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Laurel McCallum
Laurel McCallum
September 2025 – January 2026
Laurel McCallum (b.1999, Scotland) is an interdisciplinary textile artist based in the UK. Combining relatable subject matter with bold colours, soft textures, and intimate framing, McCallum aims to celebrate the subtle sweetness of everyday existence. Drawing from mundane moments and ordinary objects creates a feeling somewhere between comfort and unfamiliarity.
Each piece is made by blending terry cloth with oil paint and chalk. This process fosters a labour of love, creating a texture that further feeds into the work’s themes.
Instagram @laurel_mccallum_
Laurel McCallum
Laurel McCallum
September 2025 – January 2026
Laurel McCallum (b.1999, Scotland) is an interdisciplinary textile artist based in the UK. Combining relatable subject matter with bold colours, soft textures, and intimate framing, McCallum aims to celebrate the subtle sweetness of everyday existence. Drawing from mundane moments and ordinary objects creates a feeling somewhere between comfort and unfamiliarity.
Each piece is made by blending terry cloth with oil paint and chalk. This process fosters a labour of love, creating a texture that further feeds into the work’s themes.
Instagram @laurel_mccallum_
Johnny White Really Really - AM/PM
This show was one of my highlights at the Edinburgh Fringe, a mixture of absurdist storytelling, observational comedy, and poetic ruminations, a sharp witted but soft delivery flowing through surreal original takes of jobs, life, and the mundane. This event is made possible through the support of The Assembly House Trust.
Johnny White Really-Really is an alternative comedian, writer and musician from Sheffield. Described by Chortle in their five-star review of his 2023 stand-up hour Catland, as “a truly singular mind and talent”, his unique brand of comedy is “taking the artform in a genuinely modern direction”.
His most recent show am/pm earned him a nomination for the Malcolm Hardee Award at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. He has appeared on Starstruck (BBC), The Paddock (Channel 4), Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4), and cult web series Year Friends (Blink Industries). He hosts the podcast Lunchwatch from Hattrick. As a musician and composer, Johnny has composed film soundtrack work for the National Gallery, The National Theatre, The Old Vic Theatre, the Guardian, Vice, and on the feature films How To Be (2007), and Hide And Seek (2014), which won the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
www.johnnywhitereallyreally.substack.com
@johnnywhitereallyreally
A review of the 2023 show Catland
Doors 7:30pm
Event starts at 8pm (1hr approx)
Pay What You Can - please bring some cash to go in the bucket at the end of the performance, all money goes straight to Johnny.
The Pierce Room, The Assembly House, NR21RQ
This event is on the first floor, there is a lift available.
We're limited to 40 cap, so if you can't make it please let us know so we can give your space to someone else. Drinks service at The Assembly House can be slow so please allow time to buy drinks before.
Heritage Sounds with Iridescence Ensemble
Iridescence Ensemble takes its audience through an exploration of 20th and 21st century chamber music.
Laurel McCallum
Laurel McCallum
September 2025 – January 2026
Laurel McCallum (b.1999, Scotland) is an interdisciplinary textile artist based in the UK. Combining relatable subject matter with bold colours, soft textures, and intimate framing, McCallum aims to celebrate the subtle sweetness of everyday existence. Drawing from mundane moments and ordinary objects creates a feeling somewhere between comfort and unfamiliarity.
Each piece is made by blending terry cloth with oil paint and chalk. This process fosters a labour of love, creating a texture that further feeds into the work’s themes.
