What’s On January – March 2018
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Juan delGado Altered Landscapes Saturday 6 January – Sunday 25 February Join us to celebrate our exhibition opening with a free drink on us! Friday 12 January, 5.30 - 8pm Free, booking required.
Journey through Altered Landscapes
Altered Landscapes asks you to navigate, reflect and absorb the experiences and stories of refugees. For this exhibition, delGado travelled to Greece, Macedonia and Calais to film, photograph and record the journeys taken by Syrian refugees. delGado has not filmed these ‘invisible’ people who proliferate our media, but the places they have passed through. There are traces of their existence, fragmented experiences, fleeting moments and marks left on the land as they pass through to find safety. Using video, photography, light and sound, Altered Landscapes encourages you to open up contemplation and discussion about the current situation in Europe, a place that has become filled with militarised border control. IMAGE: Steffie Richards
IMAGE: Juan delGado
Sensory Journeys Wednesday 10 January – Monday 29 March Come on a journey to see our Sensory Ateliers, a unique, co-curated installation of artwork created across arts residencies by students of two Special Educational Needs schools: Ellesmere College and Ashmount School. This project is supported by Arts Council England, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Ashmount School and Ellesmere College. “The work and atmosphere created amazing. We are so pleased to be part of this work and when you see quality accounts of it like this, it makes it even better and supports the creation of a legacy for the future.”
Steffie Richards: Ebb and Flow Friday 12 January – Saturday 25 March Imagine if our presence left behind a visible trace when passing through a space. What would that space then look like? Steffie Richards’ new work aims to visualise this and relates to the transient values of coastal Cornwall. She explores the constant yet subtle changes to the environment, both brought and erased by the tides, and asks us to think about our relationship with the magnitude of the ocean itself.
Co-Principal at Ellesmere College, Lisa Pitwood. 2
What’s On January - March 2018
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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DeStress Fest
Let’s talk wellbeing IMAGE: Stefania Laccu: Sarah’s Blurred Green
IMAGE: Danni Spooner: Alienate
Honest explorations of art, mental health and wellbeing Look out for our full programme details online
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What’s On January - March 2018
During the first three months of 2018 we will host exhibitions, performances and workshops on the themes of mental health, neurodiversity, body image and stress alleviation. Expect valuable insights into our minds through visual representations of psychosomatic conditions, performances exploring identity and anxiety, comedy shows about lack of sleep, or why not discover what you can express in our Creative Learning workshops. As we all grow more comfortable and confident in talking about mental health and wellbeing, DeStress Fest opens up these conversations and experiences further, allowing you to have your voice heard even if you say nothing. Follow and be part of the conversation by using #DeStressFest
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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DeStress Fest
Explore mindsets in our Exhibitions IMAGE: Emma Fay: Portraits of the Mind
David Parkin’s Delusions of Grandeur Saturday 13 – Friday 19 January Associate Artist David Parkin creates an installation based on his time under section, suffering from a bi-polar manic episode. Using drawings, notes and plans made at the time, Parkin will create alternative visions of a typical mental unit NHS bedroom and solitary confinement.
whatsthebigmistry: Horses, Therapy, Lament & Intimate Conversations with and Furniture Monday 22 January - Saturday 3 February Prolific Associate Artist Priya Mistry takes over our Gallery. Expect a laboratory of experiments, special guests and an invitation to feast and meet the artist. Join Priya and get involved. See full details: whatsthebigmistry.com or attenborougharts.com
Denise Weston: Women of a Nervous Disposition Friday 2 February – Wednesday 28 March Nottingham based artist Denise Weston produces large scale portraits of women throughout history and fiction who were linked to the perception of ‘madness’. The artist’s interest in literature and film have been major influences in the creation of this series of work along with examining conceptions of female iconography, representation and identity.
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What’s On January - March 2018
All Brains are the Same Colour Saturday 10 February – Sunday 4 March Midlands based artists Stefania Laccu, Grace Johnson, Emma Bullo Taylor, Jas Singh, Jose Gonzalez Inglesias, and and architects Chorzepa + Gesevicuite respond to themes of body image, identity, brain damage, OCD and psychosomatic illnesses using installation, painting, and sculpture.
Fitter Happier OKNOTOK Monday 5 – Wednesday 28 March Taken from Radiohead’s critically acclaimed album OK Computer, Fitter Happier can be read as a list of commitments. In this interactive installation filled with the iconic album artwork, we invite visitors to add to their own commitments to the lyrics which will play alongside the original track.
Emma Fay: Portraits of the Mind Friday 9 – Wednesday 28 March
Celebrate Emma’s exhibition opening with live music and digital projections from Refuge who will perform songs created from poetry submissions to the Yellow Book Project. Friday 9 March, 7 - 8pm Free, booking required. Emma Fay invites you to look at your own worldview and question how we perceive the mental form in a series of body artworks and adornments exploring mindsets and mental attitudes.
