Arts Brochure Autumn/Winter 2016

WHAT’S arts ON

Theatre & Dance

Mumford Theatre Ruskin Gallery

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AUTUMN/WINTER 2016 - 2017

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Welcome to Anglia Ruskin Arts THEATRE & DANCE I VISUAL ARTS I MUSIC I FILM This Anglia Ruskin What’s On brochure is a guide to the wide variety of arts events and activities that take place on Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus or involve our students and staff elsewhere in the city.

This includes the eclectic programme of shows at the Mumford Theatre, our oncampus professional theatre, which each season presents a range of professional touring, student and local amateur productions.

Situated within the heart of the School of Art, the Ruskin

Gallery provides an excellent space for exhibiting both digital and traditional artworks.

The Ruskin Gallery enormously enriches the cultural life of our University’s staff and students – an experience which we are delighted to share with the wider community.

The Department of Music and Performing Arts delivers a series of impressive concerts and productions throughout the year. This notably includes weekly free lunchtime concerts which take place at the Mumford Theatre. Anglia Ruskin’s orchestras and vocal

ensembles also perform regularly at venues across the city.

We invite you to enjoy the array of arts events we have to offer here at Anglia Ruskin University, which celebrate the diversity found on our campus.

If you wish to keep up to date with these exciting performances, exhibitions and concerts please register your interest at www.anglia.ac.uk/arts Read on to find out more about What’s On this season.

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YOUR LOCAL THEATRE Situated in the heart of Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus, the Mumford Theatre is a university theatre presenting a range of touring professional, local community and student theatre as well as music concerts.

With an excellent tiered seating arrangement, the Mumford Theatre is able to boast an enviable reputation for offering a good view from all 270 of its seats. There is a strong tradition of theatre at Anglia Ruskin University and staff and students are consistently involved in various productions at venues across the city.

To find out more about the various music concerts taking place at the Mumford Theatre and elsewhere, please see the Music sections for full details.

For more information and to book tickets please visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre or phone the Box Office on 01223 352932 (Monday to Friday, 2.00 - 5.00pm)

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Anglia Ruskin University has a commitment to improving and expanding our community engagement and the Mumford Theatre plays a central role in this.

The Mumford Theatre aims to present shows that engage, stimulate the imagination, challenge expectations and, of course, entertain.

We invite our local community and our students to an exciting range of quality theatre productions at affordable prices, and for local schools we offer group prices on selected performances.

Due to the physical arrangement of the theatre, and in the interests of other members of the audience, we do not encourage bringing children younger than 3 years old to the theatre.

THEATRE & DANCE Immersion Theatre JOURNEY’S END Monday 26 September, 7.30pm Go Productions LENNON: THROUGH A GLASS ONION Wednesday 28 September, 7.30pm Theatrical Niche Ltd FAUSTUS Monday 10 October, 7.30pm RedCape Theatre BE BRAVE AND LEAVE FOR THE UNKNOWN Wednesday 12 October, 7.30pm Nunkie Productions THE TIME MACHINE

BY H G WELLS Saturday 15 October, 7.30pm

Les Petit Enfants CAPTAIN FLINN AND THE PIRATE DINOSAURS 2: THE MAGIC CUTLASS Saturday 29 October, 2.30pm

Blackeyed Theatre Company FRANKENSTEIN Monday 28 – Wednesday 30 November, 7.30pm

John Godber Company THIS MIGHT HURT Monday 31 October, 7.30pm

Anglia Ruskin University 200 YEARS OF THE NUTCRACKER Saturday 3 December, 3.30pm

Company Chameleon WITNESS Wednesday 2 November, 7.30pm

Hiccup Project MAY-WE-GO-ROUND? Wednesday 7 December, 7.30pm

Smoking Apples IN OUR HANDS Monday 7 November, 7.30pm

New Perspectives OH WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU Saturday 10 December, 7.30pm

Open Clasp KEY CHANGE Wednesday 9 November, 7.30pm

Nottingham Playhouse TONY’S LAST TAPE Monday 17 October, 7.30pm

SHAKESPEARE SCHOOLS FESTIVAL 2016 Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 November, 7.00pm

Entita Theatre METHOD IN MADNESS Wednesday 19 October, 7.30pm

LipService Theatre MR DARCY LOSES THE PLOT Saturday 19 November, 7.30pm Anglia Ruskin Creative 1915: DEAD IN THE WATER Tuesday 22 & Wednesday 23 November, 7.30pm

The West End In Concert THE WEST END AT CHRISTMAS Sunday 11 December, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Living Spit A CHRISTMAS CAROL Tuesday 13 December, 7.30pm Chaplins Pantos DICK WHITTINGTON Friday 16 December, 7.00pm Saturday 17 December, 1.30pm & 5.00pm Sunday 18 December, 11.30am & 3.00pm Infusion Physical Theatre SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 December, 3.00pm & 7.30pm

Anglia Contemporary Theatre BERNARDA ALBA Friday 13 & Saturday 14 January, 7.30pm Anglia Contemporary Theatre BLOOD WEDDING & UPWARDLY DOWN Friday 20 & Saturday 21 January, 7.30pm William Harvey Theatrical Society THE CLINICAL TRIALS OF HERCULES Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 January, 7.30pm

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Theatrical Niche Ltd DR. FAUSTUS Monday 10 October, 7.30pm Greatness. Is there any price too high?

