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‘You are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean is made of

thousands of drops'Make your drop count by participating in HF19’s community

arts projects.

Local talent in individual arts and crafts is displayed through

the ever popular 20x20 exhibition; the Sea Windows

competition; Textile Art and Turning Over a New Leaf project.

If words are your thing write a poem on a postcard to be

displayed in shop windows throughout town. Harwich Shorts

Film Festival makes another appearance and there will be a

number of events for local musicians and other performance

artists in a variety of public spaces. The Primary Schools

Concert is an opportunity to show the talents of the town’s

younger members. In addition, we attract some of the very

best creative and performing artists through exhibitions,

spoken word, visual arts, dance and a wide range of music.

There will be something for everyone and lots you have not

seen or heard before.

TicketsPrices vary but lunchtime concerts are free of charge. Season

tickets are available.

Tickets go on General Sale from 1st May 2018.

Book on line at www.harwichfestival.co.uk

Harwich Box Office in Harwich Library or by telephone

07425 145 022 or on the door.

See Festival website for further information on artists,

events, ticketing and general information.

Friends of the Festival: Support the Festival by becoming

a Friend. Friends can reserve discounted tickets before

General Sale.'You are just a drop in the

ocean, but the ocean is made of thousands of drops'

Our project continues in 2019. Don’t miss the launch of our textile exhibition commemorating the Kindertransport during the Harwich Festival.

Our website has details of upcoming events www.harwichhavenhistory.co.uk

HOM E OF T HE M AYFL OWER

HIS T ORIC

HARWICH TOWN COUNCIL

@HarwichFestival

07425 145022

facebook.com/HarwichFestivaloftheArts

Artistic Director - Peter Davis

Visual Arts20cm x 20cm Open Exhibition 2019

The Twenty by Twenty exhibition is back by popular demand. We have had entries from three year olds to people in their nineties. Professional and amateur artists enter artworks side by side amassing 1500 submissions over the past 3 years!

Old Bank Summer Exhibition 2019 - a display of accessible, original art work in all media from local and tutoring artists.

A display of textile art from Bev Caleno’s group drawing inspiration from our natural environment.

Short taster sessions in craft, textile and painting.

Return of the forever popular pop up tea rooms, featuring walnut and coffee cake and other mouthwateringhomemade creations.

Dovercourt Art ClubThe Dovercourt Art Club was originally started by 7 artists, meeting in turn at their homes and finally establishing the club in January 1967.

For the past 52 years, the club has exhibited at various venues around the town and this year is renewing its connection with the Harwich Festival and will exhibit atthe 1912 Centre, in Cow Lane, Harwich.

There will be a wide range of painted subjects, in a variety of media which will be for sale at affordable prices. As usual there will be a number of artists, all willing to offer help and advice

For anyone interested in becoming a member, please call our Membership Secretary on 07989 313 459.

Harwich ShortsHarwich Shorts is an open call to independent filmmakers who wish to screen short films of no longer than 10 minutes duration, of any genre.

The screening is open selection, for all ages and encourages the use of a wide range of digital recording devices, to explore the moving image and show the results.

HF19 Sea Windows CompetitionThis summer festival competition is open to all residents of any age in Old Harwich with a ground floor window(s) facing a public street.

Windows should be decorated with a nautical theme, and you can let your imagination loose. Prizes will be awarded for the best three, judged by an independent panel of judges who

will view your window(s) during the Festival.

£1 to enter and entrance forms can be collected from the Library. All entries must be received ten days prior to the start of the festival to enable the Sea Windows map to be printed.

Turning Over a New Leaf We're celebrating the beauty of nature.

Local people have joined textile art enthusiast Monique de Vlieger to create this public art project. Dozens of colourful textile leaves will be put together to form magical vines rambling round the lampposts on Ha'penny Pier.

Bodgeners Gallery52 Church Street, Harwich, CO12 3DS. bodgeners@aol.com

"The Bijou Picture Show" work by gallery artists

Open Daily:Saturday 22nd June - Sunday 30th June 11am - 4pm.

