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www.ipswich.gov.uk/summertime www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015 IPSWICH ARTS FESTIVAL 19 JUNE-12 JULY Ip-art, the Ipswich Arts Festival, is bringing you four weekends of fun this summer

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

IPSWICH JAZZ FESTIVAL Friday 19 June-Sunday 28 June

THEATRE ON THE LAWN Wednesdays 1 July & 8 July

OPEN AIR CINEMA Saturday 4 July

IPSWICH MUSIC DAY Sunday 5 July

GLOBAL RHYTHM Saturday 11 July

INDIAN SUMMER MELA Sunday 12 July

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There is something for everyone, including the fabulous Ipswich Music Day in , the UK’s biggest one-day free music festival.

Also sure to draw huge audiences are the Indian Mela and Global Rhythms. Madcap comedy team the Pantaloons are offering twice as much mirth this year, with performances of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice in Christchurch Park and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in Holywells.

Shakespeare in , set in , sees the Bard’s touring company arrive in Suffolk in the year 1596. Plague, spies and playwrights!

For the first time, a skateboarding competition will enable youngsters to show off their talents, while guided walks and circus workshops add to the fun.

For classical music fans, the Ipswich Orchestral Society will be performing in the Corn Exchange and there is a Classical Picnic Concert in the park.

An open-air film day at ITFC, the Ipswich Jazz Festival, street markets and lots of performance and visual arts treats are also included.

Ipswich Armed Forces Day on 28th June in Christchurch Park will mark the anniversaries of VE Day and VJ Day and commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. Attractions include a climbing wall, assault courses, music, dance and re-enactments.

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Welcome to the Ipswich Jazz Festival, in partnership with the Ipswich Arts Festival. With its active, local jazz scene, Ipswich is a great place to host a jazz festival.

A mix of live music performances, films, art and Saturday 20th June 1pm – 5pm workshops, the ten day festival has something Learn How to Sing Jazz Tuesday 23rd -Saturday 27th June for everyone who enjoys jazz or who wants to Gallery 3, Ipswich Town Hall, Classic Jazz Films Cornhill, Ipswich, IP1 1DH. Ipswich Film Theatre, begin enjoying this great music. Many events A workshop and masterclass led by local jazz musician Corn Exchange, Ipswich IP1 1DH. are free and there are also live gigs by some of Andi Hopgood. An overview of all things jazz singing. The Man with the the top names in British jazz. Tickets £12 from Ipswich Regent Box Office Jazz Guitar (PG) Ipswich Tourist Information Centre Dir: Marc Mason, UK, 2012, 115 mins So come and listen or even join in! Tel 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com A delightful portrait of the fascinating 50s jazz Saturday 20th June 9pm – 11pm musician and popular radio broadcaster, Ken 2nd June - 27th June Sykora. Inspired by Django Reinhardt, Ken’s musical Jazz Arrivals career was cut short by the 2nd World War and C Jazz Art and Artefacts The Woolpack, Tuddenham Rd, Ipswich, IP4 2SH. rock‘n’roll. He moved into broadcasting where P Exhibition Jazz Arrivals play a mixture of Swingy-Jazz-Soul-Funky- he worked on more than 3000 programmes over V “Tea Room” Gallery, Ipswich Town Hall, Blues with a jaunty nod towards the organ sound of the 4 decades. At the peak of his popularity in the

Cornhill, Ipswich, IP1 1DH. Friday 19th June 7.45pm – 9.30pm 50s and 60s. early 70s he suddenly and unexpectedly quit the Open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 4pm Free (but donations welcome!) BBC and moved his wife and young family from A With an open view “Jazz Lounge” Clare Teal and her trio Suffolk to Scotland, to run a hotel, in ‘the middle Saturday 6th June 1.30pm-4pm, including live jazz. New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive, Sunday 21st June 12.00-3pm of nowhere’. Featuring intimate interviews with S Free Ipswich, IP1 2AS. 01473 295900 Father’s Day lunch his children, close friends and colleagues, Ken is