Instagram @laurel_mccallum_
Tom Poster - piano and Rosalind Ventris - viola
Assembly House Classical presents
Tom Poster - piano and Rosalind Ventris - viola
Thursday 18th December at 1:00 pm
The Assembly House, Norwich
A lyrical journey for viola and piano featuring works by Fleury-Roy, Clarke, Gurney, White, Gipps, Delius & more
Programme
Hélène Fleury-Roy Fantasie (1910)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau Drei Stucke
Rebecca Clarke Morpheus
Ivor Gurney Sleep (arr. Ventris)
Clarence Cameron White Twilight (arr. Ventris)
Ruth Gipps Lyric Phantasy
Frederick Delius Violin Sonata No.2 (arr. Tertis)
Rosalind Ventris
Violist Rosalind Ventris leads an international career as a soloist and chamber musician, and has given recitals at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, Purcell Room, Bozar, Flagey, Slovak Philharmonic, Aldeburgh Festival and Het Concertgebouw. She has performed with orchestras such as the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru, l’Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie and the Belgian National Orchestra. Rosalind’s debut album (Delphian Records, 2023), featuring music by leading women composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, was ‘Instrumental Choice’ in BBC Music Magazine and subsequently nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award, and The Sunday Times hailed the recording as ‘rich and illuminating…a uniformly engrossing disc'. She will be performing a solo recital of works from the album at the Wigmore Hall on International Women's Day next year. Highlights of the forthcoming season also include Walton Viola Concerto with the Orchestra of St John's and appearances at the Dublin International Chamber Music Festival.
As a chamber musician, Rosalind frequently performs as part of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Associate Ensemble, Wigmore Hall), and Trio Anima. She has collaborated with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Llŷr Williams, Tabea Zimmermann, and Nicola Benedetti. She has been invited to perform at prestigious venues and festivals internationally, including the West Cork, Marlboro, Salzburg and Båstad Festivals, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, the Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, and the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn. Praised for her ‘beguiling’ (Gramophone) and ‘gorgeously full-bodied playing’ (The Guardian), Rosalind is a professor of Viola at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and, from September 2025, is the Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Alongside her husband, she is one of the Artistic Directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival in Wales. She was formerly the Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at the University of Oxford.
Tom Poster
Tom Poster is a musician whose skills and passions extend well beyond the conventional role of the concert pianist. He has been described as “a marvel, [who] can play anything in any style” (The Herald), “mercurially brilliant” (The Strad), and as having “a beautiful tone that you can sink into like a pile of cushions” (BBC Music).
Tom has performed over forty concertos from Mozart to Ligeti with Aurora Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, China National Symphony, Hallé, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nicholas Collon, Robin Ticciati and Yan Pascal Tortelier, or sometimes directing from the piano. He has premiered solo, chamber and concertante works by many leading composers, made multiple appearances at the BBC Proms, and his exceptional versatility has put him in great demand at festivals internationally.
Tom is co-founder and artistic director of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, appointed Associate Ensemble at Wigmore Hall in 2020. With a flexible line-up featuring many of today’s most inspirational musicians, and an ardent commitment to diversity through its creative programming, Kaleidoscope is particularly renowned for its championing of unjustly neglected gems alongside deservedly celebrated classics. Kaleidoscope broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has enjoyed residencies at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Lammermuir and Ischia festivals. Its albums for Chandos Records have been shortlisted for BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone awards, while recent performance highlights have included concerts with Hilary Hahn, a debut at the BBC Proms, and two extensive tours of the USA. In 2024, Kaleidoscope was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award.
During the 2020 lockdown, his #UriPosteJukeBox series with Elena Urioste - featuring Tom as pianist, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, writer, backing dancer and snowman - brought a staggeringly eclectic selection of music to audiences across the world through 88 daily online performances, for which the duo won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Inspiration Award. Their subsequent recording, The Jukebox Album, received glowing reviews and a BBC Music Magazine Award.
Tom has recorded albums for BIS, Champs Hill, Chandos, Decca, NMC, Orchid and Warner Classics, appearing as soloist and in collaboration with Elena Urioste, Alison Balsom, Guy Johnston, the Aronowitz Ensemble, Aurora Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia and London Symphony Orchestra. He regularly features as soloist on film soundtracks, including the Oscar-nominated score for The Theory of Everything. He studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at King’s College, Cambridge. He won First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition 2007 and the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2000.
Tom’s compositions and arrangements have been commissioned, performed and recorded by Alison Balsom, Matthew Rose, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott and Roderick Williams. His chamber opera for puppets, The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak, received an acclaimed three-week run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2017. He is a lifelong fan of animals with unusual noses.
Chris Riddell: A Celebration of Childhood Reading
Join us on Saturday 25th October for an evening of conversation and live drawing with writer, illustrator and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell, discussing the importance of childhood reading.
