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The Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture Issue 14 Winter/Spring Programme January - April 2013

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This year is going to be great, this year will be our busiest and most exciting yet, this year will see some incredible projects that we have been planning all last year breathe into life. 2013 is going to be the year when everything changes again, and I can’t wait! Eugh.. something about blatant positivity still makes me shudder (it must be years of arts school training and the NME), but since the team and I HAVE been enjoying months of exhilarating conversations, and since we have all confided in each other that we DO feel collectively pumped up about the coming year, I thought I’d give it a go. Talking of explosions of unbridled enthusiasm, I read a blog (on The Guardian I think) recently saying arts organisations should do away with awards ceremonies and parties for the time being, as it doesn’t look good in a time of cuts and general misery. “Gadzooks!” I yelped, “Surely nobody thinks that!” In times of crisis arts venues and their audiences (that’s you) should be creating as much of a ruckus as possible, making more hay than we have ever made before. Partly because we’re good at fun (and by God a little of that never goes amiss), partly because hiding behind our make up and leotards is the power to intercept, dissect and redirect the world we live in, and partly because if we do keep our heads down and adopt a polite silence, who will notice when another venue closes down, another young dance company calls it a day or another fledgling scene collapses because it can’t grow? So, put on your party knickers my friends, grab a beer and dig out the old sparklers from the kitchen draw, 2013 is going to be the year when everything changes! Any road, these next 32 pages should give you a good idea of some of the things we have in store, at least until April. We’ve jiggled with the look of the paper a little more, to let Beat Magazine articles spread out and to make events easier to find. We’ve also added a quick lookup diary, due to popular request. I think it looks fantastic, I hope you like it too. “But what’s your favourite bits Dan?” Well since you ask, I’m particularly excited about the very first Fireythings symposium ‘What Digital Future’ (p.10), the continued rise of Selah D’Or (p.05), Will and the People (p.16), brand new work from Green Tea Visions dance (p. 12), James Seow’s beautiful ‘Land Without Image’ (p.13) and our Programme Manager Benn is fit to explode about ‘The Trench’ (p.27)! Dan Eastmond MD

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Selah D’Or listings

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How to find us

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The Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture is housed in The Old Court, Windsor’s old Firestation, Magistrates Court & Police Station. You’ll find us on the corner of St. Leonards Road & St Marks Road, look for the big red fire doors.

On Foot & Bike

From Windsor Castle, go straight down Peascod Street until you reach the Criterion & Crosses Corner pubs at the traffic lights. Go straight across and keep heading down, past East Berkshire College on your right, you should be able to see us, all red and shiny, on your right.

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BEaT MAGAZINE Land Without Image

BEaT MAGAZINE An Interview with Christo Viola

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The Firestation’s pick of the Edinburgh Fringe

The Firestation Shop

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Events Diary

Belly of The Beast listings

By Train

We are a fifteen minute walk from Windsor & Eton Riverside Station or ten minutes from Windsor Central Station.

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By Bus

The Firestation is well served by buses to and from Windsor, Slough, Bracknell and the surrounding area. Routes 71, 191, 200, 701 & 702 either go right by us or very nearby.

By Car

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BEaT MAGAZINE Gender-bending: The Femiman

May preview: The Trench

Kids’ listings

Classes and Workshops

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MAy preview: five star theatre

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The Firestation is within easy reach of the M4 (Jct 6) and M40 (Jct 2). We have a number of inexpensive short stay bays opposite The Firestation offering discounts for Advantage Card holders. A parking space at the rear of the building is available for Disabled Badge holders plus a limited number of spaces are kindly made available to us from 7pm (please check on arrival). Nearest multi-storey car park is situated 5 minutes away on the corner of Victoria Road and Alexandra Road.

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Thursday 17 January 7:45pm

Friday 18 January, 8pm

Thursday 18 April, 7:45pm

Smurphy’s Law presents

Book Swap

Alexandra and the Sunflowers

Rob Newman: Theory of Evolution (Work in Progress)

Auditorium Tickets: £5

Basement Studio Tickets: £5

Auditorium Tickets: £10

Novelist Marie Philips (author of Gods Behaving Badly) and publisher Scott Pack continue to host an evening of conversation and banter in this increasingly popular literary event.

You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all about Alexandra’s stunning looks or her sultry, sexy voice. And as a casual observer or lazy listener you’d probably be quite happy on either count! But you’d be missing the point...invest a little more time, listen a little deeper and you’ll realise it’s more about the clever, witty lyrics; the memorable melodies and the fabulous latin/jazz/swing flavoured arrangements from those talented Sunflowers!

Join Rob as he tries out material in advance of a major new UK tour. Watch it evolve in front of your very eyes!

You won’t hear boring speeches, the same old questions or authors reading from their latest book - but you could witness almost anything else. Audience members are required to bring an unwanted book along with them which they will have the opportunity to swap for another. And there’s tea and cake! The Firestation Book swap continues to go from strength to strength, with literary festival appearances and much interest from radio and TV

Saturday 26 January, 8pm

“I am completely in awe of Robert Newman. Of his talent, his passion, his intelligence, and the way he turns them to comedy with real firepower. If this world could be saved by a Superhero whose Superpower was Comedy, that hero would be Robert Newman.” Kate Copstick, The Scotsman

Alexandra’s ‘...lovely, slightly husky, intensely sultry voice would stand well on its own, but is instead paired up with some marvelously exotic arrangements... these sounds match the sensual lyrics to form an EP that oozes musical talent as much as it oozes sex appeal’ - Heath Andrews, reviewing “Relax... I Won’t Bite...”

Wednesday 30 January, 8pm

Eliza Carthy & Co: the Fiddle girls Auditorium Tickets: £15 / £14 Members Four of the finest female players in British music, Eliza Carthy, Bella Hardy, Lucy Farrell and Kate Young bring together passion, soul and enormous talent. Their four part harmonies and quartet fiddle playing revive old favourites and initiate brand new songs. New album “Laylam” out on HemHem Records in January 2013

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thursday 31 January 8pm

Jimmy McGhie “See him now before you have to queue around the O2” - The Scotsman

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thursday 28 March 8pm

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Boothby Graffoe

Andy Zaltzman Aisling Bea

“A multi-talented, darkly hilarious, grade A British eccentric.” - Stewart Lee

“Probably the best satirical comic we’ve produced in the last two decades.” - TimeOut

Winner of the prestigious Foster’s So You Think You’re Funny? Award in Edinburgh 2012

thursday 28 February 8pm

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Sunday 20 January

Sunday 31 March

featuring ray ‘Flick’ keates

featuring Ginni Hogarth

The first headliner of the Spring season, enjoy the acoustic sounds of Ray ‘Flick’ Keates as we start 2013’s A.T.T.I.C. season in style!

After her debut solo album, ‘Between these Walls’, released in 2001, Ginni won the BBC Song of the Year in the same year. Ginni has performed at the venue with an album launch back in 2004. Now a headliner at our acoustic session, get ready to be inspired by a masterful musician.

Sunday 03 February featuring Matt Bond

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An evening of acoustic music from Matt Bond, from the Small Fakers, who will be releasing an album of original songs later in the year! Catch him at The Firestation before his album launch!

Every other Sunday, 8pm

Smurphy’s Law presents

A.T.T.I.C.

Sunday 17 February featuring Steph Willis After playing in Silent Dawn, a soft rock band, for 2 years, Steph left to join a metal/rock band called Illusion Conspiracy. After learning new song writing techniques and gaining more confidence as a musician, Steph left to go solo, and has been playing/recording/writing ever since.

Loft Tickets: £5

The fortnightly acoustic session in The Firestation’s most intimate space returns this year, with stunning headliners each Sunday.

Sunday 03 March featuring Henry PARKER Kick back and enjoy acoustic greatness from Parker, exclusively at The Firestation, in our most intimate space!

Ranging from established musicians to local upstarts, each night is guaranteed to transport you to a world of acoustic greatness.

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featuring James Brown A history of band work, choral adventures and musical theatre have influenced James’ writing style and all over professionalism when it comes to music. Based in Windsor, but touring as far as Seattle, USA, see James and his blossoming talent in our most intimate space.

Sunday 28 April featuring Mark Crofts Mark Crofts is a talented singer/song writer from Berkshire. An experienced musician and vocalist with passion and originality in his work, Mark has worked with many artists and is currently the frontman for rock band Tyburn.

Sunday 12 May

Sunday 17 March

featuring Stu Murphy

featuring. Richard Lee

The founder of Smurphy’s Law and a stunning musician in his own right, he has recently returned from a European tour and can’t wait to give you a sampling of his acoustic skill.

Richard’s most recent album, Eighty Two and a Half Chances, has already drawn comparisons with the country-rock might of Keith Urban and the heartfelt Americana of Eastmountainsouth, but sung with an English accent and having something all of its own.

Advance booking is highly recommended!