Exquisite puppetry, physical theatre and circus artistry throw petrol over the flames of Marlowe’s hellish pride tale and the battle for one circus leader’s soul.

Under the straining tent poles of the world’s most famous circus, Dr Faustus employs the one show tactic not yet undertaken to achieve glory - black magic.

Immersion Theatre JOURNEY’S END Monday 26 September, 7.30pm March 1918. “The war to end all wars”.

Anxiety builds in Captain Stanhope’s claustrophobic dugout as the threat of an imminent German attack looms over the battalion. As final orders are received, Stanhope must stir his men to overcome the uncertainty of the unknown, make the ultimate sacrifice and prepare to “go over the top” in a truly heart wrenching climax.

Journey’s End is a harrowing insight into the humanity of the First World War based on R. C. Sherriff’s own experiences in the trenches. Utterly compelling, this award-winning classic masterfully brings the courage, valour, humour and inescapable tragedy of warfare to the stage.

Go Productions LENNON: THROUGH A GLASS ONION Wednesday 28 September, 7.30pm Following its Off-Broadway New York success, this celebration of the genius and music of John Lennon comes to Cambridge.

Inspired by the song Glass Onion, which was John Lennon’s postscript to The Beatles, this show peels away the layers of time and myth to offer clear insight into the essence of the life and astonishing talent of one of the world’s most treasured icons

Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children)

Part-concert and partbiography, this two-hander featuring West End star Daniel Taylor showcases 31 hits of Lennon and Lennon/ McCartney including Imagine, Revolution and Jealous Guy in a kaleidoscope collage of song, word and emotion.

Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Contains strong language Tickets: £15.00

Contains mature themes Suitable for ages 12+

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Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Devilish neon puppets wander the stage in this visceral and physical re-imagining, whilst the fast-paced backbone of modern dialogue rockets the classic B text into full technicolour for today’s audience.

Contains themes of death and violence. Suitable for ages 12+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Nunkie Productions THE TIME MACHINE

BY H G WELLS Saturday 15 October, 7.30pm “I have lived such days as no man has lived before…”

RedCape Theatre BE BRAVE AND LEAVE FOR THE UNKNOWN Wednesday 12 October, 7.30pm The award-winning and critically acclaimed RedCape Theatre return with their new show - a story of love, loss and courage told through the hands of a piano player and the lens of a photographer.

In the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, a couple sit across a table in a suburban living room, between them a chasm opens, their courage deserts them and the only choice is to run or hide…

In a world where there is so much to fear, when taking the smallest of steps can be terrifying, it sometimes feel as if we have forgotten how to be brave. Or have we?

1895. In a suburban garden, beneath a waning moon, a man lies beside a remarkable machine.

He has a story to tell. A story of darkness and light. Of fire and fear. Of Eloi and Morlocks.

An unbelievable story about our future that he insists is true… is it a joke? A prophecy?

A dream?

Nunkie, the company behind the acclaimed M R James Project, brings H G Wells’ science fiction classic to life in another thrilling one-man show.

Suitable for ages 12+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Nottingham Playhouse TONY’S LAST TAPE Monday 17 October, 7.30pm Following a successful London and Edinburgh Festival run, Nottingham Playhouse’s hit drama, starring Philip Bretherton, now embarks on its first tour.

Tony Benn sits in a room faced with a collection of recording devices that he has collected over his long and eventful life. He pours himself the first cup of tea of the day, opens a drawer and takes out a pipe. For more than fifty years he has been recording everything that has happened to and around him and, as the years have passed, so the burden of this documentation has grown.

And today he has decided to make his last tape.

This critically acclaimed play examines the struggle of a man who realises that maybe it is time to withdraw from the fight, to let others take over, but just doesn’t quite know how.

Inspired by true stories of ordinary people in extraordinary situations RedCape’s exhilarating new show explores the nature of bravery both epic and domestic, large and small.

Contains mature themes Suitable for ages 14+

Contains mature themes Suitable for ages 10+

Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children)

Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children)

Further discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff Photo: Shelagh Bidwell

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Entita Theatre

John Godber Company

METHOD IN MADNESS

THIS MIGHT HURT

Wednesday 19 October, 7.30pm

Monday 31 October, 7.30pm

When a young Hollywood starlet struggles to connect with Shakespeare’s Ophelia she desperately turns to method acting for salvation. Soon the boundaries between theatre and her own reality become blurred and amongst the bombs and sirens of Blitz-struck WWII London her stunning portrayal quickly becomes the performance of her life.

When tough actor Jack Skipton returns from filming to care for his ageing aunt, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for. But this might be his most taxing role to date, as he begins an incredible odyssey through the NHS, from cancelled GP’s appointments, wrongly booked scans, frustrated consultants, and abusive home carers who smoke on the doorstep!

Method in Madness fuses both Shakespearean text and new writing with stunning physical theatre and extraordinary dance, soundtracked by the haunting music of Laura Marling.

Contains mature themes and some brief intense scenes Suitable for ages 11+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

A new comedy by John Godber.

Les Petit Enfants CAPTAIN FLINN AND THE PIRATE DINOSAURS 2: THE MAGIC CUTLASS Saturday 29 October, 2.30pm Flinn is back! Les Petits Theatre Company return to the high seas after their hugely successful and award winning show Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs.

The Magic Cutlass is the hugely anticipated sequel based on the book by Giles Andreae and Russell Ayto.

