50-620: Norfolk & Norwich Festival is an arts festival held annually in Norwich , England . It is one of the oldest city festivals in England, having been held since 1824 and tracing its roots back further to 1772. It was initially conceived as a fundraiser for the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital . For most of its history was a purely classical musical festival which saw performances by many famous artistes, composers and conductors. In recent years
100-599: A "bridge organisation" for Arts Council England from 2012. The festival was established as a triennial event in 1824 to support the ongoing construction of the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital , and grew out of earlier musical fundraisers for the hospital dating back as far as 1772 including the annual performance of an oratorio at Norwich Cathedral . In its early days, the festival was mainly held in St. Andrew's Hall and St Peter Mancroft . These events consisted primarily of oratorios and other large scale choral works performed by
150-480: A chance to get notable recognition among fellow film enthusiasts. Films can include international and domestic releases and can even be on a specific film-maker, genre or subject matter. Film festivals are typically annual events and can feature full-length or short films. One of the most notable Film Festivals is the Sundance Film Festival , which originated from Salt Lake City in 1984 as part of
200-584: A committee of peers. Conversely art fairs are market-oriented shows where art dealers exhibit and sell the work of the artists they represent. The first drama festival was in 543BC, at the Athenian Great Dionysia. At the drama festivals, playwrights and poets competed to have their plays performed, and the actors competed to win the title for best performance. The performances were given in semi-circular auditorium cut into hillsides and capable of seating 10,000–20,000 people. The stage consisted of
250-423: A dancing floor, an orchestra, dressing room and scene-building area, known as a skene. The actors were typically men who wore masks appropriate to the characters they represented, and each might play several parts. Film festivals are organized events, usually staged by universities, private organizations, local governments, or arts associations, that show films in cinemas or screening venues and provide filmmakers
300-475: A decade. After being used as a warehouse for a number of years, the building fell into disuse just before World War II . It was first made a listed building in 1954. It reopened after 25 years, in 1964, as a performing arts venue, when the playwright Arnold Wesker established the Centre 42 Theatre Company and adapted the building as a theatre. The large circular structure has hosted various promotions, such as
350-573: A highly flexible and adaptable performance space that will give artists and audiences opportunities and experiences they cannot find elsewhere. It will accommodate a programme of work that reflects the excitement and diversity of twenty-first-century culture. It will include a wide range of the performing arts including, music, theatre, dance, circus and digital media. The renovated Roundhouse, designed by architects John McAslan & Partners in association with engineering company Buro Happold , reopened on 1 June 2006, promoting Fuerzabruta . Since 1996
400-632: A music iTunes Festival , at the venue. In line with the continuing legacy of avant-garde productions, NoFit State Circus performed the show Tabú during which the audience were encouraged to move around the performance space. The Roundhouse was built as a turntable engine shed (or roundhouse ) for the London & Birmingham Railway . Known as the Great Circular Engine House, or the Luggage Engine House, it
450-412: A result of the end of restrictive monopolies that previously ruled. Art dealings were rapidly increasing and as a flood of paintings were for sale, this reduced artists to near impoverishment. Therefore, as a result, this called for an attempt to replace the old system of the arts with a new one. This gave rise to festivals that were used not only as an artistic outlet, but also for political protest against
500-744: A specific theme. They are often held in a particular location over set dates. In contrast to literary festivals, poetry festivals put poetry centre stage. Poetry Festivals are typically annual events. Festivals established for more than 10 years in the UK include the festivals at Aldeburgh, Ledbury and Torbay, and the Stanza Poetry festival in Scotland. In India, a number of popular poetry festivals and in Northeast India, Guwahati Grand Poetry festival and Assam Arts Biennale, which began in 2018, are