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Julia Stone

at Thekla, Bristol by Rosie Pentreath

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and reflective song; The S**t

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was relaxing with a post-gig

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cigarette as she waved us off the

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says, and a lover does.

tales of love that I can relate to, and with a feeling of having

watch Julia Stone. The Australian singer had come to our little

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seen true magic between a group

city in the South West on her

and For You, both tracks she

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international tour. And no amount

created with her brother, Angus.

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timbres on her two solo albums

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By The Horns (2012) – prepared

received. The entire set was

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perfectly balanced and reflective

performer, composer and artist,

tonight’s live setting.

of a girl who really has been

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The Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture Issue 14 Winter/Spring Programme January - April 2013

If I’d had any sense I would have stayed well away from my father’s funeral. But sense isn’t something you’re particularly well endowed with at the age of eighteen, I find. Or at least, it wasn’t in my case. God alone knows what got into me. A gloom-fuelled bout of maudlin filial piety was part of it, I think. Him lying there in the hallway, his open coffin propped up on two paint-spattered carpenter’s saw-horses - the tables and chairs were all gone by now, you see - and no-one left in the empty house but me. Besides, there was precious little else to be doing that day. Not now that the horses had all been taken by the bailiffs - and even the dogs, too, if you can imagine such an outrage. So I went. I soon came to regret it. It was not even as if my father had ever shown any particular signs of being especially fond of me at all: not even in his sober moments, of which there were precious few towards the end. Nor was there ever likely to be any of this ‘companionship in grief’ business in the church: the only people who were going to be shedding any tears that day were his many creditors, all packing the church to say their last bitter farewells to any hope of repayment of the extraordinary sums of money that my father had ‘borrowed’ from them on so many occasions under such outrageously flimsy pretexts. Why would I have gone? The vicar was not one to hide his feelings. He was newly appointed to the parish, one of the new persuasion who were beginning to make their presence felt in our part of the world at that time. This was out in Essex, and back in the early ‘forties, if that means anything to you. 1642 it would have been, the year my father died. And this vicar, well: all hellfire and damnation, he was, standing there glowering out from the pulpit in his long black coat and his broad white collar, and he gripped the lectern with a hand like a bird’s claw, holding his bible aloft with the other as he quoted great long passages of the scriptures from memory in the voice of doom.

He did not stint in his descriptions of what miserable damnèd sinners could expect to find waiting for them when they arrived, trembling with fear, before the throne of Our Lord on the Judgement Day. He’d spotted me right from the outset, of course, skulking at the back though I was. I could not help but notice how much of his sermon seemed to be addressed towards me in particular, and especially so when he got to the part about how the Almighty would personally see to it that the iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons, yea even unto the third and fourth generation, and so on, and so interminably forth. As if it were my fault, any of it. I did not think much of the new vicar, you’ll have deduced. I had him down then as the most obnoxious, disapproving, self-righteous zealot that ever there was, and by quite some way. This was before I met Oliver Cromwell, you’ll understand. Oliver Cromwell: there’s a name for you. The whole world knows him now. He was not nearly as exalted back when I first met him, though, not Lord Protector or whatever it is that he’s taken to styling himself in these latter years, since the conclusion of the recent war that I played no small part in starting - as you shall see - but he was still every inch the sour, wart-faced humbug that he has since shown himself to the world to be. More to the point, I think he still harbours the same feelings towards me as he did at our last unfortunate meeting. The one small mercy of it is that he does not appear to know where I am, just at present, and I am determined to keep things that way. Because if he knew, I am sure that he would still be just as keen as ever he was to finish off the job that his men started on me, and see me twitching out my last moments at the end of a rope for a liar, a dissembler, a blasphemer, a murderer and a horse-thief and all the other things he called me in parting. He was particularly bothered about the horsetheft part, as I recall. Mind you, it was his horse I stole, so maybe there’s your reason. After the service came the burial.

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It is 1642 and England is hovering on the brink of civil war. When irate creditors force eighteen-year-old James Hanningford to flee from his wastrel father’s funeral, the chance to take part in a family friend’s lucrative ‘business deal’ seems to be a lifeline worth grasping with both hands. But when the deal begins to go horribly wrong he finds himself up to his neck in trouble he could never have begun to imagine. The threats he faces grow ever more deadly and he is forced to run, to steal, to lie, to dissemble - and worse - to escape the attentions of those who wish him dead. As events unfold he discovers surprising truths about his lost family wealth and learns the true character of those he thought his friends - and those he thought his enemies. As things turned out I had to miss that part. I am told that a surprising number of the congregation stayed right until the very end, until the gravediggers had shovelled all of the earth back onto the coffin, and stamped it back down. Some even joined in, I hear. I have no reason not to believe it. They would have wanted to make absolutely sure that my father was well and truly dead, I should imagine, and that he wasn’t going to come clawing his way back out once they’d gone. Even that I wouldn’t have put past him; and nor would they. But as I say, I should have stayed well away from the whole thing right from the start. There were any number of reasons for this, but chief among them was Sir Nicholas Kidd. I had endured the sermon, and the notaltogether-friendly looks from the congregation throughout, and to tell the truth I’d had my fill of it. By this time I was heartily regretting my misguided decision ever to attend, and I’d reached the point of planning how best to slip away without attracting too much attention to myself in the process. Quite where I should go was another matter, now that the bailiffs had taken possession of the house that very morning; but somewhere. Anywhere but there. When the coffin processed back down the aisle I ducked behind a pillar and hung back, watching and waiting for my moment. Tagging on to the tail end of the column of mourners seemed to be my best bet, and then to make my break round the side of the church once I was through the door. I was just about to put this plan into action when I heard the voice behind me. “Why, if it ain’t young Mr. James Hanningford hisself, large as life and twice as ugly.” I turned at the sound of my name, and there he was, Sir Nicholas Kidd, short and squat and bald-headed, and looking for all the world like a large barrel dressed from head to toe in black mourning velvet. “Sir Nicholas!” I said, “What a surprise to see you here!” It was, too; though it was not by any means a pleasant one for me, and he knew it.

“A lot of people was saying the same about you, Hanningford. Saying as how they was surprised you’d dare show your face. That’s what they was saying. Me, I weren’t surprised, though. I was expecting you, as it happens. And now, look at you: here you are.” “Yes, Well. Family. Loyalty and all that.” He looked at me sort of sideways. “Loyalty,” he said, as if trying the sound of the word in his mouth, “Now that’s not something your family’s had much use of lately, is it?” “Well.” I said, “There it is. There is no family now. Just me.” “There’s the pity, ain’t it? Time was when your family meant something. Time was when your family and mine was like that.” He held up two stubby gold-ringed fingers, crossed. “Like that we was, in your old grandad’s day.” And indeed this had been so. Sir Nicholas and my grandfather were once partners in a Blackfriars tallow-rendering yard, and friends too, until it all came to a sudden and acrimonious end, way back when my mother was still alive. It ended when plain Nick Kidd, as he then was, greased and bribed his way to the baronetcy my social-climbing grandfather thought would be his by rights but conspicuously failed to achieve, despite the schools and hospitals he founded in his own name, and despite his breathtaking donations to colleges with royal connections. There was shouting and recrimination, and accusations of treachery and backstabbing, and the upshot of it all was that my grandfather stormed out of the business in a temper and never went back. Since then the Kidds were no friends of ours or we of theirs. My grandfather always had it that Sir Nicholas would never be content until he saw the Hanningfords ground down into the dirt. A bit harsh, I thought. In the end, though, it was my father who did that to us. And now Sir Nicholas had come all the way from London to gloat over our final humiliation. My final humiliation, I should say, since I was now the only one left.

“Well,” I said, “It was very good to meet you, Sir Nicholas, after all this time. But if you’ll excuse me…” Sir Nicholas reached out and took hold of my arm, gripping it tight. “I want a word with you,” he said. “Everyone does today.” “I’m sure they do. But they can wait. Because I’m not everyone.” “Of course, but…” “And I want to talk to you about something. Some unfinished business of your father’s.” “Oh?” “A scheme of his. You know what I’m talking about, boy?” “Oh God!” I groaned, “Not you as well!” There were certain people I would have expected to be taken in by my father’s ‘schemes,’ but Sir Nicholas was not one of them. Not by a long way. Our neighbours, for example: I’d expected it from them. And the biggest landowner thereabouts, the Earl of Essex, a devout and noted Puritan. People said he went that way after the humiliation of his wife divorcing him for nonconsummation of his marriage, but whatever the reason he was desperately holy, and when my father, in one of his more plausible moments, offered him the chance to finance what he was led to believe would be the founding of a whole host of austere and Godly chapels throughout the length and breadth of the country “to help bring about the Rule of the Saints on Earth”, or some such pious nonsense, he’d jumped at the chance, and more fool him. But Sir Nicholas I’d always imagined to be too hard-headed and shrewd ever to give my father so much as the time of day without first insisting on full cash payment for it, in advance. “I’m sorry,” I said, “I don’t know what the scheme was, but did he ask for any money from you, to cover his expenses?” “You’re damn right he did, boy. And I’II tell you this - I gave him it.” “I’m sorry. I don’t know what else to say. There’s nothing I can do about it now. I’m just sorry.”

