The Young Norfolk Writing Competition is an opportunity for young people aged 11-18 across Norfolk to share their own ideas, thoughts and feelings, encouraging all, regardless of ability, to have their voices heard. The National Centre for Writing is an organisation that works with writers at all stages of their career. They make literature accessible… Read More Young Norfolk Writing Competition: 2019 Launch
By Ella Frary Sunday 3rd March 2019Norwich Arts Centre “Everyone is shouting and no one is listening” Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. It is all we hear nowadays. The news, the radio, even on Love Island, you can’t escape it. However, ‘A Respectful Conversation About Brexit’ seemed a much-needed break from all we ever hear. It was… Read More A Respectful Conversation About Brexit @ Norwich Arts Centre
Last weekend our Comms Team member Aphra headed out to witness three of Norwich’s most raucous live bands storm the Banking Hall stage at Open. Read on to find out what magnificent musical happenings occurred… The night started with thespians Gladboy the “junkedelic quintet looking to save your soul” and I definitely found myself delivered… Read More Thinking Men + Bag Of Cans + Gladboy @ OPEN Banking Hall
By Ellie Robson Marlon James was the second author to speak at the Spring programme of UEA’s 2019 Literary Festival, following an opening by novelist Tessa Hadley the previous week. Although James was discussing his latest release, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, he came onto my literary radar after his success in winning the 2015 Man… Read More Marlon James @ UEA Literary Festival
Last week two of our YNA Comms Team members, Katie and Ellie, headed to Stage Two at Norwich Theatre Royal to see ‘What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors’ as part of their Creative Matters series. Here’s what they had to say about the performance… Review by Ellie Robson: What Goes On In Front… Read More What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors @ Stage Two, Norwich Theatre Royal
By Katie Stockton The Snoo Wilson Prize is an annual event, highlighting the best scriptwriting from the dissertations of undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of East Anglia. The prize holds in high esteem the ability to write a piece that is inventive, imaginative and formally achieved, and is named after the playwright and… Read More The Snoo Wilson Prize 2019
YNA Comms Team member Taryn Everdeen shares her thoughts about an event discussing gender at the Norwich Arts Centre. Cisgender: a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex. Transgender: a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. Intersex: a general term… Read More A Respectful Conversation about Gender @ Norwich Arts Centre