Chris Riddell: A Celebration of Childhood Reading
Saturday 25th October 2025
The Assembly House, Norwich
Doors 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
Adults: £10 | Children 13 and under FREE | TNRP Volunteers FREE
Made possible by the generosity of the Assembly House Trust.
Chris is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015, and alongside many famous collaborative projects with authors, poets and artists, he also writes and illustrates his own books. These include the Ottoline series, the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series, and most recently, Mermaid’s Diary. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals. He’s been described as Britain’s greatest living illustrator…
We’re thrilled to be welcoming Chris to The Norwich Book Festival. He’ll be talking about the importance of childhood reading and how books have shaped his life and career, live drawing as he speaks. His creations will be visible to the audience via a projector and screen — an enthralling experience not to be missed.
After the talk, Chris will take questions from the audience and then be available to sign books (his latest release, Mermaid’s Diary, will be on sale along with a selection of his other titles.)
The Book Hive is presenting this event in partnership The Norfolk Reading Project (TNRP). TNRP is a vital charity improving literacy standards across the county by training volunteers to support children’s reading on a one-to-one basis within Primary Schools. Volunteers are trained to help children decode words with phonics — but also encourage reading for pleasure by talking attentively about books, stories and characters. Since 2015, TNRP has trained over 400 volunteers and now works with more than 50 schools throughout the county. Their efforts are more important now than ever, with recent studies showing 1 in 4 children in England leave primary school unable to read well — a figure that rises to over a third here in Norfolk.
This event will also serve as a 10th anniversary celebration for TNRP. All proceeds from public ticket sales will function as a donation, going directly to TNRP to support the incredible work they do.
Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours.
You can register for up to four tickets - if the tour is fully booked please join the waiting list on the event page. If tickets come available we will contact you. If you realise that you are unable to attend the tour please contact us on info@assemblyhousetrust.org.uk
Please Note
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Due to changes in access restrictions the tour group cannot visit the crypt
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
Laura MacDonald - cello & Anastasia Kulikova - piano
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dmitry Shostakovich's death with a program of cello/piano sonatas by Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten
Heritage Open Days - Launch of New Guide
Heritage Open Days
Chestnut's Guide - Launch Event
Sunday 14 September, 11:00–13:00
The Noverre Ballroom, The Assembly House
All ages welcome, free entry
Come and see The Assembly House through the eyes of 8-14 year olds and find out who Chestnut is. Our young guides have worked & played hard to find the juiciest details from the House's past, and are launching their own free foldout paper guide and timeline. For one day only, come and hear it from them.
We have long wanted to make the fascinating, gruelling, uplifting stories of the Assembly House more accessible. So we teamed up with some children and a designer to do just that.
We've worked together to immerse ourselves in tales and the remaining physical structures of the House, through drama, play and design and we're here to tell you all about it. Come and meet our young guides alongside our regular art historian, Roxanne Matthews, in this drop-in event of talks, chats and wonder.
Don't forget to pick up your very own free copy of their work!
Summer Workshop for 8-14yrs
Are you 8-14? A budding history detective, designer or actor? We have long wanted to make the fascinating, gruelling, uplifting stories of The Assembly House more inviting for kids and WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Join our tour guide, art historian (arts producer and forest school leader) Roxanne Matthews, and a local designer to come up with a new foldout guide to be launched at this year’s Heritage Open Days. You get to design the plot twists, the look, the delivery, it’s over to you. After the launch event the guide will be available from the flyer racks at The Assembly House.
The details:
You’d need to be free for 3 workshops on 19th, 20th and 21st Aug, 11am–2pm
Then again on 14th September 10am–1pm to launch the guide, this will be a drop-in day for visitors.
It’s free to take part but numbers are limited so we do need commitment on attendance.
The workshop will mainly be taking place in a room on the first floor at The Assembly House, there is a lift available. Please let us know any access requirements on the form.
The workshop is now full, all spaces have been allocated.
A Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours.
