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Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair

Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th December

10am-5pm

Late opening to 7pm on Thursday.

This is the first Christmas Fair hosted by Anteros. A selection of locally crafted goods, ideal for presents and to decorate the home. Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon: Father Christmas, carols, roasted chestnuts and mulled wine You can also buy tickets for our Christmas raffle. tickets are £2, for the chance to win an original piece of artwork donated by the tutors and artists of our course and exhibition programme.

You can also find out more about our Art Course Programme for 2012 - vouchers and courses can make ideal Christmas presents! Free admission.

Open Seminar

for arts & charitable organisations

and the not-for-profit sector

Friday 16th September. 9.30am-12.15pm

Anteros Arts Foundation would like to welcome similar organisations to share networking opportunities and best practice at this event aimed at CEOs, directors, trustees and management.

Since re-housing in the building formerly known as The King of Hearts, Anteros is developing its arts support programme, as well as its art gallery, arts courses and venue hire function.

Anteros will be welcoming guest speakers to share best practice and provide an introduction to their specialist areas:

- Future developments to the charity SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice), fund accounting rules, reserves policy & considering other sources of income by Lovewell Blake

- Charity law and purposes under the latest Act, managing risk and liability and other topical issues by Hansells Soliticors

- Arts marketing & developing your brand by East Publishing

- London 2012 Cultural Olympiad & Festival 2012 update
London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

There will be a coffee break and the opportunity to network and ask further questions with the guest speakers. A buffet lunch will also be available.

The event is free, with a maximum of 2 places per organisation.
Places are limited. RSVP with your name and contact details to: enquiries@anteros.co.uk or call (01603) 766129.

Batik Print Works

by Thalia Theatre Company

31 August to 15 September

in the Gallery

This is the culmination of Thalia's Norwich Members project exploring African culture, visual art, music and oral history.

Thalia Theatre Company is an educational, arts related learning provider for disabled people with physical and sensory impairments and learning difficulties.

Click here for more information about Thalia Theatre Company.

Recent Paintings

by Anna-Lise Horsley

to 30 September

in the cafe

Anna-Lise Horsley moved to Cromer, Norfolk in 1995, having spent the previous ten years living and working in Budapest. She was an active participant in the Hungarian artistic community during the exciting and turbulent years between the changeover from Communism to Capitalism.

“The paintings take on a life of their own… they fire off each other, experiment and accident are a vital part of the process. In the studio I use a variety of media and methods including acrylic, sand, encaustic, glitter, anaglypta, monoprint, gloss and metallic paints. I usually work on several pieces at once, so the ideas can bounce around the studio and cross fertilize…. I create my own natural order (or disorder) out of this melting pot.”

Website: Anna-Lise Horsley

East Anglian Schools Portrait Prize

8th October to 26th November

in the Gallery

The third annual competition hosts a number of works from schools across the region. Kindly supported by the Jarrolds Trust and Norfolk County Council.

Pictured above is the winning entry by Jessica Stratton, aged 17 from Wymondham High School. Others who were highly commended: Ben Edwards, Notre Dame High School Heather Potter, Bungay High School Lucia Vettese, Wymondham High School Verity Evansm Norwich High School for Girls Charlotte Haistead, Wymondham High School

The competiton was judged by Ivy Smith and John Hemmant, Director of Anteros Arts Foundation.

Anteros Bergh Apton

Making a pot

Norfolk Open Studios

with Mariam Cullum

Saturday 21 May

Come Along and make some pots and tea lights to take home - have a great introduction to pottery with your friends and family. Free to all.

HAND BUILDING - 2:00 to 5:00 PM Making pinched pots Making tea lights Making a slab cylinder : altering the shape into sculptural forms Mariam Cullum your tutor for the day will take away any items that have been made to be fired for the first bisque firing and will bring them back the next weekend to be glazed.

Anteros Norwich

'Time Wall'

Roger Ackling

8 July - 20 August

Influential and well-known abstract artist Roger Ackling has burnt into found pieces of wood with just a magnifying glass. Each of the ten works took a different amount of time to make, depending on the brightness of the light and the clouds in the sky, so as a whole they are a record of the changing weather at the time and place they were made.

The Gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm or by appointment.

North Shores: Alex March

15th August - 17th September

in the Mezzanine Gallery (first floor)

Alex March has an unyielding passion for the coast and has spent the last four years creating a collection of photographic work across Norfolk’s north coast and New Zealand’s North Island – resulting in his debut exhibition.

Alex spent many months living on Auckland’s North Shore throughout 2010 – giving him an opportunity to contrast the golden hues of a Norfolk dawn with the blood red skies of a New Zealand sunset. North Shores will be the first suite to be shown in the Mezzanine Gallery, situated on the first floor by The Music Room.

