sa 11 Dec
2021 |   Over Christmas for two weeks Aldeburgh Cinema is showing the Steven Spielberg remake of West Side Story, we l♥ved the original. Rita Moreno who played Anita in the 1961 film co-produced this remake and poignant that Steven Sondheim who wrote the original lyrics died yesterday. ♫
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th 29 Jul
2021 | .png "ArtDog's show Elemental at the Aldeburgh Gallery") Starting today and until Wednesday next week ArtDog are showing at the Aldeburgh Gallery the four artists Iain Nutting, Tobias Ford, Dide and Meryem Siemmond as Elemental A part of nature, not apart from nature.
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fr 2 Jul
2021 | Aldeburgh benefits from a dog boutique called Wag and Bone, part of the A1214 in Ipswich (we think of it as Ipswich's North Circular) has plastic poles separating the cycle lane from the cars and EACH's Bubble Rush in Norwich tomorrow is sold out. |
th 20 May
2021 |  Starting today with Ben Wardle the Aldeburgh Gallery has changing weekly shows from artists including Derek Chambers, Sophie Elinor Martin, Richard Ward and photographer Ian Ward. |
fr 19 Feb
2021 |  The first lockdown last year started on the very day we were planning to see Emma. at the Cinema ... hopefully Emma. will return and do you think Miranda Hart as Miss Bates will fall over?
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tu 22 Dec
2020 | Oh poo! The Aldeburgh Cinema has closed for the time being and we were looking forward to It's A Wonderful Life on a BIG screen. |
sa 28 Nov
2020 | Oh joy! The Aldeburgh Cinema re-opens the Wednesday after next and we're going to book The Nutcracker (ballet not porn) and possibly this new Christmas Carol. |
su 1 Nov
2020 | Early evening trick or treaters out in Aldeburgh last night, grown ups with small children in costume. |
th 22 Oct
2020 | The Aldeburgh Gallery has started it's winter season with works by Joanne Aylward and Debbie George. |
th 1 Oct
2020 | Aldeburgh Cinema is having a third Wardrobe Sale this weekend. Email michele@aldeburghcinema.co.uk for an appointment. |
sa 19 Sep
2020 |  We're torn ... Wednesday's three o'clock matinée in Aldeburgh is feature doc My Rembrandt whilst in the evening at the Halesworth Cut it's Palme d'Or and multi Oscar winning satirical thriller Parasite.
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th 10Sep
2020
 |  The late Jenny Simpson was a great Aldeburgh Cinema supporter. Her wardrobe was really good quality, lovely and elegant. Much of the wardrobe including brand new shoes and clothes still with the labels on has been donated to the cinema and available to buy this weekend.
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we 22 Jul
2020 |  Excellent! Aldeburgh Cinema re-opens Saturday with West Side Story and social distancing. Hopefully they'll be programming Emma again which we missed by one day because the lockdown started:(
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we 15 Jul
2020
 | Craig Brown is a humourist who's had a Radio 4 series and directed the Aldeburgh Documentary Film Festival. Tomorrow night the Halesworth Cut is hosting a Zoom Q&A with Craig about his latest book One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time. ♫ |
fr 12 Jun
2020 |  Tonight the virtual Aldeburgh Festival starts with Benjamin Britten on Camera on BBC4. We once heard Britten described in what was then the Campsea Ashe Dog and Duck as That famous writer or something.
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th 2 Apr
2020 |  Yesterday afternoon a body was found in an Aldeburgh house and in the evening there was an armed robbery at the Fressingfield Mace Store.
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we 18 Mar
2020 | .JPG "Campsea Ashe Spring Fayre cancelled") Aldeburgh Cinema has closed for the duration so we won't get to see Emma this afternoon but the Woodbridge Riverside seems to be partially functioning. The Red Rooster festival near Thetford has been postponed to September and Life Arts have postponed April's Woodbridge festival to next year. All Snape Maltings music events cancelled until the end of April (we were lucky), the Phoenix Singers concert in Framlingham next month cancelled as is the Campsea Ashe Spring Fayre this Saturday and still only three virus cases in Suffolk.
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fr 14 Feb
2020
 | .JPG "Volunteer at the Red House") We have visited (after an hiccup) Benjamin Britten's Red House just outside Aldeburgh and it's a beautiful location at the end of an unmade road. The Red House is looking for volunteers and the garden alone would be an attraction. Email: volunteering@brittenpears.org Tel: 01728 451700
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th 13 Feb
2020 |  The Are We Good Ancestors? show at the Aldeburgh Gallery opens today and runs until Wednesday the 19th.
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su 29 Dec
2019 |  Our first Eastern Angles show was Sherlock Holmes & The Mummy's Tomb. It was written by Julian Harries so hardly plagiarism that Common Ground's Christmas show is Sherlock Holmes & The Warlock of Whitechapel. The show is at the Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh the latter part of this coming week.
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su 3 Nov
2019 |  In association with Poetry in Aldeburgh 8-10 November three women artists Perienne Christian, Alice-Andrea Ewing and Tessa Newcomb are showing at the Peter Pears Gallery as Purslane, Peas & Bladderwrack ... no we don't know what Purslane is either.
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mo 21 Oct
2019
 |  Common Ground Theatre's comedy A Sidecar Named Despair! ends it's local run Thursday in the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall. Take a ride up the comedy freeway with a tale of mobsters, missing gems and a mashed-up motorbike."
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th 17 Oct
2019 |  Blimey! Next month's Aldeburgh Documentary Festival has some impressive guests: him off the telly Paul Merton, her off the wireless Martha Kearney and him off the page Anthony Horowitz (we did read somewhere Horowitz has a weekend cottage in Orford).
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fr 9 Aug
2019 |  The Aldeburgh Cinema centenary celebrating screenings on the beach today and tomorrow have been moved to the cinema because of the predicted weather. Free tickets on the door to the first come first served.
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th 27 Jun
2019 |  Saturday the 29th Claire Weston and the Suffolk Singers present Summer Serenade in Aldeburgh Parish Church. We last visited the church during the 2010 general election and slighty more recently enjoyed the Suffolk Singers in Debenham. ♫
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we 3 Apr
2019 | .jpg "The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps") When we were at Essex Uni for an american football final Sunday we noticed that The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps was playing in the campus theatre. It's at the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall the Saturday after next. A fearsome but funny gothic tale of dynasty, death, revenge and hope. Lovely moral. - Michael Rosen
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tu12 Feb
2019 |  Public booking for this year's Aldeburgh Festival starts next Tuesday, with Antonio Pappano, Tenebrae and a boat trip on the River Orwell already SOLD OUT .
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we 16 Jan
2019 | .JPG "Ian Hislop at the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival") 2019 is the centenary year of Aldeburgh Cinema (Leiston pre-dates them by five years) and they will be marking it with their first Cinema on the Beach. We've been told that Aldeburgh folk would dress up for the cinema and be greeted in the foyer by the manager wearing evening dress, a floral buttonhole and smoking a cigar ... these days celebrities don't feel the need for a tie:)
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