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FAmily
Our Saturday-morning workshops are specially designed to support our smallest visitors in their creative exploration and expression. Lead by artists, these hands-on sessions offer something for curious and creative minds – of all ages! – to enjoy. For families with children aged 0-5 years.
Welcome Art blows a breath of fresh air through our changing world, helping us all to connect and understand it and ourselves better. Whether that's through artists making sense of our world and role within it, work in progress by an emerging theatre maker, experiencing fresh new choreography or a classic piece of Bach, at Lancaster Arts we proudly support highly skilled artists to develop work for our audiences to enjoy and take part in. This season our gallery features work by Rebecca Chesney, an artist dealing with perceptions of climate change, land and environmental issues. This has a poignant resonance in the wake of the U.S. election where Chesney is currently undertaking a residency. In the main gallery, we present the work of Andy Holden, whose films sit at the centre of an exhibition that rewrites physics using laws found in the world of cartoons. Children under 5 can take part in art at our Messy Noisy Gallery, which features professional artist-led workshops with the musicians of the Northern Chamber Orchestra and Kabantu. There’s more for children in the Nuffield Theatre when the cheeky mischievous Beasty Baby comes to Lancaster in this magical wintry tale. There’s live art, dance, comedy and theatre showcases to enjoy in our beloved black box theatre. Highlights include the exhilarating new dance programme by Verve, Unfolding Theatre’s epic band reunion, and the hilarious physical comedy of the Police Cops. In our classical series we’re thrilled to welcome the remarkable violinist, Nicola Benedetti and her friends for a special intimate chamber music recital. We also present the captivating Japanese pianist, Noriko Ogawa and Italian virtuoso violinist, Francesca Dego, closing with a visit from the luminous Choir of Clare College Cambridge University. At Lancaster Arts we also have change in the air with our new Director, Jocelyn Cunningham who comes from an extensive theatre, film and TV background and who you will hear more from in the coming months. This spring we hope you will join us for some of these memorable performances and a warm welcome from us all awaits you at Lancaster University. Fiona Sinclair Associate Director
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Jocelyn Cunningham Director
Front cover image: Simon Fowler
Messy Noisy Gallery
NOISY GALLERY: KABANTU 10am & 11.15am, 28 January £4.50 (includes free refreshments)
Over 300 are already enjoying the benefits of being a Supporter. Join in from just £3 a month
Travel the world with Kabantu! Mini-maestros can learn to conduct, join in a game of musical tennis and fight a battle with drums!
Become a supporter and receive the following benefits:
Inspired by our woodland setting, join artist Jenny McCabe and make a colourful block print to take home, then collaborate on a large-scale collage to hang in the Gallery.
Save up to £6 on every concert ticket Save up to £4 on every theatre/dance ticket Save up to £2 on every in-house concert programme
NOISY GALLERY: WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT 10am & 11.15am, 25 March £4.50 (includes free refreshments)
Receive a FREE daily tea or coffee in our café/bar until 8pm. NEW - 50% Discount at Costa Coffee at County Bar for all supporters. Plus save an additional 10% at our café/bar. Exclusive talks, receptions with artists and visiting companies. Discounts and offers at partner arts organisations. Plus a free warm fuzzy feeling for supporting the arts in Lancaster. Don’t like booking online? Once you become a supporter you’ll receive the lowest possible adult price whether you book online or via our box office. Direct Debit Payments You can pay via Direct Debit for the year or pay just £3 a month. To receive a Direct Debit form call Philip on 01524 594151 or visit lancasterarts.org/supporters Under 26/Mature Student? Become a supporter and be eligible for free tickets to certain events throughout our 2016/17 season.
MESSY GALLERY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER 10am & 11.15am, 25 February £4.50 (includes free refreshments)
Theatre-Rites: Beasty Baby 2pm, 29 January & 10.30am, 30 January Nuffield Theatre. Price C - p14. Deep in the forest, in a wintry land, lives a gorgeously grizzly Beasty Baby. Mayhem and laughter await around every corner as three people embark on a wild adventure to bring up this very mischievous and totally loveable child. Using an inspired mix of puppetry and live music, Theatre-Rites creates a funny and magical shared experience for the whole family, to warm up those cold winter days. ‘This production is a bundle of joy’ The Stage ★★★★★ 50mins. 3-6yrs & families
We’re going on a Bear Hunt with the musicians of the Northern Chamber Orchestra as they bring this classic favourite to musical life.
MESSY GALLERY: EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY 10am & 11.15am, 29 April £4.50 (includes free refreshments) Discover how to create extraordinary effects from everyday objects as we turn household products into an artists’ toolkit! Part of the feminist arts festival Hear Me Roar. P.S. Adults don’t forget to book your tickets for The Vacuum Cleaner Project presented at Lancaster Arts on the 29 April! We have recently signed up to the Family Arts Standards. We strive to welcome families with helpful staff, good facilities and considered pricing. For more information, see: www.familyartsfestival.com/family-arts-standards 3
Box office: 01524 594151 www.lancasterarts.org
FAmily
Our Saturday-morning workshops are specially designed to support our smallest visitors in their creative exploration and expression. Lead by artists, these hands-on sessions offer something for curious and creative minds – of all ages! – to enjoy. For families with children aged 0-5 years.
