Synth building and composition workshop, and performance for girls aged 9-14 with Loula Yorke:

Together we’ll learn to solder safely and build a little noise instrument for you to keep, as well as introducing the basics of sound synthesis (13:30 – 15:00). We’ll then collaborate to create a composition using our new instruments (15:30 – 17:00), before finally re-grouping in the evening to perform our short piece in front of an audience at Plink Plonk (19:00).

This is a female-led workshop designed to encourage girls’ confidence and participation in STEM activities and foster an interest in creating electronic music, two fields in which women are currently hugely under-represented.

Please note that the workshop setting is female only. Places are free but booking is essential from Eventbrite: https://ataripunkgirls.eventbrite.co.uk

Loula Yorke is a live artist and noise-maker whose time-based practice dances in the spaces where techno meets leftism. Her primary instrument is a modular synthesiser housed in a roughly-hewn hunk of log.

As one half of TR-33N, Loula has performed live at Glastonbury Festival and Boomtown, and had collaborative work broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

Pronounced like a whisper, her debut solo album ysmysmysm is out now on Junted, Detroit.

A short performance from participants of the ‘ATARI PUNK GIRLS’ synth building and composition workshops with Loula Yorke, held earlier in the day. Each participant will build a version of the classic Atari Punk Console, collaborating with Yorke the group will perform an improvised electronic soundscape.

Solo set from the alter-ego of Colleen O’Brien, Taz Cobalt; a brand new collection of woozy music and immersive sound will take you down the rabbit hole, into a deep and soothing dimension.

Loula Yorke will return to the stage to headline this special event using her unique ‘Innalog’ synthesiser; a modular system housed within a hollowed out log!

Event free but booking essential: https://plinkplonk.eventbrite.co.uk

A Nashville Style Writer’s Round featuring four of Norwich’s finest country musicians – Sam Coe of Sam Coe & The Long Shadows, Vic Allen, Lucy Grubb and Emily Frith.

Doors 6pm, bring your own drinks!

Tickets £7 in advance.

TBA Artist Collective Presents

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Members & Invited Artists at The Shoe Factory Social Club, 2nd – 5th May.

Private view Thursday 2nd, 6 – 9pm.

Drinks and DJs Saturday 4th, 7 – 11pm.

General view Friday 10am – 6pm / Saturday 10am – 11pm / Sunday 10am – 2pm.

Over the past 2 years FRESH has established itself as a contemporary artisan market for the style and design conscious, providing an opportunity to meet makers in a distinctive venue and buy unique pieces, often unavailable on the high street.

Always a fantastic, buzzing atmosphere, these markets are a highlight of our events calendar!

11th & 12th May, 10am – 4pm.

Harmonium return to The Shoe Factory Social Club for 2019!

Harmonium is an experiment in vocal sound created by layering 12 women’s voices with hypnotic interlocking rhythms and harmonies.

Written by Sian Croose, the piece is immersive, creating a soundworld that is designed to be transporting to listen to and a joy to sing.

These events feature  multi- instrumentalist, Adrian Lever, with new music created collaboratively for this event.

Tickets available from – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harmonium-at-the-shoe-factory-with-adrian-lever-tickets-59230760800

Comedy, drama, songs and music as members old and new reunite for a one off experience.

Explore the atmospheric venue, discover weird and wonderful characters, join in the performance.

Will you bring about the end of the world or will you stop it?

TAP has come about through the perceived need for an independent art school that can respond immediately to the actual practical needs of its students without ‘teaching to the test’. Courses offer a high level of contact time, through mentoring and tutoring with a wide range of national and international artists and curators whose specialisms range between drawing, sculpture and painting to installation, photography, film, performance and writing, giving a range of different experiences and perspectives to our courses.

Two intensive weekends of the course will be held at The Shoe Factory Social Club. More details, and an application form can be found here – theartpractitioner.com