Welcome to Ipswich Arts Association
On our website, you will find details of the IAA, its activities and those
of our many member organisations, which span a wide range of the arts.
Please take a look around, the headings and drop down menus will guide you through the various
subject pages on the site, which includes a comprehensive events listings page highlighting the
range of events and activities by our members, including, Literature, Drama, Choirs, Orchestras,
Film. Photography and more. If you have any comments or questions see the “contact us” page.
Ipswich Arts Association is a registered charity. Charity number 288939
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IAA Town Lectures and Concerts 2024
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Lecture – November 14th.
The Honey Bee – A Superorganism
The Suffolk Beekeepers’ Association (SBKA) is the coordinating committee for six
independent area beekeeping associations, with a membership of just over 1,000.
Keeping honey bees is an intensely practical matter that can’t be learned from books,
yet book learning and academic study underpin and illuminate understanding.
Bee research is carried out world- wide and discoveries are published every week.
It is “a creature, marvellous almost beyond imagining”. Jeremy Quinlan has been
keeping bees since 1985. He is currently President of the SBKA and one of
four Master Beekeepers in the county. www.suffolkbeekeepers.co.uk.
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IAA Lectures & Concerts
Museum Street Methodist Church, Ipswich IP1 2EF
(entrance in Black Horse Lane), From 1.00 to 1.50pm. Doors open 12.30pm.
ADMISSION IS FREE – with a retiring collection.
Donations of at least £3.00 per person are valued to maintain the series.
Refreshments, served 12.30 -1.55pm. are included.
Full details of the 2024 series on the TOWN LECTURES & CONCERTS page.
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Featured Poems
In addition to our Featured Artist series we are pleased to present Featured Poems,
a series featuring poems from members of the Suffolk Poetry Society.
Follow the links to view both the current and previous poems published in the series.
A new poem will be featured approximately every three weeks. The current poem and previous
submissions are available on the dedicated Featured Poem page. To view Click Here.
The current poem is by Stephanie Feeney – ‘La brucatura’
Stephanie Feeney
I was born in Louisiana, and raised in Texas. My poems have been published by The Poetry Review,
Ink Sweat & Tears, and anthologised by Fish Publishing. I grew up in a family of fishermen,
musicians and drinkers, and still dabble in all three. These days, I call Suffolk home.
The poem ‘La brucatura’ won third prize in the Crabbe poetry competition 2023.
Click here to read the current and previous poems from Suffolk Poetry Society
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Featured Artist – Amanda Given
IAA are pleased to present Featured Artists, a series with works by local artists, some from:
The Ipswich Art Society ● Suffolk Open Studios ● Felixstowe Art Group
Suffolk Art Society ● Woodbridge Art Club
With a new artist shown every three weeks or so.
‘Rialto’ by Amanda Given
Amanda Given spent her childhood in England and Northern Ireland. She has lived in Australia
and retired from there to Felixstowe in 2014. An active Member of the Felixstowe Art Group,
Amanda works in watercolour, ink, gouache or oils.
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Click image or here to read more and view current and previous Featured Artists
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Ipswich Arts Association News Column in the
Community News pages of the East Anglian Daily Times
In the Community News pages of each Tuesday’s East Anglian Daily Times
you will now find the Ipswich Arts Association column with Chris Green.
Current Edition – October 8th.
Click this link or the image to read or download a pdf copy.
Featuring: Ludwig? – Wolsey Orchestra,
Ipswich Chamber Choir and more…
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Noticeboard
Ipswich Arts Association – How To Join
Ipswich Arts Association welcomes membership applications from individuals,
groups and organisations involved in all areas of the arts and across the region.
Find details on the how to apply on our How to Join page
IAA AGM
The IAA AGM will be held on 8th November at 7.30pm. Via Zoom.
To register please email the secretary to obtain a link.
Mary Odam, Secretary IAA: secretary@ipswich-arts.org.uk
Town Lectures and Concerts
Lectures and Concerts are held live at Museum Street Methodist Church,
(Entrance via Black Horse Lane), IP1 2EF 1pm – 1.50pm. Doors open 12.40pm.
Please contact: Chandra Grover: townlecturesandconcerts@ipswich-arts.org.uk
Full details of the 2024 programme on the TL&C page – Town Lectures & Concerts
or click the link to view a pdf of the 2024 Brochure
Ipswich Charter Hangings
Ipswich Arts Association are keen to hear from volunteer stewards,
for sessions on Tuesdays between May – September.
More details are contained in this pdf – Charter Volunteers
If interested or would like to know more about being involved, please email –
Ann Cloke; charterhangings@ipswich-arts.org.uk
Further details of all notices and updates on our NOTICEBOARD page
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Gainsborough and his musical friends
by Chris Green
Available in the August edition of Norfolk Suffolk Life magazine.
