Lancaster Arts Events: January - March 2019

invites you to our Spring 2019 season Pathways

Hello everyone and welcome to our Pathways season.

Last September, we invited a group to join us at the Ruskin Library for a Gathering on Pathways, where we shared ways of thinking about the movement of people, ideas and things. We examined the borders of state territories and global trade routes, the circulation of financial and political capital, and the movement of people (by choice or necessity). We explored personal pathways – our memories, our intuition, our choices.

This season presents a rich variety of approaches to this theme, in music, dance, theatre, arts and even comedy.

Forced Entertainment will return to the Nuffield with Tyrone Huggins in To Move in Time exploring time travel. Tom Lloyd’s remarkable film Romany Rai documents the annual gathering of the Appleby Horse Fair.

The Endellion String Quartet have created an evening of migratory composers for us and in the award winning SOAR, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita explore themes of migration through the journey of the Osprey from Senegal to Wales. Dance ensemble, Van Huynh Company movingly explore the pathway from life into death in Đẹp.

Theatre company Quarantine’s brilliant piece Wallflower will collect dance memories for their evolving archive from people in Lancaster and Morecambe. In the Peter Scott Gallery we present Move, an exhibition featuring five artists whose work uses physical movement to find routes through social and personal space and repositions memory and history.

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And of course, our current political context has not escaped our attention but we offer much needed light relief from Kieran Hodgson in ‘75, a comic take on joining the European Union in the 1970s.

We have a special treat as we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Classical Concert Series. On the eve of the anniversary of John Ruskin’s birth, we will host the BBC Philharmonic who are marking the moment with Ruskin Dreams by Cumbrian composer, Edward Cowie.

Please join us for the Pathways Season Launch on Thursday 7 February. Bring your own ideas of what pathways means for you, talk to us about them and we very much hope our season can open up new connections for us all.

Jocelyn Lancaster Arts Team Alice Booth, Creative Producer Jocelyn Cunningham, Director Peter Davies, Creative Administrator Liz Duggan, Operations Assistant Philip Dunn, Front of House Coordinator Eleni Georgiou, Marketing Assistant Harriet Hill-Payne, Assistant Curator Tabitha Sims, Temporary Operations Manager Richard Smith, Curator Jamie Wooldridge, Marketing Manager

Front Cover Image: Jill Peel mapping her remembered Black Combe Circuit walk for Women’s Walks to Remember: “With memory I was there” by Louise Ann Wilson.

We’ve been having conversations about the idea of pathways for some time, as have many of the artists we work with. Our cover shows Jill Peel mapping a loved walk in Louise Ann Wilson’s project, Women’s Walks to Remember.

This Place Project

Our This Place Project, exploring what it means to live in the Lancaster district, continues. This spring, it could involve you!

If this sounds intriguing, please get in touch with us at info@thisplaceproject.uk Invisible Flock return to Lancaster to capture the geographic makeup of our area as part of their international Earth Tones project, exploring how we might sense and feel data, as opposed to just reading or analysing it. Also encouraging us to experience our surroundings differently, you can download a free app for The Hum (lancasterarts.org/thehum). Mixing reality, theatre and especially composed sound, The Hum changes how we encounter everyday locations like the bus station or Morecambe Arcade and will reveal new things about the places you know.

Image Credit: Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti

Inspired by the careful charting of a voyage as undertaken by sailors, artist Hannah Fox will roam the region to meet the people and test the ‘waters’ of the District. With a van as her vessel she will create conversations and encourage thoughts and ideas, seeing what fastens and fixes to her growing cargo of soundings and readings of this place.

On Valentine’s Day you might come across Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti on their Heart Safari, searching for ‘the heart of Lancaster’. If you’re willing to share your favourite places and memories of our city, you may find you are asked for help...

“Excuse me I’m looking for directions…

Actually I am looking for the Heart of Lancaster.

No, I don’t mean the hospital- I mean something that you love about this place ... ...you know, maybe where you feel most at home… …perhaps a place that represents something special or wondrous... ...It doesn’t have to be massive like a castle or a church. It could be something that other people might not have noticed ... ...or something that is just a personal connection for you. ...the Heart does not have to be at the centre, it might be off centre...but central to your version of this place...”

