Dandifest 2017 Indigogo crowd funding

Dandifest 2017 is going to happen with a little help from our friends.
Please do buy some art from this lovely indiegogo website all the funds go towards our match fund from Arts council. Match funds very hard to find with Council cuts in Norwich City. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/presenting-dandifest-2017-art-community/x/15896079#/

TaDa Costume Ball at the Norwich Arts centre

TaDa Costume Ball at the Norwich Arts centre 2nd May from 7pm to Midnight Lots of great bands and live performances lined up and Dj's in the Bar. Make a costume out of trash and you may win a competition for King or Queen of the ball. This is going to be one of the most exciting events of the year in Norwich. 5 pound a ticket so everyone local can afford to go even Cinderella. If u have a performance art piece we may waver the 5 pound let us know in advance.

Norwich Rising 2015

Norwich Rising is back in its 3rd year after it was about to be cancelled due to the organisers having too much on at the moment. It has taken a new turn with new people stepping up to help. The Rising is taking place at the Forum in Norwich on the 14 th Feb at 1 pm 2015. Everyone will be dancing to Break the chain here and round the world with One billion and rising. If you need to brush up on the dance or learn it from the beginning there is rehearsals with professional dance teacher Miriam Gita, at the Silver rooms on Silver road, NR3 4TB. The Silver rooms is a new community centre that was saved from demolition. To raise funds for centre there will be tea and coffee for sale at a pound a cup. Dance classes are free for all to come along and if you bring children they can either join in the dance or be supervised by a partner or friend that you bring along. The class will be one hour or more depending how much you want to learn. The rehearsals are on the 1st and 8th of February at 3pm and then on Friday the 13th there will be one in the evening which still needs to be confirmed.
Norwich Rising is Grass roots project it has no funding and its up to people to join in and support. Please share the poster and what ever way you would like to show support.

A very Dandy Village fete time-lapse film

While the very Dandy village fete was all happening Ruski from the Art of Norwich made a fantastic time-lapse film. Its like a dream looking at the film and we all looking like were buzzing around doing lots of fun things. There is so much in the film Ivanov teaching art by the giant still life, the stalls, Norwich rising Drum for justice drumming, Dress, pose and paint like a dandy in the garden, Poets on the 5th plinth, Dandi the clown and the end is Eloise O'Hare's Lewis soft scultpure chess set being played Link to film is here http://norwichdandies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/flaps-theatre.html

Dandy Disco

Dandy Disco held at the Birdcage in there ballroom. 

Thanks to all the DJ's at the Disco from Future radio who played. 

Di Cunningham playing some cool tunes in the DJ booth

Dugald Dandy and Julie Bremner

Lumenated love

Lots of dancing and disco

Lots of us came to disco after Epic Studios Art with a capital F. 

Friends were made. 

A week of Dandifest already past of happenings and a week to go

Photos by Eloise O'Hare 2014©

Dandifest launch night

Photos by Ruski 

Dandifest launch night everything is up in the church of art and other exhibitions around Norwich 

People start arriving

Ceramics is standing by

Dugald is ready 

People are listening

Artists are talking

Vince Laws is poeting

Pequlia Bigtopp officially opens Dandifest 2014

The Norwich Dandies get rapped in ribbon and get the ribbon snip

Group photo

Pequlia tells all and Telly Shelly films

The place becomes filled with people

Shelly films Dugald Ferguson in bed

Ann Nicholls says a few words

Dandy Angel films on the i-pad

Happy days

Pride shop is well looked after. Dandifest teamed up with Pride so they could get there awareness and fundraising in early Norwich Pride is funded by people buying rainbows

Vince Laws and Ad Thacker in red and white costumes. The Dandies like to dress up nearly all the time

Vince Laws chatting to Shelly Telly

Johnny Jump band tune up

Michelle from "Hate Free Norfolk" teams up with Dandifest 

My Mental Helmut. Vince Laws Poem while wearing a moterbike helmut with words all over. When Vince wears the helmut this is how he feels when depresses, a feeling of isolation, heaviness.

Johnny Jump band hit the notes and rock out

Andy Hines manages the band and plays

Pat Garmen on Drums

Alexandra Blythe on double bass

Babies asleep ceramics

Dugald read Pequlia a story

Eloise O'Hare and Pequlia

Eloise is given a tambourine to join in thats Dandifest

Dandy Angel 

Laughing is had

Dancing begins

Clapping along

Secret reviews of the show

Cuddling up

Letting hair down