Whats On
JMT200 Commemorative Textile Project with textile artist Vanessa Rolf
11am - 1pm or 2pm - 4pm, Monday 22th March 2010
Jaywick Martello Tower is celebrating its 200 year anniversary and to commemorate we are creating some textiles.
Come along and find out how you can get involved in making a JMT community commemorative textile. Whether you want to learn new skills or practice existing ones then you will be welcome! Free tea and coffee will be provided.
This Session will be researching the history and starting to raise ideas for designing the textiles. If you would like to bring something about the history of Jaywick or Martello Towers for example a postcard, photograph, memory, story, drawing etc.. OR if you would like to bring something you have made or something that you like the look of for design ideas.
For more details email info@jaywickmartellotower.org or ring 01255 822783 (Saturday and Sundays 10.30am -3.30pm)
Open Casting
Open Call for actors/models for a short film to be shot in Jaywick and Clacton in April and May 2010.
No experience or qualifications necessary but you should live in the Jaywick/Clacton area, be out of full-time education and be over 16 years of age.
The castings will be held at the Princes Theatre, Clacton Town Hall, Station Road, Clacton-On-Sea:
Monday 8 March: 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 9 March: 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 16 March: 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 4.30pm
The finished film will be screened locally in summer 2010. Selected candidates will be paid a modest fee plus expenses.
For further information and to book a castings slot, please contact: fleetfilm2010@googlemail.com
Intiated by Jaywick Martello Tower Artist in Residence, Sarah Dobai, as part of Fleet: art in the Haven Ports, managed by Commissions East in partnership with Essex County Council and Jaywick Martello Tower.
Richard Woodman - Essex Book Festival March 2010
2pm, Saturday 13th March 2010
Captain Woodman, Essex historian and novelist, brings to life the Napoleonic era as seen in his Nathaniel Drinkwater novels.
Tickets: £4/3
How to book
By telephone, using a credit card, on 01206 573948. There is a 75p charge for telephone booking regardless of ticket numbers.
By post, complete a booking form (found inside the Festival programme) and send with payment to Essex Book Festival Box Office, Balkerne Gate, Colchester CO1 1PT. There is no processing charge for postal bookings.
In person, visit the Mercury Theatre Box Office 10am-8pm Monday to Saturday.
Online, at www.mercurytheatre.co.uk. There is an 80p per ticket charge for online bookings.
Spring Talks 2010
The Martello Towers of the East Coast by Roger Kennell
11am, Friday 26th March
Local historian Roger Kennell presents the construction and design of these unique Napoleonic fortifications.
DNA and Facial Recognition by Richard Till 11am, Friday 2nd April A fun session with Richard Till teaching us to look at our faces to determine the genetic links with our ancestors.
Essex Coastal Trade in the 1800s by Roger Beckett
11am, Friday 9th April
Essex historian Roger Beckett discusses the Essex coastal trade during the Napoleonic era.
Newcomers to Essex by Mark Curteis
11am, Friday 16th April
Mark Curteis makes a welcomed return to present us with a interesting tale of Newcomers to Essex.
History Through the Sea Shanty by Keith Lovell
11am, Friday 23rd April
The author of the Essex Town Sign history books Keith Lovell will take us into history through the sea shanty.
Martello Towers and the Napoleonic Threat by Richard Woodman
11am, Friday 30th April
Essex Historian and Novelist Richard Woodman present's the Napoleonic Wars as part of our 200th Birthday celebrations.
2010 Programme
Jaywick Martello Towers 2010 Programme will be as varied and appealing as in previous years. Please keep an eye on our website for dates of events and exhibitions, the following will give you a flavour of what to expect of the 2010 programme.
Our popular annual series of Spring and Autumn Talks will continue: higlights will include the history of the sea shanty and a look at our DNA.
September 2009 saw the launch of a year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of JMT, which will continue with an exhibition of the history of Martello Towers. Special events will include the return of the Historical Martime Society. Textile artist Vanessa Rolf will work with the community to produce a commemorative textile piece for JMT.
JMT is also proud to be a partner for Fleet, a major cross-channel programme for temporary visual arts commissions and residencies. Gavin Turk is the lead artist for the project, which seeks to encourage people to attend arts events through environmentally sustainable transport. It will offer an international series of unqiue experiences and encounters in Kent, Essex, Suffolk and Nord Pas de Calais in France, and is supported by a culteral exchange programme. JMT will welcome internationally renowned artist Sarah Dobai as part of Fleet.
The successful 2009 Spring exhibition Spirit of Jaywick by local artists Judith Wolton and Gillian Townsend, has given inspiration for the Jaywick Open exhibition in August 2010. This exhibition will give local artists a chance to display their talent in arts and crafts. Details of how to enter the exhibition will be available soon.
And of course, JMT is open to the public for all those who wish to simply enjoy this fascinating and carefully restored two hundred year old building. So wether your interest is in art, heritage, the environment, or just unexpected delights, then JMT has something for you.