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Move

Exhibition

Exhibition

12 – 5pm Weekdays 10 – 17 January Peter Scott Gallery Price: Free

12pm – 5pm Weekdays 08 February – 22 March Peter Scott Gallery Price: Free

In numerous countries around the world, harmful witchcraft-related beliefs and practices have resulted in serious violations of human rights. With uncompromising photography by Vlad Sokhin, Joe Wood, Christo Geoghegan and Under the Same Sun, this exhibition highlights individual cases of witchcraftrelated human rights violations from across the world.

Kathy Hinde Hannah Catherine Jones Simone Kenyon Jen Southern Louise Ann Wilson

Conceived by experts in the field, From Horror To Hope was launched at the UN Human Rights Council Headquarters, Geneva, in 2018. This presentation coincides with an international conference at Lancaster University which brings the experts back together to highlight related human rights issues.

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Move presents five artists whose work connects with travel, finding our way and routes through places and history.

The artists have played a role in the development of our pathways theme and have an ongoing relationship with us such as the mesmerising work by Kathy Hinde for Light Up Lancaster and Louise Ann Wilson’s year-long exploration of her artistic practice.

Move comments on the natural world and landscape linking to ancestry, cultural reparation and the powerful nature of memory.

Image Credit (left): Under the Same Sun (detail) Image Credit (right): Lucy Cash courtesy of Simone Kenyon & Scottish Sculpture (detail)

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Film Screenings New to the programme is a focus on documentary and artist film. This season we present three films featuring very different kinds of journeys.

All films start at 6pm Peter Scott Gallery Price: £5/Supporters, students & U26s £3 (limited free tickets for U26s) Queens of Syria 12 February Duration: 70mins

Image Credit: Romany Rai courtesy of Tom LLoyd

Directed by Yasmin Fedda, this film tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the Greek tragedy about the plight of women in war. A cross-cultural connection across millennia was found - women born in 20th century Syria discovered a mirror of their own experiences in the stories of other women, uprooted, enslaved and bereaved by the Trojan War.

Romany Rai 27 February Duration: 60mins From an early age, filmmaker Tom LLoyd travelled with his father Walter to Appleby Fair, the largest Gypsy horse fair in Europe. LLoyd began filming the journeys in 1995 - his extraordinary footage is combined with previously unseen film taken by the Gypsies themselves in the 1960s. With unrivalled access to Gypsy and Traveller culture, Romany Rai weaves together candid conversations, arresting images and gritty fireside music sessions.

A 100 Mile Conversation 13 March Duration: 60mins In spring 2013 Nathan Burr and Louis Buckley walked from Winchester to Beachy Head, the length of the South Downs Way. The 100 mile journey was shared with everyone from farmers to therapists to discuss the connections between landscape, myth, mental health and end of life issues. This film documents the chain of conversations that took place over their nine-day journey.

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BBC Philharmonic

Concert 7.30pm Thursday 07 February Great Hall Price D (see pg 22) Andrew Gourlay (Conductor) Julian Bliss (Clarinet) MENDELSSOHN OVERTURE, Ruy Blas (‘Rob Roy’) COWIE Concerto for Clarinet ‘Ruskin’s Dreams’ TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 ‘Pathètique’ In association with the Ruskin Library

We are excited to welcome our dear friends, the BBC Philharmonic, back to the Great Hall. Lancaster University’s new partnership with this outstanding orchestra is the start of a close relationship between the musicians, our audiences and the community of academics here at the University.

To celebrate, we are dedicating this concert to John Ruskin on the eve of the 200th Anniversary of his birth. The centrepiece of the evening is a beautiful concerto by the lake district-based composer, Edward Cowie, performed by one of the UK’s foremost performing artists, Julian Bliss.

Tonight’s concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.

“Ruskin said that ‘The artist is a telescope - very marvellous in himself, as an instrument.’ Celebrating Ruskin’s bicentenary creates pathways across time, across media, across the Lancaster University campus and across the northwest.”

Sandra Kemp, Director, Ruskin Library and Research Centre.

Everyone is warmly invited to our season launch: 6–7.30pm in the Great Hall.

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Finch and Keita: Soar

Concert 7.30pm Thursday 14 February Great Hall Price D (see pg 22)

Image Credit: Andy Morgan

Catrin Finch (Harp) Seckou Keita (Kora)

SOAR is in MOJO’s Top Ten World Music Awards of 2018 and winner of the fRoots Critics Poll album of the 2018 This award-winning duo have been giving extraordinary performances together for the last five years. Their programme takes wing on the flight of the Osprey, the magnificent raptor persecuted to extinction in Wales during the 17th century, which has recently returned home after a 400-year absence. The osprey makes its annual 3000-mile migration from the estuaries of West Wales, where Catrin grew up, to Seckou’s homeland in Senegal, West Africa.