When Flinn is in the middle of his school play his old nemesis, Mr T the T-Rex, appears and kidnaps his friends forcing them to hunt for the Magic Cutlass - a sword that grants any wish! The children are whisked away for another fantastic adventure to a world of devious dinosaurs, deep sea dangers and smelly sausages!

Suitable for ages 4+ Tickets: £7.50

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Jack’s story is hilarious and heartbreaking, as he and his aunt take on the health service in order to get the right diagnosis, and the right care; as he goes from actor to carer to drugs consultant, and she refuses to admit that she is even ill!

Told in a bold physical theatre style and with breathtaking grit and honesty, Godber’s take on our health service is both tender and true, as he investigates what we deserve, and what we receive.

Take a deep breath, because This Might Hurt!

Contains adult content Suitable for ages 16+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Company Chameleon WITNESS Wednesday 2 November, 7.30pm National Dance Awards nominees, Company Chameleon, turn the spotlight on mental health and the things we chose to hide, in a captivating and powerful double bill, featuring a rich mix of dance and movement styles. Intimate solos, emotive duets and group work combine to uncover the realities of an illness that is too often misunderstood.

Touching, sad, funny and absurd, this is relevant and up-to-theminute dance theatre at its best.

Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Photo: Joel Chester Fildes

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Smoking Apples

Open Clasp

IN OUR HANDS

KEY CHANGE

Monday 7 November, 7.30pm

Wednesday 9 November, 7.30pm

Alf is a trawler fisherman at the top of his game. But times are changing and so is the industry, will Alf adapt in order to survive?

Devised with women in Her Majesty’s Prison Low Newton to tour to male prisons, Key Change carries the stories of some of the UK’s most marginalised women over the razor wire through an intense, raw and illuminating portrayal of women in prison.

Follow a fish’s journey from sea to plate, watch a seagull’s ridiculous attempt to find food and witness a father and son reunite.

Award-winning Smoking Apples use innovative puppetry, a striking set and an original score to transport you out to sea, under the ocean and onto the deck of the Catcher’s Fortune.

Contains complex themes Suitable for ages 11+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

The prison van, fences high, A Magpie.

One for sorrow.

Snatched the babies The mother fought, but it was Too big, and flew too high.

Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2015.

Contains strong language Suitable for ages 13+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

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LipService Theatre MR DARCY LOSES THE PLOT Saturday 19 November, 7.30pm Jane Austen sits writing, her quill scurrying across the vellum.

SHAKESPEARE SCHOOLS FESTIVAL 2016 Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 November, 7.00pm See Shakespeare performed as you’ve never seen it before!

Shakespeare Schools Festival is proud to present a series of unique performances by young people from across Cambridge.

All are welcome to this inspiring evening of theatre. Whether you are a parent, friend or another local school, SSF is a wonderful way to experience the language, magic and possibilities of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare Schools Festival is the UK’s largest youth drama festival and enables over 1,000 primary, secondary, and special schools to stage abridged Shakespeare productions in their local professional theatre.

Tickets: £9.00 (£7.00 concessions)

She is dreaming up Darcy, a proud, lip curling, handsome creation in very tight pants. But then a door squeaks, a visitor approaches and Jane hastily hides her work. Now left to his own devices, Darcy embroiders his own storyline whilst his creator stitches her quilt. When Jane returns she finds the plot has moved on and Darcy is dancing to a rather different tune.

LipService explore the world of women writers, scribbling in secret or under pseudonyms, squeezing in their writing amongst the hustle and bustle of taking tea, choosing chintz and the odd attack of the vapours.

Award-winning comedy duo LipService, makers of The Picture of Doreen Gray and Inspector Norse celebrate Jane Austen’s life 200 years on.

Contains no offensive content Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

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Anglia Ruskin Creative 1915: DEAD IN THE WATER Tuesday 22 & Wednesday 23 November, 7.30pm Following on from their successful 2014 production 1914: Assassination Before Lunch, Anglia Ruskin Creative continues the Great War Cycle by Sean Lang with this exploration of the decision to sink the Cunard passenger liner, the Lusitania.

When the ruthless German naval chief, Admiral von Tirpitz, proposes a U-boat blockade of the British Isles he effectively condemns the liner to death, raising the thorny ethical dilemma of whether civilians can be a proper target in war – and whether his action will force the United States into the war?

A thoughtful and moving exploration of one of the most controversial decisions of the First World War. Suitable for ages 14+ Tickets: £12.00 (£10.00 concessions) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Hiccup Project MAY-WE-GO-ROUND? Wednesday 7 December, 7.30pm

Blackeyed Theatre Company

Anglia Ruskin University

FRANKENSTEIN

200 YEARS OF THE NUTCRACKER

Monday 28 – Wednesday 30 November, 7.30pm “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

A brand new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror masterpiece fusing ensemble storytelling, live music and stunning theatricality. From the artistic team behind Blackeyed Theatre’s hugely successful 2013 production of Dracula, Frankenstein promises a fresh, exciting take on what is widely considered to be a landmark work of romantic, gothic and science fiction literature.

Suitable for ages 11+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Saturday 3 December, 3.30pm This event celebrates the bicentenary of E.T.A. Hoffman’s fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

Following a morning of academic panel discussions, the evening begins with a conversation between children’s literature and fantasy scholar Maria Tatar of Harvard University and Carnegie Medal winning children’s author, Kevin Crossley-Holland.

