Out There Festival

Welcome to the third incarnation of Out There – a massive free festival of international performance and participation taking place in St. George’s Park, Great Yarmouth on the 18th and 19th September. Out There is now the largest street arts festival in the region.

Joe Mackintosh of SeaChange Arts says, “We love being Out There! Out on the east coast, we think we’re a little bit special – perched on the edge of the UK and tipping a wink to the continent! Our programme reflects that. This year we welcome one of the titans of international street arts,Générik Vapeur who will perform the English premier their long- running street show, Bivouac. From France we also welcome Chamboule Touthéatre and two of the original founders of the parkour phenomenon in a show called Fusion. Add to that performers from Sweden, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia all bringing us a sense of the weird, the wonderful and the unusual.

We’re also supporting local artists with a series of local commissions and performances around the festival park and there’s plenty of opportunity to get Out There yourself with a number of participatory workshops.”

Out There has been developed with the support of the ZEPA network, an innovative project partnering nine French and English festivals to create and share artists, tours and expertise. While born of international partnerships the festival is founded on the historic qualities that make Great Yarmouth unique with its rich heritage of circus and seaside entertainment.

The Out There festival is pure fun and not to be missed! For more information click here.

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.

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.

Street Arts: Volunteer Opportunity

SeaChange Arts is proud to present Bivouac by Generik Vapeur!

This year the Marseille based street-arts company Generik Vapeur will present their weird and wonderful piece Bivouac at the Out There International Festival of Street Arts and Circus on September 18th 2010 in Great Yarmouth.

Created in 1984 Generik Vapeur pride themselves on being a ‘traffic of actors and machinery’. Around twenty technician/artists make up the company and they develop their artistic work on the scale of a town or a landscape, finding inspiration from its people and from what can be found on site, whether it is recycled industrial materials or objects from everyday life. Generik Vapeur have no borders and can turn any public space into a creative space, whether it is in France or abroad, and their creativity and artistic production are always developed with the local community.

SeaChange Arts are currently holding auditions for 10 lucky volunteers who will have the chance to perform alongside the company in this unique performance which will transform Great Yarmouth for one night only.

Volunteers must be aged 16+, physically fit, and available to rehearse in the evenings during the week beginning the 12th September. They must also be available on Saturday 18th September for the performance and be prepared to be painted blue!

Group auditions will be held in Great Yarmouth on Friday 4th June from 2pm onwards. To book an audition slot or find out more information please contact Laurie Miller-Zutshi on 01493 846 550, email mailto://creativelearning@seachangearts.org.uk or text 07530 735 491.

Renewal

AN OPEN EXHIBITION FOR NORFOLK AND WAVENEY ARTISTS

GREAT YARMOUTH LIBRARY GALLERY, 12TH APRIL- 24TH APRIL 2010

 The exhibition features 15 artists showing 23 works in painting, drawing, prints and sculpture. All artists are based in the Norfolk and Waveney area and were asked to interpret the theme of ‘Renewal’. They were selected by a panel of judges, and all works are for sale. The exhibition runs from Monday 12th April to Saturday 24th. 10am to 5pm.

Renewal Artists:

Jamie Andrews- Harry Baker- Sarah Caputo- Katarzyna Coleman- Jacqui Fenn- Colin Giles- Chris Hann- Bridget Heriz- Paul Howard-Clare Johnson- Julia O’Leary- Neslihan Nebioglu- Sandra Rowney- Paul Zawadzki.

RENEWAL: OPEN ART EXHIBITION

AN OPEN EXHIBITION for Norfolk and Waveney artists, to be held at GREAT YARMOUTH LIBRARY GALLERY, 12TH APRIL- 24TH APRIL 2010

Seachange Arts is inviting artists to submit work for an Open Exhibition, which will run from Monday 12th April to Saturday 24th April 2010 in the recently refurbished Great Yarmouth Library Gallery. The theme of the exhibition is ‘Renewal’ and artists can interpret this theme as they wish.

The exhibition is open to all artists living in Norfolk and Waveney aged 16+. The aim of the exhibition is to showcase and celebrate artistic creativity in the region whilst providing an opportunity for artists to sell and exhibit their work.

Selection of artwork is by a panel of judges from the local arts community. To take part, contact SeaChange Arts for an exhibition entry form outlining conditions of entry. The deadline for entries is Friday 26th March 2010

Contact David Jones, Exhibition Co-ordinator: David1@seachangearts.org.uk or telephone 01493 846187

Great Yarmouth Mardi Gras

Great Yarmouth’s first Mardi Gras carnival is going to take place in King Street on Tuesday 16th February, starting at 3.30 p.m.  The area between St. George’s Chapel and York Street will be packed with street bands, dance groups, cabaret, traditional games and cooking.  Along with street walkabout acts, there will be a traditional English pancake race as well as a traditional Lithuanian wrestling match – where a fat man fights with a thin one to represent the passage of the seasons.  Drop in workshops from 3.30 p.m. include mask-making, dance and drumming.  From 5.40 p.m. to 6.10 p.m. there will be a small fire show on Unicycles outside St. George’s Theatre amongst other finale wonders and from 6.30 – 8.30 pm the Kings Wine Bar are hosting a Cabaret Night.

Jankie D is delivering a workshop on the 6th February at Martham Sure Start Centre from 10.00-16.00hrs for those who want to get ahead of the game by creating their own carnival heads, wavers, banners, shakers and masks.

The Mardi Gras carnival is organised by SeaChange Arts. For more information go to www.seachangearts.org.uk

Great Yarmouth Quilt Project

Tom Makin-Bell at SeaChange Arts is to run a Great Yarmouth Quilt Project with Norfolk Adult Education.  He is looking for groups interested in being involved in the project.  This will involve contributing a 40cm x 40cm section or sections  to the overall quilt.  If you think your group might be interested, please email Tom at makinbell@btinternet.com, or phone Gilly Plumb at Norfolk Adult Education on 01493 856647,  to get  an expression of interest form, which must be returned by 29th January 2010.

Czech National Symphony Orchestra at the Hippodrome

If you have missed any of the International Concert Series at the Hippodrome, here is chance to catch up on that very great pleasure.  Great Yarmouth is incredibly fortunate to be able to host the wonderful orchestras that have contributed to this series organised by SeaChange Arts.  It is a visual as well as oral feast to attend these superb performances in such a unique and atmospheric setting.

The Czech National Symphony Orchestra will be performing at the Hippodrome on Thursdsay 4th February.  The programme includes Smetana, Bruch and Dvorak (Symphony No.9, the New World Symphony).   Libor Pešek and Petr Altrichter are conducting.

Tickets are extraordinarily reasonable for this great event – £6 children and £12 up to £28 adults – and are still available from the Hippodrome on 01493 844172 or online here.

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.