Bath Spa Live Summer Brochure 2016

SUMMER SEASON 2016 Arts & Cultural Events at Bath Spa University

Theatre / Music / Dance / Comedy / Poetry / Public Lectures / Exhibitions www.bathspalive.com

ABOUT BATH SPA LIVE Bath Spa Live is the production company for public arts and cultural events at Bath Spa University.

We produce over 100 events each year at the University’s main venues: the Michael Tippett Centre, University Theatre and Burdall’s Yard, as well as venues in Bath and the surrounding area. We also promote creativity and enable innovation by engaging students in the professional arts world.

Bath Spa University Newton St. Loe Bath BA2 9BN Tel: 01225 875875 | email: bathspalive@bathspa.ac.uk www.bathspalive.com | @bathspalive Cover image: The Servant of Two Masters 12-14 May 2016, University Theatre.

PRIVATE VENUE HIRE Are you looking for a venue that offers something special? The Bath Spa Live venues are available for private hire, providing clients with options for performance space, parties, team building days, and much more. Our team will create a bespoke package for all your venue and catering needs.

For more information about our venues visit www.bathspavenues.com or call 01225 876700

www.bathspalive.com SATURDAY 9 APRIL 8PM UNIVERSITY THEATRE

Seeing Sound 4 Showcase If you could see music, what would it look like?

This concert features an amazing international roster of musicians and artists who explore precisely that question through cutting edge audio visual performance. The programme features up-and-coming Bristol outfit Dot Product, in collaboration with MexicanBritish visual artist Panther Panther and ex-Sancho Plan iconoclasts Monomatic, alongside visitors from Europe and the US. So expect everything from the very latest digital technologies to analogue video and synths, virtuosic instrumental performance, interactive sensors and spectacular multi-screen projection.

Visitors will also be able to experience installations in our new Commons building, including new work commissioned specially for our two-storey MediaWall. The concert and installations are part of the Seeing Sound 4 symposium, a biennial global meeting point for leading audio visual artists from around the world. Inclusive tickets for the full weekend are available on the Bath Spa Live website. www.seeingsound.co.uk

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com 11-23 APRIL UNIVERSITY THEATRE

(TIMES VARY)

Drama Fest Bath Spa University Drama Studies Performance Projects.

Drama Fest is a fringe festival comprising of up to 21 different works. It is a chance to see practical performance work made by this year’s graduating Drama students.

Drama at Bath Spa University offers specialised, creative arts and combined study pathways for students who seek to explore the immensity of drama as both a performance medium and an applied subject. Accordingly, the Drama Fest programme is diverse. It includes devised theatre, physical and visual theatre, standup comedy, processional theatre, immersive theatre, text-based drama, Shakespearean theatre, installations and more!

All the events are free to attend and programme details will be available on the Bath Spa Live website in April.

FREE - BOOKING REQUIRED

www.bathspalive.com WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

The Poetry Hub Presents: Bath Spa Stand-Up Poetry Reading Series Tim Liardet launches his new collection The World Before Snow (shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize in 2015) at Burdall’s Yard.

Tim has produced nine collections of poetry.

The Blood Choir was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His pamphlet - Priest Skear - appeared in 2010 and was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for winter of that year.

Tim is Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.

FULL PRICE £5 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2PM & 7:30PM BURDALL’S YARD

WordPlay Join us for the final WordPlay of the year, where final-year Acting students from Bath Spa University present new theatre scripts at this rehearsed reading evening. Meet new writers, hear their latest work and discover new gems in playwriting. A place where you can truly say you saw it here first.

FULL PRICE £6 | CONC £4 | BSU STUDENTS £3

www.bathspalive.com FRIDAY 22 APRIL 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

Jazz Night: Sam Crockatt This gig is part of the launch tour for the Sam Crockatt Quartet’s third album - Mells Bells, on Whirlwind Recordings. The band comprises of four of the most in-demand and creative musicians on the UK scene: musicians on the UK scene: Kit Downs, piano; Oli Hayhurst, double bass; James Maddren, drums; and Sam Crockatt, tenor saxophone and composer. Their first album - Howeird - won album of the year in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2009.

