Great Yarmouth Photographic Society

Great Yarmouth & District Photographic Society gyps@eaf.org.uk

Founded in 1948, we have around 30 members, meeting every Wednesday evening at St Mary Magdalene Church Hall, Magdalene Square, Gorleston, NR31 7BZ  from September to April and outside at photo-friendly venues in the summer.

The majority of members use digital photography in one form or another, though we still have members working with traditional black & white and colour negative film. New members are welcomed what ever their interests or level of expertise. An exhibition of members’ work is held annually and smaller exhibitions are held from time to time as opportunities arise. (There will be an exhibition at Gt Yarmouth Library Galleries from 24th to 29th September).

The annual subscription is £30 for the year running from the start of the winter programme in September through to the following summer. Interested new-comers are welcome to attend four meetings before the subscription is due.

Summer Programme 2012

The summer programme consists of outside meetings on Wednesday evenings at 7pm.

Bring a camera.

MAY

9          Pakefield Beach/Boats. NR33 OJZ. Meet at Beach or Church

16        Herringfleet Woods/Mill. Herringfleet Road, St Olaves Car Park

23        Ludham Village/Staithe. Meet in village Centre

30        Beccles Riverside/Town Centre. Meet at Beccles Yacht Station. Parking at Fen Lane, NR34 9BH

JUNE

6          Winterton Village/Beach. Beach Car Park

Thursday 14   Power Boat Racing Oulton Broad  18.00 hrs

20        Whitlingham Country Park, Trowse  NR14 8TR. Car park

27        Southwold      Pier/Town/Lighthouse. Seafront car park

JULY

4          Filby Village/Broad.  Car Park at Filby Broad

11         BBQ. c/o Les Seabert Rollesby

18        Upton Broad/Marshes. Meet at NWT Car Park, NR13 6EQ

25        Woodbastwick Village

AUG

1          Reedham, Village/Riverside/Church. Riverside parking NR13 3TE

8        Loddon Village/Riverside. Parking at the Staithe and Church Plain

15        Coltishall Staithe. Village/Lock/Church

22         Norwich Cathedral Close & Riverside. Adam and Eve Car Park

29        Pleasure Beach, Gt Yarmouth

Assignments. (These subjects will be in the winter programme, take your pictures during the summer)

Reflections. Sport. Jubilee. Rural Landscape. Machinery

The next winter programme will start in September 2012.

Meeting at St Mary Magdalene Church Hall, Magdalen Way, Gorleston.

The winter programme will be available during the summer and will be posted on the websites:

www.greatyarmouthphotographic.co.uk

For more information contact the Secretary
Maurice Hood on 01493 669305 ,
e-mail: gyps@eaf.org.uk

Other photographic websites
http://www.greatyarmouthphotographic.co.uk/

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/

http://www.greatyarmouthphotographic.co.uk/ilfordltd/index.html

http://www.eaf.org.uk/

http://seasidephotographer.greatyarmouthphotographic.co.uk/index.html

50th anniversary festival

On the night of the 24th June 1942, St. Nicholas Church was destroyed by German incendiary bombs, leaving only its walls and towers standing. It was left derelict until 1957 when re-construction began.  This was completed in 1961.  The church was re-consecrated on 8th May 1961, being the Eve of the Feast of the Translation of St. Nicholas.  From 8th May to 16th May 2011 there will be an exhibition in the church of its destruction and reconstruction, presented by Great Yarmouth College of Further Education. 

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the re-construction of St. Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, the St.Nicholas Church Preservation Trust  will be holding a festival from 6th-16th May, presenting the following events at the church:

Friday, 6th May, 19.30 hrs. 1940s Music Night with Annie Slater, Roger Cooke and friends . Tickets £10, bar and raffle

Sunday 6th May, Civic Service at 11.00 a.m. followed by buffet lunch at 12.30 p.m. (pre-ordered ticket event £10, under sixteen £5) and a Musical Entertainment with the Dragon’s Stage School at 2.00 p.m.  Festal Choral Evensong will be at 3.00 p.m.

Tuesday, 10th May, 6.30 p.m. Yarmouth Quizz and answers to Treasure Hunt.  Bar and raffle. Tickets £10 includes buffet, under sixteens £5. The treasure hunt around the historic centre of Yarmouth to be done in previous week in own time, question papers available from church from 3rd May 10.00-12.00 hrs and Brahams in Market Row or tel. 01493 843647.

Thursday 12th May, 7.30 p.m. Reminiscences of the Herring Fishery and musical interludes with Ernie Childs . Bar and raffle.  Tickets £10 includes fish and chips.

Friday 13th May, 7.30 p.m. Traditional Jazz with Redbeans ‘n’ Rice. Bar and raffle. Tickets £10.

Saturday 14th May, 11.00 a.m. Tour and illustrated talk on the history of St. Nicholas Church with Paul Davies.  Tickets £3, under sixteens £1, includes coffee and cake.