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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DeStress Fest
Stay after hours at our Gallery Lates IMAGE: whatsthebigmistry: Tropical Awkward Bastard
Join us in the gallery for a series of after-hours performances that explore our world, bodies and mind through movement, music, and spoken word.
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L Y N N B E C: Epicene
Danni Spooner: Alienate
Tuesday 13 February, 7 – 8pm Pay What You Think Ages 16+
Tuesday 27 February, 7 – 8pm Pay What You Think Ages 16+
The word epicene is used to describe having characteristics of both sexes, or of neither. Using movement, poetry and projection, the show Epicene is a playful and earnest ongoing search to accept the joy of a body in all its parts.
A dancer and a musician investigate what it means to be a digital native in a world that separates nature and technology. Using projection, movement and sound, Alienate journeys through its own universe that binds natural elements and digital culture.
whatsthebigmistry: Tropical Awkward Bastard
The Inhabited Sky: In Search of the Long Now
Tuesday 20 February, 7 – 8pm Pay What You Think Ages 16+
Thursday 1 March, 6 – 10pm Pay What You Think Ages 16+
A pineapple, bunch of bananas, tropical juice carton, and a tutu. Welcome to A Bold Rant on being misrepresented in the world while ticking all the right boxes. What happens when we create new language and new classifications?
Lie back, relax and bathe in the experiential work of The Inhabited Sky. Using loops, ipads, guitars and drums, musicians will improvise across the recorded words of poet, writer and performer, Alison Dunne. Tap into the collective imagination, think and be in the moment. Drop in and stay as long as you like.
What’s On January - March 2018
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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DeStress Fest
Reflect through our Performances IMAGE: Kesha Raithatha: Traces
IMAGE: Ashok Mistry: The Birth of Understanding
David Parkin: Good Friday Friday 2 February, 7.30 – 8.30pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession Recovering from depression back in 2010, David learnt piano. Nine simple and honest songs quickly came to fruition about his troubling breakdown. Chatting between songs, David takes us from failed suicide attempt to ending up going on holiday to Thailand.
Ashok Mistry: The Birth of Understanding
Kesha Raithatha: Traces Friday 19 January, 7 – 8pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession In her first self-choreographed work, Kesha takes us on an abstract journey through her impressions of living, travelling and journaling throughout the Indian subcontinent. The division of people from each other and themselves is physically expressed through retrospective memory and emotions.
Naomh Cullen: I Farted in Shavasana Friday 26 January, 7 – 8pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession. 12+ years Naomh Cullen is attempting to cure her mental and physical ailments through any means necessary (apart from medicine or any real change in diet or lifestyle). Join her for an easy breezy yoga class where she makes you feel better about any embarrassing story you have about yourself. Bring comfortable clothing and an open mind! 10 What’s On January - March 2018
Kirsty Mealing: Cat Got My Tongue (I Hope It Comes Back) Sunday 28 January, 7 – 8pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession Finding herself lost for words in a busy bar, a woman steps into very large shoes to get them back in this semi-autobiographical love story between a body and her elusive voice, separated by Social Anxiety.
Friday 16 and Saturday 17 February, 10am – 5pm. Drop in. Free. All ages welcome Explore ritual, storytelling and gameplay by contributing to a large scale sand drawing made through visitor participation. This live artwork will feature performances by dancer Jessica Murray and percussionist David Stickman Higgins. The Birth of Understanding culminates in the drawing being destroyed by participants, which does not mark the end, but instead the creation of something new.
IMAGE: Kirsty Mealing: Cat Got My Tongue
Apples and Snakes: The No Panic Book of Not Panicking Saturday 17 March, 3 – 4.30pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession Meet the authors as they read stories from The No Panic Book of Not Panicking that explores personal experiences of panic and anxiety, practical and creative strategies for coping, and attitudes towards mental health. There will be a Q&A session and a talk about how writing can help well-being. For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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DeStress Fest LaPelle’s Factory: The Night Shift (featuring The Dice Man Speaks)
Jackie Hagan: This Is Not A Safe Space
Public sharing: Saturday 3 March, 8 – 9am Pay What You Think
Friday 23 March & Saturday 24 March, 7.30 – 8.40pm Tickets: £10 / £5 concession 16+ years
This is a very special creative all-nighter: a theatrical lock-in for anyone interested in rapid-response theatre making and staying up really, really late. The night’s chance-based production is inspired by The Dice Man Speaks, a new spoken word composition set to music composed by Sputnik Weazel with the words of Luke Rhinehart, author of The Dice Man. Artists are welcome to join the ten hour workshop, resulting in a public sharing at 8am the following morning. Are you an artist who would like to be part of The Night Shift? For more information contact info@lapellesfactory.co.uk
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Discover your creativity
What’s On January - March 2018
Jackie Hagan reveals the real voices of proper skint disabled people in her new solo show that aims to get people to sit up, listen and care without keeling over with empathy-fatigue or boredom of statistics. Expect audience interaction, DIY puppetry, poetic comedy with comedic poetry, and one underclass amputee steering the show. Commissioned by Unlimited and supported by BlueSCI Wellbeing, Contact and Full Circle Arts. BSL interpretation, audio description and touch tours are available for both of Jackie Hagan’s performances.
