Live at LICA 2014 Spring Brochure

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Spring 2014

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EXHIBITIONS

THEATRE / DANCE

CONCERTS

WELCOME

I'm delighted to welcome you to our Spring 2014 season. Live at LICA is a producing house and presenter of great art across live and exhibition formats and it’s a great privilege to be leading the centre at this exciting time.

In the coming months I'm eager to meet with audiences and visitors to discuss how we can build on Live at LICA's legacy. This is especially so in the case of those who have joined our Supporter Scheme in its inaugural year, to whom I extend my heartfelt thanks. Your support aids us in our aim to inspire and engage a diverse crosssection of the population with innovative arts programming.

Increasingly, Live at LICA is presenting unique events in locations around the Lancashire region and the North West.

Last November's adventure at Lancaster Castle during the Light Up The Streets event being just one example with theatre company imitating the dog.

This season much of our focus returns to Lancaster University, our home, an www.liveatlica.org

institution celebrating its 50th Anniversary from January 2014. Our traditional on-campus settings, the Nuffield Theatre and the Great Hall, host live programme highlights from Nottingham and Berlin’s Gob Squad, presenting mind-blowing theatre in the form of their new work Western Society (p25), and a first time visit from dance company Junk Ensemble with The Falling Song (p27) accompanied by a 20-strong choir from Lancaster's Dallas Road Community Primary School. We are particularly pleased to present the Violin Duo Retorica (p17), who will perform works by Sergi Prokofiev and premiere a brand new Live at LICA commissioned composition from his great-grandson, Gabriel. This season’s exhibition meanwhile sees Live at LICA once again out and about, presenting Taiwanese sensation Wu Chi-Tsung (p8-9) at both our on-campus Peter Scott Gallery and the gallery at The Storey in Lancaster city centre.

Whatever the location of our programme, we are very proud of our University heritage. I also hope you can join us on campus for OPEN, a series of days in May (p5) exploring Live at LICA's many sides alongside presentations from our current crop of Supported Artists.

Jamie Eastman Director, director@liveatlica.org

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You will also be helping us to deliver unique community-based arts projects, support scores of young artists, and commission up to 15 new artworks and performances each year to be seen in Lancaster before touring nationally.

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COMING SOON

OPEN

LIVE AT LICA 6-11 MAY 2014

OPEN is a week-long series of events in May fostering debate between Live at LICA, our current roster of Supported Artists, our audiences, regular visitors and the wider university, on topics and ideas represented in our programme. It will also be a chance to experience selected works from our Supported Artists, preview our upcoming Autumn schedule and to present works in progress of your own. From talks on the development of art in the public realm and site specific works on show, to impromptu actions and social get togethers, OPEN is a time to exchange views and consider together art's many potentials. Coinciding with Lancaster University's second annual TEDx event (May 8th).

A full schedule for OPEN will be announced in March 2013. See www.liveatlica.org/open for more details.

A free ‘What’s On’ smartphone app for Lancaster arts activity including listings for Live at LICA

First Fridays: every month, take a chance on something new or submit your own arts event to submissions@artscity.co.uk

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EXHIBITIONS

This Spring, Live at LICA forms part of a unique partnership called Recalibrate which will deliver the first UK solo showcase of the acclaimed Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Tsung. We are thrilled to be working with our national partners the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (Manchester) and Site Gallery (Sheffield), with the support of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture. At the heart of the Lancaster presentation will be a splitsite exhibition and local partnership between Peter Scott Gallery and The Storey. The venues will simultaneously host the work of Wu Chi-Tsung to give a more comprehensive overview of the artist’s practice. The Grade II listed gallery at The Storey and the distinctive Peter Scott Gallery were built almost a century apart, giving a wonderful contrast in display spaces and together make the Lancaster edition of Recalibrate the largest of the project.

Furthermore the Peter Scott collection will be used to create a complimentary display that considers the principles of traditional Chinese work, that influenced Wu Chi-Tsung. The traditional Chinese works provided inspiration during the artist’s training and the values are still present in his work today.

Finally, an update on some of our other gallery projects. We will shortly begin testing our app designed for the NESTA Digital R&D scheme, you can find out more about the project and watch videos on our website. We are also in the process of establishing our Testing Media project acquisition, a case study will appear on the Contemporary Art Society website and we will be making a presentation as part of a day-long workshop event in London on the 23rd May 2014.

