PRE-FESTIVAL WARM UP SUNDAY 21ST JUNE THE JAZZ OF JUDY GARLAND WEDNESDAY 24TH JUNE 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £15 SLAUGHTER IN SOUTHWOLD FESTIVAL SERVICE Voted best vocalist in the 2019 British Jazz Awards, THE SECRET ISLAND OF ORFORD NESS – SOUTHWOLD LIBRARY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 10.30am United Reformed Church Sara Dowling and the Chris Ingham Quartet explore FROM 1914 - 1988 – CLIVE CHAMBERS This ecumenical service will include hymns and the career and catalogue of one of Hollywood’s 11.00am Southwold Arts Centre £8 13th & 14th June Southwold Arts Centre Christian songs chosen especially for this service brightest yet most troubled stars in an evening of The fascinating military history of Orford Ness - ‘The swing, poignancy and anecdote. Tickets £6 per talk, £20 per day or £40 for the weekend, of celebration, led by Rev’d Charles Croll. Members Island’ - and its secrets are intriguing but not widely Lunches £10 from all the local churches have been invited to known. Clive, volunteer ranger and tour guide on attend. Do come and join us. Orford Ness, may reveal those secrets. A festival dedicated to crime writers and the lovers of RD crime writing. Events include author talks, lunch with SOUTHEND BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CHOIRS TUESDAY 23 JUNE YOUNG MUSICIANS’ SHOWCASE the authors, murder mystery evening and a fun crime 2.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £8 CHARLOTTE POLLARD – VOCAL RECITAL RADIO CAROLINE – THE TRUE STORY OF THE quiz night. Authors confirmed so far are Stephen The two choirs, with over 120 singers, aged 8 - 21 from 1.00pm St Edmund’s Church £8 Booth, William Shaw & Cara Hunter. BOAT THAT ROCKED across Southend and South East Essex, perform across A sixth former at Norwich School, Charlotte has been 11.00am Southwold Arts Centre £8 Book online www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/slaughter the globe and regularly on the BBC. Spend a Sunday a member of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain at Southwold Library or 01502 722519. afternoon enjoying music from stage and screen. Ray Clark joined Radio Caroline in the 1980s and since the age of ten, a Norwich Cathedral chorister wrote the book on which the film was based. He and performed with the English Touring Opera. AN EVENING WITH THE OPERABABES will tell us the amazing history of the world’s most famous pirate radio station. 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £15 RSPB MINSMERE – GIVING NATURE A HOME Rebecca Knight & Karen England are the original TH 2.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £8 SATURDAY 20 JUNE classical crossover pioneers, with over 2 million YOUNG MUSICIANS’ SHOWCASE albums sold globally and multi-platinum awards, GAIA ROGERS - FLUTE RECITAL Ian Barthorpe, Visitor Experience Officer, will explore STREET FESTIVAL the wildlife, habitats and history of the RSPB’s don’t miss your chance to see them. A must for all 1.00pm St Edmund’s Church £8 12 noon – 6.00pm Southwold High Street classical music lovers. flagship nature reserve here on the Suffolk coast, Gaia, an 18-year-old musician, dancer and actor from made famous as the home of the BBC Springwatch. Our theme is Yesterday. Festivities start with a Woodbridge, is a member of Junior Guildhall School fancy-dress parade from the police station to the of Music & Drama, Suffolk Youth Orchestra, the THE PITMAN POETS & THE JOHN WARD BAND Market Place The parade is open to all. Dress up as an National Youth Folk Ensemble and principal flautist ND evacuee, Victorian, Rotten Roman or Terrible Tudor MONDAY 22 JUNE for the National Schools Symphony Orchestra. 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £17.50 - join the parade at 11.45 at the police station – you The award-winning Pitman Poets visit Southwold on may win a prize for the best costume! WHAT...! IN SOUTHWOLD? THE ART OF J.W. TURNER - SARAH STOPFORD their national tour to perform songs and stories laced 11.00am Southwold Arts Centre £8 THE ARTS SOCIETY SOUTHWOLD with North East humour. They will be supported by In his researches into the history of the town’s shops, The John Ward Band - an evening of outstanding 2.00pm Southwold Arts Centre £5 and trading folk for www.southwoldandson.co.uk, folk music. Barry Tolfree has unearthed some scarcely credible Turner, voted Britain’s favourite painter, took human-interest stories featuring fraud, shipwreck, landscape painting to a radically new place. Turner libel, corruption, smuggling and possible murder! and his art will be brought vividly to life by Sarah TH Stopford, lecturer at Tate Britain, Tate Modern and THURSDAY 25 JUNE the Arts Society. YOUNG MUSICIANS’ SHOWCASE WENDY HOLDEN - FROM HALESWORTH JUPITER BRASS TO HOLLYWOOD 1.00pm St Edmund’s Church £8 11.00am Southwold Arts Centre £8 Jupiter Brass, a brass quintet of students from the Find out how a Suffolk writer came to chronicle the lives Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, will play a of the rich and famous, the canine and the courageous. diverse range of music from traditional brass quintets Goldie Hawn, Uggie the film star dog, The Full Monty to pop tunes and music from film and television. film, Frank Sinatra’s widow and her historical and war biographies will all feature in this entertaining journey. LOUISE MILLAR - CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP YOUNG MUSICIANS’ SHOWCASE THE BLUES BAND - 40 YEARS & BACK FOR MORE 2.