Discover your creativity in our Workshops Find our children and family workshops on page 27
A multi-sensory world Mondays, 7 – 9pm 22 January – 19 March (except 12 February) £103 / £53 for 8 sessions. Tutor: Carise Zangerle Murray Enter a world of creativity where you are seeing with your eyes, ears and hands. We will explore and create with textures, forms, sounds and colours. Suitable for all ages.
Stop – Look – Make
Beginner’s yoga
Mondays, 2 – 4pm 8 January – 19 March (except 12 February) £103 / £53 for 10 sessions. Tutor: Darren O’Brien
Monday 12 – Friday 16 February, 10 – 11am £22 for 5 sessions Tutor: Kim Woods
This friendly, supportive group takes us on a journey through art, nature and the sublime. Designed to sharpen the senses through exploring ‘the art of looking’, we will connect and make in the studio and beyond to support mindfulness and wellbeing. Includes outdoor activities and short local walks.
Learn the fundamentals of yoga, an ancient practice with origins stretching back thousands of years. Over 5 days you will be introduced to breathing exercises and basic poses, preparing you to embark on more experienced classes or start your own practice.
Goodbye stress, hello laughter
Finding your voice
Thursdays, 6 – 8pm 11 January – 22 March (except 15 February) £103 / £53 for 10 sessions Tutor: Kirsty Munro
Saturday 3 – Sunday 4 March, 10am – 5.30pm £66 / £41 for 2 sessions Tutor: Mel Drake
Laugh your troubles away in this destressing, uplifting, fun-filled course. Learn rehearsal exercises, performances skills and relaxation techniques as you giggle those blues away. Open to all, no experience necessary.
Discover the far-reaching qualities, emotions and expression held within your voice. Take part in this opportunity to research and develop the possibilities of the voice, and therefore the self.
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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Leicester Comedy Festival
Leicester Comedy Festival is back! IMAGE: The Pretend Men
We’ve got a programme packed with shows that will make you scream with laughter, recoil with cringe, and even stop to make you think. For the first time we’re offering shows that are British Sign Language interpreted and as always we have a great family offer.
Our Top Picks Paul O’Donnell: We’ve Got Each Other
The Pretend Men – Police Cops in Space
Saturday 17 February, 7 – 8pm
Friday 23 February, 8.30 – 9.30pm
We’ve Got Each Other is a full-scale original Bon Jovi musical… that’s almost entirely played out inside your imagination. Paul O’Donnell admits he is unable to resource a full production with a multi-talented cast, live band, opulent sets and decadent costumes, extravagant dance routines, dramatic key changes and the odd hydraulic lift or two. We’ve Got Each Other has none of these things - they cost a lot of money! Yet, Paul still tries to create his all singing, all dancing spectacle using just an empty stage, lighting cues, a series of cover versions of ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ and the power of the imagination.
“I knew at that moment my life was going to change forever. I had to become the best damn Police Cop… in Space!”
Double Billed with Heidi Regan
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2017 7 – 8pm Double Bill Tickets: £15
Winner of BBC New Comedy Award 2017 8.30 – 9.30pm Double Bill Tickets: £15
Inventive and dynamic, this satirical blockbuster is theatrical storytelling at its best and is one not to miss during this year’s Comedy Festival. The 80’s ‘lo-fi sci-fi’ show embarks on an intergalactic adventure set in the most dangerous place on Earth… Space. Total sell out at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 plus three sell out runs at SOHO Theatre.
Double Billed with Jordan Brookes
IMAGE: Paul O’Donnell
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What’s On January - March 2018
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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Leicester Comedy Festival The Not So Late Show with Ross & Josh Friday 9 February, 8.30 – 9.30pm
Introducing future stars... Ross Brierley & Josh Sadler give you a British twist to the anarchic, hilarious late night talk show that is a staple to the American TV landscape, following their sell out debut last year. The Not So Late Show is the only late night comedy chat show multimedia extravaganza, bringing you a plethora of special guests, sketches, short films, music and pure unadulterated fun.
