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Exhibitions Workshops Events September - December 015 THE ROPEWALK • BARTON UPON HUMBER
The Ropewalk was built in 1801 and as Hall’s Barton Ropery manufactured ropes for the world. It closed as a working factory in 1989 and was brought back to life as an arts centre in April 2000 by an artists’ co-operative who still manage the site today. The Grade II listed building is a cultural quarter of a mile long!
The Ropewalk has 3 temporary exhibition spaces with a rolling exhibition programme that ensures there is always something new to see.
Workshops
The Ropewalk offers a stimulating programme of art and craft workshops that run throughout the year, including regular classes in printmaking and life drawing and day classes in a range of activities.
Events
The Craft Gallery continually displays in excess of 200 makers’ work from throughout the country including jewellery, ceramics, glass, textiles and a wide selection of artist-made greeting cards. The Hall-Mark Room displays a range of contemporary prints and collectables.
Ropery Hall is a small community venue with a capacity of around 120 that offers a programme of film, theatre, music and comedy.
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Fresh local produce is used to create a wide variety of mainly vegetarian snacks and light lunches. A large selection of delicious freshly made cakes, coffees and organic juices are also available.
The building also houses a small Museum, Artist Studios, meeting rooms for hire and bespoke picture framing service.
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welcome
Autumn falls into place.
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elcome to our autumn issue, always the fullest Ropewalk Magazine crammed with a plethora of exhibitions and events to brighten up the nights as they draw in towards the end of the year.
of spoken word events and unusual cross art form combinations. I hope that you feel brave enough to try something new and support these events.
Quality comedy abounds with Ropery Hall favourites Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Mark Thomas and Rob Newman who will all surely sell out. In addition to these stalwarts we have joined with Barnstormers Comedy Club to bring you a monthly comedy night showcasing three new talent and circuit regulars on each night.
Printmaker Alison Read will be having her second solo show in the Artspace in September. Alison’s work is always guaranteed to raise a smile and the print that she donated to the Art Auction earlier this year in aid of the Ropery Hall Development fund was the most fought over entry. There will be plenty of opportunity to purchase a piece of her new work without quite so much drama!
The continued partnership with the Yorkshire Small Venues network has enabled us to programme a variety
Liz Managing Director Cover image: Fred MacAulay
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Admission Free Galleries Open 7 days a week: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 10am - 4pm The Ropewalk is on one level with good wheelchair access; we are a 5 minute walk from the Barton Transport Interchange with half-hourly buses to Hull and Scunthorpe and a 2-hourly rail service to Grimsby and the wider rail network.
September - December 2015
jewellery
Featured Jewellers
September Alastair Scargall
From his home studio in Winterton, Alastair creates a wide range of fine sterling silver jewellery, predominately for his own enjoyment. His unique range offers rings, earrings, ear studs and pendants inspired by natural forms, seed heads, flowers and leaves. He is currently experimenting with texturing the surface of the silver, using rollers to produce cuffs, earrings and pendants.
October - Andrea Eserin
Based in Brighton, creating fresh, colourful, and tactile contemporary jewellery in silver, gold, resin and precious stones. Extensive travel throughout Central America and South East Asia, as well as a lifelong passion for the natural world has given Andrea a love for colour and pattern. She translates these aspects into designs using a combination of interesting shapes, pigmented resin and coloured gem stones.
November - Cath Hill
Cath’s unique jewellery collection is inspired by landscapes and seascapes, natural objects and ancient jewellery. She aims to communicate her response to the world around her. She works instinctively using basic techniques and processes, vitreous enamels and the versatile effects of the flame, meaning no two pieces are exactly the same.
December - Liz Samways Liz is a Leeds based jeweller and printmaker. Her work is inspired by the landscape, as viewed from the train window and aerial views and is influenced by English landscape painters, printmakers, and surface-pattern designers. Each piece of jewellery is a wearable piece of art. She works on a flat plane, interpreting and abstracting the patterns and textures of the landscape using techniques commonly found in printmaking.
