Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2020 magazine

THANK YOU Principal Funders

Funders

Adnams Spiegeltent and Adnams Main Stage

Free Outdoor Programme Partner

18-25 Ticket Scheme Partner

Trust and Foundations The Ellerdale Trust, The Goodman Trust, The John Jarrold Trust, The Norwich Freemen’s Charity, The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust, The Red Socks Charitable Trust Travel Partner

Media Partners

Event Partners

Associate Partners

Corporate Friends Archant, Brewin Dolphin, The Forum, Hollinger Print, Hudson Architects, Norwich Airport And thanks to Kettle Foods Ltd Norfolk & Norwich Festival would like to thank its generous supporters: Director’s Circle Lynn Biggs, Jackie & Richard Higham Producer Supporters David & Anne Brief, Nick & Juliet Collier, Gill Findlater, Mark & Lesley-Anne Hewett, Dr J M Leach & Mr P J E Smith, Ian & Helen McFadyen, Jamie McLeod Ensemble Supporters Paul & Steph Allen, Simon Back, Fanny Berridge, David & Anthea Case, Nicholas & Caroline Dixey, Frank & Di Eliel, Roger & Lesley Everett, Jane & John Hawksley, Stephen & Mairi Perrett, Dave Plummer & Lesley Whitby, Mrs S Pollok OBE, Amanda Sandland-Taylor & Roger Holden, Chris & Sue Williams Cast Supporters Jonathan Cooper & Daniel Brine, Alex Darbyshire, John Howkins, Waltraud Jarrold, Alice Liddle, Michelle & Richard Martin, Naomi Milne, Jonathan & Karen Needham, Ruth & Peter Shaw, Nik Vitkovitch, Jim & Sara Webber, Mollie Whitworth And to our Friends and others who wish to remain anonymous

Norfolk & Norwich Festival is a registered charity, number 1164424

Book your tickets Online at nnfestival.org.uk Call us 01603 531800 Or visit us at The Guildhall, Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JS Full opening hours online

4 Hello 5 Festival Stories 6 Your Invitation – a poem 8 Friday 8–Saturday 9 May 10 Welcome Weekend 12 Community Gathering 14 Sunday 10–Wednesday 13 May 18 Festival Gardens 20 Wednesday 13–Saturday 16 May 24 Garden Party 26 Festival at 250 28 Saturday 16–Tuesday 19 May 34 The Passing of Time 36 Tuesday 19–Sunday 24 May 43 City of Literature Weekend 48 Visual Arts 54 This is the news 56 Booking, access and venues 58 A Creative Future 59 Together we can 60 Nature Tales & Trails 62 Index 67 About Us

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HELLO Welcome. It’s great to have you with us.

We have a fantastic Festival to share with you, your friends and family.

Along with great shows and events to enjoy, we’ve made some changes to make your Festival experience even better. We’re delighted to launch the Adnams Main Stage which sits alongside the Adnams Spiegeltent to create a festival hub for great art, entertainment and socialising in Festival Gardens, Chapelfield. We also have a new look (with a different colour each year), and a fresh approach to ticketing. For the first time we have set out this brochure by date rather than artform and I hope this increases your enjoyment of exploring and planning your festival adventure.

It takes a team to bring us a festival and I thank all who have made this year’s Festival possible – from our funders, partners, sponsors and donors to our board, staff and volunteers.

A special thanks to our programme partners: Britten Sinfonia for classical music, Serious for contemporary music; and National Centre for Writing for the City of Literature Weekend.

We all hope you enjoy the Festival. We’d love to hear about what you’ve seen and what you think, so let us know with #NNF20.

Daniel Brine Artistic Director and Chief Executive

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Festival Stories © JMA Photography

There are lots of ways to enjoy the Festival. You might come and see one special artist, or you could build an adventure through the programme, choosing familiar favourites but also taking a risk on shows which look fun and different.

To help you navigate the Festival we’ve identified some Festival Stories, which weave their way through the programme.

Some of these Festival Stories are ideas or questions which we think are important and want to share and others occur naturally as we group themes explored by artists.

We’ve approached this brochure a lot more like a magazine (creating a brochure-zine!) which includes all event listings but also articles and artistic contributions introducing our Festival Stories.

It is an exciting time for us as we begin to look to our 250th anniversary in 2022. This year’s Festival is the first in a trio in which we think about our history and look to our future, and

this is ref lected through The Passing of Time (p34) being a key story of this year’s Festival. In this story we celebrate anniversaries, revisit seminal works, think about the journeys of our lives and try to make sense of where we are now. It is especially exciting to launch three projects – Common Ground, Lost and Found Films of Norfolk and The Two Fifty – all of which share an inclusive community spirit and will culminate in 2022 (p26).

Community Gathering (p12) tells the story of how we come together to celebrate, collaborate and create.

Whether community groups across Norfolk making a radio show together, or a mass community endeavour to perform a great orchestral and choral work, these are the projects and events

which show us what we can achieve and experience together.

From writers in the City of Literature Weekend to family theatre at the Norwich Puppet Theatre, artists responding to the climate crisis can be found throughout the Festival.

Nature Tales & Trails (p60) brings these voices together in a Festival Story focusing our attention on a true challenge of our time.

The stories enable you to link ideas between artists and across artforms.

We hope you enjoy exploring the connections of the Festival Stories and encourage you to construct your own – there are a lot of potential starting points including fresh perspectives on our city, queer voices and local talent.

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We asked Norwich poet Molly Naylor to create a poem about the Festival spirit she experiences.

Here it is, your invitation.

If you did not get the invite, this is the invite You are invited, please come.

Come in your work clothes, wetsuit, your PJs, your walking boots.

Come knackered, come dust-covered, suffering, cynical, uncertain.

Come lanyard-wearing, brain-wobbly, half-arsed, half-cut, half gone.

Come bakers, matchmakers, come I might see you later, come hi-vis babies, come I dunno, maybe, come struck by lightning, come recently dumped, come on get down here, it’s on.

Come anxious, come awkward, come who can I walk in with come nothing to see here come this aint for me.

It’s all for you and a finger up to those who’ve made you doubt that.

There’s wildness in your blood and glitter in your belly.

Your heart’s an empty cup.

Come on. Come fill it up.

I say all this just in case you’d assumed you weren’t.

For me that was church all sacred smells and not-my-rituals and a certain type of love, the type that knows its way around Ikea and wants to sync up calendars.

Left: Wolf’s Child, 2015 © Steve Tanner 7

VE Day Anniversary Organ Recital © Paul Hurst

Norwich Cathedral Presents VE Day Anniversary Organ Recital Friday 8 May, 11am Norwich Cathedral Ashley Grote, Norwich Cathedral’s Master of Music, presents a programme of popular organ music for the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. Featuring works by Herbert Brewer, George Thalben-Ball, William Walton, César Franck, Edward Elgar and Henry Wood.

Free MUSIC

John Grant + TEDDY THOMPSON Friday 8 May, 8pm Great Yarmouth Hippodrome A rare stripped–back live show in the iconic Great Yarmouth Hippodrome where John Grant performs with Chris Pemberton in a duo and plays songs from across his celebrated career. ‘a unique songwriting talent.’ The Guardian Tickets £28, £25, £20, under 26 £7.50 A return coach ticket from Norwich can be booked for this event, see the website for details MUSIC 8

Oliver Pashley © Raphael Neal

Oliver Pashley and the Aquinas Trio Quartet for the End of Time Saturday 9 May, 8pm Norwich Cathedral Oliver Pashley clarinet Ruth Rogers violin Katherine Jenkinson cello Martin Cousin piano Richard Gowers organ Messiaen L’Ascension (for solo organ) Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Messiaen’s deeply moving Quartet for the End of Time was written and first performed in Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner-of-war camp. Inspired by a passage from the Apocalypse and written in apocalyptic circumstances, Messiaen’s Quartet is nonetheless an exquisite work of transcendental beauty.

Tickets £28, £24, £20, £10, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Book tickets nnfestival.org.uk 01603 531800

‘Ecstatic communion with an artist at the peak of his talents.’

The Times on John Grant

John Grant © Christie Goodwin 9

WELCOME weekend Welcome to the Festival!

We launch into the Festival with a weekend of outdoor wonders: interactive art playgrounds, hilarious live radio and breath-taking freerunning across the rooftops of Norwich.

Get into the Festival spirit with a whole weekend of free events.

UK PREMIERE Benjamin Vandewalle Studio Cité Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May, 11am—5pm Outside The Forum A travelling art fair and playground from Belgian artist Benjamin Vandewalle. A created space filled with contraptions and amusements where social encounters, discussions and the exchange of ideas can take place.

Free

Our Free Outdoor Programme Sponsors, Tarmac help us bring you this world-class programme.

The Free Outdoor Programme is supported by The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust Studio Cité and Zero Degré are IN SITU Pilot projects, and have received a creation aid by the ACT project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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A Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission Hunt & Darton Radio Local Saturday 9—Sunday 10 May, 12pm—12pm Hay Hill, Norwich and live on Future Radio Radio Local is a brand new hyper local radio station, broadcasting live, straight from your high street - for 24 hours. Hosted by deadpan duo Hunt & Darton the show is built with, by and for local people, telling your stories, sharing your news, playing your jingles. Hunt & Darton are working with communities from Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and Diss ahead of arriving in Norwich.

Free

UK PREMIERE La Fabrique Royale Zéro Degré Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May, 7pm Starts Outside The Forum The freerunners of La Fabrique Royale f ly from roof to roof across Norwich in an impressive and daring outdoor spectacular. Starting outside The Forum, follow the group through the streets of Norwich and discover the city from a new perspective.

Free More information will be released closer to the time, keep an eye on the website nnfestival.org.uk

Studio Cité © Thomas Seest

Radio Local © Christa Holka

Zéro Degré © Anthony 11

Community Gathering As we approach our 250th anniversary, Festival Volunteer Ellie Reeves explores the Festival’s role in the community... from foundations to future.

The 2020 programme sees the beginning of three consecutive Festivals dedicated to celebrating the Festival’s incredible life. We cannot allow one of the UK’s oldest and largest multi-art festivals to fall behind the times. But with such a rich history, and an evolving future, we should pay homage to the roots that have kept this Festival growing.

Many of today’s elite arts festivals originated as national pride builders after the Second World War, projects to regain a national identity through community cohesion. Norfolk & Norwich Festival sprouted in 1772 – starting as a humble fundraiser for the local hospital, developing into a four-day Grand Music Festival, and has become one of the largest festivals in the UK. Unlike many of the elite, building community was never its objective, because, when we step back, we see community was where it started. There’s a big heart amongst the buildings of Norwich.