Double Billed with Nick Hall who tells the unknown story of the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated, 7 – 8pm Double Bill Tickets: £10 IMAGE: Helen Duff
Laugh Out Loud Our BSL Interpreted comedy shows are all Pay What You Think! Ed Night: Anthem For Doomed Youth Sunday 18 February, 3.30 - 4.30pm Pay what you think Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Ed Night brings his critically lauded debut hour to the Leicester Comedy Festival. “Some of the cleverest, funniest and most unassuming comedy I’ve encountered” A Younger Theatre
Evelyn Mok: Hymen Manoeuvre Sunday 25 February, 3.30 – 4.30pm The award-winning Swedish comedian explores first-generation guilt, intersectionality and adult virginty in this “powerful debut” Chortle
Double Billed with Dave Chawner the award-winning comic who explores veganism to consider the origin of food, ideas and views. 2 – 3pm. Pay what you think
Big Difference Fundraiser
The Mystery Show
Sunday 11 February, 8 – 10pm Tickets: £10
Friday 16 February, 8.30 – 9.30pm
Do you know who the brains behind Leicester Comedy Festival are? Big Difference Company, that’s who! They’re a charity dedicated to producing an exciting and ambitious programme of cultural events and projects all in aid of life changing schemes. So join us to celebrate and support the charity behind your Leicester Comedy Festival with a mixed bill of big festival acts and special guests guaranteed to make you ‘lol’. Full line up will be confirmed on www.comedy-festival.co.uk. All proceeds will go to Big Difference Company registered charity 1135167.
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What’s On January - March 2018
Can’t decide what to see? Let us choose for you! Delve into the dark with The Mystery Show where you could see anything from exhilarating theatre, jaw-dropping dance or hilarious comedy. For this Leicester Comedy Festival edition we’ve got an extra special treat in store for you - but you won’t find out what until it starts! So grab a coffee or a bev and take a trip into the unexpected; let the red velvet curtain reveal all.
Double Billed with Helen Duff Amused Moose New Act Finalist 2017 7 – 8pm Double Bill Tickets: £10
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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.30 - 9.30pm 8.30 - 9.30pm Leicester Comedy Festival
The Comedy Asylum Saturday 10 February, 7 – 9.30pm Pay What You Think Arts in Mental Health Group BrightSparks and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust present a comedy performance that is the culmination of twelve comedy workshops facilitated by performer Rob Gee. We promise you a night to remember, not to mention free food and accessories!
IMAGE: The Monks
Ones to make you think DeStress at Leicester Comedy Festival
Jack Britton: MIGHTY Saturday 24 February, 7 – 8pm Using a fluid mixture of spoken word, comedy, a megaphone, a loop pedal and lots of copies of ‘The Yellow Pages’, bitesized activist Jack Britton (5ft 4”) asks the big question, does size matter?
Juliette Burton: Butterfly Effect Thursday 8 February, 7 – 8pm Tickets: £10 / £8 concession Join Juliette as she finds out whether kindness holds the power to change lives, cure mental health conditions, restore hope and dispel despair, end poverty and even defeat death. It’s a tall order for a comedy show but when it comes to entertainment, Juliette is fearless! Would you #DareToBeKind?
Double Billed with Willis & Vere – A Serious Play About World War II Willis & Vere (The Starship Osiris) present a new comedy farce about the tragedies of war. As usual, hecklers will be removed. 8.30 - 9.30pm. Double Bill Tickets: £10 BroadwayBaby, ThreeWeeks, LondonTheatre1
Kirsty Munro: Chance to Dream
IMAGE: Jack Britton
Thursday 15 February, 7 – 8pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession
The Monks: The All New Ten Commandments Sunday 18 February, 7.30 – 8.30pm Tickets: £7 / £5 concession
Thou shalt laugh! Or shall thee? Sketch duo The Monks present their hilarious comedy show based around the 10 famous rules as found in the bible.
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What’s On January - March 2018
Why do I dream of marrying a man who turns into a mouse?! What’s the cure for insomnia? Delve into the weird and wonderful dreamland where the body shuts down but the mind wanders… This fantastically funny show will make all your dreams come true. Disclaimer, none of your dreams may come true. IMAGE: Kirsty Munro
IMAGE: Marc Burrows
Marc Burrows: Mind Your Head Thursday 22 February, 7 – 8pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession Take a very personal trek through Marc’s mental health history, including his time in a psychiatric ward, suicide attempts, depression and bipolar diagnosis. BUT WITH JOKES. It all sounds terribly serious, but poor mental health has led him into a succession of strange places and supplied plenty of odd experiences. A bitter-sweet, life-affirming show, part story-telling, part stand up.
Poetman: Writing Wrongs by Writing Songs Sunday 25 February, 7.30 – 8.30pm Tickets: £6 / £5 concession Through the power of rhyme, Poetman fights word crime from corporate greed to your Facebook feed. Simon Cowell and Jeremy Kyle, he targets the ruthless, cruel and vile. He improvises with synthesizers fusing music, poetry, comedy and rap to tackle the world’s problems one song at a time.