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craft
BOX GALLERY Janine Knight
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anine is originally from South Lincolnshire and made the move north in 2005 to take a studio here at The Ropewalk. Janine’s work has continued to develop since the completion of her degree in Textile Crafts from The University of Huddersfield, where she specialised in weaving. Janine has a passion for detail, which can be seen in this new collection of Liberty print bears and rabbits that are all hand stitched with hand woven accessories. Drawings taken from her garden complement the new collection, which can be seen in the Box Gallery from October 3 to November 1.
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hristmas 2015 will be an explosion of all things handmade. Gallery One will be opening its doors in December and acting as an extension of the Craft Gallery so we will have a wonderful selection of handmade presents for all the family. We will have the essentials for anyone’s Christmas including handmade cards, gift wrap and stocking fillers, plus much, much more. Diary date: Insight Open Studios September 19, 20 & 26, 27
September - December 2015
exhibitions
Alison Read Pressed For Time 100 prints in 100 days
Ropewalk favourite Alison Read returns to the gallery with a brand new body of work. The word ‘new’ is the operative word as Alison set herself the task of creating 100 prints in 100 days! Always a prolific worker, Alison said “I wanted to reflect what can be produced in a strict time limit, with all its flaws and experiments, a way of testing of myself”. The results can be seen in the Artspace in September and October. Artspace
12 Sept – 18 Oct Pressed For Time: Alison Read
Unearthed
An exhibition of mixed media paintings, ceramics and jewellery by Hilary Angle and Barbara Wood. Hilary is an abstract artist concentrating on surface and texture, creating layers of mixed media, sanded and glazed to produce a dense rich surface and Gallery One
Barbara’s ceramic work examines eroded and neglected surfaces, particularly using saggar firing to evoke a distressed finish on a smooth, burnished form. In addition, porcelain and black stoneware beads produced by Barbara have been incorporated into contemporary jewellery by Hilary, making truly collaborative pieces. Hilary’s skills in working with silver complement the delicate hand-made beads and ceramic pieces, to produce a totally new range of individual jewellery. Hilary says: “This exhibition is an experiment in mixed media, combining past experiences in the painter’s studio with new skills from the jeweller’s workshop. It has been exciting trying combinations of metal and paint, forging and casting, glazing and scumbling, resulting in new discoveries unearthed from past practices.”
31 Oct –29 Nov Unearthed: Barbara Wood & Hilary Angle
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exhibitions
Rhiannon Lowe Fools Like Me/North Star
Rhiannon, currently based in Wales, creates sensitive illustrative drawings that explore issues such as pattern and portrait, hope and distraction, choice and failure. Her pen drawings and digital prints are accompanied by text that go hand in hand and form a parallel interpretation of the work.
Gallery One
12 Sept –25 Oct Fools Like Me / North Star: Rhiannon Lowe
Ebb & Flow In January 2011 three artists, Lynn Baker (glassmaker), Soo Durham (ceramicist) and Bob Armstrong (painter), began a walk along the south bank of the Humber determined to experience the river and its moods in all seasons. Starting at Tetney Lock in pouring rain and finishing at Trent Falls in brilliant sunshine the walk was broken up into thirteen stages over a period of 18 months. This exhibition is the culmination of three entirely different responses to the walk using glass, clay and paint but all three have captured the essence of The Humber. Artspace
24 Oct – 29 Nov Ebb and Flow
September - December 2015
Felting Workshops
workshops
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i Oberon has been tutoring crafts for close on 30 years, and with her magpie approach to new techniques was one of the first to master needle felting. She now leads workshops regionally and nationally presenting needle felting in a way beginners and professional textile artists find rewarding. Hand needle felters learn to use different gauges of needles for sculpting the wool into models and to apply remarkably fine details to the surface. Techniques from many crafts are utilised: the use of wire armatures from sculpting, manipulating the centre of gravity with sewing techniques, applying hair using doll making skills. The Owl and the Pussycat, will cover basic shaping techniques and then focus on how to add character to faces and various methods of creating dots.
