27th June to 4th July - Southwold Arts Festival

the second annual
27th June to 4th July
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Welcome to the second Southwold Arts Festival. It is run by an
enthusiastic group of volunteers who are passionate about the arts,
and work hard all year to create this unique Festival. This year’s
fabulous programme showcases national and local talent across the
arts for all tastes and ages. We feature our local young performers
alongside their more established colleagues and bring national
names to our beautiful seaside town for an eight-day celebration
of the arts. We look forward to seeing you!
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Last year, the first ever Southwold Arts Festival hosted 22 Festival
events, 6 fringe shows and sold over 1,500 tickets – the whole
week was an amazing credit to this remarkable town. And now it’s
back ... 8 days, 1 International Concert, over 35 Festival events
and 1 sparkling street party … all in a town that punches artistically
way above its weight. This year the programme is glorious … a
combination of national names and local talent involving music, theatre, politics, poetry,
comedy, food, an Open Mic night, a Shakespeare revue, a George Orwell walk, Alan
Bennett’s Talking Heads, children’s drama, art, culture … It’s a really special line up
for the greatest Arts Festival ever seen between Walberswick and Wrentham.
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Southwold Arts Festival Diary 27th June – 4th July 2015
Saturday
27th June
Sunday
28th June
Monday
29th June
Tuesday
30th June
Festival Songs
of Praise
Wonderful Women
George Orwell’s
Dr Laura MacCulloch Southwold Walk
Ronald Binns
St Edmund’s Hall
Wednesday
1st July
Thursday
2nd July
Friday
3rd July
Saturday
4th July
Francis Bacon and
the Masters
Amanda Geitner
George Orwell’s
Southwold Walk
Ronald Binns
Naughty but Nice
Open Tower
Oonagh Segrave-Daly St Edmund’s Church
Morning
The United Reformed
Church
10.30am
11.00am
Meet outside the
Lighthouse
11.00am
St Edmund’s Hall
11.00am
Meet outside the
Lighthouse
11.00am
Le Roc
11.00am
Fifty years in
fifty minutes
Dave Ward
St Edmund’s Hall
11.00am
Afternoon
Street Festival
12 noon – 6.00pm
In and around
Southwold High Street
‘… and this is my
friend Mr Laurel’
Jeffrey Holland
St Edmund’s Hall
2.30pm
St Edmund’s Hall
7.30pm
An Audience with
Nick Robinson
St Edmund’s Hall
7.30pm
The Dinosaur that
Pooped – A Show
St Edmund’s Hall
11.00am
Young Musicians’
Showcase
David Massey
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Olivia Castle
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Thea Butterworth
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Hugo Hymas
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Penelope Carter
Letters from
Aldeburgh
Sidi Scott &
Jonathan Rutherford
The Three Stages of
Denis King
Alan Bennett’s
Talking Heads
Deborah Kelly
An entertaining
afternoon with Roy
and Debbie Hudd
Jill Freud and Friends Diary of a Wimpy
Kid Show
St Edmund’s Hall
2.30pm
St Edmund’s Hall
2.00pm
Open Mic
Kepow Theatre
Company presents
Kevin Tomlinson’s
Seven Ages
Bob Kerr’s Whoopee
Band
The Shakespeare
Revue White Cobra
Productions
An evening with
Roger McGough
Clare Teal’s
Celebration of The
Great American
Songbook
The United Reformed
Church
1.15 – 2.00pm
St Edmund’s Hall
2.30pm
Evening
The Good Lovelies
10.00am – 4.00pm
Southwold Golf Club
7.30pm
The United Reformed
Church
1.15 – 2.00pm
St Edmund’s Hall
3.00pm
St Edmund’s Hall
7.30pm
Pre-Festival warm up
Slaughter in Southwold - Southwold Library Crime Writers’ Festival
20th & 21st June, Reydon Village Hall
£5 per talk, £15 per day or £30 for the weekend. Lunches £10
Slaughter in Southwold is a two day festival dedicated to crime writers and lovers of crime writing.
Events include talks, interviews and book signings, lunch with the authors, fun crime quiz night,
and more.