Welcome Art blows a breath of fresh air through our changing world, helping us all to connect and understand it and ourselves better. Whether that's through artists making sense of our world and role within it, work in progress by an emerging theatre maker, experiencing fresh new choreography or a classic piece of Bach, at Lancaster Arts we proudly support highly skilled artists to develop work for our audiences to enjoy and take part in. This season our gallery features work by Rebecca Chesney, an artist dealing with perceptions of climate change, land and environmental issues. This has a poignant resonance in the wake of the U.S. election where Chesney is currently undertaking a residency. In the main gallery, we present the work of Andy Holden, whose films sit at the centre of an exhibition that rewrites physics using laws found in the world of cartoons. Children under 5 can take part in art at our Messy Noisy Gallery, which features professional artist-led workshops with the musicians of the Northern Chamber Orchestra and Kabantu. There’s more for children in the Nuffield Theatre when the cheeky mischievous Beasty Baby comes to Lancaster in this magical wintry tale. There’s live art, dance, comedy and theatre showcases to enjoy in our beloved black box theatre. Highlights include the exhilarating new dance programme by Verve, Unfolding Theatre’s epic band reunion, and the hilarious physical comedy of the Police Cops. In our classical series we’re thrilled to welcome the remarkable violinist, Nicola Benedetti and her friends for a special intimate chamber music recital. We also present the captivating Japanese pianist, Noriko Ogawa and Italian virtuoso violinist, Francesca Dego, closing with a visit from the luminous Choir of Clare College Cambridge University. At Lancaster Arts we also have change in the air with our new Director, Jocelyn Cunningham who comes from an extensive theatre, film and TV background and who you will hear more from in the coming months. This spring we hope you will join us for some of these memorable performances and a warm welcome from us all awaits you at Lancaster University. Fiona Sinclair Associate Director
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Jocelyn Cunningham Director
Front cover image: Simon Fowler
Messy Noisy Gallery
NOISY GALLERY: KABANTU 10am & 11.15am, 28 January £4.50 (includes free refreshments)
Over 300 are already enjoying the benefits of being a Supporter. Join in from just £3 a month
Travel the world with Kabantu! Mini-maestros can learn to conduct, join in a game of musical tennis and fight a battle with drums!
Become a supporter and receive the following benefits:
Inspired by our woodland setting, join artist Jenny McCabe and make a colourful block print to take home, then collaborate on a large-scale collage to hang in the Gallery.
Save up to £6 on every concert ticket Save up to £4 on every theatre/dance ticket Save up to £2 on every in-house concert programme
NOISY GALLERY: WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT 10am & 11.15am, 25 March £4.50 (includes free refreshments)
Receive a FREE daily tea or coffee in our café/bar until 8pm. NEW - 50% Discount at Costa Coffee at County Bar for all supporters. Plus save an additional 10% at our café/bar. Exclusive talks, receptions with artists and visiting companies. Discounts and offers at partner arts organisations. Plus a free warm fuzzy feeling for supporting the arts in Lancaster. Don’t like booking online? Once you become a supporter you’ll receive the lowest possible adult price whether you book online or via our box office. Direct Debit Payments You can pay via Direct Debit for the year or pay just £3 a month. To receive a Direct Debit form call Philip on 01524 594151 or visit lancasterarts.org/supporters Under 26/Mature Student? Become a supporter and be eligible for free tickets to certain events throughout our 2016/17 season.
MESSY GALLERY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER 10am & 11.15am, 25 February £4.50 (includes free refreshments)
Theatre-Rites: Beasty Baby 2pm, 29 January & 10.30am, 30 January Nuffield Theatre. Price C - p14. Deep in the forest, in a wintry land, lives a gorgeously grizzly Beasty Baby. Mayhem and laughter await around every corner as three people embark on a wild adventure to bring up this very mischievous and totally loveable child. Using an inspired mix of puppetry and live music, Theatre-Rites creates a funny and magical shared experience for the whole family, to warm up those cold winter days. ‘This production is a bundle of joy’ The Stage ★★★★★ 50mins. 3-6yrs & families
We’re going on a Bear Hunt with the musicians of the Northern Chamber Orchestra as they bring this classic favourite to musical life.
MESSY GALLERY: EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY 10am & 11.15am, 29 April £4.50 (includes free refreshments) Discover how to create extraordinary effects from everyday objects as we turn household products into an artists’ toolkit! Part of the feminist arts festival Hear Me Roar. P.S. Adults don’t forget to book your tickets for The Vacuum Cleaner Project presented at Lancaster Arts on the 29 April! We have recently signed up to the Family Arts Standards. We strive to welcome families with helpful staff, good facilities and considered pricing. For more information, see: www.familyartsfestival.com/family-arts-standards 3
Box office: 01524 594151 www.lancasterarts.org
visuAl Art
CREDIT: Andy Holden, Prelude, 2016 (still|detail)
CREDIT: Rebecca Chesney, 66 Million, 2016 (still|detail)
visuAl Art
Rebecca Chesney: 66 Million 26 January – 17 March Peter Scott Gallery Join the artist at the opening event 6–7.30pm, 25 January Shot in October 2016, one month before the presidential election, 66 Million presents California as it enters its sixth year of drought. Sites in Yosemite National Park and the agricultural Central Valley show the differing impact of the drought on natural and man-made environments - in a time of scarcity, 66 Million questions our priorities.