550-542: A weekend, featuring a number of bands and musical genres including pop, rock, heavy-metal, and more. Since the 1960s, world-music festivals have become popular in a variety of countries. The most well-recognized music festival was Woodstock , which took place in 1969 in Bethel, New York. It was attended by 400,000 people and featured performances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead. Probably
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#1732802203066600-403: Is a subgenre of arts festival that focuses on visual art specifically, or specific fields of visual art such as new media art festivals . Other subgenres of art festivals are termed photography festivals or street art festivals , for example. Typically, an art fair has a wide range of artists, art dealers, collectors, and curators who buy or sell artwork in a venue, or gallery, that is open to
650-489: Is an umbrella term for a festival that focuses on multiple art genres including fine art (painting, drawing, pottery), music, photography, film, and other visual styles. Fringe festivals are a type of arts festival, often focusing on many arts but sometimes focusing on a specific art such as theater more than others. Some subgenres of an arts festival include art fairs, theater festivals, dance festivals, film festivals, music festivals (pop festivals) and more. An art fair
700-418: Is constructed in yellow brick and is distinctive for its unusual circular shape and pointed roof. The conical slate roof has a central smoke louvre (now glazed) and is supported by 24 cast-iron Doric columns (arranged around the original locomotive spaces) and a framework of curved ribs. The interior has original flooring and parts of the turntable and fragments of early railway lines. The 2006 renovation
750-417: Is not solely focused on visual arts. Arts festivals may feature a mixed program that include music, literature, comedy, children's entertainment, science, or street theatre, and are typically presented in venues over a period of time ranging from as short as a day or a weekend to a month. Each event within the program is usually separate. Arts festivals are largely curated by an artistic director who handles
800-826: The Biennale of Sydney , Festival d'Avignon in Avignon , France, and Tongyeong International Music Festival in Tongyeong , Korea and Sanskruti Arts Festival, Upvan, India. One-off arts festivals have included the Liverpool08 European Capital of Culture in 2008. In the summer of 1793, revolutionary France was invaded by foreign armies which resulted in the destruction of all signs of royalty. During this time, French citizens sang, danced, and theaters as well as indoor music multiplied. By 1793, two dozen new venues for music and drama had been established, as
850-547: The Ramones , The Clash with The Jam , Elvis Costello , Elkie Brooks , Otis Redding , and Motörhead , who appeared at the Roundhouse on 20 July 1975. While lying in a state of general abandonment in the 1980s, the Roundhouse was used as the main location for the science fiction horror film Hardware by Richard Stanley . Sets were built inside the structure, although the lack of proper soundproofing meant all of
900-856: The Reverb festival, which included performances by the London Contemporary Orchestra , the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , The Magnets , Nico Muhly , Sam Amidon and the Britten Sinfonia . For the September 2015 Apple Music Festival, Apple announced an environmental makeover gift for the venue: "making major upgrades to the lighting, plumbing, and HVAC systems; installing recycling and composting bins… offering reusable water bottles instead of plastic ones… to reduce
950-683: The Royal National Theatre 's Oh, What a Lovely War! , dancer Michael Clark's comeback performance, percussion extravaganza Stomp , Ken Campbell's 24-hour-long show The Warp and the Argentine De La Guarda's Villa Villa which ran for a year, becoming the venue's longest running show, ending when the building was closed for redevelopment. The website dance.com, commenting on the redevelopment project, said: The redeveloped Roundhouse will house up to 3,300 people standing or up to 1,700 seated. It will provide
1000-681: The 1936 festival is of Vaughan Williams's intervention to stop the orchestra mocking the 22-year-old Britten's work. Vaughan Williams told them they were "in the presence of greatness" (referring to the young composer) and that if they did not want to play Britten's work they would not play his (Vaughan Williams was premiering his own Five Tudor Portraits at the same festival). As a musical festival, it also attracted prestigious musical directors including Sir Henry Wood , Sir Thomas Beecham , Sir Malcolm Sargent , Norman Del Mar and Vernon Handley . The festival became an annual event in 1989 following an agreement with directors of Festival Norwich (FN). FN
