tonbridge arts brochure january to march 2016
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Details of Tonbridge Arts events from January to March 2016.TRANSCRIPT
Jan – Mar 2016
THEATRE ART MUSIC CHILDREN’S TALKS
BOX OFFICE01732 304241
ONLINE BOOKING
www.tonbridgearts.com
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The Box Office is open 10am – 2.30pm Monday – Friday (term time only) and one hour before our shows.
Tickets can be reserved for up to five days or, the day before the performance after which they will be released for sale.
For group bookings, terms and conditions and further enquiries please check our website or contact the Box Office.
When you book your tickets via the Box Office please let us know if you have any additional requirements which would make your visit more enjoyable.
PLEASE NOTE:
There is no parking available on the school site. Parking is available at Tonbridge School Centre or in nearby town car parks or on local roads.
WELCOMETraditionally the New Year begins with pledges to refrain from various pleasures and delights, but of course such resolutions should never apply to the Arts and we trust that the rich diet of events offered by Tonbridge School this Lent term will help the dark evenings of winter pass more swiftly and memorably than can often be the case. The Theatre is delighted to continue to be able to show the NT Live offerings this term, with the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated Les Liaisons Dangereuse coming on the 4th February, before an NT Encore showing of As You Like It coming in March. For younger audiences, the ever poular Gruffalo’s Child promises to be an evening not to forget. A diverse and impressive range of speakers in Dr Nick Walton, Dr Sophie Coulombeau and Edmund Hubbard will address topics from the worlds of Literature and Art, including the importance of naming of literary characters and also one of life’s unanswered questions, namely What does a Curator do all day? Don’t miss them. We are delighted to welcome Ballet Central back to Tonbridge following their previously successful visits and the whole family will enjoy their exciting programme of ballet, neoclassical, contemporary and narrative dance. Do come and see the many rich and varied Art exhibitions in the Tunnel Gallery and Old Big School, including a collaboration of work from the Design Technology, Digital Creativity and Music departments under the heading Made. Amongst the many wonderful music events this term, which include the annual Alan Bunney concert, make sure that you do not miss the Choral and Orchestral Concert featuring Fauré’s Requiem and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 which promises to be spectacular. Please look through the brochure carefully; we are confident that there is something for everyone to enjoy here.
JOHN BLEAKLEYCHAIR OF THE ARTS COMMITTEE
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JANUARYWED 13TH CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Recital Room 7.30pm
FRI 15TH – FRI 29TH THIS AND THAT The Tunnel Gallery
SAT 23RD – SUN 6TH MAR DIGITAL GENERATION; ART FROM FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL Old Big School
FEBRUARYTUES 2ND DOMINIC HARRIS Cawthorne Lecture Theatre 7.30-8.30pm
THUR 4TH LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES – NT LIVE EMF Theatre 7.00pm FRIDAY 5TH 2ND YEAR SCHOLARS’ CONCERT Recital Room 7.30pm FRI 5TH – SUN 21ST MADE Tunnel Gallery
SAT 6TH AND SUN 7TH GRUFFALO’S CHILD EMF Theatre Saturday 6th at 1.30pm; Sunday 7th at 10.30am and 1.30pm
WED 10TH ‘’WHAT’S IN A NAME?’ CHARACTER NAMING AND AUTHORSHIP, FROM MILTON TO MANTEL’ Cawthorne Lecture Theatre 7.30pm
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WED 10TH A LEVEL MUSIC PERFORMANCE RECITAL Recital Room 7.30pm
WED 24TH IGCSE MUSIC PERFORMANCE RECITAL Recital Room 7.30pm
THURS 25TH – THURS 10TH MAR ART HOUSE Tunnel Gallery SUN 28TH ALLAN BUNNEY CONCERT Chapel of St Augustine 8.15pm
MARCHTUES 1ST ‘NOT OF AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIME’ EMF Theatre 7.30pm
WED 2ND WHAT DOES A CURATOR DO ALL DAY? Old Big School 7.30-8.30pm
THURS 3RD AS YOU LIKE IT – NT ENCORE EMF Theatre 7.00pm
THURS 10THGCSE SCRIPTED PERFORMANCESStudio Theatre7.30pm
FRIDAY 11THCHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT Chapel of St Augustine 7.30pm
THURS 24TH BALLET CENTRAL EMF Theatre 7.30pm
THEATRE ART MUSIC CHILDREN’S TALKS
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Friday 15th – Friday 29th January
THIS AND THATA mixed exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics and various other ‘in-between’ pieces by Year 9 students from Tonbridge School.
