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Sunday 1 November
· Hip Hop ·
Hot 8 Brass Band Vicennial – 20 years of Hot 8 Brass Band + DJ Sure D
Sam Lee & Friends 15 Nov
Friday 13 November - Wednesday 23 December
Eyebrow Arts: Live In The Moment
Live in the Moment is an interactive environment offering anyone visiting Norwich Arts Centre the chance to be creative. Sometimes the process of art-making is the artwork.
“This is awesome!” Guy Garvey Swaggering jazz, raucous funk with a hip-hop attitude. The New Orleans Hot 8 celebrate 20 years.
Monday – Friday 1 – 5pm, Saturday 10am – 6pm : free entry
8pm : £15.00 adv : £17.50 door Monday 2 November
· Talk ·
The Magic Band play the music of Captain Beefheart
Owen Jones: The Politics of Hope
Left-wing popular Guardian columnist, author, commentator and political activist Owen Jones shines some light on how we can build societies to run in the interests of working people.
Tuesday 3 November
Saturday 7 November · Theatre ·
Novus Theatre: The Reverse Is Also True by Stephen May and Mark Illis
We join 49 year old Eddie Young on the day when he is suddenly confronted by his own 18 year old self on his own doorstep. Is he going mad? Is it some kind of cosmic joke? And how is he going to explain it all to his wife, Sarah? A warm-hearted but provocative new piece. Think Black Mirror meets Back To The Future.
8pm : Pay What You Can : seated Wednesday 4 November – Friday 6 November
· Exhibition ·
Paul Foot: A Retrospective
Accompanying his three-night run at Norwich Arts Centre Paul Foot will be presenting an exhibition of paintings and limited edition stills
1 – 5pm : free entry Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 November
Paul Foot: A Retrospective
· Comedy ·
Saturday 7 November
A co-headline tour. Exploring new blends of rock, pop, classical and folk music, Moulettes have been commanding respect from DJs Bob Harris and Cerys Mathews. Nizlopi combine double bass, beatboxing and guitar to produce original folk hip hop. “Everything I know about live performance I learned from them” Ed Sheeran
8pm : £14.00 : Buy all 3 for £36.00 : seated Friday 6 November
Paul Foot: Kenny Larch is Dead 2012 8pm : £14.00: Buy all 3 for £36.00 : seated
8pm : £20.00 adv : £25.00 door
Monday 9 November
Thursday 12 November
NAC Fundraiser
A special evening of discovery at which businesses can find out more about our multi-award winning much-loved venue. With performances that show the range of events we offer we will be explaining our role as ambassadors for the city, plans for the future and how business can collaborate with us and support us. To attend please email pasco@norwichartscentre.co.uk.
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Paul Foot: By The Yard
5 Nov
Paul Foot: Still Life
6 Nov
Paul Foot: Kenny Larch is Dead
7 Nov
Zine Fair Vol 3
7 Nov
Moulettes & Nizlopi
9 Nov
Beaty Heart + Mega Emotion + Black Shuk
10 Nov
BADAC Theatre: The Flood
12 Nov
NAC Fundraiser
13 Nov - 23 Dec
Eyebrow Arts: Live In The Moment
Seafret + support
17 Nov
Funny Northen Women
18 Nov
Jammy Voo: BIRDHOUSE
19 Nov
Front Country
20 Nov
Jesse Malin tbc
21 Nov
My Life Story + Dan Shears & The Velveteen Orkestra
22 Nov
Blanck Mass + support
23 Nov
Dubioza Kolektiv
24 Nov
Kagoule + Bald Wife + Holy Men
26 Nov
Megson + support
27 Nov
Christian O’Connell
28 Nov
Drama with Consequences: No More!
28 Nov
ESKA + support
30 Nov
Jeru The Damaja
1 Dec
The People’s Republic of Poetry with A Firm Of Poets
Kagoule 24 Nov
2 Dec
Sh!t theatre: Guinea Pigs on Trial
4 Dec
Bootleg Swing
· Folk ·
5 Dec
Blackbeard’s Tea Party
10 Dec
SPIEL: Harold Offeh
11 Dec
The Blockheads + support
12 Dec
Clutter City Yuletide Market
15 Dec
Islam Chipsy & EEK + support
17 Dec
Don’t Spook The Horse
18 Dec
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts + support
“A wonderfully inventive creation” The Guardian, 4 stars. Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer and ancient song collector tours with his second album release The Fade in Time. Fast becoming accepted as a new pioneer, defining the sound, sight and texture of folksong today, Sam Lee and Friends deliver time-honoured tales of love, estrangement and betrayal with engaging intimacy.
8pm : £14.00 : £12.00 concessions : seated
4 Nov
Sam Lee & Friends
· Theatre ·
· Fundraiser ·
Paul Foot: A Retrospective
16 Nov
2pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concessions : seated
Sam Lee & Friends
4 Nov - 6 Nov
15 Nov
Three-piece psychedelic-drum-pop band from Peckham. Beaty Heart weave an array of samples, instrumentation and percussion against original video artwork.