Richard Smith Curator richard@liveatlica.org

Full event listings available via the free Lancaster Arts City 'What's On' App. See p30.

Wu Chi-Tsung, Landscape in the Mist 001, 2012 (detail)

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WU CHI-TSUNG: RECALIBRATE 31 JANUARY – 21 MARCH

31 JANUARY – 15 MARCH

PETER SCOTT GALLERY

THE STOREY

Opening event, 6.30pm 30 January

Opening event, 6.30pm 31 January

Supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, a new partnership programme with the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (Manchester) and Site Gallery (Sheffield) will deliver a series of exhibitions across the country to bring about the first UK solo showcase of work by acclaimed Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Tsung. The Lancaster edition of Recalibrate will host a unique split-site exhibition between Peter Scott Gallery and the dramatic grade II listed gallery at The Storey.

Wu Chi-Tsung is interested in how images are made and seen. Landscape, nature and the urban environment feature in his work and the themes are central to the Recalibrate programme exhibitions. Although his early

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influences come from painting, specifically Eastern shan shui works and Western watercolour landscapes, his powerful work is often realised through video, photography, installation and performance.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture english.moc.gov.tw

Lancaster will present artworks that include the all-encompassing installation Crystal City 004 (a newly commissioned work for Recalibrate), cyanotypes from the Wrinkled Textures series and several examples from Wu Chi-Tsung’s elegant landscape and still life video works.

Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (Manchester) www.cfcca.org.uk

Recalibrate partners:

Site Gallery (Sheffield) www.sitegallery.org Live at LICA | The Storey (Lancaster) www.liveatlica.org | www.thestorey.co.uk

Wu Chi-Tsung, Crystal City 004, 2013 (detail)

Wu Chi-Tsung, Wrinkled Texture 003, 2012 (detail)

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CONCERTS

The second half of our Concert season for 2013-2014 presents a variety of events for connoisseurs and enthusiasts alike. Greats like Schubert, Vivaldi and Mozart feature alongside innovative works from living composers, and a feast of jazz and cabaret.

Covering the classical spectrum, we bring you a soloist from British shores in the form of Brecon Baroque’s Rachel Podger (p18) and, visiting from international climes, Italy's Quartetto di Cremona (p13), whilst magical vocal ensemble I Fagiolini (p12) take on the early music of the feted composer Don Carlo Gesualdo. Living composers meanwhile feature in the schedule of the marvellous Fidelio Trio (p16) from Graham Fitkin (a previous Live at LICA Composer in Residence) and Tom Coult – alongside repertoire by Schumann and Revel, and on the lighter side vocal trio Juice team up with jazz/classical quintet Tangent (p14), who number emerging

saxophonist Trish Clowes in their midst, to take on work from renowned young composer Luke Styles and Clowes herself.

Continuing such mixes of past and present, the Retorica Violin Duo play works by Sergei Prokofiev and premiere a brand new Live at LICA commission by his great grandson, Gabriel.

Finally, Live at LICA commissioned chanteuse Bethany Jameson aims to enchant the soul (p15) and we welcome back the perennially popular National Youth Jazz Orchestra (p19). I do hope you find plenty to savour from this wideranging Spring schedule.

Fiona Sinclair Associate Director fiona@liveatlica.org

Full event listings available via the free Lancaster Arts City 'What's On' App. See p30.

Brecon Baroque, 13th March 2014.

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I FAGIOLINI (STRANGE HARMONY OF LOVE) 7.30PM, THURSDAY 30 JANUARY GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £21.50 / £18.50 (£18.50, £16.50 CONCESSIONS) £7.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £23 / £20 (£20, £18 CONCESSIONS) £9 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Renaissance music of sweet and strange beauty.

In Don Carlo Gesualdo’s 400th anniversary year, this concert offers his most powerful madrigals given context by similarly minded avant-gardists of the time, offering a quite extraordinary evening of musical mannerism.

It's time to lay to rest to the lazy ‘truth’ that Gesualdo killed his wife, then lamented this in tortured music. Murdering your wife as a punishment for adultery was acceptable behaviour in 16th century Italy and Gesualdo’s music focusses less on guilt and more on betrayal. (Similarly the ‘whipping at stool’ he suffered was a medical cure on a par with being prescribed leeches – Blackadder fans will sympathise). Rather, the avant-garde nature of his music developed from a prolonged stay at the home of Italy’s hothouse of musical modernism, the court of Ferrara. In that highly experimental ethos and surrounded by a brilliant vocal ensemble, Gesualdo took the late madrigal to undreamt-of extremes. His final works sound closer to Brahms or even Wagner.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6.45pm in the Great Hall.