This will be followed by a short wine reception, featuring visual art inspired by Hoffman’s works.

The night will then conclude with a variety show celebrating the legacy of Hoffman’s Nutcracker.

Tickets: £18.00 (£10.00 students and unemployed)

After a sell out run and 5 star reviews in Brighton Fringe, multi-award winning dance theatre duo present May-WeGo-Round?.

Chess’ diary (age 10) was rediscovered full of the detailed records of her many loves. Years on, the ones we lust after still seem to take a hefty chunk of our talking time and mental space.

In a collision of fiercely energetic dance and comedic theatre, Chess and Cristina open a window into the hilarious highs and heartbreaking lows of their romantic encounters.

Provocative, playful and laugh out loud funny, this is a show for anyone who has ever been in love or even lusted from a far.

Are they enjoying the bitter-sweet ride of romance? Yes. Does it make sense? No. But, round and round they go…

Suitable for ages 14+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children) Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

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The West End In Concert THE WEST END AT CHRISTMAS Sunday 11 December, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

OH WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU

Following its success last December, stars from the West End present a magical evening of entertainment featuring hits from the musicals and the best of Christmas song. The talented cast have starred in many West End productions and national tours such as Les Miserables, We Will Rock You, South Pacific, Singing in the Rain, Starlight Express, Phantom Of The Opera, Godspell, Joseph and Cats... to name but a few!

“This wonderful concert guarantees to bring you joy and fill you with Christmas cheer” (Evening Post)

Saturday 10 December, 7.30pm

Tickets: £14.00

A prying hand brings forth from centuries of sleep…a mysterious thing…it seems a whistle…and on it engraved…these ominous words…

WHO’S THAT COMING

(£12.00 concession, £10.00 student/child)

New Perspectives

Professor Parkins takes a room at The Globe. Away from Cambridge, a peaceful coastal retreat with minimal interruption from the inn’s young valet should be perfect for writing. But on taking a walk to explore the area, Parkins finds an ancient whistle with a soul-stirring inscription. Choosing to ignore its warning, the professor is soon to discover he is not alone….

Widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, M R James’ eerie tale is re-imagined

by David Rudkin, described by the Observer as “Britain’s greatest living dramatic poet” into this new Christmas chiller.

Suitable for ages 14+

Living Spit A CHRISTMAS CAROL Tuesday 13 December, 7.30pm Christmas is coming, The Goose is panicking, And Living Spit are back, to start your Christmas with a zing. Hardhearted Ebenezer Scrooge hates the season of goodwill. Until a visit from three phantoms one memorable Christmas Eve makes him rethink his miserly ways and turn his wicked life upside down… blah blah blah.

We all know the story. We’ve all seen the film(s). But who’s the best Scrooge of all time? Albert Finney? Alistair Sim? Patrick Stewart?

Well, just hold your horses there, Sir/Madam! Because you’ve yet to witness the actor Howard Coggins’ unique take on the eponymous anti-hero of Dickens’ festive masterpiece.

Like a coiled spring he waits in the wings, ready to take up the mantle and give the performance of his career as the mean miserabilist, Ebenezer Scrooge. And he’s brought Stu Mcloughlin along for the ride to dress up, sing, dance and generally act like a complete idiot whilst playing ALL the other parts.

Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children)

With silly songs, pitiful puppetry and more Dickensian daftness than you can shake a selection box at - a feast of festive foolery!

Further discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children)

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Suitable for ages 14+

Further Discounts apply for Anglia Ruskin students & staff

Infusion Physical Theatre SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 December, 3.00pm & 7.30pm Dickens’ beloved ghost tale retold through mime, dance and circus.

When a miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, he is warned of a miserable fate-after-death. Scrooge’s spite and doubt promise him a full show of spirits bringing memories of his past and visions of his future, in a parade of circus, dance, aerial acrobatics, juggling and contortion, hoping that Scrooge will amend his ways.

Chaplins Pantos DICK WHITTINGTON Friday 16 December, 7.00pm Saturday 17 December, 1.30pm & 5.00pm Sunday 18 December, 11.30am & 3.00pm No story captures the imagination of children more than Dick Whittington.

Packed solid with comedy, excitement and adventure, the children will love to cheer their hero Dick Whittington and boo the evil Captain Blood.

They will roar with laughter at the antics of Idle Jack, Sarah the Cook and Dick’s crazy cat Elvis.

Local Cambridge circus artists collaborate with Daniel Cossette (Infusion Physical Theatre) in a unique showcase of skill and prowess, woven into the Dickensian narrative on a soundscape of silence, carols and rock ‘n roll.

It’s the timeless search for goodwill, in a holiday spectacle to remember.

Suitable for ages 5+ Tickets: £12.50 (£10.00 concessions, £8.50 students and children)

As this talented cast transports you to the magical setting of old London town, be prepared for some good old fashioned fun in the pantomime tradition.

Suitable for ages 4+ Tickets: £7.50

For further information and to book online please visit

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Anglia Contemporary Theatre BERNARDA ALBA Friday 13 & Saturday 14 January, 7.30pm ARU’s second-year performing arts’ students present Bernarda Alba, a music-theatre piece with words and music by Michael John LaChiusa.