“Are you now? And would that be his ring you’re wearing there, boy?” I swiftly shoved my free hand into my coat pocket, mumbling something about how, unfortunately, I really had to be off now, and I tried to turn to take my leave. Sir Nicholas’s fingers dug painfully into my muscle. “You don’t want to that,” he said. “I’m sorry,” I said, trying to twist away, “But I must be going.” “Trust me. You don’t want to be going out that way.” I yanked myself free. “I’ll go where I damn well please.” I said, somewhat louder than I’d intended to and causing heads to turn; and then I dusted myself down and turned smartly on my heel. It was then that I heard the commotion outside. Crossing to the open door I saw, across the churchyard, the open carriage pulled up at the gates, and the surge at the lych-gate as a dozen burly thugs armed with wooden clubs forced their way roughly through the throng of mourners, pulling men bodily out of the way and casting them aside; and they were all of them wearing the orange sash of the Earl of Essex’s personal bodyguard. And then I saw him, Robert Devereaux, the pudgy-faced Puritan Earl himself, bustling his way down from his carriage and across the space that his men were clearing, and calling out as he went. “Hanningford! Hanningford! Where is he? Where is the spawn of that lying Devil?” I felt Sir Nicholas’s hand on my shoulder. “I think you might want to come this way, boy.” he said. And this is how I came to follow Sir Nicholas Kidd back up the side-aisle of the church on the day of my father’s funeral: back up the side-aisle and through the vestry, where a low oak door opened out to the rear of the churchyard, to where two horses stood tethered to the churchyard fence, saddled and ready to take us to London.

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Days of Last

Friday 01 February

Friday 01 February, 8pm

Basement Studio 7:30pm (doors 7.00pm) Tickets: £5

featuring Sincerity and The Shallow

Friday Night Jive

Saturday 23 March & Friday 19 April

Auditorium Tickets: £5

Local promoter Kane Leighton-Pope provides the best in heavy metal, melodic hardcore and punk rock (see website for details). Previous acts have included: The Computers, Feed The Rhino, Martyr Defiled and Fearless Vampire Killers.

Line up TBA

Classic swing, jive and boogie all night long, with resident DJs and exhibitions, with a special class from 8pm to get you in the mood! For more information on our swing and jive classes, see page 30.

Thursday 07 February, 11am

What Digital Future?

A day of discussion and workshops. Auditorium This event is free, but requires registration at http://whatdigitalfuture.eventbrite.co.uk. The last 30 years has seen an increase in our dependence on digital networks, altering how we work, how we spend our leisure time, how we consume and how we construct our relationships. Digital technology is often heralded as the harbinger of progressive change but what are the social, environmental and personal costs of a digital future? What environmental constraints exist that could limit the expansion of digital technologies? Can the internet really be decoupled from consumerism? What are the psycho/social implications of the internet? You are invited to explore these questions (and more beside) alongside academics and other interested parties at our day long free symposium ‘What Digital Future?’.

Confirmed speakers at time of print include: Mark Fisher, Author of Capitalist Realism - @kpunk99 Ben Lear, Shift Magazine - @Ben_in_Manc Bethan Michael, Lecturer in the Education Studies department at the University of Bedfordshire (research interest -the legacy of Postmodern Culture) - @bethan_michael Cllr Henry Vann, councillor for dep Parys ward in Bedford - @Bedfordvann Aaron Peters, Resonance Fm and Novara Media - @aaronjohnpeters The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London - @portandcheddar Federico Campagna, Through Europe Collective - @FedCampagna Prof. Monica Whitty, Media and Communication Dept, Leicester University www.fireythings.com @fireythings

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Saturday 09 February, 8pm Richard Jordan Productions Ltd

Dylan Thomas: Return Journey Original direction by Anthony Hopkins

Auditorium Tickets: £15 / £14 conc. / £13 Members. Group rates available Starring Bob Kingdom as Dylan Thomas.

Thursday 07 February, 8pm

Poor Man’s Hamlet Basement Studio Tickets: £10 / £9 conc. / £8 Members Groups of 10+ £7.50 “What is it you would see? If aught of wonder, cease your search” Two players, poor and downtrodden, are touring the country with their version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. With a bag of props between them and a lone over-worked musician, let the chaos commence!

Dylan Thomas was born in Wales in 1914 and died in New York in 1953 at the age of 39. Towards the end of his life he toured America performing his works before sell-out audiences across the country. Dylan Thomas: Return Journey enjoyed sell-out seasons in London and New York and has toured worldwide. This legendary, critically acclaimed production now makes a much-awaited return journey to delight UK audiences once again. CRITICS CHOICE IN: THE GUARDIAN, TIME OUT, THE TIMES “A thrilling lyrical journey” - The Guardian

This is a unique, fast-paced, funny and moving version of Shakespeare’s work, using skill, ingenuity and live music, this is the story of the Dane as you’ve never seen it before.

Friday 15 & Saturday 16 February, 8pm Hull Truck Theatre present

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Laura Turner Directed by Nick Lane Auditorium Tickets: £12 / £11 conc. / £10 Members Groups of 10+ £7.50 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” From a harsh childhood controlled by unfeeling adults, Jane Eyre has to rely on her own courage and convictions to make her way in the world. She longs to learn. She dares to dream. Employed as a governess, she travels across the bleak Yorkshire moors to the mysterious Thornfield Hall – a house of locked doors with a dangerous secret. There she meets the strange, sardonic and intriguing Mr Rochester. Can the constraints of society and the dark past be overcome? Should Jane trust her head or follow her heart? Hull Truck Theatre brings to life the classic story of love, loss and redemption in an intriguing new adaptation of one of the great gothic novels, directed by Nick Lane (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde). “Laura Turner... has put together a praiseworthy adaptation.” The Stage on Laura Turner’s Pride & Prejudice

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The Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture Issue 14 Winter/Spring Programme January - April 2013

Wednesday 20 February, 8pm

Andy Parsons: I’ve Got a Shed (Warm Up) Auditorium Tickets: £15 / £14 Members To date Andy has done three sell-out National tours and in 2009 released his debut DVD ‘Britain’s Got Idiots’, which was followed up by ‘Gruntled’ in 2011. Andy started in TV on Spitting Image becoming one of the main writers before embarking on a stand-up career which has led to such shows as Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo. This, his fourth show, is his favourite yet – come and get your dopamine fix!

Friday 22 February, 8pm

Peacock and Gamble Don’t Want to be on Telly Anyway Auditorium Tickets: £10 That’s right! Everybody’s favourite comedy niceboys, Ray and Ed, come to a venue near you, wih another show full of fun, idiocy and handsomeness live on stage. Chortle Comedy Award nominees in 2011 and 2012, off of Radio 4Xtra and Russell Howard’s Good News (loads!). ‘A gloriously silly hour in the company of two overgrown toddlers’ H H H H Chortle.

Saturday 23 February, 8pm Green Tea Visions and 4Motion present

I/A Auditorium Tickets: £10 / £9 conc. / £8 Members

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I/A is an exploration of Perception, Time and Memory. Through a clever combination of Custom Software, Pre-Generated Material, Choreography, Live Improvisation and Interaction, the piece features original music mixed live with sculptural and fleeting samples, triggered by the dancers speed, position and movements. Accompanied by spectacular visual projections, join us on a journey through the doors of your own perception.

Tuesday 26 February, 8pm

Sean Lock: Purple Van Man Auditorium Tickets: £17.50

Purple Van Man is a hilarious new stand up show from Sean Lock, the most fertile comic mind in Britain. We all know what white van man thinks about the world we live in but it’s time to hear a different voice, Purple Van Man’s voice. Filled with gags, opinions, deft observations and some silly voices this is Sean Lock doing what he does best, spouting inspired jibber jabber as he crosses the country in his purple van. He will make you laugh like a drunken horse.

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A recent trip to Malaysia was the inspiration for this new body of work. During a relentless car journey, sitting in the passenger seat, whilst being driven through the expanse of the Malaysian countryside; I had noticed to my surprise and delight numerous large and blank metallic billboards pass us by, each of them jutting out of the landscape like beacons serving an unknown purpose.....

What really fascinated me the most about these empty billboards was their juxtaposition with the sublime landscape that inhabited them. There seemed to be a great power within the blankness, which through the minds eye created an ambiguous sense of scale within its natural setting. They were huge voids in space, which seduced me; blank, shiny and purposeless voids that defied any interpretation or understanding until, I suppose, the next advertisement is to be pasted onto it. The blank billboards offered a moments release from an image driven

society. More prosaically, they were an open invite to look at our society again. These monochromes depict a kind of void, a moment of emptiness and a visual disharmony against the setting of its subjects. There is something slightly abject about it all, the billboards imposition of purpose in such a natural landscape where they were located. This body of work which consists of eight images is a celebration of moments of accidental pointlessness

in a relentlessly instrumental, purposive urban world; amusing, beautiful even, and rare enough in their own way to invoke wonder. They record a different kind of observation of all the elements that compose life. There are countless ways to document a city and this work is one of a modest approach. For me, the notion of this project seems too bizarre to be worked out in advance of having actually found one; and of course I have done so during a car journey. Perhaps I am a confirmed Fl창neur,

committed to the drive of methodology of discovery, and to the constructed environment of the city as the encompassing reality of modern life. This approach is not a mere reliance on chance but rather on openness to the role of chance, framed by a developed method of aesthetic investigation. James Seow is a visual artist working primarily in photography, sculpture and installation based in London. http://jamesseow.carbonmade.com/ For further enquiries contact: seow_james@hotmail.com

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The Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture Issue 14 Winter/Spring Programme January - April 2013

An interview with Christo Viola

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Christo Viola is an artist and photographer living and working in London. Her powerful and provocative and images, which explore sex, identity ation image, are represented by The Firest rly Gallery. Christo contributes regula to Beat Magazine and a number of international publications.