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £3

23 APRIL 8PM & 24 APRIL 3PM BURDALL’S YARD

Timothy Timothy is a husband any woman would die for.

But when his wife suspects he is plotting to kill her she calls on her two friends to help.

Not knowing what to expect, they soon find themselves in a tangled web of accusation, hysteria and cocoa - all on a Sunday afternoon.

A dark comedy by David K. Barnes and Michael Milne.

Graduates of 2015 bring Timothy back to Bath Spa Live after last year’s Fringe performances and a sell out run in Taipei, Taiwan.

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

The Poetry Hub Presents: Bath Spa Stand-Up Poetry Reading Series Jean Sprackland lives in London and has published four collections of poetry. Sleeping Keys, published by Cape last autumn, is “a book distinguished by rueful but unembittered wisdom” (Sean O’Brien, The Guardian). Tilt won the Costa Poetry Award in 2008, and Hard Water was shortlisted for both the TS Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Award. Jean is also the author of Strands: A Year of Discoveries of the Beach, the winner of the Portico Prize for nonfiction. She is Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Jean will be reading from her latest collection.

FULL PRICE £5 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

www.bathspalive.com 12-14 MAY UNIVERSITY THEATRE (TIMES VARY -SEE BELOW)

The Servant of Two Masters

by Carlo Goldoni Adapted by Dorothy Louise Performed by our 3rd year Acting students The Servant of Two Masters is a madcap Italian comedy of lovers, lawyers, servants, and twenty-seven plates of meatballs. Betrothed couple Silvio and Clarice are devastated when a previous fiancé reappears, back from the dead.

In this wild farce, things and people are not what they seem and disguises, traps, and tricks produce a whirlwind of mass confusion.

At the centre of this mirth is Truffaldino, the scheming – and perpetually hungry – servant who concocts a zany scheme to double his wages (and his meals) by serving two masters at once.

This updated commedia dell’arte masterpiece

by Carlo Goldoni adapted by Dorothy Louise uses contemporary language and promises laugh-out-loud mayhem that should not be missed!

Presented by

Thursday 12 May 7:30pm Friday 13 May 7:30pm Saturday 14 May 2pm & 7:30pm

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £10 | BSU STUDENTS £6

www.bathspalive.com THURSDAY 19 MAY 7:30PM MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

Plus-Minus Ensemble A concert featuring new compositions by Bath Spa University Music students.

Plus-Minus is an Anglo/Belgium octet committed to presenting new work alongside landmark modern repertoire.

Formed in 2003 by Joanna Bailie and Matthew Shlomowitz, Plus-Minus is distinguished by its interest in avantgarde, conceptual, and experimental open instrumentation pieces such as Stockhausen‘s 1963 classic, from which the group takes its name.

Composers who have written pieces for the group include Laurence Crane, Bryn Harrison, Stefan Van Eycken, David Helbich, Michael Finnissy, James Saunders, Joanna Bailie, Trond Reinholdtsen, Damien Ricketson, Oyvind Torvund and Erik Ulman.

FREE - BOOKING REQUIRED

www.bathspalive.com FRIDAY 20 MAY 6PM BURDALL’S YARD

Party in the City Bath International Music Festival brings the city to life with their fantastic annual evening of free music, parades and dancing. Join the party at Burdall’s where we will be packing the venue with a huge range of music performers including: Bath Spa Big Band Bath Spa Big Band is an exciting ensemble featuring students from the University’s Music Department. The repertoire ranges from music by modern composers through to Big Band classics.

Chamber Winds A Bath Spa University mixed-instrument ensemble that plays chamber music repertoire, with players selected from all years of the BA Music programme.

Bath Spa Ladies Choir Bath Spa Ladies Choir was reformed in 2015 under the direction of Lydia Montgomery and accompanied by Will Ashworth. The choir sings a wide range of music including traditional folk music and also musical theatre arrangements. The Ladies Choir’s popular concerts take place in many different community venues, ranging from churches to retirement homes.

FREE - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

www.bathspalive.com 20 - 21 MAY 7:30PM UNIVERSITY THEATRE

Open Space Two evenings of exciting, new contemporary dance work that showcases the creativity of Bath Spa University dancers.