You can register for up to four tickets - if the tour is fully booked please join the waiting list on the event page. If tickets come available we will contact you. If you realise that you are unable to attend the tour please contact us on info@assemblyhousetrust.org.uk
Please Note
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Due to changes in access restrictions the tour group cannot visit the crypt
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
The Arts Society Wensum: Palmyra, Bride of the Desert
In this talk, lecturer Paul Roberts looks at one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world, the fabled city of Palmyra, in the Syrian desert. Palmyra arose on a trade route that brought silk, spices and other luxuries across the desert from the east.
Her wealth and power are displayed in gorgeous monuments, while her people, wealthy, sophisticated and cosmopolitan, are preserved in their hauntingly beautiful funeral portraits. Palmyra became so powerful during the Roman empire that its warrior queen Zenobia challenged Rome itself.
We’ll see Palmyra’s meteoric rise and its dramatic fall, its rediscovery by English lords, its influence on art and architecture, and then its desecration by Isis. But we finish with the hope that beautiful Palmyra will rise again…
Dr Paul Roberts is Head of the Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University.
He studied Classics at the University of Cambridge, and Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. He then lived in Italy for several years, teaching and researching. He has travelled throughout the former lands of the Roman Empire, from Britain to Syria, and has excavated in Britain, Greece, Libya, Turkey and in particular Italy, where he is currently working on a Roman Villa in the Molise region of the Central Apennines. His research focuses on the daily life of ordinary people in the Greek and Roman worlds, and he has written books and articles on Greek and Roman daily life, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Sicily, Roman Emperors, mummy portraits, and Greek and Roman ceramics and glass. He is now writing a guide to the monuments and Emperors of ancient Rome.
All Arts Society Wensum members are welcome to attend this event without booking.
Arts Society Wensum normally holds nine monthly lectures (September-November; January- June) and a Christmas lecture. The lectures are held at the Assembly House in the centre of Norwich.
It also arranges Special Interest Days and day visits to places of interest. Each autumn it organises a 3-4 day visit to another UK destination.
The society has room for a few additional members. If you are interested please contact the Membership Secretary: taswensum.membership@gmail.com
A Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours.
You can register for up to four tickets - if the tour is fully booked please join the waiting list on the event page. If tickets come available we will contact you. If you realise that you are unable to attend the tour please contact us on info@assemblyhousetrust.org.uk
Please Note
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Due to changes in access restrictions the tour group cannot visit the crypt
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
Opening Event: The Summer Open Exhibition. All welcome
The Assembly House Summer Open 2025
Exhibition Open: Wednesday 4 June–Tuesday 10 June, 11–5pm
Opening Event: Wednesday, June 4, 6–9pm, all welcome
The exhibition will be held in The Noverre Ballroom and Noverre Cabinets at The Assembly House.
The open call received 1300 works from 500 artists working across the UK.
There was no theme set or submission fee taken, and there is no commission on the sales of works.
The Summer Open Exhibition 2025
The Assembly House Summer Open 2025
Exhibition Open: Wednesday 4 June–Tuesday 10 June, 11–5pm
Opening Event: Wednesday, June 4, 6–9pm, all welcome
The exhibition will be held in The Noverre Ballroom and Noverre Cabinets at The Assembly House.
The open call received 1300 works from 500 artists working across the UK.
There was no theme set or submission fee taken, and there is no commission on the sales of works.
A Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours.
You can register for up to four tickets - if the tour is fully booked please join the waiting list on the event page. If tickets come available we will contact you. If you realise that you are unable to attend the tour please contact us on info@assemblyhousetrust.org.uk
Please Note
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Due to changes in access restrictions the tour group cannot visit the crypt
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
A Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours.
You can register for up to four tickets - if the tour is fully booked please join the waiting list on the event page. If tickets come available we will contact you. If you realise that you are unable to attend the tour please contact us on info@assemblyhousetrust.org.uk
Please Note
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Due to changes in access restrictions the tour group cannot visit the crypt
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
Brook Street Band: Handel
Kitchen Conversations - a rich baroque diet to nourish mind and soul
Are you hungry? Join us in our imagined 'kitchen' to prepare and cook dinner for friends; there’ll be free-flowing food and wine* leading to deep conversations, mystery ingredients providing sustenance and spice, a rich baroque diet to nourish mind and soul. *NB You’ll have to imagine that bit!