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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Live Music and Dance
Make a night of it! Leicester Jazz House: Trish Clowes and Gareth Williams
Knighton Chamber Orchestra: A concert of classical music
Thursday 11 January, 8 – 10.30pm £14 / £7
Sunday 21 January, 3 – 5pm Venue: Fraser Noble Hall £10 / £8 / £3
Aiming to bring generations and styles of different musicians and music together, the saxophonist and pianist duo will play arrangements plus originals.
IMAGE: Philharmonia at the Movies
Thursday 8 March, 7.30pm Venue: De Montfort Hall
Soundbites: Live lunchtime music
Philharmonia at the Movies brings you the music that has defined some great moments of cinema, performed live by an orchestra of 80 world-class musicians at De Montfort Hall. Conducted by Carl Davis, the Philharmonia performs some of the most iconic film scores and unforgettable love songs from the greatest romantic films of all time including La La Land, West Side Story, Mamma Mia and more.
Listen to free live music every Tuesday afternoon at our Soundbites sessions. Grab something to eat from our café or even bring your own lunch! Enjoy a full mix of genres every week for free, Tuesdays 12.45 - 1.30pm.
Love Stories from the Silver Screen
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Interested in performing at Soundbites? Get in touch at arts-centre@le.ac.uk or call 0116 252 2455
Experience a rare opportunity to hear Gustav Mahler’s song cycle Kindertotenlieder, with exceptional soloist Charlotte Howes.
Leicester Jazz House: Julian Siegel Quartet
Brian Humpherson Quintet: Singing and Swinging
Saturday 3 March, 8 – 10.30pm Advance Tickets: £12 / £5 concession On The Day: £14 / £7 concession
Friday 16 March, 7.30 – 10.30pm Tickets: £8 / £6 concession
This group is fast becoming one of the most in-demand quartets on the UK jazz scene. Moving freely through varied sound-worlds and colours from undercurrents of bob into electro-acoustic trance, to West African drum grooves, searching ballads and joyful melodies.
Skytribe presents Chicas Locas Burlesque Spring Showcase Saturday 10 March, 8 – 10.30pm Tickets: £7 Suitable for ages 16+ Sit back for another glittering night of glamorous costumes, comedy and tease from Doe Demure’s troupes Chicas Locas Burlesque and Skytribe tribal fusion belly dance.
Relish another lively evening of well-loved songs from the Great American Songbook and popular jazz standards. Enjoy a few Stolen Moments, from Speak Low to Groovin’ High with trumpeter Don Blakeson, saxophonist Alan Walker, bassist Martin Slipp, drummer Vic ‘Stix’ Poole, and pianist Brian Humpherson. Featuring the vocal talents of Nicole van de Kuinder.
Contact Improvisation Jam Sunday 25 March, 1 – 4pm Tickets: Pay What You Think Everyone, of any level or ability, is welcome to join our friendly dance artists who will guide you through a sensory warm up and teach you a variety of contact improvisation skills. The workshop will end in an open jam where you are free to express yourself. Comfortable clothing and bare feet is recommended.
For our full programme and to book online visit www.attenborougharts.com
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IMAGE: Tetrad
Us & Them Tetrad presents one of the hottest* performance nights in Town! Sunday 11 March, 7 – 10pm £6 / £5
Come and explore new performance ideas from selected artists throughout the East Midlands and across the UK. Take part by hanging your thoughts on a washing line, join in the conversation in our Q & A, and sit back to watch the famous Tetraludes** unfold in front of your very eyes. Discover Tetrad’s unconventional hosting methods for an evening of conversation and fun. *figuratively. **an improvisation score made on the day with all the artists. Us & Them #12 line-up announced here: www.tetradcollective.com
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Families at Attenborough
Treat your family this Half Term!
Families at Attenborough have hitched a ride on Leicester Comedy Festival’s hump to give you hysterical laughs to enjoy together! Treating the family doesn’t need to cost a small fortune. Make sure to take advantage of our Family Pass offers. Your family of four can watch any of our family comedy shows for just £15 or pick up an extra saving at the box office with any two shows for £25!
Wednesday 14 February, 11am – 12pm Tickets: Family Pass or £5 each Award-winning local comedian Ian Hall and daughter Niamh are back with a jam-packed joiny-in jamboree of fun for the whole family. Delve into a bottomless box of props to dress up, sing and dance to help them bring ‘The Book of Daft’ to life. “Brilliantly daft. It’s difficult not to get caught up in the infectious, participatory bubble” Leicester Mercury
Nicholas Holt Does Improv in Every Venue – Family Special
Kids Court
Wednesday 14 February, 3.30 – 4.30pm Tickets: Family Pass or £5 each
Have you been guilty?! Parents better be on their best behaviour as it’s the kids turn to be in charge! With the help from a Judge, Prosecution and Defence played by local comedians, children get the chance to put their parents and older siblings on trial. Help decide whether or not they are guilty and decide a suitable penalty for their misdemeanours! Best Kids Show nominee Leicester Comedy Festival 2017.