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September Etching Weekend with Chris Roantree Saturday 10.30am – 4.30pm Sunday 10:30am – 4:00pm £90/80* (*Ropewalk Members only) Thursday 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th October, 5th November Mixed Level Silver Jewellery Making with Diane Lee 6:00pm – 8:00pm £67/62* (*Ropewalk Member) Glass lightcatchers with Gill Hobson Saturday 3rd October 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £65/60* (*Ropewalk Members only) Silversmithing with Diane Lee Saturday 10th October 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £50/45* (*Ropewalk Members only) Needle felt your own ‘Owl and the Pussy Cat’ with Fi Oberon Saturday 17th October 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £45/£40* (*Ropewalk Members only) Life Drawing with Richard Hatfield Saturday 17th October 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £40/35* (*Ropewalk Member) Tactile Techniques with Rachel Wood Saturday 7th November 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £50/45* (*Ropewalk Member) Copper Christmas Decoration with Jacqueline Warrington Saturday 14th November 2015 Saturday 10.30am - 4.30pm £45/40* (*Ropewalk Members only) Glass Angels with Gill Hobson Saturday 21st November 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £65/60* (*Ropewalk Members only)
The reindeer will cover the basic shaping techniques and how to work with wire.
Willow Christmas Wreaths and Decorations with Alison Walling Saturday 28th November 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £40/£35* (Ropewalk Members only)
Her approach to gathering these techniques has been rewarded with a book deal: she is presently creating the projects and the book will be available in 2016.
Needle felt your own Reindeer with Fi Oberon Saturday 12th December 2015 10.30am – 4.30pm £45/£40* (*Ropewalk members only)
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film
Autumn Films 10 Sept
SELMA (12A)
24 Sept
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (12A)
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth During World War I, a young English woman named Vera Brittain, postpones her studies at Oxford University to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in London and abroad. After the war she returns to Oxford to read history and later becomes a writer, feminist and pacifist. Stars: Kit Harrington, Alicia Vikander, Colin Morgan
1 Oct
WHIPLASH (15)
Nineteen year old Andrew Nieman wants to be the greatest jazz drummer in the world. He is starting his first year at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, the best music school in the United States and studying under Terence Fletcher. Andrew has to figure out his life priorities and what he is willing to sacrifice to be the best. Stars: Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist
8 Oct
BIRDMAN (15)
The late-midlife crisis of a fading Hollywood star is the basis of this surprisingly profound and extraordinarily kinetic satire about life and success in the age of social media. Michael Keaton stars as Riggan Thomson, an actor who found fame in the 1990s with a trilogy of superhero films based around the title character. Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
15 Oct
WILD (15)
A series of devastating personal traumas leave a woman feeling self-destructive and lost. After spending years behaving recklessly, she decides to turn things around by embarking on an epic, solo trek along America’s 1,000-mile-long Pacific Crest Trail, which gives her the time and space to reassess her existence. Drama based on a true story. Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern
22 Oct
A LITTLE CHAOS (12A)
A romantic drama following Sabine, a talented landscape designer, who is building a garden at Versailles for King Louis XIV. Sabine struggles with class barriers as she becomes romantically entangled with the court’s renowned landscape artist. Stars: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci
29 Oct WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH (15) A group of evacuees and their teachers hope to find peace by escaping the nightly air raids on London at the remote Eel Marsh House. What they do not realise is that its malevolent ghost is still in residence and is out for blood. Horror sequel set during the Second World War. Stars: Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox.
12 Nov (12)
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT
19 Nov
BIG EYES (12)
An English magician who exposes fake psychics is approached by his friend to prove that a medium is a fraud exploiting a wealthy family. As he watches the spiritualist at work, he begins to believe that she is the genuine article, challenging his previously unshakeable scepticism. Stars: Colin Firth, Emma Stone Aspiring painter Margaret Keane marries a controlling man who sells her artwork. As the paintings of large-eyed children grow tremendously popular, Margaret discovers he is claiming to have painted them himself, and she and her daughter are forced to live a lie for years - until she finally resolves to prove his deceit in court. Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Terence Stamp.
26 Nov FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (12A)
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. Stars: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen
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literature/theatre
Growing Old Digracefully
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ournalist, agony aunt and author Virginia Ironside will be revealing how to grow old disgracefully when she takes to the Ropery Hall stage in October. Exactly what does an agony aunt do when she reaches 60? She can lie like a trooper, jump off a bridge – or, as in Virginia’s case, take to the stage with her one-woman show, Growing OId Disgracefully. The show arose from performing at literary festivals to publicise her book, No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub!, but now, a few years later with a new book, No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses! published she’s still on the road. In her show she explains why unlimited free drugs, fun funerals, grandchildren and sex – or, even better, no sex – make the sixties the best (and funniest) time of your life!.