1050-947: The Festival took over delivery of Creative Partnerships in Norfolk, part of the UK flagship creativity in schools programme. Composers who visited the Festival during this period include Philip Glass , Ute Lemper , Michael Nyman , John Cale and Laurie Anderson , Terry Riley , Ray Davies and David Bedford have also performed at the festival. The 2010 programme featured the Michael Clark Company , 7 doigts de la main, Ontroerend Goed , Nofit State Circus , Circus Ronaldo and Forced Entertainment (amongst others) and 2011 featured Artichoke 's Dining with Alice , Chouf Ouchouf , Mariano Pensotti , Mariza and Kronos Quartet among others. Recent musical commissions include Dan Jones 's Music For Seven Ice Cream Vans . Holloway
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#17328022030661100-727: The Norwich Festival Chorus, then 300 strong. Noted premieres from this time included The Last Judgement by the German Romantic composer and conductor Louis Spohr . (See list of oratorios , 19th Century) The triennial festival continued to develop a reputation throughout the Victorian and Edwardian period, but was suspended during the First World War, being revived under the patronage of Norwich's first female Lord Mayor, Ethel Colman in 1923. It saw
1150-606: The Roundhouse Studios, which include a music recording suite, film production rooms, TV and radio studios and rehearsal rooms, all located underneath the Main Space. The Roundhouse is Grade II* listed . It was declared a National Heritage Site in 2010, when a Transport Trust Heritage Plaque was presented by Prince Michael of Kent . It is regarded as a notable example of mid-19th century railway architecture. The original building, 48 metres (157 ft) in diameter,
1200-425: The Roundhouse became an arts venue, after the freehold was taken up by the then new Greater London Council . The opening concert was the 15 October 1966 All Night Rave , in which Soft Machine and Pink Floyd appeared at the launch of the underground newspaper International Times . The first major concert took place on New Year's Eve 1966, when a night called Psychadelicamania was headlined by The Who . During
1250-562: The Roundhouse's annual carbon emissions by 60 tons, save 60,000 gallons of water a year, and divert more than 1,600 kilograms of waste from landfills". Alongside its role as an arts venue, the Roundhouse is also a registered charity and runs a creative programme for 11–25s through the Roundhouse Trust. From 2006 to 2012 the Trust taught over 13,000 11- to 25-year-olds in live music, circus, theatre and new media. Courses are held in
1300-664: The Sundance Institute organization and was founded by Robert Redford. To this date, it is one of the largest independent cinema festivals in the United States. Poetry festivals are organized events staged by poetry and literature groups, local arts associations, private organizations and others that showcase contemporary poetry and provide a chance for poets to meet each other, celebrate poetry, critique each other's work and debate poetic issues. Poets can include international, national and local writers, and can include
1350-562: The building to the Camden London Borough Council in 1983, and attempts were made to establish it as a Black Arts Centre programming music, theatre and community projects; however, it was closed as a venue due to lack of funds. During this time, on New Year's Eve 1991/92, Spiral Tribe held a week-long party in the venue. During the party the generators cut out, so power had to be sourced from nearby British Rail train lines. The building lay largely empty until it
1400-502: The comedy film Smashing Time set in the revolving restaurant at the top of the GPO Tower was filmed there in 1967. In July that year the Roundhouse hosted the "Dialectics of Liberation" with (among others) R. D. Laing , Herbert Marcuse and Allen Ginsberg . The Roundhouse has also been used for theatre, and has had two periods of theatrical glory, with musicals such as Catch My Soul (1969). Under administrator George Hoskins,
1450-531: The cycle had first been staged. On 31 March 2009, the charitable circus group NoFit State began presenting Tabu , using the open space at the Roundhouse. On 26 April 2009, Bob Dylan and his band performed at the Roundhouse as part of his 2009 UK tour, and in July 2009 the iTunes Music Festival (supported by Apple Computer ) was held at the venue. In January 2010, the Roundhouse introduced contemporary classical music to its events repertoire when it hosted
