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News of Debenham Arts Festival events
Everyone has the chance to have their photographs in the Festival exhibition. Two leading East Anglian photographers will choose from pictures submitted to the web site for the exhibition at Debenham Liesure Centre.
It is easy to enter. Just upload your pictures just as you would at Facebook and they will be considered by the judges.
This really is for everyone with sections for primary school children, under 19s, and those who are older. There are two categories — people in places, and the village and country around us. The pictures must be taken in and around Debenham. There is also a special section for pictures at the Debenham Leisure Centre (more about that soon)
The site will be ready to take entries at the begining of April. If you would like to be told when it is ready, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it us asking for details or just come back here to look for updates. But you can start taking pictures now. Pictures taken earlier can also be submitted.
We are looking for people who have the imagination to take good pictures. The sort of camera you have is not important and the winners could just as easily be using a mobile phone as a top of the range digital SLR.
All the topics are open to wide interpretation. People in Places could be a relative peeling potatoes in the kitchen, someone riding a bike or a portrait against a village, or country background. The possibilities are endless.
The village and country around us could be taken in the heart of the village or in the surrounding countryside. One thing to remember though is that it is often the early bird that catches the worm as the light is often better in the early morning or the evening.
The judges
John Worrall is a landscape photographer living in Cromer and author of photographic books including East Anglia in Colour, East Anglia Through The Seasons and North Norfolk – The Heritage Coast.
Mike Kwasniak is a theatre photographer based in Ipswich who has been working with regional companies and beyond since 1982. He also does wedding photography.
Anthony Thwaite will be celebrating publication of his new volume, Late Poems, at Debenham Parish Church on June 19. He will be reading some of the poems published to mark his 80th birthday which falls during the festival.
Of his Collected Poems (published by Enitharmon in 2007) the Times reviewer said: "This is spectacular poetry. It deserves to be read: good readers deserve to read it."
Anthony Thwaite has recently competed editing a volume of Larkin's letters to his companion Monica Jones which will be published in September.
As Larkin's literary executor, with Andrew Motion, Anthony Thwaite also edited the poet's selected letters.
Anthony Thwaite's own poems reflect the time he spent in Japan and his love of archaeology. He spent his childhood in Yorkshire, the USA (1940-44) and Somerset. After national service in Libya he read English at Oxford.
He then married and went to Japan for two years, where he taught English Literature at Tokyo University. He has also been a BBC radio producer, literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman and co-editor of Encounter.
He lives Norfolk with his writer wife Ann who will be appearing at the same Debenham Arts Festival event.
After writing five major literary biographies, Ann Thwaite has turned to her own family history in Passageways. She will be talking about telling the story of her own ancestry at Debenham Parish Church on Saturday, June 19 at 7.30pm, when she is appearing alongside her husband, the poet Anthony Thwaite.Her eight grandparents settled in New Zealand in the middle of the 19th century. She was born in London but went to New Zealand during the second World War, returning to England to complete her education.
Passageways, published by the Otago University Press and available in the uk, is a fascinating story of the way immigrants established themselves in a new land. She has written five major biographies. Her life of A A Milne (author of Winnie-the-Pooh) won the Whitbread biography prize in 1990. Her other biographies are of Edmund Gosse, his father Philip Henry Gosse, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Emily Tennyson, the poet's wife.
She has also written numerous books for children, some taking inspiration from the remarkable experiences of her own family
Ann Thwaite lives in a picturesque mill house in Norfolk with her husband Anthony Thwaite who will be reading some of his most recent poems.
There are a wide range of musical events taking place at the Debenham Arts Festival, showcasing talent from near and far with line ups being finalised shortly.
Shakespeare as you have not seen it before comes to Debenham with The Pantaloons version of Macbeth.
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