8pm : Pay What You Can : seated
Novus Theatre: The Reverse Is Also True
Me and My Cat?
Calling all junior detectives! Come and join Detective K as she sets off on an exciting and hilarious adventure, full of manga clues and strange events. Using projection, puppets and bags of ingenuity, this is a fast-paced, action-packed story based on the book by award winning Japanese children’s author and illustrator, Satoshi Kitamura. Age range: for children five-years + and their families. Duration: 50 mins.
Sunday 15 November
Owen Jones
3 Nov
14 Nov
Me and My Cat?
· Rock/Pop ·
“A powerful expression of the indescribable horror of war” TW Edinburgh An immersive piece of theatre set in WW! following the passionate relationship between a frontline soldier and a nurse. Their love story is told through correspondence and snatched intimate private moments, highlighting the brutality of their existence and the banality of war.
2 Nov
The Magic Band
· Family ·
Mapped Out presents Beaty Heart + Mega Emotion + Black Shuk
Tuesday 10 November
Hot 8 Brass Band
13 Nov
8pm : £16.00 : £14.00 concessions
BADAC Theatre: The Flood
Paul Foot: Still Life 2011
· Rock/Pop ·
Moulettes & Nizlopi + Heg & the Wolf Chorus
Wednesday 4 November
Thursday 5 November
Original members John “Drumbo” French and Mark “Rockette Morton” Boston share the stage with guitarists Eric Klerks & Max Kutner (Grandmothers of Invention), and drummer Andrew Niven to re-visit the classic Beefheart tunes with renewed fervor.
Saturday 14 November
10am – 4pm : free entry
8pm : £5.00 adv : £6.00 door
8pm : £14.00: Buy all 3 for £36.00 : seated
· Market ·
Zine Fair Vol 3
“A comedy genius” The Independent An opportunity to spend three nights with one of the brightest stars of the altenative comedy circuit as he revists three of his most extrordinary shows.
Paul Foot: By The Yard 2009
· Rock/Pop ·
Friday 13 November
8pm : £13.00 : £10.00 concessions : seated
· Exhibition ·
1 Nov
Dec Son Yambu + DJ Chilli www.norwichartscentre.co.uk 19 : www.norwichartscentre.co.uk 21 Dec
Midwinter Moonshine
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Monday 16 November
· Rock/Pop ·
Seafret + support
“He’s creating his own strain of technological utopianism.” Pitchfork Solo project of Benjamin John Power of electronic noise duo Fuck Buttons.
8pm : £7.00 adv : £9.00 door
8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 doors · Comedy ·
Funny Northern Women
Join us and these three comedic northerners for a night of surreal, offbeat humour. Featuring Lucy Beaumont, Hayley Ellis and Katie Mulgrew.
8pm : £12.00: £10 concessions : seated Wednesday 18 November
· Rock/Pop ·
Blanck Mass + support + visuals by Dan Tombs
“A timeless sound with a fresh modern twist” Clash Magazine Beautifully-contagious sounds from a band set for a big future.
Tuesday 17 November
Sunday 22 November
· Theatre ·
Monday 23 November
Dubioza Kolektiv + support
Forged in basement shelters during the siege of Sarajevo their music speaks out against nationalism and injustice through an energetic and powerful mix of hip-hop, reggae, dub, rock and Bosnian folklore.
8pm : £12.50 adv : £15.00 doors Tuesday 24 November
Jammy Voo: BIRDHOUSE
· World ·
“An entertaining and smartly staged absurdist tragedy. Funny and dark.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. Meet the ladies of the Birdhouse. Caught in a delirium of post-traumatic shock, they can’t stop re-playing their tragic stories, like an absurd Hitchcock horror on loop. Will they survive their own personal apocalypses and find a way out?
Mapped Out presents Kagoule + Bald Wife + No Holy Men
8pm : Pay What You Can : seated
Thursday 26 November
· Rock/Pop ·
Three-piece ferocious noise-makers from Nottingham.
8pm : £5.00 adv : £6.00 doors · Folk ·
Folk East presents Megson + support
Dubioza Kolektiv 23 Nov
8pm : £14.00 : £12.00 concessions : seated Friday 28 November
8pm : £12.00 : £10.00 concessions : seated Saturday 21 November
· Rock/Pop ·
My Life Story + Dan Shears & The Velveteen Orkestra + ElleKaye
Britpop’s My Life Story return to tour the UK with a stripped-down, tightrocking five-piece version of their original line-up. Cited by Steve Lamacq as his favourite band, MLS will perform their greatest hits.
8pm : £14.00 adv : £16.00 door
· Rock/Pop ·
8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door
Wednesday 2 December
Drama With Consequences: No More!
A powerful performance, as part of the Norfolk Says No campaign.
Saturday 28 November
ESKA + support
“Eska is a mind-blowing gem” The Guardian, 4 stars. ESKA weaves together hints of soul, psychedelia, folk and electronica and pairs them with stirring lyrics born from burning passion.