Authors include Simon Brett, Nicci French, Rory Clements, Barbara Nadel,
Kate Rhodes, Penny Hancock, Julia Crouch, Sarah Hilary and Margaret Callow.
Book online, at Southwold Library or on 01502 722519
The United Reformed
Church
1.15 – 2.00pm
St Edmund’s Hall
3.00pm
The Godell Pavillion
7.30pm
The United Reformed
Church
1.15 – 2.00pm
St Edmund’s Hall
2.30pm
St Edmund’s Hall
7.30pm
The United Reformed
Church
1.15 – 2.00pm
St Edmund’s Church
7.30pm
Salon Baroque
Julia Bowen &
Helen Coombs
The United Reformed
Church
1.00pm
St Edmund’s Hall
7.30pm
Exhibitions & Events
Reg Carter
Remembered
Adnams Art
Open Studio Trail
Children’s Seaside
Ceramic Mural
27th June – 7th July
Buckenham Galleries
27th & 28th June
Reydon
27th June – 4th July
Adnams Museum
27th June – 4th July
Le Roc/Electricity Green
Southwold Arts Circle
Annual Exhibition
22nd June – 5th July
Scout Hut
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Festival Exhibitions
and Events
Festival Diary
27th June – 7th July, 10.00am – 5.00pm
Mon – Sat, 12.00 noon – 4.00pm Sun
Street Festival
The Good Lovelies
12 noon – 6.00pm, in and around
Southwold High Street FREE
7.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £12.50
Reg Carter Remembered
Buckenham Galleries, Programme £3
Southwold artist Reg Carter is best
known locally for his Southwold
Railway postcards but at the peak
of his career he was working for
over thirty publishers making
him among the most prolific
illustrators of his time.
He was an artist for D C Thomson,
creating ‘Big Eggo’ for the first Beano
comic on 30th July 1938 and some of his
original comic work will be on display. This is
a unique retrospective exhibition of original art
work containing rare and previously unknown
illustrations that have never been on public
display before.
27th June – 4th July, 10.00am – 5.00pm
Adnams Art
Adnams Museum, Free event
Adnams, our main sponsor, will be opening
their museum during the festival week. They
will also display the original and distinctive
linocut ‘Beer from the Coast’ artwork by
Chris Wormell.
Chris, born in Lincolnshire in 1955, had
no formal training as an artist. He
worked as a road-sweeper, rubbish
collector, postman and a factory
worker before buying a set of wood
engraving tools which he taught himself
to use. He has since become a wellknown and iconic artist, with the Adnams art
being instantly recognisable across East Anglia.
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22nd June – 5th July
Southwold Arts Circle
Annual Exhibition
Scout Hut, Free event
A large exhibition of paintings covering a wide
range of styles and subjects from one of the
largest and longest established art societies in
East Anglia. All works are for sale.
The Southwold Art Circle has more than 200
members - professional and amateur artists
living and working in and around Southwold.
The Summer Exhibition has been an
annual event since 1966.
27th & 28th June
Open Studio Trail
Reydon, Free event
Six professional artists, who live
and work in Reydon, are opening
their studios to the public on 27th
& 28th June. You will be able to see
where their work is created, and discuss
the inspiration and processes behind it. Free
entry with no obligation to purchase. For more
information visit Southwold Library, the Tourist
Information Office or www.lainawest.co.uk
27th June – 4th July
Children’s Seaside
Ceramic Mural
Outside Le Roc/Electricity Green
Local artist Thea Cutting has worked with
children from Southwold, Reydon and St
Felix primary schools to create this unique tile
painting with a seaside theme.
Saturday 27th June
The Southwold Arts Festival will be
opened with a colourful Street Event.
Expect an explosion of fun, singing and
music. The High Street and town centre
will be crowded with circus performers,
theatre groups, live musicians, buskers,
artists, choirs and stalls selling local
food and drink. The theme for the day
is Wheels, and festivities will start with
a parade from the Police Station to the
Market Place, led by the Suffolk School
of Samba. Decorate your wheels
and join in the parade – prams,
buggies, wheelbarrows, shopping
trollies, scooters and all pedal powered
contraptions welcome.