OPEN GALLERY: THURSDAY 21ST JANUARY 5PM – 10PM
ART
Image: George Adams
6 TUNNEL GALLERY All welcome
Saturday 23rd January – Sunday 6th March
DIGITAL GENERATION; ART FROM FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL
In a powerful, immersive installation, significant artists from around the world will showcase the creative and experimental possibilities of digital technology. The exhibition draws upon the wide range of work in the Fidelity International Collection featuring seminal pieces alongside those at the forefront of interactive technology. While the works are forward thinking and technologically complex, they ultimately consider timeless themes relating to the power of abstraction, the majesty of nature and the need to document and expand the human experience.
OPEN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 12-4PM
ART
Image: Yang Yongliang
OLD BIG SCHOOL All welcome 7
Tuesday 2nd February
EDMUND HUBBARD IN CONVERSATION WITH DOMINIC HARRISEdmund Hubbard, Curator of the Fidelity International Art Collection will talk to Dominic Harris whose work is featured in the exhibition. Dominic is an interactive artist whose chosen palette of materials is lighting, interactive design and electronics. He qualified as an architect and designs and fabricates his artworks at Cinimod Studio, a multi-disciplinary practice that specializes in the fusion of architecture and lighting design, which he founded in 2007.
OBS GALLERY WILL BE OPEN FROM 6.45PM FOR AN EVENING VIEW OF DIGITAL GENERATION
TALKS
Image: Cinimod Studio
8 CAWTHORNE LECTURE THEATRE 7.30-8.30pm All welcome
Thursday 4th February
NT LIVE SCREENING Following the hugely successful broadcasts of Coriolanus and King Lear, National Theatre Live brings the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses to cinemas – broadcast live from the Donmar’s London home.
Directed by Josie Rourke (Coriolanus), the cast includes Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Janet McTeer (The White Queen) and Dominic West (The Wire).
In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton’s irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. Josie Rourke’s revival now marks the play’s thirty year anniversary.
THEATRE
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EMF THEATRE 7.00pm £14, £12 con.For school bookings please contact Helen on 01732 304241
(1 free for every 10 booked)
Friday 5th – Sunday 21st February
MADEA collaboration of students’ work from Design, Technology & Engineering, Digital Creativity and the Music departments. The exhibition will showcase creative work from the Novi and Second year and will include graphic design, systems & control, product design and compositions.
PRIVATE VIEW – FRIDAY 5TH FEB 6.30 – 8.00 PM
ART
10 TUNNEL GALLERY All welcome
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th February TALL STORIES PRESENTS
THE GRUFFALO’S CHILDThe Gruffalo said that no gruffalo should Ever set foot in the deep dark wood…
But one wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warning and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn’t really exist… does he?
Songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 and up, and their adults…
‘Fun, daft and a little scary! ’ — TIME OUT HHHH
CHILDREN’S
© Macmillan Children’s Books
11EMF THEATRE Saturday 6th at 1.30pm; Sunday 7th at 10.30am and 1.30pm Tickets £11, Group bookings of 10+ £8.50 each
Wednesday 10th February
WHAT’S IN A NAME? CHARACTER NAMING AND AUTHORSHIP, FROM MILTON TO MANTEL
‘What’s in a name?’ Shakespeare’s Juliet famously demanded. ‘Surely that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.’ But Juliet got it wrong. Throughout history, the act of naming a person has always ‘placed’ both the person naming and the person being named within complex networks of gender, nationality, religion, and social class: names, therefore, provide a unique point of access for thinking about personal and group identities.
In this talk, Dr. Sophie Coulombeau from Cardiff University will focus on the particular significance of naming a literary character, and ask what it can tell us about how authorship has changed over the last five hundred years. She will delve into the various ways characters are named in texts including John Milton’s Paradise Lost, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and the novels of Jane Austen. Finally she will consider modern historical fiction, thinking about names in Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy and reflecting on her own experiences of naming characters in her forthcoming historical novel, Point No Point.
TALKS
12 CAWTHORNE LECTURE THEATRE 7.30pm All welcome
Thursday 25th Feb – Thursday 10th March
ART HOUSE An exhibition of Art and Photography on the theme of the ‘Built Environment’ by Year 10 GCSE students from Tonbridge School.
OPEN GALLERY: THURSDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 5PM – 10PM
ART
Image: Daniel Lee
13TUNNEL GALLERY All welcome
Sunday 28th February
ALLAN BUNNEY CONCERT ORGAN RECITAL JULIAN THOMAS & DAVID WILLIAMS
Tonbridge School’s Choirmaster, Julian Thomas, and Head of Keyboard, David Williams join forces for an organ recital on the Chapel’s magnificent, world renowned Marcussen instrument. The programme will contrast German Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Reger and Liszt’s towering Prelude and Fugue on BACH with 20th Century works including Eben’s Sunday Music and Kagel’s rrrrr. As ever the audience will get the chance to watch the recitalists in action. Something which promises to be a treat with an organ duet finale!
