From Museums, exhibitions and theatre. Things to beat boredom.
Last month saw the inaugural Saltbox Comedy’s ‘Alternative Variety Night’ debut at the Birdcage. Run by local stand-up comedian and compere Dan McKee, the line-up included performance poet Andy Bennet, stand-up comedian David Seymour, Ben Barker as comedy mentalist Mental Ben, Tom Francis (one half of Rapid Gambit) as Roger the Zombie Stand-Up, Nathan...
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We have a great opportunity for you today, bought to you by the Vintage City Network. Magpies and I, the team behind Altrincham’s Vintage & Craft Market who helped set up No16Vintage on The Downs, have launched another business supporting the talents of independent businesses – Magpies and I PR. Following the success of...
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Did you know there used to be a cinema where Topshop is now in Norwich city centre? Or that Norwich’s very first purpose built cinema was built in 1912 on Magdalen Street and demolished in the 1960s? Norfolk at the Pictures is a heritage project developed by Cinemaplus at Cinema City that aims to...
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS! We’d like to thank you all for all your support this year. It’s been an amazing one with Vintage Norwich being featured in Company magazine and going international with a feature in Spanish Glamour as well. We also enjoyed the amazing reaction to the Best of Vintage Norwich Awards in March, and...
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This weekend sees, we think, one of the most exciting events of the year. Cocktails and Confusion is a new event in aid of Help for Heroes put together by some of the best names in entertainment that Norwich has to offer! Headless Entertainments will be helping keep you entertained, Bo Nanafana will be...
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Last night Vintage Norwich waxed its moustaches and went to see Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile. We felt the presence of the moustache would make up for the lack of Poirot in this adaptation from the Agatha Christie Theatre Company but in the end (and we are sure we are not...
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Last night Vintage Norwich was transported to the underworld of Paris at the Maddermarket Theatre. We sat in our balcony seat and the story of Natalya Umanska started to unfold. Leaving her native Eastern Europe Ms Umanska travelled to Paris in seek of fame, fortune and beautiful people in the city of lights. The reality was not...
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Essentially the open Heritage days allow the inquisitive among us to be joyously nosey! I was lucky enough to bag some tickets this year…And as a result I enjoyed a rather full day of tottering around Norwich and soaking in all I could about those places that are otherwise shut to the public! I...
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After a long wait whilst refurbishment was taking place, the much anticipated reopening of The Bridewell Museum finally happened on 3rd July. Costing £1.5m this redevelopment project has given this Norwich treasure a much needed face lift and it certainly seems to be worthy of this investment. The museum tells the story of Norwich...
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As part of the Queens Jubilee celebrations this weekend Gressenhall Museum and workhouse transformed it’s History Fair into a celebration of all things 50s. There was 50s glamour for both Men and Women with the Tonsorial Artist offering mens grooming, and the Historical Sauces offering mini 50s make overs in the courtyard. The learning...
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It is Friday night and I am off to the opening night of the Norfolk and Norwich Festivals Spiegeltent in Chapelfield Gardens to see one of the best cabaret acts to come out of London, and indeed the UK for a long time. Georgeois Bourgeois and his sister Maurice Maurice are the first late...
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When I say my overriding thought on leaving Camille O’Sullivan was ‘more performers should use sparkly hats as glitter balls’ isn’t to downplay the amazing concert but to pay tribute to the seamless integration between costume, song and performance that Norwich was treated to last Thursday and Friday night. Norwich Playhouse is always a...
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There are always great things happening in Norwich but there are also, of course, plenty of amazing things happening all around the county as well. One of the things that Vintage Norwich is most excited about this summer is the forthcoming Victorian Nights – a brand new festival in Norfolk. With their remit to...
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About 4 years ago the Bridewell Museum in Bridewell Alley closed down for a huge £1.5 million redevelopment project, this summer it finally looks set to reopen. The currently scheduled date is June 2012 and The Bridewell History Wall is your chance to be part of what will be an amazing resource and attraction...
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When Vintage Norwich launched in March 2011 one of the first articles we ever wrote was on Nick Stone’s Norwich Blitz Ghosts, so last night we couldn’t resist the chance to hear him speak about them alongside Steve Snelling, author of Norwich – A Shattered City, at the Norwich Arts Centre. Each gave a...
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