with the white American male ego. In contrast, Fiona Fitzgerald will explore the work of contemporary female abstract artists such as Krasner, Nevelson and Mitchell. She will connect both the extent of their fame and their relative exclusion with the responses of their partners, gallery owners, critics and collectors. This talk happens at The Cut, Halesworth on 17th July at 10.30am and costs £8. This talk relates to the Lee Krasner Living Colour, exhibition at the Barbican Centre.

To book, visit The Cut’s website.

We consider new towns as a phenomenon of the 20th century but have been part of the social and commercial structure of British society since Roman times. New Buckenham was a latecomer to the East Anglian scene having been established by the 1st Earl Willian d’Albini as an adjunct to his new castle of Buckenham at some time between 1146 and his death in 1176. William planned his new town in a simple grid pattern on a spur of land rising a few metres above a western-flowing beck that eventually forms one of the head-waters of the River Thet. New Buckenham is well-known to historians as a planned town whose layout and scale is largely unaltered since medieval times, but few records exist before 1530. This study therefore draws on the period post 1530 concentrating on the town’s heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries. Its decline after 1780 means that much of the housing stock has been retained to the present day and the ownership of many of these homes have been reconstructed from the evidence available.

Originally published in 2000 and out of print since 2003, this revised edition is the result of painstaking research by Paul Rutledge, the former Borough Archivist for Great Yarmouth and former Deputy County Archivist for Norfolk. Un-completed on his death in 2015, it has now been finished by his widow, Elizabeth, and provides a unique insight into the working life of a post-medieval Norfolk market town.

The book will be available in July 2019.

ISBN 978 1 909796 44 7

Anticipated price £9.95

Norfolk-based artist Genevieve Rudd is leading creative workshops this summer around the county.

Saturday 13th July, 10am to 4pm
Cyanotype printing workshop
£40
Cley Contemporary Art – Cley-next-the-sea, Norfolk

Dancers, a piper, a blimp, kids’ activities, a musical show and a church service will bring to a climax Diss Museum’s airship commemoration.

This is on the weekend, in 1919, that the R34 completed its historic double airborne conquest of the Atlantic and return to Pulham.

Seven years in the making and involving air museums in Scotland, Germany, the USA, Denmark and Spitsbergen, the project has also involved local art, textile and model groups, schools and UOS students. See www.airships.me.uk

Poppyland Publishing is presently working on a re-work of “Suffolk Scene” by Julian Tennyson. Originally written in 1938 and published in June 1939, on the eve of the Second World War. Well-received, with tellingly enthusiastic reviews in the News Chronicle and many local papers, this young man’s unsentimental love of the Suffolk countryside and its people spoke to the yearning of a nation preparing for war, reminding them of everything they feared might be lost. Tennyson was just 23 years old when he wrote the book and by the time it had found popularity he had already signed up to go to war, with a fierce youthful optimism that he would survive and return to his budding literary career as poet and author. His passion for the idea of ‘England’ was his driving ideology, something he felt to be his inescapable inheritance as a great grandson of the Victorian Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was serving in the army when Suffolk Scene was reprinted in 1940, 1941, 1943 and 1944 but killed in action by the time the last two editions of the 1940s were published in 1945 and 1946. Our edition includes a 21st century commentary by Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy of Aldgate, in which she states, “Eighty years after first publication, the changes that Suffolk has witnessed reflect the transformation of rural England in the postwar twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. And yet there is a timeless quality to much of Tennyson’s Suffolk that resonates with the early 21st century.” The book is planned for October / November this year.

The Manager of Halesworth Library died in January, after a short illness and we need to find a replacement. Can you help us to find one? Take a look at the Suffolk Libraries advert for the post. Please can you tell anyone you know who might be interested, or might know people who would be interested, to take a look. This would be a lovely job for the right person.

The closing date for applications is Monday 15th July.

Sculpture Day Workshop & Boarding House Lunch

Thursday 20th June 10am – 3.30pm

Introduction to carving. Spend the day with sculptor Patrick Elder using plaster blocks to carve your own artwork. Learn about different carving tools and techniques. This hands-on workshop is suitable for all abilities.

Tea and coffee on arrival, light lunch provided.

10am arrival, 12.30 lunch, day finishes at 3.30pm

£45 per person

Also coming up…

Open Garden – Patrick Elder New Works

Saturday 13th July

Open house from 12noon-3pm, all welcome.

Complimentary glass of fizz and canapé service.

Come and spend the afternoon in our garden to view a new installation of artworks by our artist in residence Patrick Elder.

(Lunch available to order)

For bookings & info, call 01986 948306 or email [email protected]

www.boardinghousehalesworth.com

The Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft has a whole host of events coming up.

On Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 at 7pm Kessingland Primary Year 6’s present ‘Whodunnit – the mystery of the missing Kessingland mascot’. With disaster looming over the forthcoming summer holidays can anyone solve the mystery and save the day? Come along and find out. Tickets £7.

On Saturday 13 July at 7pm Stuff of Dreams present – ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Due to demand, their 2018 tour of this play has been extended to include this special performance in Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad. Bring a picnic, a blanket and enjoy this wonderful event as the sun dips over the water of the Broad. Tickets £9/£12/1£15 (groups of 3/4/5).

On Sunday 14 July at 7.30pm we open up the Seagull foyer bar for our bi-monthly platform for poets and singers to try out their own material. Newcomers and regulars are equally welcome. Contact Ian Fosten on 0779 106 8080 or [email protected] if you would like to take part. Tickets £4.

On Tuesday 16 July at 7.30 we are delighted to host ‘Easterly Edge’. This innovative performance is a collaboration between Step Up – a team of technical design students – who combine with Wendsum, a local acoustic band and DJ Smoothgroove to produce a marvellous sound and visual exploration of mythical creatures who just might pitch up on these shores. Tickets £5

On Friday 19 July at 7.30pm come along to hear and enjoy the re-formed Settlers, whose folk/pop songs – The lightening Tree and others – take us back to the 60s and 70s. They will perform their older songs together with more recently written work. A lovely, gently nostalgic evening is in store! Tickets £12/£10.

For more details of events and opportunities at the Seagull Theatre please contact the box office on 01502 589726, or visit the website www.theseagull.co.uk. Call in to pick up a copy of the new September to December 2018 brochure.

On Sunday 25th November, Black Dog Arts in Bungay restarts their new season of life drawing sessions at The Fisher Theatre with the life model Sonia.

Details for the new 2018/19 season from their organiser Malcolm Cudmore are as follows:

There will be nine life drawing sessions in the new season. The dates are:

• 25th November 2018
• 27th January 2019
• 24th February
• 31st March
• 28th April
• 26th May
• 30th June
• 29th September
• 27th October

As before, there are two ways to pay for the sessions.

1. SUBSCRIBE! For a one-off payment of just £75, you will have a guaranteed place at all 9 sessions. This offer is for fully paid up members of BDA only and is excellent value at under £8.50 per session. Subscription payments are due at the session on 25th November. BDA membership is currently £10 per year.
2. DROP IN! Attend on a session by session basis at the BDA members’ rate of £12 per session – or the non-member rate of £17 per session.
(NB. Drop-in places may be limited if the season is fully subscribed. There will be a small concession for those who are unable to stay for the full session. BDA members – £9 for half session, non members – £13 for half session).

If you have not already renewed your BDA membership subscription, it is now due. I shall have some membership forms with me on Sunday 25th November and subsequent session. I’m happy to receive your renewals and will forward the subs to the Membership Secretary.

To book your place or find out more, email: Malcolm Cudmore at [email protected]