A free outdoor show featuring freerunners La Fabrique Royale exploring Norwich’s skyscape will launch this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
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A handful of advance shows have been announced for next year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival – together with a new pop-up venue.
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Hailed in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival programme as “the next Amy Winehouse” and with her work sampled by Jay-Z, Hannah Williams arrived with a weight of expectation.
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This was a show that promised to push magic in new directions: based on this evidence, I think I’d rather they took a step back.
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Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but other than a tardy start the Renegade Brass Band were anything but sleepy for this finale of the first full Norfolk & Norwich Festival week.
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Queuing up in the rain is rarely an auspicious start to a gig, but the insistent rhythms of The Turbans meant it didn’t take long to get dry once the Spiegeltent started shaking.
Explore MoreThis Writers’ Centre Norwich event brought together five speakers for a diverse set of 15 minute talks on our often frustrating and surprising bodies.
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The tradition of transgressive writing by women was the focus of this Writers’ Centre Norwich event.
Explore MoreThe Friday night crowd had come to
celebrate the weekend, the bank holiday – and possibly half term too – and they
were definitely in the mood to party.
A literary twist on TED talks, 5×15
offered five snapshot views from writers and thinkers to challenge our approach
to the world.
This second night of jazz in Chapelfield
Gardens took a slightly edgier route, with four-piece outfit Get The Blessing
showcasing material from their five albums.
Reading from his debut book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porter said it was too hot in the bejewelled Spiegeltent surroundings to get in to the really heavy stuff – as if the extracts he delivered with such brave force were easy words.
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Normally to be found in their basement bar in London’s Broadway Market, this jazzy, swinging seven-piece hit the Spiegeltent for just one night.
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The Spiegeltent is an other-worldly venue, and this Hocus Pocus and Gossamer Thread co-production, Night Magic, seeks to lift the veil and take you to the other side.
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This is circus, but with a Spiegeltent twist: a naked man straining against cling film before rolling over giant blue balls; a dancer twisting and flexing on the floor like a woman with zombie limbs that leaves you feeling like you’ve been to a chiropractor.
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