Events

FUSING FABRIC 1

Getting to grips with using the fine tipped soldering iron to cut, fuse and make marks on fabric.  Armed with a fine tipped soldering iron, discover how to cut, fuse, seal, seam, score and make marks on single or multiple layers of synthetic fabric, creating finished pieces that are beautiful in their own right, or make unique surfaces for further stitching whether by hand or machine.  The techniques are easy to learn, straightforward and fun.

FUSING FABRIC 2

This dayschool is a continuation of the techniques covered in Part 1.  Techniques will include applique, reverse applique, layering, and cutwork.  A small amount of machine stitching is involved.

FUSING FABRIC 3

We shall be experimenting with a variety of fabrics, distorting surfaces and manipulating simple shapes to form three-dimensional surfaces. There will be a certain amount of trial and error involved as some of the techniques you will find easier than others.

Find out about the extraordinary surrender of over 160 German U Boats in 1918 and see a new perspective from the other side of the water. Join us for a short or longer lead walk and discover more about HMS Ganges, the Submariners Memorial, what happened to the men crews, and why this stretch of water was chosen for the surrender.

Comfort break with hot drinks and biscuits available at the church.

Walk duration: 1 hour short route, 2 hours 30min longer route

Walk distance: 0.5 miles or 5.4 miles

A community event remembering the 168 German U Boats that surrendered off the Harwich coast. Watch the community parade of flags representing each boat lead towards a large atmospheric willow U Boat on the beach, with atmospheric spoken commemoration in the setting sun, right next to the water where it happened 100 years ago.

Continue the afternoon with themed food and music from Harwich Brass Band in the Harwich Sailing Club, with artefacts and photographs of the surrender on display.

Did you design a flag? Why not join the parade, or find out more about your U Boat on the day?

Timetable for the afternoon (correct at time of print)

3.15pm Parade participants gather on Harwich Green.

3.30pm Parade leaves Harwich Green for the beach with flags.

4pm Commemoration around the illuminated Willow U Boat.

4.30pm Entertainment in the Harwich Sailing Club.

5pm Food served

Entertainment continues until 6pm. Public welcome to enjoy the evening, Sailing Club bar open.

Harwich Haven: Surrender & Sanctuary is a heritage lottery funded project, holding a festival of activities to commemorate the centenary of the surrender of over 168 U Boats in 1918, and the 80^th anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport in 1938. The programme consists of two themed weekends (17^th/18^th November and 1^st/2^nd December) with activities such as exhibitions, themed walks, art sessions and talks.

On Saturday 18^th November at 3.30pm a parade of flags representing each of the 168 U-Boats that surrendered off the coast of Harwich in 1918 will be walked through the town and installed on a large willow U-Boat sculpture on the beach. The flags have been created by local people and groups and everyone is invited to take part in this free commemoration event. Join invited visitors and project partners including guests from Germany who have helped research this project and enjoy an afternoon of music and themed food in the Harwich Sailing Club.

From the 19^th November there will be a week exhibition of U Boat surrender watercolours from the Imperial War Museum at The Pier Hotel, never before displayed in Harwich, and a complimentary art session on the 24^th November calling on local artists to be inspired ready for an exhibition in May 2019.

Look out for posters commemorating the Kindertransport on the trainlines this November and December. These posters have been designed especially by local children and young people to remember the journey the Kindertransport took 80 years ago, and to promote a special event on the 3^rd December.

Come along and be inspired by the original watercolours of the U Boat surrender and begin to develop your own work with the guidance of a local artist. Stimulated by the exhibition and original archive material, we welcome artists and makers alike to come and create responses to the Imperial War Museum paintings and produce your own work to be displayed in the Old Bank Studios in May 2019. Materials supplied, but please feel free to bring your own art equipment or camera to take inspiration.

Explore water soluble fabrics and their uses in machine embroidery whilst completing four very different projects.

Each morning will be spent exploring the medium and creating your own unique fabrics; the afternoons are all about the machine embroidery and turning your ideas into a finished project.

What you will need to bring

Each day will have a £5.00 materials cost; payable on the day.

Your sewing machine and darning foot

Packed lunch

A brand-new exhibition focusing on the arrival of the Kindertransport into Harwich, and the experience of the children staying at the Dovercourt Holiday Camp in 1938-39.  Produced in partnership with the Wiener Library in London, discover more about the lives of the Kinder in Britain and their journeys to make a new life.

Hosted by Greater Anglia.

Welcome to the magical world of paper-cutting. We begin with a richly illustrated world tour of paper-cutting traditions, to set our workshop in context. Using a Swann-Morton scalpel, Lois Cordelia will then demonstrate the basic techniques of knife paper-cutting before introducing a range of templates on which to base a design, with an optional festive Christmas theme.

Welcome to the magical world of paper-cutting. We begin with a richly illustrated world tour of paper-cutting traditions, to set our workshop in context. Using a Swann-Morton scalpel, Lois Cordelia will then demonstrate the basic techniques of knife paper-cutting before introducing a range of templates on which to base a design, with an optional festive Christmas theme.

With the highly talented Brin Edwards explore ways of depicting  birds and other wildlife in a vibrant lively manner, building up your picture with areas of bold flat colour, giving the impression of the subject without fussing over fine detail. Using Acrylics will enable you to overlap colours and work quickly, also ‘mistakes’ can be easily rectified, which will help to build your confidence!