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Bring your baby to Attenborough Arts Bring Your Own Baby Comedy Wednesday 21 February Doors 11.30am, Performance 12 – 1.15pm Tickets: £10 for you and your baby (under 12 months)
Bring your baby to the funniest baby-friendly comedy club just for us adults!
The Book of Daft
Wednesday 14 February, 1.30 – 2.30pm Tickets: Family Pass or £5 each
Laugh together this Half Term
It’s Valentine’s Day and Half Term, so treat your family to an afternoon of comedy like you’ve never seen it before... Because you won’t have seen it before, because that’s the point of improv! Featuring local lads Lewys Holt (comedian and a professional dancer… whaaaat?) and Daniel Nicholas (a comedian mildly obsessed with animal print shirts). They’ll be improvising together and apart, writing, choreographing and performing simultaneously on stage. Expect crazy characters, silly voices, and unusual moves. Who knows what will happen? They don’t!
Our stand up stars will perform their usual unadulterated comedy gold for just us grown-ups while your little laughers are none the wiser. We provide soft flooring, toys, buggy parking and baby changing so that your baby is happy and you can relax, have a drink and be entertained. If you need to whip out a bum (the baby’s please!), a boob or a bottle, then please feel free. Our comics won’t mind being heckled by our younger guests!
Baby Disco: Underwater Sunday 18 March, 11am, 1pm or 2.30pm Tickets: Family Pass £10 or Child £5, Adult £1 Your whole family is welcome to an underwater world filled with movement and sounds that will take your down, deep into the blue! Dance your way through our multi-sensory creation with disco lighting and thematic projections. Come in fancy dress to really get the most out of your experience! Dj James Kelly will provide the soundtrack while Alison Bacon leads you through the dance moves perfect for children aged 6 and under.
Joke Café Kids take centre stage with a mic stand, box of dress up and a whole host of joke books throughout Leicester Comedy Festival. Sit back with a coffee in our café as your little comedy genius makes you proudly laugh out loud. Delve into our sensory suitcases filled with interactive, tactile goodies to fully explore your inner comic. Why not show off your own wit and write your best joke on the Joke Café blackboard walls?
Kids Stand-up at Soundbites Tuesday 13 February, 12.45 – 1.30pm Free, just turn up! After testing out your material in our Joke Café, stand up with local comedian Dan Nicholas as he hosts our first kid’s comedy open mic! Tell us your best jokes, bust a move or even show us your funniest impression of mum, dad, sibling or grandparent!
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Families at Attenborough
Create, relax and learn together
Free Saturday Workshops, 1 – 3pm
DeStress as a Family
Every Saturday during our exhibitions we host free themed activities for the whole family to get involved with. Our friendly workshop leaders will guide you through a creative and hands-on afternoon of fun tailored for all ages – so bring the whole family down! Please book online.
Sunday 4 February, 12 – 2pm £10
Sensory Journeys January 13, 20, 27
Mandala Workshop February 10, 24
DeStress Drawing with Sand February 17
Funny Family Portraits March 10, 17, 24
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Sensory sculpture: musical instruments
Build and create your own musical instruments using a variety of materials. Have a jam and make some noise!
Children’s yoga Monday 12 – Friday 16 February, 9 – 10am £22 for 5 sessions Yoga helps to improve concentration, boost confidence and reduce stress levels in children. Take part in this 5-day course to introduce your kids to yoga in a fun and accessible way, helping them to learn healthy lifestyle habits to set the foundations for a fit future in body and mind.
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Learning at Attenborough
Inclusive Youth Arts Programme
Performance Our BBC Children in Need programme is FREE to children and young people ages 0 - 18 years from across Leicester and Leicestershire with disabilities and complex needs, who have least access to the arts. Carers are provided for our events. To register onto the scheme, book a place on our upcoming workshops and performances, or to find out more details please contact Louise on louise.kay@le.ac.uk or 0116 223 1425.
Workshop Inclusive Yoga
Inclusive Youth Arts Programme We’ve created free arts experiences for those ages 0 - 18 years with disabilities and complex needs. Since our launch in 2015 we have held over 75 events in art forms including inclusive pottery, knitting, painting, dancing, acting and music.
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Thanks to generous funding from BBC Children in Need over the past three years, we have been able to develop our Inclusive Youth Arts Programme. We’ve worked with over 80 families and 9 children have achieved their Explore Arts Award. We’ve also put on outreach performances in Special Educational Needs schools. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who has participated and supported the programme!