MUSIC
14CHAPEL 8.15pm FREE
(Please book in advance)
Tuesday 1st March
NOT OF AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIMEMR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Dr Nick Walton of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon is delivering the first of what is to be an annual series of Tonbridge School spring-time Shakespeare lectures, exploring the dividing lines between the genres of tragedy and comedy, as well as discussing the continuing relevance and appeal of one of the greatest literary minds of all time.
TALKS
15EMF THEATRE 7.30pm All welcome
Wednesday 2nd March
WHAT DOES A CURATOR DO ALL DAY?To coincide with the exhibition Digital Generation; Art from Fidelity International, the Curator Edmund Hubbard will give an illustrated talk on the pleasures and pitfalls of managing an art collection of 3,495 pieces in 33 offices in 21 countries.
OBS GALLERY WILL BE OPEN FROM 6.45PM FOR AN EVENING VIEW OF DIGITAL GENERATION
Image: Junebum Park
TALKS
16 OLD BIG SCHOOL 7.30-8.30pm All welcome
Thursday 3rd March
NT ENCORE Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at MIF) as Rosalind.
With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden.
There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love.
THEATRE
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EMF THEATRE 7.00pm £14, £12 con.For school bookings please contact Helen on 01732 304241
(1 free for every 10 booked)
Friday 11th March
CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT FAURÉ REQUIEM
SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO.5PRESENTED BY TONBRIDGE SCHOOL CHAPEL CHOIR AND TONBRIDGE SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Tonbridge School Chapel Choir and Symphony Orchestra present two contrasting halves in this joint concert. Fauré described his Requiem as “dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest”. Others have thought of it as “a lullaby of death” or “an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience”. After the bombast of Verdi and Berlioz, Fauré sought contemplation rather than conflict. After all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ he wanted something different.
Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, on the other hand, represents earthly and political struggle rather than spiritual acceptance. His Symphony No. 5 was obsequiously subtitled “A Soviet Artist’s Response to Just Criticism”. As required, the work displayed lyricism, a heroic tone and inspiration from Russian literature. However, we now hear the subtext of critical despair beneath the crowd-pleasing, and sometimes deliberately hollow, melodies. It was an unmitigated success and has become his most popular work.
MUSIC
18CHAPEL 7.30pm FREE
(Please book in advance)
Thursday 24th March
BALLET CENTRALBallet Central 2016 features a sparkling programme of ballet, neoclassical, contemporary and narrative dance. The company’s young and dynamic dancers will showcase their talent with a diverse performance of newly commissioned works and celebrated revivals.
Choreographers for this year’s tour include Richard Bermange (Ballet Ireland), Christopher Marney (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures), Sara Matthews (Director, Central School of Ballet) and Sharon Watson (Artistic Director, Phoenix Dance Theatre). Classical ballet fans will relish Celebration by company founder Christopher Gable and Paquita Pas de Trois staged by Carole Gable.
This family-friendly show is ideal for dance enthusiasts as well as those new to ballet. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these highly talented and vibrant dancers as they launch their professional careers. ‘Ballet Central seems to be on an upward trajectory, looking finer all the time.’ — DANCE EUROPE, JULY 2015
THEATRE
Image: Bill Cooper
19EMF THEATRE 7.30pm £14.50, £12.50, £10 dance school groups
MUSIC & THEATRE EVENTS LENT TERM 2016 Wednesday 13th January 7.30pm, Recital Room
CHAMBER MUSIC RECITALTickets: Free (No need to book in advance)
Friday 5th February7.30pm, Recital Room
2ND YEAR SCHOLARS’ CONCERT Tickets: Free (No need to book in advance)
Wednesday 10th February7.30pm, Recital Room
A LEVEL MUSIC PERFORMANCE RECITAL Tickets: Free (No need to book in advance)
Wednesday 24th February7.30pm, Recital Room
GCSE MUSIC PERFORMANCE RECITAL Tickets: Free (No need to book in advance)
Thursday 10th March7.30pm, Studio Theatre
GCSE DRAMA SCRIPTED PERFORMANCES
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ACTIVITIESCHILDREN’S SPORTS, ARTS & EDUCATIONAL COURSES
OUT NOW!New Spring term brochure
/recre8tonbridge Tel: 01732 304123
Web: tonbridge-school.co.uk/recre8
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