The kitchen is the heart of the home. It was hidden away in Handel’s time but no less lacking in drama and passion, servants and cooks working hard to ensure a smooth-running household. Today’s kitchens are positioned centre-stage, shared spaces for preparation, eating and drinking. Convivial food, free-flowing wine ... some juicy gossip... perfect ingredients for an enticing, entertaining, thought-provoking evening.
Musical ingredients from: Telemann, Handel, JS Bach, CPE Bach, Rameau, Purcell, Errollyn Wallen.
Rachel Harris & Kathryn Parry - violins, Tatty Theo – cello, Carolyn Gibley – harpsichord, Simon Schatzberger – narrator
Noverre Cinema: Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko (15)
Thursday 13 March, 7.30pm at The Assembly House
In partnership with The Assembly House Trust, we’re reviving one of Norwich’s beloved and long-lost cinemas for two special screenings in the beautiful ballroom of The Assembly House.
Seating will be unreserved
Tickets Pay What You Can £6/£8/£10
Doors and bar will open at 7pm. Event starts at 7.30pm including a short introduction from Reel Connections and a programme of archive film from the East Anglian Film Archive.
Donnie Darko (15)
Director: Richard Kelly / Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jenna Malone, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze / 2001 / 113mins
This 2001 cult classic follows Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) as a troubled teenager in late 1980s America, who narrowly escapes a bizarre accident. He begins to experience unsettling visions of a mysterious figure in a rabbit costume, who guides Donnie through a series of events challenging his perceptions on time, reality and fate. Written and directed by Richard Kelly, the film was listed No. 2 in Empire‘s “50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time”.
Noverre Cinema: Amélie
Amélie (15)
Wednesday 26 February, 7.30pm at The Assembly House
In partnership with Reel Connections, we’re reviving one of Norwich’s beloved and long-lost cinemas for two special screenings in the beautiful ballroom of The Assembly House.
Seating will be unreserved.
Tickets Pay What You Can £6/£8/£10
Doors and bar will open at 7pm. Event starts at 7.30pm including a short introduction from Reel Connections and a programme of archive film from the East Anglian Film Archive.
Amélie (15)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz, Audrey Tautou / 2001 / 123mins
French with English subtitles
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s quirky and charming romantic comedy The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain tells the story of Amélie (Audrey Tautou), a young waitress on a quest to spread joy that leads her to true love. Surrounded by a cast of fellow eccentrics, the film explores the curious lives of those around her whilst set against the backdrop of Paris. Bruno Delbonnel’s vivid cinematography presents the city with a heightened sense of colour, magic and romance. With an unforgettable score by composer Yann Tiersen.
A Quiet Landscape (exhibition)
A Quiet Landscape
Including paintings of East Anglia by: James Colman, Tor Falcon, Kate Giles, Tom Lamprell, Chloe Mandy, Alfred Munnings, Mary Newcomb, and Tessa Newcomb.
Exhibition open 13–17 February 2025
Opening evening 12 February 5-7pm (All welcome)
The Hobart Room & The Noverre Cabinets, The Assembly House, Norwich
Curated by Caroline Fisher and Henry Jackson Newcomb
A Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust. Tickets must be pre-booked.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours, these are allocated from a draw using the form below.
• Enter your details and select the dates of interest, you can apply for up to four tickets.
• Two weeks before the tour we draw 20 places and will contact those selected.
• Due to the number of people applying, we are unable to contact everyone who hasn't been selected.
Please note:
• Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
• If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
• Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
• Access to the undercroft involves steep stairs and uneven flooring and is not suitable for anyone with any form of mobility problem: guests enter the undercroft at their own risk. Areas of the undercroft are dark and potentially slippery. Please do not go into the undercroft if you feel you will not be safe.
• Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
• Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
A Quiet Landscape (exhibition)
A Quiet Landscape
Including paintings of East Anglia by: James Colman, Tor Falcon, Kate Giles, Tom Lamprell, Chloe Mandy, Alfred Munnings, Mary Newcomb, and Tessa Newcomb.
