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#/

Golden Bee Dew at Dandifest 2017

Art submissions now open! Go to Golden Bee website

Poets at the Fete

Photos by Ann Nicholls 

Vince Laws performing poetry on the 5th plinth

Dickey Leigh Lupton-white

Jasmine and son

Dickey performing on the 5th Plinth

Vince Laws mental helmet

Little girls first show and on the 5th Plinth

Daughter and father 

Lifting the mental Helmet

Poetry in the dark Part 2

Photos by Ann Nicholls 

Poetry in the dark or by candlelight. 

Dugald and Trudy performing

Vince Laws and Dugald Ferguson performing a poem

Putin in bed with story telling Trudy

Putin in bed

Gena Ivanov the owner of The Studio Gallery

Eloise O'Hare photo by Ann Nicholls and Edited by Robert Rijkhoff

Pansies and oranges on the Giant Still Life

Vince Laws Badges

Giant knitting

Cat portrait hanging in the Dandifest gallery

Dandifest the Movie released on World Mental Health day

The Norwich Dandies are proud to release this short film, which includes the performance poem My Mental Helmet, on World Mental Health Day. Let's all be a little bit kinder, less quick to judge, more accepting of difference… our own lives will be enriched. Have a look at the movie here. Vote for the Norwich Dandies who have been nominated by the people of Norfolk for Art award

Ian Duncan Smith Portaloo Poetry gallery

Photos by Eloise O'Hare 2014©

The Poetry in the Portaloo exhibition was very successful, Poets with disabilities from all over the country posted in there poems and Vince Laws and friends helped laminate the Poems the lou became over crowded with poems so they were hung on the railing and from lines inside and out side of the church of art during Dandifest. 

The Disabled Portaloo took quite a bit of wrangling to get one and then to get it over the fence in the end it actually fitted through the gate. Once the festival had a toilet for people with disabilities we felt like we could be an inclusive festival. Lots of people came to lift the toilet very early in the morning. 

Poetry that spread on to railings also some cartoons. 

Equal lives was set up in Norwich because at the moment the Government thinks its funny to pick on people with disabilities. Most governments are not very good at having visions of a better future and they follow other politicians mistakes its all down to not doing enough art and drawing and helping there brain be better at visualising ideas. The disabled have had to arm themselves with Equal lives and Hate Free Norfolk to get protection from government ideals.

Vince Laws who is a famous poet with invisible disabilities made some banners to go across the railing.

A very Dandy village fete

Photos care of Ann Nicholls 2014©

Dandi the Italian clown came along and created some laughs for everyone

Dandi the clown had no problems fitting in with the Norwich Dandies

Here is Dandi hanging showing of the Dandifest posters

Deanna working on Norwich Pride and chilling on the lawn 

Sqweek squweek

Sketching away at Dandifest

Eloise O'Hare's Artties

Gena Ivanov teaching an art masterclass at Dandifest

A very Dandy artist after Gena Ivanov masterclass

Masterclass for all ages and abilities 

Shelly Telly made a picture of her girlfriend when she was a child amazing. 

Vince Laws and Dandi the clown get married and open the very Dandy village fete

Snip!! I declare Dandifest A very Dandy village fete now open.

A union jack drawn in pastels by a keen Norwich Riser

Biggest knitted ball

Great fun!!

Boudicca by Vince Laws a Found object

Stevie checks out her pastel drawing portrait

Poems and reviews by Ann Young put about Dandifest

Sleeping on a knitted ball

Your in the pink triangle in Norwich Golden Triangle

Maggie Thatcher draft excluder lays to rest on the 5th plinth

Big knitting my favourite photo

My chess gets an airing but the king is feeling wobbley and gets a shoe

All fabric Lewis chess set getting played for the first time

Knit away

Chess thinking

Dani joins in and makes a sketch

Lewis giant soft chess set gets some long thoughts

Everyone is active and painting the model

Peace flags that create a peaceful village fete

John from NDPAC offers advise

Wonderful colourful pastel drawing of model in costume

More chess moves 

Knit away

Exhausted after a day of a very Dandy village fete

Knit knit.