Member Activities
SHAKE Festival
The Seagull Theatre
Saturday 23rd September
A Saucerful of Floyd portrays the music of Pink Floyd in a traditional and authentic way, with four musicians representing the four members of the original band which includes an intimate but powerful light and laser show along with all the desired sound effects and amazing music, taking the audience on a journey from where it all began at The Piper at The Gates of Dawn through to where it ended at The Division Bell.
A Saucerful of Floyd performs with energy and excitement, a four piece powerhouse not to be missed.
theseagull.co.uk
Anam Cora
Alchemy of the free voice. Singing workshop for ALL voices.
Website: http://marybenefiel.com/anam-cora
Experience how the core principles of our work – listening, trusting and following – can enhance your connection to your true voice. In this workshop you will learn how to:
– “Tune in” to your inner musicality and your imagination
– Access new parts of your voice and expression
– Tap into the power of the free voice
This workshop will include movement and a variety of exercises that will get your voice, body and spirit going in harmony. All the singers of Anam Cora will be there facilitating, bringing their combined experience to share with you.
Workshops will be in Norwich
When: 2.00 – 4.30, Saturday, September 30th
Where: Martineau Hall, 21a Colegate,
Norwich NR3 1BN
Fee: £25 / Concessions (Pay What You Can) also available
Contact Mary for more information or to book your place!
(And join the mailing list to keep up to date with our events.)
Next one: Sunday, November 19th in Norwich
With appreciation to Norfolk County Council for the Arts Grant that makes these low cost workshops possible.
Halesworth Harmony
Rehearsals are at The Cut, 10.30-12.30, starting on Sunday 24th September; dates for the rest of the term are October 1st, October 22nd (10.30–4.00), November 5th and 19th, December 3rd and 10th.
Mark Burrell
Exhibition Open studios as part of the Heritage Trail in Lowestoft.
Welcome to Mark’s open studios. Come and view his art galleries and see where he makes his original paintings. Lots to see… limited editions, prints, original pieces, sketches and cards.
Opening hours: Saturday 9th September 2023 11am – 5pm.
Sunday 10th September 2023 11am – 5pm.
Saturday 16th September 2023 11am – 5pm
Children and Adults welcome.
Website: http://markburrellart.com
The Seagull Theatre
The Cut
Bruce McLean is showing sculpture, painting, prints, ceramics, films, a flag, the design and making of a school, posters, records of performance -all examples, of his extraordinary range of art activity over the last 60 years. For many years Bruce was a friend and collaborator with the artist and writer Mel Gooding who died in 2021 and this exhibition is in part a celebration of their incisive and often humorous interaction..
It is serendipitous that this exhibition acts as a prelude to The Summer Project, a 9 day residency at The Cut in 2024 promoting multiform art activity of which Bruce has been in the vanguard.
In the summer of 2013 Bruce McLean and Mel Gooding, as Knife Edge Press, presented a retrospective exhibition of their collaborative work over the previous 28 years beginning with the publication in 1985 of Dreamwork. The work was beautifully installed by Curator Sophia Yadong Hao and technician Andrew Dodds in Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. Invited to undertake a brief residency at the gallery to accompany the exhibition, McLean and Gooding, having unavoidable commitments elsewhere, proposed an Invisible Residency, in which they would be absent presences, each day of the exhibition presenting, at a distance, exchanges of text and image (the essential modus of the publications on display). These email exchanges were projected on to the wall of the stairwell approaching the gallery, day by day.
The images were sent to Mel from Bruce as provocations to thought and utterance, prompts to immediately improvised texts that might be ironic, enthusiastic, critical, philosophical, and personal. These exchanges would constitute a kind of conversation, combining image and language, without premeditation or programme, conducted in public. There emerged themes that made the notion of an ‘Invisible Residency’ peculiarly appropriate: the idea of art as both visible and invisible; the notion that meaning in art is a hidden energy, generated by thought, feeling and a multi-faceted discourse that requires no academic constraints, but which might be informal, as well as formal, personal as well as critical. The exchanges disclose aspects of a creative-critical collaborative friendship that subvert continuously the received idea of the analytic and the imaginative as oppositional. They demonstrate, rather, a necessary dialectic, by turns heuristic and hermeneutic, ironic, and comic, serious, and frivolous.
Merlina Arts
Fressingfield & District Art Club
Pop down and meet 3 members of Fressingfield & District Art club at Merlina Arts in Earsham from 10 to 4 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 7th -17th Sept.
“A Mixed Bag” of artwork from some talented local artists.
Something for everyone, with cards and affordable artwork for those looking to get early Christmas presents.
The Club members will be painting and drawing at the gallery each day. They are happy to chat to you whist demonstrating their skills.
The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
National Heritage Weekend at the Fisher Theatre
Saturday and Sunday 9 and 10 September
11 – 11.30 am and 1 – 1.30pm both days
Guided Tour of the Fisher Theatre by Susie Ratcliffe
11.30 – 12 noon and 1.30 – 2pm both days
Slide show featuring the development of Drama and Theatre in Bungay from Tudor times to the present day presented by our own Christopher Reeve.
Admission is free but booking recommended as the numbers for the guided tours are limited.
Visit the Fisher box office or website for tickets and further information: https://fishertheatre.org/FisherTheatre.dll/WhatsOn?FilmType=380126