Tailored for families with a disabled child Tuesday 13 February 2 - 3.30pm
Exhibition How We’ve Grown! 10 - 25 March, Balcony Gallery
Bamboozle Theatre Company presents Pulse Sunday 14 January 11am, 1.30pm or 2 .45pm Magical, memorable, multi sensory experience for children and young people with moderate to profound learning difficulties.
Yoga helps boost confidence, improve concentration and reduce stress levels in children. Take part in an inclusive, sensory introduction to yoga with experienced teacher Kim Woods in a relaxed and accessible way.
Everyone is invited to celebrate with us as we come to the end of our first three years running the Inclusive Youth Arts Programme funded by BBC Children in Need. See a colourful exhibition of artwork made by children and young people throughout the years, photos of events and performances, plus a visual timeline to show how far we have come!
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What’s On Diary d at e
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event or activit y
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Naomh Cullen: I Farted in Shavasana
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Saturday 27
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Sensory Journeys
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Sunday 28
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Kirsty Mealing: Cat Got My Tongue (I Hope It Comes Back)
10
Friday 2
7.30 - 8.30pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Dave Parkin: Good Friday
11
Friday 2 February Wednesday 28 March
Gallery opening times
DeStress Fest: Exhibition
Denise Weston: Women of a Nervous Disposition
7
Sunday 4
12 - 2pm
Families at Attenborough
Sensory sculpture: musical instruments
27
Thursday 8
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Comedy Juliette Burton: Butterfly Effect
18
Friday 9
7 - 8pm
Leicester Comedy Festival
Nick Hall: Spencer
16
Friday 9
8.30 - 9.30pm
Leicester Comedy Festival
The Not So Late Show with Ross and Josh
16
Saturday 10 Feb - Sunday 4 March
Gallery opening times
DeStress Fest: Exhibition
All Brains are the Same Colour
7
Saturday 10
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Mandala Workshop
26
Saturday 10
7 - 9.30pm
Leicester Comedy Festival
The Comedy Asylum
18
Sunday 11
8 - 10pm
Leicester Comedy Festival
Big Difference Fundraiser
17
February
pa g e
January Saturday 6 Jan Sunday 25 Feb
Gallery opening times
Gallery
Juan delGado: Altered Landscapes
2
Mondays, 8 Jan 19 March
2 - 4pm
DeStress Fest: Workshop
Stop – Look – Make
13
Wednesday 10 Gallery opening Monday 29 March times
Gallery
Sensory Journeys
3
Thursday 11
Live Music and Dance
8 - 10.30pm
Friday 26
Leicester Jazz House: Trish Clowes and Gareth Williams
21
DeStress Fest: Workshop
Kirsty Munro: Goodbye stress, hello laughter
13
Thursdays, 11 Jan - 22 March
6 - 8pm
Friday 12 Jan Sunday 25 March
Gallery opening times
Gallery
Steffie Richards: Ebb and Flow
3
Friday 12
5.30 - 8pm
Gallery: Exhibition Opening
Juan delGado: Altered Landscapes Exhibition Opening
2
Saturday 13
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Sensory Journeys
26
Saturday 13 Friday 19
Gallery opening times
DeStress Fest: Exhibition
David Parkin: Delusions of Grandeur
7
Sunday 14
11am, 1.30pm, or 2.45pm
Youth Arts Programme Bamboozle Theatre Company: Pulse
29
Monday 12 Friday 16
9am - 10am
Families at Attenborough
Children’s yoga
27
Friday 19
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Kesha Raithatha: Traces
10
Monday 12 Friday 16
10am - 11am
DeStress Fest: Workshop
Beginner’s yoga
13
Saturday 20
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Sensory Journeys
26
Tuesday 13
12.45 - 1.30pm
Families at Attenborough
Kids Stand-up at Soundbites
25
Sunday 21
3 - 5pm
Live Music and Dance
Knighton Chamber Orchestra: A concert of classical music
21
Tuesday 13
2 - 3.30pm
Youth Arts Programme Inclusive yoga
29
Tuesday 13
7 - 8pm
L Y N N B E C: Epicene
8
DeStress Fest: Gallery Takeover
whatsthebigmistry Gallery Takeover
7
DeStress Fest: Gallery Lates
Wednesday 14
11am - 12pm
Families at Attenborough
The Book of Daft
24
DeStress Fest: Workshop
A multi-sensory world
Monday 22 Jan Saturday 3 Feb
Check website for opening times
Mondays, 22 Jan - 7 - 9pm 19 March
13
Wednesday 14
1.30 - 2.30pm