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ames Hyland reprises one of the greatest one-man shows of all time in his awardwinning production of A Christmas Carol – As told by Jacob Marley (deceased) in November. This has been hailed as the definitive telling of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and rated as one of the top Christmas shows. North Country Theatre make a welcome return to Ropery Hall in October with an adaptation of Jim Crace’s award winning historical novel, The Gift of Stones. Adapted for the stage and directed by the company’s artistic director Nobby Dimon the play is told in the breath-taking style of the company.
Children’s theatre has a prominent place in the autumn programme. Garlic Theatre return during the half-term holiday with its production of Shoe Kangaroo and the Big Bad Boot – a strapping tale that promises to be a delightful load of old cobblers. And after two sell-out performances of Hugless Douglas, Blunderbus return with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – the perfect treat for Christmas. Charlie Bucket is a little boy with a very big dream who wants to be a world-class magician. So, for Christmas, he wishes for the Big Book of Spells for Trainee Magicians... This spellbinding new show comes to life with a magical blend of music, puppetry and high-energy storytelling.
Oct 3 The Gift of Stones 7.30pm Oct 23 Virginia Ironside 7.30pm Oct 28 Shoe Kangaroo and the Big Bad Boot 2pm Nov 20 A Christmas Carol - As told by Jacob Marley (deceased) 7.30pm Dec 22 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 11am & 2pm
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The Other Half
literature
Northern Accent
We are now into the second year of this three year programme of literature events and this season we have three very different pieces on offer. What would you sacrifice for the sake of the one you love? The Forbidden Door tells passionate, funny and hauntingly interwoven stories. Twisting human nature’s need to disobey the rules into beautiful tales of love and loss, this is storytelling for adults: there are no big eyes or nursery rhymes. Expect impossible quests, heart-stopping twists, love, loss, high drama, low comedy and pure moments of total abandonment from the real world. Award-winning crime-writer Mark Billingham and leading country duo My Darling Clementine come together to present a dark and glorious mix of song and story. Set in a rundown Memphis bar there is lust, murder and domestic horror and that long and difficult search
for …The Other Half. A unique collaboration between the leading lights of crime fiction and country music. A show to die for. A quartet of poets faces the audience; in turn they step up to the mic to perform their poems. A cross between a poetic super-group and Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show is fast paced and never the same twice. With humour, pathos, quizzes and audience participation, this is a fun night out that will both move and entertain. A pre-show workshop is available here so you can work with A Firm of Poets to hone your performance poetry skills then join them on stage for the evening’s performance. As part of the show, participants are invited to submit one of their poems to an online document The People’s Republic Of Poetry which will grow as the tour makes its way around the country
Oct 9 The Forbidden Door by Devil’s Violin 7.30pm £12/£14otd Oct 17 The Other Half by Mark Billingham & My Darling Clementine 8pm £14/£16otd Nov 7 A Firm of Poets 7.30pm £10/£12otd (Poetry workshop @ 2pm £5/free to ticket holders)
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comedy
Fred MacAulay
COMEDY
One of the best parts of my job is choosing my favourite comedians to perform in Ropery Hall and then of course watching them. This autumn I am delighted that these four acts have said yes and I am sure tickets will not be available for long. For me a good comedian has not only to make you laugh, that’s a given, but they have to make you think, and if they are really good, take you on a voyage of discovery that results in you seeing the world in a different way. First up is Mark Thomas and his show Trespass which carries on from where Mark’s previous show 100 Acts of Minor Dissent left off. It is his usual odd mix of theatre, stand up, activism, a dash of journalism and a dollop of mayhem. Jeremy Hardy begins his fourth decade as a stand-up this year. That’s a more dramatic way of saying he started thirtyone years ago and, without a lottery win, probably has at least another thirty-one years to go. I really hope so. Twenty Fifteen is a hugely significant year for one of Scotland’s best standup comedians. Back on the road again
after 18 years at BBC Radio Scotland, Fred MacAulay looks back on family life at home…..and forward to how his country will shape up after the referendum of 2014. As well as looking backwards and forwards he’ll probably look sideways at politics, sport and the environment. After volunteering for a brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that lights up when you’re in love, Rob Newman emerges with more questions than answers. Can brain scans read our minds? Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? The show includes a specially constructed MRI-hat that will record Robert’s real-time brain activity in the show. A new partnership between Ropery Hall and the Barnstormers Comedy Club gives our audiences to see up and coming and circuit regular comedians on the last Friday of the month. The start of a regular monthly slot with a well-established format of three top circuit acts and a compere, Barnstormers provide evenings of stand-up comedy of the highest quality.
