Waveney & Blyth Arts

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walk write dance look eat create Scarfe THE RAVENINGHAM Charitable CENTRE BOOKING FOR Foundation ALL EVENTS Welcome to another exciting programme of We have a centralised events that shine a light on the unique character booking system which and creativity of the Norfolk/Suffolk border. covers all events (unless Thanks must go to Arts Council England and the National Lottery for supporting this year’s Sensing stated otherwise) so that Nature project and to the Scarfe Charitable you can book for as many Foundation. We are also very grateful for the input as you wish. of our partners Norfolk & Norwich Association for the Blind, the Raveningham Centre, the Ferini Art To book tickets or Gallery and Suffolk Poetry Society. request more information Details of all these events and more information about Waveney & Blyth Arts appear on our about an event please redesigned and screen-reader-friendly website – email bookings@ www.waveneyandblytharts.com waveneyandblytharts.com with your requirements or queries, or call 07415 168806 and request a call back. Nicky Stainton Chair of W&BA Payment methods and other

Cover image - Mirror Cube by Brian Korteling. Photo Andrew Atterwill information will be sent to you within five days. WHY NOT JOIN US? NB Children and young If you like what you see here why not become a people under 18 have free member? access to most of our events All our activities are open to everyone but you can save money on events by joining, while, at the same (except Family Fun Day), time, supporting this volunteer-run organisation and but please check when becoming part of an active arts community. booking places. See page 14 for details 2 Thornham Walks SENSING NATURE Exploring sound in nature SOUND TRAIL Over three months singers and instrumentalists from Norfolk and Suffolk have created an Friday 30 June 5pm original music score inspired by the calls Saturday 1 July 12pm, 2.30pm, 4.30pm of birds, insects and wildlife found on the Venue: Thornham Woods, Hall Lane, wonderful mixed woodland site. They have Thornham Magna, Eye, Suffolk IP23 8BX been led by highly-acclaimed composer/ musicians Jackie Walduck and Tickets: Adults £9 Adrian Lee and will be joined W&BA Members £8 by other members of their Visually impaired people £7 London-based ensemble of Sighted guides & under 18s free Jackie Walduck sighted and visually impaired professional musicians, Tactile. How does your sense of place change when you can hear, but not see, your surroundings? Tactile is : How do blind and visually impaired musicians Jackie Walduck - vibraphone interpret the sounds of insects, birds, bats and Adrian Lee - guitar Adrian Lee other animals? What sonic magic can musicians Matthew Wadsworth - lute and theorbo weave in a beautiful woodland setting? James Risdon - recorders Tom Jackson - clarinet and saxophone Come and find out by sensing nature through your Ben Markland - double bass ears on a unique musical journey performed live by local musicians and Tactile, a ground-breaking The project has been developed with Norfolk & ensemble of world class musicians. Audiences will Norwich Association for the Blind. be led along wheelchair-friendly paths to listen to newly-composed music mingling with real sounds “This is a fantastic, innovative project, and I am so excited that of nature. Sighted audience members may wear everyone will now have the opportunity to participate and blindfolds, if desired. experience nature in new ways.” Tom Shakespeare, commentator, Each performance lasts approx 50 minutes. broadcaster and campaigner and Sensing Nature Patron Places are limited so booking and payment in advance are essential. Parking, access and other information supplied on booking. To find out more or buy tickets email Katie at bookings@ waveneyandblytharts.com or call 07415 168806. 3 Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail @ Raveningham

Friday 18 August – Sunday 17 work, 3-D constructions and sculpture by September more than 40 Norfolk and Suffolk artists. It Ravenous Café Open every day 10am – 5pm is curated by Sarah Cannell. The café will be open from 10am to 5pm every Venue: The Raveningham Centre, Beccles An audio-guide is available on payment day for drinks, light lunches, teas, cakes, and Road, Raveningham, Norfolk NR14 6NU of a returnable deposit. other home-made refreshments. Entry £5 Parking: plentiful free parking and ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES ON SITE (£4 members of Waveney & Blyth Arts), designated disabled parking. under 18s free. Pay on entry only. Toilets: including a wheelchair accessible Tobias Ford toilet and nappy changing facilities. This year the hugely-popular Sculpture Trail takes up residence in the fascinating new setting of the Raveningham Centre. Three acres of lawns, shrubberies and orchard are set around Tudor buildings which house a range of intriguing artisan businesses and a café. The Trail, which drew over 3,000 visitors last year to its previous site at Earsham, features site- Clare Hamburger