A detailed programme for the Street
Festival will be available on the day.
Highlights will include folk singer John
Ward, The Sole Bay Singers, St Felix
Prep School Choir, Wrentham Town
Band, Punch & Judy and Tuba Swingy.
The Street Festival is sponsored by
My Southwold, the initiative which
promotes Southwold’s independent
businesses. The finale of the day
will be the Sing While You Work
choir competition. Expect the
competition to be fierce as
the rival choirs meet for the
second year – there are
scores to be settled!
The Good Lovelies are one of Canada’s
premiere folk bands, known for their
impeccable vocals, toothsome song
writing and on-stage charisma. With highprofile awards and plenty of praise from
the international folk music community,
the trio is now set to venture beyond the
boundaries of old time traditions with a
new album, Burn The Plan. A new spirit
of adventurousness gives Burn The Plan
an extra spark; the album is permeated
with textures and tones from musical
worlds away.
“The Good Lovelies are one of the best
vocal groups in Canada. If the Andrews
Sisters joined the Beach Boys you would
get close to their sweet harmonies.”
Stuart McLean, Vinyl Café
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Sunday 28th June
Festival Songs of Praise
10.30am, The United Reformed
Church FREE
You are warmly invited to attend the
annual Songs of Praise Festival Service
which celebrates the arts from a uniquely
Christian perspective. This will be an
ecumenical service and will include hymns
and Christian songs specifically chosen
for the occasion.
There will be a special guest speaker
and members of the local community
will take part in the service. This
event will be at the United
Reformed Church in the
High Street and everyone is
welcome to enjoy this special
community gathering as part of the
2015 Southwold Arts Festival.
‘… and this is my friend Mr
Laurel’ Jeffrey Holland
2.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £10
Set in Oliver Hardy’s bedroom, Laurel
visits his sick friend, reliving one of the
greatest cinematic partnerships and
providing an in-depth, humorous and
touching account of the comedian’s life.
Jeffrey Holland portrays his idol in this new
one man play co-written by the award–
winning playwright Gail Louw and Jeff
himself, who is touring the country
with this amazing piece of theatre.
Jeff has performed in
Shakespeare, drama,
comedy, musicals and
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Monday 29th June
pantomime and is well known for his
TV work as Spike in Hi de Hi.
“Simple, smart and sublimely
performed ****”
BroadwayBaby.com
Edinburgh Festival
An Audience with
Nick Robinson
7.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall
£17.50
Nick Robinson is a reporter,
presenter and author and
has been the BBC’s
Political Editor
since 2005. He
appears regularly
on the BBC News
and on Radio 4’s
Today programme as well
as writing an award winning
blog and presenting a range of
television and radio documentaries.
He is the author of ‘Live from Downing
Street’ which was published in 2012.
Nick has won a string of awards including
the Royal Television Society ‘Specialist
Journalist of the Year’ and Political Studies
Association ‘Political Journalist
of the Year’.
Sponsored by Denny
of Southwold
Wonderful Women
Dr Laura MacCulloch
11.00am, St Edmund’s Hall £5
Dr Laura MacCulloch is Curator,
Royal Holloway, University of
London. Her talk introduces the
Garrett sisters who became models
for the feminist movement - Millicent
Fawcett for female suffrage, Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson, the first female
doctor in England and Agnes Garrett
who established the first interior design
business run by women. The talk also
includes female artists Annie Swynnerton
and Christiana Herringham whose work
is represented in the Royal Holloway
Art Collections.
Young Musicians’
Showcase
David Massey Guitar
Recital
1.15 – 2.00pm, The United
Reformed Church £5
David, a BBC Young Musician finalist,
studied at the Royal Academy of Music,
has performed at the Wigmore Hall,
Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, King’s
Place, St Martin in the Fields. His wide
ranging musical interests allow him to
span genres and styles from classical to
rock. His solo performances have been
described as ‘intense and intimate’,
marked by a ‘remarkable energy and
range of tone and dynamics’. Julian
Bream has praised his sound and
communication of musical structure.