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comedy Sept 17 Mark Thomas: Trespass 8pm £15/£17otd Sept 25 Barnstormers Comedy Club 8pm £10/£12otd Oct 24 Jeremy Hardy 8pm £14/£16otd £5JSA Oct 30 Barnstormers Comedy Club 8pm £10/£12otd Nov 3 Fred MacAulay 8pm £15/£17otd Nov 27 Barnstormers Comedy Club 8pm £10/£12otd Dec 5 Robert Newman: The Brain Show 8pm £15/£17otd
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music
Lau
Folk
There are a few extras in this autumn’s folk programme. Wild Willy Barrett who you will have seen here with John Otway brings his French Connection to Ropery Hall. The group is an interesting mix of French, Irish and English acoustic arrangements – something different, featuring instruments including cello, guitar, Irish pipes, whistles, fiddle and banjo, and a good deal of on stage slightly off the wall banter Lau needs no introduction and when they were offered to me by Root Music as part of the Arts Council funded Music Net Tour I snapped their hand off. Expect a show-stopping night as Ropery Hall presents what could easily be the most thrilling concert of the year. Crowned Best Folk Group at the BBC Radio Two Folk Awards an incredible four times, Lau are widely regarded as one of the UK’s most inventive bands whose dazzling performances have captivated audiences across the world. Finally an extra treat for Young ‘uns fans as we couldn’t resist putting them on for a second time this year with a festive offering which I am sure will
include plenty of laughs. Our “last Saturday of the month” slots programmed by Mad Dog Folk continue with a great line up Mike Wilson and Damien Barber are two of the finest exponents of traditional song in the United Kingdom. It is difficult to accept that these relatively young men have a combined 40 plus years’ experience of performing at folk venues. The Faustus triumvirate are three of the leading lights of their generation: Saul Rose, Benji Kirkpatrick and Paul Sartin. They have a plethora of experience between them, brought together here in a virtuosic display of musicianship, rooted deeply in the English tradition. Steve Tilston and Jez Lowe are two of the UK Acoustic/Folk scene’s finest songwriters and they join forces for a concert filled with songs and music, chat and banter and intimate insights into their approach to their craft. Questions, answers, anecdotes and anarchy and a very special evening of music are promised.
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music craft
Mathew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra
Expect an unforgettable night of soulful, string-laden and deeply spiritual jazz in this very special concert from acclaimed trumpeter, composer and bandleader Matthew Halsall and the remarkable Easterntinged, hard grooving Gondwana Orchestra featuring very special guest vocalist Josephine Oniyama Matthew Halsall is one of the brightest stars on the UK jazz scene. With five albums already under his belt, his languid, soulful and deeply expressive playing has won him a legion of fans with critical praise from everyone from Jamie Cullum and Gilles Peterson to Jazz FM, Mojo Magazine, The Guardian, BBC6 Music and many more. His last album When The World Was One was the iTunes Jazz Album of the Year 2014.
Always pushing boundaries, Halsall’s music blends his love of the model jazz of John and Alice Coltrane and Eastern music with evocative, rainstreaked visions from his hometown of Manchester. The result is a sublime spiritual jazz all of his own. Performing material from the new album alongside highlights from his back catalogue, the Ropery Hall show promises to be an evening of wonderful music in the company of some of the UK’s finest musicians. The Ropery Hall resident sax genius, Mr Snake Davis is back with his band at the end of September. Classic tunes and new compositions from this exciting and brilliant ensemble.
