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Norfolk & Suffolk Cultural Highlights2016

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Make the most of the EastWhether you’re in the area for the first time or it’s your favourite holiday

destination, Visit East Anglia, Visit Suffolk and Visit Norfolk are packed full

of top tips for making the most of your visit.

From the best cultural experiences, to great places to eat, drink and sleep,

they’re the perfect place to find inspiration for any trip to the East.

You’ll find the East is a place that defies convention: our skies are awesome, our landscapes simply breathtaking, and our art and culture has led the world for hundreds of years.

This year, the East comes to life with hundreds of must-see events. We’ve

highlighted just a handful here, but rest assured, there’s always something

to see. The East is home to art that welcomes the world, challenges

expectations, and leaves you changed.

Whenever you’re in the area, check out Visit East Anglia for the latest news

about what’s on. Unexpected and close to home, for world-class culture

Look Sideways – East.

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Halesworth

FramlinghamLeiston

Southwold

Aldeburgh

Lowestoft

Great Yarmouth

Norwich

Beccles

Fakenham

Cromer

Swaffham

Bungay

Diss

Wymondham

ThetfordEly

Stowmarket

Haverhill

Newmarket

Sudbury

London

Cambridge

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Chelmsford

Ipswich

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Friday 13 - Sunday 29 MayVenues across Norwich and Norfolk

A packed programme of international theatre, music, art, literature and free outdoor

events, including commissions, premieres and unique performances. This year’s

headline events include a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest that transforms

Great Yarmouth Hippodrome into a magical island, Wild Life – a collaboration

between CAMPO’s Pol Heyvaert, Kim Noble and ten young singer-songwriters –

and a cinematic soundscape, Walk With Me, at the National Trust’s Felbrigg Hall.

In England’s first City of Literature, stories and ideas come from writers, poets and

activists and in venues large and small musicians from across the world perform. Plus

much more.

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you may also likeNorfolk & Norwich Open Studios, 28 May – 8 June, nnopenstudios.org.uk

you may also likeHolt Festival, 23 – 31 July, holtfestival.org

Thursday 26 May - Saturday 4 JuneNew Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

Pulse Festival Ipswich is a part curated, part open application

ten day festival focusing on new and innovative approaches, offering a bright and

inspiring snapshot of contemporary theatre and performance.

This year’s festival includes new work from internationally-celebrated Gecko

Theatre, and the Suitcase Prize, where performers are challenged to bring an entire

show to the festival on public transport in

one suitcase.

pulseipswich.co.uk

@PulseIpswich

/PulseIpswich

#Pulse16

Friday 24 June - Sunday 4 SeptemberVarious locations in Norwich

Widely recognised as the UK’s most ambitious and influential contemporary art

exhibition, the British Art Show is coming to the East for the first time. Over 100

works by more than 40 artists, chosen for their contribution to art over the past

five years, will be on show at Norwich Castle, Norwich University of the Arts’ St

George’s Building, East Gallery and the Forum.

This is a Hayward Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with galleries in

Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton.

britishartshow8.com

@BASNorwich

#BAS8

you may also likeAlberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 23 April – 29 August, scva.ac.uk

Friday 10 - Sunday 26 JuneAldeburgh and Snape Maltings, Suffolk

Aldeburgh Festival is one of Europe’s top classical music festivals and it’s much

more than that too. This year’s highlights include Catalogue d’Oiseaux, a sunrise-

to-midnight journey through music and nature set against the Suffolk coast’s

panoramic backdrops of reeds, water and sky, and Illuminations – the world

premiere of a newly-commissioned staging of a Benjamin Britten song cycle fusing

music and contemporary circus performance. Plus walks, talks, the 30+ non-

classical events of The Pumphouse fringe and free music every lunchtime on the

Bandstand on the Beach.

aldeburgh.co.uk

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#AldeburghFestival

you may also likeKing’s Lynn Festival, 17 – 30 July, kingslynnfestival.org.uk

Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 JulyHenham Park, Suffolk

Latitude is the pioneering – and award-winning – music and arts festival, set within

the magical woodland grounds of Henham Park. With its unique line-up, it has fast

become the cultural highlight of the summer festival season, featuring a wide range

of music, comedy, theatre and alternative performance.

This year’s lineup includes music from The National and The Maccabees; theatre

from Gob Squad and Graeae; and comedy from Russell Howard.

latitudefestival.com

@LatitudeFest

/LatitudeFestival

#Latitude16

you may also likeFolkEast Festival, Glemham Hall, 19 – 21 August, folkeast.co.uk

you may also likeSnape Proms, Snape Maltings, 1 – 31 August, aldeburgh.co.uk

Thursday 8 - Sunday 18 SeptemberAldeburgh, Suffolk

The Tenth Annual HighTide Festival is here. From 8 – 18 September in the

gorgeous coastal town of Aldeburgh, HighTide will premiere five new plays written

by some of the most exciting emerging playwrights around, as well as comedy,

cabaret, live music, play readings and talks with world-class artists. Come and

celebrate our 10th Anniversary in style.

hightide.org.uk

@_HighTide_

thursday 15 – sunday 18 SeptemberVarious locations across Norwich

Noirwich Crime Writing Festival returns to the streets of Norwich from 15 – 18

September 2016, bringing award-winning authors to the UNESCO City of Literature.

Join world-renowned writers in the atmospheric 15th century Dragon Hall. With

fringe events taking place throughout the city and a Bloody Brunch rounding

things off, make sure you don’t miss a spine-tingling moment. It’s going to be killer!

Noirwich is a partnership between Dead Good Books (Penguin Random House’s

Crime Writing Community), UEA and Writers’ Centre Norwich.

noirwich.co.uk

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@DeadGoodBooks

@UEALitFest

you may also likeFelixstowe Book Festival, 25 – 26 June, felixstowebookfestival.co.uk

you may also likeOnce Upon a Festival, Bury St Edmunds, 12 – 26 July, theatreroyal.org

Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 SeptemberSt George’s Park and surrounding areas, Great Yarmouth

Weird and wonderful, outrageous and outstanding – the Out There Festival brings

some of the world’s finest circus and street arts performers to Great Yarmouth. Perched

out on the furthest reaches of the east coast, closer to the continent than to the capital,

Out There has established an international reputation for exceptional, innovative and

inclusive programming. Breathtaking spectacle and quirky comedy combine in a festival

woven through with world-class performance, family-friendly atmosphere and more than

a fair dose of seaside silliness.

outtherefestival.com

@SeaChangeArts

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#OutThereFest

you may also like[Live] Art Club, Norwich Arts Centre, year-round, norwichartscentre.co.uk

wednesday 26 - Sunday 30 octoberVarious locations across Ipswich

Fresh from high impact successes at the National Theatre, Barbican and South Bank

in London, SPILL Festival of Performance returns to Ipswich from 26 – 30 October.

With over 50 events programmed from performance art to music, formal discussions

to video installations, SPILL promises to light up the town in venues from the New

Wolsey Theatre to unusual found and made spaces. With festival passes offering

huge discounts of up to 50%, save the dates now.

spillfestival.com

@SPILL_Festival

/spillfest

#SPILL16

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