Arts La'Olam

Arts La'Olam Arts La'Olam brings excellent live world music performances and workshops to children, families and communities in the UK. Event Notices for a Global Community.

Music Arts and Life combine from participatory workshops in rural areas to music fusion events in town. We are based in East Anglia and have strong links with the World Music Community enjoying a positive exchange with Drum Camp, Southburgh Festival, and local global artists all around the UK. We operate as a booking agency and events production company accessing funding so that we can pay artists

properly and keep events affordable for families. We pay strong attention to audience development - believing a wider world music audience is the answer to everything, more peace, more enjoyment, more health, more love.

✨ 🪡STITCH YOUR STORY🧵✨️– Textile and embroidery workshopsJoin artist Suman Gujral for a relaxed, hands-on workshop expl...
09/06/2026

✨ 🪡STITCH YOUR STORY🧵✨️
– Textile and embroidery workshops

Join artist Suman Gujral for a relaxed, hands-on workshop exploring how to *stitch your own story* through textiles, collage and words ❤️📚📖

Together we’ll create work that connects personal and shared heritages. All materials will be provided, along with tea & biscuits 🫖☕️🍪 Please bring a packed lunch

📍 Venue: Ancient House Museum, 21 White Hart St, Thetford IP24 1AA
📅 Dates: 25 June, 2 July & 9 July 2026
🕚 Time: 11am – 3pm

🎉 FREE ENTRY

All adults welcome – no experience needed (or bring your skills and build on them).

Presented by Suman Gujral in partnership with The Festival of Thetford and Punjab, Arts La’Olam, and Essex Cultural Diversity Project

Funded by Arts Council England

🔗 For more info and to book your place visit: www.thetfordpunjabfest.com

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✨ 🪡STITCH YOUR STORY🧵✨️– Textile and embroidery workshopsJoin artist Suman Gujral for a relaxed, hands-on workshop expl...
09/06/2026

✨ 🪡STITCH YOUR STORY🧵✨️
– Textile and embroidery workshops

Join artist Suman Gujral for a relaxed, hands-on workshop exploring how to *stitch your own story* through textiles, collage and words ❤️📚📖

Together we’ll create work that connects personal and shared heritages. All materials will be provided, along with tea & biscuits 🫖☕️🍪 Please bring a packed lunch

📍 Venue: Ancient House Museum, 21 White Hart St, Thetford IP24 1AA
📅 Dates: 25 June, 2 July & 9 July 2026
🕚 Time: 11am – 3pm

🎉 FREE ENTRY

All adults welcome – no experience needed (or bring your skills and build on them).

Presented by Suman Gujral in partnership with The Festival of Thetford and Punjab, Arts La’Olam, and Essex Cultural Diversity Project

Funded by Arts Council England

🔗 For more info and to book your place visit: www.thetfordpunjabfest.com

LetsCreate ThetfordPunjabFestival

💃✨ Have you ever been captivated by the joyful energy of Bollywood dance? This summer in Thetford you can experience its...
04/06/2026

💃✨ Have you ever been captivated by the joyful energy of Bollywood dance?

This summer in Thetford you can experience its vibrant rhythms, music and moves in a series of FREE Bollywood dance workshops with Jaya Dance

Dates:
Saturday 27th June 2026 11am to 2pm
Saturday 11th July 2026 11am to 2pm
Saturday 18th July 2026 11am to 2pm

Venue: Charles Burrell Centre , Staniforth Road, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 3LH

🧒 Adults & children welcome
💖 All abilities welcome - no experience needed, just a wiingness to dance & have fun!
🎉 FREE ENTRY

To book your place, please email: [email protected] with your name, age and date/s you would like to attend.

🥪💧 Bring water, your own food & a rug to enjoy lunch and relax together mid dancing
👕 Wear comfortable clothes

Presented by Jaya Dance in partnership with The Festival of Thetford and Punjab, Arts La'Olam & Essex Cultural Diversity Project and funded by The Arts Council of England

See ThetfordPunjabFest.com for more info

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✨️🎉 FREE CREATIVE WORKSHOPS COMING SOON TO THETFORD ✨️🎉25 Jun - 19 July 2026Thetford, this one’s for you! ♥️Music, dance...
29/05/2026

✨️🎉 FREE CREATIVE WORKSHOPS COMING SOON TO THETFORD ✨️🎉

25 Jun - 19 July 2026
Thetford, this one’s for you! ♥️

Music, dance & embroidery workshops for all the community & all abilities with 3 internationally acclaimed artists!

🎟 FREE and fun!

🧵🪡STITCH YOUR STORY with Suman Gujral
25 June, 2 & 9 July 2026 at Ancient House Museum
11am–3pm
Adults welcome — open to beginners & experienced stitchers.