Sponsored by Southwold & District
Chamber of Trade & Commerce
Letters from Aldeburgh
Sidi Scott & Jonathan
Rutherford
2.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £7
Between 1962 and 1979 Joyce Grenfell
attended the Aldeburgh Music Festival
and wrote delightful letters describing
her growing friendship with Benjamin
Britten and Peter Pears. Based on the
book Letters from Aldeburgh edited by
Janie Hampton, Sidi Scott and Jonathan
Rutherford bring Joyce Grenfell’s inimitable
wit and love of life to the Festival.
Sidi, with an extensive career as a
dancer, singer and actress, is now
Chairman of FESPA, Suffolk Performing
Arts. Jonathan, a highly respected
pianist and composer, was one
of the first pupils at the Yehudi
Menhuin School.
Open Mic
7:30pm, Southwold
Golf Club £5
This is your chance to get involved
with the Festival or to sit back and
spot some new talent! If you have a
performing talent or party trick, delight the
ears of an audience for six minutes! So
actors, cabaret entertainers, comedians,
magicians, musicians, poets, rappers,
ventriloquists and yodellers: we welcome
you to showcase your talent.
To take part, sign up at
openmic@southwoldartsfestival.co.uk
Sponsored by Southwold Golf Club
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Tuesday 30th June
George Orwell’s
Southwold Walk
Ronald Binns
11.00am, Meet
outside the
Lighthouse £5
George Orwell had
a long association with
Southwold and the town has
some surprising connections
with his remarkable life and classic
books, including both his novels and
non-fiction. This hour’s walk, accessible
for wheelchairs, introduces the Southwold
that Orwell knew well and shows its
influence upon his life and writing.
Led by local author Ronald Binns
whose publications include books on
Shakespeare and the Booker Prizewinning novelist J.G. Farrell. Meet outside
the lighthouse entrance on Stradbroke
Road. Numbers are limited so booking
is advised.
Sponsored by Southwold Pier
Young Musicians’
Showcase Olivia Castle
Jazz Recital
1.15 – 2.00pm, The United
Reformed Church £5
Olivia is a jazz crossover vocalist who has
just released her first album, Siren Song.
She was runner-up in the BBC Radio 2
Chorister of the Year final in 2008, and has
also performed in the BBC Proms with the
National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
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Siren Song was
recorded with
Laurie Holloway
(MBE) and
has received
interest from
leading figures in
the music industry. She
aims to bring jazz back to a
contemporary audience. Today
she will perform accompanied by
the celebrated composer and musical
director Denis King.
Sponsored by Southwold & District
Chamber of Trade & Commerce
The Three Stages of
Denis King
3.00pm, St Edmund’s Hall £7
Denis King’s hugely successful
professional career is a truly
remarkable story. With his
brothers Mike and Tony
he was in the King
Brothers, one of the
most popular groups of
the fifties and sixties.
Having studied at the Guildhall
School of Music, he won Ivor
Novello Awards for The Adventures
of Black Beauty and also for the Royal
Shakespeare Company’s Privates on
Parade. He has created hundreds of
television and film themes and performed
in successful stage shows and comic
revues with many of the biggest names in
show business.
Kepow Theatre Company
presents Kevin Tomlinson’s
Seven Ages
7.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £10
Exploring the seven stages in life from
infancy, through love and wisdom to
growing old disgracefully, Tomlinson
manages to compress the whole of life
into two hilarious, heart-warming hours.
Seven Ages premiered at the Edinburgh
Festival, achieving 5 star reviews and
a sell-out run. In London’s West End,
it received standing ovations and has
gone on to performances in over 300 UK
venues and a sell-out world tour.
Proud
sponsors of
The Southwold
Arts Festival
Street Event
“Impossible not to fall for likeable Kevin
Tomlinson’s engaging, Shakespeareinspired Seven Ages – packed houses
and audience adored! Genuine popular
theatre ... this will sell out!”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Keep Southwold Special
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Wednesday 1st July
Francis Bacon and the
Masters Amanda Geitner
11.00am, St Edmund’s Hall FREE
A talk by Amanda Geitner, Chief Curator
of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
UEA, Norwich organised by Southwold
Decorative & Fine Arts Society.
