bebop spoken here: First prize for Gabriele Heller at UK International Audio Drama Festival, Canterbury with UTOPIA More and more

From This Moment On

March

Mon 30: Gerry Richardson Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 30: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 31: Bede Trio @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. Albert Hills Wright (alto sax); Finn Carter (piano); Michael Dunlop (double bass).

April

Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 02: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Musicians playing classical & orchestral music.
Thu 02: The Noel Dennis Band @ Prohibition Bar, Albert Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RU. 7:00pm (doors). £10.84. Quartet plus special guest Zoë Gilby. Over 21s only.
Thu 02: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 02: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00. adv..
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Monday, March 31, 2025

First prize for Gabriele Heller at UK International Audio Drama Festival, Canterbury with UTOPIA More and more

Gabriele 3rd from left of pic.

UTOPIA More and more won 1. Prize (Full Length Drama) at the UK International Audio Drama Festival, Canterbury 2025 out of 64 shortlisted submissions from 32 countries.

UTOPIA More and More listen here

Full Length Drama Awards include:

Prize (shared):
UTOPIA More and more by Gabriele Heller, Newcastle, UK;
The Voices of Shimmering Stream by Piotr Skotnicki, Radio Gdańsk, Poland
Prize:
Nothing is, says the wise by Ulrike Haage, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Germany
Prize (shared):
I have dreamed of you so much by Roxand Ca’Zorzi, ACSR, Belgium;
The Political Music Show by Cristian Fierbinteanu, Brussels, Belgium

Round Midnight

Gabriele's bilingual audio play Round Midnight will be broadcasted at the German Broadcast Deutschlandfunk Kultur in their programme Kurzstrecke:

22:05 - 23:00 CET on the 24th of April 2025.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

(Congratulations to Gaby, Newcastle-based German actress, playright and jazz singer - Lance)