Themes of migration - natural, enforced and economic - run throughout, drawing deep on the sometimes darker history of these two great musical nations. In Soar, Catrin and Seckou have created a unique marriage of cultures through an emotional, joyful and life-affirming musical collaboration.

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National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Endellion String Quartet

Concert

Concert

7.30pm Saturday 09 March Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22)

7.30pm Thursday 14 March Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22)

In association with the Lancashire Music Education Hub

HAYDN String Quartet in G minor ‘The Rider’ Op.74, No.3 BARTÓK String Quartet No.2 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.14 in C# minor, Op.131

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The Endellion Quartet have been regular visitors to Lancaster for decades and this season we’re delighted that they chose to share their own 40th Anniversary with us during our 50th! To complement our Pathways Season, the Endellions have put together a programme full of migratory composers - as a boy, Haydn moved from Croatia to Vienna, Beethoven relocated from Bonn to Vienna, and Bartók became a Hungarian expat when he moved to the USA. But most of all, they’ve chosen their favourite works because it’s “the best quartet programme we could imagine!”

Image Credits: Carl Hyde & Eric Richmond

This 50th anniversary season features many musicians who have had long relationships with Lancaster University and NYJO have always been hugely popular with our audiences. Ever entertaining, always virtuosic and forever fresh, their programmes showcase the very best young jazz musicians in the country. This time, they are also collaborating with the young jazz musicians of Lancashire and will be tutoring them on campus during the day - expect to hear more from the county’s finest during the evening too.

Eric Lu (Piano)

Concert

Winner of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition

7.30pm Thursday 28 March Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22)

During the 2018 competition, The Leeds Jury saw 67 young hopefuls’ recitals before Eric Lu walked onstage as the final (and youngest) candidate. It was evident then that this was a pianist of exceptional talent and Eric continued to shine throughout the competition. His award includes an international record deal, top agency representation and tours in Europe and South Korea - we simply had to be one of the first to book him up. We know this will be a stunning recital you won’t want to miss. You can catch his winning performances free on Medici TV: www.leedspiano2018.medici.tv

Image Credit: Simon Wilkinson

SCHUMANN Ghost Variations SCHUBERT Piano Sonata D664 HANDEL Chaconne HWV 435 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No.2

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Messy, Noisy Wriggly Studio

Anna Daly: Duvet Dancing

Family Workshops

Family

Meet in Great Hall Cafe Price: £3.50-£2.50 (inc. refreshments) Duration: 50mins

11am Saturday 23 February The Playroom (Great Hall) £3.50 - £2.50 (inc. refreshments) Duration: 60mins

Come and enjoy being creative together in our imaginative workshops for 2-5 year olds and their grown-ups.

Messy Studio with David Hulston 10am & 11.15am Saturday 12 January Explore communication and connection through multi-sensory, messy play. This hands-on session has something for curious and creative minds of all ages to enjoy.

Wriggly Studio with Fabiola Santana and Jenny Reeves 10am & 11.15am Saturday 02 February Explore your connections, bonds and cherished memories of each other. In this workshop we’ll move, draw and create something to keep.

Noisy Studio with Ben McCabe and Anni Tracy 10am & 11.15am Saturday 09 March Experience a magical landscape of sound, light, colour and texture. With interactive elements and playful interventions, this is a specially created space for children and their grown-ups to explore together.

In partnership with More Music.

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A new participatory dance performance piece created for young children (6m – 3yrs) and their grown ups. Duvet Dancing invites you in to meet our playful dancer and settle into simple sensory movement play. Immerse yourself in childrens’ first language of movement: we meet, we greet, we watch, we play. Come roll and lull around in the soft clouds of our lullaby space, lose yourself in the wonder of simple things and each other.

Please note: This performance is floor based. There will be the opportunity to participate in simple small dances together so please wear something comfortable to move in.

Lost in Translation: Hotel Paradiso Family 7pm Friday 08 February & 11am & 3pm Saturday 09 February £10 - £8 Duration: 45mins

We’re delighted to welcome back Lost in Translation Circus after their previous family show The Hogswallops wowed our audiences in 2016.