Andy Holden: As Speed Increases Objects Can Be In Several Places At Once When Chesney returns to Saratoga in Spring 2017, America will be two months into President Donald Trump’s term in office. The President-elect stated during his campaign that he would withdraw America from the Paris Agreement and cut federal climate spending, though in the period since the election this stance has changed. California’s drought and the devastating impact it continues to have is now set against a backdrop of accelerating political uncertainty. Chesney is keen to see what has changed when she returns. 66 Million introduces the new work and research being developed through Chesney’s three-month residency at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, USA).
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26 January – 17 March Peter Scott Gallery Join the artist at the opening event 6–7.30pm, 25 January The result of five years' work, Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape presents a fully realised animated theory proposing the world is now best understood as a cartoon.
Part-lecture, part-documentary, part-conspiracy theory, the film examines the formation of ‘laws’ within cartoons as a way of making sense of the world we live in. The artist’s avatar invites the viewer to experience a world where laws such as ‘Everything falls faster than an anvil’ are given the same critical attention as philosophy, physics and politics. Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape is an hour long exploration of the world after the end of history: an irrational space where anything can happen, yet certain things reoccur. The film will be installed alongside a wider body of work connecting to this long-term project, including new films, prints and drawings.
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visuAl Art
CREDIT: Andy Holden, Prelude, 2016 (still|detail)
CREDIT: Rebecca Chesney, 66 Million, 2016 (still|detail)
visuAl Art
Rebecca Chesney: 66 Million 26 January – 17 March Peter Scott Gallery Join the artist at the opening event 6–7.30pm, 25 January Shot in October 2016, one month before the presidential election, 66 Million presents California as it enters its sixth year of drought. Sites in Yosemite National Park and the agricultural Central Valley show the differing impact of the drought on natural and man-made environments - in a time of scarcity, 66 Million questions our priorities.
Andy Holden: As Speed Increases Objects Can Be In Several Places At Once When Chesney returns to Saratoga in Spring 2017, America will be two months into President Donald Trump’s term in office. The President-elect stated during his campaign that he would withdraw America from the Paris Agreement and cut federal climate spending, though in the period since the election this stance has changed. California’s drought and the devastating impact it continues to have is now set against a backdrop of accelerating political uncertainty. Chesney is keen to see what has changed when she returns. 66 Million introduces the new work and research being developed through Chesney’s three-month residency at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, USA).
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26 January – 17 March Peter Scott Gallery Join the artist at the opening event 6–7.30pm, 25 January The result of five years' work, Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape presents a fully realised animated theory proposing the world is now best understood as a cartoon.
Part-lecture, part-documentary, part-conspiracy theory, the film examines the formation of ‘laws’ within cartoons as a way of making sense of the world we live in. The artist’s avatar invites the viewer to experience a world where laws such as ‘Everything falls faster than an anvil’ are given the same critical attention as philosophy, physics and politics. Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape is an hour long exploration of the world after the end of history: an irrational space where anything can happen, yet certain things reoccur. The film will be installed alongside a wider body of work connecting to this long-term project, including new films, prints and drawings.
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ClAssiCAl ConCerts
An Evening of Chamber Music with Nicola Benedetti Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio
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7.30pm, Saturday 28 January Great Hall. Price D – p14.
Ravel’s only piano trio is a bittersweet vision of rapturous poetry, written in the depths of the Great War, while Brahms’s B major Trio is the grandest of romantic outpourings by a young composer hopelessly in love.
RAVEL Trio in A minor TURNAGE Duo for Cello and Violin SIERRA Piano Trio Butterflies Remember a Mountain BRAHMS Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8
In between, they play a new mini masterpiece by Arlene Sierra, and the virtuosic Duo created for them by Mark Anthony Turnage – bringing a personal touch to a very special evening of music-making.
Despite a glittering solo career which has earned her a worldwide reputation, Nicola Benedetti’s private passion is for chamber music. In her piano trio she teams up with her partner Leonard Elschenbroich and the masterly young Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk for a whole evening of musical magic between friends.
6.45pm Foyer Music Due to unforeseen circumstances, Sir Willard White has unfortunately had to withdraw from the previously advertised event.
ClAssiCAl ConCerts
Francesca Dego (Violin) Chetham's Chamber & Francesca Leonardi Orchestra (Piano) 7.30pm, Thursday 9 February Great Hall. Price D – p14.
7.30pm, Thursday 16 February Great Hall. Price D – p14.