Fleece Jazz at the Stoke by Nayland Hotel presents Cock and Pye, Upper Brook St, Ipswich, IP4 1EG. creatively brought to life through a mix of animation 16th June – 27th June Clare Teal and her trio. Clare Teal performs jazz Listen to four Suffolk jazz bands. and his radio voice. £ standards, including music by her heroes, Ella Jazz Photography Exhibition Free admission Tues 23rd June 2.30pm and 7.30pm Fitzgerald, Doris Day and Peggy Lee as well as I Subterranean Boulevard Gallery, Wed 24th June 7.30pm more contemporary covers and original material. T 21 St Peters Street, Ipswich, Sunday 21st June 3pm – 5pm Thurs 25th June 2.30pm Including Jazz Camera, the work of music photographer Beautiful melodies, fabulous arrangements all Body and Soul Jazz Band John Watson. interspersed with Clare’s warm and witty story telling. A night of wonderful music to open the Isaacs on the Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1AS. Mo’Better Blues (15) Open View 18th June 5.30pm – 8pm Ipswich Jazz Festival. Playing a popular mix of jazz including standards from Dir: Spike Lee, US, 1990, 124 mins Gallery Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 4pm S Tickets from £10. www.wolseytheatre.co.uk the great American songbook, funk, Latin, blues and Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes Sunday 21st 11am - 3pm f also some unusual treatments of modern pop songs. Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is an ace jazz Free G Friday 19th June 5.30pm – 7pm. Free trumpeter with his own quintet and a love of C C the ladies but trouble is on the horizon as his Thursday 18th June Jazz Masterclass P A Sunday 21st June 8pm – 10.30pm saxophonist wants to leave and his manager Before Clare Teal’s show, her band (Jason Rebello V Ipswich Community Radio (ICR) Zoe Francis, Jim Mullen struggles with gambling debts. A subtle portrait of - piano, Simon Little – bass and Matt Skelton Jazz Grooves with GerryG 8pm-10pm. and the Chris Ingham Trio a jazz musician with a soundtrack by jazz greats. - drums) will run a masterclass for local jazz players A special festival preview show on 18th June and again California Club, 195 Foxhall Rd, Ipswich, IP3 8LB. Thurs 25th and Fri 26th June 7.30pm and music lovers on the New Wolsey Theatre A on Thursday 25th June. Also, Velvet Jazz Lounge with stage. Some local players will have an opportunity Hosted by Ipswich Jazz Club. Outstanding singer Zoe will Sat 27th June 2.30pm and 7.30pm w Althea Browne. 12.00– 2pm Sunday 21st June. to improvise on stage with the band during the be joined by accomplished guitarist Jim Mullen and EastS 105.7 FM, www.icrfm.co.uk, class and receive feedback. Anglia’s premier jazz trio of Chris Ingham, keyboards, Tickets £7/£3 (25 and under) are available or via the tunein apps. from the IFT box-office or www.iftt.co.uk Tickets £10. www.wolseytheatre.co.uk Mick Hutton, bass and George Double, drums.

