invites you to our Autumn 2019 season Radical Histories Radical Futures
Hello everyone,
This season’s theme has arisen from many conversations with artists and academics at Lancaster University but also from across the U.K. at a time of remarkable global uncertainty and concern about our future. Increasingly, artists across all art forms are addressing this, be this through looking at climate change, the expanding gap between poverty and extreme wealth, political chaos and democratic processes. These themes and more are familiar to the work that Lancaster Arts commissions and presents. Radical Histories, Radical Futures however makes a distinct connection between our histories and our futures. How does one affect the other? How does the past reveal what we must change? We’re also exploring radical approaches to practice with artists developing new ways of creating their work, epitomised by the stunning opening show in our season, Silent Lines, in which Russell Maliphant investigates the overlap of anatomy and dance. We explore aspects of Lancaster’s Radical Histories with Common Salt by Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer, a unique and intimate investigation of colonial history and 21st century narratives of trade, race and culture, generously hosted by Lancaster’s Maritime Museum. The Witching Way by Ali Matthews and Leo Burtin revisits the legendary stories of the Lancashire Witches in the form of a DIY
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rock opera! Dance artist, Seeta Patel in Not Today’s Yesterday looks at how we airbrush history to the detriment of diverse voices and stories being heard. And we are thrilled to host English Touring Opera’s production of Kurt Weill’s masterpiece, The Silver Lake about those we can forget in an environment of political infighting. Even our comedy slot this season will be looking at climate change with Dr Matt Winning in his compelling show, It’s the End of the World as we Know It. And our annual collections exhibition features a new acquisition, Proposals for Lancaster Arts by Peter Liversidge in which we hope to realise some of his proposals, such as planting an orchard, so have a look! This season is playful and exciting as well as thought provoking. These are challenging times and we hope you can join us in many of the opportunities for conversations on this theme - much more will be announced on our brand new website, so keep an eye out. Please join us for our Season Launch on 11 October and find out more. See you soon! Jocelyn
Lancaster Arts Team Alice Booth, Creative Producer Jocelyn Cunningham, Director Peter Davies, Creative Administrator Philip Dunn, Front of House Coordinator Roisin Nidhuill, Concerts Programmer Richard Smith, Curator Jamie Wooldridge, Marketing Manager
Front Page Photograph Seeta Patel: Not Today’s Yesterday. Image Credit: Jonathan Clover
Welcome to ‘Radical Histories, Radical Futures,’ our theme for Lancaster Arts’ autumn and spring seasons.
Go deeper!
As with every season, there are many ways to take part in our artistic programme. We are very excited to have Russell Maliphant’s company launch our season with his new work, Silent Lines. On 10 October, Russell will offer his insights on anatomy and dance and be joined by our Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement, Professor Dame Sue Black. We’re thrilled to be commissioning artists Adam York Gregory and Gillian Lees to create Taking the Time; asking residents for a time of day that is specially important to them. All these times will lead to a sonic landscape of the people of Lancaster’s relationship with time, hosted in the city.
Mim Suleiman at Afrika Eye North. Image Credit: Brian Slater.
Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti will be returning to Lancaster after their recent Heart Safari to embark on a project called Future Feast working with food producers, brewers, artisans, researchers, community gardeners and The Tasting Garden at The Storey.
Relationships with artists, our partners and communities are at the heart of what we do. We are working with partners old and new this season… For the second time we are part of the network, Big Imaginations Festival of Theatre for children and families with a very special digital programme. With the support of Lancaster City Museums, we explore the colonial history of England and India in Common Salt at The Maritime Museum. For the first time, we are working with Lancaster Jazz festival to present NORTHERN, by locally based cellist, Maja Bugge. And together with More Music, we will be presenting a concert every season in the Nuffield Theatre with new and upcoming musicians and co-creating Magic Islands in Space for Light Up Lancaster in November. If you are interested in any of these projects or the many workshops within our programme, please check our website and social media for updates or contact producers@lancasterarts.org
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Maja Bugge: NORTHERN
2pm Saturday 14 September The Round (The Dukes) Price: C (see pg 22) Duration: 60mins Recommended for 8yrs+ In partnership with The Lancaster Jazz Festival Maja Bugge cello and loops Hervé Perez sound design Adam York Gregory film
NORTHERN is a new jazz project led by the internationally acclaimed composer and cellist Maja Bugge in collaboration with Adam York Gregory and Hervé Perez. The project was supported by our Nuffield Residency in 2018 and we are delighted to be a part of the Lancaster Jazz Festival for the first time. Over the past 12 months the artists have been resident in Lancaster, Manchester and Barrow recording and filming the sounds and sights of these places. Expect to tap your feet to the rhythm of Atkinsons coffee roaster, or rediscover the hiss of the M6 accompanied by improvised harmonies on the cello. Audiences of all ages will delight in the playful and surprising sounds and images from the places we know and love.