I think that this is my third life. My past was another life. There was a breach between the first life and the third, this one. The first life was just confused. I lived without reflection. In my first life I was a painter and artist. In my second life, I first encountered the camera. Now in my third life, I am a photographer. My photography is a reflection of myself. When a person has to hide a part of themselves, because of the pressure of culture and society, it makes them miserable; they don’t feel good about themselves. It’s a sickness. The only focus is on money. It’s all globalized. The globalization takes everyone. Like McDonalds!

Born in a small town and raised anywhere, in my little life there was always a lot of snow so I warmed myself with the heat of anybody...

When I was a painter, the first thing that I remember really about myself was how I made the skin. It was very difficult to find the perfect skin of the model. But now with photography I have a special technique with light, that makes the skin like a painting. I like the skin to be white, but a little bit purple and red. I want them to be naked. I need them to cause provocation. It is very difficult for me to find a model, because I want something very strong from them. I need a woman that can create a provocative image. Beauty is a sickness, like money. My models are very different from standard ‘beautiful faces’. My photography is not very beauty-led. I don’t want perfection; it’s a sickness. When you buy a magazine, every model is the same, you can’t tell the difference. Photographers use so much Photoshop. I don’t like

to look for models in an agency. I like to meet models in the street. I want to photograph real people. I would like to do something with fashion. Fashion right now is not really good. I believe in Vivienne Westwood because her dresses are not expensive like other designers. I love Vivienne Westwood because she was a revolutionary. She was part of the punk revolution. I believe in her revolution. And because the price of her dresses are comparatively very low, they are very different from other designers. She is a fighter: about politics, about money. The people think that they have seen it all. I think I have to show the people something that they never saw, something very shocking. I want to do fashion without dress, with a nude body, with a nude model, because the first fashion is personality. You see clothes at H&M and a lot of high street shops are so easy and cheap to buy. We are all dressed the same. You are different just because of your mind. You love differently. You see differently. You think differently. You eat differently. And this is how Vivienne Westwood is different from other stylists, because she can put a skirt on as a top, you know? The models sometimes are melancholy because they feel the weight of society. They want to live with their own body and mind and sexuality, but they are forced to dress because the society we live in is very inhibited and forces people to hide.

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I am somewhere between fashion and art.

I want to show the reality. I don’t like the models to have too much makeup, and I like to keep the models nude in my photos and wear minimal clothing. For that reason, I am somewhere between fashion and art. I like to use colour photography because colour is the reality now. Old photographers used black and white because they didn’t have the technology to use colour. But our reality is in colour. I want the beauty of real people. Just put a piece of black lace on your neck. If there’s too much going on, you can’t focus on what’s important. I prefer just nothing! In some of my photos, objects have a certain symbolic quality. Like the grapes, you remember Bacchus the god of wine and pleasure, that’s why I use the grapes. Everything that the models wear belongs to me. Sometimes I buy things just for a picture. I am on the street everyday because I’m looking for things. Love Revolution is a little bit

sweet, but my next project will be very blue. My next project will be very artistic, no more fashion. Because I’m an artist. I grew up with art. Then I started also with fashion. But it’s just a second step. The first step is art. I’m an artist, not a stylist, or a fashion photographer. I want people to believe in love, not money. I think the right way is the heart. Everybody can buy a picture with a little money. If one day I became famous, the important thing is not money. We need a revolution. A lot of the time we stay quiet. My revolution is not related to any specific thing or person; I want it to be for everyone. I think ten years ago, somebody put a drug in our food. We are all brainwashed. We need a shock. No work. A shock. The opposite of money and work is love. I think we need a love revolution. When you are in love, you take care of yourself and you take care of another person. You feel very happy.

I am feeling very in love because I love myself a lot. A love for oneself is so important.

We need to be more free. Like the 70s, you know? When there was a revolution for women.

Narcissism is my death and my love. I die for my love. I feel love for myself and for everybody. I live my life in a strange way because I believe in the distinctive energy. Sometimes you meet people who you feel are just boring, or you feel sympathy, and sometimes you feel love, something that keeps you and him, or her, together. Sometimes, it is not important for a long time.

We need this revolution, so we can be a little bit more free to say ‘I like you’ or ‘I like you’, because if you can keep someone close to your heart, but you can also feel something for somebody else.

Sometimes I meet someone and I feel the fear, and something dies in me.

I am like a planet. I am a microcosm in the universe. So I feel and I am full of energy, like a star.

It’s not important man or woman, my sexuality is ambiguous. The importance is the way your feel. Because I think that sex is an exchange of good energy. I think a lot of people stay together for a long time, just for something sure in their life. Just like money. They want security. That is not the reality because I am sure that everybody at one time in their life thinks of another man or woman.

You can be my love forever, and I won’t ever forget, but I can also feel something for another man. It is my body. It’s my energy.

I think to be in a revolution we have to be as one. I can’t do the revolution on my own!

We have to spread the revolution together! http://www.christoviola.co.uk

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Friday 01 March, 8pm

Saturday 02 March, 8pm

Smurphy’s Law presents

Katherine Ryan: Nature’s Candy

Alistair McGowan: Not Just a Pretty Voice

Auditorium Tickets: £12.50 / £10 conc. & Members

Auditorium Tickets: £15

Having experienced motherhood, divorce, and MTV, this award-winning comedian proves the things in life that make us bitter, can actually be quite delicious and hilarious.

The Nation’s favourite impressionist, Alistair McGowan, goes back to his stand-up roots for a new two-hour show. Asking the big questions like: would the world be a happier place if Ed Miliband was Prime Minister? What are we really thinking while watching Shakespeare? And is Hilary Devey Jessie J’s mum? Expect to hear everyone from Andy Murray to Colin Murray, riffs on everything from Jeff Stelling to bad spelling and at least one song about butter.

Will and the People Basement Studio Tickets: £10 Will & The People are one of six new bands signed by RCA this year plumping for their spot in the big time. Mixing cheeky chappy ska with breezy indie, they’re the type of group you’ll have a dance about to in the sunshine at a festival after a couple of bottles of pear cider.

H H H H Metro ‘Young, pretty, smart and acridly funny’ - Sunday Times

Thursday 07 March, 8pm Friday 08 March, 2:30pm & 8pm East Berkshire College present

Tomorrow, I’ll Be Happy

By award winning writer Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coronation Street). Tickets: £7.50 / £5 conc. & Members. £5 all seats Friday matinee. Group rates available When a stranger comes to a crumbling seaside town looking for his friend he discovers that he was killed in a homophobic hate crime. As the secrets of the past come spilling out, we learn that all is not quite as it first seems. Part of National Theatre Connections – a nationwide festival of new plays for young people. Age suitability 16+

Saturday 09 March, 8.00pm

Glitter

Box Revue Show Basement Studio Tickets: £12 / £11 conc. / £10 Members

Beautiful Burlesque and Cabaret Glitter Box Burlesque and Olivia Accessories present “Beautiful Burlesque & Cabaret” - an intimate, elegant show in the Basement of The Firestation. With sexy singers, retro routines, sparkling solo’s, sensual peels, a trio of cheeky detectives, magic, fabulous costumes, corsets, and so much more... come and discover “Beautiful Burlesque”

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The Firestation’s Picks of the Edinburgh Fringe

The Gambler Chapel Street & Bitch Boxer Double Bill The Trench

For more info see page 27

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks in Scotland’s capital city. Offering performance opportunities across all genres and abilities, it is the most vibrant and diverse arts festival in the world. This Spring season, The Firestation has hand-picked the best shows from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ensuring you have the opportunity to see the most cutting-edge, stunning and, arguably, the best-of-thebest performances around.

Friday 22 March, 8pm

Friday 15 March, 8pm

THE GAMBLER

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“Impressive piece of storytelling.” - Three Weeks, 16.08.2012 “Exquisite choreography, supremely seductive score” - Fringe Biscuit “The physicality was enthralling and beautifully linked to the filmic piano playing” - London Festival Fringe for more information see page 18

From the Programmer’s

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Edinburgh Diary: “...a quick walk over to the Pleasance Dome - the uni building - which, by the way, has THE best bar space available. I was here to see The Gambler. This had caught my eye due to it being an international collective of artists melding theatre, physicality, dance and live music to create a powerful piece. It was a tightly worked piece that held the audience throughout, dealing with gambling addiction and the thought processes behind it. A very solid show that was intriguing, thoughtprovoking and brilliant... An excellent piece that was adding to the great run of shows that day!”