"Garden of Art"At 86, Fronks Road, Dovercourt, Essex CO12 3RS

Exhibition, Mel King and Daphne Sandham paintings, prints, ceramics, in a wild garden

Open Daily:Saturday 22nd June - Sunday 30th June11am - 4pm

20cm x 20cm Project

Old Bank Studios

HF19 Sea Windows Competition

Turning over a new leaf

Garden of Art

Tendring Hundred Embroidery GroupTO BE SUPPLIED

Other events occurring during or after the Festival

Primary Schools’ Choir Concert Clare Leach of Harwich Sing is coordinating the Primary

Schools’ Concert this year. This takes place at St Nicholas’

Church on Friday 28th June at 1pm. There will be several

combined schools’ songs plus some from each individual

school.

Harwich EncoreOn Friday the 28th June we will be launching HARWICH

ENCORE - an evening celebrating local dance and singing

talent Featuring Boogie Shoes, Harwich Sing and Ballroom

Business.

Coming Soon!

The Harwich Festivalruns an extensive year round programme for more information see:

www.harwichfestival.co.uk

April 3rd - Jo Harman live at St Nicholas Church

April 13th - Two Man Ting live at the Harwich Arts and

Heritage Centre

May 29th - The Tide Jetty by Tony Ramsey at the Harwich

Arts and Heritage Centre

August - Beside the Seaside Dovercourt – More information

coming soon

Year Round - Essex Rocks promoting Live unsigned Music in

Harwich

Concluding this year’s classical

programme, West End and

Operatic leading lady Rosemary

Ashe will present a programme

including songs by Porter,

Bernstein, Coward and Sondheim.

Humour and high notes form a

delightful mixture, as she tells

stories and sings songs drawn

from her long and varied career. The highlight of the evening

will be a performance of a Medley from the Phantom of the

Opera, in which Rosemary originated the role of Carlotta.

The lunchtime series starts on Friday with Noriko Ogawa

who will present ‘Jamie’s Concert’, a relaxed performance,

which will consist a completely different programme to the

evening's concert. ‘Jamie’s Concert’ is aimed at anyone who

has experience with Autism. Although aimed to give respite,

Noriko also welcomes those with autism, if the carer feels if

this appropriate and of benefit.

On Saturday we have Jonas

Stonkus. Jonas will perform

a mixture of arrangements

and original compositions for

the Accordion – which has a

long history in Harwich – and

will show the capabilities

of this as a solo instrument. Lithuanian born, Jonas was

recognised in 2014 with a Lithuanian presidential award for

international achievements.

Then on Monday, Lizz

Lipscombe will present a

programme that demonstrates

her versatility as a violinist

across the genres, including

Meditation by Massenet,

Gelouise by Gade as well as

Ashokan Farewell by Ungar

and the tour-de-force that

is Czardas by Monti. She

has performed with Smokey

Robinson, Newton Faulkner and

Peter Gabriel, as well as performing on Later… with Jools

Holland.

A veritable supergroup made up of British jazz’s top names,

The Ben Crosland Quintet follows up its acclaimed Ray

Davies Songbook Volume One live shows and CD with the

much-anticipated Volume

Two. Alongside Ben on bass

guitar are John Etheridge,

electric guitar; Steve Lodder,

keyboards; Brandon Allen,

tenor sax; and Dylan Howe,

drums. Their inventive

arrangements of the Kinks'

master canon never stray far from his household melodies

while the individual musicians take flight with coruscating

soloing.

FolkJacob and Drinkwater are

Lukas Drinkwater (guitar

& vocals) and Tobias ben

Jacob (double bass & vocals).

This Devon based duo were

in great demand at last

summer’s festivals and this

Spring embark upon their

nationwide “This Old River”

tour to promote their brand

new studio album. Described

by BBC Radio 6 as “Stand out New Folk” and by Folk Radio

UK as “intense and spellbinding”, they are bringing their

combined talents to Harwich for the first time.