Originally produced in 2006 by New York’s Lincoln Center Theatre, this work is based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s masterpiece The House of Bernarda Alba. Set in a small village in rural Spain, in the 1930s, this piece explores the religious and socio-economic themes of the time, featuring a rich dramatic counterpoint as well as flamenco- sounding rhythms.

These performances will be assessed work by Anglia Ruskin University’s 2nd year Drama & Performing Arts students.

Tickets: £10.00 (£7.00 concessions, £5.00 Anglia Ruskin student/child) Anglia Contemporary Theatre BLOOD WEDDING & UPWARDLY DOWN Friday 20 & Saturday 21 January, 7.30pm A double-bill of theatre inspired by people and places. Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a masterpiece of twentieth-century theatre. Desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints of the rural Spanish community are at the heart of this classic tragedy. Upwardly Down is a visual experimentation with tea, technology and poetry taking us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ambitious and creative refugee youth have taken to writing poetry to tell their story as a group and to improve their prospects for a better life. These performances will be assessed work by Anglia Ruskin University’s 2nd year Drama & Performing Arts students.

Tickets: £10.00 (£7.00 concessions, £5.00 Anglia Ruskin student/child)

William Harvey Theatrical Society THE CLINICAL TRIALS OF HERCULES Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 January, 7.30pm Addenbrooke’s Charity Pantomime proudly presents this year’s show: The Clinical Trials of Hercules!

Follow our hero, Hercules, as he and his friends help to save the Clinical School from the plans of the evil Hadean and his Malignant Dean Team.

What schemes does the Hadean have up his sleeve? Will the heroes be able to complete the Clinical Trials that stand between them and their futures as doctors?

A student production by Cambridge Clinical School of Medicine that is filled with non-stop jokes, panto-obsessed consultants, and an album’s worth of medically-recycled songs.

Voted 4 stars by the Cambridge Tab, “Side effects of the Addenbrooke’s Charity Panto may include joy, laughter, and a great evening out” Not suitable for children due to mature content and sexual themes Tickets: £12.00 (£7.50 concessions)

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RUSKIN GALLERY The Ruskin Gallery is a unique exhibition space surrounded by artists’ studios on Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus. Open to the public, all exhibitions are free and carefully selected to provide a singular and memorable gallery-going experience.

Combining its vaulted ceilings and period character with digital technology (including a 103” 3D Full HD plasma screen) the Ruskin Gallery is a fully flexible exhibition space, allowing both traditional hanging and digital viewing, either independently or simultaneously.

The Ruskin Gallery opens all of its Private Views to members of the public as well as staff,

VISUAL ARTS

students and invited guests, giving the whole community a chance to share in the experience. We see the Private View as an official celebration of the artists’ works, and often these events are attended by the exhibiting artists themselves, who may give speeches, provide Q&A sessions and discuss their works with guests.

Enjoy the gallery: Monday - Saturday 10.00am - 4.30pm

STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE RUSKIN GALLERY Join our mailing list at anglia.ac.uk/contactruskin Receive regular news on exhibitions and events.

Photo: Natalie Dower (from Imperfect Reverse)

MA DEGREE SHOW 2016 Ruskin Gallery Thursday 8 – Wednesday 14 September ART LANGUAGE LOCATION Ruskin Gallery Friday 30 September Saturday 29 October Campus-wide, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Thursday 13 – Saturday 29 October

SHIPWRECK Ruskin Gallery Thursday 3 November Saturday 19 November BA FINE ART EXHIBITION Ruskin Gallery Balcony Thursday 3 November Saturday 19 November IMPERFECT REVERSE Ruskin Gallery Thursday 24 November Saturday 21 January Closed 23 December – 2 January

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ART LANGUAGE LOCATION Ruskin Gallery Friday 30 September – Saturday 29 October Campus-wide, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

MA DEGREE SHOW 2016 Ruskin Gallery Thursday 8 – Wednesday 14 September Opening times:

Thursday 13 – Saturday 29 October Private View: Thursday 13 October, 5.00pm

Art, Language, Location (or ALL) is a contemporary-art event that transforms the spaces and corners of the Anglia Ruskin Private View: Wednesday 7 September, 5.00pm campus (and other Cambridge locations) into a gallery for The MA Show brings together students graduating from the MA Fashion artists who use an element of Design, MA Film & Television Production, MA Fine Art, MA Graphic Design language in their work. ALL2016 & Typography, MA Illustration & Book Arts, MA Photography and MA Printmaking programmes at Cambridge features paintings, installations, School of Art. film and orchestrated-sound, It is an end-of-course exhibition that marks an important stage of personal therefore a variety of artistic experiences can be found and professional development, showcasing final artworks throughout the University that are underpinned by rigorous research and experimentation in campus. Over 30 participating different fields. artists have selected unusual As such it makes a significant contribution to the arts in the city, offering locations as well as the Ruskin the public an opportunity to engage with new work by Gallery for displaying their artists working at an advanced level. creative interventions. The exhibition promises to provide some progressive views on the language arts, as well as challenge the conventional view of what constitutes an art gallery.

Monday - Friday, 10.00am – 8.00pm Saturday – Sunday, 10.00am – 4.30pm Wednesday, 10.00am – 4.30pm

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ALL PRESENTS A DAY OF PERFORMANCE ART Saturday 15 October Advance booking required, see www.artlanguagelocation.org for details

ALL features a day of performance art alongside a chance to view the exhibitions.

Among the six performances taking place throughout the day, is In Transglashphõnē by the Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO).

