Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft, July 4

Admission – £7 / £6 (concession).

DOCKSIDE DANDIES, LOWESTOFT, JULY 14th TO JULY 31st

Dockside Dandies by Peter Wylie at venues throughout Lowestoft from July 14 to July 31. Click on image to enlarge for full details.

The Dockside Dandies were young Lowestoft fishermen of the late 1950s/early 1960s who created their own fashion. Peter Wylie reclaims their identity and their contribution to culture from the era.

I understand there will be a parade of the Dockside Dandies on Saturday, July 10th. Details to follow.

Art Factory Norwich To Close

Since 2003 The Old Bally Factory (Art Factory), Hall Road, Norwich, has been an arts and cultural resource for Norwich, Norfolk and beyond. It closes after this weekend and on Sunday June 6th from 10.30am to 4pm there will be a sale of materials and furniture as the artist tenants declutter before they move out.

Owned by Targetfollow, The Norwich Fringe Festival used this huge factory annually from 2003 to 2007 to stage  huge exhibitions and performances. Since January 2007 The Art Factory was used to house both artists studios and to stage exhibitions. The building has been a resource to the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Go Elephants, NORCA, Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, and many theatre and film companies. Norwich 20, City College Norwich and Norwich Art School have held annual exhibitions at the factory.

Catch the Open Studios exhibition this weekend – for the last time! Details can be found on the Art Factory website.

Lost Generation: Broadcast Yourself

It so often seems we’re waiting for someone on high to deliver us. Today, with the Internet and YouTube it is cheap and relatively easy to broadcast oneself. The best of the Net is when you can be sitting in Great Yarmouth and some young person in Ohio, say, comes along and Speaks To You!

Lost Generation is the best of poetry. See what can be done with a few words, an image and sounds. Don’t be fooled. This poem turns! Click on Lost Generation.

Sun of Cash play Great Yarmouth

Sun of Cash is more than a Johnny Cash tribute band. Catch them at the Lichfield Bar, Lichfield Road, 9pm, 19th February.

The Case For Blogging

I do hope everyone involved in grassroots cultural and community activity contributes to this free site. You don’t have to post just adverts for future events – though these are appreciated. I’ve run Rupert’s Blog for nearly five years (over 1,300 page entries – from photos to long articles). If you are researching Great Yarmouth’s Dissenters’ Graveyard or the history of drinking beer in the borough, I’m sure you’ll find articles on my blog appear in your Google findings.

Unlike FaceBook, a blog is not just the moment. On a blog or website – like EastCoast Net – a huge body of work builds up. This body of work is not only its own history but essential reference material for others. I give you just one example. In various countries prior to - and during – staging the Olympic Games, homeless people are literally “disappeared” for the event. Via a blog I heard of UK plans for “hotwashing” London’s homeless off the streets of the Capital for the 2012 Games. I blogged a small article on this strategy – like many other bloggers. Suddenly, you put “hotwashing” in Google and the concern for this appalling plan is growing rapidly. 

Blogging – as a memory as well as a notice – is very important. Use it. Write a piece in response to mine!

Rupert Mallin

Tom & Muriel Mallin Memorial Exhibition, Halesworth

You are invited to a memorial exhibition of Tom and Muriel Mallin’s work at
THE HALESWORTH GALLERY, STEEPLE END, HALESWORTH, SUFFOLK
Saturday September 5th to Wednesday September 16th
11am to 5pm Daily (Sundays, 2pm TO 5pm)
Also showing: work by David Thompson – one time Times Critic and Director of the ICA.

You are also invited to the Private View – Friday September 4th from 6.30pm – RSVP 07775 870392

YOU ARE ALSO INVITED TO ATTEND
An Evening of Poetry & Music
with Gerald Nason, Rupert Mallin & Andrew Osborn
Friday September 11th from 8.30PM
TICKETS £4 – including refreshments – phone Jan Martin on 01986 872409

MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB, LOWESTOFT – AUGUST GIG

 
UPLIFTING COMPOSITIONS FROM TOP UK BAND AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB 
Following these successes, Woods decided to form his own band to provide an outlet for his own folk inspired compositions. http://www.myspace.com/tonywoodsproject and or http://www.tonywoods.org visit the club website at http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk

All ‘Milestones’ gigs are held on the first Sunday of every month and take place at Hotel Hatfield, Esplanade, Lowestoft with the doors opening at 8pm. (01502) 568684 for more info and help in entering the building.
QUOTES:

This month’s concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 2 August features modern jazz of freshness and originality from one of the UK’s top bands – The Tony Woods Project.
 
