June 2022
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.
MEMBERS’ BULLETIN
Here are this month’s Members’ Notices. All are also displayed on the website. New work can also be viewed if you visit the online shop.
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 1st June @ The Lookout
The monthly Arts Club lunch is always on the first Wednesday in the month, so please diarise. It is often in the Lookout or sometimes in a member's house or studio. Please let me know if you would like to host a lunch - everyone brings food and drink to share! It's a good way for us all to visit members' studios and view their work.
ARTS CLUB BEACH BALL: DRESS AS A WORK OF ART
Arts Club Beach Ball, Saturday 4th June
To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Saturday 4th June just turn up anytime between 12 noon and 12 midnight!
Admission free - please bring food and drink to share.
Dress as a work of Art - Prize for the winning entry!
You could come as Frans Hals’ Laughing Cavalier or Edvard Munch’s Scream! This is just an example, you can of course choose whichever work of art you would like to be!
https://www.aldeburghbeachlookout.com/whats-on/arts-club-aldeburgh-beach-ball
SHAUN CANTON HOUSEHOLD GODS
Shaun Caton, Household Gods, Saturday 11th June
Shaun Caton’s Household Gods, new collages and paper constructions opens Saturday 11th June 12pm - 2pm and 5:30 - 7pm at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout.
Click here to find out more!
ARTS CLUB SPOTLIGHT: MICHE FABRE LEWIN & FLORA GATHORNE-HARDY
Miche Fabre Lewin & Flora Gathorne-Hardy
This month we focus on the artist duo Miche Fabre Lewin and Flora Gathorne-Hardy. They have been collaborating for 15 years, working between UK and Southern Africa. Their ecological arts practice explores the interconnections between our humanity and the sacred whole of sentient Earth. They co-create mixed-media artworks and installations, host convivial happenings and contemporary rituals, and curate experimental exhibitions. You are invited to join them as part of Suffolk Open Studios for a taste of artful practices at Timberyard Farm Great Glemham IP17 2DL from Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th June from 11am - 5pm.
Read more about Miche and Flora on our website!
Visit their website here or get in touch at connect@studiofabrehardy.earth.
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Thorington Theatre
Thoringdon Theatre, a new outdoor theatre nestled in Suffolk woodland, presents First the Dance, Then the Feast. Thursday 23rd June at 16:30 and Friday 24th June at 18:30 - click the link below to head over to their website.
Box office - get your tickets here!
The Aldeburgh Festival Exhibition: ‘Remains to be Seen’
Saturday 4th June - Sunday 26th June. Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith present their work together in both familiar and unconventional spaces across Snape Maltings.
Click here to view what’s on!
Great Classical Composers through the lens of Ken Russell, hosted by Sandy Burnett
Aldeburgh Cinema, Friday 10th June 2022
Join us for a fascinating evening hosted by Sandy Burnett, who will focus on the classical composers who featured in films directed by the pioneering, controversial and entertaining Ken Russell.
Sandy Burnett is a musician, broadcaster and lecturer in classical music. He is one of the UK’s most authoritative broadcasters in the field. His broadcasts, interviews, and lectures are all underpinned by the hands-on experience of being a practising musician.
Find out more here!
Derek Wyatt, Book Signing
Arts Club member Derek Wyatt's book Platinum Queen is being published on 5th May. You can order it from Aldeburgh Bookshop or he will be signing copies over the Jubillee weekend from 3rd June at the Lookout.
Click here to buy online!
Abbey Hall
Follow four characters’ journey through a kaleidoscope of arias, duets, and ensembles in this entertaining afternoon of opera and musicals.
Click here to get your tickets!
Potton Hall, Sculpture in the Valley
Our multi-arts programme offers a lens through which to experience the physical and cultural environment, and in particular to explore what it is that attracts people to a region that is steeped in history, and embraces modernity. For this Call-Out, we are seeking 3-dimensional works that respond in ways that reach and engage with new and wide audiences.
Click here to find out more.
Printroom Studio, Wildspaces
Friday to Sunday 11am - 5pm, 17th -19th June / 24th - 26th June and 1st - 3rd July. Head over to our website to find out more!
Aldeburgh Studio Trail
2022 marks the 9th hugely successful Trail, having originally opened in 2013, the centenary year of Benjamin Britten’s birth, and timed to coincide with Snape Malting’s Aldeburgh Festival. Year after year many thousands of people have enthusiastically walked around the various studios of these Suffolk based Artists.
This year’s trail is back to three weekends this June 11th-12th, 18th-19th and 25th-26th 11-5pm.
Click here to find out what’s involved!
The First Light Festival, 18th - 19th June
The First Light Festival is a free 24 hour multi arts festival that takes place on the beach in Lowestoft. Celebrating one cycle of midsummer sun setting and rising.
Music stages, Theatre performance, Poetry reading, Story telling and wild beach camping.Watch the boats arrive for the dawn feast - laden with seafood, fish and bread. A dawn breakfast set on large, decorated trestle tables.On Sunday morning there will be a huge Kite Fest. with over 2000 kites decorated by schools and community groups joining together with two professional kite display teams. Come and join us!
Find out more here.
Suffolk Open Studios 2022
Several of our members including Susie Joyce, Susan Debnam, as well as Miche Fabre Lewin and Flora Gathorne-Hardy (who we focus on this month), have open studios during June.
Click here to see who else will be opening up their studios!
Look forward to seeing you all. What are you going to wear for our Arts Club Beach Ball on Saturday 4th June??!! It will be very informal and we will have a great arty party to celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee!
Love Caroline.
P.S - In May the Friends of Kettles Yard visited the Aldeburgh Beach Art house and Lookout. It was particularly meaningful for me because Kettles Yard has been an inspiration since I first started art dealing 35 years ago. 30 of them came and here we are sitting in the sun on the terrace.
Kettles Yard
SUBMITTING A NOTICE
Don't forget to send me an image of yourself and a paragraph about you for the ARTS CLUB MEMBERS page of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout website. The easiest way to submit a notice is to send it to caroline@carolinewiseman.com.
PETER BLAKE RA, HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER,
EILEEN COOPER RA, PETER DICKINSON, RYAN GANDER, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, MICHAEL & 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
