WELCOME TO FESPA

The Friends of East Suffolk Performing Arts (FESPA) was registered as a Charity in 2007. It has two aims - a general one and a specific one...

Our general objective is to promote and facilitate a healthy and vigorous performing arts scene within East Suffolk for the benefit of our community.

Our more specific goal is to encourage and support education in the performing arts for people in this area.

FESPA evolved out of a thriving group of theatre enthusiasts - or Friends - centred on the Southwold and Aldeburgh Summer Theatres which, for nearly 30 years was run by Jill Freud.

The decision to apply for charitable status reflected a growing awareness that a group as enthusiastic and effective as the Friends has proved itself to be, should begin to set its sights on a broader platform in the interests of the cultural well-being of the communities of East Suffolk.

For the background and history of the Friends and a more detailed account of FESPA's charitable remit, click here.

The FESPA annual 'Showbiz Quiz

Our books & pictures stall at the Southwold ArtsFestival Street Party

The annual pre-season
Garden Party

The annual general meeting.

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Barry Tolfree - 1941 to 2024

We were immensely saddened to learn in early October that we had lost one of the true stalwarts of FESPA.

Barry had a way with words, as witnessed when he took over the editorship of the thrice-yearly FESPA Newsletter in 2007  - a task he relished until 2016.  A man of many other skills, he designed the Friends’ website, created and managed the membership database, became a long-standing Trustee and, also being an extremely talented artist, created memorable designs to publicise fund-raising events.

His is a great loss and Barry will be sorely missed by us all.

 

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