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Image Credit: Jill Jenning
Live Music
Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress
Charlotte
Live Music
Live Music
8pm Friday 08 November Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22)
8pm Friday 29 November Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22)
Duration: 80mins Recommended for 12yrs+
In Partnership with More Music
In Partnership with More Music
Hull–born soul singer and songwriter Charlotte is currently making waves. This hugely talented 21-year-old’s debut EP Nowhere To Hide saw her work with world renowned producers Toby Gad, and The Orphanage (Kehlani, Alessia Cara and Demi Lovato).
Dispatches on the Red Dress is an intimate and courageous new live show by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning songwriter, Rowan Rheingans. Adventurous new writing meets the warmth of a folk gig in this heartfelt and personal one woman show, uniquely weaving immersive storytelling with live fiddle, banjo and genre-melding original songs. Unravelling the joy and pain from a story of her grandmother’s youth in 1940’s Germany, Rowan celebrates small acts of resistance and boldly asks a troubling question for our times: can hope for our future be found in the very darkest pockets of our history?
Mesmerising songs such as Nervous, Somebody To Hold, I Tell Lies and Just Me showcase a truly unique talent that is already being tipped as one of the most exciting new artists of the year. “Exuding sassy self-determination, Charlotte’s timeless pop is infused with a sumptuous, soulful vocal gift rooted in the tradition of soul’s greatest talents” Divine Magazine
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Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra Classical Concert 7.30pm Thursday 17 October Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22) HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 STRAVINSKY Petrushka
We are truly delighted to mark the 50th anniversary of Chethams School of Music at Lancaster Arts. Chetham’s is the country’s largest specialist musical school, educating many of the country’s finest young musicians from its home in central Manchester. Alumnus Paul Mann – former Assistant Conductor of the LSO, and noted for his musicality, versatility and breadth of repertoire – conducts the School’s flagship orchestra in Petrushka, Stravinsky’s ballet burlesque, animating the lives and loves of a puppet trio and the revelry of Mardi Gras. Preceding the symphony will be Tchaikovsky’s only violin concerto, its lyrical, folk inspired solo part performed by 15 year old Yixuan Ren, a winner of Chetham’s 2019 Concerto Auditions; and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses, begun as an arrangement for ballet and developed into a more complex and contrasting symphonic work.
Paul Mann − conductor Yixuan Ren − violin
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Image Credit: Set Design for the original ballet Petrushka by Alexandre Benois (1910)
“This is ‘just a school orchestra’? Close your eyes and you’d never believe it!”
English Touring Opera: The Silver Lake – A Winter’s Tale Classical Concert 7.30pm Thursday 07 November Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22) The Silver Lake A Winter’s Tale (Der Silbersee) by Kurt Weill Sung in German with narration in English. With English surtitles
Image Credit: Richard Hubert Smith
James Holmes − conductor James Conway − director (ETO General Director)
We are very excited to welcome back English Touring Opera to perform The Silver Lake – A Winter’s Tale (Der Silbersee). Kurt Weill’s collaboration with the playwright Georg Kaiser was closed down by the Nazi authorities in 1933 and was not performed for many years. For many, it is his masterpiece. This is a piece about those who are left behind - a poor man driven to steal a pineapple, a poor relation who is passed from house to house, a policeman with principles, and the starving people who at the very beginning of the show are busy burying Hunger itself. The Silver Lake – A Winter’s Tale (Der Silbersee) promises to be a compelling, poetic night in the theatre, graced with astonishing music.