Cohen Braithwaite

Kilcoyne is a young singer

and instrumentalist who

is firmly rooted in the folk

traditions of the British Isles.

He plays melodeon and anglo

concertina. He is the driving

force behind current festival

favourites “Granny’s Attic”

who were BBC Folk Award nominees in 2014. Much of his

repertoire reflects the industrial Midlands where he was

born and bred but he also strays into Edwardian music hall,

sea songs and shanties. This will be his first visit to Harwich.

Operatic leading lady Rosemary

Ashe will present a programme

including songs by Porter,

Bernstein, Coward and Sondheim.

Humour and high notes form a

delightful mixture, as she tells

stories and sings songs drawn

from her long and varied career. The highlight of the evening

will be a performance of a Medley from the Phantom of the

Opera, in which Rosemary originated the role of Carlotta.

The lunchtime series starts on Friday with Noriko Ogawa

who will present ‘Jamie’s Concert’, a relaxed performance,

which will consist a completely different programme to the

evening's concert. ‘Jamie’s Concert’ is aimed at anyone who

has experience with Autism. Although aimed to give respite,

Noriko also welcomes those with autism, if the carer feels if

this appropriate and of benefit.

On Saturday we have Jonas

Stonkus. Jonas will perform

a mixture of arrangements

and original compositions for

the Accordion – which has a

long history in Harwich – and

will show the capabilities

of this as a solo instrument. Lithuanian born, Jonas was

recognised in 2014 with a Lithuanian presidential award for

international achievements.

Then on Monday, Lizz

Lipscombe will present a

programme that demonstrates

her versatility as a violinist

across the genres, including

Meditation by Massenet,

Gelouise by Gade as well as

Ashokan Farewell by Ungar

and the tour-de-force that

is Czardas by Monti. She

has performed with Smokey

Robinson, Newton Faulkner and

JazzDutch group Under The Surface

comprise Joost Lijbaart, drums and

percussion; Bram Stadhousers,

guitars and electronics; and

Sanne Rambags, vocals and

poetry. They paint a palette of

musical atmospheres through

improvisation, balancing magic

and reality. Their HF19 date has

been arranged with Going Dutch and the Jazz Promotion

Network.

Time Out magazine

described guitar threesome

Preston Glasgow Lowe as

young jazz heavyweights,

with the London Evening

Standard claiming: “Think

Metallica meets Mingus or

Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius or Animal from The Muppets on a

bro-date.” Dazzling technique combined with subtlety and

grace is the hallmark of this exciting power trio.

Wivenhoe-based guitarist Chris

Allard has worked with many

top artists including Dame Cleo

Lane, Jacqui Dankworth, Claire

Martin and Jamie Cullum, while

Memphis-born singer, keyboard

player and songwriter Charlie

Wood began his stellar career as

sideman for the legendary blues

guitarist Albert King. Together

they deliver an authentic blend

of blues, soul and jazz and their HF19 appearance will draw

largely from Charlie’s seventh album Tomorrow Night, which

includes covers of BB King, Otis Redding and Bobby “Blue

Bland” among his own self-penned material.

Chelmsford-based Raz are Pera on bass, George Krethlow-

Shaw on drums and Dan Goldstone on guitar and together

they cross musical boundaries, creating their own blend

of jazz, funk, rock, pop and fusion with Latin beats and

inflections thrown in. A talented young group, Raz is making

significant waves on the Essex music scene.

Callum Alger will perform

on Tuesday, presenting a

programme of J.S Bach,

Stanley and Grigny on the

wonderful organ at St.

Nicholas. Callum was the

winner of the inaugural IAO/

RCO Organ Competition

and will hold the prestigious

position of Organ Scholar

at Westminster Cathedral

from September.

On Wednesday, Guitarist

and Composer Sam Piha will

perform original compositions

from his critically acclaimed

new album, “Postcards from

Crouch End”. The album is

inspired by places as far afield

as Columbia, Japan and of

course Crouch End. Sam will be

joined by special guest, Louise

Garner.

