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JANUARY TO JULY 2016
THE SPACE Sevenoaks Performing Arts Centre Sevenoaks School, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1HU Telephone: +44 (0)1732 467765 www.thespacesevenoaks.co.uk
JANUARY
THEATRE SSTC present Lower Sixth studio production 100 by Neil Monaghan, Diene Petterle, Christopher Heimann Tuesday 19 to Thursday 21 January Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio 6.30pm (4.30pm Thursday) Tickets £10 (£8 conc.)
MUSIC SEVENOAKS SCHOOL JAZZ CLUB Thursday 14 April Sackville Theatre 7.30pm Tickets £7
FEBRUARY
FILM DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN Friday 15 April Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £12.50 (£10 concessions)
MUSIC Sevenoaks School present MUSIC SCHOLARS RECITAL Friday 29 January Recital Room 7.30pm Admission FREE
MUSIC Kent Chorus present CARMINA BURANA Sunday 17 April Pamoja Hall 4.00pm Tickets £15 (£5 under 18s and disabled)
THEATRE SSTC present Year 9 production THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA Wednesday 3 to Saturday 6 February Sackville Theatre 7.00pm Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
MUSIC Music at Sevenoaks SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT Tuesday 19 April Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £7
MUSIC Maidstone Wind Symphony present FESTIVAL OF WIND AND BRASS Saturday 27 February Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £8 (£5 concessions) Students FREE
MUSIC ALAN ADLER MEMORIAL CONCERT Tuesday 26 April Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £7
MUSIC Chamber Music Platform Series Tuesday 1 March Thursday 3 March Wednesday 9 March Recital Room 7.30pm Admission FREE
THEATRE SSTC present Year 8 production THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Monday 9 to Wednesday 11 May Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio 7.00pm Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
MAY
MARCH
MUSIC Cantate Choir present HANDEL’S MESSIAH Saturday 23 January Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £20
MUSIC Chamber Music Masterclass ALLEGRI QUARTET Wednesday 9 March Recital Room 4.15pm Admission FREE
LECTURE National Trust lecture COACH AND HORSE: FROM KENT TO MOSCOW IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES Monday 9 May Recital Room 7.00pm Tickets £7.50
THEATRE Transformations Festival NEW PLAYS FROM SENNOCKIANS Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 March Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio Admission FREE
MUSIC Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra present SPRING SERENADE Sunday 22 May Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £16 (£15 over 60s & £1 under 18s)
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THEATRE SSTC present Years 7 and 10 production NORSE! By Jim Grant Wednesday 22 June to Saturday 25 June Sackville Theatre 7.00pm Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
JULY
MUSIC SEVENOAKS SWINGS Friday 11 March Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £7
JUNE
MUSIC PIANO PRACTICE SHOWCASE Tuesday 8 March Pamoja Hall & Recital Room 7.30pm Admission FREE
MUSIC Lydian Orchestra present 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Sunday 17 July Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £12 (£6 under 21s)
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LECTURE National Trust lecture NEWS FROM KNOLE Monday 14 March Recital Room 7.00pm Tickets £7.50
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MUSIC Creative Performance Workshop Part 2 DOUGLAS FINCH Wednesday 6 January Pamoja Hall 12.00am to 4.30pm Admission FREE
FILM & LECTURES National Trust lecture NEWS FROM KNOLE Monday 14 March Recital Room
7.30pm Tickets £12.50 (£10 concessions) Death of a Gentleman is a documentary about international cricket. Written and directed by Sam Collins, Johnny Blank and Jarrod Kimber, the demise to which they refer is the death of a glorious game played at the highest level which is organised in a transparent way, freely and openly available to men and women worldwide. Test cricket, they argue, is becoming a corrupt closed shop for England, Australia and India; the rest of the cricketing world is being wilfully left behind, crying, ‘It’s simply not cricket!’