The work has been created by undergraduate and postgraduate students and includes both live performances and screen dance. There are also newly commissioned works created by the award-winning dance company Earthfall and Brazilian choreographer Jean Abreu.

“A killer blend of beguiling style and raw emotional punch” The Guardian, reviewing Jean Abreu

FULL PRICE £10 | CONC £8 | BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com SATURDAY 21 MAY 4PM BURDALL’S YARD

Monologue Knockout!

Round five of Bath Spa University’s annual monologue competition. Acting students go head-to-head in monologue performances and you, the audience, vote your favourites through to the final, taking place at Bath Fringe Festival on Sunday 12 June 2016 at 2pm.

FULL PRICE £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

SUNDAY 22 MAY 7:30PM THE OLD THEATRE ROYAL

Shakespeare in Georgian Bath Students from Acting and Music present A Shakespeare Ode by Bath’s own musical genius, Thomas Linley Junior, alongside a miniature opera, Thomas and Sally by Thomas Arne, the composer associated with Garrick’s revival of the bard in Georgian England - a perfect combination for the Shakespeare anniversary year.

In the 1740s David Garrick had fostered a new interest in Shakespeare with a revolutionary naturalistic style of acting and began to develop the notion of Shakespeare as England’s national bard. Linley’s Ode reflected the country’s burgeoning interest in Shakespeare.

The comic afterpiece Thomas and Sally of 1760 was a huge success at Drury Lane and in Bath’s Orchard Theatre where it played frequently.

This is a rare opportunity to see and hear this colourful piece of Georgian opera, performed by postgraduate students.

FULL PRICE £20 Tickets available from Bath Box Office 01225 463362 or www.bathfestivals.org

www.bathspalive.com 12 14 MAY UNI WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 6:30PM BURDALL’S YARD

Creative Music Technology Graduate Show View an interactive exhibition of the highly original work of Bath Spa University’s final year BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology students.

Featuring audio, multimedia and composition, this work blurs the boundaries of the discipline. Graduates from this course include internationally renowned DJs, producers and composers.

FULL PRICE £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

www.bathspalive.com 27 MAY - 12 JUNE BURDALL’S YARD (Full details see website)

FRINGE FORTNIGHT AT BURDALL’S THIRD YEAR ACTING STUDENTS

A DOG’S LIFE | Sat 28 May 4pm & Sun 29 May 6pm | £5/£3 Four dogs lie in cages in an animal shelter. A woman visits the shelter to choose a dog, a choice that could mean life or death for the oldest, Ben.

ABOUT A GOTH | Sat 28 May 6pm & Mon 30 May 8pm | £7/£5 Nick is 17, a goth and very gay. His misadventures include working with old people, being in love with his straight mate, and hating his family for refusing to reject him due to his sexuality. Less a comedy about coming out, more one of coming to terms with oneself!

CABARET | Sat 28 May 8pm | £5/£3 Enjoy a veritable feast of entertainment as students of Bath Spa past and present share their irrefutable and irrepressible talents for your delight and delectation. Probably the best show in the world...

WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY | Sun 29/5 2pm & Mon 30/5 6pm | £8/£6 Josh is good at dancing, but not at people. On the other hand he did once read A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking so he reckons he’ll probably be alright. Is the hokey-cokey really what it’s all about?

Really? Josh doesn’t know, but he’s damn well going to find out.

Running Dog Theatre create a show that’s part physics lecture, part dance lesson and part school disco.

THEATRELAB | Sun 29 4pm & Sun 12 June 6pm | £5/£3 A theatreLab rehearsed reading is an event which platforms new theatre talent. theatreLab is a producer led collective committed to the creation of new theatre. www.theatrelab.org.uk

CINCO COISAS | Sun 29 May 8pm & Mon 30 May 2pm | £8/£6 Cinco Coisas is a family show from Brazil based artists, Bianca Bertalot. Structured around the five basic needs of a child – Place, Nurturance, Support, Protection and Limitation. Through dance, play, clowning and improvisation it proposes to lead the audience on a purely human experience.

