Village Screen

Creative Arts East has been awarded RIFE funding of £4000 to support the development of its Village Screen scheme in West Norfolk and East Norfolk. CAE is working with Gorleston Library and the Children’s Centre at Gorleston to develop new groups to arrange regular screenings. Creative Arts East  now owns two additional sets of equipment and these will be based at Downham Market and Gorleston libraries. For further information please contact Alice Morelli or telephone her on 01953 713390

For details about Village Screen check the Creative Arts East website by clicking here.

Read Herrings Poetry Competition for Herring Day!

Holy Mackerel! A poetry competition for Herring Day!

Local people were invited to make a contribution to the Time and Tide Museum by submitting a short poem about the humble herring for National Poetry Day on the 8^th October.   The winning  poem is reproduced on the new text panel for the  iconic Yarmouth Bloater King sign (see image)  unveiled at Time and Tide’s annual Herring Day on Sunday October 18^th . Entries were judged by published Norfolk based poet Esther Morgan.

Winner of the Read Herrings poetry competition for Herring Day 2009:

My Silver Darling

By Charles Huggett

Skin tanned and burned by the keen east blow

Burnished rosy cheeks shine and glow

Back complaining and feet sore

Hands chapped bleeding red and raw

Still you can laugh and share a smile

Although you know in a little while

The next herring catch will land

So you stand ready knife in hand

To gut and wash the silver throng

And so you work all day long.

Your clothes are coated in silver scales

And glitter my eye assails.

Like sequins on a fine ball gown

Or diamonds set in a royal crown.

Transformed from dull and dowdy starling

To my shiny glistening silver darling.

But no ball will glimpse her sparkling clothes

Just a small dark pub in the Yarmouth rows!

The Bloater King in person

Meet the Marketing Professionals

EnterpriseGY are presenting  a FREE event on the 18th September 2009 at the Novus Centre, The Conge, Great Yarmouth where you can get inside advice and tips from top local designers, web experts, advertising agencies, printing companies and copywriters.

No need to book, just drop in on the day between 10.00 – 16.00 hrs.  For more information telephone 0800 4580146 or go to www.enterpriseGY.co.uk.

Public Art: Herring Arch by Nigel Barnett

This is a detail of the Herring Arch over the north entrance to St. George’s Park.  The arch was created by master blacksmith, Nigel Barnett of Fransham Forge.

The arch, constructed in mild steel and representing ropes intertwined with herrings, seaweed and star fish, was commissioned by the Great Yarmouth Borough Council under the supervision of Darren Barker, as part of the St. George’s Park refurbishment project undertaken in 2008 by the Borough and County Councils in partnership with Mott MacDonald, May Gurney and GYB Services.

St George’s Park was awarded the prestigious Green Flag Award from the Civic Trust in 2008.  Photograph by Derek Jackson.

Out There International Festival

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September 2009, St George’s Park , Great Yarmouth.

This year OutThere will have an amazing array of  public performances, spectacular street shows, live music, theatre, circus, international food stalls, and lots of workshops and activities for everyone to get involved in. To find out more click here to view the Out There website.

SeaChange Arts is looking for people who can spare some time to volunteer and help deliver this exciting event in Great Yarmouth. There are many opportunities to get involved including: marketing, hospitality, runners, backstage support,stewarding, reviews.

For further information or to get involved contact Laurie Miller-Zutshi on 01493 846187 or e-mail creativelearning@seachangearts.org.uk.

Charlotte Howarth

Congratulations to Charlotte Howarth who has been selected for the Grat Yarmouth Central Library Public Art Commission advertised earlier on EastCoastNet.

Charlotte is a sculptor, designer, stone carver and letterer. Working in a variety of materials, stone, wood and steel, her work shows a deep sensitivity to line, pattern and texture. Her work is influenced by the tradition of recording events from everyday life, creating a document to give future generations an insight and understanding into our lives and times.

She has successfully completed a variety of public art commissions and has developed a strong understanding of community involvement, incorporating many different approaches, working with a wide variety of community groups with a diverse range of abilities. Charlotte also works on a range of private commissions including sculptures and lettering design as well as working on her own projects for exhibition.

Illustrated: Children at Play by Charlotte Howarth, brick, 300x300c6cm, 2007, Old Firestation, Fountain Estate, Londonderry.  To find out more about this project go to Charlotte’s page on Axis by clicking here

After studying lettering at the City and Guilds of London Art School (1st) Charlotte worked as an assistant to Richard Kindersley at his workshop in London.  She then went to work in Cork for 6 years as an assistant to Ken Thompson, where she developed her work on larger than life figurative carvings, Stations of the Cross and inscriptional work, both small and large scale.  Charlotte is now based at Kings Lynn and in 2005 set up Making Marks Ltd, as a focus for her work within the public arena.

Central Library Gallery reopens

The refurbished gallery space at the Central Library, Great Yarmouth, is now open.  The Great Yarmouth and District Society  is the first to take advantage of the new open-plan space with their 82nd  annual exhibition, which will open ready for the Maritime Festival on the 5th September.  The exhibition continues until the 12th September (except Sunday), 10-17 hrs, 19.30 hrs on Wednesday.

For information about the galleries at Great Yarmouth Central Library and how to book an exhibition, click here.  Alternatively contact the Library and Galleries Manager on 01493 844551/842279 or send an email to yarmouth.lib@norfolk.gov.uk.

Norfolk Libraries has now got a Facebook page where you can find out more about what is going on: http://www.facebook.com/NorfolkLibrariesUK.

Public Art, Les

Does anybody know anything about this monument in the graveyard at St. Nicholas Parish Church?  The inscription just reads Les, apparently.  Was the damage caused by vandals?  (See comment for response)

The photograph was taken by Derek Jackson.