1500-490: The dialogues had to be re-recorded . The building was used again in 1996 to film the promotional video for the Manic Street Preachers ' single " A Design for Life " prior to the start of redevelopment. Promotional videos for the singles " No Matter What " by Boyzone (1998), " Handbags & Gladrags " by Stereophonics (2001), and " Burn Burn " by Lostprophets (2003) were also filmed there. A scene from
1550-612: The festival has moved away from this focus, and has diversified to include a variety of circus, performance, contemporary music, dance, visual arts and children's events. Today Norfolk & Norwich Festival is an arts organisation based in Norwich , England which is primarily responsible for the eponymous international arts festival held annually each May, with events also held throughout the wider county of Norfolk . The Festival organisation works on creative learning schemes across Norfolk with support from Arts Council England and Norwich and Norfolk councils and has received funding to become
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1600-520: The first of its kind in the region. The Roundhouse The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm , London, England. The building was erected in 1846–1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a roundhouse , a circular building containing a railway turntable , but was used for that purpose for only about
1650-572: The first phase also featured experimental theatre productions, such as the Living Theatre production of 1776 and other plays directed by Peter Brook . The once controversial nude revue Oh! Calcutta! opened in July 1970, and started a run of nearly four thousand performances in London, and the anarchic "Evening of British Rubbish" with professor Bruce Lacey and The Alberts had one performance in 1967. The Greater London Council passed
1700-461: The government, but from 2012/13 the Festival will receive a total of £1.35 million annually from Arts Council England to enable it to become a bridge organisation for developing arts opportunities for children and young people, acting as a bridge between the arts and education sectors. Arts festival An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art forms including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry and
1750-525: The launch of the underground paper International Times in 1966, one of only two UK appearances by The Doors with Jim Morrison in 1968, and the Greasy Truckers Party in 1972. The Greater London Council ceded control of the building to Camden Council in 1983. By that time, Centre 42 had run out of funds and the building remained unused until a local businessman purchased the building in 1996 and performing arts shows returned. It
1800-512: The next decade the building became a significant venue for UK Underground music events Middle Earth and Implosion . Many of these were hosted and promoted by Jeff Dexter . Other bands playing at the Roundhouse during this period included Gass , The Rolling Stones , Jeff Beck , The Yardbirds , Zoot Money 's Dantalian's Chariot , David Bowie , Jimi Hendrix , Pink Floyd , Led Zeppelin , The Incredible String Band , Fleetwood Mac , Third World War , The Doors with Jefferson Airplane ,
1850-405: The old government system. These festivals often included religious symbolism, political messages and embodied the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity. In 1792, The "Festival of Liberty" included a Declaration of the rights of man, busts of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Franklin, a hymn to liberty, women in white carrying chains, and a large chariot with a seated statue of liberty An Arts Festival
1900-431: The organizations' artistic direction and can encompass different genres, including fringe theater festivals that are open access, making arts festivals distinctive from greenfield festivals, which typically are weekend camping festivals such as Glastonbury , and Visual Arts Festivals, which concentrate on the visual arts. Another type of arts festivals are music festivals, which are outdoor musical events usually spanning
1950-515: The premieres of significant classical works including Edward Elgar 's Sea Pictures in 1899 (sung by Clara Butt ), E. J. Moeran 's Rhapsody No. 2 for the 1924 centenary concert (based on a Norfolk folksong), Frank Bridge 's Enter Spring in 1927, Ralph Vaughan Williams 's Job: A Masque for Dancing in 1930, Arthur Bliss 's Morning Heroes also in 1930 and Benjamin Britten 's Our Hunting Fathers in 1936. An oft-recounted story from
2000-473: The premises were transferred to Centre 42, which prepared a scheme to convert the building into "a permanent cultural centre with a theatre, cinema, art gallery and workshops, committee rooms for local organisations, library, youth club and restaurant dance-hall". This was estimated to cost between £300,000 and £600,000 (£6.86 million–£13.7 million in 2023 worth ), and was supported by "well-known actors, playwrights, authors, musicians and others". In 1966
