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SNIPPETS
Other Festivals in the Area
Aldeburgh Festival – 13th – 29th
June
This year marks the 60th anniversary of this famous music festival founded
in 1948 by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Many events are already sold
out, so it’s worth an early visit to www.aldeburgh.co.uk to see what’s
still available.
Framlingham Summer Festival 20th June – 6th
July
Now in its 5th year, this festival becomes more interesting each year.
It aims to showcase local talent as well as inviting professional artists
to take part. Events range across the whole spectrum of the arts. Visit www.artsframlingham.org
to see the programme.
Bures Music Festival 9th – 13th
July
Previously known as the Jazz by the Stour Festival, and now in its 9th
year, this event features jazz, blues, soul and choral music. Details at www.jazzbythestour.org.uk
Catching up with Local Artists
Elizabeth Ferretti is a Felixstowe writer who has just
completed the Arts Council England, East, Escalator programme. Run by
the New Writing
Partnership in Norwich, this prestigious programme has offered support
to ten East Anglian writers over the past year, Elizabeth being the only
one from Suffolk. This year the Escalator programme was specifically designed
to support writers attempting the novel for the first time.
Elizabeth told images that she was an editor and writer of non-fiction
previously (and still edits a magazine for children overseas learning English).
She praises the Escalator programme very highly for the support given to her
- financial to provide writing time, through the mentoring scheme where she
has been helped monthly with the techniques of novel-writing, and learning
about how to market her novel eventually.
Her novel, Anglian Archipelago, is not yet complete, but is set about 200
years into the future, imagining how life in East Anglia might be given environmental
change, and how language might develop in those circumstances. She feels there
is a cyclical element here, as maybe the landscape will be similar to centuries
ago. Elizabeth told me she was inspired to write this when she found a Neolithic
hide-scraping flint tool at the base of Dunwich cliff, and suddenly felt connected
to previous lives in this area.
A novel to watch out for!
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Erdem Misirlioglu – readers of images will recall a recent interview
with Erdem, shortly before he played a Rachmaninov piano concerto with
the Wolsey Orchestra in February. He told us at that time that he had
reached the finals of
the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008. Many
TV viewers will have been enthralled by his playing in that competition
a few weeks ago, and delighted that he got through to the overall final.
Sadly, he did not win the Young Musician award, but nevertheless delighted
everyone with his playing, skill and poise.
Images caught up with Erdem to congratulate him on what has been a
great achievement. He told us that he is looking forward to ‘chilling
out’ during the summer (he is just finishing his A-levels now),
then, as part of the BBC prize, he has a performance at the Wigmore
Hall in October. He is looking forward to taking up his studies at
the Guildhall School of Music full-time in the autumn. I’m sure
we all wish Erdem well, and look forward to seeing him play again.
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