PRONOUN | Mon 30 May 4pm & Tue 31 May 6pm | £5/£3 A love story that knew no bounds is now challenged by circumstances beyond Josh’s control. Isabella took a long look in the mirror, and a long look at her life. She was unhappy, but now she finally understands why. She is meant to be a boy. A heart-warming story of transition, acceptance, love and testosterone.

BOXED UP | Tue 31 May 4pm & Wed 1 June 8pm | £5/£3 A group of individuals each suffering with a deep issue that they can’t seem to talk to anyone about.

Each character is on their lunch break and as they open up about their issues we gradually witness their lives fall apart. Boxed up shows the importance of opening up in this visually-beautiful, collaborative new play. Written, produced, directed and acted by the players from REGENERATE! Theatre Company.

www.bathspalive.com or 01225 463362 THE DEAD BOAT ON WHEELS | 31/5 8pm, 6/6 6pm & 8/6 8pm | £10/£8/£5 Are you scared to die? The Dead Boat on Wheels is a gritty surreal performance that takes you through the river Styx in a hospital bed. Based on the research of an arts facilitator who worked with terminally ill patients, the performance faces questions surrounding death head on, and opens up the conversation about death and bereavement in a medicalised world.

The Dead Boat on Wheels is a performed by The Rue Theatre in partnership with theatrelab, Bath Spa University & The Theatre Academy Maastricht (The Netherlands).

STILL | Wed 1 June 4pm & Thu 2 June 6pm | £5/£3 The tides of life can sometimes pull you under... Waves overhead, shimmering stillness below, swimming in aquatic wonders. The constant stutter of the ocean reflects and distorts every moment... every movement. This is a physical theatre piece that explores body/mind and the struggle of keeping your head above the water.

IS IT TABU? | Wed 1 June 6pm & Thu 2 June 8pm | £6 A brand new show from Under Two Floorboards. Everything they say in the newspapers must be true...

Religion Starts All Wars - I’m Gay But Homophobic - Handicapped People Can’t Have Sex - White People Who Wear Hoodies And Flat Peaks Think They Are Black - Bloody Immigrants Take The Jobs That I Don’t Want - Incest Is Just Love - From A Humanitarian Point Of View I Care About Refugees But We Can’t Let Them In

DARE TO CARE | Fri 3 June 8pm & Sat 4 June 2pm | £8/£6/£4 A double-bill of new writing by two local writers Clare Reddaway and Sarah Curwen The Dawn of the Silent Spring. 1950s USA: nature was under threat from man-made chemicals but softspoken Rachel Carson stood up to the powerful aggro-chemical industry with her book: The Silent Spring.

The Angel of Peckham. 2015 UK: Who exactly is the charismatic and colourful ex-chief executive of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh? Is she the ‘Angel of Peckham’? Or someone rather less savoury?

INWARD RIPPLES | Sat 4 June 4pm & Sun 5 June 6pm | £5/£3 It’s funny; you’re ready to let someone go, and they sail right back to you. Water under the bridge? You wish. First a memory, then a thought... then want.

Meet Boy. Boy wants Girl.

DEAR ME | Sat 4 June 6pm & Tue 7 June 8pm | £5/£3 If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would you say? With thousands of places and faces woven into a colourful patchwork in your mind, what do you choose to share and what stays hidden in the bottom of a dusty cardboard box. Dear Me invites you back to a place in your memory - why don’t you open the door and see what’s waiting inside?

NOBODY SUSPECTS A MURDER | Sat 4 June 8pm & Tue 7 June 6pm | £5/£3 A musical murder mystery set in 1935. A pompous upper class family are grief stricken after receiving news of Granny’s death. That is until an even more pompous Inspector starts to uncover the truth.

Whodunit? Everyone is a suspect - even the band!!!

WHEN WILL IT BE ME? | Sun 5 June 4pm | £5/£3 Freddie Sinclair is having a mid life crisis at 27. With the pressure of settling down and finding a ‘real job’ becoming a terrifying reality, he decides to up-sticks and go to Ecuador to fulfil his travelling dreams, enjoy a life of no commitment and fill his days with frivolity and all round good times. Our story follows the people he has left behind; his mum, his best friend and his older sibling; in their jealousies over his ‘success’.

www.bathspalive.com MORE BANKSY THAN BONNETS | Sun 5 June 8pm | £5 (2for£8) Talking Tales, Bristol’s finest storytelling night, comes to the Bath Fringe. Stokes Croft Writers bring a selection of tales from Bristol’s best writing talents to Burdall’s Yard.