All Photos Andrew Atterwill speciﬁc Curator’s Guided Walk Monday 21 August 10am – 12pm Cost £10/£8 W&BA members (includes entry) Come for a greater insight into the works on display and the artists who have contributed to our trail, in the company of this year’s curator Sarah Cannell. Vanessa Pooley

4 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 Curator’s Guided Walk Herb Walks Harleston & + BSL Interpreter Saturday 26 August & 9 September Waveney Art Trail Cost £10/£8 W&BA member Monday 21 August 1.30 pm – 3.30pm (includes entry and cup of tea) Collective Cost: £10/£8 W&BA (includes entry fee) Friday 18 August – Sunday 17 September As above, for British Sign Language Open every day 10am – 5pm speakers, in conjunction with Deaf Venue The Ravenous Café, Raveningham Centre, Connexions Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk NR14 6NU Entry Free

Family Fun Day Mary Spicer Wednesday 23 August 12pm – 4.30pm Cost Adult entry (£5/£4) + £4 per child Drop-in children’s outdoor art workshops, including make your own charcoal, wild drawing, sculpting with clay, crochet Nathalie Chidley is a qualiﬁed and weaving. All children must be herbalist who lives and practises accompanied by a parent or carer. in Beccles. She will lead two walks No booking required – pay on the day. around the Sculpture Trail introducing and explaining the uses of all the medicinal In the Ravenous Café Harleston & plants around the site. Waveney Art Trail Collective will exhibit www.starcraftandleechdom.co.uk new paintings, textiles, prints and 3-D Tickets contact Nathalie on 07961 461359 work inspired by the light, colour and forms of the Waveney Valley. See also: All the artists live and work around Harleston Sarah Cannell Landscape Painting - page 9 and Bungay. All artwork on display, as well as Photogaphy on the Sculpture Trail - page 10 Discovering the Sculpture Trail through Line cards, prints and unframed items, will be for and Movement - page 10 sale. See www.hwat.org.uk

BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 5 Walks Here But Out Of Sight

Adrian Bell’s Redisham – Within Our Midst – Shifting Sands & Fine Writing from Wartime Farms Lowestoft’s Hidden Art Finds – Covehithe Sunday 9 July 2pm – 5pm History Saturday 22 July 12.30pm – 4pm Cost £6/£5 W&BA members + £4.50 per Friday 21 July 1pm – 4pm Cost £6/£5 W&BA members person entrance fee to Redisham Hall Cost £6/£5 W&BA members

To coincide with This linear town walk A leisurely ‘there and back’ Redisham Hall Open reveals the overlooked walk, at low tide, along the Gardens Chris Reeve and street art that Lowestoft rapidly eroding coast at Ivan Crane will guide walkers from the Hall to visitors and residents take for granted. It Covehithe with local beachcomber Simon Suffolk’s smallest church. We will hear tales of delves into lost artistic businesses, such as Raven. Bring a bag to collect evidence of past writer and countryman Adrian Bell, and Land East Anglia’s only porcelain factory and the still wrecks, fossils, flints, amber and sea-glass, as Army veteran Angela Ottaway reading her own thriving artists’ brush factory. We’ll learn more well as sea-washed tree roots, old defences poems and those by other Land girls, some of about the town’s theatrical heritage and visit and more recent man-made detritus. Simon whom were based on Bell’s farm. There will be artist Mark Burrell’s studio to view his dream- will bring examples of past finds including stories of conscientious objectors who worked like paintings of the town’s now lost beach village. photos of boat-wrecks, fossilised bark and amber. the land. Learn how the Bloomsbury Set Meet at: Suffolk Records Office, upstairs in We’ll display our discoveries and may create a connects them all. In association with Suffolk Lowestoft Central Library, Clapham Road sculptural piece to leave for others to find. Poetry Society. South, Lowestoft NR32 1DR Meet at: St Andrew’s Church, Covehithe NR34 Meet at: Redisham Hall Open Day car park, Short town walk. Allow 3-4 hours duration 7JJ. Parking along the side of the road before Nr Beccles, NR34 8LZ when paying for car parks. Tea and cake at a reaching the church. Distance 5 miles (approx). Tea and cake for vintage tea room in the historic High Street Bring your own picnic lunch (no refreshments sale at the Hall at the end. included in price. available) and swimwear if so inclined.