Completing the lunchtime series on Thursday, Katherine

Bryan will present a contemporary programme including

Sonatine by Milhaud, Le Merle Noir by Messiaen and Achat

Sha’alti by Paul Schoenfield.

Katherine has been described

as one of the world’s most

renowned flute soloists. She

studied flute at the Julliard

School and went on to be

a winner of the prestigious

Audi Music Competition.

Katherine’s recording, ‘Silver

Voice, on Chandos in 2017

was Classic FM’s Album of

the Week.

So, there we have it, a jam-packed festival of musical

discovery and world class performances right here in

Harwich. Come along and be part of it!

MusicClassical The classical programme this year at Harwich Festival is a

real discovery of the something new alongside the ever-

popular classics. We have a series of four evening concerts

and six lunchtime concerts, lets jump in.

We kick off the evening series

with Noriko Ogawa, presenting a

programme of Debussy, alongside

Mozart's 'Alla Turka' and Kanno's

A Particle of Water and Myochin

Hibashi Chopsticks. Noriko is a

world-renowned concert pianist

with performances across

Europe, Japan and USA as soloist,

recitalist and chamber musician.

She is in demand as an international adjudicator and was

the chairperson for the Hamamatsu International Piano

Competition in 2018. Noriko is passionate about charity

work and is the Cultural Ambassador for the National

Autistic Society.

The Piatti Quartet will

present a programme of

Purcell, Walton, Bridge

and the famous Quartet in

F minor by Mendelssohn.

They were prize winners

of the Wigmore Hall

International String Quartet

Competition in 2015, and

with radio performances

across UK, Australia, Ireland and France they are one of

the leading Quartets of their generation. Their recording of

the complete String Quartets of Mendelssohn was the BBC

Music Magazine Critics Choice.

We have the return of the Harwich and Dovercourt Choral

Society to the festival. Under the musical direction of Julie

Harmer, they present a programme of well-known tunes

from medieval rounds to the music of Sting, via Purcell,

Sullivan, Jenkins and Lloyd Webber.

Noriko Ogawa

Preston Glasgow Lowe

The Ben Crosland Quintet

Callum Alger

Sam Piha

Rosemary Ashe

Jonas Stonkus

Lizz Lipscombe

Katherine Bryan

The Piatti Quartet

Under The Surface

Spoken and Written WordThe ever popular Poetry Cruise returns for HF19 as local

poets perform during an evening cruise of the River Stour.

The Harwich Festival has again teamed up with Harwich

Harbour Ferry to provide a relaxing evening of nature and

poetry.

'This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen'. Join

Dramatic Pause in their performance of Shakespeare's

King Lear in the Redoubt as they explore inter-generational

conflict in a divided country.

Local Writers are invited to take part in Poetry on a

Postcard For HF19, We hope to deck Harwich and

Dovercourt with short poems in shop windows and other

spaces. Please write your own, original poem on one side of

one postcard and hand it in to the Festival desk in Harwich

Library.

Local author Glynis Peters will speak about her experiences,

moving through self publishing a number of historical

romances, often with a Harwich setting, to being picked

up by international publishers Harper Collins and finding

her first book published by them on best sellers lists in the

United States.

DanceWe are delighted that Casson and Friends will be coming

to Harwich on Saturday 22nd June. Casson and Friends

are a UK based record breaking Dance Theatre Company,

directed by Tim Casson, and create unique performances

that are accessible, interactive and joyful. The company

works with a diverse range of collaborators but most often

works with the public, inviting them to engage with dance

in exciting and accessible ways. Tim Casson is an Associate

Artist at Dance East and a

Metal Change Maker Artist.

The Harwich Festival Tea

Dance has become quite

a fixture under the expert

guidance of Philip Waterman

and this year is no exception.

Watch out for further dance

performances still to be

arranged.Dance

Cohen Braithwaite Kilcoyne

Chris Allard

Jacob and Drinkwater