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Death of a Gentleman Friday 15 April Pamoja Hall
7.00pm (6.15pm for refreshments) Tickets £7.50 Nathalie Cohen, Head of Community Archaeology, National Trust gives an update on the ongoing archaeological project at Knole. Hear about the exciting details that are being uncovered about the origins and development of the house and park, and the lives of those who lived and worked there.
National Trust lecture COACH AND HORSE: from Kent to Moscow in the 16th and 17th centuries Monday 9 May Recital Room 7.00pm (6.15pm for refreshments) Tickets £7.50
After the screening, there will be a question and answer session with former international cricketers.
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Julian Munby, Oxford Archaeology The appearance of the coach in the mid-16th century was a social innovation with widespread consequences. Although there were at first few technological changes from medieval carriages, the new opportunities for display of the highly decorated coach bodies were exploited by the crown and aristocracy. Important travellers arriving at Dover might find themselves being taken to London by coach, while the ownership of a coach was a status symbol that soon became widespread. A remarkable gift of a coach from the London Muscovy company was taken in 1603 from Gravesend to Moscow as a present for Boris Godunov, and survives today in the Kremlin Armoury Museum. As a superb example of Jacobean craftsmanship, its highly decorated body has elements that can be compared with work at Knole. www.thespacesevenoaks.co.uk/whats-on
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12.00 to 4.30pm Admission FREE
Cantate Choir present HANDEL’S MESSIAH In aid of Hospice in the Weald Saturday 23 January Pamoja Hall
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Creative Performance Workshop Part 2 DOUGLAS FINCH Wednesday 6 January Pamoja Hall
7.30pm Tickets £20 (includes interval refreshment) The Cantate Choir will perform Handel’s masterpiece under the baton of Robin Walker and accompanied by the Vivace! orchestra who will play on period instruments. Cantate is delighted to welcome internationally renowned soloists soprano Gillian Keith, countertenor Francesco Ghelardini, tenor Tom Randle and bass Trevor Eliot Bowes.
Douglas Finch is a pianist and composer, known for his innovative and imaginative approach to performance, and for helping revive the lost art of classical improvisation in concert. The workshop will be a hands-on session for students to have a go at piano improvisation. It will conclude with an improvisation concert at 4.00pm in which you can witness Finch’s wizardry at the keyboard.
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Hospice in the Weald provides palliative care to the terminally ill, and is heavily reliant on the generosity of the public, local businesses and organisations for its survival. The target of the evening is to raise more than £10,000 in pledged donations to the cause. Guest of honour Lord Sackville will introduce the concert. The evening will include a complimentary glass of sparkling wine, and there will be a prize draw during in the interval.
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MUSIC Maidstone Wind Symphony present FESTIVAL OF WIND AND BRASS Saturday 27 February Pamoja Hall
7.30pm Admission FREE
7.30pm Tickets £8 (£5 concessions) Students free
The Music scholars at Sevenoaks School have acquired a reputation over many years for their technical excellence and musical mastery of leading works in the classical repertoire. Many of them have won local and national awards and excel in music festivals around the UK. Come and hear music from Bach to Britten, performed to an exceptional standard by these teenage stars!
Join us for music and entertainment featuring renowned trombonist Brett Baker, the award-winning Orbi Playa Big Band, current National Concert Band Champions Maidstone Wind Symphony and National Brass Band Championship finalists BAE SYSTEMS Brass Band, under the baton of conductor Jonathan Crowhurst. Journey back to the 1940s with Peter Graham’s Glenn Millerinspired work Radio City with special guest soloist Brett Baker, before being taken into outer space with Peter Meechan’s International Space Station Flyover and Graham’s thrilling tale of pioneer John Harrison in Harrison’s Dream. The programme also includes a world premiere of Simon Dobson’s exciting new concerto for trombone and wind orchestra, Shift! This unique and innovative concert experience is not to be missed.