In 1772, the hospital needed the people, so the people sang. Now, almost 250

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years later, we find ourselves amidst an increasingly tumultuous national conscience. With an abundance of future uncertainty, engagement with young voices is paramount. We see a need for community on multiple scales to initiate and nurture greater understanding. The arts have always strived to build bridges in times of tension, providing a common ground where anyone can express themselves.

As we celebrate 250 years, the Festival will reshape from within the communities that fuel it. To expand and enrich these spaces through arts interventions, the Creative Engagement programme (P58) aims to bring richer, deeper cultural experiences to more and more communities, focusing attention on the active contribution of young people. The simple impact of creating, learning, experiencing something new can give voice to those often unheard, so get involved!

The attribution of social responsibility is growing, and we hope the Festival can demonstrate constructive,

“The arts have always strived to build bridges in times of tension, provide common ground where anyone can express themselves.” communal change within the celebrations. How we shape that change is up to us. Sometimes we need reminding of the communities we fall into, whether macro or micro, and that everyone deserves to feel they belong.

With the past and future in mind, Norfolk & Norwich Festival will always strive to make you feel at home.

Read more online at nnfestival.org.uk

Festival shows woven through with Community Gatherings, where art and communities come together in celebration Norwich Cathedral VE Day Anniversary Organ Recital p8 Hunt & Darton Radio Local p10 Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus Mahler SYMPHONY NO.3 p14 Frozen Light Fire Songs p16 Dorothy’s Shoes Presents Ragroof Tea Dances p25 Anatomical Buildy-Uppy Dance Show p25 Lone Twin The Two Fifty p26 Urban Flames p42

Top: Frozen Light’s The Isle of Brimsker, Festival commission 2018 © JMA Photography Middle: The people of Norwich gather for 1896’s Festival at St. Andrew’s Hall © Picture Norfolk – Norfolk County Council Bottom: Hunt & Darton’s Serious Play © Susana Sanroman 13

Vox Luminis Monday 11 May, 7.30pm Norwich Cathedral Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Tallis O Nata Lux Robert White Christe qui lux est et dies Byrd Ave Verum Corpus Britten A Hymn to the Virgin Purcell Remember not, Lord our Offences Purcell An Evening Hymn Morley Funeral Sentences for Elizabeth INTERVAL Purcell Hear my prayer O Lord Purcell O dive custos Purcell Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary Britten Sacred and Profane

Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus Present Mahler Symphony No. 3 Sunday 10 May, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Sara Fulgoni mezzo soprano Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra Norwich Philharmonic Choir Norwich Cathedral Choir Matthew Andrews conductor

Mahler’s epic Third Symphony is a sixmovement hymn to nature and a work of extraordinary power and drama.

It travels from intense summer heat to wild winds, through meadows and moonlit forests, before concluding with a radiant vision of heaven in its triumphant final movement.

Featuring outstanding mezzo soprano Sara Fulgoni and the children’s voices of Norwich Cathedral Choir.

Tickets £29, £27, £21, £11, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

BBC New Generation Artists Alessandro Fisher Monday 11 May, 1pm Octagon Chapel, Norwich Alessandro Fisher tenor Sholto Kynoch piano Michael Head Over the Rim of the Moon Brahms Vier Lieder A selection of songs around the theme of water by Schubert, Chausson, Fauré and Meyerbeer Granados Three songs from Canciones Amatorias

Tickets £35, £30, £25, £10, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC With kind thanks to Director’s Circle Supporter Lynn Biggs

Winner of the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, Alessandro Fisher is one of the most exciting singers of his generation. This rich and eclectic programme explores music from Schubert to the 20th century, including the popular song-cycle Over the Rim of the Moon, composed in 1918

by Michael Head.

Tickets £15, £13, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

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Following their memorable performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers in 2017 at Norwich Cathedral, Vox Luminis return to the Festival with a programme juxtaposing Renaissance and Baroque music by composers including Byrd, Tallis and Purcell with three intensely evocative sacred settings by Benjamin Britten.

Alessandro Fisher

Vox Luminis © Tom Blaton 15

Fire Songs

Kandace Springs © Mathieu Bitton

A Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission world premiere Frozen Light Fire Songs

Kandace Springs

Tuesday 12—Saturday 16 May, 11am & 1.30pm The Garage, Norwich An immersive sensory sound experience for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities. From a soulful connection around a campfire, travelling into the celestial music of the cosmos itself, audiences will experience a whole new world of awe and wonder.

Join us for an hour of original music interwoven with epic sensory experiences in a new kind of production from Frozen Light, performed in collaboration with the Thetford Singers.

Tickets £10, essential carers or companions free Ages For all ages with profound and multiple learning disabilities MUSIC

PERFORMANCE

Co-commissioned by The Garage and Norfolk & Norwich Festival

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Tuesday 12 May, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Prince once said that Kandace Springs ‘has a voice that could melt snow.’ She will bring her soul-drenched vocals and unique piano style to Norwich to perform from her upcoming album, The Women Who Raised Me, a loving tribute to the great female singers who inspired her, released on Blue Note.

Tickets £25, £20, £18, £15, £10, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

‘a voice that could melt snow’ Prince on Kandace Springs Book tickets nnfestival.org.uk 01603 531800

Mariam Batsashvili © Josef Fischnaller

Rob Luft Band

Mariam Batsashvili

BBC New Generation Artists Rob Luft BAND

Tuesday 12 May, 7.30pm St Peter Mancroft, Norwich Mariam Batsashvili piano Mozart Chopin Liszt INTERVAL

Sonata No. 8 in D major KV 311 Six Polish Songs, Op. 74 (arranged for piano by Franz Liszt) Rhapsodie espagnole (Spanish Rhapsody), S.254

Ravel Sonatine for Piano Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (arranged for piano by M. Pletnev)

Mariam Batsashvili makes a welcome return to the Festival for this exuberantly colourful programme. Her passion for Liszt once again takes centre stage, with performances of both his virtuosic tour-de-force, the Rhapsodie espagnole, and his arrangement of Chopin’s Polish Songs.

Wednesday 13 May, 1pm Octagon Chapel, Norwich Rob Luft guitar Joe Wright tenor sax Joe Webb piano, keyboard Tom McCredie bass guitar Corrie Dick drums & percussion

Rob Luft is one of the UK’s most talented young contemporary jazz guitarists. In this event his quintet perform original compositions which draw upon the band’s musical influences, including Celtic folk, West African high-life, indie rock and various strands of contemporary jazz.

Tickets £15, £13, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Tickets £28, £24, £20, £10, under 26 £7.50 Pre-show talk, 6.30pm, free to ticket holders: Mariam Batsashvili in conversation MUSIC

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Festival Gardens For two weeks in May, we transform Chapelfield into our Festival Gardens; a buzzing pop-up community of food stalls, bars, hangout areas, our box office and two unique venues – the iconic Adnams Spiegeltent and the brand-new Adnams Main Stage.

Whether you’re coming down for the free Garden Party weekend of interactive family fun; spicing up your mid-week with drinks and a show, or just fancy soaking up some summer evening sun and party atmosphere, Festival Gardens is a free-to-enter haven of arts and entertainment slapbang in the centre of Norwich.

For full opening times, accessibility details and guide to what’s on, head over to nnfestival.org.uk

Adnams Spiegeltent and Adnams Main Stage are generously sponsored by

Free Outdoor Programme partner

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Food and Drink Delicious regulars and some new foodie friends will be holding the fort throughout the Festival, offering tasty al fresco opportunities. We’ll have Norfolk’s finest food trucks rolling up to feed the hungry hordes during our Garden Party weekend, transforming the park into a foodlover’s paradise.

Daytime at Festival Gardens Festival Gardens doesn’t just come alive at night. The lounge bar will be open some days for coffee and cakes, which alongside our comfy seating areas make for the perfect city-centre spot to spend a sunny few hours.

A Greener Festival Alongside our free water refill station (remember to bring your bottles!), we’ve asked our food and drink partners to stop selling plastic water bottles, and have gone meat and fish free across our menus. Helping you do your part for our environment one delicious pizza at a time.

Pack Your Performances You can now pack in more performance in the Festival Gardens each night. Our staggered programme across the Adnams Spiegeltent and Adnams Main Stage means you can fit three (sometimes four) shows a night in. See right for timings.

Plan your night 5.30pm (Fri 15, 22 & Sat 16 may) Adnams Main Stage 7pm Adnams Spiegeltent 8.30pm Adnams Main Stage 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent

Top left: Adnams Spiegeltent © Chris Taylor Left: Garden Party © Dibs McCallum Above: Festival Gardens © Dibs McCallum

Meet me at the Festival Thursday 14 – Friday 22 May Festival Gardens Join us again for a programme of day time community events, from Bounce and Rhyme to crafternoons, there’s festival fun for young and old. We will be promoting all these activities as part of Age of Creativity Festival, Get Creative Festival and Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

More information online nnfestival.org.uk

Our programme is designed so that you’ll never miss out – you can make a marathon night of it!

Check out the Garden Party (p24) and City of Literature Weekend (p43) to pack your weekends!

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Adnams Spiegeltent Opening Party Neon Moon’s Electric Rodeo Circus Wednesday 13 May, 7pm & 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Welcoming back the indulgent Adnams Spiegeltent in style with spellbinding circus, cabaret and burlesque with an electrifying twist.

Scream if you want to go faster – Neon Moon’s explosive, light fuelled Electric Rodeo Circus will take you on the ride of your lives! Join the fun – dress up as your circus/retro/neon/electrifying alter ego!

Neon Moon’s Electric Rodeo Circus © Ruby Truelove

Voted ‘Best Burlesque & Cabaret Club UK 2019’ Lux Life Global Hospitality Awards – Neon Moon

Tickets £20, under 26 £7.50 Ages Recommended 18+ CABARET Sponsored by

Adnams Main Stage Opening Night Gravity & Other Myths Out of Chaos…

Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 May, 8.30pm, Friday 15 & Saturday 16 May, 5.30pm Adnams Main Stage, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield The boldest and most ambitious work yet from the no-nonsense, DIY circus company that took Norwich by storm in 2019.

Hard-edged, throbbing, explosive acrobatics referencing birth, death and primordial physics collide with intimate verbal confessions to create insight into what it feels like to be on stage... complete with sweaty armpits.