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Northern Chords Ensemble: Piano Trio Classical Concert 7.30pm Thursday 28 November Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio no 1 in E flat major, Op 1 no 1 POULENC Sonata for violin and piano, Op 119
This compelling trio of international musicians was formed through collaboration at the acclaimed Northern Chords Festival, founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Jonathan Bloxam. It brings together some of the most exciting young musicians from across Europe performing some of the best loved works from the chamber repertoire. The musicians have all been recipients of many prestigious awards and perform regularly as soloists and chamber musicians worldwide, from the Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre to the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Kennedy Centre in Washington.
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio no 2 in C minor, Op 66 Benjamin Baker − violin Jonathan Bloxham − cello Daniel Lebhardt – piano
“The fine violinist Benjamin Baker…brought virtuosity, refinement and youthful exuberance to a daunting program. Power, poetry and formidable technique”
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Image Credit: Kaupo Kikkas
The New York Times
David Greilsammer: Labyrinth Classical Concert 7.30pm Thursday 05 December Great Hall Price: D (see pg 22)
Each one of us has been, at some point in life, lost, disoriented, or in search of a safe and luminous path. This feeling of disorientation, leading at times to inner chaos, can also serve as the force that will push us to begin the pursuit of new routes, new ideas, and new emotions. Walking through the daunting sounds of Janacek’s music, and exploring the mysterious alleys of various enigmatic pieces from early baroque to our present days, this is a musical journey to the heart of a beautiful, strange, and dazzling labyrinth. Janacek’s extraordinary and imaginative music alternates with a variety of mysterious pieces during this recital, arranged like a palindrome, revolving around Janacek’s work “On an Overgrown Path”. The alternating pieces range from the music of CPE Bach to Ofer Pelz’s piece “Repetition Blindness” which was commissioned especially for Labyrinth, creating an exquisite musical experience to heighten the senses.
Image Credit: Julien Mignot (Sony Classical)
“David Greilsammer’s Labyrinth was an astounding success, and I certainly treasure my experience at his performance” Piano NYC
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Proposals
Exhibition
Works from the Peter Scott Gallery Collection
12−5pm Weekdays 12 October−06 December Peter Scott Gallery Price: Free
In a season that considers our challenges, moments of change and radical gestures of different types, we present a selection of works from the gallery collection that connect to ideas of change or new ways of perceiving the world. The exhibition includes Proposals for Lancaster Arts by Peter Liversidge. Although his work exists in almost every conceivable medium, his artworks, interventions and performances all begin in the same way: as a proposal, typed on an Olivetti Lettera 35. In response to each new project, a group of proposals is written which consider the location, its history and the relationship with the surrounding community. Proposals for Lancaster Arts considers the home of the collection and Lancaster. We will work with the artist, The Ruskin and the Lancaster community to realise selected proposals during our season. This could involve planting an orchard, everyone learning the same melody or installing one hundred flagpoles. The exhibition also features work by Josef Albers, Wilhelmina Barns−Graham, Lucio Fontana, Barbara Hepworth, Andy Goldsworthy and Joan Miró.
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Image Credit: Peter Liversidge, Proposals for Lancaster Arts, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry. Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 2018/19
Supported By:
Hannah Catherine Jones: Owed to Black Roses Visual Arts Time, Date & Venue TBA 45mins (approx.) Live performance
Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) will present a new work Owed to Black Roses, the title of which plays on the historical concept of the War of the Roses and Barrington Levy’s 1983 song Black Roses: I’ve been travelin’ all over this world, I’ve never seen no other black rose in no other garden, So you see my garden is so special, Black, black roses in my garden. Owed to Black Roses explores the journeys and experiences of the African diaspora here in the north of England. Audio visual artist, Hannah Catherine Jones is composing a new work that comes out of conversations with those she encounters during the development phase of her work. “I am searching for pathways to Northern diasporic groups, of the past, in the present, and in the hope that it will help other others consolidate their links, both in the present and the future. Owed to Black Roses seeks to amplify the joy in moments of togetherness in diasporic connectivity.”
Image Credit: Hannah Catherine Jones, Owed to Black Roses (still of video work−in−progress), 2019
If this search resonates with you, please feel free to make contact at: hannnjo@gmail.com.