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £10.00 AN EVENING WITH DR PHIL HAMMOND 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £22.50 CATHERINE McCARDEL – VIOLIN RECITAL 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £25 Author of four acclaimed novels, Louise Millar will run a two-hour workshop on building a fictional 1.00pm St Edmund’s Church £8 Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend & Gary Dr Phil Hammond, NHS doctor for 32 years, comedian for 23 years, a character. Both experienced and inexperienced Catherine, aged 15, has played in the National Fletcher celebrate 40 years playing together. Have a great evening BBC broadcaster for 29 years and Edinburgh Festival fringe performer writers are welcome. The workshop will be held Children’s Orchestra, the National Youth String with the finest exponents of the blues tradition in all its forms. will give us an evening crammed with comedy, satire and may even tell on the first floor – there is no lift. Only 20 tickets us about his attempt to become Health Secretary … an evening not to Orchestra, Aldeburgh Young Musicians and the available so book early. be missed. Britten Sinfonia Academy. EXHIBITIONS PAUL TRIGG READS CHARLES DICKENS SATURDAY 27TH JUNE 2.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £8 OPEN STUDIO TRAIL - FREE EVENT Paul Trigg has a lifelong love of the Victorian writer and CREATE SOUTHWOLD has also seen Emlyn Williams perform Dickens’ readings 8.00am – 5.00pm Southwold His one man show, with “his brilliant and powerful Create Southwold is a painting competition. Artists dramatization of Dickens’ characters”, will be a joy. arrive in town from 8am and have until 5pm to create brand new original artwork, from scratch within the AN AUDIENCE WITH JOHN SERGEANT town boundary. The artists have to create their piece 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £25 of work in a publicly accessible place so visitors may SOUTHWOLD ARTS FESTIVAL John Sergeant, former Chief Political watch them work. They will be competing for a first Correspondent for the BBC & ITN’s Political prize of £1000. All work is then exhibited for sale in @SOUTHWOLDARTS Editor, was one of our most popular and the three weeks after Create Southwold day. respected broadcasters and authors. 11.00am – 5.00pm 20th & 21st June Free Event His award-winning career has seen him interview Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, Six artists, living and working in Reydon, invite you to visit their John Major and Tony Blair. Join him for a studios to see their work and to discuss their inspiration and fascinating evening. techniques, with no obligation to purchase.

More information available from www.lainawest.co.uk FRIDAY 26TH JUNE INSIDE BOOKER 11.00am Southwold Arts Centre £8 TICKET INFORMATION Waveney and Blyth Arts reviews the Booker Prize, with two of last year’s judges. Liz Calder’s 40 years in ONLINE publishing included working with Margaret Atwood, www.southwoldartsfestival.co.uk Salman Rushdie and co-founding Bloomsbury. Peter Florence, director of the Hay Festival, chaired the CLARE TEAL & HER TRIO TICKET ENQUIRIES judges, and announced the two Booker winners. 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £25 Clare Teal and her Trio sold all seats in a few weeks in our 2015 [email protected] YOUNG MUSICIANS’ SHOWCASE festival. We are anticipating great demand for this evening, M IS FOR….MUSIC celebrating 100 years of the greatest songs ever written from the ALL OTHER ENQUIRIES 1.00pm St Edmund’s Church £8 Great American and British Songbooks. [email protected] Senior musicians from Saint Felix School explore music’s association with stories, ideas, the visual arts BY TELEPHONE and the natural world in a wide-ranging miscellany of TH instrumental and vocal music. SUNDAY 28 JUNE 01502 722 572 ART ON THE GREEN CHARLIE HAYLOCK - THE SUFFOLK DAY TALKS 10.00am – 4.00pm Gun Hill, Southwold DAYTIME BOX OFFICE 2.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £8 Supported by Southwold and District Rotary Club as SOUTHWOLD ARTS CENTRE, Cumberland Road, IP18 6JP On Suffolk Day Charlie takes an eccentric look at part of Southwold Arts Festival. An opportunity for Spoken Suffolk. Discover why Suffolk is the most local artists to exhibit and sell their work. Each three- Until 24th April: Mon to Fri 10.30am - 3.00pm; important dialect in the evolution of spoken English, metre pitch will cost £25. Artists must bring their including some Suffolk spoken oddities in this highly From 27th April: Mon to Sat 10.30am - 3.00pm own stands/tables and be covered by public liability entertaining afternoon. insurance. Book places on info@southwoldrotary. co.uk or www.southwoldrotary.co.uk. REYDON & SOUTHWOLD PANTOMIME GROUP All the information in this leaflet is accurate at the time of going to press but programmes and artists may be subject to change. 7.30pm Southwold Arts Centre £12.50 We adhere to the principles of the Data Protection Act and adopt The Reydon & Southwold Pantomime group is the best practice for managing information. celebrating 40 years of playing to packed houses and Southwold Arts Festival is a registered charity (No: 1161134). All money raised is used only to raising £60,000 for charity. They will be celebrating fund future Festivals. All those involved are volunteers and do not claim expenses. with two plays The Poisonous Miss Zephyr and Agatha LEAD SPONSOR Doolittle – This is Your Life. Book your ticket early if you want a seat!