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th 18 Jun 2025	We were so lucky to meet Eamon McCabe at the Sweffling Printroom just a few weeks before he unexpectedly died. We were impressed that after a lifetime he was still interested in photography. The Royal Photographic Society have a bursary in his name for £3,000 and photographers under 30 available until 3 August.
tu 5May 2026	Steve and Sarah the patrons of Saxmundham's socialbar have been running the Laxfield Royal Oak since December last year. There are new excellent chefs and tonight being the first Tuesday of the month it's the first monthly Open Mike Night ... feels like the Sweffling Jam Party has found a new home. ♫
we 22 Apr 2026	♫ The wonderfully located Sweffling Printroom has collaborated with Flipside Festival for Sound Beginnings presented by composer John Mercer and critic Robert Stein. Tomorrow night's An explosion of sounds is the last but as usual afterwards there will be great cake.
sa 14 Mar 2026	Despite Thursday night's winds a very decent turnout at the Printroom Sweffling for Sound Beginnings. Composer and presenter John Mercer will be forever blessed for pointing out John Cage on 1960s tv and afterwards there was great cake.
sa 21 Feb 2026	Today and tomorrow the Sweffling Printroom studio is having a one off SALE for visitors only not online and of course there will be great cake.
th 22 Jan 2026	The Old Glory Molly Dancers at the Sweffling White Horse 7:30pm tonight.
we 3 Dec 2025	The semi-retired Sweffling printroom (they're having a SALE the weekend 21-22 February) are planning the new web site Culture Edit Suffolk to focus on the small-scale arts scene in Suffolk. You can help by taking their survey, it only took us two minutes.
sa 22 Nov 2025	♫ At last night's Concert for Gaza in Sweffling the woman who won £100 in the raffle (tactfully presented in an envelope) gave it back for Gaza.
we 19 Nov 2025	♫ This Friday in Sweffling the Slate Barn Arts hosted Concert for Gaza. is SOLD OUT.
mo 17 Nov 2025	♫ Don't expect the Sweffling Jam Parties to return but this coming Friday Slate Barn Arts will be hosting Concert for Gaza.
fr 7 Nov 2025	♫ Tomorrow in the Sweffling hut An Evening with Jane Austen with a supper.
we 8 Oct 2025	The Sweffling Printroom will be open Saturday and Sunday for the show Dissent and Displacement. We visited last month and the artist Monica Petzal was engagingly informative and there might be tea and cake.
sa 16 Aug 2025	The Sweffling Printroom is open today and tomorrow for the show Dissent and Displacement.
su 15 Jun 2025	For the summer solstice the brilliantly chaotic Rendham Mummers return to the Sweffling White Horse for The Rendham Swingers. Free but there'll be a hat for the St Elizabeth Hospice.
th 5 Dec 2024	♫ 7:30 tomorrow night in St Mary's Sweffling the Leiston Royal British Legion is giving a Christmas Brass Concert, tickets in advance or pay at the door and include interval refreshments.
su 10 Nov 2024	♫ What a very great pity, the monthly Slate Barn Jam Party in Sweffling is going on its hols for the winter. We monumentally hope it will return in the spring ...
tu 1 Oct 2024	CANCELLED That's a pity, TONIGHT's Sweffling Jam Party is off.
su 15 Sep 2024	3pm this afternoon Poetry in Aldeburgh at the the Sweffling Printroom, free with tea and cake.
we 19 Jun 2024 Juneteenth	The Rendham Mummers mark the summer solstice (summer? ha ha) 7:30 tomorrow night at the Sweffling White Horse.
tu 4 Jun 2024	♫ The monthly Jam Party at the Slate Barn Sweffling has moved from last Tuesday of the month to the first Tuesday ... so tonight then.
we 17 Apr 2024	The Sweffling Print Room may have retired as a gallery in October last year but continues as a venue. Tomorrow the second of eight talks The Life and Afterlife of Art by Dr John -Paul Stonard ... tickets available on the door.
th 28 Dec 2023	♫ The Sweffling Jam Night is usually last Tuesday of the month but that would have been Boxing Day so for this month only it's T ONIGHT.
mo 31 Oct 2023	♫ As with all last Tuesdays of the month tomorrow will be the free entry Sweffling Slate Barn Halloween jam night.
fr 27 Oct 2023	This weekend will be the Sweffling Printroom's last, what a pity such a lovely location.
fr 13 Oct 2023	Like a teenager growing out of their shoes Sweffling has spawned Sweffling teens which is the village in the late noughties squeezed into the teenage years.
fr 15 Sep 2023	Early this evening at the Sweffling printroom gallery Swedish artist Staffan Gnosspelius will be signing his book bear and talking about his very affordable prints which will show each weekend until October.
fr 8 Sep 2023	We've always enjoyed unaccompanied small group singing and 5 In A Bar will present an a capella concert with interval refreshments tonight in the Sweffling church. ♫
mo 21 Aug 2023	♫ At her Sweffling Slate Barn concert in June Polly Gibbons said she'll be on BBC1 10am Sunday morning with family members as her backing singers and it could be comedy gold.
sa 22 Jul 2023	This weekend last chance to see Katherine Jones' show at the Sweffling Printroom Gallery. The sad news is that after showing Swedish artist Staffan Gnosspelius in September the gallery will permanently close in November, very sorry to hear that.
sa 15 Jul 2023	We've always thought ELO an essentially cheerful band but also very much a studio band needing multi-tracking and studio effects to sound like that. Last night in the Sweffling Slate Barn and the rain we were stunned by ELO Encounter recreating the sound live just like the studio original. ♫
we 12 Jul 2023	♫ This Friday ELO Encounter at the Sweffling Slate Barn. Wonderful location and venue (though do remember the compost toilets are for sitting only), pleasant crowd, licensed bar and the tributeers do sound remarkably like the tributees.
