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Kate Giles - February Blue

The booming Broads

In their 40th anniversary year, Eastern Angles are back doing what they do best – touring across the East of England with a new play telling a regional story.

Coming to Aldeburgh this June is an exciting new exhibition curated by Contemporary and Country, well known for their pop-ups at Houghton Hall, North Norfolk, which have featured work from acclaimed artists such as Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Henry Moore.

Stepping over the border for the first time, ‘River’s Edge’ will showcase new work by Kate Giles, exploring the Nar and Bure river valleys, and sculpture by Jack Wheeler, Beth Groom and Emily Mayer, alongside a wonderful selection of East Anglian artists whose work strongly connects with our coastal environment.

7th-19th June Ballroom Arts and Courtyard Gallery Aldeburgh

www.contemporaryandcountry.com

The play, Booming Voices, aims to capture the magic of the Broads and explore their future. From a series of interviews held in the pandemic, Director, Ivan Cutting, uses the experience and voices of people living on the Broads to tell a new, unheard story of this iconic landscape, cleverly fusing real voices, science, and nature to explore the past and question the future.

Running from the 27th of April to the 12th of June, it includes special site-specific performances in Beccles and the chance to watch from home.

Home makers

Dora Brown is an inspirational social enterprise helping families in desperate need of improvements to their homes.

Two Woodbridge mums, Sacha Naylor and Rebecca May Marston, created the homemaking venture after discovering that hundreds of children in Suffolk didn’t have beds to sleep in – let alone suitable bedrooms. The dedicated duo, along with a host of amazing volunteers, go into the homes of families who need support and help in a variety of ways, from giving children’s bedrooms a makeover to fixing and revamping broken bathrooms. Each makeover costs the team approximately £1,500 and that includes skip hire, furniture purchases and necessities for the kitchens and bathrooms. If you would like to find out more, or help with a much-needed donation, please go to www.dorabrown.com.

“In one room, three children were sharing one dirty mattress with no bedding on it and the home had no working toilets. The mother had to make choices you can’t even fathom.” after

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The Language of Love

“James has died and Sarah thinks she will never love again, but when Jeremiah and his angel come to Elmsford seeking refuge from old wounds, both he and Sarah discover love in ways that neither of them imagined could be possible.”

In his new book, The Language of Love, local author William Blyghton collaborates with fellow author and lifelong friend, Lorna Howarth, who threads a feminine perspective into the narrative. Together they explore Love - a language that unites us all, a language beyond words which can be expressed in a myriad of ways - and how, in order to love ourselves, we have to accept who we truly are.