If statues could talk, what stories would they tell? Ten of Norwich’s historic statues have been given the gift of the gab!
Norwich, England
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That's a wrap! It's been an amazing 10 days of Norfolk Heritage Open Days and we want to say a big THANK YOU to all the organisers, volunteers and visitors that have made this year an absolute blast! 🎉🙌🎉 #NorfolkHODs #HODs @heritageopenday
Last day @NorwichStatues Here are the final 3 plaques so you can listen wherever you are! Here is: Thomas Browne, voiced by @george_szirtes & @AdamBuxton, The Missing Statue, voiced by Tom Carver Helen McDermott and Snap the Dragon, voiced by Amelia Platt & Joe Darbyshire.
2 more days to hear us! Here's another more chance to listen wherever you are! Peace, voiced by @MollyNaylor
Peter the Wild Boy, voiced by @AGSmith_Author & Keith Skipper, and Lord Nelson, voiced by @stephenfry
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3 more days to hear us! Here's a chance to listen in wherever you are! Amelia Opie, voiced by @MeghanBradbury & @ZoeTelford. The City Hall Lions, voiced @karlminns & The Nimmo Twins, and Julian of Norwich, voiced by @sarahperry & @OliviaColmanTV
3 more days to hear us! Here's a chance to listen in wherever you are! Amelia Opie, voiced by @MeghanBradbury & @ZoeTelford. The City Hall Lions, voiced @karlminns & The Nimmo Twins, and Julian of Norwich, voiced by @sarahperry & @OliviaColmanTV
Thankyou @NorfolkHODs and @TheForumNorwich for this fab little promo for @NorwichStatues farewell during HoDs! You have until the 22nd September to visit our statues and hear their wonderful stories, whilst you are out and about exploring our fantastic heritage!
The #NorfolkHODs festival is your final chance to take part in Talking Statues trail around the city centre, with the chance to hear stories from 10 of Norwich's historic statues. @NorwichStatues @CreativeNation
Watch our video and find out how to take part ⬇️
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Just two & half weeks left to hear what our statues have to say! Join us @TheForumNorwich Sat 14 Sept for @heritageopenday to complete your @ArtsAward Discover FOR FREE.
We had the pleasure of touring Julian, Nelson and Peace with visiting @cheveningfco fellows last week. It was lovely to meet them- in spite of the awfully British weather! @WritersCentre @uea @ace_national @Nrw_Cathedral
A great opportunity to learn more about Amelia Opie! We chose to feature her as she was/is such an accomplished, interesting and important Norwich woman and we felt the city didn’t know her well enough. Happy upcoming 250th!
It's only one week to Amelia Opie at 250. Four short talks by scholars from around the UK in the Tom Paine Study Centre at UEA on Wed 22 May 6.15-7.45pm to celebrate 250 years since Opie's birth in her own city. Free and open to the public. All welcome. Please RT!
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We really enjoyed meeting everyone and sharing a taster of our work and yes, the weather didn’t get the better of us!
☔ Despite the weather, a pleasure to tour @NorwichStatues today with a delegation of visiting Chevening fellows! We heard from Nelson, Julian, Peace, and looked at my favourite window 💕
ALT Cathedral and Nelson
ALT Cathedral and Julian
ALT Julian statue
ALT Fave Cathedral window
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New and hopefully more robust plaques are now in place for some of our Talking Statues- just in time for the @NNFest ! We are super excited to get out and about on the trail with Festival visitors- and our school groups with whom we will be out and about next week! @NNFBridge
We spent a lovely afternoon with our statues yesterday, planning our tours for during the @nnfest we can’t wait to explore the trail with local schools and hear what Norwich’s young… instagram.com/p/BwJmiU6jGMa/…
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#Teachers in #Norfolk have you heard about the great @NNFest and @NorwichStatues #heritage offer for schools? Including free teacher's CPD on 3 April at @WritersCentre Norwich. Find out more by downloading their Take Part: Schools brochure here >>> bit.ly/2Ceu70A
We are delighted to be in this year’s @NNFestival programme! We have TWO fantastic offers for schools including guided tours for school groups and FREE CPD for teachers with @HistoricEngland @museumofnorwich @WritersCentre For info issuu.com/norfolk_and_norwic…
'The statues of Norwich just won't keep quiet!' Thanks guys!
The excellent talking @NorwichStatues trail grew by two this week. Stephen Fry and Olivia Colman to name but a few give voices to some of the city’s most famous statues - lifeinafinecity.com/blog/the…
Our trail is complete as of today! All 10 of Norwich’s talking statues are chatting! Our last two come online this morning. Join us at Museum of Norwich at 11 and the Church of St John… instagram.com/p/Bt77JBOjqhK/…
On Sat 16 Feb Snap the Dragon @museumofnorwich will find his voice! Join us at 11am to hear what he has to say for himself, meet our competition winner Amelia Platt and our statue's voice, @DarbyJW of @MocoTheatreCo @WritersCentre @ace_southeast @TNLUK @CreativeNation
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Cannot wait to hear what this fella has to say for himself when he comes to life this weekend, all part of @NorwichStatues . We've got dragon themed crafts and a chance to do your @ArtsAward as well this Saturday afternoon. #Norwich #History
Peter DOES demand a song, so thank you Kate! We hope you enjoyed him! @AGSmith_Author
Delighted to be working with @NorwichStatues @NorfolkMuseums @museumofnorwich @NNFest to bring Norwich history and heritage to life for teachers and young people in the city. Treated this little chap to a few bars of 'Wild World' by Cat Stevens - seemed appropriate!
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Congrats to @OliviaColmanTV for her Best Actress @BAFTA To celebrate, here's her @NorwichStatues plaque so you can have a listen to her wonderful interpretation of Sarah Perry's monologue of Julian of Norwich.