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Sevenoaks School present MUSIC SCHOLARS RECITAL Friday 29 January Pamoja Hall
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MUSIC PIANO PRACTICE SHOWCASE Tuesday 8 March Pamoja Hall & Recital Room
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Chamber Music Platform Series Tuesday 1 March Thursday 3 March Wednesday 9 March Recital Room
7.30pm Admission FREE
7.30pm Admission FREE Sevenoaks School has acquired a formidable reputation for chamber music. Regular finalists in Pro Corda’s annual national Chamber Music Festival for Schools, Sevenoaks presents three evenings dedicated to music for the small ensemble and featuring the work of some 60 of its students.
Chamber Music Masterclass ALLEGRI QUARTET Wednesday 9 March Recital Room 4.15pm Admission FREE
Mention the words ‘piano practice’, and what springs to mind? From the dreaded scales to the lofty artistic heights of Chopin’s Etudes, everything relating to this central aspect of pianistic endeavour will be explored.
The Allegri Quartet was founded in 1953 and is Britain’s longest-running chamber music ensemble, sustained over six decades by successive generations of performers. Come and hear them coach several of Sevenoaks School’s chamber musicians in a masterclass in which they will bring to life principal works of the chamber music repertoire. www.thespacesevenoaks.co.uk/whats-on
Metronomes are an important part of piano practice, and no fewer than 100 will be assembled for a performance of Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique. Throughout the day, a Hanon exercise marathon will be taking place in the foyer for everyone to have a go at piano practice!
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MUSIC Kent Chorus present CARMINA BURANA
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SEVENOAKS SWINGS Friday 11 March Pamoja Hall
Sunday 17 April Pamoja Hall
7.30pm Tickets £7 Sevenoaks Swings is the traditional end of term celebration of all things jazz and swing at the school. The evening will feature the school big band, Middle Schoool jazz band, saxophone quartet and many other ensembles.
4.00pm Tickets £15 (£5 under 18s and disabled) Following last year’s highly acclaimed performance of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Kent Chorus returns to The Space to perform Carl Orff’s thrilling and ever-popular Carmina Burana. The thunderous ode ‘O Fortuna’ opens and closes the cantata, framing earthy, ravishing and exuberant choruses and solos. The work is an explosion of love and sensuality drawing on lyrics from the 13th century set to pulsating rhythms and shimmering tone colours. This performance will be presented in Orff’s own arrangement for soloists, choir, two pianos and percussion, which brings out all the excitement and character of the piece. Kent Chorus will be joined by the Percussion Ensemble of London for this concert.
SEVENOAKS SCHOOL JAZZ CLUB Thursday 14 April Sackville Theatre 7.30pm Tickets £7 An intimate ‘jazz club’ setting in the Sackville Theatre creates an ideal stage for the best jazz musicians in the school to perform with a professional jazz trio: Jim Treweek, piano, Eric Guy, double bass and Buster Birch, drums. ‘The best event I have ever been to at the school.’ Sevenoaks School parent www.thespacesevenoaks.co.uk/whats-on
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Tuesday 19 April Pamoja Hall
Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra present SPRING SERENADE Sunday 22 May Pamoja Hall
7.30pm Tickets £7
7.30pm Tickets £16 (£15 over 60s and £1 under 18s)
The Sevenoaks School Symphony Orchestra presents a concert of music from the 19th century. The first half opens with Rossini’s witty overture to the opera The Italian Girl in Algiers. Lou Warnett and Rachelle Lam share the stage in a performance of Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto. The leading string players open the second half with Mendelssohn’s beautiful 9th String Symphony in C before being joined by a massed woodwind, brass and percussion section for a performance of the ballet music from Gounod’s opera Faust to end proceedings.
Alan Adler Memorial Concert Tuesday 26 April Pamoja Hall 7.30pm Tickets £7 The Sevenoaks School Choral Society and Parents’ Choir lead this concert of choral singing bringing together all of Sevenoaks School’s main classical choirs. The Sennocke Consort will perform Mendelssohn’s much loved classic anthem ‘Hear my prayer’ with its famous solo ‘O, for the wings of a dove’ and the concert culminates in three of Haydn’s masterpieces for choir, the celebrated Insanae et vanae curae, his Te Deum in C and finally, from the oratorio The Creation, the popular chorus ‘The Heavens are telling’.