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No.9 Kreutzer RESPIGHI Sonata in B minor CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Figaro
Stephen Threlfall (Conductor) Margaret McDonald (Alto) Lia Tang (Violin) Gentlemen of the Manchester Chamber Choir
For the virtuoso Italian duo, Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi, performing Beethoven has always been central to their musical partnership. This Italian themed recital is inspired by the fast and flirtatious southern Italian folk dance which ends Beethoven’s famous Kreutzer Sonata. The other two works offer contrasting viewpoints - Respighi represents a romanticised and idealistic patriotism while Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Figaro is a lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek paraphrase of the Largo al factotum from Rossini’s Barber of Seville.
The awe-inspiring concerts of Chetham’s music school are always a joyful occasion at Lancaster and their Chamber Orchestra brings together their finest senior pupils. Star student, Lia Tang will perform Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto as a centerpiece to this colourful, sonorous and emotional programme.
6.45pm Foyer Music
6.45pm Foyer Music
KORNGOLD Suite in the Old Style PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No.1 in D, Op.19 BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody. Op.53 GINASTERA Variaciones Concertantes, Op.23
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ClAssiCAl ConCerts
An Evening of Chamber Music with Nicola Benedetti Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio
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7.30pm, Saturday 28 January Great Hall. Price D – p14.
Ravel’s only piano trio is a bittersweet vision of rapturous poetry, written in the depths of the Great War, while Brahms’s B major Trio is the grandest of romantic outpourings by a young composer hopelessly in love.
RAVEL Trio in A minor TURNAGE Duo for Cello and Violin SIERRA Piano Trio Butterflies Remember a Mountain BRAHMS Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8
In between, they play a new mini masterpiece by Arlene Sierra, and the virtuosic Duo created for them by Mark Anthony Turnage – bringing a personal touch to a very special evening of music-making.
Despite a glittering solo career which has earned her a worldwide reputation, Nicola Benedetti’s private passion is for chamber music. In her piano trio she teams up with her partner Leonard Elschenbroich and the masterly young Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk for a whole evening of musical magic between friends.
6.45pm Foyer Music Due to unforeseen circumstances, Sir Willard White has unfortunately had to withdraw from the previously advertised event.
ClAssiCAl ConCerts
Francesca Dego (Violin) Chetham's Chamber & Francesca Leonardi Orchestra (Piano) 7.30pm, Thursday 9 February Great Hall. Price D – p14.
7.30pm, Thursday 16 February Great Hall. Price D – p14.
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No.9 Kreutzer RESPIGHI Sonata in B minor CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Figaro
Stephen Threlfall (Conductor) Margaret McDonald (Alto) Lia Tang (Violin) Gentlemen of the Manchester Chamber Choir
For the virtuoso Italian duo, Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi, performing Beethoven has always been central to their musical partnership. This Italian themed recital is inspired by the fast and flirtatious southern Italian folk dance which ends Beethoven’s famous Kreutzer Sonata. The other two works offer contrasting viewpoints - Respighi represents a romanticised and idealistic patriotism while Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Figaro is a lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek paraphrase of the Largo al factotum from Rossini’s Barber of Seville.
The awe-inspiring concerts of Chetham’s music school are always a joyful occasion at Lancaster and their Chamber Orchestra brings together their finest senior pupils. Star student, Lia Tang will perform Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto as a centerpiece to this colourful, sonorous and emotional programme.
6.45pm Foyer Music
6.45pm Foyer Music
KORNGOLD Suite in the Old Style PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No.1 in D, Op.19 BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody. Op.53 GINASTERA Variaciones Concertantes, Op.23
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ClAssiCAl ConCerts
Noriko Ogawa (Piano)
Season Finalé Choir of Clare College Cambridge
7.30pm, Thursday 9 March Great Hall. Price D – p14.
7.30pm, Saturday 18 March Great Hall. Price D – p14.
C.SCHUMANN Polonaise Op.1, No.1 R.SCHUMANN Fantasy Op.17 TAKEMITSU Rain Tree Sketch II LISZT Vallée d’Obermann CHOPIN Ballade no.1, Scherzo no.2 Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise 8
ClAssiCAl ConCerts
*In-the-Round Noriko Ogawa has achieved considerable renown throughout the world and her ‘ravishingly poetic playing’ sets her apart from her contemporaries. Her programme pairs works by Mr & Mrs Schumann, has a flutter with Takemitsu, a flourish with Liszt and ends with a sublime selection of works by the unparalleled pianistic genius, Frédéric Chopin. 6.45pm Foyer Music
Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge Graham Ross (Director) LEIGHTON Drop, drop, slow tears WALTON A Litany LOBO Versa est in luctum BRAHMS Warum ist das Licht gegeben VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Lord, thou hast been our refuge
This outstanding young choir joins us for our closing concert of the season. Choral scholarship students from Cambridge University are part of a musical tradition that produces generations of amazing talent, regardless of the nature of their undergraduate studies. This programme charts the music that would have been heard during Lent across 5 centuries, ranging from early choral works through Brahms and to great modern choral composers such as Kenneth Leighton. 6.45pm Foyer Music
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ClAssiCAl ConCerts
Noriko Ogawa (Piano)
Season Finalé Choir of Clare College Cambridge
7.30pm, Thursday 9 March Great Hall. Price D – p14.