Tickets £26, £22, £18, £12, under 26 £7.50

Out of Chaos... © Carnival Cinema

CIRCUS Sponsored by

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Frisky & Mannish Poplab Thursday 14 – Sunday 17 May, 7pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Ten years since they arrived with their wildly popular brand of musical infotainment, Frisky & Mannish are Pop PhDs, fully qualified to conduct scientific analyses of all music. In other words, they tit about with pop songs. Hilariously.

Tickets £24, £20, under 26 £7.50 Ages 12+ MUSIC

CABARET

Oscar Jerome Thursday 14 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Rising through London’s rich and kaleidoscopic musical community, Norfolk-born Oscar Jerome has continued to stand out amongst the City’s colourful sonic tapestry.

Following a restless couple of years that saw seemingly-endless international touring and a consistent stream of singles and EPs, collaborations on stage and in the studio, Jerome has found a welcome home amongst such names as Shabaka Hutchings, Kamasi Washington, Yussef Dayes, Lianne La Havas and Joe Armon-Jones.

Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Adnams Spiegeltent and Adnams Main Stage are generously sponsored by

Poplab © Aemen Sukkar

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Britten Sinfonia with Alison Balsom Mysteries of The Macabre Friday 15 May, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Alison Balsom trumpet Jacqueline Shave director/violin

Billy and the Beast

Billy AND the Beast Friday 15 May, 6pm Norwich Puppet Theatre A concert for children based on Nadia Shireen’s Billy and the Beast. Building upon the book’s heroic and hilarious tale, musicians from Britten Sinfonia deliver a magical, musical storytelling experience like no other.

Tickets £9 Ages 5+ FAMILY

MUSIC

Supported by

The John Jarrold Trust

Purcell arr. Maxwell Davies Fantasia upon One Note Purcell arr. Berio The Modification of a Famous Hornpipe Purcell arr. Maxwell Davies Fantasia on a Ground and Two Pavans John Woolrich (after Purcell) Hark! The echoing air!

Scarlatti arr. John Woolrich Sonatas Set 2 Harrison Birtwistle Virelai (sus une fontayne) Ligeti arr. Howarth Mysteries of the Macabre

Britten Sinfonia and Alison Balsom join forces for a programme of music exploring more than 300 years of composition. With arrangements of Purcell by some of the greatest composers of the present day, ancient and contemporary inf luences are intertwined.

Tickets £35, £30, £25, £15, £10, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm, free to ticket holders: Dr Kate Kennedy in conversation with Britten Sinfonia musicians.

Book tickets nnfestival.org.uk 01603 531800

A Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission Robert MacFarlane WITH SPECIAL GUEST Cosmo Sheldrake Friday 15 & Saturday 16 May, 8.30pm, Adnams Main Stage, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield A new collaboration especially for Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Robert Macfarlane has written thrilling books about landscape, nature and people, including Underland, The Old Ways and Lost Words, and music and rhythm pulses through his writing.

Cosmo Sheldrake is a songwriter with a passion for ecology and the nature of place, who’s reached out to huge audiences on new media like Tik Tok while working with Matthew Herbert, Johnny Flynn, Sam Lee and many more.

Tickets £24, £20, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

18–25 ticket scheme partner

Alison Balsom © Lizzie Patterson 22

Robert Macfarlane © Bryan Appleyard

Shingai

Future Cargo © Mark Pepperall

Shingai

WORLD PREMIERE ReqUardt & Rosenberg Future Cargo

Friday 15 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Shingai, legendary singer and front woman from The Noisettes ignites a new musical chapter with her Ancient Futures EP. The niece of Zimbabwean musical titan Thomas Mapfumo, the new project explores her relationship to her African roots while drawing on pop, soul, jazz and electronics to create a truly original sound.

‘A living, breathing, manifestation of Rock & Roll’ Rolling Stone Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Saturday 16 May, 6pm & 8pm St Mary’s Works, Norwich A truck arrives from a distant planet loaded with a mystery shipment. AT LAST! What all those movies warned us about.

Future Cargo is a contemporary sci-fi dance show from the makers of Electric Hotel and Motor Show. A strange outdoor spectacle for a headphone wearing audience.

Tickets £12, under 26 £7.50 This is an outdoor performance see website for accessibility information DANCE Future Cargo is produced by The Place. Future Cargo is supported

by Without Walls and commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Stockton International Riverside Festival, Freedom Festival Arts Trust and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. co-commissioned by The Place, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and DanceEast via Stomping Ground, Mayflower 400, Milton Keynes International Festival and Pavilion Dance South West.

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garden party Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May 12pm–5pm

Mearth Mothers

Make, do, see and play at the Garden Party, a weekend of free family fun at Festival Gardens.

This year we focus on environment with a range of activities you can take part in and initiatives to help make the Festival more environmentally friendly. You can discover, learn, share, and explore creativity, take part in workshops or just enjoy the shows and food!

Free!

Line up includes 6 world premieres LASTheatre The Rascally Diner

Damae Dance IRMÃ-sister

Matthew Harrison Community Chest

Gravity & Levity Why?

Simple Cypher Roll Play

Roll Play © Andu Kaprar

Beady Eye MEarth MOthers

Irmã-Sister

Garden Party 2015 © JMA Photography

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Above: Garden Party 2018 © JMA Photography

Plus great ticketed shows...

Dorothy’s Shoes Present Ragroof Tea Dances

Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May, 10.30am, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield

Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May, 12.30pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield

A magical hour of building, music and dancing with your family. Let your imagination run riot as hundreds of boxes are stacked, squashed and rebuilt. Help create enticing caves, wonky castles and fabulous creatures, as together we learn that the strongest thing we can build is friendship.

Vintage dance music, glamorous costumes, glorious dance displays, and Instant Dance Classes. Everyone welcome, absolute beginners and experienced dancers alike.

FAMILY

Tickets £12, under 26 £7.50 DANCE

Sponsored by

DANCE Sponsored by

Ragroof Tea Dance

Tickets £9 Ages 4+

On Saturday, it’s Twinkletoes!

20’s Tango to Turkey Trot. On Sunday, Tropicalia! Summer Samba and Bossa Nova. Dress up, join in, eat cake!

The Buildy-uppy Dance Show

Anatomical The Buildy-Uppy Dance Show

Free Outdoor Programme partner

The Free Outdoor Programme is supported by The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust With kind thanks to Director’s Circle Supporters Jackie & Richard Higham

Norfolk & Norwich Festival is a partner in Without Walls, working with festivals and artists and bringing fantastic outdoor arts to people in towns and cities across the UK. See withoutwalls.uk.com for full details.

Events at the Garden Party are co-commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival and a number of partners.

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Festival at 250 To mark a massive 250 years of Norfolk & Norwich Festival we’re developing three projects focusing on working with communities and young people over the next three years, culminating in 2022.

Common Ground Common Ground will inspire new forms of heritage interpretation, enabling young people to generate and present unconventional ideas. This project is run in partnership with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, National Trust, Prince’s Trust, SHARE Museums East, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund.

To find out more about the project visit nnfestival.org.uk/ common-ground

Lone Twin, The Two Fifty The Two Fifty celebrates the volunteers without whom the Festival would not happen, artists Lone Twin will create a guild of 250 volunteers over the next three years who will take part in random acts of kindness and impromptu art.

Two hundred and fifty people from across Norfolk join together to help Norfolk have a better day. A unique participatory experience and longterm social resource, The Two Fifty, a guild for our times, is at your service.

To join The Two Fifty and for more information: nnfestival.org.uk

Lost & Found Films of Norfolk Lost & Found Films of Norfolk, where Andy Field of Forest Fringe (News News News 2019) works with artists, including Christopher Brett Bailey and Keisha Thompson, and children from schools across Norfolk to uncover lost films about the very true history of Norfolk.

As part of the work they have been doing as researchers for Lost & Found Films of Norfolk, some of our young historians from Wensum Junior School are interviewed by Andy Field and Christopher Brett Bailey about what they think about Norwich and its past.

What are the main differences between Norwich today and Norwich in the past?

Bence: Everything is different. The doors.

The cars. The cars weren’t even cars they were just horses leading. Everything changed. Everything.

Rosemary: Mostly the electronics have changed things. You used to have to go to theatre to watch something and you wouldn’t be able to change the channel once you’re in there.

Gloria: Right now we just have to press a button and the shower just goes on but in the olden days people had to get a bucket with water and wash themselves.

Archie: No electric.

Maggie: You couldn’t make coffee in a machine you had to use a fire and you couldn’t use a fridge to keep things you had to keep them in a cupboard and use them by a certain time.

Lexi: Modern shops are tall and markets are really small and you have to hand people things with your bare hands not just get them off shelves.

Teigan: In this city there are still markets though.

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Lone Twin The Two Fifty

“you used to have to go to the theatre to watch something and you wouldn’t be able to change the channel once you’re in there”

Lost & Found Films of Norfolk

Jake: The way that they operated at the vets was very different because they didn’t have the technology we do now.

Maddie: Life was hard because if you wanted your friends round you couldn’t text them or anything, you had to wait until you write something down and send it to them.

Was there anything you thought was better about life in the past?

Maddie: There was not that many break-ins because no one wanted to steal anything because nothing was that valuable.

You can learn more about Lost & Found Films of Norfolk at nnfestival.org.uk/lost-and-found-films or discover them as part of the display at Museum of Norwich, at The Bridewell.

Lost & Found Films of Norfolk Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 May Museum of Norwich Free with museum admission The Lost & Found Films of Norfolk is commissioned and produced by Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Curated by Forest Fringe.

Supported by Norwich Freemen’s Charity

Rosemary: It sounds weird but I feel like back then was much better because things took more effort because mostly people just text or drive but back then you had to get someone to get a horse or carriage and you couldn’t just sit down on the couch and watch TV you had to go to the theatre and book it.

Maggie: There wasn’t so much pollution and fossil fuels polluting our air.

Archie: I think at the time we are now if cash machines are too updated and new they might have a mind of their own and not give us any money.

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Richard Goode © Steve Riskind

Sarathy Korwar

Norfolk & Norwich Chamber Music Present Richard Goode

Sarathy Korwar

Saturday 16 May, 7.30pm John Innes Centre, Norwich Beethoven P iano Sonatas Nos. 30, 31 and 32 (op. 109-111)

Internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Goode makes music of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness. Here he performs the final intimate and deeply personal set of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas opp.

109, 110, 111.