6 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 Walks Here But Out Of Sight Walks

Stories of the Otter Follow the Rails – Women War – Observing the Invisible Blythburgh to Southwold Photographers Saturday 29 July 10.30am – 12.30pm Tuesday 1 August 2pm – 4.30 pm + return bus Sunday 20 August 2.30 – 4.30pm Cost £6/£5 W&BA members journey on the Anglia 88a Cost £6/£5 Cost £6/£5 W&BA members W&BA members (under 12s free) + bus fare

Otters are elusive creatures and Rediscover what remains of Not so much a walk as rarely seen. On this walk citizen the famous Southwold Railway a listen and look around scientist, local resident and narrow gauge line in the company this fascinating treasure trove of military artist Meg Amsden will guide us along the sea of a local expert. Is it true the train was so and personal artefacts, stories and mementos wall to the John Minihane hide. Stopping at slow you could gather flowers while it was still connected to the 8th US Army Air Force. Hear places where otters may have left their tracks moving? Where was Blythburgh Station? How about two extraordinary women photo-journalists and traces, we will immerse ourselves in otter were building challenges overcome? What - Margaret Bourke-White, America’s first accredited remains of Walberswick Station? What is the country. Writer Melinda Appleby will read woman war photographer, and Lee Miller, who China connection? And what about the railway’s otter poems and Meg will tell otter stories, documented activities on the home front and for future preservation? All will be revealed and talk otter science, and ask for stories from the the American Army in Europe. Look around the participants. we’ll hear original anecdotes and poems from local poets (courtesy of the Suffolk Poetry collection and share reflections at the end. Keen 2 – 2 ½ hours with lots of stops. Society) in celebration of the railway. cyclists can meet in Budgens’ car park, Harleston at Meet at: Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Hen Reedbeds 2pm and cycle the 5 miles to Thorpe Abbotts, as so Meet at: Holy Trinity Church car park, Reserve car park, off A1095 Halesworth Road, many servicemen did when cars were rare. Blythburgh IP19 9LP Southwold, IP18 6SH Distance 3.5 miles (approx). Meet at: 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Distance 3 miles (approx) No refreshments but cafés in Southwold at the end of the walk. Common Road, Thorpe Abbotts, Dickleburgh IP21 4PH Refreshments available in the café. BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 7 Walks Here But Out Of Sight

Going Green – Connecting Hidden Worlds Writing on the Wall: to Nature at Ringsﬁeld Hall Sketchbook Walk Westhall’s Medieval Grafﬁti Sunday 3 September 2pm – 5pm Thursday 7 September 10am – 2pm Saturday 16 September 2pm – 5pm Cost £6/£5 W&BA members Cost £6/£5 W&BA members Cost £6/£5 W&BA members