💃🏻BOLLYWOOD DANCE WORKSHOPS with Tina Vallance at Jaya Dance
27 June, 11 & 18 July 2026 at Charles Burrell Centre
11am–2pm
All ages & abiities welcome

🎵🎻INDIAN MUSIC & PERCUSSION with the Baluji Music Foundation
Thetford Academy Students only

Places are limited, so book now at:
https://essexcdp.com/event/ftap/

Produced by Arts La’Olam for The Festival of Thetford & Punjab. In partnership with , Nofolk Museums Service,

Supported with funding from The Arts Council of England

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If you haven’t heard already Namvula will be coming to Colchester and Diss this weekend. She will be playing her heartfe...
18/05/2026

If you haven’t heard already Namvula will be coming to Colchester and Diss this weekend.

She will be playing her heartfelt melodies and poetic lyrics on Thursday 21st May at Colchester Arts Centre and on Friday 22nd May at The Corn Hall in Diss.

She’s had amazing reviews and star ratings from The Guardian, many radio plays and festival bookings.

We really hope you can make it, please book your tickets from the venue websites or

We are very grateful to Essex Cultural Diversity Project for supporting the Colchester event and offering special guest group bookings for community organisations. If you or your local community group would like to come as guests please email [email protected]



Namvula at Colchester Arts Centre on Thursday 21st May and Diss Corn Hall onFriday 22nd May Thank you Global Village...
13/05/2026

Namvula at Colchester Arts Centre on Thursday 21st May and Diss Corn Hall on
Friday 22nd May



Thank you Global Village for supporting us in promoting Namvula’s music!

Namvula is a singer-songwriter whose music explores cultural intersections and heartfelt storytelling. Drawing inspiration from the deep grooves of Africa, the lyrical sensibility of folk-pop, and the improvisational freedom of jazz, her sound reflects the nuances of her Zambian-Scottish heritage and a restlessness born of her diasporic upbringing. Her songs speak to the beauty and complexity of life—its tenderness and cruelty—while weaving in themes of identity, migration, and resilience.

Group bookings with discounts available please DM

Arts La’Olam is thrilled to invite you to two concerts in Essex and Norfolk in May.At the core, Namvula is a storyteller...
20/04/2026

Arts La’Olam is thrilled to invite you to two concerts in Essex and Norfolk in May.

At the core, Namvula is a storyteller with an over-arching hope in our capacity as humans to touch each other’s hearts and to fill the world with a little more grace, and a little more love. 

Weaving together a global soundscape that takes inspiration from the deep grooves of Africa, the lyrical sensibility of folk-pop, and the improvisational freedom of jazz, Namvula transports listeners into different worlds with refreshing honesty, crossing boundaries with sonic sensitivity and evocative lyricism. 

Colchester Arts Centre
Thursday 21st May

Diss Corn Hall
Friday 22nd May

Tickets available now from the venues links in bios

Arts La’Olam is thrilled to invite you to two concerts in Essex and Norfolk in May.At the core, Namvula is a storyteller...
15/04/2026

Arts La’Olam is thrilled to invite you to two concerts in Essex and Norfolk in May.

At the core, Namvula is a storyteller with an over-arching hope in our capacity as humans to touch each other’s hearts and to fill the world with a little more grace, and a little more love. 

Weaving together a global soundscape that takes inspiration from the deep grooves of Africa, the lyrical sensibility of folk-pop, and the improvisational freedom of jazz, Namvula transports listeners into different worlds with refreshing honesty, crossing boundaries with sonic sensitivity and evocative lyricism. 

Colchester Arts Centre
Thursday 21st May

Diss Corn Hall
Friday 22nd May

Tickets are available now from the venues links in bios





The amazing .kanuteh will be performing at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall on the 24th April 2026 - tickets available from websi...
09/04/2026

The amazing .kanuteh will be performing at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall on the 24th April 2026 - tickets available from website (link in bio)

You can expect sublime sounds from the Kora, West African Harp combined with Sefo's powerful delivery of both traditional songs from his homeland of The Gambia and his own original contemporary songs in English and Mandinka; the Mande language with over 1.3 million speakers in Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Chad.

Please come if you can and tell your friends that this will be an exciting and invigorating evening.

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Blue Steps Along the Saffron Trail project. A Climate Justice workshop at Essex Wildlife Trust Belfairs Nature Discover...
20/03/2026

Blue Steps Along the Saffron Trail project. A Climate Justice workshop at Essex Wildlife Trust Belfairs Nature Discovery Centre last Thursday. Thank you for this 70-mile walking project. Thank you for the presentation - all the information and the opportunity for conversation & dreaming up new ideas together. It was fantastic to catch up with and and meet the amazing filmmaker .of.marley as well as lovely chats while walking with and .keshav over her illustrations (in photos)

Arts La’Olam is really excited to see this project develop and as part of our partnership work with we feel extremely privileged to be invited onto the steering group with so many amazing people there.

We are calling for more people to see themselves as custodians of nature and natural spaces, especially where there is water. Water is life, let’s keep it safe and protect its health.

Art can be a powerful way to make positive change in the world. For more information about this project please visit saffrontrail.co.uk and follow

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21-23 White Hart Street
Thetford
IP24 1AA

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