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QUARTETTO DI CREMONA CRISTIANO GUALCO (violin) PAOLO ANDREOLI (violin) SIMONE GRAMAGLIA (viola) GIOVANNI SCAGLIONE (cello) 7.30PM, THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY (IN THE ROUND SEATING) GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £21.50 (£18.50 CONCESSIONS) £7.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £23 (£20 CONCESSIONS) £9 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

The Quartetto di Cremona are internationally renowned for their mature and lyrical sound, something which is no doubt in part due to the set of magnificent Cremonese instruments – a combination of old and new masters – which they are privileged to perform on. Their programme contrasts a first half of some of the most charming music ever written in Kreisler’s String Quartet and an early work by the Genoese maestro, Paganini, with one of the truly greatest works ever written for the medium, Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.

WU CHI-TSUNG 31 JAN – 21 MAR SEE PAGES 8 - 9

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JUICE & TANGENT QUINTET TRISH CLOWES: The Master and Margarita; Atlas; On/Off ANNA SNOW: The Seven Star Girls SARAH DACEY: Cruel Mother KERRY ANDREW: Night-time Lullabies LUKE STYLES: New Work - *Premiere 7.30PM, THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £15.50 / £13 (£13 / £10.50 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £17 / £14.50 (£14.50 / £12 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Award-winning experimental vocal trio Juice and jazz/classical quintet Tangent (featuring BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Trish Clowes) present a programme which shows off their humour, ingenuity, wit and talent, and which draws on classical, world music, jazz, folk, pop, improvisation and theatre.

At the heart of the evening, is a brand-new work by renowned young composer Luke Styles, currently Glyndebourne's Young Composer In Residence. Setting a native Canadian folk tale, the piece blends the worlds of contemporary classical music, jazz and improvisation in a quirky and playful story telling. Style’s work is a commission for the New Music Biennial, which will present a series of 20 brand new music commissions to audiences across the UK in 2014, including showcases in London and Glasgow coinciding with the Commonwealth Games.

Lancaster will be the international premiere of the work.

Photo Credit: Dannie Price

CABARET VÉRITÉ 7.30PM, THURSDAY 20 FEBRUARY NUFFIELD THEATRE WEB ADVANCE: £11.50 (£8.50 CONCESSIONS) £7.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £13 (£10 CONCESSIONS) £9 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

An evening of fabulous music, passion, romance and irrepressible joie de vivre!

Chanteuse Bethany Jameson invites you to explore the back streets of Paris, a glimpse of underground Buenos Aires and some show-stopping chansons. Her acclaimed Cabaret Vérité quartet mix up a cocktail of gorgeous French chansons (Piaf, Brel, Greco, Hot Club de France), sultry Argentinean tangos (Piazzolla) and their own new Cabaret songs about lost love, politics and economics (both marital and international!), the beauty products scandal, looking after ageing parents and picking up younger men in bars! A riot of retro glitz and glamour, gentle (and some not-so-gentle), witty new lyrics and much loved tunes you will hum all the way home. A sumptuous feast of music & Cabaret in the old style, with a modern twist.

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FIDELIO TRIO SCHUMANN: Trio no.3 Op.110 FITKIN: Lens for trio TOM COULT: New Trio (2013) *Premiere RAVEL: Trio in A min 7.30PM, THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £17.50 / £14.50 (£14.50 / £12.50 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £19 / £16 (£16 / £14 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

The Fidelio Trio have carved an excellent reputation as much for their exceptional virtuosity as for their promotion of contemporary music. They perform extremely diverse music, both nationally and internationally, and are constantly commissioning new works from a range of leading international composers.

Two new pieces in tonight’s programme are by composers familiar to our audiences – Graham Fitkin and our former Young Composer in Residence 2011, Tom Coult. They are flanked by the quintessentially romantic third trio by Schumann, full of drama, heroism and tragedy and Ravel’s exquisite Basqueinfluenced Trio. Ravel rushed its composition, so keen was he to enlist in the army at the start of World War I. Despite his hurry, it contains some of the most magical moments ever heard in chamber music.