Auditorium Tickets: £15 / £14 conc. / £13 Members. Group rates available

Scrawl and Snuff Box Theatre in collaboration with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd

Chapel Street

Bitch Boxer

“If I died tomorrow, I would have died having done nothing. So I made a promise there and then that we would live tonight like it was our last.”

“You’ve got to fight for the things you love Chloe’‘

by Luke Barnes

WINNER - Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, Brighton Fringe Emerging Talent Award “MUST SEE” - The Stage H H H H H “Blistering funny, audacious and moving” – Broadway Baby H H H H “wittiest most engaging performances this fringe” - The Independent

From the Programmer’s Edinburgh Diary:

by Charlotte Josephine

WINNER Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season 2012, Soho Young Writers Award, 2012 H H H H “an involving drama from a young company to watch” - The Telegraph H H H H “Sweat-slick and tough, yet sweet and gifted with terrific timing, Josephine’s performance is as fresh and engaging as her script” - The Times

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“Next up was another award winner and Old Vic New Voices piece, Chapel Street back at the Underbelly. A piece that was relevant and speaking about/on behalf of the ‘youth’...the story, brilliant, gritty, edgy and, if slightly stretched, believable. The set was evocative and brilliantly designed. A fantastic piece.” To have this incredible production pieced with another award-winner, both of which were first performed as part of the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh season of new plays from new writers and companies in 2012, really is an incredible season highlight.”

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Saturday 16 March, 8pm

Friday 22 March, 8pm

Saturday 30 March, 1pm

The Chimney Boys

Theatre Re presents

House and Folded Feather present

The Gambler

Suitcase Circus

Auditorium Tickets: £12 / £11 conc. / £10 Members

Auditorium Tickets: £7.50 adults / £5 children

Drawing on the experiences of real gambling addicts in North London, The Gambler is an enthralling visual tale combining movement, live music and new writing. The Gambler is the story of Edgar, an old man trapped in his past. As he confronts his addiction, he wonders if his decisions were truly his own. Each spin of the wheel recalls the promise of a life he could have had. He gambles to remember, he gambles to forget.

A delightfully heart-warming and interactive familyfriendly spectacular.

Basement Studio Tickets: £5 The Chimney Boys are widely recognised as the finest Satanic Maritime Cabaret band in East Kent. Since forming as part of a busking competition in 2007, they have played their own combination of dark folk and cabaret music throughout Kent and London, telling tales of abandoned theme parks and disenchanted conquistadores. With Celtic and folk songs galore, get your Ceilidh on this St Patrick’s Day!

H H H H “The Gambler hits the Jackpot.” - Broadway Baby H H H H “Simply beautiful” - Stage Won

Meet Wobulous Discombobulous, the anarchic sock as he presents a line up of extraordinarily talented performing objects, all with their own unique and captivating storylines. Suitcase Circus features the most unlikely of performers including the world’s only acrobatic potato sack, a daredevil ski glove, an incredible dancing milkshake straw, the hypnotic tie snake Windsor Knot, and the lovable yet bizarre magical Mexican hat Timrek. “Suitcase Circus are outstanding.” - Time Out London

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On Beauty by Fiona Baird

he Tate sees Pre-Raphaelitism to incorporate ‘rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur’, and as such curates its exhibition with these clear set of bookmarks. Rebellion indeed is a key aspect to the movement; William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Arts and thus rejected a tradition to which they were expected to conform. Though these young artists were forging their own pathway, rebelling, they were focussed on purity and the natural form. As such their work emanates beauty, passion and a sheer dedication to art. It ceases to be ‘rebellion’ - riotous, aggressive or confrontational - and instead it becomes exactly what it strived to be: art for art’s sake. In the presence of their work, I found it difficult to believe that art could be anything else.

One of the greatest aims of art is to capture an emotion and preserve it, trap it in amber, and make it last. In my mind one of the greatest aims of art is to capture an emotion and preserve it, trap it in amber, and make it last. Whether that something is a single person’s beauty, the piety of a generation, the distress of a minority or the stillness of an ocean. Thus, what is perhaps more prevailing as an argument is not what we define art, but what we define beautiful. The Pre-Raphaelites had their own obsession with beauty: they wanted to return art to its ‘painterly and spiritual purity’ prior to Raphael, an artist they saw as an embodiment of the Renaissance. Gone were highly stylised physical forms, in their place Rossetti et al revisited a medieval fantasy world of chivalry, vivid colour

and natural simplicity, all with a strong literary subject matter. It is indeed a beautiful world that you step into. The languid sexuality of the Pre-Raphaelite women is desultory, yet totally mesmerizing. Their beauty is beguiling in its colour and focus; they are surrounded by the accoutrement of the medieval woman - looms, garlands, pianos, flora and fauna. These paintings, in real life (pardon the paradox), are utterly captivating. The Tate has a particular way of creating an exhibition which allows its viewer to pass through a movement with a high level of art historicism, the curatorial blurbs are both edifying and clear, yet also with a sky high level of aesthetic pleasure. People amble round the large, blood red rooms peering at the captions, nodding wisely at the wall text, but mainly just staring at the arresting physical beauty of these paintings. ‘Lilith’, Adam’s first wife immortalised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was one such painting that rendered me one of the staring masses. She stares lazily out of her painting, her face framed by floral garlands, both bored and fascinated by her own beauty. The viewers become voyeurs of a literary, botanic world that they cannot possess. Many of the paintings are in the form of a triptych, or series which furthers their purpose as a vehicle of storytelling. It is easy to see why these paintings provoked accompanying poetry by their creators, as a means of expressing their vision whole-heartedly through image and word. This new vision may seem dreamy and nostalgic, but the Brotherhood behind it stirred controversy by abandoning academic convention and embracing sexual yearning, artistic introspection and spiritual purity. Rebellious, but enchanting.

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events diary

Your at-a-glance guide to all events and performances from January through to April. For all up-to-date info please check our website www.firestationartscentre.com or call the Box Office 01753 866865

january

february 01 FRI 7.00pm Days of Last / Page 10 8.00pm Friday Night Jive / Page 10 02 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 03 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c, / Page 06 04 MON 05 TUE 06 WED 07 THU Digital Symposium curated by Fireythings 10.00am / Page 10 8.00pm Poor Man’s Hamlet / Page 11 08 FRI 09 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Dylan Thomas: Return Journey / Page 11 10 SUN 11 MON

12 SAT

12 TUE

13 SUN

13 WED

14 MON

14 THU 8.00pm Belly of the Beast / Page 22

15 TUE

15 FRI 8.00pm Jane Eyre / Page 11

16 WED

16 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Jane Eyre / Page 11

17 THU 7:45pm Book Swap / Page 04

17 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c. / Page 06

18 FRI 8.00pm Alexandra and the Sunflowers / Page 04

18 MON

19 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29

19 TUE

20 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c, / Page 06

20 WED 8.00pm Andy Parsons: I’ve Got a Shed (Warm-up) / Page 12

21 MON

21 THU

22 TUE

22 FRI 8.00pm Peacock and Gamble: Don’t Want to be on Telly Anyway / Page 12

23 WED

23 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm I/A / Page 12

24 THU

24 SUN

25 FRI

25 MON

26 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Rob Newman: Theory of Evolution (Work in Progress) / Page 04

26 TUE 8.00pm Sean Lock: Purple Van Man / Page 12

27 SUN

27 WED

28 MON

28 THU 8.00pm Selah! D’or / Page 05

29 TUE 30 WED 8.00pm Eliza Carthy and The Fiddle Girls / Page 04 31 THU 8.00pm Selah! D’or / Page 05

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march

april

01 FRI 8.00pm Will and the People / Page 16 8.00pm Katherine Ryan / Page 16

01 MON

02 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Alistair McGowan / Page 16

02 TUE

03 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c, / Page 06

03 WED

04 MON

04 THU

05 TUE

05 FRI 8.00pm Friday Night Jive / Page 23 8.00pm Something with Sparkle / Page 23

06 WED

06 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Lloyd Langford / Page 23

07 THU 8.00pm Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy / Page 16

07 SUN

08 FRI 2.30pm and 8.00pm Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy / Page 16

08 MON

09 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Beautiful Burlesque & Cabaret / Page 16

09 TUE

10 SUN

10 WED

11 MON

11 THU 8.00pm Belly of the Beast / Page 22

12 TUE

12 FRI 1.00pm The Sea Show / Page 23 8.00pm Youth Club for Rich Kids / Page 24

13 WED

13 SAT 1.00pm Kid’s Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Alun Cochrane: Moments of Alun / P24

14 THU 8.00pm Belly of the Beast / Page 22

14 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c. / Page 06

15 FRI 8.00pm Chapel Street & Bitch Boxer / Page 17

15 MON

16 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29

16 TUE

8.00pm The Chimney Boys / Page 18

17 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c. / Page 06

17 WED

18 MON

18 THU 7:45pm Book Swap / Page 04 8.00pm Edinburgh Comedy Warm-up / Page 26

19 TUE

19 FRI 7.00pm Days of Last / Page 10

20 WED

20 SAT 1.00pm Kid’s Club / Pages 28-29 8.00pm Obscurer / Page 26

21 THU

21 SUN

22 FRI 8.00pm The Gambler / Page 18

22 MON

23 SAT 1.00pm Kids Club / Pages 28-29

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7.00pm Days of Last / Page 10