In their colourful, loud and funny new show, Hotel Paradiso blends spectacular circus with charm, physical comedy, clowning, theatrical storytelling and slapstick.

Madame and the charming staff of the quirkily ineffective Hotel Paradiso combat their arch enemy The Banker who is trying to repossess their beloved home.

With thrills, gasps, laughs and drama there’s plenty for people of all ages to enjoy.

Image Credit: Annabel Carberry

“Preceding their shows Lost In Translation Circus will spend a week within our Nuffield Theatre rehearsing before embarking on their national tour. Lancaster Arts is proud to continue our support for new and contemporary circus after last year’s national celebrations.”

Jamie Wooldridge

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Forced Entertainment: To Move in Time Theatre 8pm Tuesday 19 February Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22) Duration: 70mins 12yrs+

Join the Director Tim Etchells for a talk! See our website for details or email producers@lancasterarts.org

To Move in Time is a brand–new work written by Tim Etchells for performer Tyrone Huggins, in which an unnamed protagonist speculates playfully about what he’d do if he were able to travel backwards and forwards in time.

Impossible or extraordinary actions are developed and then abandoned through fantasies of changing the present via interventions in history. The protagonist obsesses with everyday events in the past, and dreams of becoming rich from knowledge of the future.

To Move in Time combines Etchells’ text with Huggins’ powerful performance to walk a line between comic absurdity and melancholia.

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Image Credit: Vlatka Horvat. And Counting (Five), 2011.

Modified clock, modified wooden rulers. Courtesy the artist.

Forced Entertainment is a group of six artists who have worked together since 1984 to make compelling, inventive and provocative new theatre that has toured throughout the UK and internationally. They have been described by The Guardian as having “produced some of the most exciting and challenging theatre of the past few decades”.

Verve: Mixed Bill

Dance 8pm Monday 25 February Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22) Duration: 100mins 11yrs+

This year VERVE present an ambitious programme of bold new dance work created by internationally-acclaimed and award-winning choreographers Joan ClevillĂŠ (Catalonia), Maxine Doyle (UK) and Ben Wright (UK), alongside a restaging of Shutdown by Noa Zuk (Israel).

Experience an evening of physically charged and refreshingly original dance, performed by dance artists on the cusp of their professional careers. See where dance is right now, and where it may go next.

Image Credit: Nicole Guarino

The company comprises thirteen exceptional dancers, trained at some of the world’s leading conservatories.

This year, as well as dancers from the UK, VERVE includes dancers from Chile, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, and Uruguay; creating a truly international dance company.

VERVE is the postgraduate company of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) and is led by Artistic Director Matthew Robinson.

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Quarantine: Wallflower

Dance Theatre

Can you remember every dance you’ve ever danced?

8pm Thursday 28 February Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22)

The people on stage in Wallflower are trying to remember every dance they’ve ever danced. Some of them are professional dancers, some are not. Some might tell you that they can’t dance at all.

Duration: 90mins 14yrs+

There are memories of dancing alone all night at a party; of whirling across the stage at the Paris Opera Ballet; of silently, slowly revolving with a new lover on a canal boat at night; of a repeated tic - a bodily habit that feels like dancing; of walking alongside their mother; of racing with a dog across a beach; of dizzily spinning children; of weeping and dancing; of hitting the mark for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker...

Every dance is added to an ever-expanding archive, a vast record of hundreds of memories exhibited alongside the performance that begins with dances from early rehearsals and always ends with the last dance...

Quarantine are internationally acclaimed for creating theatre out of everyday life.

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Image Credit: GIFT 2018 - Richard Kenworthy

“lo-fi, freewheeling and rather brilliant” London Evening Standard

Van Huynh Company: Đẹp

Dance

Winner of the Asian Arts Award for Best Directing 2018

8pm Wednesday 06 March Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22)

Đẹp is the Vietnamese word for beautiful. With his latest work, choreographer Dam Van Huynh explores influences from his Southeast Asian heritage. In Vietnamese culture, death is also a form of rebirth. When a person dies, the family and community enact rituals that will enable the deceased to pass into another realm, a higher state of being. The dancers in Đẹp are nude for a purpose. Fragile, vulnerable and free from distraction, their movement begins at the point where the mind transcends the physical self, amplified by Martyna Poznanska’s numinous score.

Duration: 55mins 12yrs+ Choreographer: Dam Van Huynh Advisory: The performance contains full frontal nudity and strobe effects.