Tickets £30, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

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Saturday 16 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Fusing traditional Indian folk music, contemporary jazz and electronics, Sarathy Korwar is an original and compelling voice in the UK jazz scene. He leads the UPAJ Collective, a band of South Asian Jazz and Indian classical musicians. Korwar has toured with Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal and Moses Boyd Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Norfolk & Norwich Festival Evensong Sunday 17 May, 3.30pm Norwich Cathedral Enjoy the sublime sound of Norwich Cathedral Choir in this special Evensong celebrating the historic link between Norfolk & Norwich Festival and the Cathedral.

The daily tradition of Choral Evensong has been at the heart of the Cathedral for centuries and this particular service will focus on unity and diversity in our world today.

Free MUSIC

‘Absolutely of the moment: a psychedelic, electronic, jazzy odyssey that deals with issues of racial identity. It’s fabulous.’

The Guardian on Sarathy Korwar

Shards © Matilda Hill-Jenkins

Camille O’Sullivan Sings Cave Sunday 17 May, 8.30pm Adnams Main Stage, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Dark, sexy, fierce, amusing and mesmerizing, world-renowned Irish/ French singer Camille O’Sullivan explores the dark and light of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ music.

Tickets £24, £22, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Shards Sunday 17 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Shards is the vocal-led project of singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt. Signed to Erased Tapes, Shards formed in 2016 to collaborate with Nils Frahm for the Possibly Colliding festival. Building on the success of the performances, Nils Frahm invited Shards to perform on his breakthrough album All Melody.

They released their debut album Find Sound in 2019.

Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Camille O’Sullivan © Kip Carroll

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BBC New Generation Artists Alexander Gadjiev Monday 18 May, 1pm Octagon Chapel, Norwich Alexander Gadjiev piano Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op 38 Schubert Moments musicaux D780, Nos. 2 and 5 Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op 52 Messiaen Regard No.15: Le baiser de l’enfant Jésus Schubert Moments musicaux D780, Nos. 3 and 6 Liszt Études transcendental, Nos. 4,11 and 12

Winner of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition and the Monte Carlo World Piano Masters Competition, Alexander Gadjiev performs works including two of Chopin’s virtuosic and rhapsodic Ballades.

Tickets £15, £13, under 26 £7.50 This performance will be recorded by the BBC for future broadcast MUSIC

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BBC New Generation Artists Consone Quartet Monday 18 May, 5.30pm Octagon Chapel, Norwich Agata Daraskaite violin Magdalena Loth-Hill violin Elitsa Bogdovana viola George Ross cello Haydn String Quartet in D major Op. 20 No. 4 Beethoven String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6

Winners of the 2016 Royal Overseas League Ensemble Prize, the Consone Quartet have rapidly made a name for themselves as fresh, engaging and vivid interpreters of the Classical and early Romantic music in which they specialise.

Tickets £15, £13, under 26 £7.50 This performance will be recorded by the BBC for future broadcast

Consone Quartet

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Stopgap Dance Artificial Things Monday 18 May, 6.30pm The Forum Auditorium, Norwich Film screening and Q&A with artists from Stopgap Dance.

Artificial Things won the ‘Best Screen Choreography for over 15 minutes’ category at dancescreen 2019 in Wuppertal, Germany. In this fluid dance film, director Sophie Fiennes collaborates with choreographer Lucy Bennet to reimagine Stopgap Dance Company’s performance piece Artificial Things.

Free, booking essential dance

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Artificial Things

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Paul O’Donnell © Alex Brenner

Pundemonium!

Paul O’Donnell We’ve Got Each Other

PundEmonium! LIVE

Monday 18 May, 7pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield The almost entirely imagined Bon Jovi musical.

With the modern jukebox musical comes: a multitalented cast, orchestra, opulent sets, decadent costumes, extravagant routines, dramatic key changes and the odd hydraulic lift or two.

We’ve Got Each Other has none of these things but Paul O’Donnell tries to create all of this spectacle using the powers of your imagination.

Tickets £18, £14, under 26 £7.50 Ages Recommended 12+ Performance will be captioned and audio described using the Difference Engine PERFORMANCE

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Monday 18 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Be punctual for a special of competitive cult comedy hit from Daniel Pitt and Rachel Mars.

Guest pundits including writers, performers, comedians and poets compete alongside members of the public in a hilarious game show full of punishing linguistic challenges.

Interested in punning and competing?

Email: pundemoniumlive@gmail.com Tickets £5 Ages 14+ game show

Alex McAleer Mind reader Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 May, 7pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield After touring extensively in the UK, USA & Canada with one of the world’s largest touring magic shows Champions of Magic, Norwich-based Alex McAleer brings his Cabaret Award nominated solo show Mind Reader to the UK for the first time. Expect contemporary mindreading, sharp wit and a f lair for showmanship.

Tickets £18, £14, under 26 £7.50 Ages 14+ MAGIC

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Ian Bostridge Winterreise Tuesday 19 May, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Ian Bostridge tenor Sebastian Wybrew piano Schubert Winterreise

Ian Bostridge has documented his obsession with Schubert’s haunting and heartbreaking song cycle of love and loss, Winterreise and his interpretation of it is widely regarded as definitive. This rare opportunity to hear his live performance promises to be a profound and intensely moving experience.

Alex McAleer

Tickets £30, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

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The Passing of Time Lyn Gardner reflects on Festival story ‘The Passing of Time’ and how it relates to Gob Squad as they return with their seminal show Super Night Shot fifteen years later.

Gob Squad’s homecoming to Norwich with Super Night Shot, one of the AngloGerman company’s most popular and widely travelled shows, is poignant in many ways. For a start, the company very seldom return to make the show twice over in the same city.

But doing so offers an opportunity to reflect on how Norwich has transformed since they were here in 2005, how the world has shifted, and how they themselves have changed with the passing years. When Gob Squad first made Super Night Shot in Norwich they were in their midthirties, now most of the company is pushing 50. More of their lives are behind them than in front of them.

Inevitably that impacts on the show. While they may still describe themselves as “provocative fools” going out into the city to “wage a war against anonymity”, intervening in its life and making connections with and between its inhabitants, they no longer have the swagger of youth. There are losses in that, but perhaps also gains.

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“We often think of the piece as putting an ornate frame around a slice of reality.”

As founder Gob Squad member Sean Patten says: “Maybe we listen better.

Maybe we are better at cutting through the noise of the city and finding what’s under it.”

But if Gob Squad has grown older, a process that they have continually charted through their work over the last quarter of a century, time and cultural shifts also impact on the context in which they now make Super Night Shot. In Norwich in 2005 there would have been no selfie-sticks and no smart phones. Now everyone films themselves all the time, more

suspicious of being approached in the street, more aware of an image’s commercial and cultural value.

That can make Gob Squad’s job more difficult but also more necessary. Super Night Shot lets us glimpse the heroic in the everyday, in the people and corners of the city that we never notice as we hurry on by self-absorbed in our own busy lives with eyes glued to screens and ear pods in. It is a piece that brings people together in many different ways: on the streets; in the act of watching it together as an audience.

“We often think of the piece as putting an ornate frame around a slice of reality. So, what we are doing is putting a frame around 60 minutes of Norwich so we can look at it in all its complexity, warts and all,” explains Patten. “Our mission is to bring people together. Gob Squad is and always has been about trying to find a social connection. With Super Night Shot we intervene in people’s lives and you never know what the consequences are after we have left the city.”

Fifteen years ago, while filming Super Night Shot in Norwich, they encountered a man who had just moved to the city and had no friends.

So, the company did some instant social engineering, finding two other people, also strangers, and bringing the three together and encouraging them to talk together. Who knows?

Maybe they all became firm friends.

Maybe the trio will be sitting together in the audience at the show.

Read more online at nnfestival.org.uk

Find out more Gob Squad Super Night Shot p36 More work telling the story of The Passing of Time Quartet for the End of Time p8

Javaad Alipoor Rich Kids p39 Ali Smith Summer p45 Yara El Sherbini and Davina Drummond Arrivals and Departures p51

Requardt & Rosenberg Future Cargo p23 Festival at 250 p26 Ian Bostridge p33 I FAGIOliNI LEONARDO 500 p37 Above: Gob Squad 35

Super Night Shot

Gob Squad Super Night Shot Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 May, 8.30pm Adnams Main Stage, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield A multi screen film in which the city becomes a film set for a fantastical mission, returning to the Festival after 15 years.

Super Night Shot is a magical journey through the night time streets of a not too distant city. Full of unexpected surprises, the public become co-stars in a movie that celebrates unplanned meetings with strangers and delights in the randomness of urban existence. Both comical and moving, Super Night Shot attempts to elevate the banality of everyday life into the glamour and glitz of a big screen blockbuster.

It’s a completely unpredictable show that elevates the everyday into the epic and plays with your perceptions of the familiar. Anything can happen, and usually does…

Tickets £20, £18, £12, under 26 £7.50 Ages Recommended 18+ PERFORMANCE Sponsored by

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FILM Supported by in-situ

‘Super Night Shot lets us glimpse the heroic in the everyday, in the people and corners of the city that we never notice.’

Lyn Gardner on Gob Squad p34

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Grace Petrie Tuesday 19 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield A folk singer, songwriter and activist from Leicester, Grace has been writing, recording and touring relentlessly for ten years. Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over audiences everywhere, across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes.

Petrie’s latest album Queer as Folk was described as ‘an album of personal and political power, passion and perception’ by Folk Radio.

Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

I fagiolini Leonardo 500: Shaping the Invisible Wednesday 20 May, 8pm St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Tallis Salvator Mundi Howells O Saviour of the World Monteverdi Era l’anima mia Bach Art of Fugue, No. 1 Josquin Agnus Dei, from Missa “L’homme armé” sexti toni Janequin Clement: La Guerre INTERVAL Victoria Victoria Rubbra Vecchi Daniel-Lesur Williams/Clarke

Alma Redemptoris Mater Unus ex discipulis meis Amicus meus Movement from L’Amfiparnaso La Voix du Bien-Aimé / Le jardin clos Shaping the Invisible

Marking 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci’s death, this immersive multi-media event sees vocal ensemble I Fagiolini illuminate projections of his most iconic artworks with complementary choral masterpieces from across the centuries, with introductions to the music and artworks from the stage.

Tickets £32, £28, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

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Reuben Kaye Wednesday 20 & Thursday 21 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Imagine if Joan Collins, Tim Curry and Meow Meow all dropped a stack of narcotics and had an orgy… now roll it in jewels and bathtub gin and you’re halfway there.

Obscenely intelligent, beautifully filthy, and rib-crackingly funny, Australia’s Cabaret superstar Reuben Kaye is what happens when you tell your children they can be anything.