This concert opens with Prokofiev’s short but charming classical symphony (Symphony No.1 in D major) and also features the triple concerto for violin, cello and piano by Beethoven with three amazing soloists. Mozart’s imposing Don Giovanni overture starts the second half which concludes with Brahms’s Serenade no.1 for Orchestra, written when he was just 25 years old.
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Lydian Orchestra present 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Sunday 17 July Pamoja Hall
SSTC present Lower Sixth studio production 100 By Neil Monaghan, Diene Petterle, Christopher Heimann Tuesday 19 to Thursday 21 January Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio
7.30pm Tickets £12 (£6 under 21s) The Lydian Orchestra was founded in 1976 by June Clements to give talented young musicians in West Kent the opportunity to play together. It is the players themselves who organise the orchestra, resulting in a close-knit community which achieves high-level performances. Forty years on, the Lydian continues to give three acclaimed concerts a year, at Christmas, Easter and Summer, in Sevenoaks and Tonbridge. The Lydian 40th Anniversary Concert programme will include Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek. Former Lydians are especially welcome to attend.
6.30pm (4.30 pm Thursday) Tickets £10 (£8 concessions) Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your whole life and capture it with a magical camera. Everything else will be erased from your mind forever. Imagine that choosing this memory is your only way of passing through to eternity. You have just one hour to decide... A student led adaptation of of this award-winning piece created by theatre company The Imaginary Body.
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Sevenoaks School Certificate Drama & Theatre Arts Assessments TRANSFORMATIONS FESTIVAL New plays from Sennockians Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 March Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio See website for times Admission FREE Year 11 Drama Students at Sevenoaks School present a minifestival of their Devised Public Productions: a key assessment for the Sevenoaks School Certificate Year 11 public exam course. Three sets will each present an original one-act play devised, written and produced by the students themselves. The performances are a product of an extensive period of research, exploration and rehearsal – in and out of lessons. As with the inaugural festival last year, expect to be thrilled by the skill, creativity, commitment and passion that go into each production. Last year’s plays included Maggot Moon, Sailing into Darkness and Hide and Seek. This year’s plays are connected by an exploration of the family, including specific focus on freedom, divorce and the search for grandchildren stolen by the Argentinian Junta.
Lisa Jones is on a journey. It’s a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in – Dissocia – are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal. Produced originally for the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival, The Wonderful World of Dissocia wowed critics and audiences alike, cleaning up at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. This original play, both magical and moving, confirmed Anthony Neilson as one of the major voices in contemporary British theatre. ‘Bubbling with inventiveness that is distinctly its own.’ Telegraph.
Duration: approximately 1 hour each.
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SSTC present Year 9 production THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA By Anthony Neilson Wednesday 3 to Saturday 6 February Sackville Theatre
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THEATRE SSTC present Years 7 and 10 production NORSE! By Jim Grant Wednesday 22 June to Saturday 25 June Sackville Theatre
7.00pm Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
7.00pm Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
An exciting interpretation of Coleridge’s famous poem combining atmospheric sounds with physical imagery and text. Part live radio drama, part-theatre, the company will explore abstract voices and music to transform a wedding reception into the Mariner’s haunting story.
NORSE! Long Ships, Tall Stories. Come on a journey through the nine worlds of Norse Mythology. See what happens when Odin and the gods of Asgard rebrand themselves. Sevenoaks School Theatre Company’s Middle and Lower School Production tackles the questions the Vikings couldn’t handle: who stole Thor’s hammer? Is Springsteen a rock giant? How do you ride an eight-legged horse? And what on earth is Ragnarok?
IT’S EPIC! (And a bit silly.)
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SSTC present Year 8 production THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Monday 9 to Wednesday 11 May Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Drama Studio
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