8.00pm Strange & Beautiful / Page 06

23 TUE

24 SUN

24 WED

25 MON

25 THU 8.00pm Selah! D’or / Page 05

26 TUE

26 FRI 8.00pm Our Town / Page 26

27 WED

27 SAT 1.00pm Kid’s Club / Pages 28 - 29 8.00pm Boothby Graffoe: Nomad. No Sane Either... / Page 26

28 THU 8.00pm Selah! D’or / Page 05

28 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c. / Page 06

29 FRI

29 MON

30 SAT 1.00pm Suitcase Circus / Page 18

30 TUE

31 SUN 8.00pm A.t.t.i.c. / Page 06

31 WED

Coming in May... 02 Thu: 8.00pm Voltaire and Joe Black / Page 24

16 Thu: 8.00pm The Trench / Page 27

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stand-up n i t s e b e h t g n i d i Prov (and a s e c a f h s e r f m o r f comedy le from p o e p y n n u f e s o h t few from us as we n i o j , ) x o b y l l e t e th omedy night: c w e n d n a r b a h c n lau

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Tickets: £10 / £9 conc. / £8 Members Featuring the ultimate in stand-up comedy provision from The Comedy Network (the birth ground of Al Murray, Russell Howard and more), join us every month for cutting edge stand-up, belly-laughs and giggles galore! Guaranteed to be the best live comedy night around, see acts ranging from those fresh from the Fringe to award winners, TV stars to live sensations and one-liner kings to sketch group madness! Open on the following Thursday nights, come down and get your laughter on!

all new c o m e dy night! Thursday 14 February Valentine’s Day Special

Lucy Beaumont and Steve Hall Lucy Beaumont is an extremely talented comedian, achieving a finalist slot in the Foster’s So You Think You’re Funny? Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011. With ‘intriguing appeal and devastating comic timing’ – The Stage Headliner, Steve Hall has provided the support for Russell Howard on his sell-out national tours, Adventures, Dingledodies and the 2009 arena tour Big Rooms And Belly Laughs. A finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award and Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, Steve also makes up one third of if.comedy Award nominated sketch show We Are Klang.

Thursday 14 March

Ahir Shah and Gareth Richards Ahir Shah is one of comedy’s brightest new talents, whose sharp brand of stand-up features a blend of socio-political awareness, energetic delivery and jokes. ‘Destined to be one of the brightest stars in the British Comedy firmament…a frighteningly intelligent gagsmith’ - The Scotsman 2010 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee Gareth Richards’ engaging observational comedy and inspired one-liners have made him in an instant favourite on the comedy circuit. ‘A delightful hour of comedy’ - The Guardian

Thursday 11 April

Phil Wang and Jarlath Regan Winner of the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award, the Comedy Central Live Funniest Student Award 2011, Phil Wang is rapidly making a name for himself as one of Britain’s funniest Engineering undergraduates. In his brief time here on Earth, Phil has supported acts such as Greg Davies, Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal, and Chris Addison with his dry, deadpan charm and an occasional ukulele. Award winning comedian, writer and star of the hit Irish panel show, The Panel, Jarlath Regan has gained a reputation with audiences for his uplifting, inventive and relentlessly funny stand-up, enjoying sell-out runs at the Fringe since 2007. A finalist in both the BBC and Channel 4 New Comedy Awards, Jarlath’s other credits include Comedy Central’s The World Stands Up, Last Comic Standing on NBC, Live at The Stand Comedy Club (BBC Radio Scotland), The Blame Game (BBC Radio Ulster) and The Apprentice You’re Fired (TV3).

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Glitter

Box Revue Show

Friday 05 April, 8pm

Saturday 06 April, 8pm

Friday Night Jive

Something with Sparkle

Lloyd Langford

Auditorium Tickets: £5

Basement Studio Tickets: £12 / £11 conc. / £10 Members

Basement Studio Tickets: £10 / £9 conc. / £8 Members

Classic swing, jive and boogie all night long, with resident DJs and exhibitions, with a special class from 8pm to get you in the mood!

Come and join the Glitter Box Fairies for a fabulous, sparkling night of dancing, singing, cabaret and magic.

You may have seen Lloyd on Ask Rhod Gilbert, Dave’s One Night Stand, or Don’t Sit In The Front Row. You could have heard him on The Unbelievable Truth on Radio 4.

For more information on our swing and jive classes, see page 30.

Let them whisk you away to their glittering land of cheeky retro routines, sensual singers, stunning costumes and crowd pleasing comedy. Welcome to The Glitter Box!

Why don’t you come and see him on his first ever tour? He’s written jokes for comedians such as Rhod Gilbert, Simon Amstell and Frankie Boyle. Now you can hear the ones he decided to keep for himself! ‘Smart and properly funny’ - The Guardian.

Friday 12 April, 1.00pm

Squashbox Theatre present

The Sea Show Auditorium Tickets: £7.50 adults / £5 children The Sea Show is a quirky and hilarious mix of puppet show, natural history and comedy cabaret. Meet crazy characters like Morwenna the ‘beautiful’ mermaid, Ruan the reformed seagull and salty seadog Captain Pemburthy, as well as a cast of mischievous sea-squirts, anemones, limpets, crabs and pilchards. Come and celebrate the sea with tall tales, silly slapstick, fantastic facts, live music and songs unmissable fun for children and adults of all ages! For children aged 5+ and their families.

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Friday 12 April, 8pm

Saturday 13 April, 8pm

Smurphy’s Law presents

Alun Cochrane: Moments of Alun

Youth Club for Rich Kids Basement Studio Tickets: £6 Hailing from Maidenhead, Youth Club for Rich Kids formed in February 2011. Despite being relative newcomers to the local scene, they have already won a loyal following, winning the audience vote at the Maidenhead Carnival Battle of the Bands 2011 semifinal. Reminiscent of their main musical influences, Foals, Arcade Fire and Friendly Fires, the themes of the songs are simple yet effective, with a dark undercurrent.

Thursday 02 May, 8pm

When asked, the band describe themselves as “individual, eccentric, passionate,” characteristics which are already turning heads (and ears), as the band have been already been offered a recording session in July.

Voltaire and Joe Black Basement Studio Voltaire and Joe Black join forces to bring a dark cabaret show of legendary proportions. Witness two of the leading figures in the dark cabaret genre in one show! Hailing from New York City, Voltaire is most recognised musically for his song Brains which was featured on the cartoon network show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. His music can best be described as a collection of murder ballads, tongue-in-cheek exercises in to the macabre, with just enough bawdy songs about Star Trek and Star Wars to keep audiences rolling with laughter. Joe Black is the infamous gin drinking darling of the UK cabaret scene. A piano, ukulele and accordion playing monstrosity of musical comedy. He really must be seen to be believed! Music hall for the estranged, vaudeville for the oddly inclined and cabaret for those with a taste for the unusual.

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Auditorium Tickets: £12 Alun Cochrane brings his critically acclaimed show Moments of Alun to a venue near you! You may have seen him on YouTube, or on Dave, or on a panel game, or Channel 4, or just on a bus somewhere. Expect thinking aloud, chat with the audience, and Cochrane style stand-up. ‘Alun Cochrane’s ability to make the little things in life a comedy goldmine is phenomenal’ - Chortle.co.uk ‘By the end of the show, some people in the audience literally can’t stop laughing. Expect Alun Cochrane to be filling arenas soon,’ - Independent ‘Comedy gold’ - List

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Fashion as an art form is something that evolves and matures over the progression of time. In more recent years, for example, society has witnessed the effect of technological advances, such as the rise of social media and the influential fashion bloggerati. Nowadays, it is normal to go tweet and hash-tag happy during fashion weeks to keep updated on the latest emerging trends and gossip. Indeed, a lot has changed regarding the way consumers view and access fashion both virtually and on the catwalk. In October, I was invited to attend Digital Fashion Week in Singapore, the world’s first live-streaming only fashion week. You would think that the fact that this was a worldwide inaugural event was enough to sell it to me right? Wrong. The other was the fact that a semi-famous transgender model, Andrej Pejic, would be a VIP guest as well as walking the catwalk. Needless to say, on paper the occasion sounded pretty mind-blowing. Now, transgender models are no strangers to the media. In 2010, 31 year old Brazilian transgender model Lea T – real name Leandro – was cast as a female model for Givenchy’s fall/winter ad campaign. 20-yearold Israelite Stav Strashko proved competition for female models when he starred in a TV advert for Toyota in August this year. Nevertheless, there was something so astounding about the combination between Digital Fashion Week and a transgender guest of honour. So much novelty, and all of it happening in what is still considered a country in development by the Western world – Singapore. As I walked into the Ritz Carlton hotel reception to register for the day’s show, struggling to get my umbrella down and sheltering from the torrential rain shower outside, who should I look up and see walking briskly past through the hall but Andrej. At the tender age of 21, the Australian-Bosnian model stands at 1.88m tall with size 42 feet. Effusing biker-chic style sporting a leather jacket and teeny-tiny micro black shorts, his legginess and seemingly effortless sense of off-duty model style is enviable. But his sense of style is not what strikes me first. Articles that talk about Andrej’s feminine looks simply do not do him justice. To see him in the flesh is an entirely different story. In person, he has a figure that would make some of the world’s most famous supermodels green-eyed, with a pout and cheekbones to die for. In short – he resembles a truly stunning woman. It is impossible to describe just how his image completely blurs the boundaries between