Amanda Geitner will give an
illustrated talk about the
Sainsbury Centre’s ground
breaking exhibition which
brings together works
by Francis Bacon, who
was obsessed with art of
the past, alongside paintings
by Velasquez, Rembrandt, Titian,
Michelangelo, Rodin, Van Gogh,
Picasso, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Matisse.
Many of these masterpieces, loaned by
the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg,
have never been seen in the UK before.
The exhibition runs from 18 April to 26
July at the UEA.
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Thea Butterworth
Harp Recital
1.15 – 2.00pm, The United
Reformed Church £5
Thea was eight when she started
studying the harp and, while at the
Junior Department of the Royal College
of Music, played for Prince Charles and
won the Gordon Turner Harp Memorial
Competition.
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While at the Yehudi
Menuhin School she
performed in the Menuhin
Festival in Gstaad. She has
played in master-classes
with David Watkins, Isabelle
Perin and Marissa Robles, has
performed in The Royal Festival Hall,
The Barbican and The Royal Albert
Hall, and she gave a solo recital in the
Summer of 2014 at the Wigmore Hall.
Sponsored by Southwold & District
Chamber of Trade & Commerce
Alan Bennett’s
Talking Heads
Deborah Kelly
3.00pm, St Edmund’s
Hall £7
The Library Touring Company
present two of Alan Bennett’s much
loved monologues. In A Lady of Letters
Miss Ruddock asserts her rights by
writing letters but one of these missives
pushes her to the brink, with unexpected
but liberating consequences.
In Bed Among the Lentils Susan, an
alcoholic vicar’s wife, distracts herself from
her ambitious, insensitive husband and
his doting parishioners by conducting an
affair with a nearby grocer, Ramesh,
discovering something about herself
and God in the process.
Bob Kerr’s Whoopee Band
– the longest working
musical comedy band
in Europe!
7.30pm, The Godell Pavillion
£15
Jazz, musical comedy and twenty
different instruments will ensure a great
evening’s entertainment from Bob Kerr’s
Whoopee Band.
An offshoot of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah
Band, The Temperance Seven and
the New Vaudeville Band, they have
performed all over Europe. They had their
own TV series and have toured with Ralph
McTell and Manhattan Transfer, played
at Bob Dylan’s concerts in Earls
Court and played at the wedding
of Roger Daltrey. The Band have
appeared in St Petersburg and in
Denmark with Dame Edna Everage.
“A gloriously idiosyncratic phenomenon.”
Birmingham Mail
Thursday 2nd July
George Orwell’s
Southwold Walk
Ronald Binns
11.00am, Meet outside the
Lighthouse £5
George Orwell had a long association
with Southwold and the town has some
surprising connections with his remarkable
life and classic books, including both his
novels and non-fiction. This hour’s
walk, accessible for wheelchairs,
introduces the Southwold that Orwell
knew well and shows its influence upon
his life and writing.
Led by local author Ronald Binns
whose publications include books on
Shakespeare and the Booker Prizewinning novelist J.G. Farrell. Meet outside
the Lighthouse entrance on Stradbroke
Road. Numbers are limited so booking
is advised.
Sponsored by Southwold Pier
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Hugo Hymas
Tenor Recital
1.15 – 2.00pm, The
United Reformed
Church £5
London-based tenor, Hugo
Hymas, graduated from Durham
University in 2014, and is in increasing
demand as a soloist and consort singer
across the UK, performing regularly with
groups such as Tenebrae, I Fagiolini,
Philharmonia Voices, The Eric Whitacre
Singers and Polyphony. His recital will
include some of the wonderful folk song
arrangements of Benjamin Britten.
“Hugo’s singing is always sublime – silky
smooth, beautifully phrased and every
word crystal clear – but he can certainly
act too.”