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BonteHond: iPet
Compagnia T.P.O.: Mini
Family
Family
Big Imaginations Festival
Big Imaginations Festival
11am & 2pm Wednesday 16 October Nuffield Theatre Price: C (see pg 22)
2pm & 3pm Saturday 26 October Nuffield Theatre Price: C (see pg 22)
Duration: 40mins Limited Numbers Recommended for 2.5yrs+
Duration: 30mins Limited Numbers Recommended for 2–4yrs
Look around you. Everyone is probably staring at an image on a screen, and it seems completely normal. But if you’re constantly being kept busy by a computer, how self-sufficiently can you grow up? Can you stay smart if you don’t have to think for yourself anymore? Is the iPad making the world a smaller, or a bigger place? iPet is a hilarious performance for the youngest audience, without the chit-chat but with music, magic and movement.
A mobile of geometric shapes hovers above an empty space. Two characters are born from these shapes, one round, the other pointy, one blue, the other red... Mini is a magical place of discovery where the space, shapes, sounds and colours come to life before your very eyes.
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IImage Credit (Left): Kamerich&Budwilowitz/EYES2
BonteHond makes cheeky, accessible theatre for young audiences and grownups who feel young. Based in Almere, the company plays in theatres, community centres, festivals, schools and on location throughout the Netherlands and Belgium.
Award winning company TPO (Italy), have toured all over the world with their special brand of visual, emotional and immersive theatre. The company creates an environment that has no barriers between the audience and the performers. Using interactive technology, every show is a playful reaction to the audience (children and their grown-ups) where the borders between art and play can be enjoyed.
Filskit: Kaleidoscope
Kabantu: Sea Hear, See Here
Family
Family
Big Imaginations Festival
11am & 2pm Saturday 23 November Nuffield Theatre Price: C (see pg 22)
11am & 1pm Tuesday 29 October Nuffield Theatre Price: C (see pg 22) Duration: 25mins + Stay and Play Limited Numbers Recommended for 6–18 months Blink. Blink again. What do you see? Day by day your world is filling up with colour, little one. Reds and blues, yellows and greens. Twinkling lights that glisten and gleam. Your reflection is staring back at you. Wide eyed and full of hope. Mirrors, lights, colours and sounds. The world is your Kaleidoscope. Inspired by research into how a baby’s sense of sight develops and how they instinctively begin to categorise colour, watch as a multi-coloured Kaleidoscope is brought to life for you and your baby.
Duration: 40mins (TBC) Recommended for 0–5 yrs A multi-award winning ensemble playing music with a global twist to celebrate the space where cultures meet; Kabantu take to the seven seas to present Sea Hear, See Here – an immersive show for early years that explores the sensory elements of the ocean. Featuring original, beautifully written music, Sea Hear, See Here navigates the voyage of a pirate ship whilst making friends along the way. Feel the spray of the waves against your skin and immerse yourself in the world of jellyfish raves, shoals of fish, crusty crabs and greedy seals. Dress up as a creature from the ocean or a pirate and bring any props that will help us on our epic journey around the world.
Image Credit (Left): Kirsten McTernan Image Credit (Right): Alex Moldovan
Commissioned and developed at Lancaster Arts.
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Russell Maliphant Dance Company: Silent Lines Dance 8pm Friday 11 & Saturday 12 October Nuffield Theatre Price: £18–£12.50 Duration: 60mins Recommended for 7yrs+
It’s a great privilege to welcome Russell Maliphant Dance Company back to the Nuffield stage. They last performed with us in 1999 with the premiere of Liquid Reflex. Since then Maliphant has received two Olivier awards, three South Bank Show awards and three Critics’ Circle National Dance awards. Silent Lines draws upon Maliphant’s research and explorations in dance and anatomy using a unique mix of movement, animated video projection, and lighting. Using methodologies from a variety of movement disciplines and setting these within a world of animated light, Silent Lines explores the endless web of connections we encompass and embody.