8pm : £12.00 adv : £14.00 door Monday 30 November
· Hip Hop ·
Sh!t Theatre: Guinea Pigs on Trial 2 Dec
Sh!t Theatre: Guinea Pigs on Trial
“A rowdy, charming hour of performed journalism” The Observer Total Theatre ‘best emerging company’ Award and Arches Brick Award winners Sh!t Theatre have been trying to sell their bodies to medical science. They’ve signed up for trials testing swine flu, gastro-enteritis, trials for heroin addiction and botox for your bladder. Is guinea-pigging a good cure for an empty bank account? And what happens when profit takes priority in the creation of medicine?
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8pm : Pay What You Can : seated · Swing ·
Thursday 17 December
Bootleg Swing + Miss Scarlet Black
8pm : £11.00 adv : £9.00 adv concs : £14.00 door Saturday 5 December
· Folk ·
Folk East presents Blackbeard’s Tea Party + support Traditional songs and folk tunes are given a heavy rock edge with playful arrangements and driving dance rhythms.
8pm : £13.50 adv : £11.50 adv concessions : £15.00 door
· Rock/Pop ·
Formed in ‘77 and still playing fantastic music in 2015, The Blockheads live are a great British institution, an amazing line-up of world class musicians.
8pm : £20.00
8pm : £12.00 adv : £14.00 door
11 – 4pm : free entry
Clutter City Yuletide Market
8pm : £10.00 : £8.00 concessions Friday 18 December
November December 2015
· Rock/Pop ·
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts + support
“[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.” Jarvis Cocker Rough Trade Records artist, comic book-writer and musician combines contemplative folk narratives to distortion-fueled garage rock.
Saturday 19 December
The Blockheads + support
Saturday 12 December
Don’t Spook The Horse take you on a journey through Neil Young’s long and varied career.
8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door
8pm : Pay What You Can : seated Friday 11 December
· Rock/Pop ·
Don’t Spook The Horse
· Talk ·
SPIEL: Harold Offeh Artist Talk
Boombap Festival & Finnies presents Jeru The Damaja + support Aka D. Original Dirty Rotten Scoundrel is touring his new EP.
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· Live Art ·
Harold Offeh is an artist who employs humour and contemporary culture in his performance, participation, video and photography works. · Rock/Pop ·
· World ·
Exploding out of Cairo, Egypt Islam Chipsy & his band EEK is a three-way force of nature. At the core of the group lies electro chaabi keyboard pioneer Islam Chipsy, whose joyous, freewheeling sonic blitz warps the standard oriental scale system into otherworldly shapes.
performance poetry skills and be invited to join on stage. Contact ralph@afirmofpoets.com to take part.
Thursday 10 December
4pm : free entry
Coming out of the California Bay area’s red-hot roots music scene this six-piece has been championed by Bob Harris as “the biggest band on the bluegrass scene in America”.
8pm : Pay What You Can : seated 4pm : Pre-show workshop Workshop participants will hone their
Featuring Ralph Dartford, Molly Naylor, Martin Figura, and Matt Abbott. A cross between a poetic super-group and Whose Line Is It Anyway? “proper, visceral stuff about real life... Long live The Firm.” Luke Wright
The cocktails will flow and the Lindy Hoppers will twirl to the sumptuous intoxicating sounds of Bootleg Swing and their buoyant brassy tunes with some stunning burlesque and hot jazz and swing from a very dapper DJ.
“Furiously funny” The Guardian. Fresh from his sold out national tour. Enter DJ Christian O’Connell’s world of A-list weirdos, offended clowns and angry cat-lovers from his collection of death threats, hate mail and complaints.
Front Country
Islam Chipsy & EEK + support
8pm : £12.00 adv : £10.00 adv concs : £14.00 door : seated · Comedy ·
Tuesday 15 December
Ossett Observer presents The People’s Republic of Poetry with A Firm Of Poets
Friday 4 December
Christian O’Connell: You’ve Ruined My Morning… And Other Fan Mail
· Bluegrass ·
· Poetry ·
This husband and wife duo has steadily established its reputation as one of the freshest, most original acts in the latest folk revival.
Friday 27 November
Thursday 19 November
Tuesday 1 December
· Market ·
Norwich’s best creative independent crafters, artists, makers and bakers.
· World ·
Son Yambu + DJ Chilli
Authentic Cuban son, the intoxicating fusion of Spanish and African rhythms that gave rise to salsa. You’re guaranteed a truly, sensational, authentic Latin music experience.
8pm : £12.00 : £10.00 concessions Beginners salsa class 7pm - 8pm with Chilli Con Salsa Combined ticket for both class and band £15.00 : £12.50 concs Monday 21 December
· Swing ·
Midwinter Moonshine
Featuring The Vagaband + The Midwinter Players + Jess Morgan Trio + DJ Hank Jd Sleek. It wouldn’t be Christmas without the Midwinter Moonshine, come along and see what all the fuss is about. Get your tickets early to avoid disappoinment.
8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door
ESKA 28 Nov
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