- Homepage
- Around the Clubs
- Dance
- Sales & Fairs
- Gigs & Music
- Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
- Other Local Events
- Theatre
- Talks & Meetings
- Walks
Cinema Listings - TV Listings
The Menu
Band Spotlight
Submit your event
Listings were last updated on:
Thursday October 9
Next update: 16th Oct
Scroll down to read: A Desh of opera | The story of the Brontës
Waves of art
Maggi Hambling.
An exhibition of new paintings on paper by celebrated Suffolk artist Maggi Hambling opens this weekend.
Famed for her scallop sculpture on Aldeburgh beach, Maggi Hambling has more recently turned her attention to the North Sea for her art.
She said: “Early each morning, I go down to the sea and try to capture its mood by drawing – and each day is different.
“Back in the studio, these drawings become paintings. Whether they are tiny or cover the studio wall, I try to make the movement of the waves happen in the paint.”
The exhibition, at The Old Rectory, Brockdish in Norfolk (IP21 4JJ), comprises new oil paintings and Maggi’s first small acrylics on paper.
It runs from October 11 to 19.
As an extra bonus to the exhibition, there will be an illustrated talk by Maggi based on her autobiography Maggi Hambling: The Works at Brockdish Village Hall, on October 13, at 8pm.
Tickets are £7 for this event and are limited. Details are available from David Case Fine Art on 01379 668875.
The exhibition is for charity and all profits will be shared between Brockdish Church and the Laura Case Trust, a medical charity set up in memory of Laura, who was killed in Uganda last year while working as a medical student. She was the daughter of Brockdish couple David and Anthea Case.
Gainsborough's House in Sudbury is hosting an exhibition of an extraordinary collection of modern British art.
The exhibition celebrates the lives of Bobby and Natalie Bevan and the works that once hung in their home, Boxted House, near Colchester.
The couple lived at Boxted House for almost 30 years and it became a
gathering place for a wide range of creative people after World War Two.
The son of a leading Camden Town painter, Bobby had a distinguished career in advertising and his wife Natalie was a painter, ceramicist and renowned beauty and society hotess. She modelled for many artists, including Mark Gertler.
Together they established an exceptional home, which became a social centre for a wide range of creative people,
particularly artists associated with East Anglia, including John Nash, Cedric Morris and Lett Haines.
Works by these artsist and others were on display at Boxted House and virtually every work in the exhibition has a personal link to Bobby and Natalie.
Highlights include Harold Gilman’s portrait of Bobby’s mother in 1913 and Mark Gertler’s portrait of Natalie in the late 1920s.
The exhibition From Sickert to Gertler: Modern British Art From Boxted House is at Gainsborough’s House until December 13.
For details, call 01787 372958 or go to www.gainsborough.org
Exhibiting in England for the first time in 20 years, Leo Amery brings his stained glass wall hangings to the Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, from October 12 to November 8.
Amery’s work is designed to be hung on a wall and, unusually for stained glass, lit from the front.
The overall effect creates a relief of colour, light and shadow and his work is abstract and often inspired by the natural environment.
Amery studied stained glass part time at the Central School of Art, in London in the late 1970s, when he also had his first studio in Rotherhithe.
After a period travelling in Africa, Australia and Asia, he had a studio in Kilburn for eight years and in 1987 moved to France.
Of his move to the continent, he said: “Creatively, it was a move I will never regret.
“I live in a simple stone house surrounded by the changing lights, colours and outlines of this area of south-west France.
“To have such an unspoilt landscape on the doorstep is an inspiration.”
A Desh of opera
Tasher Desh is inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Western opera.
A sumptuous Indian dance opera, Tasher Desh, is coming to Bury’s Theatre Royal, mixing dance, drums and traditional Bengali music in a sensational show.
Written more than half a century ago by Author Tagore, a great friend of Gandhi, Tasher Desh translates, literally, as Land of Cards.
The dance opera is inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Western opera, telling the tale of a prince and a merchant who set out on a great adventure to bring joy and unity to an island of segregated clans.
The opera’s great sense of fun and comedy has made it popular across India, but this is the first time the full-length version has been performed in this country.
Award-winning dancer Ash Mukherjee, who plays the merchant, said: “The merchant is a quixotic character, he’s travelled a great deal and is perhaps a little jaded.
“I was really thinking of Johnny Depp’s character in Pirates of the Caribbean when I began working on the part.
“He’s that odd mixture, a hotch potch, who doesn’t care what people think of him.”
Tasher Desh features a multi-cultural cast and a soundtrack that combines Bengali songs and music with English narration throughout.
Tasher Desh is at the Theatre Royal on October 21. Tickets are £7 to £16.50, available from 01284 769505 or online at www.theatreroyal.org
The story of the Brontës
The Harleston Players tells the story of one of England’s most famous literary families.
The latest offering from the Harleston Players tells the story of one of England’s most famous literary families.
Brontë, by Polly Teale, is a story of loss, longing, desire, identity, rivalry, failure and the price of success – in fact, just about every human emotion is laid bare.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë’s own lives were as complex as those of their book characters and the play tells their story, as well as that of their brother, Branwell.
How was it possible that three plain, reclusive women, who lived in rural isolation, could produce some of the most passionate, enduring literature of all time?
And how could their adored brother descend into alcoholism, drug addiction and insanity, bringing chaos to the household?
Polly Teale attempts to answer these questions by dramatising the lives of the Brontës and, as the story unravels, their fictional characters, such as Jane Eyre, Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff, make an appearance.
Brontë is being performed at the Archbishop Sancroft High School, on October 24, 25, 30 and 31, and November 1, at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £7 and £5 for concessions, available from Harleston Pet Stores or telephone 01379 588043.