Jane Shuttleworth, www.musicdurham.co.uk
Sponsored by Southwold & District
Chamber of Trade & Commerce
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An entertaining afternoon
with Roy and Debbie Hudd
2.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £10
Roy Hudd, after fifty years in show
business, has surely become a national
treasure! Beginning his career as a Butlin’s
Redcoat he has performed in pantomime,
music hall, farce, musicals, Shakespeare
and stand-up comedy. His career has
extended to television, radio and
theatre and his award winning
News Huddlines was on the
radio for twenty-six years.
In 2004 he was
awarded an OBE for his
services to entertainment.
With his wife Debbie, Roy will
tell some of the stories from his
remarkable career and sign copies
of his autobiography.
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The Shakespeare
Revue
White Cobra
Productions
Young Musicians’
Showcase
Penelope Carter
Oboe Recital
7.30pm, St
Edmund’s Hall £10
1.15 – 2.00pm, The United
Reformed Church £5
A light-hearted collection of
sketches, songs and anecdotes
inspired by William Shakespeare.
Originally created for the Royal
Shakespeare Company it includes
extracts from Alan Bennett, Noel Coward,
Stephen Fry, Cole Porter, Stephen
Sondheim, Victoria Wood and many
others. The result is a sparkling
revue performed by six versatile
actors and their pianist. You
never knew Shakespeare
could be so much fun!
Friday 3rd July
As a student, Penelope contributed
to Suffolk Youth Music and Durham
University as oboe principal, concerto
soloist and cor anglais player. Highlights
include appearances nationally at Snape
Maltings and The Sage, Gateshead,
and internationally from Leipzig’s
Thomaskirche to Madrid’s Royal Palace.
This oboe recital features repertoire from
the nineteenth and twentieth century,
including the favourite ‘Three Romances’
by Schumann.
“A promising emerging artist, imaginative
and passionate about the oboe.”
Joseph Sanders
Sponsored by Southwold & District
Chamber of Trade & Commerce
Naughty but Nice
Oonagh Segrave-Daly
Fifty years in fifty
minutes Dave Ward
11.00am, Le Roc £5
11.00am, St Edmund’s Hall £5
2.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £7.50
A delicious mix of the risqué from the
pens of Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward,
Shakespeare and Spike Milligan with
limericks and a touch of Old Tyme
Music Hall. Sit back and delight in this
stimulating, spicy selection of poetry and
prose with a sinful biscuit and coffee.
The ‘MV Ross Revenge’, a radio ship
formerly the home of Radio Caroline,
ran aground on the Goodwin Sands
in November 1991, bringing the era of
offshore pirate radio to an end.
Jill Freud’s poetry and music evenings
for the Summer Theatre have become
an institution in Southwold, entertaining
audiences for more than twenty years.
Join her for an afternoon of words,
laughter and music with some
special friends.
Oonagh is the well-known local presenter
of Poetry Plus on Blyth Valley Radio and
an active voice on the East Anglian
poetry scene.
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Dave Ward first got involved with the
Radio Caroline Support Group when he
heard that the ship was being scrapped.
He asked the station manager if it could
be sold instead to raise funds to open it
to the public. Some £3,000+ later his
work continues.
Jill Freud and Friends
She is joined by Jacqui Coghlan,
singer and theatre producer;
Richard Gibson, actor,
scriptwriter and Herr Flick
in Allo Allo; Phyllida Hancock,
RSC and West End Theatre; Roy
Margolis, jazz pianist; Ben Parry, music
director and Helen Atkinson Wood,
television presenter, actress and Mrs
Miggins in Blackadder.
An evening with
Roger McGough
7.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £15
Roger McGough is President of the Poetry
Society and has been honoured with a
CBE for his services to literature. With
Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, he
published The Mersey Sound
and also performed with
The Scaffold. He was
honoured with the
Freedom of the City
of Liverpool in 2001
and is the presenter of
Radio 4’s Poetry Please.
He is a poet of many voices
whose performance poetry will
include menace, melancholy, wit and
wordplay. The event will be followed by a
Q & A session and book signings.
Sponsored by
Saint Felix School
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Saturday 4th July
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Show
Open Tower
St Edmund’s Church
Salon Baroque Julia
Bowen & Helen Coombs
10.00am – 4.00pm, St Edmund’s
Church FREE
1.00pm, The United Reformed
Church £5
Climb the tower in St Edmund’s Church
to see the eight magnificent bells and
find out about the art and history
of bellringing. All ages welcome.