Expect entertaining and edgy stories from the creative heart of Bristol and beyond. More a cultural exchange than an inter-city invasion, but we might bring our superheroes and zombies. We might bring our Beryl and we will certainly bring our badges. Who knows… we might even bring Banksy.

HOWL | Mon 6 June 8pm & Sun 12 June 4pm | £5/£3 A troubled writer struggles, pushing through roadblocks in both his personal and professional life. As he becomes frustrated he creates a reflection of himself, one that is impulsive, confident and successful in his endeavours. When he falls in love with a girl at his work, the reflection begins to act erratically and the man realises he is losing control of himself.

HIPPOCRITE | Wed 8 June 6pm & Thurs 9 June 8pm | £7/£5/£3 Spontaneous Theatre Company presents its devised production Hippocrite, a folly about a two-headed hippopotamus and the discoveries it makes. This singing, dancing, lugubrious animal delivers many moments of mirth through interaction and playing with the audience. Suitable for children of all ages this show takes us on a rollercoaster ride through a hippopotamus world that is just like our own.

SILENT WINGS | Thurs 9 June 6pm & Fri 10 June 8pm | £10/£7 Inspired by I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here - a published collection of children’s artwork and poetry created inside Czechoslovakian concentration camp Theresienstadt, established by the SS during WW2 - this exciting piece of new writing follows four of those children, as they grow up, and navigate the life cycle behind the camp’s walls. Written by local actress Daisy Jorgensen and Directed by Scott Rogers.

JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER | Fri 10 June 6pm & Sat 11 June 8pm | £8/£7/£6 Presented by Tayo Aluko & Friends Theatre Company, who aim to present stories about Africa and her descendants in a positive light.

A well respected Nigerian barrister in 1960s London is also an accomplished concert singer and a great cricket lover. He muses on Black liberation and anti-racism struggles worldwide, from the viewpoint of a colonial stranded in the heart of empire.

FEAR OF GOD | Fri 10 June 4pm & Sat 11 June 6pm | £5/£3 Copenhagen 1518, people are starving, homeless and sick with disease. Marin and Annette have run out of food, they don’t know when they will eat again. Both believe in very different solutions to their plight and they are forced to take desperate measures in order to survive. Meanwhile outside, their neighbours start to dance...

KRAPP’S LAST TAPE | Sat 11 June 4pm & Sun 12 June 8pm | £5/£3

By Samuel Beckett. Performed by James Elston Krapp sits alone in his isolated den. He eats bananas, drinks, and generally mopes around.

He decides to listen back to his old recordings made when he was a younger gentleman. Through his listening he learns much about love, loss, death, relationships, and ultimately, life.

ROOMMATES | Sun 12 June 5:30pm | Free All of us want to seem normal. We all want to be perceived as though on the path that we have set ourselves.But what happens when your inner demons are trying to break through? Can you keep your inflictions within, or do they end up consuming you?

www.bathspalive.com or 01225 463362 11 - 19 JUNE 10AM-5PM DAILY SION HILL GALLERY

Bath School of Art and Design Undergraduate Degree Show An exciting showcase for the work of the graduating students in Creative Arts, Contemporary Arts Practice, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Graphic Communication, Photography, Textiles for Fashion and Interiors, and Three Dimensional Design.

The Bath School of Art and Design was founded more than 160 years ago and has a successful history and international reputation for creativity and innovation.

The School provides students with the opportunity to work with a range of internationally recognised art and design practitioners and thinkers in an unparalleled creative context.

Image by Olivia Jowett, final year student on the Textile Design for Fashion & Interiors.

FREE - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 7:30PM

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, BATH

Gala Concert Students from Bath Spa University’s Department of Music celebrate the end of the academic year with a grand concert at Bath’s prestigious Assembly Rooms.

This year the Bath Spa University Orchestra and Choir will perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

There will also be a varied programme of soloists and ensemble pieces to complete the evening.