FLO is an eclectic group of female musicians, engineers, composers, sound artists and computer scientists that explore collaborative music-making. Other performances include the artist Anti-cool attempting to master Esperanto and a collaboration between purveyor of evocative imagery, Gen Doy and Jonathan Rogerson. During ALL2015, Rogerson delivered a hauntingly resonant performance of Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone.

GUIDED TOUR WITH ROBERT GOOD, DIRECTOR OF ALL Saturday 29 October, 1.00pm & 3.00pm Advance booking required, see www.artlanguagelocation.org for details

Join ALL’s Director, Robert Good, for a guided tour that winds through the halls and corridors of ARU in search of the 30+ interventions created by the artists selected to participate in ALL2016. In each hourlong tour, Robert will impart some insight into the artists and works included in the exhibition.

Meet Robert at the East Road entrance to ARU at 13:00 or 15:00.

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SHIPWRECK Ruskin Gallery Thursday 3 November - Saturday 19 November Private View: Thursday 3 November, 5.00pm Shipwreck is a sustained investigation into loss and disruption, both in the landscapes of the emotions and in the world at large. A parallel narrative composed of images drawn from 19th century French newspapers alongside text, it uses the art of the cut up to explore how things fall apart, and how disaster might lead to unlikely, tentative new wholes.

David Dernie is an artist and architect and Olivia Laing is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City (Canongate).

BA FINE ART EXHIBITION Ruskin Gallery Balcony Thursday 3 November - Saturday 19 November Private View: Thursday 3 November, 5.00pm This 2nd Year BA Fine Art exhibition is curated by students. It runs at a key stage in the 3 year degree at Anglia Ruskin University, when students are starting to form a clear artistic identity for their studio practice. Learning to curate exhibitions is integral to the degree course, and with this having the opportunity to exhibit publicly forms a key part of their study of Fine Art. The artwork presented is extremely diverse, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the Fine Art course, and the exhibition includes painting, drawing, sculpture and video installation.

IMPERFECT REVERSE Ruskin Gallery Thursday 24 November - Saturday 21 January Closed 23 December – 2 January Private View: Thursday 24 November, 5.00pm Imperfect Reverse, is a group exhibition curated by Laurence Noga, in collaboration with Saturation Point, an editorial and curatorial project for reductive, geometric and systems artists working in the UK. The term ‘imperfect reverse’ intimates a move towards a structural logic, generative grammar, allowing an outside system or set of rules to drive the making of a series of works. The exhibition brings together artists from 1960’s and 70’s, and a number of younger artists working with this approach today. The exhibition will aim to discuss a level of technical virtuosity combined with individual systematic operation. The discussion will be widened further, through an historical and contemporary analysis, and recognition of underlying devices and relationships.

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Originally conceived at Camberwell Project Space, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art.

CHOOSE FROM AN EXCITING MENU OF LUNCHTIME MUSICAL TREATS. Supported by the Anglia Ruskin Arts Council, this series of free Lunchtime Concerts is a highlight of Cambridge’s musical calendar.

Hosted by the Mumford Theatre every Friday at 1.10pm and directed

by Alan Rochford, the series attracts some of the world’s finest musical performers to our University.

LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES

It’s an ideal way to spend your lunch break, and a great way of experiencing incredible music absolutely free.

Due to the physical arrangement of the theatre, and in the interests of other members of the audience, we do not encourage bringing children younger than 3 years old to the theatre.

MARIO ALONSO (PIANO) Friday 7 October, 1.10pm Described by critics as “a pianist possessing the talent and intelligence necessary for piano interpretations and endowed with the maturity and professionalism needed to overcome any technical difficulty”, the pianist Mario Alonso Herrero is one of most internationally renowned Spanish pianists.

JAZZ AT THE MOVIES Friday 30 September, 1.10pm Fronted by acclaimed singer Joanna Eden (“the UK’s answer to Norah Jones and Diana Krall” Time Out) supported by the groovy sounds of the Chris Ingham Quartet featuring Mark Crooks (clarinet star of Proms favourites the John Wilson Orchestra), Jazz At The Movies put a jazzy spin on the evocative songs and soundtrack themes from classic films.

Visit them at www.jazzatthemovies.com.

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HIGHWALK Friday 28 October, 1.10pm James Brady - trumpet, electronics

SYMPHONIA ACADEMICA: MASTERWORKS SERIES

Mike Redfern - guitar

Friday 14 October, 1.10pm

Edwin Ireland - bass guitar

Peter Bussereau - violin

Powered by infectious soul and hip-hop grooves fused with sophisticated jazz improvisation, Highwalk brings together some of London’s leading young jazz talent. With a sound ranges from the delicately intimate to the infectiously groovy, the band combine self-penned material with quality songs from artists as varied as John Schofield, Janek Gwizdala and Michael Jackson.

Ania Ullman - viola Julia Graham - cello Paul Jackson - piano Join Symphonia Academica, one of England’s most versatile and engaging chamber ensembles, as they give their debut recital at Anglia Ruskin University. With the pianist Paul Jackson, ARU’s own Head of Music and Performing Arts, they will play Mozart’s Piano Quartet K478 in G minor and Beethoven’s String Trio op9 no1 in G major.

Symphonia Academica’s members perform internationally with some of London’s finest orchestras and the ensemble will return next term with Vivaldi’s masterpiece The Four Seasons.