Care needed with steps
leading up into the tower.
Re-visit the sophisticated world of the
inter-war years in this programme of
music from Broadway and London theatre
and society salons. Innocent, charming
love-songs; knowing, witty wordplay;
saucy cabaret numbers. Think beads and
boas, Eton crops and cigarette holders,
potted palms and cocktail shakers – the
gin-perfumed atmosphere of these songs
by Cole Porter, Noel Coward, George
Gershwin and friends.
The Dinosaur that
Pooped – A Show
11.00pm, St Edmund’s Hall, £3
Created from the bestselling The Dinosaur
That Pooped picture book series, host
Alastair Watson brings the books to life
with help from The Dinosaur himself!
An interactive, fun event that includes
dinosaur impressions, live drawing, a
Dinosaur rhyme and gross games
like Guess Poo, it’s perfect for
entertaining children ages 5+.
The event includes
exclusive video clips
from The Dinosaur
That Pooped creators,
McBusted’s Tom Fletcher and
Dougie Poynter. Buy a book and
get it stamped by Dino!
Sponsored by Southwold Bookshop
Julia and Helen have been singing
together since university days, building up
a wide-ranging repertoire of programmes
– serious and satirical – from the Middle
Ages to the present day.
2.00pm, St Edmund’s Hall £5
A must for all Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans
host Alastair Watson brings the books
to life with fun activities including The
Wimpy Kid Draw-Along and The Wimp
Wars Quiz! See exclusive clips of author
Jeff Kinney talking about the books, the
films and showing how he draws the
characters. Buy a book on the day and
get an exclusive Wimpy Kid Show stamp.
Suitable for ages 8+.
Sponsored by Southwold Bookshop
Clare Teal’s Celebration
of the Great American
Songbook
7.30pm, St Edmund’s Hall £17.50
Clare Teal with Jason Rebello (piano),
Simon Little (Bass) and Ben Reynolds
(Drums) will feature songs from the finest
writers including Cole Porter, George
Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
and Irving Berlin. Clare and her band pay
homage to the great American singers,
Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Doris Day,
Dinah Washington, Anita O’Day and
Judy Garland sharing anecdotes and
performing timeless classics such as I Get
A Kick Out of You, Secret Love and Get
Happy. Expect the best in swing, with wit
and warmth. Perfect for 4th July!
“This talented jazz vocalist and songwriter,
whose influences range from Ella Fitzgerald
to Cole Porter and Noel Coward, is ...one
of the best vocal talents to emerge from
the UK in a long, long while.”
Michael Parkinson
www.southwoldartsfestival.co.uk
Tickets for the
events are available:
Online:
www.southwoldartsfestival.co.uk
By post:
SAE and cheque payable to ‘Suffolk
Summer Theatre’ sent to Southwold Arts
Festival, St Edmund’s Hall, Cumberland
Road, Southwold IP18 6LE
Telephone bookings:
01502 722572
Daytime Box Office:
St Edmund’s Hall
Monday to Saturday, 12 noon – 3.00pm
/southwoldartsfestival
@southwoldArts
All the information in this leaflet is accurate at the time
of going to press but programmes and artists may
be subject to change. See the Festival website for
additional events.
Southwold Summer
Theatre 2015
8th July - 18th July
20th July - 1st August
3rd August -15th August
Box Office
17th August - 29th August
01502
722572
31st August - 12th September
SAINT FELIX SCHOOL
and
THE DRAGONS’ NURSERY
SOUTHWOLD
INDEPENDENT DAY AND BOARDING AGES 2 - 18
TELEPHONE: 01502 727048 EMAIL: MBRIDGMAN@STFELIX.CO.UK
OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.STFELIX.CO.UK
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Thank You to Our
Supporters
We would like to thank the local
businesses and groups who make the
Southwold Arts Festival possible by their
kindness and generosity.
Lead Sponsor
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The Southwold Arts Festival would like to express its thanks to all our valued volunteers
and stewards – we couldn’t do it without you.
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