Unmeasured Chamber Concerts 2026
A monthly chamber series of internationally acclaimed musicians, curated by period-instrument specialists Matthew Wadsworth (lute) and Kate Bennett Wadsworth (cello/viol). Concerts are an hour long and take place in the beautiful acoustics of the Octagon Chapel, designed in 1753 by Thomas Ivory, on the first Friday of the month.
Schubert in Nature
Friday 6 November at 7pm
The Consone Quartet
Kate Bennett Wadsworth, cello
John Crockatt, viola
Der Wachtelschlag, D742
Cello Quintet, D956
Tickets:
General admission £20.00 (+ £1.68 booking fee) Your ticket includes a glass of wine.
Under 18s FREE (Your ticket includes a glass of apple juice).
Come With Us £80.00 (+ £6.72 booking fee) Admits 5. Come in a group of 5 and pay for only 4 tickets (you still get the free drink)
Buy tickets in advance here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/unmeasured
WORLD CINEMA CLUB NORWICH
Cult Classics & Modern Masterpieces. The best of World Cinema at just £5 a ticket.
A season of Japanese cinema
Wednesday 14 October GODZILLA (1954)
Monday 2 November MONSTER (2023)
Wednesday 18 November THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS (1985)
Wednesday 9 December BATTLE ROYAL (2000)
Tickets £5 available here: https://www.fatsoma.com/p/world-cinema-club-norwich/events
NORWICH BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday 24 – Friday 30 October
Saturday 24 Oct Iain Dale – Have I Said Too Much? 7.30pm (Age 16+)
Sunday 25 Oct Greg Jenner: Dead Famous 7pm
Tuesday 27 Oct Hannah Murray: The Make Believe 7.30pm (Age 18+)
Wednesday 28 Oct Norfolk Folklore Society Live podcast recording 7.30pm (Age 16+)
Thursday 29 Oct Sophie Hannah & Harriet Tyce 7pm (Age 16+)
Friday 30 Oct Kate Mosse 7.30pm (Age 16+)
Click on each event for tickets. Full festival details at https://norwichbookfestival.co.uk/
Medieval Deep Listening – Laura Cannell + Simon Nunn (Visuals)
Sunday, 1 November 2026 at 5pm
JOIN US FOR AN IMMERSIVE HOUR OF ANCIENT SOUND & VISUALS
LAURA CANNELL – Music
SIMON NUNN – Film
Contemporary minimalism, Neo-Medieval music and Evocative Earthly Landscape imagery come together to create an intimate deep listening and visually immersive experience.
Laura Cannell’s rich string drones and other instruments explore ancient melodies with real-time compositions and improvisation to fill the 18th century architecture of Norwich’s Octagon Chapel while film-maker Simon Nunn creates and projects East Anglian imagery directly onto the columns and spaces above, mixing live visuals with live improvised sound.
Medieval Deep Listening is for anyone who wants to enjoy a listening experience immersed in a magical environment of sound and vision.
You can bring a pillow and lay on a pew (unless the concert is sold out!) switch off from everything and soak in the resonance of the Octagon Chapel.
Live improvisations based on the music of Hildegard of Bingen, The Cantigas de Santa Maria, Guillaumme de Machaut and many more.
Immerse yourself in a relaxed hour of medieval
inspired music and visuals.
Tickets £15.50 available from The Holloway https://thehollowaynorwich.com/events/QfQlsBcokKkCNmjFXMLr
Midwinter Celebration
Saturday 19 December 4.30pm – 6pm
An immersive and beautiful weaving of song, poetry, simple ceremony and folklore.
This event is created and held by Natasha Hood and Linds Bestwicke (MerryMeet) and our vision includes an emphasis on community and celebration, drawing on Midwinter and Yule traditions of times past. There will be songs! Some brought to you by singers who have participated in the full project (see below), and others for communal singing on the night.
Before the Christian festival of Christmas, people celebrated the return of the Sun at Yule. Very simply, the joyous revelries at this time of year were in highest praise and delight at the continuation of LIFE, as evidenced in the return of ‘the Unconquered Sun’ and the existence of evergreens, even in the depths of Winter. It was, therefore, a festival of hope and thanks-giving, a profoundly joyous celebration at the renewal stage of the birth-death-rebirth cycle of life, and Nature. At the harshest time of the year, it united people, strengthening bonds of kinship and community, rooted in a sense of goodwill, belonging and abundance.
The musical side of this project grew out of the exciting discovery of some restored midwinter/yule carols, rigorously researched and presented by Norman Iles. He writes compellingly, and with grief, about how much has been lost with regards to the ways of our rural ancestors who lived so closely attuned with the earth’s natural rhythms, celebrating life with a wholesome joy and earthy sensuality. The ‘restored’ carols will form the basis of the presented repertoire at the event, alongside one or two contemporary folk-style songs embodying the feel of the season.
There is still opportunity to join the full project (consisting of four song rehearsal dates: 7th, 14th & 15th November, plus the day itself on 19th December – please email natasha@natashahood.com to find out more); it would be wonderful to have you join us!!
Tickets: £12.50-£19.50, Kids Aged 12-18 £5.50, under 12 free buytickets.at/merrymeet