Families at Attenborough
Kids Court
24
Wednesday 14
3.30 - 4.30pm
Families at Attenborough
Nicholas Holt Does Improv in Every Venue: Family Show
24
Thursday 15
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Comedy Kirsty Munro: Chance to Dream
18
Friday 16 Saturday 17
10am - 5pm (Drop in)
DeStress Fest: Performance
Ashok Mistry: The Birth of Understanding
Friday 16
7 - 8pm
Friday 16
8.30 - 9.30pm
Saturday 17
7 - 8pm
Saturday 17
8.30 - 9.30pm
Sunday 18
3.30 - 4.30pm
Sunday 18
7.30 - 8.30pm
Tuesday 20
7 - 8pm
Wednesday 21
12 - 1.15pm
Thursday 22 Friday 23
7 - 8pm
Leicester Comedy Festival Double Bill
Leicester Comedy Festival Double Bill
Leicester Comedy Festival Double Bill
Friday 23
8.30 - 9.30pm
Saturday 24
1 - 3pm
Saturday 24
7 - 8pm
Saturday 24
8.30 - 9.30pm
Sunday 25
2 - 3pm
Thursday 1
6 - 10pm (Drop in)
DeStress Fest: Gallery Lates
The Inhabited Sky: In Search of the Long Now
8
Saturday 3 March
8 - 9am
DeStress Fest: Performance
LaPelle’s Factory: The Night Shift
12
11
Saturday 3 Sunday 4
10am - 5.30pm
DeStress Fest: Workshop
Finding your voice
13
Helen Duff: How Deep is your Duff
17
Saturday 3
8 - 10.30pm
Live Music and Dance
Leicester Jazz House: Julian Siegel Quartet
21
Mystery Show
14
Monday 5 Wednesday 28
Gallery opening times
DeStress Fest: Exhibition
Fitter Happier OKNOTOK
7
Paul O’Donnell: We’ve Got Each Other
15
Thursday 8
7.30pm
Live Music and Dance
Love Stories from the Silver Screen
Heidi Regan: Heidi Vs Shark
18 Gallery opening times
DeStress Fest: Exhibition
7
16
Friday 9 Wednesday 28
Emma Fay: Portraits of the Mind
Ed Night: Anthem for Doomed Youth
Friday 9
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Exhibition Opening
Emma Fay: Portraits of the Mind Exhibition Opening
7
Saturday 10 Sunday 25
Gallery opening times
Gallery
How We’ve Grown!
29
Saturday 10
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Funny Family Portraits
26
Saturday 10
8 - 10.30pm
Live Music and Dance
Chicas Locas Burlesque Spring Showcase
21
Sunday 11
7 - 10pm
Performance & Spoken TETRAD: Us and Them word
23
Friday 16
7.30 - 10.30pm
Live Music and Dance
Brian Humpherson Quintet: Singing and Swinging
21
Saturday 17
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Funny Family Portraits
26
Saturday 17
3 - 4.30pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Apples and Snakes: No Panic
11
Sunday 18
11am, 1pm or 2.30pm
Families at Attenborough
Baby Disco: Underwater
25
Friday 23
7.30 - 8.40pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Jackie Hagan: This Is Not A Safe Space
12
Saturday 24
1 - 3pm
Families at Attenborough
Free Saturday Workshop: Funny Family Portraits
26
Saturday 24
7.30 - 8.40pm
DeStress Fest: Performance
Jackie Hagan: This Is Not A Safe Space
12
Sunday 25
1 - 4pm
Live Music and Dance
Contact Improv Jam
21
The Monks: The All New Ten Commandments
18
DeStress Fest: Gallery Lates
whatsthebigmistry: Tropical Awkward Bastard
8
Leicester Comedy Festival
Bring Your Own Baby Comedy
25
DeStress Fest: Comedy Marc Burrows: Mind Your Head
19
Jordan Brookes: Body of Work
15
The Pretend Men: Police Cops in Space
15
Free Saturday Workshop: Mandala Workshop
26
Jack Britton: MIGHTY
19
Willis & Vere - A Serious Play About World War II
19
Dave Chawner: C’est la vegan
17
Leicester Comedy Festival Double Bill
Evelyn Mok: Hymen Manoeuvre
17
7 - 8pm
Leicester Comedy Festival Double Bill Families at Attenborough
Leicester Comedy Festival Double Bill
March
Sunday 25
3.30 - 4.30pm
Sunday 25
7.30 - 8.30pm
Leicester Comedy Festival
Poetman: Writing Wrongs by Writing Songs
19
Tuesday 27
7 - 8pm
DeStress Fest: Gallery Lates
Danni Spooner: Alienate
8
20
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10am – 5pm Monday to Friday, 10am – 3.30pm Saturday and Sunday. Open later during performances and classes. We are closed on Bank Holidays. Check additional university closure dates on our website.
After 6pm and on weekends, free parking is available at the Medical Sciences Building next door.
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Sheltered cycle parking is available in front of the George Davies Medical Centre
Four blue badge car parking spaces with additional bays available outside the George Davies Medical Centre. Please contact us to reserve a space.
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