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Friday 26th June 7pm Saturday 27th June 2pm – 5pm Morphology Jazz Drumming Arlingtons Brasserie, Museum St, Ipswich IP1 1HE. T for Absolute beginners Jazz dinner and live music by outstanding jazz quartet Gallery 3, Ipswich Town Hall, Morphology who draw on the cool sounds of 1950s Cornhill, Ipswich, IP1 1DH. West Coast America; melodic compositions from the A workshop led by Ipswich jazz drummer and bandleader avant-garde scene and original pieces by the band.Music Bob Airzee. Please bring drumsticks. which is bright, breezy and easy to listen to. A fresh Tickets £12 from Ipswich Regent Box Office Box acoustic sound dominated only by the absence of drums. Office Ipswich Tourist Information Centre Only £20 for three courses, so book now. Tel 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com www.arlingtonsbrasserie.co.uk Sunday 28th June 3pm - 5pm Pre-event dinner offer Weird Rare Animal Early Dinner Menu for just £10 Isaacs on the Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1AS. Saturday 27th June 7.30pm -10pm Come to Arlingtons Brasserie before a jazz festival event No, not another heavy metal pub band but the unique Noemi Nuti and enjoy our special Pre-Festival Early Dinner Menu for Ipswich modern jazz trio who play a selection of Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall, just £10. This includes a main course and glass of wine or modern jazz classics from the jazz masters, but often in Cornhill, Ipswich, IP1 1DH. beer. Available between 5pm – 7pm weekdays and week- a startlingly new way. Charlie Parker as reggae… ends, Just mention Ipswich Jazz Festival when you come. Peppery Productions & Jazz East at the Fludyers present: or funk…Johann Sebastian Bach played swing. Vocalist Noemi Nuti accompanied by Quentin Collins www.arlingtonsbrasserie.co.uk Free – trumpet/flugelhorn, Andrew McCormack – piano, Tim Thornton - double bass and Ernesto Simpson - drums. For the best radio coverage of the festival tune into BBC Radio Suffolk. A show with some of the finest Brazilian and British jazz. The organisers would like to thank our sponsors. Supported by a short performance by the South Suffolk Youth Jazz Ensemble.

Tickets £16 (including £1 booking fee), £13 for full-time students and unemployed from Ipswich Regent Box Office Ipswich Tourist Information Centre www.pinkhousedesign.co.uk Tel 01473 433100 www.ipswichregent.com

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T www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015 Do you want to be a star? IPSWICH HAS GOT TALENT is looking for potential stars to sign up for 2015 and help promote its message of a safe and fun night out in town. The annual competition promotes performers of almost all ages and also builds links with local communities. It is open to residents, workers and students who are over 8 years old from all areas with an IP postcode (IP1- IP31). Heats will be held through the summer with successful finalists battling it out on stage in front of a packed crowd at the Regent Theatre. So, don’t delay: apply now, grab your chance to become a star. Apply online at www.ipswich.gov.uk/ talent Heat 1 Sat 20 June at the Kingfisher pub Heat 2 Sat 4 July at Inspire Suffolk Heat 3 Sat 11 July at DanceEast Heat 4 Sun 19 July at the Kingfisher pub Semi-final Sun 6th September at Ipswich Town Football Club Final Fri 13 November at the Ipswich Regent

To find out all about our county town and what’s happening over the summer go to www. allaboutipswich.com www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015 ipswich tourist information centre Ipswich Borough Council’s Tourist Information Centre in St Stephen’s Church is the Ipswich Summertime hub. Come in to find out more about all our events, get tickets and book a fabulous cruise down the Orwell throughout the summer. TIC staff can also tell you about our special guided walks, which show you the hidden parts of Ipswich history. The Centre also sells local books and cards and a variety of gifts. It is also the new box office for Ipswich Entertainments. Pick up your tickets for shows at the Regent Theatre and Corn Exchange. Make it the centre of your summer! NEW SEASON OF GUIDED WALKS Regular guided walks take place from the Tourist Information Centre every Tuesday and Thursday, commencing at 2.15pm, until the end of September. Walks cost £4 per person and there is no need to book - just turn up and buy your ticket. There are also a number of evening walks taking place throughout the summer starting at 7pm.

