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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.
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.
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:(
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.
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.
we 18 Mar 2020	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.
fr 14 Feb 2020	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
th 13 Feb 2020	The Are We Good Ancestors? show at the Aldeburgh Gallery opens today and runs until Wednesday the 19th.
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.
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.
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."
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).
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.
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. ♫
we 3 Apr 2019	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
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 .
we 16 Jan 2019	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:)
sa 15 Dec 2018	Immediately post Christmas (27-30 December) A Crag Path Christmas in the Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh hosted by the Alde and Ore Estuary Trust. The river Ore runs through near the coast but is little more than a ditch by Framlingham.
sa 25 Aug 2018	As part of Bernstein At 100 Aldeburgh Cinema is showing tonight West Side Story (the dancing is still a revelation) introduced on stage by Leonard Bernstein's biographer Humphrey Burton.
su 19 Aug 2018	Aldeburgh Carnival tomorrow, when we saw it earlier this century with Lady KRJ who grew up in Hackney she asked Why's it so quiet and where are all the black people?
we 25 Jul 2018	Police are concerned for 34 year old Robert Lye missing from Aldeburgh.
we 27 Jun 2018	We saw the re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 2001 at the Aldeburgh Cinema, it was maybe our fourth viewing. Leaving afterwards the couple in front, HER: I really enjoyed that. HIM: I can't believe I missed the football for that. For the epic's 50th anniversary the cinema is showing it Saturday and Wednesday in its original form with an intermission.
th 21 Jun 2018	Like we said before everything happens in June including Brandeston long weekend below. Tomorrow Peppery initiates the third Ipswich Jazz Festival with Italian band ♫Rumba De Bodas♫. Saturday in chronological order, Worlingworth Car Show, Playford Hall Open Day and in the evening and Aldeburgh Cinema Bill Nighie will do a Q&A after a showing of The Bookshop.
we 30 May 2018	♫ Miss Hailey Tuck will be appearing at the Aldeburgh Proms Snape this August.
tu 24 Apr 2018	Police are asking for witnesses to a collision between an older woman cyclist and a white van in Aldeburgh High Street Saturday afternoon.
tu 13 Feb 2018	Here's a date for St Valentine's Day tomorrow, Akenfield (filmed in and around Charsfield) in the intimate Studio Screen at Aldeburgh Cinema.
tu 2 Jan 2018	Christmas Eve there were sufficient kids in the Aldeburgh Cinema for It's A Wonderful Life for us to think Some optimistic parents here. When the film started it was Star Wars ... It's A Wonderful Life was being shown in the new to us 40 seater Studio screen upstairs.
we 27 Dec 2017	Even more difficult these days to park in Aldeburgh with two hours parking no return within four spaces by the Moot Hall seven days a week ... it's not like they're hosting the bloody Olympics or something.
tu 19 Dec 2017	Christmas eve Aldeburgh Cinema has a matinee performance of It's A Wonderful Life. What a wonderful way to start Christmas, watching in a cinema Mr Henry F Potter (Bedford Falls' own Hopkins Homes) fail when Uncle Billie rallies the townspeople ... we've booked.
fr 17 Nov 2017	When you order a gherkin (nicknamed a wally when we were kids) in the Aldeburgh chip shop (not The Galleon) what you get is a small polystyrene pot of gherkin slices ... alrightish ... easier to share.
mo 13 Nov 2017	Excellent complimentary glass of prosecco with Murder on the Orient Express at the Aldeburgh Cinema Saturday night. Lovely Olivia Colman gets virtually nothing to do but we liked Johnny Depp's facial scars. If we owned a dinner jacket we would have worn it.
su 15 Oct 2017	Now that's picky, the premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi at Aldeburgh Cinema is 12:01am Thursday 14 December ... we wonder maybe they mean Friday 15? You can book now (about halfway down the page and it's slow to load).
th 27 Jul 2017	♫ The Aldeburgh Proms start Tuesday with jazz singer Clare Teal's tribute to the ladies of swing and the following day the Wednesday it's the magnificent Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
tu 13 Jun 2017	If like us you enjoy films where nothing much happens try the one off showing 8pm tonight at the Aldeburgh Cinema of The Consequences of Love ... surprisingly it's a sort of mafia movie.
we 24 May 2017	What a brilliant idea! Aldeburgh Cinema after the polls shut on 8 June election night have a one off showing of Dr Strange Love Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.
th 18 May 2017	To mark Jack Nicholson's 80th birthday Sunday afternoon the Aldeburgh Cinema has just the one single showing of five Oscar six Bafta winning One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
mo 23 Jan 2017	♫ This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the first Aldeburgh Festival at the Snape Maltings. To mark the golden anniversary this year's festival will open with the Britten opera A Midsummer Night's Dream as did the first festival at the Maltings.
tu 17 Jan 2017	Aldeburgh in 2014 and 2012.
tu 10 Jan 2017	An Aldeburgh High Street convenience store (the smaller co-op?) burgled in the early hours of today.

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