7.30pm, Saturday 18 March Great Hall. Price D – p14.
C.SCHUMANN Polonaise Op.1, No.1 R.SCHUMANN Fantasy Op.17 TAKEMITSU Rain Tree Sketch II LISZT Vallée d’Obermann CHOPIN Ballade no.1, Scherzo no.2 Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise 8
ClAssiCAl ConCerts
*In-the-Round Noriko Ogawa has achieved considerable renown throughout the world and her ‘ravishingly poetic playing’ sets her apart from her contemporaries. Her programme pairs works by Mr & Mrs Schumann, has a flutter with Takemitsu, a flourish with Liszt and ends with a sublime selection of works by the unparalleled pianistic genius, Frédéric Chopin. 6.45pm Foyer Music
Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge Graham Ross (Director) LEIGHTON Drop, drop, slow tears WALTON A Litany LOBO Versa est in luctum BRAHMS Warum ist das Licht gegeben VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Lord, thou hast been our refuge
This outstanding young choir joins us for our closing concert of the season. Choral scholarship students from Cambridge University are part of a musical tradition that produces generations of amazing talent, regardless of the nature of their undergraduate studies. This programme charts the music that would have been heard during Lent across 5 centuries, ranging from early choral works through Brahms and to great modern choral composers such as Kenneth Leighton. 6.45pm Foyer Music
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theAtre & DAnCe
CREDIT: Julian Hughes
theAtre
Unfolding Theatre with LittleMighty: Putting The Band Back Together
The Best of Both Worlds: A Busker's Opera
8pm, Wednesday 8 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
8pm, Tuesday 21 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
Across the UK there are thousands of guitars propped up in bedrooms that haven’t been strummed in years. Voices only heard in the shower. Drum kits taking up too much space in garages. Well, it’s time to blow off the dust. We’re putting the band back together! Part riotous gig, part tender storytelling, Ross Millard (The Futureheads), Maria Crocker and Alex Elliott reveal the epic emotions within people’s relationships with music. Every show features a house band of ex-players. Fancy joining? Email band@unfoldingtheatre.co.uk 10
60mins.
Matthews & Burtin are funded escapees. She from the cutthroat, self-made, individualist American dream. He from lukewarm, protectionist France. By air and by sea, and both to the Best of Both Worlds: the UK. Meeting in the middle, this show is an opportunity to take stock of what we value and how we go about valuing it.
Northern School of Contemporary Dance: Verve
2Magpies Theatre: Ventoux
8pm, Tuesday 28 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
8pm, Thursday 2 March Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
Verve presents an exhilarating programme of four distinct dance works choreographed by international artists James Cousins, Carlos Pons Guerra, Leila McMillan and Matthias Sperling.
Ventoux is the most fearsome mountain encountered on the Tour de France.
Performed by a company of eleven dancers trained at some of the world’s leading conservatoires, the work is physically daring and thought provoking.
Expect 1930s French street song and sleazy salesman rhetoric. Part cabaret, part lecture and part participatory experiment, this show is a good old fashioned music hall for the cash-strapped proles and the accidental gentrifiers.
Verve is the postgraduate performance company of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD). Each year the company commissions leading choreographers to create an exciting new programme of contemporary dance work which tours extensively across the UK and internationally. VERVE is led by Artistic Director Matthew Robinson.
65mins 14yrs+
100mins (including interval). 13yrs+
It is also the story of Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani – whose drug-fuelled race there in 2000 was the greatest cycling had ever seen. Ventoux charts the parallel lives of these champions who overcame great adversity in tandem, and the mountain that cast them in opposing directions. Join 2Magpies as they restage the race using breathtaking video accompaniment and a pair of road bikes, asking the question – how far will we go to succeed? 60mins. 12yrs+ 11
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theAtre & DAnCe
CREDIT: Julian Hughes
theAtre
Unfolding Theatre with LittleMighty: Putting The Band Back Together
The Best of Both Worlds: A Busker's Opera
8pm, Wednesday 8 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
8pm, Tuesday 21 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
Across the UK there are thousands of guitars propped up in bedrooms that haven’t been strummed in years. Voices only heard in the shower. Drum kits taking up too much space in garages. Well, it’s time to blow off the dust. We’re putting the band back together! Part riotous gig, part tender storytelling, Ross Millard (The Futureheads), Maria Crocker and Alex Elliott reveal the epic emotions within people’s relationships with music. Every show features a house band of ex-players. Fancy joining? Email band@unfoldingtheatre.co.uk 10
60mins.
Matthews & Burtin are funded escapees. She from the cutthroat, self-made, individualist American dream. He from lukewarm, protectionist France. By air and by sea, and both to the Best of Both Worlds: the UK. Meeting in the middle, this show is an opportunity to take stock of what we value and how we go about valuing it.
