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9 – 30 <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>2023</strong><br />
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Thursday 28 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />
7.30pm Wanstead Book Festival presents: Helen Day – Visions of our future (£10)<br />
Ladybird Books are instantly recognisable. As well as helping generations of<br />
children learn to read, they represented a vision of how people perceived their<br />
lives as things were changing around them. Helen Day is the unofficial historian<br />
of the role the books played in our lives. She will be celebrating the art, the books<br />
and the values which they represented. Wanstead’s Oxfam bookshop will be<br />
celebrating the books too by exhibiting as many Ladybird books as it has been able<br />
to collect – and this is your chance to buy a piece of all our history.<br />
Venue: Wanstead Library, Churchill Room<br />
Friday 29 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />
7.30pm Concert: Low Strings Drama (£10)<br />
Join award-winning composer – and Wanstead resident – Simone Spagnolo for a<br />
unique blend of chamber music and mystery drama soundtracks. This concert will<br />
present Low Strings Drama, a musical drama for viola and violoncello in eleven<br />
variations that alternates tense and turbid moments to frantic passages and<br />
dreamy melodies.<br />
Venue: Wanstead United Reformed Church, Nightingale Lane<br />
7.30pm Wanstead Book Festival presents: Tim Burrows (£10)<br />
Until 1965, Wanstead was truly a part of Essex, and even now there are tell-tale<br />
signs all around us of a time before it became part of a London borough. In the<br />
1980s, though, Essex became the stuff of tabloid headlines, supposed stereotypes<br />
and populist politics. Author Tim Burrows, in his book The Invention of Essex, says<br />
it is still regarded as the heartland of Thatcherism and Brexit but nevertheless is<br />
the place where England is most itself. He will be in conversation with celebrated<br />
local historian and psychogeographer (and star of the Wanstead Fringe in 2022 and<br />
2014) John Rogers.<br />
Venue: Wanstead Library, Churchill Room<br />
Saturday 30 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />
2pm and 3pm MUST Wine Bar Wanstead: Champagne Tasting (£20–£25)<br />
To finish the Fringe in style: Champagne Tasting (Rosé, Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de<br />
Noirs, Demi Sec). See Saturday 9 <strong>Sep</strong>tember for more details.<br />
Venue: MUST Wine, 125 High Street<br />
7pm Dark Isle: a new musical (£12; conc: £10)<br />
Dark Isle is a new musical written by Wanstead-based actor and writer Katherine<br />
Tripp, alongside Matthew Hessey and composer Ralph Warman. The performance<br />
will be a concert version of the musical, with two acts and a short interval. The<br />
musical is based on the true story of the ‘Flannan Isles Mystery’. In 1900, three<br />
lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared from their posts on the Flannan<br />
Isles in the Outer Hebrides. The musical is a depiction of what ‘could’ have<br />
happened, and how it affected the women who were left behind. Though the show<br />
is suitable for all ages, the complex themes of death, grief and isolation may be<br />
best suited for those 16 and over. Some loud sound effects may be used during<br />
the performance.<br />
Venue: St. Mary’s church, Overton Drive<br />
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