Great Yarmouth Community Cinema

Gorleston Cliff Top Festival

The Cliff Top Festival on Marine Parade, Gorleston will be held on Saturday 31 July 12-22 hrs. and Sunday 1 August 11 to late, and includes music, a funfair, helicopter rides, side-shows and a fireworks display on the Sunday night.  Click here to go to the Cliff Top Festival website for full information.

As part of the ‘BeInvolved with vinvolved Summer Season’, the Norfolk vinvolved team will be on hand to assist volunteers and have roles for people of all abilities.

Food, water and hot drinks will be provided and all reasonable travel expenses will be paid.

For more information, please contact Steve Smith at Norfolk vinvolved on 07771 531562 or http://steve.smith@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

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Working Neighbourhoods Fund Small Grants

What could your Great Yarmouth group do with £10,000?

Groups in Great Yarmouth are being given the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to £10,000 from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund Small Grants programme to help tackle worklessness and low levels of skills and enterprise in the Borough of Great Yarmouth.

WNF Small Grants is a sponsored initiative, funded by Great Yarmouth Borough Council and run in partnership with Voluntary Norfolk.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 4 August at 12.00pm.

For further information please contact Helen Johnson on 01493 845 925 or helen.johnson@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Yarmouth in Days Gone By archive film

Fascinating archive film of the Herring Industry, Scottish fisher girls at work, promotional films from the 1930′s and 1950′s,  holidays at Great Yarmouth, The Prince of Wales opening the Haven bridge and visits by stars such as Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill & Ruby Murray.

Gorleston-On-Sea Heritage Group (GOSH) will also be showing old pictures of Gorleston Thursday 29th July 2.30pm in the Lecture Hall, Gorleston Library.  Everyone welcome Admission £3 (£2.50 concessions).  Tickets available in advance from the Library and on the door. Refreshments available.

Arts & Crafts Stalls: Out There 2010

Artists and craftspeople are invited to apply for a pitch to trade at the Out There International Festival of Street Arts and Circus 2010, taking place in St George’s Park, Great Yarmouth on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September 2010. Stalls can be used for selling and also for demonstration purposes. The site will be open for all traders to set up between 7.30 – 10am on both Saturday and Sunday.

There will be no charge for an arts and crafts pitch. Tables and chairs will be provided but if you require any other methods of displaying work or decorating your stall, you will need to provide this yourself.

If you are interested, click here to email Becca Clayton, Projects Assistant at SeaChange Arts to ask for an application form and further information. Deadline for submission of applications: 12th August 2010.

Silent Hobo to create murals at St. George’s

SeaChange Arts are calling for nominations for a Great Yarmouth community champion to take their part in two murals being commissioned for the town and supported by the heritage lottery fund.

The murals will be used to decorate hoardings around the St George’s Chapel development. The work depicts key points in Yarmouth’s heritage and cultural life, from earliest beginnings, through maritime and tourist heritage up to its focus in 1960s youth culture with the Mods and Rockers.

The murals are being created by Bristol based artist Silent Hobo.  A character-based artist who works on large-scale street murals, Silent Hobo’s work mixes comic art influences, graffiti and Manga. His work is featured on buildings around Bristol and has been exhibited at The Tobacco factory in Bristol and Selfridges in London.

Silent Hobo will work on the 30-metre mural for St George’s Chapel during two visits to the town over the coming months. The work will be created on panels, which will be attached to the hoarding around the chapel during its renovation into a multi-purpose arts centre. It is expected these will stay in place until major works are completed. Following that, individual panels will be donated to various groups around town with the successfully nominated local figure receiving the panel featuring them.

As the murals will exhibited in the King Street area and are part of the ongoing regeneration project there, SeaChange Arts would like people to nominate community champions from the King Street and Middlegate areas. “We’re looking for someone who’s an unsung hero, someone who enhances their community, environment or who supports the work and lives of others,” explained Sarah James. “They could be a neighbour, a friend or a relative, perhaps someone who works tirelessly for charity, the environment or inspires in any aspect of life.”

Nominations can be made by emailing their name and 100 words explaining why they’ve been nominated to mailto://David1@seachangearts.org.uk Alternatively, nomination forms can be picked up in venues along King Street.

Art Exhibition

FLOWERS, CHURCHES AND CREATURES in paintings, prints and drawings by 5 Artists

St. Andrew’s Church, Wickhampton during OPEN CHURCHES WEEK

Open Saturday 31st July, 1 & 2 August 11am to 5.30pm

REFRESHMENTS CARDS GAMES

Come, enjoy, browse… and buy - modest prices.    Admission Free.

Donations from sales will be given to church funds. For more information call Elisabeth on 01493 700008

Get Started with Metal Sculpture

Are you aged 16-25, unemployed, not in education or training and interested in gaining skills in metalwork and welding? The Prince’s Trust, working with support from Seachange Arts, Enterprise GY and the Working Neighborhoods Fund is staging a ‘Get Started with Metal Sculpture’ course in Great Yarmouth starting on 2nd August and running until Tuesday 10th August.

The free seven day course will give you an opportunity to have a go and develop your own creative metalwork skills. At the end of the course you will be able to design and create your own fire burner, using skills such as welding, brazing, flame cutting, riveting and forge work.

The course will enable you to gain new employable skills which will help to find work in the engineering and construction industry or to go onto further education or training; with help and support on hand for all participants to be able to achieve this. On completing the course, you will receive a certificate presented by his worship the Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Councilor Micheal Jeal.

To gain a place on the course contact Laurie Miller-Zutshi at Seachange Arts on 01493 846 187 or email: mailto://creativelearning@seachangearts.org.uk

For more information about the Get Started with programmes go to princes-trust.org.uk or call 0800 842 842.

The Swinging Sixties

St. Nicholas Church Preservation Trust are presenting a one off re-union of well remembered local groups on Saturday 14th August, 7.30-10.30 p.m. at St. Nicholas Parish Church.  Performing are: Marsden and the MB3, The Strangers, Rick-o-Shea and the Ramblers, The Sidewinders and others. 

There will be a licenced bar, hog roast and tickets are only £5.  Tickets from Ruth’s Bar, Greyfriars; Priory Centre; St. John’s Head, North Quay; Neil at Hair for Men, Broad Row; Brahams, Market Row; from Paul Davies, 01493 843647 or at the door.  Proceeds will go towards the fabric and organ of the church, with all those involved giving their time for the cause!  For further information about the Preservation Trust, and other events, click here.

Chamber Philharmonia Cologne at St. Nicholas

What a huge shame that the concert given by the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne last night at St.Nicholas Parish Church wasn’t better advertised.  The musicians were superb and their pleasure in performing  was an absolute delight to watch.  The programme was wonderful – Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Summer and La Notte; Mozart, Salzburg Symphony; Tchaikovski Elegie; Bach, Suite No2 in B Minor; and Paganini, Moses Variations.  The Chamber Philharmonia chooses for its repertoire highly demanding pieces of popular and unknown works “to inspire people across the world to enjoy classical music”.  Though there were not many in the audience, they certainly showed their appreciation.  The accoustics are good in St. Nicholas and the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne include Great Yarmouth in their annual tour – so something not to be missed next year!