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Image Credit: Martin Collins
“Britain’s Leading Modern Dance Creator” Daily Express
Amy Vreeke: The Year My Vagina Tried To Kill Me Theatre 8pm Friday 18 October Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22)
Image Credit: Andy Hollingworth
Duration: 60mins Recommended for 16yrs+ Contains strong language & sexual references
This brand new show, originally developed at Lancaster Arts as part of our 'Foot in the Door' programme last year, takes a frank and funny look at a life-altering disease that affects one in ten women in the UK. Stand-up comedian and theatre maker Amy Vreeke creates multi-genre, autobiographical work that explores social taboos with candour and comedy. Amy was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2016. Now she’s here to relive twelve years of misdiagnosis, toilet-based mishaps and failed one-night stands. Endometriosis causes the uterus lining to grow in other parts of the body, creating a wide range of painful symptoms that can affect a woman’s everyday life. Through bluntly delivered jokes, captivating storytelling and a little help from the Gilmore Girls, Amy explores the taboos that surround women’s health and gives us an insight into a life with a chronic illness.
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Seeta Patel & Lina Limosani: Not Today’s Yesterday Dance 8pm Thursday 07 November Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22) Duration: 55mins
Following the stunningly beautiful Sigma last year we’re delighted to welcome back choreographer and dancer Seeta Patel with her solo show. ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’. − George Orwell Not Today’s Yesterday is an International collaboration between UK award-winning artist Seeta Patel and Australian choreographer Lina Limosani. This work blends techniques from Bharatanatyam, contemporary dance & theatre to create a poetic narrative that has the beauty & disquiet of a Grimm’s fairy-tale. It is a one-woman show which subversively co-opts whitewashing against itself. Not Today’s Yesterday offers audiences a chance to engage in one of the most important geo−political conversations of this decade.
“An exceptional piece of political theatre that speaks volumes without a word being said on the stage”
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Image Credit: Jonathan Clover
Afronalysis
Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World As We Know It Comedy 8pm Wednesday 13 November Nuffield Theatre Price A (see pg 22) Duration: 60mins Recommended for 12yrs+
Join us for a storytelling lecture about how we cope with climate change with Dr Matt Winning, a comedian and environmental economist who regularly appears on TV channel Dave’s Unspun with Matt Forde. Matt has a PhD in climate change policy and combined his two worlds of comedy and environmental economics in an attempt to help save the planet. A finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards, Matt is one of the most exciting, unique and imaginative new character comedians in the UK.
“Dr Matt Winning delivers the funniest lecture you’ll ever receive, and it’ll make you want to save the planet” Sunday Post
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Ali Matthews & Leo Burtin: The Witching Way
8pm Friday 15 November Nuffield Theatre Price: A (see pg 22) Duration: 70mins Recommended for 14yrs+ Includes loud music/noise
Two years ago Ali Matthews & Leo Burtin walked the 65 miles from Pendle Hill to Lancaster Castle, retracing the footsteps of the so-called Lancashire Witches who were hanged for seeming a little out of the ordinary. Reflecting on this pilgrimage led them to create the story of The Witching Way. After trying to be somebody she’s not amidst the perils of peer pressure, W (our teen witch protagonist) is transported to a cottage in a strange landscape. In order to find her way home she must embark on a quest to reckon with her history, overcome extraordinary obstacles, and ultimately find her voice. With music genres spanning folk, blues, punk and drone rock, The Witching Way is a concept album delivered by a live band with animated visuals. Part-fable, part-coming-of-age story, part-gig, this DIY rock opera is a rallying cry for the weird and wonderful among us.
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Image Credit: Chris Payne/Royal Exchange Theatre
Theatre
Sheila Ghelani & Sue Palmer: Common Salt Theatre 3pm & 7pm Saturday 16 November The Maritime Museum Price: A (see pg 22) Duration: 70mins Recommended for 12yrs+
Common Salt is a performance around a table - a ‘show and tell’. It explores the colonial, geographical history of England and India taking an expansive and emotional time− travel, from the first Enclosure Act and the start of the East India Company in the 1600s, to 21st century narratives of trade, race and culture. Sue and Sheila activate insights into our shared past, laying out a ‘home museum’ of objects and stories; of the Great Hedge of India, of borders, and collections – all accompanied by original Shruti box laments. Common Salt is a reckoning; the interconnectedness between history and global power, artefact and trade, race and memory is hidden in plain sight.
Image Credit: Paul Samuel White
*a Shruti box is an Indian harmonium
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Join artists, thinkers and curators to explore an aspect of their practice in a lunch-hour. Visiting speakers shape the form of their talk, so you can expect anything from in-depth discussion to a live performance or screening.