Tickets £24, £20, under 26 £7.50 Ages 16+ CABARET Reuben Kaye

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Sponsored by

Casus circus You & I Thursday 21—Saturday 23 May, 7pm Sunday 24 May, 5pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Award winning company and Festival favourites Casus Circus are back with their most daring and intimate work You & I. An empowering hour of skill and identity celebrating the loving relationship between two circus artists using high-level acrobatics, trapeze, magic and dance.

Tickets £24, £20, under 26 £7.50 Ages 8+ CIRCUS Sponsored by

‘A stunning depiction of life, love, trust and balance.’

You & I © Katie Bennett

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Ed Fest Magazine on You & I

Attacca Quartet Beethoven 250th anniversary Thursday 21 May, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich Amy Schroeder violin Keiko Tokunago violin Nathan Schram viola Andrew Yee cello Beethoven Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 Gabriella Smith Carrot Revolution Beethoven Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127

The Attacca Quartet travel to Norwich from the USA to present a programme which combines Beethoven’s first seminal string quartet with the first of his Late Quartets - widely regarded as among the greatest musical compositions of all time – and Gabriella Smith’s “breathtaking eleven minute ride”, the memorably titled Carrot Revolution.

Attacca Quartet

Tickets £26, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

A Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission Javaad Alipoor Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Co-Created by Kirsty Housley Thursday 21—Saturday 23 May, 7.30pm The Garage, Norwich The gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger. Social media feeds the divide. We see the children of elites f lashing cash, dollar signs and Bollinger, while others suffer under sanctions and dictatorships. A play about entitlement, consumption, and how digital technology is complicit in social apartheid. Fringe First Award Winner 2019.

Tickets £14, under 26 £7.50 Ages 14+ performance HOME In association with Traverse Theatre Company Co-commissioned by Diverse Actions, Theatre in the Mill, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Battersea Arts Centre and Bush Theatre

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Above: Hot Brown Honey © Dylan Evans, Right: Backup © J. Van Belle 40

Hot Brown Honey Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 May, 8.30pm Friday 22 May, 5.30pm Adnams Main Stage, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Hot Brown Honey turns up the heat with lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment in the smash-hit, genre defying, firecracker of a show that’s taken the world by storm. The Honeys definitely smash stereotypes as they unapologetically celebrate our similarities and differences in an explosion of Colour, Culture and Controversy.

Tickets £24, £20, £16, £10, under 26 £7.50 Ages 15+ cabaret Produced by Quiet Riot International

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Focus Company and Chaliwaté Company Backup Friday 22 & Saturday 23 May, 6pm Saturday 23 May, 11am Norwich Puppet Theatre North Pole, 4 am. Under a snowstorm powerful enough to wrestle a sequoia, a used-up van finds its way across the icecap. Three reporters land on the ice as if stepping on the moon for the first time. A bear stares straight at them.

The team gets ready... A 30 minute family theatre blast.

Tickets £7 Ages 9+ Ticket holders can take part in a themed workshop, below, before or after the show FAMILY

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Celebrat ing 40 year of Norw s ich Puppet Theatre

Regenerate Creativity doesn’t have to cost the Earth Friday 22 & Saturday 23 May, 4.15 & 6.45pm Saturday 23 May, 9.15 & 11.45am Join the Regeneration Puppet Nation to bring to life unwanted materials and rediscover the simple pleasure of making things with your hands.

Tickets £4 Book four tickets to both the show and the workshop for just £36 WORKSHOP

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Kefaya & Elaha Soroor Friday 22 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Signed to Bella Union, Afghan singer Elaha Soroor joins forces with awardwinning music/producer duo Kefaya, Al MacSween & Giuliano Modarelli for a mighty and mesmerizing new album, Songs Of Our Mothers; a fresh, vibrant take on Afghan folk music filtered through myriad forms, from spiritual jazz and dub to Indian classical music and electronica.

Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50 MUSIC

Kefaya & Elaha Soroor © Alex Kozobolis

Tamikrest © Shida Masataka

Urban Flames

Tamikrest

Saturday 23 May, 10pm Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield

Sunday 24 May, 6.30pm Adnams Main Stage, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield

Youth vocal collective Urban Flames are comprised of incredible of singer-songwriters between the ages of 14 and 20 who showed great promise on Urban Development songwriting camps. Together they write, arrange and compose original music; blending contemporary pop and Rhythm and Blues.

Tamikrest’s music is a tribute to the Touareg identity, spiced up with modern rock inf luences and storming electric guitars. They perform hypnotic dub, psychedelic blues and an almost supernatural kind of desert garage. They are described by the Quietus as “a super sound, with an effortless, yet focused groove”.

Tickets £16, under 26 £7.50

Tickets £24, £22, under 26 £7.50

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city of literature weekend FRIDAY 22—SUNDAY 24 MAY

In the turbulent climate of our twenty-first century, art is a powerful force for change, resistance and repair.

Featuring Ali Smith, Olivia Laing, Max Porter, A. C. Grayling, Preti Taneja, Owen Sheers, Sayaka Murata and others, this year’s City of Literature Weekend invites you to reflect, connect, discuss and debate the world around us.

Peggy Hughes, Programme Director, National Centre for Writing

City of Literature Weekend is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival and National Centre for Writing presentation, programmed by National Centre for Writing.

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FRIDAY 22 & SATURDAY 23 may

The Poetry Exchange Friday 22 & Saturday 23 May, various times National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall Do you have a poem that has been a friend to you? Come along to Dragon Hall for a friendly chat about your chosen poem and a cup of tea with the co-hosts of The Poetry Exchange podcast. You might even end up on their show!

Free booking required

A Delicate Sight © Andy Sewell

FRIDAY 22 MAY

A Delicate Sight A participatory installation

by Sam Winston

A Delicate Sight: Artist to artist Sam Winston & Max Porter

Monday 18 – Sunday 24 May, various times National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

Wednesday 20 May, 7pm National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

Leading up to the City of Literature Weekend, here is a creative, interactive experience not to be missed – A Delicate Sight includes a film, exhibition and guided creative activity. Enter the dark room installation and respond creatively to the ways in which your senses, thoughts and emotions are heightened.

Ticket price includes a special edition book, featuring work by Max Porter and Bernardine Evaristo.

Tickets £15, under 26 £7.50 literature VISUAL ARTS With thanks to Arts Council England

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A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of A Delicate Sight and the relationship between visual art and words. With artist and producer Sam Winston, and Max Porter, the awardwinning author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny.

Tickets £7.50

Children’s Fiction workshop with Mitch Johnson 10am, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall Children’s literature is a diverse, exciting and popular genre. Join Mitch Johnson, the award-winning author of Kick, as he offers his expert advice on how to write bold, authentic stories for adventurous young readers aged 8–12 years.

Tickets £35, £25 concessions WORKSHOP

FRIDAY 22 MAY

How to Be Animal Melanie Challenger 10.30am, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Through a blend of natural and environmental history and philosophy, award-winning researcher and writer Melanie Challenger argues that at the heart of human psychology is a profound struggle with being animal.

A remarkable look at human existence, our animal nature and our relationship to other species.

Tickets £8.50

Owen Sheers presents…

12pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Owen Sheers, ‘a prodigiously talented writer’ – New York Times, reveals his selection of ten incredible, socially engaged writers who write to ref lect on and hopefully change our times.

Owen will be joined by three of these writers as he explores what makes their work so vital.

Tickets £8.50 Presented by the National Centre for Writing and British Council as part of the International Literature Showcase. With support from Arts Council England and Creative Scotland

the City Walls A UNESCO City of Literature walking tour with Keiron Pim 12.30pm, Across the city Experience Norwich with fresh eyes and uncover the layers of stories embedded within its walls by taking a literary walking tour of the city, led by biographer and journalist Keiron Pim (Jumpin’ Jack Flash – a Guardian Book of the Year).

Tickets £10 includes copy of the Walking Norwich book

The Good State A. C. Grayling 2pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield The foundations upon which our democracy stands are inherently f lawed. What is the remedy? Join philosopher A. C. Grayling as he makes a powerful case for the reforms necessary to address the imbalance of power in our country.

Tickets £12, under 26 £7.50

Portrait of the Writer and Artist Sara Baume & Elizabeth MacNeal

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Summer Ali Smith 7pm, Blackfriars Hall, The Halls, Norwich The Baileys and Goldsmiths prizewinning, Man-Booker shortlisted author returns to Norwich with the unmissable finale to her dazzling literary tour de force, the Seasonal Quartet. Summer is a bold and brilliant novel that captures the state of our nation with burning immediacy.

Tickets £12, under 26 £7.50

new dutch writing 8.30pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall Join us for a celebration of Norfolk’s close relationship with the Low Countries – both geographically and through our history of trade and arts – through the work of some of the most exciting Dutch writers working today.

Tickets £5 Supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and New Dutch Writing

5.30pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall What does it mean to be an artist?

A fascinating glimpse into the daily process of making and writing from Sara Baume (Spill Simmer Falter Wither) and Elizabeth Macneal (The Doll Factory). Through writing, sculpture and ceramics, they will offer perspectives on isolation, motivation, nature and beauty.

Tickets £7.50

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CITY OF LITERATURE WEEKEND saturDAY 23 MAY

Life Writing workshop with Cathy Rentzenbrink 10am, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling memoir The Last Act of Love (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), will share her top tips and techniques for writing about personal memories and experience.

A friendly, informal session featuring discussion and writing exercises.

Tickets £35, £25 concessions WORKSHOP

On the Same Page 10.30am, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield A unique event in which the Royal Society of Literature will present two of the most exciting writers working in the UK today, who would not normally share a stage, to discuss the role of the writer in uncertain political times. Expect lively discussion and fascinating insight into the pressures and pleasures of the writing life.

Names to be revealed!

Tickets £8.50 In partnership with the Royal Society of Literature as part of the RSL 200, celebrating 200 years of literature in the UK

Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing

Page Against the Machine

12pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield

Join us for a special outdoor Page Against the Machine in partnership with The Book Hive.

BYOB (Bring your own book), grab a cool drink and turn off your phone for a well-deserved detox read in the secluded surroundings of The Plantation Garden.

Acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a compelling case for why art matters. Exploring loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair – an antidote to a frightening political time.

Tickets £8.50

Free £2 donation to the Garden on entry; please book in advance

Guided tour of Dragon Hall: Home to the National Centre for Writing

Common People Jenny Knight & Eva Verde with cathy rentzenbrink

12pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

4.30pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

Take a tour of one of Norwich’s most iconic buildings. Starting life as a medieval trading hall, it has a fascinating architectural and social history – and we’d love to give you a f lavour of the stories that live within its walls.