Suffolk Norfolk Life – Gainsborough and his musical friends
.Both the magazine and the article may be read online by following the links below.
A published edition is also available on subscription or from local newsagents.
Suffolk Norfolk Life magazine – Homepage.
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Ipswich Charter Hangings
The Ipswich Charter Hangings are on public display at St Peter’s by the Waterfront.
For details see: St Peters or Ipswich Charter Hangings
St Peter’s is open at the following times, admission free:
May – September: Tuesday 10am – 4pm. Wednesday 12noon – 2pm. Thursday 10am – 4pm.
October – April: Wednesdays only: 12noon – 2pm.
The Ipswich Charter Hangings – Eight wall hangings that make up one remarkable work.
Click image for PDF version.
Email link: Ann Cloke: charterhangings@ipswich-arts.org.uk
Ipswich Charter Hangings website page: IAA / Ipswich Charter Hangings
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Meetings for IAA Members
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IAA host a number of meetings throughout the year allowing societies to share
their thoughts about current planning and strategies to deal with the ongoing issues for
performers and the arts post lock-down. These meetings prove highly popular,
Next meeting:
IAA AGM – 8th November at 7.30pm.
To be held via Zoom.
If you wish to attend, please email the secretary to register and obtain a link.
Mary Odam, Secretary IAA: secretary@ipswich-arts.org.uk
Have you or your society signed up for the Ipswich Arts Zoom meetings?
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Ipswich Music Day 2024 – Sunday July 7th.
– IAA ‘Classical Stages’
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Thank you!
A big thank you to all our performers and audience for making the
IAA classical stages a successful part of Ipswich Music Day 2024, despite
the downpours, which did nothing to dampen the spirits of all involved.
We look forward to seeing many of you again next year –
– with fingers crossed for better weather!
Ipswich Arts Association – ‘Classical Stages’ – Ipswich Music Day 2024.
St. Margarets Church, Bethesda Baptist Church,
Wolsey Gallery and The Masonic Hall.
Programme and timing details for each venue along with
a location map can be found on the Music Day page.
The Performers:
◆ Blueberry Moon ◆ Under The Bridge ◆ Ipswich Choral Society ◆ Musicology ◆
◆ Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan Society ◆ East Coast Collective ◆ Accidentals ◆
◆ Suffolk Constabulary Male Voice Choir ◆ Black Cactus Choir ◆
◆ Suffolk Youth Jazz Orchestra ◆ Ipswich Hospital Community Choir
◆ Trianon Music Group ◆ Funky Voices ◆
Our thanks to Music World, Queen St. Ipswich, for their continued support in
supplying IAA with a Yamaha digital piano for the IAA Classical Stages.
www.music-world-ipswich.co.uk
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Shining Threads – A New book by IAA member Joy Bounds
Joy will be known to many for her involvement with the IAA, including till recently
organising Concerts for the IAA Town Lecture & Concerts series. Now Joy has published
a new book ‘Shining Threads’ based on events in the life of composer Ethel Smyth.
Published in paperback format it is available from all good bookshops priced £9.99.
Joy Bounds and the cover of ‘Shining Threads’
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Hanseatic Ports and Hidden Treasures
Pat Grimwade, a member of the IAA Executive (instrumental music), reveals another string
to her bow, with a knowledge of matters nautical in her book, Ipswich – A Hanseatic Port.
“During the 13th – 15th centuries east coast ports such as Ipswich, King’s Lynn and Boston
traded alongside merchants of the Hanseatic League in the North Sea and the Baltic.
In that period, at the height of the wool and cloth trade with Europe Ipswich was one of the
most important and prosperous ports in the country…”Read more (opens pdf)
Published by Ipswich Maritime Trust it is available from the following outlets;
Ipswich Museum and Christchurch Mansion, price £2.
www.ipswichmaritimetrust.org.uk
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The Trianon Enigma
When not chairing IAA meetings Chris Green may, amongst other things, be found conducting
the Trianon Orchestra and Choir, swapping baton for pen Chris has written a new book.
Charting the sixty year history of Suffolk’s best loved Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
In The Trianon Enigma, My Friends Pictured Within its founder, Chris Green traces its
journey starting with a small youth group in the mid 1950’s, which became inextricably
linked with Ipswich, social developments and the changing face of youth culture.
Read a review by John Norman, Chair of The Ipswich Society – Review (pdf)
Books are available at the price of £10 from:
Ipswich Institute 15 Tavern Street, Ipswich IP1 3AA
Music World 16 Queen Street, Ipswich IP1 1SS
The Card Centre 6 Hamilton Road, Felixstowe IP11 7AU
Books may also be ordered at the price of £10 + £2.50 P&P from:
Dominique Nightingale, 39 Quilter Road, Felixstowe IP11 7JL
dominique.nightingale@btinternet.com tel: 01394 286928
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