Northern School of Contemporary Dance: Verve
2Magpies Theatre: Ventoux
8pm, Tuesday 28 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
8pm, Thursday 2 March Nuffield Theatre. Price A – p14.
Verve presents an exhilarating programme of four distinct dance works choreographed by international artists James Cousins, Carlos Pons Guerra, Leila McMillan and Matthias Sperling.
Ventoux is the most fearsome mountain encountered on the Tour de France.
Performed by a company of eleven dancers trained at some of the world’s leading conservatoires, the work is physically daring and thought provoking.
Expect 1930s French street song and sleazy salesman rhetoric. Part cabaret, part lecture and part participatory experiment, this show is a good old fashioned music hall for the cash-strapped proles and the accidental gentrifiers.
Verve is the postgraduate performance company of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD). Each year the company commissions leading choreographers to create an exciting new programme of contemporary dance work which tours extensively across the UK and internationally. VERVE is led by Artistic Director Matthew Robinson.
65mins 14yrs+
100mins (including interval). 13yrs+
It is also the story of Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani – whose drug-fuelled race there in 2000 was the greatest cycling had ever seen. Ventoux charts the parallel lives of these champions who overcame great adversity in tandem, and the mountain that cast them in opposing directions. Join 2Magpies as they restage the race using breathtaking video accompaniment and a pair of road bikes, asking the question – how far will we go to succeed? 60mins. 12yrs+ 11
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CREDIT: Andy Hollingworth Archive
Preview / stuDent
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Foot in the door: A Double Bill of Works In Progress 8pm, Wednesday 22 February Nuffield Theatre. Price B – p14. Returning to the Nuffield are Lancaster Alumni Paper People Theatre who will present an extract of their new work in development: Do Geese See God? This new show tries to find out how we know when a fact is true, out of date, misunderstood or just a lie. In this show, amongst the facts, all quite interesting, is one story of a young fact, personified, and her flight through life as she struggles to remain true. Alongside this sharing by Paper People, a group of emerging artists including Theatre 42 will present entirely new pieces they created as part of a peer-learning programme hosted by Making Room & Lancaster Arts 14yrs+ 12
LICA Theatre Showcase 6pm, Wednesday 22 March Nuffield Theatre. Price B - p14. The LICA final year Theatre shows stand at the pinnacle of the Theatre degree. In previous years they have often served to launch the careers of new emerging theatre companies. 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. 14yrs+ Images from last year's showcase.
Elf Lyons: Pelican
The Pretend Men: Police Cops
8pm, Wednesday 1 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A - p14.
8pm, Friday 3 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A - p14.
Elf Lyons (Feminist Times' One to Watch) sometimes wants to kill her mother. So she’s made a show about it. Do other people feel like this? A recent graduate from L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Elf explores the age-old fear of turning into your mother and what it means to have it all…
Following sellout runs at London’s Soho Theatre, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Cape Town Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016... Police Cops is back in town.
Elf Lyons is an award-winning, immortal, red-hatted comedian and storyteller from London and a regular performer and M.C on the UK comedy circuit. Elf mixes her vulnerabilities, her niche geeky interests and her sassy nature to create fun, action packed quests for her and the audience, exploring modern political and feminist issues - often resulting in a huge fun mess on stage.
The Pretend Men’s critically acclaimed, multi award-winning comedy blockbuster is an action packed hour of adrenaline fuelled physical comedy, cinematic style and uncompromising facial hair. PRESENT DAY (of 1976). Straight-laced rookie Police Cop Jimmy Johnson is out to avenge his brother’s death, and he’s got to go it alone! (with his partner Harrison). The pair begin digging and soon unearth the soily secrets that the case holds. 60mins. 12yrs+
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Box office: 01524 594151 www.lancasterarts.org
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Foot in the door: A Double Bill of Works In Progress 8pm, Wednesday 22 February Nuffield Theatre. Price B – p14. Returning to the Nuffield are Lancaster Alumni Paper People Theatre who will present an extract of their new work in development: Do Geese See God? This new show tries to find out how we know when a fact is true, out of date, misunderstood or just a lie. In this show, amongst the facts, all quite interesting, is one story of a young fact, personified, and her flight through life as she struggles to remain true. Alongside this sharing by Paper People, a group of emerging artists including Theatre 42 will present entirely new pieces they created as part of a peer-learning programme hosted by Making Room & Lancaster Arts 14yrs+ 12
LICA Theatre Showcase 6pm, Wednesday 22 March Nuffield Theatre. Price B - p14. The LICA final year Theatre shows stand at the pinnacle of the Theatre degree. In previous years they have often served to launch the careers of new emerging theatre companies. 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. 14yrs+ Images from last year's showcase.
Elf Lyons: Pelican
The Pretend Men: Police Cops
8pm, Wednesday 1 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A - p14.
8pm, Friday 3 February Nuffield Theatre. Price A - p14.
Elf Lyons (Feminist Times' One to Watch) sometimes wants to kill her mother. So she’s made a show about it. Do other people feel like this? A recent graduate from L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Elf explores the age-old fear of turning into your mother and what it means to have it all…
Following sellout runs at London’s Soho Theatre, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Cape Town Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016... Police Cops is back in town.