Join the company for a workshop! See our website for details or email producers@lancasterarts.org

Originally from Southern Vietnam, Dam Van Huynh and his family fled after the war and settled in the USA where Dam was raised - graduating from the Boston Conservatory of Music and Dance. He has worked with various companies and choreographers including Merce Cunningham, The Nevada Ballet, Portugal’s CeDeCe, Richard Alston and Phoenix Dance Theatre.

Image Credit: Pari Naderi

The Observer

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LICA Theatre Showcase

Theatre Showcase 6pm 20 March Nuffield Theatre Price: B (see pg 22)

Come and watch the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) final year Theatre shows. These shows stand at the pinnacle of the Theatre degree and have in previous years often served to launch the careers of new and emerging theatre companies.

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Image Credit: Darren Andrews

The original pieces have been devised over ten weeks with students drawing on the skills and knowledge of contemporary theatre and performance studied throughout their degree. As in previous years, this year’s productions promise to show an astonishing variety of genres, visual aesthetics and performance modes.

Imitating the Dog: Heart of Darkness Theatre 7.30pm 19-23 March & 2pm 20 & 23 March The Dukes, Lancaster £17.50-£15.50

In conjunction with The Dukes we’re delighted to present the latest production from digital theatre makers, imitating the dog as they turn their attention to Joseph Conrad’s extraordinarily influential novel, Heart of Darkness.

Written more than 100 years ago, it’s a tale of lies and brutal greed and of the dark heart which beats within us all. Now re-sited to a timeless Europe, in a world which echoes Apocalypse Now, what emerges is a tale absolutely for our time.

Tickets: 01524 598500 Duration:105mins 14yrs+

Image Credit: Ed Waring

Discover the company’s unique approach to theatre making. See our website for details on their talks and further activities. Or email producers@lancasterarts.org

This bold new re-telling of Conrad’s classic is a visually rich, multi-layered work which fuses live performance with digital technology. The performers enter the stage, into uncharted territory. They are adrift with a story that they know they must tell. As they wait for the turn of the tide, the story unfolds like an animated Cinemascope graphic novel on the hanging projections screens above their heads.

The heart of darkness must be found. The story is impossible to tell, but it must be told.

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Kieran Hodgson: ‘75

Comedy 8pm Friday 08 March Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22) Duration: 60mins 14yrs+

Following his third comedy award nomination for Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, we’re delighted to welcome Kieran back to Lancaster.

Passion. Betrayal. Harold Wilson. Character comedian Kieran Hodgson returns to Lancaster Arts with the epic and surprising tale of how Britain joined the European Union in the first place.

On a deeply personal quest for understanding, Kieran perfects a series of obsolete impressions and discovers that the 70s were about more than just TISWAS, the colour brown and the words ‘Let’s go on strike again’.

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Image Credit: Matt Stronge

The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times.

Roger McGough & Little Machine: joinedupwriting Poetry & Music

‘The patron saint of poetry’ Carol Ann Duffy

7pm Saturday 30 March Great Hall £18.50-£16.50

An evening of poetry and music in partnership with Lancaster Litfest to celebrate their 40th Anniversary.

Duration: 120mins Book signing after the event

Roger McGough, one of Britain’s best-loved poets, is the author of over seventy books of poetry and editor of numerous anthologies. Exuberant new collection joinedupwriting ranges from forgotten friendships and the idiosyncrasies of family life to the trauma of war and contemporary global politics. These poems explore the human experience in all its shades of light and dark but always with McGough’s signature wit, irreverence and vivacity.

Image Credit: Nick Wright

McGough’s show with LiTTLe MACHiNe features a fine selection of vintage, classic & surprising poems set to music. It’s a gala gig that’s making waves.

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Lancaster Arts: where ideas, creativity and people connect.

Alongside Quarantine’s tour of Wallflower, the company are inviting local people (groups and individuals) to share the dances they remember. Content inspired by these exchanges will be exhibited at Lancaster Arts alongside the performance and uploaded at www.wallflowerdances. com to create an online map of remembered dances across the UK. We are supporting the company Can’t Sit Still (who presented the wonderful Plink & Boo in our autumn season) to develop their new project for mothers and babies, Invisible Thread. This research and development will explore maternal mental health, and the resulting performance work aims to positively impact on mothers’ wellbeing. The company will embed themselves in Lancaster in February 2019, working with a range of community groups, healthcare professionals and academics.

