IPSWICH ARTS ASSOCIATION
MUSIC FORUM

Music Forum Notes

1. Ip-Art Festival 2010 26 June to 11 July

There are 2 orchestral concerts this year, from Ipswich Orchestral Society on 26th June in the Corn Exchange and the Royal Philharmonic The Best of the Last night of the Proms 9th July in Christchurch Park. St Mary le Tower Church hosts two lunchtime concerts on 29 June and 6 July, plus an orchestral mass on the morning of 4 July. Ipswich Choral Society stages the Nightingale Project - Come and Sing on Cornhill on Sunday 27 June between 1 and 4pm. Ip-art programmes will be available towards the end of April.

Look out for Any Arts Questions? on Thursday 1st July, 1 – 2 pm. at Museum St. Methodist Church.

2. A meeting for choral directors and librarians is to be arranged soon.

3. IAA is arranging a special concert for the 150th year of Museum St. Methodist Church. This will be on Sunday 17th October, 3 – 5 pm. Offers by groups wishing to perform to Vera Rogers by 8th April please.

4. Corn Exchange update.

At the IAA General Meeting on 2nd March, Jonathan Owen, reported that:

• the move to joint marketing and publicity with the Regent is proving successful.


• the exterior refurbishment is nearly complete and the entrance canopy should soon be in place


• negotiations with the newly formed Film Theatre Trust are proving fruitful, and Trust hopes to secure use of the 2 screens for 3 nights a week by the end of May.


• rules on booking for only up to one year ahead are being relaxed


• plans to create an exhibition space in the council chamber have fallen behind schedule


• IBC still hopes to find a commercial partner to provide a financial injection but this is unlikely to happen just at present.

Date of next meeting: Monday 27th September.