Elf Lyons is an award-winning, immortal, red-hatted comedian and storyteller from London and a regular performer and M.C on the UK comedy circuit. Elf mixes her vulnerabilities, her niche geeky interests and her sassy nature to create fun, action packed quests for her and the audience, exploring modern political and feminist issues - often resulting in a huge fun mess on stage.
The Pretend Men’s critically acclaimed, multi award-winning comedy blockbuster is an action packed hour of adrenaline fuelled physical comedy, cinematic style and uncompromising facial hair. PRESENT DAY (of 1976). Straight-laced rookie Police Cop Jimmy Johnson is out to avenge his brother’s death, and he’s got to go it alone! (with his partner Harrison). The pair begin digging and soon unearth the soily secrets that the case holds. 60mins. 12yrs+
60mins. 14yrs+ 13
Box office: 01524 594151 www.lancasterarts.org
inFormAtion tiCKet PriCes 2017
LANCASTER WORDS
Price A: Theatre Web Advance Adults: £13 Under 26s & Students: £9 Standard Adults: £15. Under 26s & Students: £11 Supporters: £11 (Limited free tickets for U26s)
6 - 8 July, Lancaster University A three-day celebration of the written and spoken word featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and special guests readings, interviews, lectures, workshops, writing clinics, installations, film-screening, networking hubs and more.
Price B: Previews Web Advance Adults: £8 Under 26s & Students: £5 Standard Adults £9. Under 26s & Students: £6 Supporters: £5 (Free tickets for U26s)
Price C: Family Theatre Web Advance Adults: £7. Children: £6 Standard Adults: £8. Children: £7 Supporters: £6
Price D: Concert Tickets Web Advance Adults: £17.75 Under 26s & Students: £9 Standard Adults: £19.75 Under 26s & Students: £11 Supporters: Adults: £13 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.
´ CAFe/BAr Our café/bar - located in the Great Hall foyer - is open an hour before, and throughout our listed performances and events. The bar can also be hired for meetings and other catering needs - just ask at the bar for more information.
volunteer oPPortunities For All AGes Want to meet new people, be part of a thriving community and get involved with all aspects of Lancaster Arts’ work? Want to see great shows and gain experience working in an arts centre recognised nationally for quality and innovation? Learn more about volunteering with Lancaster Arts. Email: volunteer@lancasterarts.org
inFormAtion 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 16 January). Our Box Office (in the Peter Scott Gallery) 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 or Morecambe Visitor Information Centres.
weB ADvAnCe This pricing is only available via lancasterarts.org until 24 hours before the performance start time. After this time the Box Office pricing will be available both online and in person.
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 will be required on collection of tickets. 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
CAmPus ConstruCtion Lancaster University is undertaking building work around the Great Hall complex this spring. Please follow any signed diversions that may be in place. Information is available at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/spine
how to FinD us
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reFunDs / eXChAnGes There is a no-refund policy unless a performance has been cancelled. Box Office tickets may be exchanged only if the box office is contacted more than 24 hours in advance. All Web Advance tickets are non refundable. We are unable to reserve seats without payment.
lAte ADmission Unless stated, the time stated on all our publicity refers to the performance start time. The admittance of latecomers is decided by the visiting artists/company and it is not always possible to admit latecomers. Please ensure you arrive in plenty of time.
ACCessiBility Lancaster Arts welcomes deaf and disabled patrons. Please tell us if you have any access requirements at the time of your booking. We are here to help so please do not hesitate to approach any staff member for assistance during your visit. A hearing loop system is available and guide or assistance dogs are welcome.
By Car
Parking
By Bus
Leave 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 into the University main drive. Take the first exit left from the roundabout at the top of the main drive and follow signs for the Great Hall Complex. Our postcode for your 'Sat Nav' is LA1 4YW.
Visitor parking is available (free anywhere on campus after 6pm and weekends), including wheelchair accessible spaces. See map for nearest locations for parking. For weekday parking there are pay and display machines. Alternatively parking scratchcards can be bought at the Reception lodge. Parking charges only apply weekdays before 6pm.
Buses run every 5-20 minutes from Lancaster City centre to the central underpass on campus. There are also frequent services from Morecambe, Blackpool and Preston. For bus information call 'Traveline' on 0871 200 22 33.
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Box office: 01524 594151 www.lancasterarts.org
inFormAtion tiCKet PriCes 2017
LANCASTER WORDS
Price A: Theatre Web Advance Adults: £13 Under 26s & Students: £9 Standard Adults: £15. Under 26s & Students: £11 Supporters: £11 (Limited free tickets for U26s)
6 - 8 July, Lancaster University A three-day celebration of the written and spoken word featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and special guests readings, interviews, lectures, workshops, writing clinics, installations, film-screening, networking hubs and more.