20 YRS OF MORE MUSIC 28 FEB & 1 MAR SEE PAGE 26

RETORICA VIOLIN DUO TELEMANN: SONATA in B minor, Op 2 No. 5 for two violins MOZART: SONATA in G major, K. 379 S. PROKOFIEV: SONATA in C major, Op. 56 for two violins G. PROKOFIEV: SONATA for two violins - *Premiere 7.30PM, THURSDAY 6 MARCH (IN THE ROUND SEATING) GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £15.50 (£13 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £17 (£14.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

The finest duos in the world are those who display a seamless fusion of their instruments brought about by an instinctive rapport. The violin duo, Retorica, is a duo of intense imagination and energy and their enjoyment of the music is contagious. They have brought together a dynamic palate of works, including the spectacular Handel/Halvorsen duo and works by both the great Sergei Prokofiev and the premiere of a new work by his great grandson, Gabriel.

The new sonata by Gabriel Prokofiev is commissioned by Live at LICA.

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BRECON BAROQUE VIVALDI: Violin Concertos: L'estro armonico op.3 and La Cetra op.9 7.30PM, THURSDAY 13 MARCH GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £21.50 / £18.50 (£18.50, £16.50 CONCESSIONS) £7.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £23 / £20 (£20, £18 CONCESSIONS) £9 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

The dynamic ensemble Brecon Baroque was founded in 2007 by violinist Rachel Podger as resident ensemble at her annual Brecon Baroque Festival. They specialise in the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries, mostly as a one-to-apart ensemble based on the Cafe Zimmerman ensemble and also appear as a small baroque orchestra for Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell and Handel.

SUPPORT LIVE AT LICA SEE PAGE 3

NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA 7.30PM, THURSDAY 20 MARCH GREAT HALL WEB ADVANCE: £17.50 / £14.50 (£14.50 / £12.50 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £19 / £16 (£16 / £14 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Following their hugely successful appearance three years ago, we welcome the National Youth Jazz Orchestra back to Lancaster. NYJO is one of Britain’s longest running and most successful ensembles for young people under 25 playing big band jazz. The band features musicians and vocalists from around the country, most of whom go on to become professional musicians. Alumni include Guy Barker, Mark Nightingale, Gerard Presencer, Pete Long, Dennis and Winston Rollins and Amy Winehouse, which gives an idea why Sir John Dankworth is famously quoted as describing NYJO as “one of the best bands you will ever hear.”

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THEATRE,DANCE & LIVE ART

There are lots of treats in our Spring season this year.

Live at LICA favourites Gob Squad return with their incredible new work, Western Society, a fresh, ironic and often hilarious take on what living in western society really feels like now.

We are also very pleased to cocommission and host More Music’s 20th Anniversary celebratory gig in the form of Frontierland. This work commemorates the 10th anniversary of the cockling disaster in Morecambe, and its dramaturg is the Olivier-Award winning Mark Whitelaw.

Dance features strongly this season, and has a distinctly local flavour: the North West’s graduate dance company 12° North present a triple bill including a commission from the innovative choreographer Lea Anderson, and Flexer & Sandiland’s outstanding cast of Weightless includes Lancaster’s own George Adams. A first time visit from Junk Ensemble with The Falling Song promises to be a clear highlight of the season – an extraordinary and daring dance work accompanied by a young choir from Dallas Road Community Primary School in Lancaster.

Alice Booth Creative Producer alice@liveatlica.org

A heady mix of the local and international, this is a season with something for everyone. Enjoy!

Full event listings available via the free Lancaster Arts City 'What's On' App. See p30.

Junk Ensemble The Falling Song, 6th March 2014. Photo Credit: Christopher Hill

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STACY MAKISHI: THE FALSETTOS 8PM, THURSDAY 30 JANUARY NUFFIELD THEATRE WEB ADVANCE: £10 (£8 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £11.50 (£9.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Lancaster welcomes the inimitable Stacy Makishi with a stunning new solo show, The Falsettos, a deftly woven mix of text, movement and stand-up. An honest and hilarious display of Makishi’s intimate reflections on murder, mortality and mid-life crisis, The Falsettos splices together influences from American popular culture including The Sopranos, Barbra Streisand and E.T. With mobs, midlife, lowlife and taboo getting the Makishi treatment, this is a show for our times - uncompromising, compassionate and joyously absurd.