SCOTTISH VOICES Friday 21 October, 1.10pm Scottish Voices is an ensemble of women’s voices, directed by composer Graham Hair, with associated instrumentalists who accompany them in different repertoires.

The ensemble was founded in 1991, and is based in Glasgow, Scotland. Works for women’s voices, usually with accompaniment (piano, harp, percussion, duo, string quartet, ensemble or orchestra), form the basis of its repertoire, and works by Scottish composers hold a particular place its performances. Scottish Voices records for Ravello Records in the US.

In August 2015 Highwalk took part in the Jazz Ensembles course at Dartington International Summer School, with tutoring from Andy Sheppard, Steve Lodder and Martin France, later opening the 2015 Cambridge Jazz Festival alongside the New York Standards Quartet.

The programme will include ARU lecturer Tom Hall’s the map has been barely marked with electro-acoustic accompaniment.

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FILM

Cambridgeshire Film Consortium The Cambridgeshire Film Consortium (CFC) is an education/film-industry partnership established in 1999 and core-funded by Creative England and the BFI. It delivers high-quality, culturally diverse film education events, linked to cinema screenings, young people’s film production workshops, and film study resources. Its partners include Anglia Ruskin University, the Parkside Federation, Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge City Council and the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

The CFC Film Education Officer develops projects to raise cine-literacy levels in people of all ages across Cambridgeshire and the wider Cambridgeshire region. Focusing on a deeper understanding Film Consortium of the moving image, CFC events have included cinema-based Sixth Form/GCSE Film Study Days; film production workshops for young people; film courses for adult learners; lunchtime archive film shows; and publicly funded projects, such as Arts Council primary school animation films and a Heritage Lotteryfunded intergenerational wartime project with archive film.

For more information please visit; www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org or to book please visit www.picturehouses.co.uk or phone 0871 902 5720

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WIRED Wired is a series of screenings, seminars, Q&As and workshops with film and television industry professionals organised by Cambridge School of Art. Previous Wired events included: Kathy Lee, Film Editor; Larry Sider, Sound Designer; Hans Petch: BBC Producer and Director, Factual Programs; Rikki Beadle-Blair: Director /Writer; Natural History, Conservation, Extreme Locations in Factual Programming; Georgi Banks-Davies, Independent Director; Screening of ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ (Includes Q&A with Director Peter Strickland and Cinematographer Nic Knowland (BSC); Cilla Ware, freelance TV drama director)

CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS 2016 THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTS A SELECTION OF FREE EVENTS TAKING PLACE AT ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY’S CAMBRIDGE CAMPUS ON SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER Workshop Twined: Experimenting With Digital Writing Using Twine

Talk Social Mobility in Gregory Nava’s Migrant Films 11.00am – 12.00pm This talk will explore the blurring and shifting of cultural boundaries in Gregory Nava’s key films on migration and identity construction: ‘My Family’ and ‘Bordertown’.

Talk by Prof Guido Rings, Anglia Ruskin University.

Finding Home

11.00am - 4.00pm

11.30am - 1.00pm,

A creative writing workshop exploring Twine, a participative, easy-to-use, and free digital tool for interactive, non-linear narratives. Come and join us as we create and explore this exciting new tool for writing.

Covent Garden Drama Centre

Pre-booking required, suitable for ages 15+ To get more details about all our events please visit, www.anglia.ac.uk/community and for the full festival programme and to book, please visit, www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk

Performance, Workshop & Exhibition

Workshop Digital Voice in Young Adult Fiction

A dramatic and lively exploration based on personal experiences of home and migration with connections to global migration. Followed by post performance discussion and workshop. Related art exhibition will feature work by local children.

Pre-booking required, suitable for ages 12+

11.00am - 4.00pm

Demonstration & Workshop

Led by critically acclaimed young adult author Saci Lloyd this creative writing workshop will explore Digital Futures in young adult fiction using examples from her own work and selected writing prompts.

Choreograms

Pre-booking required, suitable for ages 15+

1.00pm - 2.00pm Dance-music-text workshop/ demonstration illuminating links between movement, dance, music and text implemented through performance and technology.

This is a collaborative piece

by Richard Hoadley (music and programming), Phil Terry (text) and Jane Turner (choreography).

Pre-booking required, suitable for all ages

Pre-booking required, suitable for adults

Photo: Chris Frazer Smith

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Hands-On

Performance

Transformation Animation

The Mifune Tsuji Trio

1.00pm - 6.30pm

5.00pm - 6.00pm

Get your hands dirty making this collaborative animation.

Participate in cycles of creation and destruction as the drawing evolves over two days. With Michelle Fava and other Cambridge based artists.

Mifune Tsuji on violin, Jin Theriault on saxophones and shakuhachi and Paul Jackson on piano. The popular trio return with a programme of music, movement and dance, featuring contemporary works for violin, saxophone, shakuhachi and piano, including Turns by Makoto Shinohara, a world premiere of a new trio by Simone Spagnolo, and tango music by Astor Piazzolla.

Drop by anytime, suitable for all ages Talk Using Sound Design to Foster Inclusivity

Pre-booking required, suitable for all ages

3.00pm - 4.00pm ‘Enhancing Audio Description’ uses sound to transform audiovisual experiences for visually impaired audiences. Mariana Lopez demonstrates sound design techniques used to provide an experience closer to the filmmaker’s vision.