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male and female. Indeed, his first modeling assignment was for a spread in an Australian fashion magazine named Oyster, where he appeared as a woman. Signed to London agency Storm, Pejic is listed under both their male and female models. He has modelled for high profile designers worldwide, including modeling swimwear and for female lingerie photo-shoots. Understandably, Andrej’s work has often provoked a mixed response, particularly from those that mistake him for a woman. In September 2011, Pejic was ranked no. 98 in FHM magazine’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011 – an award that was accompanied by a hostile and rude commentary by the magazine – which they later withdrew and apologized for. The very fact that Pejic can showcase his self-image as – and others can mistake him for – both that of man and woman is intriguing. Not only does this benefit his career by making him highly sought after in the modeling industry, but it also highlights that fact that one of the most important impressions that we can make on others is our visual image. With his long legs, flaxen hair and make up perfected, as I watched Pejic walk the run way at Digital Fashion Week, I could not differentiate him from the other female models in terms of his whole aesthetic look (aside from the fact that he was taller, thinner, and I KNEW his true gender). His effeminate appearance certainly messed with the audience’s head. Watching Digital Fashion Week opened up my eyes to how fashion and self are changing and evolving in terms of deconstructing gender and identity and our own social expectations. There is something fascinating and intriguing about the new wave of Femiman, understandably so because people like Andrej are unique, few and far between in mainstream media, and an alien social phenomenon to most of us. Susannah Zerin is a fashion and lifestyle writer and blogger living between Singapore and London: www.afashionableleo.com/

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Thursday 18 April, 8pm

Edinburgh Festival Comedy Warm-Up

feat. Joel Dommett and The Dog Eared Collective Basement Studio Tickets: £10 / £9 conc. / £8 Members As seen on MTV News, Impractical Jokers and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC3) Joel Dommett previews material for his hotly anticipated new show in 2013. Having gained rave reviews for “Neon Hero” and “Nunchuck Silver Medallist 2002” Joel has established himself as one of the biggest rising stars on the UK comedy circuit. H H H H - TimeOut Anarchic funnymongers The Dog-Eared Collective unleash more supercharged sketch silliness. So switch your fun guns to left-field and they promise to blow your funny bone to smithereens. H H H H H “Haemorrhage-inducingly funny” - WhatsOnStage

Friday 26 April 8pm

Saturday 27 April 8pm

Apollo Theatre presents

Boothby Graffoe: Nomad. No Sane Either...

Our Town Auditorium Tickets: £12 / £11 conc. / £10 Members Group rates available Set in the small town of Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, Our Town is Thornton Wilder’s classic tale of American life in the early 20th Century. A story about ordinary citizens and their everyday lives, the play takes us through twelve years in the story of the town, and centres around two families and their experiences of life, love and loss. Following their hugely popular production of Blue Remembered Hills, Apollo Theatre Company presents this exciting new production celebrating the classic play’s 75th anniversary.

Auditorium £10 / £9 conc. / £8 Members A brand new Boothby tour for a brand new Boothby studio album for release in February 2013. Plus local comedic support. Enjoy! Boothby’s dislikes include name-droppers and people who use celebrity connections to promote themselves in an unrealistic way. “If I had to compare him to anyone, it would be Spike Milligan.” - Omid Djalili

Saturday 20 April, 8pm

OBSCURER Auditorium Free Entry

Better Mechanics present Obscurer. A night inspired by, and featuring, a variety of world electronic music from both live artists and master DJs, complete with accompanying photography and moving images from selected international artists, this is set to be one of the best nights from Better Mechanics yet! Come down and be inspired in a club night that will break the mould.

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Programmer’s Top Pick from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival house and Les Enfants Terribles present

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… the overall vision stays with you like a strange, significant dream.

Auditorium Tickets: £12 / £11 conc. / £10 Members Group rates available for parties 10+

- What’s On Stage

A total theatre experience of engrossing intensity, The Trench employs acting, mime, music, puppetry, film and even flying to enrich history with the quality of myth and reinvest an old story with the power it has lost through over familiarity. The Stage - Must See Show

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Club Every Saturday at 1pm! Tickets: Cinema: £5 adults / £2.50 children £1 Members, Envy and Advantage Card Holders Wii and Activity Days: £2.50

Live Events: See dedicated show listings for more information

January Saturday 19 January

Stuart Little

(1999) Rating: U The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.

Saturday 26 January

Mulan

(1998) Rating: U To save her father from death in the army, a Chinese maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China’s greatest heroes in the process. A modern Disney classic!

February Saturday 02 February

The School of Rock

(2003) Rating: PG A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band. Starring Jack Black.

Saturday 09 February

Wii and Activity Day

Get your gaming heads into gear and get down to The Firestation! We’re offering the chance to battle it out in a Wii Tournament as well as providing an array of arts and crafts activities for non-stop entertainment!

Saturday 16 February

Megamind

(2010) Rating: PG The supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life. Starring Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt.

Saturday 23 February

Sky High

2005) Rating: PG Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.

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March

April

Saturday 02 March

Saturday 06 April

Stardust

How to Train Your Dragon

(2007) Rating: PG In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he’ll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. Starring Sienna Miller, Robert De Niro, Ricky Gervais and Claire Danes.

Saturday 09 March

We Bought a Zoo

(2011) Rating: PG Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. Starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson

Saturday 16 March

Wii and Activity Day

Saturday 23 March

Chicken Run

(2000) Rating: U Chicken Run is a comedy escape drama with a touch of passion set on a sinister Yorkshire chicken farm in 1950’s England. From the creators of Wallace and Gromit, starring Mel Gibson.

Saturday 30 March

Suitcase Circus

A delightfully heart-warming and interactive family-friendly spectacular. For more information, see page 18

(2010) Rating: PG A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.

Friday 12 April

The Sea Show

Come and celebrate the sea with tall tales, silly slapstick, fantastic facts, live music and songs - unmissable fun for children and adults of all ages! See page 23 for more info.

Saturday 13 April

Wii and Activity Day

Saturday 20 April

Peter Pan

(2003) Rating: PG The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.

Saturday 27 April

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Rating: U A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet. A true classic directed by Steven Spielberg.

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classes & workshops 4Motion Youth Dance Theatre Classes

4Motion Adult Dance: Get A Move On!

Baby Boticellis

Tuesdays 15 JANUARY – 26 March

Do you want an alternative to the gym, something that’s energetic and original? Then join 4Motion’s popular adult dance class ‘Get A Move On’ for a fun dance and fitness experience.

Splatter painting, clay modelling, group painting and lots of fun, Baby Boticellis is a relaxed and fun environment for kids and their parents to get creative make a mess and not get told off!

After popular demand, The Firestation’s professional resident dance company are continuing their inclusive adult dance class this term working on fitness and dance technique - it’s time to shake up those old school dance moves!

Our new class leader Becky Young says, “Through my work with children I have always used art, messy and creative play. I help parents to understand that it’s not about whether the children have an end product, it’s about the process. Art and creative work covers the areas of the foundation stage curriculum, but it is so much more for the children than ticking a box.”

Led by 4Motion’s Creative Workshop Team Basement

The year is 2112; life as we used to know it is very different. Machines have developed, medicine has evolved, and an underground dictatorship controls the nation. The time has passed when robots were once toys; now we are controlled by the robots and the secret society that lives beneath us. Join 4Motion this term as it leaps 100 years into the future, and glimpse into the unknown to witness what lies ahead. Experience futuristic choreography and creative tasks to develop a totally unique performance set in your future. 4Motion offer inclusive classes focusing on contemporary dance, dance fitness, choreography, and performance skills, with the aim of developing creative minds, confident voices, and versatile performers.

NEW PRICES

Basement

wednesdays 16 january - 20 march 7.35pm-8.45pm £65 for 10-weeks / £7 drop-in

10am-11am £4 per child / extra siblings £2.50

SOTA Stage School

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SOTA Seeds

Swing & Jive

Basement SOTA Seeds classes provide a fabulous introduction to performing arts for little ones. Watch them flourish as they explore through dance, singing and drama.

All 4Motion youth groups will be part of the end of term 4Motion Youth Dance Performance at The Firestation, performing to family and friends.