Commissioned by Chelsea Theatre, Colchester Arts Centre and the Basement, and supported by the Roddick Foundation. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Produced by Artsadmin.

“Utterly brilliant” - Julie Mcnamara “Full of warm Hawaiian aloha” - Mary Osborn Approx: 60 mins. 16yrs +

Photo Credit: Nikki Tomlinson

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FLEXER & SANDILAND: WEIGHTLESS 8PM, WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY NUFFIELD THEATRE WEB ADVANCE: £10 (£8 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £11.50 (£9.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Weightless, in a tongue in cheek way, questions the ‘weight’ of history: what is it that roots us down physically and emotionally? What might it feel like to let go or take flight?

This show carries Yael Flexer's recognisable stamp of witty text and humour combined with fast-paced, space-hungry movement. An exciting digital element is provided by Nic Sandiland, plus an extraordinary musical score is provided by composer Dougie Evans and Israeli cellist/singer Karni Postel. “dance that is unforced, unaffected, charming and smart” - Time Out “A gently deviant sense of humor” – The Guardian www.flexerandsandiland.com Approx: 60 mins. 12yrs +

Photo Credit: Chris Nash

JUICE & TANGENT 13 FEB SEE PAGE 14

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PROTO-TYPE THEATER: THE GOOD, THE GOD AND THE GUILLOTINE 8PM, TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY

WEB ADVANCE: £10 (£8 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £11.50 (£9.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Music composed and performed by MMUle | Animation by Adam York Gregory A show that steals its style from the gig, the opera and the recital, The Good, the God and the Guillotine is a music-driven piece of theatre like no other.

8PM, TUESDAY 18 FEBRUARY NUFFIELD THEATRE

Three performers and three laptop musicians create an atmospheric, cross-genre journey through a tangle of relationships and technologies, all set against reactive objects, lights and hand-drawn animations.

WEB ADVANCE: £10 (£8 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £11.50 (£9.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

“Keep an eye out for this adventurous group...” - Time Out NY

The first work by James Wilton (choreographer for the opening ceremony of Rugby World Cup) is daring, intensely physical, and has an infectious energy.

In contrast, Lea Anderson (Artistic Director of The Cholmondleys and Featherstonehaughs) creates fascinating, challenging and visually stunning dance theatre which bursts with idiosyncratic movement.

Approx: 70mins. 14yrs +

Photo Credit: Proto-type Theater

12° NORTH DANCE COMPANY: TRIPLE BILL

12° North is the fresh and dynamic North West Graduate Dance Company.

The final work by guest choreographer, Emma Lansley, is Talking to Mia and Butch, a quirky dance theatre piece with a light twist, focussing on the complex lives of three socially awkward individuals. With music by Kate Bush and a hint of lemons, this is humorous and heart-warming work.

A dazzling display of super-physical dance theatre from North West artists. www.12degreesnorth.org.uk Approx: 70mins. 13yrs +

Photo Credit: Nicola Selby

NUFFIELD THEATRE

DON’T MISS Live at LICA & The Dukes present:

GOB SQUAD: WESTERN SOCIETY 8PM, WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY NUFFIELD THEATRE WEB ADVANCE: £11.50 (£8.50 CONCESSIONS) £7.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £13 (£10 CONCESSIONS) £9 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Gob Squad is a group of international artists who have made performances and videos, searching for beauty in the everyday, since 1994.

Western Society is a portrait of civilisation in the 21st century, like a frame through which we can peep into the living room of an unknown family, and recognize ourselves. By exploring the internet’s remote darkness, Gob Squad have brought back a tiny satellite, an unwatched video of an anonymous living room, of a family gathering somewhere at the edge of the western world.

Western Society is inviting and isolating. It’s heaven and hell. Some see a nightmare, others a place they desire. You are there too…

“This is theatre in its purest and best form - ingeniously put together, extremely funny, entertaining, crazy and with a charming whiff of anarchy in the air.” - Kulturradio RBB “The show has an irresistible magic and is quite simply a barrel load of fun.”

