Valentines day entertainment for all you 1940’s pin up girls at the Talk in Norwich. It looks like a glorious evening – I’d like to draw your attention to the dress code of Fishnets and Seamen. Find out more on their myspace page.
via All Things Considered NB If you’re interested in reading more about art, design and culture in East Anglia, please do follow the blog to its new home at http://flatlanders.co.uk/ – you’ll find more posts on everything interesting happening in the area.Categories: Dance · fashion · norfolk · theatre
Tagged: bo nanfana, club night, dancing, Dressing up, Forties, retro, social club, swing, valetines day, vintage
On 16th November the Norfolk Costume and Textile Association has organised a Vintage Fair and Tea Dance, which sounds like a lovely way to show off some of their collection of 1930s and 1940s clothing. There will be models circulating in the tea dance in costume, and the attendees will also be expected to be in costume, which they can buy at the fair in the morning.
The Costume and Textile Association is part of Norfolk Museums – this sounds like a lovely way of bringing collections out into the real world.
The Costume and Textile Association presents : Strictly Vintage
16th November 08
The Halls
St Andrews Plain
Norwich NR3 1AU
01379 641187
Marlene image from venusnaturalis 1930s girl image from free parking
Categories: Dance · culture · fashion · norfolk
Tagged: fashion, vintage, tea dance, costume
Totally outside the scope of this blog, in that it’s not homegrown in East Anglia and it’s not available by the weekend, but there’s one more night of the Richard Alston Dance Company at the Cambridge Arts theatre tonight. It is contemporary dance, which may make your mind glaze over and your eyes cross involuntarily, but if it doesn’t…
The first piece is based on the music of Hoagy Carmichael, loose, swinging 30’s jazz, all the girls in printed silk dresses, all the chaps in white shirts and tailored beige trousers, just full of sunshine and flirting and summer evenings by the river. The perfect antidote to damp cold East Anglia, which is suffering from a distinct lack of summer right now.
Cambridge Arts Theatre, 6 St Edwards passage cambridge CB2 Box office 01223 503 333
Categories: Dance · cambridgeshire
Tagged: arts theatre, cambridge, contemporary, Dance, richard alston