Sunday 15th May, 6.30 p.m. Choral Evensong

Monday 16th May, 7.30 p.m. Concert in conjunction with Norfolk and Norwich Festival: Harry Winstanley, flute, Jonathan Wiseman, guitar, from the Royal Academy of Music.  Programme includes CPE Bach, Takemitsu, Dodgson and Bartok.  Tickets £7

Tickets for all events are available from Brahams, Market Row or tel. 01493 843647

Re:generation

  ‘Hope Herrings’

A new exhibition organised by a group of young volunteers and entitled ‘Re:generation’ is running at the Central Library, Great Yarmouth, from  5th – 12th March 2011 . The community exhibition celebrates memories of Great Yarmouth and the town’s current regeneration.  The opening times are: Monday & Wednesday 9am-7.30pm, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9am-6pm and Saturday 9am-5pm.

 The exhibition features archive material and artist’s work along with recollections and stories of the town provided by members of the community, all of which relates to the theme of regeneration.  Amongst the 12 artists exhibiting are three ex-Great Yarmouth School of Art and Design students, Nigel Moody, Colin Giles and John Clifford.  Also exhibiting are Manuel Seixas, Adam Shawyer and Belona Greenwood, three of the artists commissioned to create work for the King Street Regeneration project.  Other selected artists are Ben Simons, Harry Baker, Chris Han, Paul Zawadzski, Julian Claxton, Paul Howard and Sandra Rowney.   These were selected by a panel of judges, who were looking for work which most clearly related to regeneration and with links to Great Yarmouth.

Work produced by young residents at the Aspire Young Persons Centre is also included in this show, along with the ‘Hope Herrings’ installation shown above, produced by local young people who took part in creative workshops.  The ‘Hope Herrings’ are textile fish which have attached to them a hope for the future for Great Yarmouth and are displayed on fishing net coming out of a fishing boat.

The Re:generation exhibition is part of a national project, which creates youth led arts-based volunteering opportunities. The programme is funded by V Inspired; an independent charity for 16 -25 year olds, supported by an Eastern Region consortium including Great Yarmouth based Seachange Arts. The programme gives volunteers the opportunity to develop their skills, gain experience and bring positive benefits to their community.

St. Georges Chapel, Great Yarmouth, photograph by Adam Shawyer

Exhibition about censorship

Have I Got Nudes for You is an exhibition curated by David Page in riposte to the amount of censorship artists are currently experiencing when exhibiting work representing the naked body.  Thirty-three artists are contributing, including three from Great Yarmouth – Bruer Tidman, John Kiki and Bridget Heriz.

The exhibition is at the Harleston Gallery, 3 Old Market Place, Harleston, and runs from 4th March – 1st April,  Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00-16.oo hrs.

Two Shores

Fellows Shipyard, watercolour, 1962, by Anthony Amies (1945-2000)

Two Shores – Living with the North Sea

Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life

Saturday 27 November 2010 – Sunday 27 March 2011

This exhibition looks at the coastal life of East Anglia and the region’s relationship with its neighbours across the North Sea in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The story is told through the experiences of people who make their living from the North Sea – in the offshore and fishing industries, leisure and tourism, ports and ferries.

We hear from offshore workers whose jobs are changing with the development of new industries like wind farms. Fishermen reveal how their work has been affected by reduced fish stocks and marine archaeologists help us to understand the geography of the North Sea and our region’s physical connections with mainland Europe.

Maritime objects, ‘tools of the trade’, paintings, photographs, maps, letters and documents bring these stories to life. Whilst ancient objects like the amazing prehistoric North Sea hand axes, a Mesolithic harpoon head and fossil bones found under the sea remind us of the long and fascinating history of these two shores.

Broadlanders art club 10th Annual art exhibition

Transitions: past meets future!

 Yarmouth Beach, 1840, by J.B.Crome

TRANSITIONS EXHIBITION

10th-19th November, 2010, 10-17 hrs (not inc. Sunday)

Central Library Exhibition Galleries, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth

 Yarmouth Beach, 2010, by Derek Jackson

Transitions is an eclectic project engaging young people, artists, museums and long-term residents to bring together views about change in Great Yarmouth past and present.

                 supported by 

Charlotte Wych and Bruer Tidman

  Portrait of Charlotte by Bruer Tidman

Mother and son joint exhibition across two venues:

Norwich Theatre Royal - 8th October to 7th December, 2010 (www.targetfollow-arts.co.uk)

Central Library, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth - 11th October to 30th October, 2010

   Painting by Charlotte Wych

Priory Gallery Group Exhibition

The Priory Gallery Group present an exhibition inspired by “The Wilton Dyptych” and other sacred art on Tuesday, 14th September 2010, 10am – 3pm, at The Priory Centre, Priory Plain, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1NWT.

These beautiful dyptychs are a result of five workshops, run for local people, at The Priory Centre earlier this year. The workshops were run by The National Gallery with their artist Mark Woodhead.

Dyptych by Antony Wyard:  “The eleven footballers depict the 11 angels on the original picture.  My grandaughter and new baby depict the Virgin Mary and Baby and three politicians depict the three saints (before the election!) and myself holding the camera (my hobby) depict the kneeling King Richard.”

Heads by Mark Leech

and finally a delightful painting by Roy Batley.  These are just a small selection from the enchanting work produced by the Priory Gallery Group on this project!  

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