- Berliner Morgenpost Approx: 105 mins. 16yrs + http://www.gobsquad.com/projects/western-society Photo Credit: Garrett Davis/capture imaging

CABARET VÉRITÉ 20 FEB SEE PAGE 15

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SUPPORT LIVE AT LICA SEE PAGE 3

FRONTIERLAND: 20 YEARS OF MORE MUSIC 8PM, FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY & SATURDAY 1 MARCH NUFFIELD THEATRE WEB ADVANCE: £10 (£8 CONCESSIONS) £7 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £11.50 (£9.50 CONCESSIONS) £8.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

Songs and tales from a town on the edge (of the Bay).

Performed by: THE SHANGRI LA SEASIDE ARCADIAN ORCHESTRA OF GOOD CHEER (More Music Contemporary Orchestra and Chorus) PETE MOSER MUSICAL DIRECTOR MARK WHITELAW DRAMATURG A town tells its tales, of visitors, residents, and the traces they leave behind and responds to the tenth anniversary of the Morecambe Bay tragedy.

For 20 years, More Music has worked in Morecambe with thousands of people creating new songs and music that make you laugh, cry and ask what it’s all about.

Part gig, part celebration, Frontierland is the show that will bring it all together in spectacular fashion.

Commissioned by More Music and Live at LICA.

JUNK ENSEMBLE: THE FALLING SONG 8PM, THURSDAY 6 MARCH NUFFIELD THEATRE WEB ADVANCE: £11.50 (£8.50 CONCESSIONS) £7.50 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT STANDARD: £13 (£10 CONCESSIONS) £9 YOUNG PERSON / STUDENT

An Incredibly Rare Production.

Physicality is pushed to extremes in The Falling Song by Dublin’s award-winning dancetheatre company Junk Ensemble. Performed by an international all-male cast and a local live children’s choir and featuring a set of towering ladders, ropes and hundreds of apples, this critically acclaimed production looks at the nature of flying and falling and the dangerous relationship between the two.

The Falling Song Touring is supported by Arts Council England, Culture Ireland and Arts Council of Ireland.

‘An elegant simplicity permeates their work… excellent cast of four male dancers’ - The Irish Times ‘Perfectly executed… adrenalin pumping and unsettling… marvelous’ - Irish Theatre Magazine Approx 60mins. 8yrs + www.junkensemble.com Photo Credit: Fionn McCann

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Saturday 15th February 7.30pm Soloist: Kathryn Stott Conductor: Natalia Luis-Bassa 6.30pm pre-concert talk by Kathryn Stott Great Hall, Lancaster University Arensky Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 Beethoven Leonore Overture no.1 Mendelssohn Symphony no.1 Concert sponsored by Reid Hamilton Insurance Brokers & Sanlam Private Investments

Saturday 28th June Ashton Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster Brahms Symphony no. 2, Mozart Violin Concerto no.

4 (Marianne Thorsen soloist) Concert sponsored by Armstrong Watson, Accountants Tickets: online at www.haffnerorchestra.org 01524 582394 (credit card sales) Live at LICA box office: 01524 594151 Lancaster or Morecambe Visitor Information Centre: 01524 582394 Adult £13, Conc. £12, 18 years and under free

www.haffnerorchestra.org

Tickets £14 (£12 concs., students free) from Live at LICA box office and www.lancastersingers.org

HIRE OUR VENUES ARE YOU INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY THEATRE OR DANCE?

DO YOU NEED AV EQUIPMENT OR EDITING SERVICES AS PART OF YOUR EVENT?

We have one of the largest ‘sprung’ stages in the country. We regularly stage performances for local dance schools and dramatic societies. Our technicians can design your lighting and sound or, if you prefer, will be on hand to train and assist your own staff.

Our technical staff are trained in the use of a wide range of projection and editing equipment. Using vision mixing and projection we can create any back-drop you require, including moving images.

DO YOU ORGANISE EXHIBITIONS?

If any of these options interest you contact Steph Sims on 01524 594158 or via email: technical@liveatlica.org

Do you require an exhibition space complete with reception, hospitality and demonstration areas? Are you looking for a full-size exhibition hall?

WORKSHOP SUPPLIES From our Nuffield Theatre workshop we have a full range of equipment available for hire. Choose from : Truss and rigging Staging and scenery Full sets to single items Full design and build capability Drapes and soft goods Flightcases built to your specification.