Ages 4-6 years

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Tuesdays 3.45pm-4.30pm

4MDT Youth Company

sundays 13 january - 24 march

Auditorium 4MDT Youth Co. is an award winning youth dance theatre company for 15-23 year olds. This term 4MDT will be developing a unique urban dance performance, inspired by their dance on film created over the summer. 4MDT workshops are for dedicated young people who enjoy dance and theatre, have a passiowwn to explore advanced choreographic methods, and a drive to create original performances. 4MDT tour and perform every term, and assist in teaching our younger youth groups.

Wednesdays 16 JANUARY - 20 MARCH 5.45pm-7.30pm / £80.00

tuesdays 08 january - 19 march [excludes 19 february] summer terms begins 16 april

Ages 3-5 years

[excludes 24 february] summer terms begins 21 april

Sundays 10am-10.45am £78 per 10 week term

Musical Theatre Class Basement

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SOTA School enables 6-16 year olds to develop skills in dance, singing and drama in a creative and stimulating environment. Working in three age groups, pupils rotate between three workshops lead by professionally trained workshop leaders and performers. The emphasis is on fun through confidence building, skills development and self expression.

Ages 6-16 years

sundays 13 january - 24 march [excludes 24 february] summer terms begins 21 april

I Like To Move It! Create a performance with 4Motion

Sundays 10.30am-1.30pm £245 per 10 week term

10 – 3pm / 7-12 years / £85.00

half term & easter workshops TBA

Thursday 4th & Friday 5th April

Move your dancing on with more complex rhythms, moves and combinations including Swing out, Lindy hop charleston and variations. No partner needed!

mondays 14 january - 29 april

Life Drawing

Basement

1.30-5pm / 13 – 16 years / £28.00

Intermediates 9pm-10pm

[excludes 19 february] summer terms begins 16 april

Tuesday 26 MARCH 7.30pm

Wednesday 20th February

Learn the basic swing steps and some fun moves! No previous experience needed! No partner needed!

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SOTA Sunday Stage School

Dance on Film Workshop: Make a dance film in a day!

Beginners 8pm-9pm

Ages 8-14 years

4Motion Youth Dance Performance

10am-12.30pm / 7-12 years / £20.00

Learn the original swing dance from the 1930s, 40s and 50s (aka the Lindy hope or Jitterbug)! Can be danced to everything from Big Band swing (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie) through Rock ‘n’ Roll, the lounge swing of Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack and modern artists like Michael Bublé!

Mondays 8pm-10pm £30 per 5 week block (includes free entry to Friday Night Jive!) £8 per session

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Wednesday 20th February

Basement

Have a ball learning songs, dances and acting scenes from West End and Broadway musicals with our highly experienced acting, dance and singing coaches.

Tuesdays 4.30pm-5.45pm £120 per 10 week term

Move to the Beat with 4Motion

Tuesdays 15 january - 30 april

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SPARKS 5-7 yrs 4.20-5.10pm / £65.00 FLAMES & HEAT 8-10yrs & 11-12yrs 5.10-6.20pm / £70.00 BLAZE 13yrs+ 6.20-7.30pm / £70.00

Led by Artistic Directors Elaine & Dean

Basement

A fun and dynamic life drawing session for all abilities, with a great atmosphere, music and stage lighting to enhance the definition and features of the subjects. You can be left to your own devises or alternately tutor, Patrick Palmer, is happy to give advice. Each week there is a nude model to study, holding various times poses of different lengths. Patrick is a professional artist with over 20 years of experience in life-drawing. He was classically trained at Heatherley’s School of Art (Chelsea) and at The National College of Art and Design (Dublin). He was also given extensive personal tuition by Michael Clack, a close friend of Francis Bacon and by Bobby Gill, an honorary lecturer at The Royal Academy.

Sundays 06 january - 28 april 5.30pm-7.30pm £10 drop in, £8 with Advantage Card/Conc/Mem £80 for 10 sessions

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Cuban Salsa with Starlight Dance

Windsor Photographic Society

Starlight Dance company continues to provide authentic Latin dance tuition and social evenings for adults, suitable for beginners and more advanced dancers, taking in Salsa, Meringue and Bachata. No partner required, easy to follow courses, fun and relaxed environment Tuitions by Miguel Ramirez professional dancer and choreographer from the Dominican Republic.

The Windsor Photographic Society is one of the largest photographic societies in the UK. Members enjoy a friendly atmosphere with a varied and stimulating programme of practical help, creative sessions, speakers, competitions and social evenings.

Basement

Wednesdays 09 january - 24 april 8pm-10pm Individual classes £8 Beginners 6 week courses £40 If you would like to pre-book your course, please contact: Zoe Ramirez via email starlightdancing@hotmail.co.uk mob: 07929 168886 Payment on the night via cash is accepted: please pay all monies directly to your tutor before the class begins.

.......................................................................... Sing Out!

Space varies A hairbrush holding, loud and lively singing group for absolutely everyone, singing your way from ABBA to Queen to U2 and even have a stab at 3 part harmonies! The Sing Out group now numbers over 30 singers and meets up at The Firestation every Friday evening at the end of a long week to relax, de-stress and Sing Out!

Fridays 11 january - 26 april 6pm-7pm £5 per session

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Auditorium

Mondays 07 january - 29 april 8.00pm-10.30pm Contact: Chris Towler on chris.towler@talk21.com mob: 07917878315

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Blossom Ballet and its syllabi were created and carefully designed by pre-school professionals specifically for babies, toddlers and young children. Blossom Ballet offers a new way to learn through exciting movement classes derived from imaginative play, providing a sound foundation for dance, education and social needs. Inspirational pictures, props and instruments are used but most importantly, Blossom Ballet is about having lots of fun and making new friends.

Hawthorne School of Dance

Classical Ballet - Delivered in a fun and imaginative manner with classes divided by age and ability - suitable for girls, boys, beginners and improvers. Optional examinations validated by the ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) Tap dance - delivered in an energetic and interactive manner with classes divided by age and ability - suitable for girls, boys, beginners and improvers. Optional examinations validated by the ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) Street - Inspirational, energetic and funky classes delivered by dancing professionals working within the commercial industry - suitable for girls, boys, beginners and improvers.

saturday 05 january - thursday 28 march [exc. monday 18 - saturday 23 february] summer term begins monday 05 april

Pre-Primary ISTD Ballet & Tap [5 yrs] Sat 11.35am-12.25pm £96

NEW Primary/Grade 1 ISTD Modern & Tap [6 yrs+] Wed 4.50pm-5.40pm £96

Primary ISTD Ballet & tap [6 & 7 yrs]

Children naturally progress throughout the levels according to their age.

Mon 4.55pm-5.45pm £96 Sat 12.30pm-1.15pm £96

Upon graduation from Blossom Ballet, pupils are welcome to join Hawthorne School of Dance to continue their learning in Ballet, Tap and Street.

Grade 1 ISTD Ballet & Tap [7 yrs+]

saturday 05 january - thursday 28 march

Mon 6.45pm-7.30pm £60

Mon 5.50pm-6.40pm £96

Street Dance [7 yyrs+]

[exc. monday 18 - saturday 23 february] summer term begins monday 05 april

Seeds [18-26 months] Wed & Thu 10am-10.30am £72

Discover the art of tease with Glitter Box Burlesque classes. Learn peeling, tracing, core moves, prop work and routines. Plus you have the opportunity to join the Glitter Box Fairies in the end of term show. Whether you are learning for fun, fitness or thrills, Burlesque is ideal for everyone, of any age or shape. The only things we’ll be stripping off are your inhibitions.

Saplings (27-36 months]

Thursdays 10 january - 25 april

Mon 3.10pm-3.50pm £84 Sat 10.00am-10.40am £84

Beginners: 7pm - 8pm Intermediate: 8pm - 9pm £8 per session / £40 for six sessions

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Tues 10.10am-10.40am £72 Wed & Thu 10.40am-11.10am £72

Saplings+Buds [almost 3] Mon 2.30pm-3.00pm £72

Buds [3 yrs] Buds [3 & 4 yrs] Wed & Thu 11.20am-12.00pm £84 Wed 3.10pm-3.50pm £84

Blossom ISTD Ballet & Tap [4 years] Sat 10.45am-11.30am £90

Blossom/Pre-Primary ISTD Ballet & Tap [4 & 5 yrs] Wed 4.00pm-4.45pm £90

Pre-Primary ISTD Ballet & Tap [5 & 6 yrs] Mon 4.00pm-4.50pm £90

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By joining our fantastic membership scheme you can benefit from a whole host of offers and special events. On top of an array of discounts (which are listed below), you are exclusively invited to a Members only event to celebrate the launch of the new season, supplying all the information you need to enjoy the next season’s sensational programme to the fullest! Individual, family and corporate membership packages available. Exclusive booking period for premium • events 20% discount on all season • performances • 10% discount at The Firestation Bar •1 0% discount on private hires and conferences. •D iscounts with our partner restaurants and shops. Check website for up to date list of deals and offers. Firestation membership £25.00 with Concession £20 Family Membership £37.50 Corporate Membership: Please contact our Box Office Manager on 01753 866 865 to discuss your outstanding Corporate Membership options.

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