Take part in a new creative textile project remembering the Kindertransport journey taken by 10,000 children 80 years ago. Come and try your hand at a range of textile and decorative techniques with a local artist inspired by the memories of the children and contribute to a large quilt project to be exhibited in 2019. Any skill level is welcome to explore this fascinating history and to take part in the community piece. This project will continue with sessions through to Summer 2019 and displayed across the town.

Talk – ‘Leonard Cheshire Homes’ by Elizabeth Barrenger.

With Jo’s expert guidance, join us for an introduction to willow working. In the morning create a Christmas wreath from English willow, decorated with a mixture of natural materials such as rose hips, cinnamon sticks, dried oranges, fresh evergreen foliage and natural cones.

Get into the 1930s spirit and travel in style to Harwich in a themed train carriage commemorating the arrival of the Kindertransport. Join from Manningtree and experience songs from the era and hear about the extraordinary journey taken by 10,000 children before the outbreak of World War Two. A perfect way to begin your day before the main events of talks and walks.

Harwich Haven: Surrender & Sanctuary is a heritage lottery funded project, holding a festival of activities to commemorate the centenary of the surrender of over 168 U Boats in 1918, and the 80^th anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport in 1938. The programme consists of two themed weekends (17^th/18^th November and 1^st/2^nd December) with activities such as exhibitions, themed walks, art sessions and talks.

On Saturday 18^th November at 3.30pm a parade of flags representing each of the 168 U-Boats that surrendered off the coast of Harwich in 1918 will be walked through the town and installed on a large willow U-Boat sculpture on the beach. The flags have been created by local people and groups and everyone is invited to take part in this free commemoration event. Join invited visitors and project partners including guests from Germany who have helped research this project and enjoy an afternoon of music and themed food in the Harwich Sailing Club.

As well as the themed weekends, from the 19^th November there will be a week exhibition of U Boat surrender watercolours from the Imperial War Museum at The Pier Hotel, never before displayed in Harwich, and a complimentary art session on the 24^th November calling on local artists to be inspired ready for an exhibition in May 2019.

Hear from four speakers about a range of topics exploring the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport refugees at Harwich in 1938 and what it means today. Includes an interactive theatre event, Stage 3, by Peoples Palace and Safe Passage’s National Campaign.

11.30am Welcome

11.40am Britain and the Kindertransport 1938-1940, by Barbara Warnock, from The Wiener Library.

12.10pm ‘From Hitler to Hi-de-Hi’, the role of the Dovercourt Holiday Camp in the first months of the Kindertransport, by Mike Levy, Fellow, Holocaust Centre Imperial War Museum.

12.40pm 100 Images of Migration exhibition, presented by the Migration Museum, London.

1.00 Lunch

2.00pm Stage 3, drama and discussion by Peoples Palace and Safe Passage’s National Campaign.

2.30pm Time to explore the Harwich Station Museum

3.00pm Migration in Historical Context and the 21^st Century, by Martin Simmonds from The Suffolk Refugee Support

3.30pm Memory of the Kindertransports in national and transnational perspectives, by Amy Williams, Nottingham Trent University.

4.00pm Discussion and questions with the speakers.

Join us in the atmospheric Mayflower Centre just a few feet from the train tracks where the Kindertransport arrived, for a screening of Into The Arms of Strangers. This Academy Award-winning feature film documents the remarkable journey of over 10,000 children. These children, or Kinder in German, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. The majority of them never saw their families again. Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, narrated by Judi Dench, and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it utilized rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artifacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents.

The film will be followed by a short collection of Kindertransport memories specifically related to their arrival in Harwich, and their experience in the Warner Holiday Camp in Dovercourt where many stayed over winter 1938.

With Jo’s expert guidance, join us for an introduction to willow working. In the morning create a Christmas wreath from English willow, decorated with a mixture of natural materials such as rose hips, cinnamon sticks, dried oranges, fresh evergreen foliage and natural cones.

See Harwich and Dovercourt come alight with over 20 lightboxes located around the towns showing a range of enlarged photographs from the war years. Follow the trail and discover stories of the past. Do you recognise any locations, or have similar memories?

Trails available online, from the Harwich Library and other local organisations.

Witness scenes of the Kindertransport on Suffolk and Essex stations and catch the stories of separation, fearfulness, and excitement on your travels. Platforms will come alive with actors creating the stories of the children and their companions, and the people who helped them to flee from harm. London Liverpool Street Station concourse will also be alive with music and performance, so catch these unique performances while you can.

Team up to 8 – £2.00 per person & raffle.

Join ‘one of British Folk’s mightiest combinations’ (MOJO), O’Hooley & Tidow, for an evening of beautifully performed original, contemporary, and traditional winter songs from their latest album ‘WinterFolk Vol 1’, produced with BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Ben Walker.

Nominated this year for the fourth time in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and described by the Guardian as ‘exceptional songwriters’, Belinda and Heidi’s powerful, deeply moving, and soulful performances are infused with an
honesty and empathy that will disarm the hardest of hearts.

This two day workshop is most suitable for those with oil painting experience. The day will begin in the studio, but you will be working mostly outside and will only move back into the studio in the event of persistent or heavy rain – Haidee-Jo is not averse to working in the wind or cold!

This two day workshop is most suitable for those with oil painting experience. The day will begin in the studio, but you will be working mostly outside and will only move back into the studio in the event of persistent or heavy rain – Haidee-Jo is not averse to working in the wind or cold!