We start our walk at Ringsfield Sketchbooks in hand we will This circular walk follows Church and continue along a walk through the fantastically footpaths through the fields track through farmed countryside varied habitats of Walberswick around Westhall exploring the land to Ringsfield Hall Eco Activity Centre. Here we Nature Reserve. Moving from the boardwalk use, both past and present. After two miles re-awaken our senses on a meandering earth through woodland and into the reed beds we reach the isolated location of St Andrew’s walk experience - meet a tree using all your this walk, led by artist Kasia Posen, will give Church where we will discover the lost voices senses; use a special mirror to create an eye you the opportunity to be absorbed into of ordinary villagers scratched into the pale in the sky and navigate your way through the the mysterious worlds under upturned trees, stone of walls and columns of the church. magical grounds. You can make a cyanotype in pools of water, and through the curious Medieval graffiti expert Pat May will help (sun picture) using light sensitive paper corridors of the reed beds. Paper, drawing reveal these marks and explain their history and and then enjoy foraged teas and delicious boards and drawing tools will be provided. meaning. With refreshments available, we will homemade cake around an outdoor fire. Please bring a packed lunch, a keen eye and have time to discover other secrets of the church. your imagination. Meet at: Ringsfield church car park, opposite Meet at: Westhall Village Hall IP19 8RG church. NR34 8JZ. Meet at: Hinton Five Cross Ways Car Park (on (IP19 8NU St Andrews Church). the B1125 between Blythburgh and Westleton) Distance 2.5 miles (approx). This walk Distance 4 miles (approx) involves active participation – suitable for IP19 9FN. families/children. Tea and cake included. Distance 4 miles (approx). No refreshments. 8 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 Creative Workshops Walks Unearthed – Writing the Labyrinth Landscape Painting Workshop Writing from the Soil Wednesday 19 July 10.30am – 3.30pm with Sarah Cannell Cost £15/£12 W&BA/SPS members Thursday 24 August 10am – 4pm Wednesday 5 July 10.30am – 3.30pm Cost £60/£55 W&BA members, includes art Cost £15/£12 W&BA members materials and entry fee to Sculpture Trail

Walking the Labyrinth is a An opportunity to enjoy This workshop, led by landscape meditation. There are no tricks or the Waveney Valley writer Melinda Appleby, will dead ends; there is only one way Sculpture Trail and its consider how poetry and prose can in and one way out. The aim of the workshop is unique setting in this one-day workshop with reﬂect the unearthing of nature and history and to inspire reﬂective poetry about the experience acclaimed artist Sarah Cannell. Free up your encourage you to try writing on this theme. of the natural world or the symbolism of the drawing skills and learn how to capture the Following readings over coffee we will walk journey inwards and outwards. Join poet Beth essence of place through line and bold colour. across the Thornham estate to search for Soule to learn about and walk the labyrinth in the Suitable for all levels of experience. For further evidence of soil burrowers – moles, rabbits, morning. After a few warm-up writing exercises, information contact [email protected] mining bees, earthworms – and then return for we will spend the afternoon recording the Venue: Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail, lunch and a short writing session. experience and crafting the beginnings of poetry. Raveningham Centre, Raveningham, Norfolk Venue: Thornham Walks, Thornham Estate, With Suffolk Poetry Society. NR14 6NU. Gislingham Road, Thornham Magna, near Eye Venue: Thornham Walks classroom. Meet at Tea and coffee included, but bring your own IP23 8HH. Thornham Walks car park, Gislingham Road, lunch. Teas and Coffees included. An optional booked Thornham Magna, near Eye IP23 8HH. sandwich lunch. Teas and coffees included. Lunches available in Forge café or bring your own.

Photography on Discovering the The Poetry of Crows the Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail through Wednesday 6 September 10am – 3.00pm Cost £15/£12 W&BA/SPS members Sculpture Trail Line and Movement Tuesday 29 August 10am – 3.30pm Wednesday 30 August 10am – 1pm Cost £15/£12 W&BA members, includes entry fee Cost £12/£10 W&BA members, includes entry fee

Spend an inspiring day with Mel Horwood and Mary Anne Woolf Members of the crow family like-minded photographers at will lead a workshop that combines appear in the mythology of the Sculpture Trail where there will drawing and movement. Mel has a countless communities across the world, be a chance to view the sculptures before background in community and contemporary representing everything from death to creation. photographing your favourites. Professional dance and film-making, and Mary Anne comes Led by Beth Soule this workshop will explore photographer Lucy Kayne will be on hand to from a visual arts background. The aim of the both the natural history of the birds and the offer guidance and technical advice. workshop is to enjoy the site at Raveningham myths surrounding them and we will spend in a unique way, guided by artists from different The afternoon will be spent viewing and editing some time enjoying the exhibition, A Murder of art forms but with a common interest in creative Crows. We will share some of the poetry already your work, followed by an informal group responses to landscape. Suitable for anyone review session. Please bring your camera, a written about the birds and then, after a few (adults and children 12 years+) regardless of warm-up writing exercises, we will create our laptop and suitable outdoor clothing. previous training or experience as it will start with own poems or flash fiction on the subject. With Venue: Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail at The the basics of movement in space and on paper. Suffolk Poetry Society. Venue: Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail at The Raveningham Centre, Raveningham NR14 6NU. Venue: Ferini Art Gallery, 27 All Saints’ Rd, Raveningham Centre, Raveningham NR14 6NU. Lunches and drinks available from the Ravenous Pakefield, Lowestoft NR33 0JL. Café or bring your own. Lunches and drinks available from the Ravenous Café or bring your own. Teas and coffees included. Bring your own lunch. 10 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 EXHIBITIONSWalks