2050-463: The public. Some items for sale include photography, paintings, drawings, metalwork, handcrafted items and pottery. Festivals of visual arts are also not to be confused with commercial art fairs . Artists participate in the most important of such festival exhibitions by invitation, and these exhibitions (e.g. the Venice Biennale ) are organised by internationally recognized curators chosen by
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2100-625: The renovations had cost £27m. On 20 December 2006, George Michael held a free concert for NHS nurses as a thank you for the care given to his mother Lesley, who died of cancer in 1997. In 2008, Michael Boyd , artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company , transferred his RSC Histories Cycle to the Roundhouse, rearranging the performing space to match the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford upon Avon , where
2150-743: The two oldest arts festivals are located in England. The Three Choirs Festival in the West of England was established as a "yearly musical assembly" by 1719. The other is the Norfolk and Norwich Festival which first took place in 1772. The largest arts festival in England today is the Brighton Festival Fringe . Leading arts festivals include the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh , Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide ,
2200-429: Was agreed that in this case FN would cease functioning after only three years. Under the direction of Marcus Davey, now director of The Roundhouse in London, the scope of the festival was changed from classical music to cater for a larger variety of music, theatre, dance and other visual arts. As part of the widening of the festival's scope, a new art initiative called "First Norfolk and Norwich Festival Visual Arts Week"
2250-617: Was begun in 1994, which has now evolved into Norfolk & Norwich Open Studios, an open gallery event. A significant change in 2001 was the moving of the festival from October to May. From 2004 to 2010 it was under the direction of Jonathan Holloway , now Artistic Director of the Melbourne Festival in Australia. During the years Jonathan was Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, audiences increased by 1,000%, turnover more than quadrupled and
2300-440: Was built by Branson & Gwyther, using designs by architects Robert B. Dockray and Robert Stephenson . Construction started in 1846 and the building opened in 1847. Within ten years locomotives became too long for the building to accommodate, and the Roundhouse was used for various other purposes. The longest period of use (50 years, beginning in 1871) was as a bonded warehouse for gin distillers W & A Gilbey Ltd. In 1964
2350-696: Was closed again in 2004 for a multi-million pound redevelopment. On 1 June 2006, the Argentine show Fuerzabruta opened at the new Roundhouse. Since 2006, the Roundhouse has hosted the BBC Electric Proms and numerous iTunes Festivals , as well as award ceremonies such as the BT Digital Music Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards. In 2009, Bob Dylan performed a concert, and iTunes promoted
2400-610: Was purchased for £6m in 1996 by the Norman Trust led by the philanthropist Torquil Norman . In 1998 he set up the Roundhouse Trust and led its redevelopment, with a board of trustees which included musicians Bob Geldof and Suggs , and filmmaker Terry Gilliam . The venue opened for a two-year period to raise awareness and funds for a redevelopment scheme, with former Battersea Arts Centre director Paul Blackman as its director. Shows promoted at this time included
2450-465: Was started in 1986 as the first annual festival of arts and music in Norfolk devoted to organising a wide range of activities embracing art, music and industry in Norfolk. The directors of the Triennial were approached with the proposal that FN would run for two consecutive years with the Triennial continuing every third year. However, the Triennial decided that it should be an annual event itself and it
2500-662: Was succeeded by William Galinsky , formerly the organiser of the Cork Midsummer Festival in Ireland. In October 2017, it was announced that Daniel Brine would be taking over as Festival Director. 2020 saw the festival go on hiatus caused by COVID-19 pandemic and will return in 2021. The Festival was the main East Anglian participant in the creative learning schools' programme, working with 49 Norfolk schools. The Creative Partnerships scheme has been cut by
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