Contact Simon Attwood on 01524 594159 or via email: technical@liveatlica.org

DO YOU PLAN SOCIAL EVENTS? Do you arrange receptions or corporate hospitality? Would your group or company enjoy an evening in our gallery space or a talk on art? Contact Julia Carradus on 01524 593777 or via email: julia@liveatlica.org

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The box office is now located in the Peter Scott Gallery. Pre-sales & web-advance ticket collection is located in the Great Hall / Nuffield foyer from 7pm on the evening of the performance.

Refunds and Exchanges These will not normally be made unless a performance has been cancelled. Please note all web advance tickets are non refundable. We are unable to reserve seats without payment.

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Concession rates apply to seniors (over 60s), the unemployed, disabled people and their essential companions. We also have specific rates for students (full-time education) and under 16s.

Where appropriate, ID will be required on collection of tickets. Advance concessions tickets must be collected in person.

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Special ticket deals are available for groups including school parties. Please contact the box office on 01524 594151 for further information.

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Regardless of how you choose to pay, we don’t implement any booking, internet or postage fees.

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Social Networks Find us at www.facebook.com/liveatlica or Twitter users can tweet us direct @liveatlica All details listed in this programme are correct at time of going to press. E&OE

HOWTO FIND US Box Office Opening Hours opening from Monday 13th January 2014 Monday to Friday 11am-5pm, Saturdays 11am-4pm, and until the show on the evenings of performances. An answerphone operates outside of these times.

Gallery Opening Hours The Peter Scott Gallery is open during exhibitions Monday to Friday, 11am – 5pm and Saturday 11am – 4pm.

Accessibility All our venues are fully accessible including nearby car parking spaces (see map opposite).

We have hearing loop systems in the Box Office, Great Hall and the Nuffield Theatre.

Guide / assistance dogs are welcome in the foyer and auditoria.

Patrons including wheelchair users, disabled people and their essential companions are now able to book tickets directly online should they wish to do so.

Please contact us in advance with any special access requirements.

By Car 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 Nuffield Theatre, Peter Scott Gallery or Great Hall.

Parking 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.

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THIS BROCHURE IS AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT FORMAT. PLEASE CONTACT THE BOX OFFICE (01524 594151) FOR A COPY.

By Bus Buses (numbers 2, 2A, 3 and 4) leave from the centre of Lancaster very regularly (every 5 minutes on weekdays) for the 20 minute journey to the University. Buses also leave the city centre at Common Garden Street for the University. For bus information call ‘Traveline’ on 0871 200 22 33. All buses drop off at the University underpass, beneath Alexandra Square in the centre of campus.

By Bike A scenic cycle route links campus to Lancaster city centre. The route takes around 25 minutes.

By Train There are direct rail links between Lancaster and many of the UK's major cities and airports. The 4 and X4 bus services operate between Lancaster Railway Station and Lancaster University every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes and hourly on Sunday afternoons and evenings. Taxis are also available from outside the train station.

Lancaster railway station is a five minute walk from the city centre.

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Box Office 01524 594151 www.liveatlica.org boxoffice@liveatlica.org

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DATES WU CHI-TSUNG: RECALIBRATE OPENING EVENT, 6.30PM 30 JANUARY

31 JANUARY – 21 MARCH PETER SCOTT GALLERY

I FAGIOLINI

30 JAN, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL

STACY MAKISHI: THE FALSETTOS

30 JAN, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

WU CHI-TSUNG: RECALIBRATE OPENING EVENT, 6.30PM 31 JANUARY

31 JANUARY – 15 MARCH THE STOREY

FLEXER & SANDILAND: WEIGHTLESS

5 FEB, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

QUARTETTO DI CREMONA

6 FEB, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL

PROTO-TYPE THEATER: THE GOOD, THE GOD AND THE GUILLOTINE

11 FEB, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

JUICE & TANGENT

13 FEB, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL

12° NORTH: TRIPLE BILL

18 FEB, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

CABARET VÉRITÉ

20 FEB, 7.30PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

GOB SQUAD: WESTERN SOCIETY

26 FEB, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

FIDELIO TRIO

27 FEB, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL

FRONTIERLAND: 20 YEARS OF MORE MUSIC

28 FEB & 1 MAR, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

RETORICA VIOLIN DUO

6 MAR, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL

JUNK ENSEMBLE: THE FALLING SONG

6 MAR, 8PM

NUFFIELD THEATRE

BRECON BAROQUE

13 MAR, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL

NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

20 MAR, 7.30PM

GREAT HALL