Arts fair East

8 November 2024 - 10 November 2024

Join us in November for one of the region’s largest and liveliest art events. Hundreds of artworks by international and regional talent will be on display within the spectacular setting of The Assembly House, Theatre St, Norwich NR2 1RQ. We are confident this year’s exhibition is going to be our biggest and best fair to date, with the chance to meet many artists and experts in person. Please do come back to see the latest updates or sign up to our mailing list below to be kept informed.

Holkham Oil Painting Workshop

7 December 2024 - 8 December 2024

Learn to paint the enchanting winter landscape which surrounds Holkham Hall during the festive period. Enjoy two full days immersing yourself in creativity and nature by creating winter paintings inspired by the Holkham Estate at Christmas. No oil painting experience is required, just bring an open mind, festive spirit and willingness to try new things! Day one will include an introduction to oil painting, with a step by step method painting exercise. Day Two will include a walk around the picturesque deer park to gain inspiration and sketches, ready to turn into winter landscape paintings back in the studio.

Needle felting workshop Christmas Tree Decorations

16 November 2024

Christmas is the perfect time for crafting.

Join us to get creative and make your own natural, festive decorations for your home! Whether you create Christmas puds or candy canes, they’re sure to look wonderful atop your tree, or on your mantelpiece or table.

Learn how to needle felt and create beautiful natural decorations by using sheep’s wool with tutor Nessa Pratt.

This workshop is perfect for beginners. All materials will be provided.

Queer Film Festival

28 August 2024 - 3 September 2024

Celebrating the best of Queer Cinema
28th August – 3rd September
Supported by Creative Arts East and the BFI.

Films included in our Queer Film Festival:
28th August 7pm – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
29th August 7pm – But I’m a Cheerleader
30th August 7pm – All Of Us Strangers
31st August 7pm – Kinky Boots The Musical: Stage to Screen
1st September 7pm – Moonlight
2nd September 7pm – Pink Narcissus
3rd September 7pm – Call Me By Your Name

Full Price: £7.00 / Students & Under 18s: £5

Norwich Castle

One of the city’s most famous landmarks, Norwich Castle was built by the Normans as a Royal Palace 900 years ago.

Step Into Dragon Hall

12 August 2024

Dragon Hall is one of Norwich’s oldest buildings and is home to the National Centre for Writing. The 15th century merchant’s hall was built by Robert Toppes around 1427 – but based on buildings and settlements dating back more than 1,000 years.

Live Art Club presents FAMEHUNGRY

10 November 2024

FAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nose-dive into the TikTok universe and the attention economy, asking what it means to be an artist now. Fusing performance art and very real and very live TikTok Experiences, join award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin as she cosplays as a TikToker in a real life experiment hunting for fame and fortune.

Made in collaboration with an actual Famous TikToker, The Almighty Algorithm, and a host of TikTok-Famous Faces, FAMEHUNGRY asks what the future looks like if all roads lead to TikTok.

Louise Orwin is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across text, performance and video. She makes research-driven, participatory projects about what it means to identify as a queer femme in a fast-moving, media-saturated world that prizes patriarchal, heteronormative narratives. Her work is fiercely queer, feminist and intersectional and filled with a heady dose of pop culture. She’s inspired by cultural trends online and in the real world, and often her work sees her conducting undercover, gonzo-style investigations.

British Council ‘Artist to Watch’ (2017) & Edinburgh Showcase Artist (2019), Barbican OpenLab (2019/20), Choreodrome Artist, The Place (2023), The Space Digital Commission (2023)

‘Orwin takes on social media and the dynamics of public performance with a lightness of touch that seems almost perverse – until its meaty, knotty innards leave you reeling’ Louis Hilton, Senior culture writer, The Independent.

Tashi Lhunpo Monks

23 September 2024

Tibetan Monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery: From the Roof of the World

Tibet – the Land of Snows: home to Buddhist lamas whose ancient rituals have fascinated people for centuries. Eight Tibetan monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery present ‘From the Roof of the World’: chant, mantras, music and dance opening a magical window on to a world of reincarnation and mysticism which has inspired audiences in theatres and festivals since they were first seen in Europe a hundred years ago in 1924.

From the mesmerising chant of Buddhist texts to swirling costumed masked dances accompanied by ancient Tantric musical instruments: horns made from human leg bones, skull-drums, cymbals, bells and the great dungchen (long horns), the monks evoke the atmosphere of sacred Tibet: an experience of an ancient, endangered culture.

The Julian Shrine

Come and explore Julian of Norwich, medieval English writer and mystic, who lived here at St Julian’s Church in the heart of Norwich 650 years ago.

Workshop: Structuring Short Fiction with Naomi Wood

2 November 2024

What are the differences between short stories and novels? Is it just length alone, or is there something else more integral to the form?

Join award-winning writer Naomi Wood for a transformative workshop where you will explore the key differences between novels and short stories, and how to structure your own short fiction.