Pre-booking required, suitable for ages 15+

Talk & Performance Hands-On Flux’d

Transatlantic: They Say! We Say!

4.00pm - 6.00pm,

5.00pm - 6.30pm

Covent Garden Drama Centre

Talk and Performance, 15+, pre-book

An interactive music and dance art installation exploring the connections between the physical and digital world. The audience will create electronic music for dancers to improvise to throughout the performance.

A brandAnonymous production for Anglia Ruskin University Drop by anytime, suitable for all ages

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Linked by the World Wide Web, young writers from Cambridge and Houston take part in a live performance of poetry reflecting the similarities and differences of their lives, hopes and dreams.

Pre-booking required, suitable for ages 15+

Information for Disabled Visitors

How to find us

PARKING

Conveniently located on the conjunction of East Road and

Blue Badge holders are permitted to park in Bradmore

Mill Road we are easy to reach by foot, bus and train.

Street, providing easy access to the campus. If necessary,

BY CAR

reserved disabled parking may be possible on campus,

Whilst there is no public parking available on the campus,

subject to availability. If you wish to request reserved

we have public car parks close by including Queen Anne

disabled parking, please telephone the University’s

Terrace and the Grafton Centre (East), both well signposted

Facilities Helpdesk on: 01245 686464.

and within easy walking distance. Alternatively you may

RUSKIN GALLERY Wheelchair access is via a lift to the main gallery level and the balcony area. The lift entrance is located in the courtyard between the Ruskin Gallery and the Coslett Building. The gallery also has disabled toilet facilities

wish to make use of Cambridge’s excellent Park & Ride scheme (please note buses stop running at 8.00pm). More information on all parking available in the city can be found at: www.cambridge.gov.uk/parking

accessible from the main gallery area.

ON FOOT

MUMFORD THEATRE

From Queen Anne Terrace

There is level access to the Mumford Theatre from

Walking from the car park turn right onto Gonville Place

the University’s main entrance on East Road and from

and pass Parkside Swimming Pool. At the crossroads

Bradmore Street. The seating is fully tiered and for this

continue straight on. This is East Road and you will soon

reason there is provision for 5 wheelchair users. If you

see our University’s buildings on your right.

have difficulty with stairs please let us know when you

From Grafton (East)

are booking your tickets. Mumford Theatre ticket prices

Walking from the Grafton Centre, turn right onto East

are listed for each show, concessions apply to some

Road. Cross the road at the pedestrian crossing by the

performances and disabled customers who need to be

Professional Music Technology store and continue along

accompanied for assistance purposes are entitled to an

East Road. Our University is on the left hand side just after

Essential Companion ticket, free of charge, in addition to a

St Matthew’s Primary School.

concession ticket for themselves.

From Drummer Street Bus Station

An Induction Loop is installed in the theatre. Switch your

Most bus routes (including the Park & Ride) stop at

hearing aid to the ‘T’ setting.

Drummer Street. Our University is a 10 minute walk away along Drummer Street, Parker Street and Parkside (alongside Parker’s Piece) all of which form an easy to follow, continuous line. Turn left at the major crossroads on to East Road and you will see the glass fronted main entrance a short way along to your right.

From the Train Station Exit on to Station Road, after about 100 metres turn right on to Tenison Road and continue all the way along this residential street. At the end, turn left on to Mill Road and continue to the major crossroads, with the swimming pool on your left. Turn right on to East Road and the University is situated just past the church on your right.

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Maps and further directions can be found at www.anglia.ac.uk/findcambridge

DRUMMER STREET

Cambridge Campus Cambridge Campus

DRUMMER STREET

City Centre

City Centre

EMMANUEL STREET DROP OFF/PICK UP

Park & Ride

GRAFTON CENTRE DROP OFF/PICK UP

Park & Ride

Cambridge City Centre

The Mumford Theatre has 270 fully tiered seats allowing a good view from anywhere in the auditorium and the seats also have good leg room. With our advanced online booking system you can choose your own seat.

If you have limited mobility and have difficulty using stairs please advise us when booking. The theatre can accommodate up to five wheelchairs in the front row, should you require one of these spaces please book through the Box Office.

Mumford Theatre ticket prices are listed for each show. Concessions apply to some performances and disabled customers who need to be accompanied for assistance purposes are entitled to an Essential Companion ticket, free of charge, in addition to a concession ticket for themselves.

For more information on the Mumford Theatre please visit www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre or telephone the Box Office on 01223 352932.

The Box Office is open Monday – Friday, 2.00 – 5.00pm.

www.anglia.ac.uk/arts

East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT Email: arts@anglia.ac.uk

THEATRE For more information on the Mumford Theatre please visit www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre or telephone the Box Office on 01223 352932.

The Box Office is open Monday – Friday, 2.00pm – 5.00pm.

VISUAL ARTS For more information on the Ruskin Gallery please visit www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskingallery The Ruskin Gallery is open Monday - Saturday, 10.00am - 4.30pm.

MUSIC The Department of Music and Performing Arts performs concerts and productions in and around Cambridge throughout the year and hosts free Friday lunchtime concerts at the Mumford Theatre.

For more information on Music and Performing Arts events please visit www.anglia.ac.uk/mpaevents

FILM Cambridgeshire Film Consortium is based at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

For more information please visit www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org and to book please visit www.picturehouses.co.uk or telephone 0871 902 5720

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