we 28 Jun 2023	♫ A very decent turn out of both players and jam goers at the Sweffling Slate Barn last night and Simon's looped samples prompted dancing. Every last Tuesday an enjoyable and free night out but do remember the compost toilets are for sitting nly.
su 18 Jun 2023 Polly Gibbons	♫ Last night in the Sweffling Slate Barn there was a full house for Polly Gibbons and James Pearson who were relaxed and faultless in their performance. Whenever we visit the Slate Barn there's been another improvement, this time the car park had usefully grown. Upcoming next month ELO Encounter and Polly on the tv in August.
th 15 Jun 2023 shed	Saturday evening in the Slate Barn Sweffling Polly Gibbons and the James Pearson Duo will be giving a concert in support of the Hebron Music Academy. Showtime 8:00pm and there's a licensed bar. ♫
fr 9 Jun 2023	Sunday afternoon at the Sweffling Print Room Katherine Jones will be talking about her work ... and there will be cake.
mo 8 May 2023	The Sweffling printroom's first show of the year is a four hander with prints from Bronwen Sleigh, Paul Coldwell and Eleanor Havsteen Franklin plus intriguingly sculptural pots from Jonathon Keep. Last chance to see this weekend.
tu 20 Dec 2022	♫ This month's Jam Night in the Sweffling Slate Barn has had to move from the usual last Tuesday to Friday the 30th, surprisingly because of the licensing.
we 26 Oct 2022 Jam Party	♫ The Jam Night in Sweffling last night rewardingly had a good hatful of very able younger players and impressively often they played more than one instrument. The pizza van was a no show but the well stocked bar had attractively priced Vic and could take card payments. Do it again soon please.
mo 10 Oct 2022	House sales around near the coast including Carlton, Friston, Kelsale, Sweffling and two in Benhall.
su 9 Oct 2022	The Sweffling Printroom's upcoming show is the second part of How Artists Understand Landscape with artists Steve Edwards, Gill Tyson , Serena Smith and Michelle Keegan. The private view is this coming Friday the 14th.
su 31 Jul 2022	♫ We always enjoyed the magic Sweffling née Rendham field dances until it seemed to evaporate after 2015. Pleasingly it's sort of reappearing as the Sweffling Ceilidh this coming Saturday and although the poster doesn't say where perhaps it's in the pub's garden? Either way the pub will know where ...
we 25 May 2022 private view	The current show at the George Farnham Gallery Saxmundham ending Saturday is Brazilian artist Lupe Cunha. Our thanks to the gallery for their support. Tomorrow the Print Room Sweffling will be returning in the slot. Their upcoming exhibition is Workplaces & Wildspaces by Graham Crowley with the private view (which isn't private) 5-8pm Friday.
su 24 Apr 2022	The Sudbourne Park Printmakers show at the Sweffling Printroom ends 5pm today.
mo 18 Apr 2022	Last week near Sweffling stumbled across our first Quiet Lane.
fr 15 Apr 2022	♫ Mid-week we visited the Sweffling Slate Barn Barn Revue rehearsals for tomorrow night, the Freddy Mercury reference certainly made us laugh. The last show at this wonderful location was a cracker.
sa 19 Mar 2022	The Sweffling Printroom gallery sent the Disasters Emergency Committee £7,130 for Ukraine. The impressive amount was raised from last weekend's print sale. Master printer Kip Gresham will be anecdoting 2:30pm today at the the gallery.
tu 8 Mar 2022	The master printer Kip Gresham show at the Sweffling Printroom starts Saturday and continues into April.
mo 18 Oct 2021	On the 30th this year's Flipside festival is being held at Yew Tree Barn Sweffling and the near by printroom gallery. Your ticket includes complimentary beverages.
mo 6 Sep 2021	Between 9am Friday 27th and Sunday afternoon 29th August an outbuilding was broken into at a home near Glemham Road Sweffling and four 18” alloy wheels and four tyres stolen. If you have any info please contact Suffolk Police quoting 37/47996/21, you can phone 101.
su 30 May 2021	As so often stunned how long since we last visited the Sudbourne Printmakers. This week they are being hosted by the Sweffling printroom and when we visited yesterday it was busy, lots of sales with Peter Besson clearly popular. Next exhibitors at the printroom are local artists Amanda Edgcombe and Tassie Russell.
sa 29 May 2021	Paintings and drawings of Sweffling by Ruth Finn at Studio Sosenka Rendham this week.
fr 28 May 2021	The Sweffling printroom gallery re-opens today to host the Sudbourne Printmakers and the gallery will be part of Suffolk Open Studios next month.
we 19 May 2021	Studio 80 in Rendham has transmogrified into Studio Sosenka (it's Polish for pine, presumably as in wood). From six pm Friday they will be showing paintings and drawings of Sweffling by Ruth Finn ... it usually involves white wine.
sa 24 Oct 2020	In it's idyllic rural Sweffling setting the printroom studio is usually open for browsing and bringing in framing but best to check with Monica Petzal on 07775 676185.
fr 4 Sep 2020	The printroom gallery in Sweffling is an elegant building in a beautiful location. They are open this Sunday 10am-5pm with 20% off all framed prints. To join them in supporting us the next available slot is 24th September, tell the world about yourself for £9.95 ... ads explained here.
th 9 Jan 2020	Yesterday afternoon a fatal single vehicle crash in Sweffling.

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