May
2008
COMING
UP
ARE YOU USING THE
TOWN DIARY?
If you are organising an event, put the date and venue
in the Town Diary. It’s on the table just inside
the Town Hall. Check whether any other organisation is
planning an event which might clash with yours.
Thu 1st until Sun 4th May
Waveney District Council is delighted to confirm
the visit of the magnificent tall ship The Mercedes
to Lowestoft between these dates. An impressive 50-metre
long vessel with no less than 900 square metres of sails,
The Mercedes will offer three-hour sea tours out of Lowestoft
during its residency, which will take place at 3 pm–6
pm and 7 pm–10 pm on 1st–3rd May and 3 pm–6
pm on 4th May. The tours will include a welcome from the
captain and crew, a sails demonstration and lessons on
seaman knots for children. Built with the very highest
safety standards according to new European guidelines,
The Mercedes was originally an ocean fishing vessel built
in the late 1950s and redesigned to sail on international
waters. Although there will be no public access to the
docks whilst The Mercedes is in port, members of the public
will be able to view the ship from the South Pier each
day as it leaves and enters the port. There may also be
the chance to see the ship in full sails from the coast.
Tickets went on sale from 11th April 2008 and are priced
at £40 per adult and £20 per child; family
tickets are also available for two adults and two children
at £100. Further information and tickets are available
from Lowestoft Tourist Information Centre at the East
Point Pavilion or call 01502 533600.
5th—10th May 2008
British Red Cross Fundraising Week – 2008
We are pleased to advise that the fundraising stall for
Red Cross Week will be in the Market Square on flag Day
Saturday 10th May 2007 10 am—3 pm. Bric-a-brac,
cakes, jams, tombola. Donations for the stall welcome
– contact Carol on 01502 726176. Unfortunately,
there will be no house-to-house or street collections
this year but there will be collection boxes around the
town as usual and we hope you will give generously. Thank
you.
Services the Red Cross provides for the Local Community
in the Southwold area: Medical loans, Therapeutic care
– hands and nails, Home from hospital visits.
With the relocation of medical loans to
the main centre on Gardner Road, Southwold, we are now
pleased to offer residents and visitors an improved service
with additional opening hours from 1st May: Fridays 10
am–11 am and Saturdays 10am–11 am. To help
us with this, we need more volunteers to train and work
with our team.
Can you spare time to volunteer
to help the Red Cross ?
Work entails liaising with the public, a small amount
of administrative work (forms to complete when items are
loaned and returned), ensuring equipment is clean etc.
It is our intention for two volunteers to work together
at each session, so there will always be someone with
you to help, ask advice etc. We sincerely hope this opportunity
will appeal to local residents, who can contact Pat Banham
on 01502 724526 for a chat and further information.
It is hoped the Red Cross Tuesday coffee
mornings will resume in the Stella Pesket Hall when complete
and open for use. In the meantime, a small group still
meets on Tuesdays – contact Carol on 01502 726176
for more information.
Sat 19th April until Wed 21st May
Buckenham Galleries, 81 High Street,
Southwold. Open daily 10 am–5 pm. We are delighted
to welcome Susan Gunn to the Gallery for her first major
exhibition with us. From 19th April, Susan will be showing
her gesso paintings at the Galleries. These abstract works
are built up in a process which is both laborious and
repetitive, where the surface is rubbed and polished over
and over again. By manipulating the environmental conditions
whilst each painting is ‘drying out’, Susan
creates delicate veining and cracks. Through her work,
Susan aims to explore not only the symbolic and metaphysical
outcome of the broken surfaces, but also ‘the conceptual
implications of the “ground” itself as the
basis of an argument, response and understanding’.
Susan’s aim is to accentuate an innovative language
in the ongoing genre of contemporary painting.
Exhibited alongside Susan will be paintings by Mandy Davies-Kent.
Mandy explores the duality of the individual between the
spiritual and the physical in her oil paintings; exploring
subconscious emotional and spiritual feeling without having
to attach itself to anything specific. Stuart Anderson
will be providing sculpture for the exhibition. His beautiful
bronze sculptures of animals and figures capture the spirit
and essence of the subject depicted.
I look forward to welcoming you to the Gallery.
Becky Munting, Gallery Manager
13th and 14th June
Westhall Church 7.30 pm
Friday 13th June: The Wenhaston Girls Choir
leader Jana Rolands and the Blythburgh Singers leader
David Bunkell will be giving us a delightfully wide-ranging
programme of English music, both sacred and secular, from
Tudor times to the present.
Saturday 14th June: The Halesworth Community
Choir will be singinq some parts of Singing the River,
a new work by their leader Bridget Cousins, also some
Shaker songs; and the folk group Rough Around the Edges
will entertain us with their lively playing and super
voices that made them so popular last year.
St Andrews Church, Westhall is full of architectural and
decorative treasures and, with its excellent acoustics,
provides a wonderful venue for a concert. All in a lovely
rural setting.
Tickets £6 or £10 for both nights, children
£3; from Halesworth Bookshop or Tonys Stores, Westhall.
Parking at the top of the lane, disabled and infirm only
at Church.
