November 2021
The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach merges elements of the Chelsea Arts Club and Gertrude Stein’s arts salon.
Our 280 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk
Please join us for this month’s Arts Club Lunch!
Wednesday 3rd November at one o’clock at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout.
No charge, but please bring food and drink to share.
All welcome - no need to RSVP
Join Susie Joyce’s zoom each Wednesday at 1 pm (not the first Wednesday in a month as this is when we all meet for lunch in person)
susie@susiejoyce.co.uk
Here is a photograph of the restored Lookout Tower. Thank you to Antony Gormley for paying for it.
SAMHAIN FOOD & FIRE RITUAL
5-8pm on Sunday 31st October
Aldeburgh Beach Lookout
During this last week of October Miche Fabre Lewin is in a Gastrosophical Residency. On Sunday she is hosting a convivial food ritual to celebrate Samhain, the Celtic harvest festival which recognises cycles of renewal and decay and the turning of the year to the darker months.
On this night where the veil between the invisible and visible worlds is more transparent we will be in thanksgiving with Boudicca, East Anglian queen of the Iceni.
Please join us in an offering of Celtic foods, mead and fire ritual.
Miche’s Gastrosophical Residency between Aldeburgh Beach Lookout and Timberyard is in homage to Joseph Beuys.
www.toucshtones.earth
GALLERY DAY IN LONDON
Tuesday 2nd November Telfer Stokes shows at the Redfern Gallery Cork Street, London W1. We are thinking of having an Arts Club day trip to London with lunch, followed by galleries followed by Telfer’s private view 6- 8 pm followed by a VIP Party at Bermondsey Arts from 7 pm, then train home. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested in joining us. Click here for more information.
POETRY IN ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS
Thursday 4th- Sunday 7th November. 14 Online workshops booking now. All 16 reading events are free to access but donate-what-you-can with 14 workshops at £15 pp. The workshops are to be led by an amazing lineup of poets, all of whom are also reading at the festival. Click here for more information.
DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Janice Turner is on the Docfest team organizing a fabulous Aldeburgh Documentary Festival. Friday 12th- Sunday 14th November. Click here for a link to their website - where information will be released shortly. Alternatively, you can pop into the cinema and pick up a program of the festival’s events- these are available now.
DESERT ISLAND POEMS
Friday 26th November, Suffolk Poetry Society.
Ian Griffiths invites Caroline Wiseman to choose her desert island poems. One poem is by Blake Morrison who will read at the event which is set to take place at the new Fromus center, Saxmundham, starting 7.30 pm.
ARTS CLUB 8th BIRTHDAY PARTY
Liz Calder and Alys Kihl chat during a previous Arts Club birthday party.
You are all warmly invited to our annual birthday party. It is on Saturday 27th November, 12 - 5 pm at the Aldeburgh Beach Art House. Deliciously arty drinks and food.
Since the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach was formed with the wonderful support of Sir Humphrey Burton and Diana Quick, it has grown and developed into a vibrant organic phenomenon involving many of Suffolk’s most exciting arts people.
There is no charge for our birthday party but please RSVP. This is an opportunity for you to renew your annual membership of the Arts Club. Click here to renew £40 Single £60 Double £20 Practicing artists/ poets/ writers. Please pay
Caroline Wiseman limited,
Sort code 20-98-07,
Account Number 33592553
At 2 pm on the 27th - there will be the unveiling of a plaque, carved into York stone by Charlotte Howarth of the Lettering Arts Trust. Positioned on the Lookout, the plaque is dedicated to three people who have been important to the history of the Lookout: Sir Laurens van der Post, David Blix Andren, and Francis Carnwath CBE.
Timothy Sawyer Shepard, the winner of the Francis Carnwath Prize for the Arts, projects his world sculpture, the Lookout line, onto the Lookout.
The party coincides with the Aldeburgh Christmas Festivities from 10 am- 5 pm. Christmas lights will be switched on at 4 pm.
NEW WEBSITE
We love our brand new website which amalgamates the Alive in the Universe and Caroline Wiseman websites.
See the members page, let me know if you would like to feature for free in this section. Click here to go to the web page.
See below for an example.
SAVE THE DATE
The Christmas Arts Club monthly lunch is on Wednesday, December 1st, and is being kindly hosted by Diana Huntingford who has a beautiful home in Aldeburgh. There is no charge but please bring festive food and drink to share. RSVP essential. Please respond via email to: caroline@carolinewiseman.com.
MEMBERS NEWS
‘C BEYOND’ EXHIBITION
Fran Crowe shows at Dovecot, Snape Maltings until November 7th, daily except Tuesdays. For more information email fran.crowe7@gmail.com
Click here for more info.
LOCKDOWN BLUES: PETER DICKINSON
Somm Records is bringing out Lockdown Blues, a new CD of easy listening piano music, including Satie and Ellington, by Peter Dickinson who has played at the Lookout in recent years, For details of this CD, acclaimed by Humphrey Burton, see Peter Dickinson’s website
peterdickinson@foxborough.co.uk
Click here for more info.
FLIPSIDE FESTIVAL
30th October at the Halesworth Bookshop. Click here to book your tickets.
PERIENNE CHRISTIAN
At Galloper Sands Gallery Saturday 30th October 3- 6 pm with a talk at 4 pm. If you would like to come email enquiries@galloper-sands.co.uk
For more info click here.
HELEN ATKINSON WOOD: THE CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL
Helen was part of this year’s festival and below is a link to the recordings for the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence and A Poet for Every Day of the Year.
GEORGE FARNHAM GALLERY
Winter Exhibition and their fifth Birthday. Saturday 6th November, 12- 4 pm
Click here for the gallery website.stand out
MICHAEL STUBBS: THREE PAINTINGS
11th November- 4th December. Opening Thursday 11th November 5- 8 pm. At Palfrey, 8 Palfrey place London. For more details: space@pulfrey.com
click here for website.
MILL STREET ETCHING STUDIO
The next workshops will be on the 11th and 12th of December and will include a one-day ‘Refresher course in Etching’ and a II’, following on from our Aquatint course in September 2021. Please do email us directly for more information on these two courses dates to be confirmed in late 2021. For enquiries email: @millstreetetchingstudio.co.uk
For more info click here.
BALLROOMARTS EXHIBITION SPACE
Calling all artists and curators! Following a successful launch in September with Art for Cure, BallroomArts has proven to be a desirable new exhibition space on Aldeburgh’s High street for a wide range of arts and crafts with many new shows planned throughout 2022 including many Aldeburgh Arts Club members. Their programming is currently managed by Tom Brent, owner and designer of the building, and Eileen Haring Woods and they would love to hear from you about your ideas for shows and events which will benefit from their impressive galleries and rapidly increasing profile.
They will be closed through most of November for final works to the space but would be happy to give tours when convenient. Details are on their website, http://ballroomarts.org/ or you can contact by email via: admin@ballroomarts.org.
The Arts Club now has over 280 members including:
PETER BLAKE RA, HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER, EILEEN COOPER RA, PETER DICKINSON, RYAN GANDER, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, MICHAEL AND PATTY HOPKINS, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, EAMONN MCCABE, IAN MCMILLAN, BLAKE MORRISON, BEN PRESTON, LIBBY PURVES, DIANA QUICK, JANICE TURNER, ALISON WILDING RA, ROGER WRIGHT, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, DEREK WYATT.
Members News is an excellent free way of publicising arty events you are involved in to our membership of 250 or so of the most exciting Suffolk/London people interested in the arts.
Email to us by the third week of each month.