Discovering Micro Inspired By Becker A Murder Of Crows Worlds through the Lens Exhibition Friday 1 September Fri 4 August – Sun 6 August – Sunday 24 September Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September Open: 11am – 4pm 10.30am – 4.30pm 10am – 5pm Friday & Saturday 10am – 4pm Sunday Friday, Saturday, Sunday only Cost Cost £60/£50 W&BA members Entry Free (donations welcome) Entry Free

Discover hidden worlds when Over 130 works of exciting, Waveney & Blyth Arts is very you zoom down through the contemporary fine art by pleased to link with the Ferini close-up capability of your lens members of Inspired By Becker Art Gallery to present an revealing tiny details and miniature landscapes. Art Society (IBBAS) and other East Anglian exhibition of paintings, prints and sculptures Photographer Jeremy Webb will demonstrate artists will be on show in the church. on the theme of crows and other corvids. how to make the most of the close-up or There is also a Paint Out Competition on Artists include members of W&BA and other macro setting on your digital camera. Further Saturday 5 August. EA artists including Mark Ward, Ruth Wharrier, info from [email protected] Bring a In addition IBBAS has joined up Kate Batchelor, Paul Lacey, Lucy Beevor, Sally digital camera with macro or close-up setting with The Suffolk Punch Trust to offer James, Hatty Leith, and Chris Mound. and cable connections for downloading via a children and adults an experience USB port or card reader. Venue: Ferini Art Gallery, 27-29 All Saints’ Rd, of painting ‘en plein air’, sketching Pakefield, Lowestoft NR33 0JL. Venue: The Cut Arts Centre, New Cut, the Suffolk Punch horse in ploughing finery, in Halesworth IP19 8BY. May and June. Details www.ibbas.co.uk Lunches available at the Café (Saturday only) Venue: St Peter’s Church, Wenhaston IP19 9EG. or bring your own lunch. Coffee/teas available. Tea, coffee and home-made cakes available.

Disscover Diss Delights A Chatter of Crows The Poetry of Crows Wednesday 17 May 12.30 – 2.30pm Wednesday 20 September 12.30 – 2.30pm Cost £12 /£10 W&BA members Cost £12/£10 W&BA members Writing Competition Open until 12 September 2017 Cost: £3 per entry or £5 for two

Inspired by our Murder of Crows exhibition we invite submissions of written Come for a sociable We have crows on work on the theme of the light lunch and discover the brain this year crow, whether rook or what the new look Diss so where better for magpie, fable or truth. Corn Hall arts and heritage centre has to offer another lunchtime gathering than the Ferini Entries should be poems following its refurbishment as part of the town’s Art Gallery, venue for our Murder of Crows of no more than 30 lines £3.2 million Heritage Triangle project. exhibition. View the exhibition, share a or flash fiction of no more Speakers will provide the background to the delicious lunch, find out all manner of facts than 100 words. project, the history of the building and the and fictions that you never knew about The top three short-listed Heritage Triangle. Plus a tour of the building corvids and hear the short-listed entries in entries will be read at the and new gallery. our Poetry of Crows writing competition. Cast your (secret) vote for the overall winner Arts & Eats lunch on 20 Fredrick’s Fine Foods will provide coq au vin, who will be announced before the end and September at the Ferini Art butternut squash and chickpea tagine or pea presented with their prize. A light lunch Gallery when the winner will and mint soup all served with sourdough or included in the price – details on booking. be chosen by secret vote and ciabatta roll, followed by walnut & chocolate Special dietary needs catered for. presented with their prize – a brownie or carrot & pineapple cake. Special crow themed artwork. dietary needs catered for. Venue: Ferini Art Gallery, 27-29 All Saints’ Rd, Pakefield, Lowestoft NR33 0JL. Full details about how to enter on Venue: The Corn Hall, St Nicholas Street, www.waveneyandblytharts.com Diss IP22 4LB.