With our popular Messy | Noisy | Wriggly workshop series having its fifth birthday this year, we’re taking the opportunity to reflect on our approach to commissioning and presenting work for intergenerational audiences. We’re working with artists and researchers who specialise in this area to understand more deeply what empowers, challenges, and catches the imagination of young children and their grown-ups. For more information or to get involved, email harriet@lancasterarts.org As part of our membership of Live Art UK, we are proud that Lancaster Arts is a delivery partner on the national Ambition for 01524 594151 boxoffice@lancasterarts.org

Excellence project, Diverse Actions. This three-year initiative champions culturally diverse ambition, excellence and talent in Live Art. Through Diverse Actions, we are supporting artist Fabiola Santana to develop her new piece A Home for Grief which is part of her body of work called Houses of Decay.

Fabiola will work with local women exploring their narratives of loss, grief, death, identity, migration, and what home means to them. The final work will be presented in the city of Lancaster in May 2019.

If you are interested in any of the above projects, or would like to take part in the workshops we are offering alongside our programme, see our website for updates or contact producers@lancasterarts.org Alice Booth & Harriet Hill-Payne

Image Credit: Dimitri Djuric

To complement our programme, we are excited to share with you a range of arts activity and creative research in our spaces, in the city, across the region and beyond.

Tuesday Talks

1pm, Tuesdays Jack Hylton Room (Great Hall Complex) Price: Free, no need to pre-book Join artists, thinkers and curators to explore an aspect of their practice in a lunch-hour.

Chris Drury – 05 February Chris Drury is an environmental artist who makes nature-based sculpture, installation and digital art in response to place - making work on every continent on Earth. Drury has been commissioned by Morecambe Bay Partnership to create a permanent sculpture for Morecambe Bay as part of the Headlands to Headspace Landscape Arts Commissions and will install Horizon Line Chamber at Sunderland Point in 2019.

Yu-Chen Wang – 12 March While her central practice is drawing, Yu-Chen Wang works across narrative, installation, performance, music, and film.

Wang’s practice asks fundamental questions about biological and mechanical forms and human identity, at a point in history where eco-systems and techno-systems have become inextricably intertwined.

Louise Giovanelli & Vivian Greven – 26 March Both Louise Giovanelli and Vivian Greven are interested in the act of looking.

Giovanelli takes painting itself as her primary subject, re-presenting fragments from historical and contemporary paintings in her own work. Greven also takes inspiration from classical art, reworking Greco-Roman bodies and faces in a contemporary style.

Louise Giovanelli, Ambia, 2018, oil on canvas, 118 x 82 cm

Presented in collaboration with the Morecambe Bay Partnership Katrina Palmer – 26 February Katrina Palmer explores the sculptural potential of text and amplified sound. Using narrative, she evokes interactions between an audience and objects not materially present, challenging what contemporary sculpture can be.

Imogen Stidworthy – 05 March Imogen Stidworthy is interested in language, listening and the voice. Working with ‘the voice’ as a physical and spatial material, Stidworthy asks how we experience the world when words become unstable – and which other forms of understanding and communication might then emerge.

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Ticket information

Price A: Theatre

Web Advance Adults: £13.50 Under 26s & Students: £9.50 Standard Adults: £15 U26s & Students: £11 Supporters £11 (Limited free tickets for U26s)

Price B: Theatre

Web Advance Adults: £8 Under 26s & Students: £5 Standard Adults: £9 Under 26s & Students: £6

Price D: Concert Tickets

Supporters £5 (Free tickets for U26s & LICA Students) Web Advance Adults: £19.50 Under 26s & Students: £9.50 Standard Adults: £21 Under 26s & Students: £11 Supporters Adults: £15 Under 26s: FREE Youth Pass Parents and their children (U16) can get 50% off concert prices. Call for details.

Concert Programmes £3 / Concert Friends £2 / Supporters £1

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Purchasing your tickets You will always get the cheapest tickets online at lancasterarts.org – Supporters receive the same supporter price through all booking methods.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 01524 594151 between 12noon and 5pm, Monday to Friday (from Monday 14 January).

Our Box Office (at the Lancaster Arts Café|Bar) is staffed weekdays between 12noon – 5pm and from 90mins before the start of the performance.

Buy our tickets in the city centre You can purchase your tickets to our events in person, or via telephone, at either the Lancaster Visitor Information Centre (VIC) situated within The Storey or at the Morecambe VIC at The Platform.