Jenny Knight and Eva Verde both featured in the celebrated Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers, edited by Kit de Waal.

Together, they will explore common themes of loss and love in their writing, and the process of working towards their full-length debuts.

Free suggested donation £5 booking required

Harriet Martineau Lecture ELLAH P. WAKATAMA 2pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield The Harriet Martineau Lecture celebrates the legacy of a remarkable, world-changing woman by inviting globally-renowned radical speakers to respond to her life and work. This year we welcome Ellah P. Wakatama, literary critic and Editor-at-large for Canongate fiction.

Tickets £12, under 26 £7.50 Supported by The Martineau Society

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3pm, The Plantation Garden

Tickets £7.50

The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne A UNESCO City of Literature walking tour with Hugh Aldersey-Williams 5pm, Across the city Experience Norwich with fresh eyes and discover the extraordinary life of one of its greatest residents, the polymath Thomas Browne. A literary walking tour led by writer and creator Hugh Aldersey-Williams (The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century).

Tickets £10 includes copy of the Walking Norwich book

Small But Mighty: Galley Beggar Press Sam Jordison, ELOISE MILLAR, Alex Pheby & Preti Taneja 6pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall Galley Beggar Press is the ‘revolutionary’ (Telegraph) Norwichbased independent publisher taking the literary awards circuit by storm.

Co-founders Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar are joined by prize-winning authors Alex Pheby and Preti Taneja to celebrate the mighty power of the small literary press.

Tickets £7.50

sunDAY 24 MAY

The Winner Takes it All? Anjali Joseph, Preti Taneja & Evie Wyld 10.30am, The Adnams Spiegeltent, Chapelfield Gardens Who decides what is prize-worthy, and how does prize culture fit within the state of society today? We’re joined by Anjali Joseph, Preti Taneja and Evie Wyld to discuss and debate whether the current prize model is working, and how judges may need to adapt in order to survive.

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Wild Child Patrick Barkham 1.30pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield Celebrated nature writer and Guardian columnist Patrick Barkham draws on his experience as a parent and forest school volunteer to explore the importance of children finding their place in the natural world, and the delight we can all find in even modest patches of green.

Tickets £8.50

Tickets £8.50

From Kolkata to Norwich Launch of the Writing Places anthology and chapbook

In association with the Desmond Elliott Prize, part of the National Centre for Writing’s Early Career Awards Programme

7.30pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

Journeys in Springtime Tim Dee

An examination of two very different cities that are both home to radical re-thinkers of the literary arts. Our guest speakers will explore writing and place through the lens of two new publications; Writing Places (published

by Seagull Books in Kolkata); and the Writing Places chapbook (published by the UEA Publishing Project).

12pm, Adnams Spiegeltent, Festival Gardens, Chapelfield

Tickets £5

Tim Dee, BBC producer, nature writer and birdwatcher, makes a remarkable journey in step with the Spring season and its migratory birds; spanning South Africa, Ethiopia, Sicily, Britain and even arctic Norway.

Greenery: Journeys in Springtime is a masterpiece of nature writing.

Tickets £8.50

Contemporary Japanese writers Mieko Kawakami & Sayaka Murata 4pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall Two of the most celebrated writers in Japan today discuss their writing and the portrayal of womanhood and the female body in contemporary Japan.

Murata’s Convenience Store Woman was one of the hottest Japanese fiction releases of 2018, and Kawakami has been singled out as a favourite of Haruki Murakami.

Tickets £5 In partnership with International Literature Festival Dublin.

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Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall Sunday 29 March— Sunday 27 September Selected days – see website for details Houghton Hall Anish Kapoor is one of the most inf luential sculptors of today. Mario Codognato has curated a series of sculptures and drawings selected specifically for the extraordinary landscape and grounds of Houghton Hall, as well as the historic interiors and gallery spaces. The show is representative of Kapoor’s seminal and ground-breaking body of work made over the last 40 years. Shown together, these pieces challenge the architecture of the house, the idyllic beauty of the gardens and the experience for the visitor.

Tickets £20 (Students £10, Free to Under 18s) Tickets on sale Monday 2 March Presented by Houghton Hall Supported by Dorotheum

Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror, 2018, Stainless steel, Diameter 500cm © Anish Kapoor, All rights reserved, 2020

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Karen Eng Write for the Environment Sunday 10 May, 11am GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn Do you care about the environment and wish to express it better in words?

Come and join one of Karen Eng’s all-day writing retreats to explore your ideas in good company. Starting with inspiration from GroundWork’s current exhibition about Bugs; and also using the resources of King’s Lynn’s spectacular rivers, light projections and historic environment

Skyspace Evenings

James Turrell SkySpace Evenings

Selected pieces will be published in the GroundWork journal series.

Friday 15, Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May, 7pm Houghton Hall

Tickets £45; students £25 Refreshments, including light lunch are provided

Back by popular demand, a unique opportunity for special evening viewings in the James Turrell Skyspace, together with a threecourse dinner in the Hall’s Old Kitchen.

James Turrell, the celebrated Californian light artist, has designed an aperture through which to view the changing colour of the sky, preferably at dawn or dusk.

Tickets £75 Presented by Houghton Hall

Book tickets nnfestival.org.uk 01603 531800

WORKSHOP

Why Biennials?

Bugs: Beauty and Danger © Sarah Gillespie’s Black Arches

BUGS: BEAUTY AND DANGER Saturday 14 March—Saturday 30 May, 11am—4pm GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn

Monday 11 May, 7pm The Assembly House, Norwich Join us for a public seminar to ref lect collectively on the practice and potential of contemporary art biennials.

Free pre-booking advised

The exhibition addresses our complex relationships with some of the tiny creatures without which the earth would not survive. Featuring works

by Nicola Bealing, Jeroen Elsinga, Claudia Fahrenkemper, Sarah Gilespie, Cornella Hesse-Honegger, Aurora Sciabarra, Alison Turnbull.

Free Presented by GroundWork Gallery

Why Biennials?

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A Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission Michael Faulkner /// D-Fuse Powers of X Saturday 9—Sunday 24 May Customs House, King’s Lynn An interactive outdoor projection and VR experience, Powers of X is an immersive film inspired by Charles & Ray Eames’ film, Powers of Ten, exploring our planet’s environmental fragility relative to the effects of global consumption and climate breakdown.

Free

Tim Sandys Citizen

Produced by Collusion. Funded by Arts Council England, Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, Discover King’s Lynn, Norfolk County Council & Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Tuesday 5 May—Saturday 4 July East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts Tim Sandys’ sculpture tackles the individual’s role in the civic realm - alone or as part of a larger society. Using actions and interventions, he carefully identifies points of strain, failure or tension within the urban experience and exploits them.

Free Presented by Norwich University of the Arts

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Left: Citizen, Below: Powers of X

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Arrivals + Departures © Tom McClaughlan

A Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission Yara El Sherbini & Davina Drummond Arrivals + Departures Thursday 14—Sunday 24 May The Forum, Norwich

Arrivals + Departures is a public artwork about birth, death and the journey in between by YARA + DAVINA. The public are invited to share the names of those who have arrived (born) and departed (died), on live analogue boards, as a way to acknowledge, celebrate and commemorate.

The mechanical f lip dot boards ref lect the magnitude of sharing a name, where visitors and passers-by can choose to make their contribution via a live interaction with a steward at the Arrivals + Departures boards or online at arrivalsanddepartures.net.

Co-commissioned and produced by Artsadmin with support from Create To Connect > Create to Impact through the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Freedom Festival Arts Trust and Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Publicly funded through Arts Council England.

Integral to the public artwork is a series of free events – a Birth and Death cafe, humming sessions, Preparing for the End workshop, inviting people to figure out how to better celebrate new life, grieve our losses and prepare for the end. This public programme has been created by YARA + DAVINA, with Emma Curtis; secular minister and psychological therapist specialising in grief and resilience, as a consultant and collaborator.

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CRISTINA IGLESIAS 8 May 2020 – 1 April 2021 Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park Two exciting works by internationally celebrated artist, Cristina Iglesias, who was recently awarded the Royal Academy Architecture Prize, London (2020) and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Madrid (2015). An immersive installation, Vegetation Room III is a defined architectural space. The interior walls are casts of organic vegetation, turning the experience of walking into a building inside out, and Celosía XI (Hafsa BintAl-Hayy) consists of a series of seven terracotta screens that mimic the lattices that protect wall openings in Arab architecture.

Laurence Edwards Man of Stones Throughout the Festival Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park Man of Stones is the latest creation

by Edwards and concerned with the placing of a figure in landscape.

Natural materials from the sculpture’s site such as flint and bullrushes have been incorporated during the making of this bronze sculpture. Edwards’ sculpture provides a timely reminder of the interdependent relationship between humanity and nature.

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Free Presented by Sainsbury Centre, the project is staged in collaboration with Marian Goodman Gallery and Cristina Iglesias Studio.

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Man of Stones: A film by director Bill Jackson + Q&A with the Director, artist Laurence Edwards and Sainsbury Centre curator Calvin Winner Wednesday 13 May, 6.30pm Cinema City Norwich Bill Jackson’s beautiful film about the making of Man Of Stones, by Laurence Edwards. A piece of visual poetry that explores the creation and development of a remarkable sculpture. Man of Stones by acclaimed Suffolk artist Laurence Edwards is a site-specific work, situated on a promontory of land between the river Yare and broad, a deceptively remote and wild place.

Tickets £6, £5 cinema members FILM

TALK

Presented by Sainsbury Centre

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The Clunker in the park DAVIDE LAKSHMANASAMY & JAKE FRANCIS Wednesday 13—Sunday 24 May Festival Gardens, Chapelfield The Clunker is an art themed vending machine which allows artists and art lovers to enjoy accessible and affordable artworks in a social and casual environment. Over 40 artists from in and around Norwich and across the world will be showing within the machine. Works range from sculptures, prints, paintings, digital media, installations, drawings, and collaborative pieces.

Various prices

PLANTS, PORCELAIN, PEOPLE Public workshops with ceramicist Katie Spragg, hosted by Caroline Fisher Projects Friday 15 May 2pm and Saturday 16 May, 10am St Peter Hungate Church

The Clunker

Take part in this half day ceramics workshop in the beautiful surroundings of St Peter Hungate church, Norwich.