RIVER CRUISES One of Ipswich’s top attractions, the Orwell Lady , has started her summer season of river cruises. As well as regular public cruises, there are also afternoon cream tea cruises and evening supper/theme night cruises and there is a licensed bar on board. www.orwellrivercruises.com Victor is a beautiful Thames barge built in Ipswich in 1895 and celebrates her 120th birthday this year. Victor offers a variety of cruises from outside the Old Custom House, including afternoon cream tea and evening supper cruises. Passengers can enjoy the open-air deck or inside the polished wood saloon where there is a well-stocked bar. www.sbvictor.co.uk. The Allen Gardiner is a cruise restaurant offering a dining experience including brunch, lunch or dinner trips. It operates daily, all year round. www.allen-gardiner.co.uk For information on all cruises Tel: 01473 258070 Email: [email protected] For information on guided walks visit www.allaboutipswich.com www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015 DON’T WORRY IF THE PITCH IS FROZEN! Film-lovers have the opportunity to dress up as their The Premier evening film, The Bodyguard (15) favourite characters from Frozen, sing along to the fabulous starts at 8pm. songs and enjoy a magical bouncing snow flake - all at Ipswich Town Football Club this summer. FILM PRICES: Premium reserved tickets (with deck chairs) are £8.50, with children's and concessionary The club has teamed up with Ipswich Borough Council tickets just £5.50 and there are discounts for ITFC to stage an OPEN AIR CINEMA DAY with four films on supporters (using their customer numbers). Family the practice pitch as part of this year's Ip-art festival. tickets are £24. If you have extra time and want to watch The special event kicks off on Saturday 4th July with all three afternoon family films you can buy a day pass for Frozen (PG) at 10am. This is followed by perennial £14 (adults), £9.99 (children) and £40 (families). favourite Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (U) at 12.30pm What a promotion! Contact the box office now - and Avengers Assemble (12A) at 3.45pm, with www.ipswichregent.com or phone 01473 433100 (ITFC even more heroes in evidence at Portman Road. supporters using their customer number phone sales only). SOUNDS SUFFOLK LIKE FUN! SHOW Ipswich is hosting an ideal musical July at 7.30pm in Christchurch Families should come and have a go hundreds of free have-a-go activities event this summer – a Park. Tickets cost £19.50 for adults, at this year’s Suffolk Show, May 27 - make a pizza, sit in a helicopter and with £14.50 concessions, and & 28, Trinity Park parachute simulators, go in Dr Who’s PICNIC IN THE PARK children under 16 go free if they are Tardis, join a shoot-out against ITFC CONCERT There’s everything for everyone at veterans, hold a new-born chick, sit accompanied by a full price the Suffolk Show. Come and join in ticket-buying adult. Even better – in a tractor, watch cookery demos or The music will be provided by during half-term week. Kids under 15 be a nature detective. You can also Heart of Strings and there is a buy one / get one free come free! pick up some great ideas for your special guest LUCY KAY , from adult ticket offer until 10th May. Nine rings packed with amazing home and garden. Britain’s Got Talent . And there Entrance for the concert is via the will be something for every street acts, entertainments and It’s a celebration of food and farming Soane Street (Christchurch displays – see the Devil’s Horsemen musical taste – from Bach to Mansion) gates or from and it’s fun and all in your county, Coldplay, from Handel to Lady stunt riders - more than 2,500 right here where you live. Children Fonnereau Road. Bring your own animals, 800 trade stands for Gaga. To round things off, there folding chairs or cushions. under 15 come free! Free cycle park. will be a fireworks finale. shopping, locally produced delicious Dogs welcome. Book now for a summer treat! food to sample and buy, try 30-plus The Ipswich Picnic in the Park www.ipswichregent.com or different sports, watch top For discounted tickets now and info Concert takes place on Friday 3rd phone 01473 433100 international show jumping, www.suffolkshow.co.uk

15-16 AUGUST MARITIME IPSWICH IS COMING! We can promise you a summer treat historic vessels of different sizes, with a nautical flavour and a fabulous food, a special market fireworks finale to what is one of the along with musical entertainment Ahoy biggest weekends in the Ipswich and river trips to keep everyone calendar. The Waterfront will be ship-shape. buzzing on 15th and 16th August, with war-time re-enactments, www.allaboutipswich.com there! www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015 One of the greatest masterpieces of British of Constables and Gainsboroughs - the most art, ’s Salisbury Cathedral significant collection of works by these from the Meadows 1831, is on display at masters outside London. It is the first time a Aspire : Ipswich’s Christchurch Mansion as part of a major “six-footer” by Constable has been on UK-wide tour of galleries and museums. display in Ipswich. The Year of Constable The famous work was secured for the British The display is part of Aspire, a five-year public through the Heritage Lottery Fund partnership project between five partner (HLF), The Manton Foundation, the Art Fund institutions supported by the Heritage Lottery (with a contribution from the Wolfson Fund and the Art Fund to enable the work to Foundation) and Tate Members. go on almost constant view across the UK.