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £10 | BSU STUDENT £6

TUESDAY 21 JUNE 3:30PM & 7PM ASSEMBLY ROOMS, BATH

Graduate Fashion Show Bath School of Art And Design BA (Hons) Fashion Design students’ annual catwalk show. A showcase of final year student collections presented on the catwalk by professional models, produced by London Fashion Week Show Producer John Walford.

A selection of 1st and 2nd year work will also be presented.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see fashion collections from our graduating students.

Venue: The Ballroom, The Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QH Tickets on sale in May.

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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES TUESDAY 12 APRIL 6:30PM - CAROL ALAYNE

Sion Hill

Tailoring in three dimensions: Physiology, Technique, Psychology Carol Alayne is a master tailor and haute couture specialist with over 30 years professional experience both in Savile Row and at a number of leading fashion houses. She has been connected with the houses of Chanel, Huntsman, Gieves & Hawkes, Welsh & Jefferies, Hardy Amies and Holland & Holland.

WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL 5:30PM - GEOFF WHITTY Commons Fifty Years of Making Sense of Education Policy Geoff first became interested in the study of education policy while an undergraduate student in the mid-1960s. In this presentation, he will reflect on his subsequent career in education research and consider how education policy and education research have changed over the years.

He will chart the often troubled relationship between research and policy in the field of education and suggest that the brave new world of ‘what works,’ ‘evidence-based policy’ and ‘impact’ is unlikely to bring an end to the troubles.

TUESDAY 17 MAY 5:30PM - LINDA LA VILLE Commons Translational Research & Knowledge Mobilisation in Teacher Education.

The unprecedented increase in what we know, coupled with the twenty-first century technically driven communication of information, poses an enormous challenge for teacher education.

Linda La Velle, Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University and Professor of Biology Education at Plymouth Institute of Education.

WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE 5:30PM - IAN MENTER Commons What is a teacher in the 21st century and what does a 21st century teacher need to know?

There is now almost universal recognition around the world that ‘teaching matters’ and that the quality of teaching is crucial in social and economic development. This concern increasingly applies in the worlds of further and higher education as well as in schools.

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FREE EXHIBITIONS MEDIAWALL IN COMMONS

(See website for other events this Summer)

Two Space 2009 (MediaWall Version)

by Larry Cuba, 2016 11-18 April & 22 April-1 May, 2016 10am - 8pm Two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile.

Two Space consists of twelve such patterns produced using each of nine different animating figures (12 x 9 = 108 total). Rendered in stark black and white, the patterns produce optical illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of colour.

Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java adds to the mesmerising effect.

FREE - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

26 APRIL - 3 MAY (10am - 5pm) SION HILL GALLERY

Spaces of the Observed: The Viewed and the Viewer.

By Moira Turner The exhibition presents work produced for a practiceled PhD and investigates how a contemporary practitioner can provoke thought about the impact of observation on the individual, from a gendered viewpoint. Creatively manipulated situations of observation are instigated, through the installation of photography and moving image, to examine the exchange between artwork and audience and to raise awareness of the presence of observation, surveillance and the panoptical gaze.

APRIL 2016

NATIONAL TOURING EXHIBITION

JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE ‘15 Founded in 1994, the Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. The Bath School of Art and Design is proud to host the organisation of this annual exhibition, which is a joint initiative supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and presented as part of Jerwood Visual Arts. A fully illustrated catalogue is available.

www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2015 Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Until 9 April 2016 www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/sidney-cooper-gallery/sidney-cooper-gallery

Soheila Sokhanvari, Two serious ladies, Egg tempera on vellum Courtesy of the artist and Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015

INFORMATION

www.bathspalive.com (no booking fees) Bath Box Office: 01225 463362 Some of our shows are also available for telephone and counter booking through Bath Box Office, located in The Tourist Information Centre in Abbey Church Yard.

The following groups are eligible for concession tickets: BSU Students & Staff, Full Time Students, Under 16s, Benefit Recipients, Over 65s, Registered Disabled, (Carers and assistants to disabled patrons entitled to free tickets). Proof required.

Bath Spa Live’s bar opens at our venues from 30 minutes before each performance starts. We serve a range of soft and alcoholic drinks, all at student-friendly prices.