Exhibition open 13–17 February 2025
Opening evening 12 February 5-7pm (All welcome)
The Hobart Room & The Noverre Cabinets, The Assembly House, Norwich
Curated by Caroline Fisher and Henry Jackson Newcomb
A Quiet Landscape (exhibition)
A Quiet Landscape
Including paintings of East Anglia by: James Colman, Tor Falcon, Kate Giles, Tom Lamprell, Chloe Mandy, Alfred Munnings, Mary Newcomb, and Tessa Newcomb.
Exhibition open 13–17 February 2025
Opening evening 12 February 5-7pm (All welcome)
The Hobart Room & The Noverre Cabinets, The Assembly House, Norwich
Curated by Caroline Fisher and Henry Jackson Newcomb
A Quiet Landscape (exhibition)
A Quiet Landscape
Including paintings of East Anglia by: James Colman, Tor Falcon, Kate Giles, Tom Lamprell, Chloe Mandy, Alfred Munnings, Mary Newcomb, and Tessa Newcomb.
Exhibition open 13–17 February 2025
Opening evening 12 February 5-7pm (All welcome)
The Hobart Room & The Noverre Cabinets, The Assembly House, Norwich
Curated by Caroline Fisher and Henry Jackson Newcomb
BookHive event with Eimear McBride
Please join us on the evening of Thursday 13th February to celebrate the publication of multi-award-winning author (and great friend of the shop) Eimear McBride's brand new novel The City Changes Its Face.
‘Day. Another. London city and world. There before me as you were. I still see you as I saw you and long to be you, as I was you, all the way over again.’
1995. London. Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, nineteen and thirty-nine. The total obsession of new love.
Eighteen months later, a rainy Camden night. Eily and Stephen retrace the course of their two-year romance now their world is merging with the common place and ties from the past are intruding. Stephen has reconnected with his long-lost teenage daughter Grace. Eily thinks about the future and their flat feels different.
The city changes its face.
Intimate, experiential, and immersive, The City Changes Its Face explores a passionate love affair tested to its limits.
Eimear will be in conversation with Henry Layte of The Book Hive — who, as some of you may know, discovered and published Eimear's first book, A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing.
Eimear McBride's first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the 2017 James Tait Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, academics and fiction writers, McBride was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today.
This event is made possible by the generosity of the Assembly House Trust.
The City Changes Its Face: Eimear McBride in conversation
Thursday 13th February
The Noverre Ballroom
The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich
6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
£5
A Quiet Landscape (exhibition)
A Quiet Landscape
Including paintings of East Anglia by: James Colman, Tor Falcon, Kate Giles, Tom Lamprell, Chloe Mandy, Alfred Munnings, Mary Newcomb, and Tessa Newcomb.
Exhibition open 13–17 February 2025
Opening evening 12 February 5-7pm (All welcome)
The Hobart Room & The Noverre Cabinets, The Assembly House, Norwich
Curated by Caroline Fisher and Henry Jackson Newcomb
A Free Tour of The Assembly House
We hope you are able to join us for a free tour of The Assembly House curated by guide Roxanne Matthews, funded by The Assembly House Trust. Tickets must be pre-booked.
Tickets are required to attend these limited space tours, these are allocated from a draw using the form below.
• Enter your details and select the dates of interest, you can apply for up to four tickets.
• Two weeks before the tour we draw 20 places and will contact those selected.
• Due to the number of people applying, we are unable to contact everyone who hasn't been selected.
Please note:
• Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list
• If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
• Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
• Access to the undercroft involves steep stairs and uneven flooring and is not suitable for anyone with any form of mobility problem: guests enter the undercroft at their own risk. Areas of the undercroft are dark and potentially slippery. Please do not go into the undercroft if you feel you will not be safe.
• Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
• Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
The Assembly House: free tour by Roxanne Matthews
TICKETS FOR THIS TOUR MUST BE PRE-BOOKED.