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Keynote speakers and exemplars will be From strength to Growing the Arts in an drawn from organisations with a role in strength - let’s celebrate! Age of Austerity developing cultural initiatives in our area Saturday 21 October 2.30 – 4.30pm January 2018 such as the Local Authorities, New Anglia Cost £6/£5 W&BA members including refreshments LEP concerning the Cultural Tourism A one-day conference for grassroots Project, StartEast, New Cut Arts, INK arts organisations, event organisers Festival, and Waveney & Blyth Arts. and creative entrepreneurs to gain The day will focus on developing ways in insight into the East’s Cultural which small organisations can maximise Strategy 2016 – 2022 (Culture Drives local expertise and collaborations. Growth) at a time of uncertainty in Participants will explore ways in both public and private sectors. which local arts entrepreneurs and The aim will be to seize the initiative organisations can tap more effectively into An enjoyable gathering at grassroots level to promote shared the cultural enthusiasms of both resident in the lovely surroundings resources, collaborative working and a and visitor populations. The experiences, of Ringsfield Hall Eco positive strategic vision for the role of the views and responses of participants will drive Activity Centre, near Beccles, for Waveney & local cultural sector in the Norfolk/Suffolk the conference agenda and its outcomes. Blyth Arts members and anyone who wants to borderlands. Venue: The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth find out more about the organisation. There will be short illustrated talks about the and celebrate the Waveney & Blyth river highlights of the 2017 programme, news about Inspired by Landscape landscapes and reflect on the role of rivers in plans and projects for 2018 and beyond, a live April 2018 our lives. Examples from other organisations performance by the Sensing Nature musicians An event for arts practitioners and landscape will also feature. The day will explore how we and singers, and a little bit of AGM business can encourage collaborations across artforms followed by tea and cakes. enthusiasts that will highlight landscape based, artist-led projects which encourage local and across our area, and how we can make Ringsfield Hall Eco Activity Centre is a beautiful communities to unlock the hidden heritage landscapes accessible to all, for all the senses. venue for creative education about the around them. Venue: to be confirmed. environment set in the heart of the Waveney and Blyth valleys. Talks, discussions and workshops will cover For further information and news of all projects where creative work responds to these events join W&BA, our free mailing Venue: Ringsfield Hall, Hall Road, Beccles, location, such as Waveney & Blyth Arts’ past Suffolk NR34 8JR. list, follow us on Facebook or Twitter or projects. A proposed new project will explore visit www.waveneyandblytharts.com

We want everyone to be able to enjoy our Visually impaired and people with sight From Halesworth to the events and are striving to improve access for loss – large print and plain text versions of Himalayas - A Legacy of anyone with a disability. information are available. Our new website Hearing aid users or people with is accessible for screen reader technology. Beauty hearing loss - a Williams Tour Guide Trained volunteer guides are available for Saturday 1 July - Wednesday 19 July system which links to special headsets and most events. Cost Free hearing loops is available on all our walks Wheelchair users – much of the and workshops - let us know when you book Sculpture Trail site and many of our if you would like to use this service. events are accessible – contact British Sign Language speakers - a BSL [email protected] interpreted walk around the Sculpture Trail or call 07415 168806 for details. led by the trail curator – see page 4.