At Christchurch Mansion’s Wolsey Art Gallery, Entry to Christchurch Mansion and the painting complements Ipswich’s collection is free.

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Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 John Constable (1776 – 1837)

© Tate, London 2013 Purchased with assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Manton Foundation, the Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation) and Tate Members FREE

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Ipswich’s Holywells Park has a new look for the summer - a £3.5 million “Parks For People” refurbishment has transformed the old Stable Block into a visitor centre and caf and the former Orangery has dropped its céloak of corrugated iron to become a stunning meeting place. There is a new iplay facility for teenagers at the play areas.

Ho lywells There is an outdoor theatre space (The Pantaloons will be coming here during Ip-art) and Ipswich Borough Council and Friends of the park have organised another summer series of family days.

The refurbishment project was largely FAMILY DAYS funded by the National Lottery Fund and the park Big Lottery, with contributions from Ipswich Wed 29 July Borough Council and the Friends of Wildlife Day Holywells Park. Wed 5 August Family Fun Day Wed 12 August Active Day Wed 19 August Petting Zoo Day Wed 26 August Movie Day Sat 18 July Official Opening www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015

Ipswich is transforming itself into Velo City this summer, with the return of Sky IPSWICH TRANSPORT Ride, a men’s Tour of Britain finish in the town centre, a Women’s Tour stage coming MUSEUM through the town and the popular Crafted During a visit to Classique. in Cobham Road you can marvel at a With traffic-free streets on Sunday 23rd collection of more than100 major transport August, thousands of people of all ages and engineering objects made or used in celebrate all things cycling. Sky Ride Ipswich the Ipswich area - buses and bicycles, will be a brilliant day out, with something for prams and a police car, lawnmowers and velo lorries, fire engines and even a funeral everyone. Since first partnering with British Cycling, the number of cyclists jumping on hearse. their bikes in Ipswich every week has increased by a massive 120%. OPENING TIMES The Crafted Classique will return to the SUNDAYS AND BANK HOLIDAYS: Waterfront on Saturday 22nd August, the 11am-4pm from 29th March to 29th timed cycling challenge offering three courses November. WEEKDAYS: Monday to Friday in the stunning Suffolk countryside. Supported 1-4pm during May, summer and October city school holidays. Wednesday afternoons by Ipswich Borough Council and British Cycling, the sportive is sponsored by digital 1-4pm in June, July and September. marketing agency Crafted. SPECIAL EVENTS Meanwhile, the world’s top riders will race into town at the end of the penultimate stage of Wednesday 24th June this year’s The Friends Life Tour of Britain . Open All Hours! 11am to 9pm Twenty top cycling teams will compete in the Saturday 27th June eight-day tour, which comes to Suffolk on 12th Transport & Model Festival September at the end of a 139 mile stage. Sunday 12th July At the beginning of the summer, the top What’s In Store? Guided tours behind the international women riders will speed through scenes Ipswich on the first stage of the 2015 Sundays 2nd, 9th and 16th August Women’s Tour of Britain , which begins in Bus rides from the museum to the town Bury St Edmunds on 17th June. The stage centre finishes in Aldeburgh. Monday 31st August If that wasn’t enough there will also be Ride a Fire Engine Day Sky Ride Local events throughout the year. www.goskyride.com For admission prices and more details: www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk

New and classic cars, motorbikes, buses, bikes, fire engines and Organiser Ipswich Borough Council says this is not trucks will line up on the Waterfront this summer as thousands just for petrol heads but also for people who want to of visitors are expected to celebrate Ipswich Wheels. take up a new sport or find out more about the history of transport. The FREE event is all about wheels through the ages and will include buses and radio-controlled cars from Lining up for the Ipswich Wheels launch on the the present day as well as from the Ipswich Transport Waterfront were representatives from Donalds Museum collections. Volvo & Mazda, John Banks Honda, British Radio Car Association, Lancaster Toyota, Lings Triumph This new event takes place on Sunday 19th July and will Motorbikes, Elmy Cycles, Gallagher Car and Van Rental, offer something for all the family. Special features are “Women Ipswich Buses, First Bus, Ipswich Transport Museum and on Wheels” in support of “This Girl Can” and advice for younger cyclists. Orwell Motorcycles. That’s a lot of wheels! www.ipswich.gov.uk SUMMER 2015