As part of The Assembly House Trust’s commitment to share the wonders of The Assembly House with the public, the Trust invites you to amble around the corridors, crypt and rooms of the House in the capable hands of art historian and tour guide Roxanne Matthews. Come and feed your minds and souls with tales of a medieval college, Tudor spoils, Georgian arts, 19th century dancing, a school, top secret camouflage school and more. Includes a visit to the crypt which has steep stairs and uneven floors. Not suitable for children under the age of 10. Free tours run monthly, you must be booked on to the tour to take part. These free tours are booked in minutes. Follow our Instagram and Facebook pages to find out more information. Tickets for tours are announced on our social media pages and details are given about how to request tickets - please be aware, these places book very quickly and there are only 20 spaces per tour. If you encounter any issues, please email stacia@assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk.
We hope that you are able to join us for a tour which is funded by The Assembly House Trust, an arts charity which works to promote the House and its special heritage. We are hugely grateful to the Trust and to Roxanne, who has been leading these free tours for many years.
PLEASE NOTE:
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list. You will be standing or walking for the duration of the tour.
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Access to the undercroft involves steep stairs and uneven flooring and is not suitable for anyone with any form of mobility problem: guests enter the undercroft at their own risk. Areas of the undercroft are dark and potentially slippery. Please do not go into the undercroft if you feel you will not be safe.
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
The Assembly House: free tour by Roxanne Matthews
TICKETS FOR THIS TOUR MUST BE PRE-BOOKED.
As part of The Assembly House Trust’s commitment to share the wonders of The Assembly House with the public, the Trust invites you to amble around the corridors, crypt and rooms of the House in the capable hands of art historian and tour guide Roxanne Matthews. Come and feed your minds and souls with tales of a medieval college, Tudor spoils, Georgian arts, 19th century dancing, a school, top secret camouflage school and more. Includes a visit to the crypt which has steep stairs and uneven floors. Not suitable for children under the age of 10. Free tours run monthly, you must be booked on to the tour to take part. These free tours are booked in minutes. Follow our Instagram and Facebook pages to find out more information. Tickets for tours are announced on our social media pages and details are given about how to request tickets - please be aware, these places book very quickly and there are only 20 spaces per tour. If you encounter any issues, please email stacia@assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk.
We hope that you are able to join us for a tour which is funded by The Assembly House Trust, an arts charity which works to promote the House and its special heritage. We are hugely grateful to the Trust and to Roxanne, who has been leading these free tours for many years.
PLEASE NOTE:
* Tours begin at 10am and are 1.5 hours long. Please meet Roxanne in the Grand Hall, which is the hall with our reception desk, she will take your name from the bookings list. You will be standing or walking for the duration of the tour.
* If this tour needs to be cancelled for any reason, you will be emailed on the address you book under. We cannot guarantee there will not be circumstances in which a tour may need to be cancelled if, for example, there are safety concerns or illness: please check your mail before travelling
* Tickets for this tour will NOT be rolled over to the next tour in the case of cancellation
* Access to the undercroft involves steep stairs and uneven flooring and is not suitable for anyone with any form of mobility problem: guests enter the undercroft at their own risk. Areas of the undercroft are dark and potentially slippery. Please do not go into the undercroft if you feel you will not be safe.
* Tours may not involve all rooms at the House if they are booked for private events
* Tours are not suitable for children under the age of 10.
Assembly House Classical: The The Pelléas Ensemble
Flute, Viola and Harp trio The Pelléas Ensemble return to The Assembly House for a lunchtime recital. Assembly House Classical presents The Pelléas Ensemble. Once a month, in the Georgian Music Room at The Assembly House on Theatre Street – in the same room pianist Franz Liszt played in 1840 – lunchtime chamber concerts are hosted. The season is curated by Iain Lowery and supported by The Assembly House Trust. All hour-long concerts take place once a month on Thursdays and start at 1pm, tickets cost £20.
Assembly House Classical: The Sacconi Quartet
Once a month, in the Georgian Music Room at The Assembly House on Theatre Street – in the same room pianist Franz Liszt played in 1840 – lunchtime chamber concerts are hosted. The season is curated by Iain Lowery and supported by The Assembly House Trust. All hour-long concerts take place once a month on Thursdays and start at 1pm, tickets cost £20.