Membership runs from 1 January to 31 December….. To join email JOIN US! [email protected] or complete the form under Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was an JOIN US at www.waveneyandblytharts.com internationally renowned botanist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, WAVENEY & BLYTH ARTS celebrates and • Weekly email update about funding, jobs Kew, close friend and supporter of Charles promotes the unique environment and and training in Norfolk and Suffolk Darwin, and one of the most successful British creativity of this area. • Attendance (optional) and voting at men of science. He was born in Halesworth on All our events are open to everyone, but if our Annual Meeting. If you are a creative June 30th 1817 and to mark the bicentenary you like what you see please join WAVENEY practitioner or involved in an arts or there will be exhibitions, trails, talks and events. & BLYTH ARTS for just £15 and support this environmental organisation you can also: volunteer-run organisation. Students from the Chelsea School of Botanical • Promote your events, exhibitions and other Arts and members of Amicus Botanicus, the Membership benefits: activities through the weekly email update school alumni, will exhibit botanical paintings • Reduced ticket prices for ALL W&BA events • Feature in our on-line Members’ Directory of plant species relating to and named after the • Information about and invitations to with a link to your website (optional) famous botanist. www.halesworthgallery.co.uk W&BA events • Receive information about upcoming Venue: The Halesworth Gallery, Steeple End, • The annual brochure of W&BA summer W&BA projects that you could be involved in Halesworth IP19 8LL. activities and walks mailed to you Organisations can be Associate Members Visit www.halesworthinbloom.com for details • Weekly email update about our members’ and benefit from the above through a activities nominated representative. Cost £20pa. 14 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 BOOKING To book places or for further details email [email protected] or call 07415168806 1315 WAVENEY &BLYTH Lowestoft Lowestoft’s HiddenArtHistory Within OurMidst- Friday 21July Magna Woods, Thornham Thornham Writing theLabrynth Wednesday 19July Redisham, Beccles Writing from Wartime Farms Adrian Bell’s Redisham– Sunday 9July Magna Woods, Thornham Thornham Unearthed –Writing from theSoil Wednesday 5July Magna Woods, Thornham Thornham Sensing Nature SoundTrail Saturday 1July Friday 30June/ Diss Disscovering DissDelights Arts &Eats– Wednesday 17May Diss Celebrate the MAY -OCTOBER2017 www.waveneyandblytharts.com PAGE 6 PAGE 6 Harleston PAGE 3 PAGE 9 PAGE 9 PAGE 12 Bungay Raveningham Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail Curator’s GuidedWalk +BSLVersion Monday 21August Thope Abbotts Women War Photographers Sunday 20August Raveningham Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail Sunday 17September Friday 18August– Wenhaston Inspired byBeckerExhibition Friday 4–Sunday6August Blythburgh Blythburgh toSouthwold Follow theRails– Tuesday 1August Southwold Observing theInvisible Stories oftheOtter– Saturday 29July Covehithe Shifting Sands&FineFinds Saturday 22July Beccles Halesworth PAGE 7 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 7 PAGE 4 PAGE 4 PAGE 11 Ringsfield Hall Connecting toNature Going Green – Sunday 3September Ferini ArtGallery, Pakefield A Murder ofCrows Sunday 24September Friday 1September– Raveningham Sculpture Trail Line andMovementatthe Wednesday 30August Raveningham Photography ontheSculpture Trail Tuesday 29August Raveningham Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail Herb Walk Saturday 26August Raveningham Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail Sarah CannellPaintingWorkshop Thursday 24August Raveningham Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail Family FunDay Wednesday 23August Southwold Lowestoft Great Yarmouth PAGE 10 PAGE 5 PAGE 9 to press andanychangeswillbepostedon thewebsiteandadvertisedlocally. change orcanceltheadvertised programme. Detailsare correct attimeofgoing www.waveneyandblytharts.com Waveney &BlythArtsreserves therightto regardingFor information ourphotographic contributionsvisit PAGE 8 PAGE 11 PAGE 10 PAGE 5 Ferini ArtGallery, Pakefield Arts &Eats–AChatterofCrows Wednesday 20September Halesworth Through theLens Discovering Micro Worlds Sunday 17September Saturday 16& Westhall Medieval Graffiti Writing ontheWall – Saturday 16September Raveningham Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail Herb Walk Thursday 7September Ferini ArtGallery, Pakefield Writing Workshop The PoetryofCrows – Saturday 9September Westleton Hidden Worlds SketchbookWalk Wednesday 6September PAGE 11 PAGE 5 PAGE 8 PAGE 8 PAGE 10 PAGE 12

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