You will gain an insight into the practice of well-known ceramicist, Katie Spragg and learn how to make sculptural plants out of clay.

Tickets ÂŁ11 Ages 16+ WORKSHOP Presented by Caroline Fisher Projects

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This is the news From Anniversaries to Zines, pipes and podcasts, here are some brilliant projects, offers and outings this May.

Birds of a Festival

The Festival Needs You

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

Festival commissions begin life with research and development. Artist Holly Bodmer has begun this for Peregrinations, a series of performances about and for the Peregrine Falcons of Norwich Cathedral. Keep your eagle eyes peeled for this multi-art form celebration of our iconic urban wildlife, coming to 2021’s Festival.

Our Festival Family swells with around 140 volunteers every spring, with people looking to make mates, get valuable work experience, deepen their community roots and experience some of the best art events from behind the scenes. If you would like to get stuck in with the Festival, volunteer applications will be open until 9 March through our website.

With a wealth of artists, makers, musicians and generally interesting people at our Festival fingertips, we’re launching a new podcast. Expect insights and interviews with worldclass artists, behind the scenes access and a whole lot more. Keep your ears to the ground on our social media for announcements of our first episode.

Day Out in Diss Roll up, roll up: The Diss Organ Festival returns on Sunday 17 May for a feast of mechanical music, and we advise you visit to explore all the wonder Norfolk can offer. Prepare to be dazzled and delighted; enlightened and entertained, with marvellous instruments from across the continent performing in this fantastic Norfolk celebration of melodic contraptions.

The Michael Falcon Piano Fund Scheme Pianists can apply to the Falcon Piano Fund to have 50% of local piano hire fees covered for recitals and performances. For more information on how you can apply, email info@nnfestival.org.uk

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£7.50 Tickets Return with Alumno Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Alumno, 18–25 year olds can access £7.50 tickets to Festival events.

Whether you want to catch cuttingedge performance or hit up a latenight gig at the Adnams Spiegeltent, under 26s can get some of the best seats at the cheapest prices.

18–25 ticket partner

Youth Issues We’re continuing our collaboration with the brilliant Young Norfolk Arts Collective, whose teams of young creatives are curating a zine to accompany the Festival. Packed with DIY previews, interviews and writing, look out for this free publication available in the coming months.

Bumper Birthdays Norfolk & Norwich Festival’s is not the only major anniversary on the horizon.

2020 marks the 40th anniversary of two favourite city arts institutions; Norwich Arts Centre and Norwich Puppet Theatre, and 70 years of King’s Lynn Festival, while one of our most enduring supporters, Jarrold celebrate an amazing 250 years.

Across their parallel histories, Jarrold have been long-time partners and supporters of the Festival as publishers of early programmes, patrons, and Festival sponsors. A special book marking their historic milestone is available and events are planned instore throughout the year. For further information, visit Jarrold.co.uk/250

Top: Young Norfolk Arts Collective Above: Peregrinations © Chris Skipper Left: Remember when…

Jarrold store advert from the 1979 Festival programme

Professional Friends We welcome arts programmers from across the country to the Festival each year. This year Creative Arts East’s Norfolk representatives and our Without Walls outdoor arts partners will be among those visiting to see what Norwich, Norfolk, and the Festival have to offer.

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BOOKING Online nnfestival.org.uk By phone 01603 531800 Monday–Friday 10am–5.30pm During the Festival Monday–Sunday 10am–8pm In person The Guildhall, Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JS Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays 11am – 4pm During the Festival Monday–Sunday 11am – 4pm From Wednesday 13 May Festival Gardens Box Office Chapelfield Gardens NR2 1RP See website for opening times On the day Any unsold tickets will be available on the door from 30 minutes before an event. Tickets can still be bought online until just before the event starts.

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Discounts & Concessions Concessions available on most events priced £10 and over, subject to availability.

Details on our website or through the Box Office.

Under 26s tickets Tickets are just £7.50 for most events. Proof of age required and subject to availability.

Essential companion tickets Audience members requiring an essential carer/ companion can get one free ticket. Concessions or Under 26s discount can be applied to the paid ticket.

Multi-buy offers Book three or more Festival events in a single transaction and receive the following discount.

Discount applies to selected events and only on tickets priced £10 or more.

Book 3 or more Festival events and receive 10% off each ticket

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Contact Us

We do not offer refunds.

If an event is cancelled or postponed refunds may be paid at our discretion.

If you have any access queries or feedback please email us access@nnfestival.org.uk or call us on 01603 877750

Tickets can be exchanged for another Festival event or credit up to 7 days before the event, see nnfestival.org.uk/ booking for more information.

Access We are dedicated to making Festival events accessible for everyone. We have a variety of initiatives in place to remove barriers to attendance and enable more people to enjoy our work, including: Free companion tickets for anyone that requires a carer/ companion to facilitate their attendance of an event

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All of our access resources can be found at nnfestival.org.uk/access Your Visit Getting here By train Greater Anglia trains run to Norwich from London’s Liverpool Street Station every 30 minutes during the day (Journey time: 1 hour 50 minutes), stopping at Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Stratford. A direct service also links Cambridge to Norwich (Journey time: 1 hour 10 minutes).

By coach National Express coaches travel to Norwich from London and other major cities and airports several times daily.

By air Norwich Airport is a short bus ride from the City Centre.

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A CREATIVE FUTURE Our award-winning Creative Engagement team bring amazing opportunities, year-round, to thousands of young people and communities. Sarah Witcomb, Creative Learning Manager, tells us more…

What is your role at the Festival?

I manage the Festival’s outreach projects with schools and communities. Through three ‘Take Part’ programmes; Schools, Generations and Festival we offer creative opportunities to the county’s young people; bring generations together to share stories and experiences; and provide unique opportunities to be part of Festival productions.

What does Creative Engagement mean and why is it important?

Creative Engagement is about bringing our work to those who may not normally engage with it, whether due to confidence, income, social or physical barriers – giving them the chance to experience something new through art and creativity. I love to see everyone, no matter their background, have a platform to tell their story.

What sort of activities do you run?

Much like the Festival itself, we work with local and world-famous artists across all artforms. Our Take Part programmes bring activities and workshops to thousands of people; provides creative careers talks; and brings communities to meet artists, events and exhibitions.

Our 2020 Take Part programme is kindly supported by The Ellerdale Trust, The Goodman Trust, The John Jarrold Trust, Norfolk Music Hub, Norwich Freemen’s Charity, The Red Socks Charitable Trust and other generous donations. Thank you!

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How do you identify who to work with?

We work with partners to identify and deliver to particular communities and increasingly use research data to focus our schools work on those most in need.

What are your ambitions for the future?

We rely on the support of many generous funders to make this work happen. Working with them, we want to extend the depth of our work, build fruitful partnerships and reach more and more people.

Find out more at nnfestival.org.uk/take-part If you are a school or community group who would like to work with the Festival, contact Sarah on 01603 877750 sarah.witcomb@nnfestival.org.uk

TOGETHER WE CAN...

Naturally, Norfolk & Norwich Festival champions art and artists, but we also strive to support our communities through creativity. We seek to create access to culture where there is none, welcome everyone, regardless of their background and contribute to the future shape of the world by working with young people to equip them with the skills to succeed.

Beyond the Festival’s artistic programme each May, we bring yearround creative activities to schools and isolated communities through our Take Part programmes and coordinate a substantial volunteer programme.

We also manage Festival Bridge – a region-wide initiative, improving the cultural offer for schoolchildren, and showcase the work of around 400 local artists to 30,000 visitors each year through Norfolk Open Studios.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival is a charity.

We rely on the generosity of our partners and supporters to deliver the outstanding art you see on the streets and in the venues but to also deliver these amazing opportunities to those most in-need.

Here’s what you helped us achieve in 2019

Please consider supporting us

85,000

Individual Giving

people experiencing events at the Festival

41,100 people accessing free events

1,831 young people given the opportunity to participate in the arts through our Take Part: Schools programme

133 volunteers, including 13 in our Buddy Scheme – inclusive volunteer opportunities for people with learning difficulties

There are many ways you can help make this work happen.

Our Friends and Supporters schemes offer a range of benefits, bring you closer to our work and support our artistic and community programming.

Our Friends scheme starts at just £40 per year. Alternatively, make a small donation when purchasing tickets.

Trusts and Foundations Norfolk & Norwich Festival offers grant-giving organisations the potential to collaborate on a number of projects encompassing education, health and wellbeing and artist development.

Businesses We offer benefit packages for businesses of all sizes. Their support helps us develop and support artists, young people and environmental initiatives.

Find out more at nnfestival.org.uk/support-us or contact Gemma Hoskins on 01603 877763 | gemma.hoskins@ nnfestival.org.uk

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Nature Tales & Trails In the face of the growing climate crisis, we are interested in how artists reflect and respond to nature and the environment. They tell their tales (and you can create Festival Trails) through a number of works that celebrate the natural world and respond to our perilous ecological situation.

Disarming, witty and endlessly inventive, Backup (p41) is the charming product of a collaboration between two Belgian theatre companies. This sparkling arctic vignette is a heart-wrenching tale told in just 30 profound and magical minutes – a moving drama that forces us to face the question of what we are doing to our planet.

The seminal short film Powers of Ten, by legendary designers and architects, Charles and Ray Eames forms the basis of a new Festival commission by Michael Faulkner /// D-Fuse. Played out against the backdrop of King’s Lynn’s historic Customs House, Powers of X (p50) explores our planet’s environmental fragility through imaginings both macro and micro.

Spring arrives at walking pace – so says acclaimed author Tim Dee. One step at a time, he followed migrating swallows from his occasional home in South Africa to northern Scandinavia.

Uncover some of the natural marvels he discovered along the way in Journeys in Springtime, as part of the City of Literature Weekend (p47).

In a special Festival commission (p22) for the Adnams Main Stage, author Robert Macfarlane, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake take audiences from the summits of mountains, through the root-world of trees, and down into the bowels of the earth in a sonic journey that explores their shared fascination with the natural world.