TRAVELLING TO OUR VENUES Commons, Michael Tippet Centre and University Theatre: ADDRESS: Bath Spa University, Newton Park Campus, Bath BA2 9BN Buses from Bath Service 15 runs every 15 minutes between Bath city centre and Newton Park via Oldfield Park, Windsor Bridge and Newbridge Road. Buses from Bristol 37, 38, 39, 39X from Bristol Temple Meads with stops at Brislington, Keynsham and Saltford. Bus 16 runs every 15 minutes (9am-6pm) from Twerton Mill during term time.

Train: Exit Bath Spa train station via the main ticket office and turn left. The 15 bus to Newton Park departs from the bus station next door.

The car park is at the far end of campus, about an 8-minute walk from the venues. Charges may apply. All tickets purchased through www.bathspalive.com will be issued with a free parking permit if applicable.

Burdall’s Yard: ADDRESS: Burdall’s Yard, 7A Anglo Terrace, London Road, Bath BA1 5NH Buses 6, 7, 13, 231, 271, 272 bus services stop at Snow Hill (3 minutes’ walk from Burdall’s Yard).

See www.firstgroup.com for further bus information.

Parking: The nearest free parking is available in the streets off Snow Hill. Free parking is also available after 8pm in the Cattle Market car park on Walcot Street (6 minutes’ walk from Burdall’s Yard). Passengers can be dropped off in the loading parking area opposite Burdall’s Yard.

Train: Burdall’s Yard is about 20 minutes’ walk from Bath Spa Train Station. Bus services 231 and 271 run from the bus station next to the train station.

Sion Hill Gallery & Lecture Theatre: ADDRESS: Bath Spa University, Sion Hill, Bath, BA1 5SF Buses 700 & 701 provided by CT Coaches Bath City Centre to Sion Hill, via Marlborough Buildings. Please see Bathnes.gov.uk for details.

There is a free bus service running between Newton Park and Sion Hill, with stops at Twerton Fork and Windsor Villas.

Access: All our venues are accessible to wheelchair users. Please inform the ticket office if you would like to book a wheelchair space. Guide dogs and assistance dogs are welcome at all our venues. If you have any questions regarding access please contact us on 01225 875508 or email s.harris1@bathspa.ac.uk

DIARY FOR APRIL-JUNE 2016

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UT - University Theatre / MTC - Michael Tippett Centre / BY - Burdall’s Yard / SHG - Sion Hill Gallery / OTR - Old Theatre Royal / AS - Assembly Rooms

APRIL Seeing Sound Showcase UT Sat 9 April 8pm Drama Fest UT 11-23 April Times vary Media Wall - Two Space Commons 11-18 April 10am - 8pm Lecture - Carol Alayne Sion Hill Tue 12 April 6:30pm Poetry - Tim Liardet BY Wed 13 April 8pm WordPlay BY Sat 16 April 2 & 7:30pm Jazz - Sam Crockatt BY Fri 22 April 8pm Media Wall - Two Space Commons 21 Apr-1May 10am - 8pm Timothy BY 23-24 April 8pm & 3pm Exhibition - Moira Turner SHG 26/4-3/5 10am - 5pm Lecture - Geoff Whitty Commons Wed 27 April 5:30pm MAY Poetry - Jean Sprackland BY The Servant of Two Masters UT Lecture - Lynda La Ville Commons Plus Minus Ensemble MTC Open Space UT Party in the City BY Monologue Knockout BY Shakespeare in Georgian Bath OTR Creative Music Technology BY Fringe at Burdall’s Week 1 BY

Wed 11 May 12-14 May Tue 17 May Thu 19 May 20 - 21 May Fri 20 May Sat 21 May Sun 22 May Wed 25 May 27/5 - 5/6

8pm Times vary 5:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 6pm 4pm 8pm 6:30pm Times vary

JUNE Fringe at Burdall’s Week 2 BSAD Degree Show Lecture - Ian Menter Gala Concert Graduate Fashion Show

6-12 June 11-19 June Wed 15 June Fri 17 June Tue 21 June

Times vary Daytime 5:30pm 7:30pm 3:30 & 7pm

BY Sion Hill Commons AS AS

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