Since Lockdown and 2022 Meg has decided not to perform shows or employ puppeteers any longer, so our most popular recent shows Apple Pip and Pip’s Wildlife Garden will no longer be available to tour. Apple Pip clocked up 217 performances in two different versions, with the original puppeteer Suzanne Arnold, and later Steve Peck …read more…
Productions
PeopleSCATtered
A project begun in the winter of 21/22 to chase away the blues of having no work on the horizon, when Meg and long time collaborator, composer Jane Wells, sat outside the Forum in Norwich, watching people passing in the square below and Jane came up with the idea of making a piece about what …read more…
New for 2021 – 2 Birds by Zoom
Meg has established a regular relationship with the Red House Aldeburgh (Britten Pears Arts) Mini Music Makers group, performing a show and a workshop in the winter of 2019/2020 and expecting to work there again in the summer, but Covid 19 lock-down brought that to a halt. In January 2021, she was asked by Joe …read more…
Apple Pip at the Cider and Song Festival
Back by Popular request! Saturday October 19th 2019 11.30 and 2.30 for 3 – 6 year olds or a family audience At the Cider and Song Festival at the Museum of East Anglian Life, MEAL, Iliffe Way, Stowmarket, IP14 1DE First produced in 2003 with Suzanne Arnold performing, Meg designing and scriptwriting, and Iklooshar …read more…
Kinodrome Cinema at Folk East 2019
If you are coming to Folk East this weekend 16th – 18th August, call in at the Kinodrome cinema tent. Lots of wonderful contemporary and archive films on show from 10 am – 10pm daily. Many of the films will be introduced by the film makers. For the full schedule, visit the Folk East …read more…
Calling East Anglian short-film makers
We are now programming Folk East Electric Kinodrome 16th – 18th August 2019. https://www.folkeast.co.uk We are looking for short locally-made independent animation and live action films, made by professionals, artists, students, and young people, preferably with a folk or local interest theme. In return for introducing your film in the Kinodrome cinema tent, we can …read more…
Retrospective Exhibition
[slideshow_deploy id=’3662′]40 years of Puppet Making by Meg Amsden. Upstairs Gallery, Craftco, 40A High Street, Southwold, Suffolk. IP18 6AE 2 – 27th November 2018 – Gallery open every day apart from Wednesdays. 10 – 5, Sun 11 – 4. Closed 1 – 2 for lunch. 01502 723211 https://www.craftco.co.uk About 50 puppets from 40 years of …read more…
Apple Pip back on tour!
Joy Haynes (director) and Meg Amsden (performer) have been working on a new version of Nutmeg’s much loved show Apple Pip. First performance: Saturday October 20th at 11.30 and 2.30 2018 At the Cider and Song Festival at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Iliffe Way, Stowmarket, IP14 1DE https://www.eastanglianlife.org.uk/ (read more)
Sculpture Trail at Raveningham closes Sunday 16th Sept!
Last chance tomorrow to see the WAVENEY VALLEY SCULPTURE TRAIL RAVENINGHAM FRI 17 AUG – SUN 16 SEPT 2018 The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk NR14 6NU Open every day 10am – 5pm Meg’s new installation – Sweet Chestnut Oak and Hornbeam – can be seen at site no 15 – Six dryad masks relating to Dr Bach’s intuitive …read more…
Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail
WAVENEY VALLEY SCULPTURE TRAIL RAVENINGHAM FRI 17 AUG – SUN 16 SEPT 2018 The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk NR14 6NU Open every day 10am – 5pm Meg’s new installation – Sweet Chestnut Oak and Hornbeam – can be seen at site no 15 – Six dryad masks relating to Dr Bach’s intuitive plant remedies – Faith and Anguish, …read more…