December 2021
The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach merges elements of the Chelsea Arts Club and Gertrude Stein’s art salon
Our 280 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk
Reminder! Tomorrow, Saturday 27th November,
12:00 - 5:00 pm at the Art House
We are celebrating 9 years of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach. Join us for food and drinks. This is a chance to see our Christmas exhibition which includes many works by members of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach. At 2:00 pm we will be unveiling the 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, Davis Blix Andren, and Francis Carnwath CBE.
Timothy Sawyer Shepard, the winner of the Francis Carnwath Prize for the Arts, projects the Lookout Line, his global sculpture in space and time onto and inside the Lookout.
The party coincides with the Aldeburgh Christmas Festivities from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Christmas lights will be switched on at 4:00 pm.
Monthly Arts Club Lunch
Wednesday, 1st December, 1pm
This month’s lunch is being kindly hosted by Diana Huntingford at her beautiful house in Aldeburgh. There is no charge, but please bring Christmassy food and drink to share. RSVP by email or telephone me on 07808723309
Yalda
East Meets East
Tuesday 21st December, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
You are invited to the annual party of the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach on Tuesday 21st December, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Art House. We will be celebrating Yalda, the Eastern festival on the longest night of the year.
The Arts Club was founded nine years ago with the wonderful support of Sir Humphrey Burton and Diana Quick. Since then it was grown and developed into a vibrant community of Suffolk’s most exciting arts people.
The Arts Club is based here at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout where it initiates, supports, and publicizes ideas and events organized by it’s members.
There is no charge for our annual party, but this is an opportunity to renew your membership!
Single £40
Double £60
Practicing Artists/poet/writer £20
Please pay Caroline Wiseman Ltd
Sort Code: 20-98-07
Account Number: 33592553
At this party of the Arts Club, we celebrate Yalda. Yalda is an Iranian winter solstice festival celebrated on the longest and darkest night of the year. It is a time when friends and family gather together to eat, drink, and read poetry, especially Hafez. Fruit, nuts, pomegranates, and watermelons are particularly significant because their red color symbolizes the crimson hues of dawn and the glow of life.
Yalda Davis plays the cello
Jila Peacock displays her works of art inspired by the poems of Hafez
Minoo Dabestani reads the poems of Hafez
Yalda Davis with the cello she played in churches all around Suffolk. Yalda is the daughter of conductor Sir Colin Davis, and she has an Iranian mother.
Jila Peacock’s works of art are inspired by the poems of Hafez
Member’s News
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 art 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.
Happy Christmas, Love Caroline