Friday 15th May - SWunday h7th Jaune t’sAld ermOan Rnoad Funfair Wednesday 20th May - Monday 25th May American Circus (Chantry Park) Wednesday 27th May & Thursday 28th May Suffolk Show Thursday 28th May-Saturday 6th June Pulse Festival (New Wolsey) Wednesday 17th June Women’s Tour of Britain Friday 19th June - Sunday 12th July Ip-art Festival Saturday 27th June Ipswich Orchestral Society concert Friday 3rd July Picnic in the Park Concert Saturday 4th July Open Air Film Day Sunday 5th July Music Day Saturday 11th July Global Rhythm Sunday 12th July Indian Mela Saturday 18th July Holywells Park Grand Opening Sunday 19th July Ipswich Wheels Festival Saturday 25th July Run or Dye - Chantry Park Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August Maritime Ipswich Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd August Cycling Weekend Saturday 12th September Men’s Tour of Britain Sunday 20th September Ipswich Half Marathon

be accompanied by a creative! Work with our olds and their adults. 1.45- 1pm, 2.30pm Summer at responsible adult at all times). friendly artist to turn your 4.15pm: 8-12 year olds (a Meet our Victorian gardener, Booking required. ideas into a work of art. £3 responsible adult must be learn more about how present). This is part of the Ipswich per child (accompanying Christchurch Park worked as Aspire programme. Show and Tell Day: adults go free) a garden when the Mansion Museum The natural world John Constable and the Great Salisbury was home to the Fonnereau Wed 19 August. 11am-3pm family, and get your hands Discovery Zone Join us for an exciting Bring your bones, fossils, bugs Summer at dirty in the formal gardens to Tues 28 July and 4, 11, 18, 25 half-day animation workshop, (well contained) and natural help the gardener prepare for August. 10.30am, 1pm, in which you will use stop 2.30pm finds along to this event and the autumn harvest. £3 per christchurch motion techniques to create find out more about our natural child. Book in advance. Join us for hands-on, fun and characters and scenes which history collections. Free. family-friendly activities to mansion will make up a film that tells Drop-in. No need to book. Art Al Fresco discover more about a range Mini Worlds the story of John Constable of objects and topics. £3 per Thur 30 July and Thur 13 Aug. and his life as an artist. Thur 27 Aug. 10.30am, 1pm, 2.30pm child. Book in advance. 10.30am, 1pm, 2.30pm Younger children and their Summer at the Join us for an outdoor art Astrodome Explore the landscapes adults should join us in the depicted by John Constable morning workshops, while workshop, learning more Tues 4 and Wed 5 August. art school and get crafty designing your 8-12 year-olds can come to about Christchurch Park and 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, own 3D sculptures. We’ll working with an artist to 2pm, 3pm the afternoon sessions while gallery photograph your work to their adults look around the capture the beautiful scenes Book your place in the Family Art Room contribute to a small display Mansion. £6 per child (2 hour and landscapes around the inflatable astrodome for a in the autumn. £3 per child. workshop), plus £1 on the Mansion. All materials virtual journey into outer Wed 29 July and 5, 12, 19, 26 August. Drop-in for 30 Book in advance. day for a copy of the finished provided. £3 per child. space, to discover the planets minutes between 10.30am- film. Booking essential. Book in advance. and constellations in our solar 12.30pm or 1.30-3.30pm Animation Stations! system. £3 per person over Open for children of all ages Wed 5, Thur 6, Fri 7 August Victorian Gardener www.ipswich.gov.uk/ two years old (children must and their adults to get 10.15am-12.15pm: 5-8 year Thur 20 August. 10.30am, museums