Website: Alex March Photography

North Shores

Alex March

15th August - 17th September

Alex March has an unyielding passion for the coast and has spent the last four years creating a collection of photographic work across Norfolk's north coast and New Zealand's North Island - resulting in his debut exhibition

Anteros Bergh Apton

Making a pot

Norfolk Open Studios

with Mariam Cullum

Saturday & Sunday 28th and 29th May

THROWING DEMONSTRATION - 2:00 PM Those who may have participated in hand building can take the opportunity of glazing these forms. Some glazes will be provided to glaze these forms. Mariam will then take away these to be fired for the second time and will be returned the following weekend. After an initial demonstration it may be possible for anyone watching to try and throw a pot on the wheel

Anteros Norwich

'Life on Lesvos'

Paintings by Jan Ponsford and photographs by Alex Pagani

8 July - 30 August

Lesvos (or Lesbos, as it was known before they decided to re-market the Aegean island!) is home to vocalist and painter Jan Ponsford and her photographer partner Alex Pagani. Both find the island inspirational, as have many artists, musicians, and poets before them, since ancient times. The muse is readily evoked as everywhere there is something unusual, beautiful and powerful.

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Making a pot

Norfolk Open Studios

with Mariam Callum

Saturday & Sunday 4th and 5th June

THROWING DEMONSTRATION - 2:00 PM Any work that was glazed the previously will have been fired and brought back this weekend. Any one who was completely overwhelmed with the whole experience of throwing a pot on wheel and has returned this weekend can have another go on the wheel!

Anteros Norwich

Summer Jazz Concert

with the Babelfish Quartet

Wednesday 17th August at 8pm

Join us for a summers evening of contemporary jazz with four of the areas finest jazz musicians- Matt Hodges on keys, Adam Moore on guitar, Owen Morgan on bass and Cath Evans on drums. The Babelfish Quartet continues to develop a following among young, attractive modern jazz aficionados with its complex interplay between guitar and keys and delicately balanced yet powerful and authoritative rhythm section. This concert has been organised to rekindle the local passion for the music programme and raise funds to maintain it.

Familiar sounds of John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Chick Corea along with striking original material and free improvisations will fill our lovely venue.

Tickets: £10 from Anteros Arts Centre or call the reservation line (01603) 766129.

Open Evening

followed by open arts discussion

Thursday 18th August

6-8pm Open Evening, 7.30pm Open Discussion

Everyone is welcome to come and look around the unique city-centre venue, view the current exhibitions and work from students and tutors of the arts course programme. The Anteros Team and tutors will also be on hand to showcase their vibrant programme. Join us for some summer refreshment and find out how the Anteros Arts Foundation is contributing to both the local and national arts scene. The Anteros Bar and beautiful Tudor courtyard will also be open throughout the evening.

'Hive Art' - the new branch of 'The Book Hive' (arts specialist books) will also be officially launched during the evening.

The Open Evening will be followed by an open discussion, chaired by John Hemmant (Director of Anteros Arts Foundation) who will be joined by respected local arts facilitators and artists. The topic: 'Art: luxury or necessity?'

Performance skills workshop

for 12-18 year olds with Response Theatre

led by Joseph Ballard

Wednesday 17 August, 10am - 4pm

- Explore physical theatre and movement on stage - Explore a new play from the beginning (with character development and rehearsal technique).

The workshop is open to all (not just Young Actors members) so please tell/invite your friends and help spread the word. The workshop is open to anyone aged 12-18 who would like to learn and develop acting and performance skills.

Participants are reminded to bring a packed lunch. Email joseph@responsetheatre.co.uk to book. £25 per person. Presented by Response Theatre www.responsetheatre.co.uk

East Anglian Artists Development Prize

Winner announcement

Saturday 14 April at 2pm

All welcome

5 artists have been shortlisted for the £5,000 prize. The winner will be announced at 2pm.

East Anglian Artists Development Prize: Shortlisted artists exhibition

9th March to 28th April

The Gallery

5 artists have been shortlisted for the £5,000 prize. The winner will be announced on 14 April at 2pm. Click here for more information.

Open Day

Thursday 26th January 2012

10am-2pm

Come and have a look at what we have to offer! Aside from our art course programme and exhibitions, as a city centre location we have five rooms available for hire, from business meetings to concerts, weddings and events.

Our team will offer you a warm welcome and tour you round our beautiful building full of Tudor Halls, period architecture and views of the River Wensum.

Prints & Etchings

Ernst Nicol

12 January - 25 February

The Gallery

Ernst attempts to 'freeze' a fraction of time creating the sense of 'spirit of a place' with his etching and prints.

The Gallery is open Wednesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm. Artwork is for sale.

If you like this exhibition, you could check out the art course run by the artist which runs on Wednesdays 6 June - 25 July in Norwich. It will introduce you to the method of creating and using relief prints.

East Anglian Artists Development Prize: Shortlisted artists exhibition

Public opening: 8th March at 6pm

5 artists have been shortlisted for the £5,000 prize. The winner will be announced on 14 April at 2pm. Click here for more information.

The exhibition runs 9th March to 28th April. The Gallery is open 10am - 5pm, Wednesday to Saturday.

Prints & Etchings

12 January - 25 February

The Gallery (open Wednesday to Friday)

Free admission

Ernst attempts to 'freeze' a fraction of time creating the sense of 'spirit of a place' with his etching and prints.

Born 1953 at the foot of the west Yorkshire moors, Ernst worked in forestry and on the reservoirs. He spend his early years traveling to remote areas for inspiration across numerous different employments then studied for O & A levels, Foundation course at Batley then degree course in F.A. Printmaking at Loughborough. Ernst now teaches at Norwich University College of the Arts.