Discover more Nature Tales & Trails online at nnfestival.org.uk or create your own: At the Garden Party with Beady Eye’s Mearth Mothers and Lastheatre’s Rascally Diner p24 Melanie Challenger How to be Animal p45 Patrick Barkham Wild Child p47 Bugs: Beauty and Danger p49 Karen Eng Write for the Environment p49 Laurence Edwards Man of Stones p52

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INDEX Classical Music

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Contemporary music

VE Day Anniversary Concert p8 Fri 8 May, 11am

Benjamin Vandewalle, Studio Cité p10 Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 11am–5pm

John Grant p8 Fri 8 May, 8pm

Oliver Pashley and The Aquinas Trio, Quartet for the End of Time p8 Sat 9 May, 8pm

Hunt & Darton, Radio Local p10 Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 12pm–12pm

Kandace Springs p16 Tue 12 May, 7.30pm

La Fabrique Royale, Zéro Degré p10 Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 7pm

BBC New Generation Artists, Rob Luft Band p17 Wed 13 May, 1pm

Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Mahler Symphony No. 3 p14 Sun 10 May, 7.30pm BBC New Generation Artists, Alessandro Fisher p14 Mon 11 May, 1pm

Requardt & Rosenberg, Future Cargo p23 Sat 16 May, 6pm & 8pm Garden Party, p24 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 12pm–5pm

Vox Luminis p14 Mon 11 May, 7.30pm

Michael Faulkner /// D–Fuse, Powers of X p50 Sat 9–Sun 24 May

Mariam Batsashvili p17 Tue 12 May, 7.30pm

The Clunker in the park p53 Wed 13–Sun 23 May

BBC New Generation Artists, Rob Luft Band p17 Wed 13 May, 1pm Billy and The Beast p22 Fri 15 May, 6pm Britten Sinfonia with Alison Balsom, Mysteries of the Macabre p22 Fri 15 May, 7.30pm Norfolk & Norwich Chamber Music, Richard Goode p28 Sat 16 May, 7.30pm Norfolk & Norwich Festival Evensong p28 Sun 17 May, 3.30pm BBC New Generation Artists, Alexander Gadjiev p30 Mon 18 May, 1pm BBC New Generation Artists, Consone Quartet p31 Mon 18 May, 5.30pm Ian Bostridge, Winterreise p33 Tue 19 May, 7.30pm I Fagiolini, Leonardo 500: Shaping the Invisible p37 Wed 20 May, 8pm Attacca Quartet p39 Thu 21 May, 7.30pm 62

Family Friendly Benjamin Vandewalle, Studio Cité p10 Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 11am–5pm Hunt & Darton, Radio Local p10 Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 12pm–12pm La Fabrique Royale, Zéro Degré p10 Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 7pm Frozen Light, Fire Songs p16 Tue 12–Sat 16 May, 11am & 1.30pm Billy and The Beast p22 Fri 15 May, 6pm Garden Party, p24 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 12pm–5pm Anatomical, The Buildy-uppy Dance Show p25 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 10.30am Lost & Found Films of Norfolk p26 Thu 21–Sat 23 May Focus Company and Chaliwaté Company, Backup p41 Fri 22 & Sat 23 May, 6pm Sat 23 May, 11am

Frisky & Mannish, Poplab p21 Thu 14–Sun 17 May, 7pm Oscar Jerome p21 Thu 14 May, 10pm Robert Macfarlane with special guest Cosmo Sheldrake p22 Fri 15 & Sat 16 May, 8.30pm Shingai p23 Fri 15 May, 10pm Sarathy Korwar p28 Sat 16 May, 10pm Camille O’Sullivan Sings Cave p29 Sun 17 May, 8.30pm Shards p29 Sun 17 May, 10pm Grace Petrie p37 Tue 19 May, 10pm Reuben Kaye p38 Wed 20 & Thu 21 May, 10pm Kefaya & Elaha Soroor p42 Fri 22 May, 10pm Urban Flames p42 Sat 23 May, 10pm Tamikrest p42 Sun 24 Mat, 6.30pm Performance Frozen Light, Fire Songs p16 Tue 12–Sat 16 May, 11am & 1.30pm Neon Moon’s Electric Rodeo Circus p20 Wed 13 May, 7pm & 10pm Gravity & Other Myths, Out of Chaos… p20 Wed 13 & Thu 14 May, 8.30pm Fri 15 & Sat 16 May, 5.30pm

Frisky & Mannish, Poplab p21 Thu 14–Sun 17 May, 7pm Requardt & Rosenberg, Future Cargo p23 Sat 16 May, 6pm & 8pm Anatomical, The Buildy-uppy Dance Show p25 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 10.30am Dorothy’s Shoes present, Ragroof Tea Dances p25 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 12.30pm Paul O’Donnell, We’ve Got Each Other p32 Mon 18 May, 7pm Pundemonium! p32 Mon 18 May, 10pm Alex McAleer, Mind Reader p23 Tue 19 & Wed 20 May, 7pm Gob Squad, Super Night Shot p36 Tue 19 & Wed 20 May, 8.30pm Reuben Kaye p38 Wed 20 & Thu 21 May, 10pm Casus Circus, You & I p38 Thu 21–Sat 23 May, 7pm Sun 24 May, 5pm Javaad Alipoor, Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran p39 Thu 21–Sat 23 May, 7.30pm Hot Brown Honey p41 Thu 21–Sat 23 May, 5.30pm & 8.30pm Focus Company and Chaliwaté Company, Backup p41 Fri 22 & Sat 23 May, 6pm Sat 23 May, 11am Cabaret Neon Moon’s Electric Rodeo Circus p20 Wed 13 May, 7pm & 10pm Frisky & Mannish, Poplab p21 Thu 14–Sun 17 May, 7pm Reuben Kaye p38 Wed 20 & Thu 21 May, 10pm Hot Brown Honey p41 Thu 21–Sat 23 May, 5.30pm & 8.30pm

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Gravity & Other Myths, Out of Chaos… p20 Wed 13 & Thu 14 May, 8.30pm Fri 15 & Sat 16 May, 5.30pm

A Delicate Sight, A participatory Installation by Sam Winston p43 Mon 18–Sun 22 May, various times

Garden Party, p24 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 12pm–5pm Casus Circus, You & I p38 Thu 21–Sat 23 May, 7pm Sun 24 May, 5pm Literature Robert Macfarlane with special guest Cosmo Sheldrake p22 Fri 15 & Sat 16 May, 8.30pm A Delicate Sight, A participatory Installation by Sam Winston p44 Mon 18–Sun 22 May, various times A Delicate Sight Artist to Artist p44 Wed 20 May, 7pm City of Literature Weekend p43 Fri 22–Sun 24 May Dance

A Delicate Sight Artist to Artist p44 Wed 20 May, 7pm Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall p48 Sun 29 Mar–Sun 27 Sept James Turrell Skyspace Evenings p49 Fri 15–Sun 17 May, 7pm Bugs: Beauty and Danger p49 Sat 14 Mar–Sat 30 May, 11am–4pm Karen Eng, Write for the Environment p49 Sun 10 May, 11am Why Biennials? p49 Mon 11 May, 7pm Tim Sandys, Citizen p50 Tue 5 May–Sat 4 Jul Michael Faulkner /// D–Fuse, Powers of X p50 Sat 9–Sun 24 May

Requardt & Rosenberg, Future Cargo p23 Sat 16 May, 6pm & 8pm

Yara El Sherbini & Davina Drummond, Arrivals + Departures p51 Thu 14–Sun 24 May

Anatomical, The Buildy-uppy Dance Show p25 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 10.30am

Cristina Iglesias p52 8 May 2020–1 Apr 2021

Dorothy’s Shoes present, Ragroof Tea Dances p25 Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 12.30pm

Laurence Edwards, Man of Stones p52 Throughout the Festival

Stopgap Dance, Artifical Things p31 Mon 18 May, 6.30pm Film Lost & Found Films of Norfolk p26 Thu 21–Sat 23 May Stopgap Dance, Artifical Things p31 Mon 18 May, 6.30pm

Man of Stones: A Film by Director Bill Jackson p52 Wed 13 May, 6.30pm The Clunker in the park p53 Wed 13–Sun 23 May Plants, porcelain, people p53 Fri 15 May, 2pm , Sat 16 May, 10am

Gob Squad, Super Night Shot p36 Tue 19 & Wed 20 May, 8.30pm Man of Stones: A Film by Director Bill Jackson p52 Wed 13 May, 6.30pm

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We collaborate year-round with extraordinary artists – some from the region, some from the other side of the world – and with communities across Norfolk and Norwich to create unmissable experiences that have the potential to change lives.

We have been an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation since April 2012 and are one of 10 Bridge Organisations with a mandate to develop arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people in the East of England.

Staff & Board list Executive & Finance Daniel Brine Artistic Director and Chief Executive Brenda Seymour General Manager Helen Mian Head of Finance Imogen Frith Finance Manager Gemma Layton Office Manager Sophie Marritt Finance Officer Communications & Development Darren Cross Head of Communications and Development Chloe Hobbs Communications Manager Gemma Hoskins Development Manager Frances Lamb Communications and Development Officer Denise Koblenz Communications and Development Assistant

Design David Caines Unlimited

Robbie Maloney Communications and Development Assistant

Creative Engagement Sarah Witcomb Creative Learning Manager

Festival Bridge

Board

Michael Corley Head of Bridge & Creative Engagement

Andrew Barnes (Vice Chair)

Ros Dixon Norfolk Open Studios Officer

Stephanie Peachey Senior Manager: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Sophie Chapman-Smith Volunteers Officer

Fraser Wilson Senior Manager: Norfolk & Suffolk

Dougie Evans Common Ground Manager

Sava Radulovic Festival Bridge Officer

Lizzie Figura-Drane Common Ground Officer

Abi Marrison Education Programme Manager for Norfolk & Suffolk

Ellie Reeves Volunteers Coordinator Georgia Rees-Lang Volunteers Coordinator Production & Programme Mark Denbigh Head of Production and Programme Andrew Stock Technical Manager Ailsa McKay Production Officer

Brenda Arthur (Chair)

Malavika Anderson Anthea Case CBE Fred Corbett Lucy Garland Jackie Higham Karyn Maier Corrienne Peasgood Eva Pepper Mark Proctor Chris Sargisson Chris Yeates

Jennie Langeskov Education Programme Manager for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Patrons

Sophie Abramovici Communications Assistant

Vice Patrons

Thanks

Bryan Read CBE

With special thanks to all our volunteers, without whom the Festival could not happen.

Sir Timothy Colman KG Caroline Jarrold DL Sir Nicholas Bacon Bt OBE DL

Jacob Hewes Production and Programme Assistant Abbie Reeve Production and Programme Assistant

Programming Partners City of Literature Weekend is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival and National Centre for Writing presentation, programmed by the National Centre for Writing

Presenting Partners Caroline Fisher Projects

Classical Music Programme Partner

Contemporary Music Programme Partner

Principal Funders

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Norfolk & Norwich Festival is a registered charity, number 1164424