Alto-saxophonist and composer Tony Woods’ emotional work is full of subtle surprises that mingle hard-hitting post-bop and English folk music, a raw passionate edge with a tender lyricism.
 
And to carry out his vision Woods uses a beautifully pure tone on saxophone and some of the country’s finest jazz musicians.
 
After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music Woods worked with Kenny Wheeler, The BBC Radio Big Band and National Youth Jazz Orchestra and became a noted teacher and studio session musician.

Featuring the singular talent of Mike Outram, one of the country’s most sought after guitarists, The Tony Woods Project uses melodic, uplifting compositions along with collective and individual improvisations that are incorporated into the music’s bigger structures – a bedrock of great jazz.
 
Tony lists his own influences as not only jazz masters Miles Davis, Lee Konitz and Art Pepper but also the Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo Papasov and English folk singer June Tabor.
 
This is contemporary jazz of uncommon finesse which restores ones faith in the fact that jazz still has new directions to take.

This concert is the only date East Anglian date of a national Jazz Services tour promoting the bands new CD, ‘Wind Shadows’. A concert not to be missed!
 
The band’s full line-up features Tony Woods (saxophones), Mike Outram (guitar), Robert Millett (vibraphone), Andy Hamill (double bass) and Milo Fell (drums).
 
Listen to Tony Woods’ music at

Admission – £7 / £6 (concession).

NB Milestones Jazz Club takes place in a basement room that requires the use of stairs. If you have a disability please contact milestonesjazz@hotmail.co.uk or

“A deceptively reserved player with all kinds of hidden fires”
The Guardian
 
“The best of contemporary British jazz”
Musician Magazine
 
“If ever a band deserved a higher profile, it has to be the Tony Woods Project. European sensibility and American grooves united”
Jazz UK magazine
 
“Combines a jazz edge with the melodic zest of folk…delightful – a romping country dance with a contemporary urban flair”
Geoffrey Smith, Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3

textVISUAL, online magazine…

textVISUAL is an online magazine of poetry and visuals edited by Rupert Mallin which can be viewed here  http://textvisual.wordpress.com/

textVISUAL 1 features work by acclaimed poets Martin Stannard, Ian Seed and Peter Hughes. Norfolk and Suffolk artists and poets contributing to this first issue are: Tim Lenton, Linda Chapman, Lisa D’Onofrio, Gerald Nason, Michael Fenton, Mark Sargeant and Claire Hamburger.

Out There Festival 2009

Following on from last year’s “Out There” International Festival, SeaChange Arts  has been awarded funding to the tune of nearly one million Euros to develop the festival over the next three years.  Half the funding has come from the EU under the EU Inter-regional Programme, which means SeaChange is working with partners from Amiens, a town North of Paris,  the lead partner for the project, Rouen and an organisation which runs projects throughout Britanny. In England the partners with SeaChange are the Winchester Hat Fair, Brighton Festival, Zap Art and Southampton City Council.  The Great Yarmouth Borough Council is supporting the project along with other funders to complete the match funding.

Plans are already under way for this year’s “Out There” which will take place over the weekend of 19th and 20th September. The festival will focus on street arts and be centred around St.George’s Park.  French tightrope walker Didier Pasquette will be walking across roof tops on the seafront and community groups are already getting  involved in the carnival style opening parade on the Saturday morning. 

Last year the first international Out There festival saw more than 100 performers and artists from Britain, France, Finland, Brazil, Spain, Uruguay, Cuba, Portugal and Belgium take part to entertain the public in various venues in Great Yarmouth.  For more information go to www.outtherefestival.com.