Hannah Catherine Jones − 12 November Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) is an artist, multi-instrumentalist, researcher, radio presenter, composer and conductor. Jones’ audio-visual productions explore concepts of ancestry and totality, both in relation to art and to ‘blackness’, ideas of ‘cultural reparations’, and have an ongoing questioning of what we consider to be Afrofuturism. (see pg 11)
Julia Midgely − 22 October Julia Midgely is a print maker and documentary artist whose work primarily focuses on reportage projects. She attends conferences, archaeological sites and even military medical training to document the experience, often through the medium of watercolour and ink. Her work is a flurry of movement that illustrates an outsider’s perspective of a fleeting moment.
Ollie Bradley-Baker, Hannah Ferraria, Paula Kolar – 19 November Three artists from the Ruskin School of Art return to their alma mater to discuss the evolution of their practice. Their individual works revolve around themes of migration, movement and travel. This dynamic group utilizes a variety of different disciplines; including performance art, oil painting, and film making.
Peter Liversidge − 29 October Peter Liversidge’s work begins with a proposal, typed on his Olivetti typewriter. Not all proposals will be realised, some are destined to remain on paper living only in the reader’s mind. Those made real are not bound by any single artistic medium and are brought about with the community and those experiencing the work. Liversidge’s work is realised in almost every conceivable form – from choral pieces, to orchards and text works. (see pg 10)
Garth Gratrix − 26 November Garth Gratrix is a contemporary visual artist who experiments with and investigates the notion of queerness within minimal installation and sculptural works. His pieces use found objects and basic materials such as concrete and wooden rods to explore ideas of space and identity. Gratrix performs as an artist, curator, and director – and is the founding Director of Abingdon Studios in Blackpool.
1pm, Tuesdays Jack Hylton Room (Great Hall Complex) Price: Free, no need to pre−book
Sam Keogh − 5 November Sam Keogh’s work spans installation, sculpture, performance, drawing and collage. His installations often facilitate a performance which morphs sculpture into props and collage into mnemonic devices or surfaces to be read as visual scripts. His recent works have centred on the exploration of futurism and outer space. 01524 594151 boxoffice@lancasterarts.org
Garth Gratrix, Orgy (Flamboyant Flamingo, Dip In The Pool, Pursuit of Happiness, Shh..), 2018 (Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger Norway)
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Autumn 2019 Diary
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Concerts & Music
Visual Arts
2pm 14 September Dukes (The Round)
Maja Bugge: Northern
12pm–5pm Proposals 12 October–06 December Peter Scott Gallery
7.30pm 17 October Great Hall
Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra
Time, Date & Venue TBA
7.30pm 07 November Great Hall
English Touring Opera: The Silver Lake
The Peter Scott Gallery is open weekdays 12 – 5pm during term and an hour before performance events. For gallery enquiries please email gallery@lancasterarts.org or call 01524 594151
8pm 08 November Nuffield Theatre
Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress
7.30pm 28 November Great Hall
Northern Chords Ensemble: Piano Trio
6:30pm 11 October Great Hall Foyer
Season Launch
8pm 29 November Nuffield Theatre
Charlotte
8pm 11 & 12 October Nuffield Theatre
Russell Maliphant Dance Company: Silent Lines
7.30pm 05 December Great Hall
David Greilsammer: Labyrinth
8pm 18 October Nuffield Theatre
Amy Vreeke: The Year My Vagina Tried To Kill Me
8pm 07 November Nuffield Theatre
Seeta Patel & Lina Limosani: Not Today’s Yesterday
Family
Hannah Catherine Jones: Owed to Black Roses
Theatre, Dance & Comedy
11am & 2pm 16 October Nuffield Theatre
BonteHond: iPet
8pm 13 November Nuffield Theatre
Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World As We Know It
2pm & 3pm 26 October Nuffield Theatre
Compagnia T.P.O.: Mini
8pm 15 November Nuffield Theatre
Ali Matthews & Leo Burtin: The Witching Way
11am & 1pm 29 October Nuffield Theatre
Filskit: Kaleidoscope
3pm & 7pm 16 November The Maritime Museum
Sheila Ghelani & Sue Palmer: Common Salt
11am & 2pm 23 November Nuffield Theatre
Kabantu: Sea Hear, See Here