Price B: Previews Web Advance Adults: £8 Under 26s & Students: £5 Standard Adults £9. Under 26s & Students: £6 Supporters: £5 (Free tickets for U26s)
Price C: Family Theatre Web Advance Adults: £7. Children: £6 Standard Adults: £8. Children: £7 Supporters: £6
Price D: Concert Tickets Web Advance Adults: £17.75 Under 26s & Students: £9 Standard Adults: £19.75 Under 26s & Students: £11 Supporters: Adults: £13 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.
´ CAFe/BAr Our café/bar - located in the Great Hall foyer - is open an hour before, and throughout our listed performances and events. The bar can also be hired for meetings and other catering needs - just ask at the bar for more information.
volunteer oPPortunities For All AGes Want to meet new people, be part of a thriving community and get involved with all aspects of Lancaster Arts’ work? Want to see great shows and gain experience working in an arts centre recognised nationally for quality and innovation? Learn more about volunteering with Lancaster Arts. Email: volunteer@lancasterarts.org
inFormAtion 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 16 January). Our Box Office (in the Peter Scott Gallery) 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 or Morecambe Visitor Information Centres.
weB ADvAnCe This pricing is only available via lancasterarts.org until 24 hours before the performance start time. After this time the Box Office pricing will be available both online and in person.
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 will be required on collection of tickets. 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
CAmPus ConstruCtion Lancaster University is undertaking building work around the Great Hall complex this spring. Please follow any signed diversions that may be in place. Information is available at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/spine
how to FinD us
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reFunDs / eXChAnGes There is a no-refund policy unless a performance has been cancelled. Box Office tickets may be exchanged only if the box office is contacted more than 24 hours in advance. All Web Advance tickets are non refundable. We are unable to reserve seats without payment.
lAte ADmission Unless stated, the time stated on all our publicity refers to the performance start time. The admittance of latecomers is decided by the visiting artists/company and it is not always possible to admit latecomers. Please ensure you arrive in plenty of time.
ACCessiBility Lancaster Arts welcomes deaf and disabled patrons. Please tell us if you have any access requirements at the time of your booking. We are here to help so please do not hesitate to approach any staff member for assistance during your visit. A hearing loop system is available and guide or assistance dogs are welcome.
By Car
Parking
By Bus
Leave 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 into the University main drive. Take the first exit left from the roundabout at the top of the main drive and follow signs for the Great Hall Complex. Our postcode for your 'Sat Nav' is LA1 4YW.
Visitor parking is available (free anywhere on campus after 6pm and weekends), including wheelchair accessible spaces. See map for nearest locations for parking. For weekday parking there are pay and display machines. Alternatively parking scratchcards can be bought at the Reception lodge. Parking charges only apply weekdays before 6pm.
Buses run every 5-20 minutes from Lancaster City centre to the central underpass on campus. There are also frequent services from Morecambe, Blackpool and Preston. For bus information call 'Traveline' on 0871 200 22 33.
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sPrinG 2017 events DiAry Peter Scott Gallery Peter Scott Gallery
26 January - 17 March 26 January - 17 March
LIVE PERFORMANCE Elf Lyons: Pelican The Pretend Men: Police Cops Putting the Band Back Together The Best of Both Worlds: A Busker’s Opera A Double Bill of Works in Progress NSCD: Verve 2Magpies Theatre: Ventoux LICA Theatre Showcase
Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre
CLASSICAL CONCERTS Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio Francesca Dego (Violin) and Francesca Leonardi (Piano) Chetham's Chamber Orchestra Noriko Ogawa (Piano) Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Great Hall Great Hall Great Hall Great Hall Great Hall
FAMILY Noisy Gallery: Kabantu Beasty Baby Messy Gallery: Birds of a Feather Noisy Gallery: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Messy Gallery: Extraordinary Ordinary
Peter Scott Gallery 10am & 11.15am, 28 January Nuffield Theatre 2pm, 29 & 10.30am, 30 January Peter Scott Gallery 10am & 11.15am, 25 February Peter Scott Gallery 10am & 11.15am, 25 March Peter Scott Gallery 10am & 11.15am, 29 April
COMMUNITY & STUDENTS The Vagina Monologues LU Society The Haffner Orchestra LUDanS Lancaster Singers
Nuffield Theatre Great Hall Nuffield Theatre Lancaster Priory
TO BOOK TICKETS The cheapest tickets are always available online at lancasterarts.org VISIT: www.lancasterarts.org EMAIL: boxoffice@lancasterarts.org CALL: 01524 594151 (Mon-Fri 12-5pm from 16 January 2017)
8pm, 1 February 8pm, 3 February 8pm, 8 February 8pm, 21 February 8pm, 22 February 8pm, 28 February 8pm, 2 March 6pm, 22 March
7:30pm, 28 January 7:30pm, 9 February 7:30pm, 16 February 7:30pm, 9 March 7:30pm, 18 March
8pm, 9 - 11 February 7.30pm, 25 February 7.30pm, 3 - 5 March 7.30pm, 11 March
PETER SCOTT GALLERY Gallery is open Mon-Fri 12-5pm during term, and an hour before performance events. For gallery enquiries please email gallery@lancasterarts.org or call 01524 594151.
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