Dandifest! Bank holiday Weekend
Friday 2 May start of Bank Holiday weekend.
1.30pm-5pm Vince Dandy Laws turning jars into lanterns, using various techniques, bring empty jars, paints provided.
6pm-Late candle lit event with live art, including Hayley Hare with The Black Dog Runs At Night; Find Me Plant Me Bury Me with Kayla St Claire; and Poetry in the Dark, experimental pieces with Vince Laws, Trudy Howson, and Dugald Ferguson.
Bank Holiday Saturday 3 May
1.30pm-5pm Ann Nicholls, Dandy Snap is in the house.
2pm Free Pilates with Diane from Companionate Pilates.
Epic Studios, Norwich
6.30pm for 7.30pm start, don't miss drag star Pequlia Bigtopp hosting a one-off Dandifest game-show extravaganza 'Art With A Capital F!' Special Guests & Amazing Prizes! Tickets via epic-tv.com or 01603 727727, cost £10 pre-booked/ £12 on the door /£7 concs. “Quick witted, sharp tongued temptress!”
The Birdcage, Pottergate, Norwich
8pm-Late The Dandy Disco! Fancy dress if you fancy it! With DJs Di, Jules, and Jasmine from Future Radio, the Official After-Party for Pequlia Bigtopp's Art With A Capital F!
Bank Holiday Sunday 4 May
10am-1pm Portrait Painting Masterclass with Gena Ivanov. Bring your own canvas/paper/materials. First Gena explains his techniques, then helps you paint a portrait.
The Birdcage, Pottergate, Norwich
2pm-5pm Woolly Workshop, with Kally Davidson. Experiment with your yarn, new twists on old techniques, spin with a twig, play with mini, massive and interactive body knitting. Materials provided but please bring fabric, yarns or items to recycle that you’d like to incorporate into the collaborative installation piece at St Margaret's church at the end of the workshop.
6-9pm at The Birdcage, Dandifest! presents Sunday Servix, an evening of music, learning dance routines, performance art and theatre, with Kayleigh O’Keefe's Flaps Theatre, Baltic resident DJ of the Turner Prize Party Hayley Hare, Kayla St Claire's dance commenting on the nature of pop videos, and Body of Work Jerrica invite you to make your mark on them.
Chapelfield Gardens
11am-4pm The Norwich Dandies are at the Norwich & District Trades Union Council May Day celebrations with Dress Like A Dandy! Pose Like A Dandy! Paint Like A Dandy!
Bank Holiday Monday 5 May
The Norwich Dandies Do A Very Village Fete!
10am-1pm Portrait Painting Masterclass with Gena Ivanov. Bring your own canvas/paper/materials. Gena explains his techniques, then helps you paint a portrait.
11am Dandi the Clown is coming from London to open the Village Fete! with stalls (bring your own table/blanket to sell your wares, pay what you can) with performers, Debbie Sutton's Flower Power face painting, Tricia Frances' Photo Light Painting workshops (bring a camera or camera phone), and modern twists on old fashioned games.
12 noon Drum For Justice, make a noise against violence against women and children, with Maddie Cassell, rehearsals and performance at 2pm.
2pm Dandifest! Poetry from Vince Laws, and Dickie Lee Lupton-White aka Bonk, with Open Mike opportunities.
4pm Dandi the Clown closes the Village Fete!
11am-2pm Woolly Workshop, with Kally Davidson at The Birdcage (details as yesterday).