Web advance Discounts are available for online bookings made up to 24 hours before the performance start time. After this time, our standard ticket rates apply.

Concessions A 10% discount applies (on Box Office and Web Advance rates only) to seniors (over 60s), the unemployed, disabled people and their essential companions. We have separate rates for students (full time education) and under 26s.

Where appropriate, ID may be required on collection of tickets. Web Advance concession tickets must be collected in person.

Free tickets for U26s & students Where possible and for the majority of our events (excluding hires, student performances) we offer a limited number of free tickets to our Under 26 / Student Supporters. To become a Supporter please call the Box Office or visit lancasterarts.org/students

How to find us

Refunds/exchanges Unfortunately, we can’t refund your ticket(s) unless a performance has been cancelled.

However, we can exchange your ticket if you contact us more than 24 hours in advance.

Seats can not be reserved without payment.

Late admission All our published times refer to the start of the performance. The admittance of late comers is decided by the visiting artists/company.

Please ensure you arrive in plenty of time.

Image Credit: Charlie Fox, Haven, 2018

Accessibility We welcome D/deaf and (dis)abled patrons.

Please inform us if you have any access requirements at the time of your booking.

During your visit do not hesitate to approach any staff member for assistance. A hearing loop system is available and guide or assistance dogs are welcome. Contact 01524 594151 or boxoffice@lancasterarts.org for more information.

Driving? Use the LA1 4YW postcode with your Sat Nav. Exit the M6 motorway at junction 33 and take the A6 north towards Lancaster. Turn right at the third set of traffic lights on the A6 onto the University main drive. Take the first exit left from the roundabout, at the top of the hill, and park in Visitor Zone A. Visitor Parking is free in any zone on campus after 6pm and all day during the weekends.

The nearest visitor parking zone is ‘A’. For weekday parking use the pay and display machines or purchase a parking scratchcard at the Reception lodge.

Buses run every 5 – 20 minutes from the city centre to campus. For timetables contact Stagecoach or call ‘Traveline’ on 0871 200 22 33.

Once on campus follow signs to the Great Hall Complex (GHC)

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Spring 2019 Diary Our cheapest tickets are online at lancasterarts.org boxoffice@lancasterarts.org 01524 594151 (Weekdays 12 – 5pm)

Peter Scott Gallery is open weekdays 12pm - 5pm during exhibitions. For enquiries and access outside these times please email gallery@lancasterarts.org

Concerts & Music

Film & Visual Arts

7.30pm, 07 February Great Hall

BBC Philharmonic (including season launch)

From Horror to Hope

7.30pm 14 February Great Hall

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita SOAR

12pm - 5pm Weekdays 10 - 17 January Peter Scott Gallery 12pm - 5pm Weekdays 08 February - 22 March Peter Scott Gallery

7.30pm 09 March Great Hall

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

6pm 12 February Peter Scott Gallery

Queens of Syria

7.30pm 14 March Great Hall

Endellion String Quartet

6pm 27 February Peter Scott Gallery

Romany Rai

7.30pm 28 March Great Hall

Eric Lu

6pm 13 March Peter Scott Gallery

A 100 Mile Conversation

7.00pm 30 March Great Hall

Roger McGough and Little Machine

Family

Move

Theatre, Dance & Comedy 8pm 19 February Nuffield Theatre

Forced Entertainment: To Move in Time

10am & 11.15am 12 January The Playroom

Messy Studio with David Hulston

8pm 25 February Nuffield Theatre

Verve: Mixed Bill

10am & 11.15am 02 February The Playroom

Wriggly Studio with Fabiola Santana and Jenny Reeves

8pm 28 February Nuffield Theatre

Quarantine: Wallflower

7pm 08 February 11am & 3pm, 09 February Nuffield Theatre 11am, 23 February The Playroom

Lost in Translation Circus: Hotel Paradiso

8pm 06 March Nuffield Theatre

Van Huynh Company: ĐẸP

Anna Daly: Duvet Dancing

8pm 08 March Nuffield Theatre

Kieran Hodgson: ‘75

10am & 11.15am 09 March The Playroom

Noisy Studio with Ben McCabe and Anni Tracy

7.30pm, 19 – 23 March 2pm, 20 & 23 March The Dukes, Lancaster

Imitating the Dog: Heart of Darkness

6pm 20 March Nuffield Theatre

LICA Theatre Showcase