Sept 19 Snake Davis Band Oct 2 Mathew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra Sept 12 Sept 26 Oct 31 Nov 28 Dec 1 Dec 12
Wild Willy Barrett’s French Connection Mike Wilson & Damien Barber Faustus Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe Lau The Young’uns: We Three Sings
8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm
8pm 8pm
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music
Skip “Little Axe’ McDonald
Feeling Blue
mtm productions welcome old favourites back to Ropery Hall this autumn with gigs by Boo Hewerdine, Brooks Williams and The Wiyos all to look forward to. The addition of the Aynsley Lister Band (standing gig) on Friday 13 November has enabled us to fashion a mini blues weekend with Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald and King Size Slim joining us on the following night.
Which musician links Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, James Brown, Robert Plant, Mark Stewart & The Mafia, Sinead O’Connor, and Megadeth? The answer is Skip McDonald. Skip made his name as an integral part of the Sugar Hill house band playing on the most influential early rap classics and has made some of the most adventurous and praised UK music of the last twenty years
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The WIYOS
The big warm tones from his resonator guitar along with a powerful and direct vocal delivery are the trademarks of singer/songwriter King Size Slim. Add rolling grooves and percussive hooks and you have a songwriter who delivers original compositions that are steeped in a world of music that is fully conscious of its roots but at the same time has a new story to tell. Boo Hewerdine 8pm The Aynsley Lister Band 8pm Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald and King Size Slim 8pm Brooks Williams 8pm The Wiyos
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Vonda Shepard
When the telephone rang and an agent I know offered me Judie Tzuke for the autumn I was bowled over, he then added Vonda Shepard and I couldn’t say yes fast enough! I went home, dusted off my vinyl copy of Sportscar and was transported back to my teenage self in the early 80s! How could I not book these two marvellous performers? Vonda first shot to fame through her long running appearances, performances and musical accompaniment in Ally McBeal. This included the Top 10 hit single and show theme song Searching My Soul which also spawned an international hit album.
from across her life and career. Judie is one of the UK’s finest Singer/Songwriters and is known all over the world for her timeless song, ‘Stay With Me Till Dawn’, with many top 10 albums, including the revered classic, ‘Welcome to the Cruise’. The song stayed in the UK charts for 16 weeks, and she made three live appearances on Top of the Pops.
Her 14th album, Rookie, was released in July this year on Vonda’s own label. Judie Tzuke is back on the road for a special gig at Ropery Hall where she will be performing acoustically. The event is part of her, “Songs and Stories” experience and promises to be an intimate evening of old favourites and new songs and tales
Judie Tzuke
Double Diva
music
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Vonda Shepard 8pm £20/£22otd Judie Tzuke 8pm £20/£22otd
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iary September - December 2015
eptember
12 - October 18 • Artspace • Alison Read: Pressed For Time 12 - October 25 • Gallery One • Rhiannon Lowe 10
Selma
7.30pm
£4
12
Wild Willy Barrett’s French Connection
8pm
£12/£14
17
Mark Thomas
8pm
£15/£17
19
Snake Davis Band
8pm
£14/£16
24
Testament of Youth
7.30pm
£4
25
Barnstormer’s Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
26
Damien Barber & Mike Wilson
8pm
£12/£14
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ctober
Until October 18 • Artspace • Alison Read: Pressed For Time Until - October 25 • Gallery One • Rhiannon Lowe 3 - November 1 • Box Gallery • Janine Knight 24 - November 29 • Artspace • Ebb and Flow 31 - November 29 • Gallery One • Barbara Wood & Hilary Angle: Unearthed 1
Whiplash
7.30pm
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Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra
8pm
£14/£16
3
The Gift Of Stones
7.30pm
£12/£14
8
Birdman
7.30pm
£4
9
Devil’s Violin: The Forbidden Door
7.30pm
£12/£14
10
Vonda Shepard
8pm
£20/£22
15
Wild
7.30pm
£4
16
Boo Hewerdine
8pm
£12/£14
17
The Other Half
8pm
£14/£16
22
A Little Chaos
7.30pm
£4
23
Virginia Ironside
7.30pm
£12/£14
24
Jeremy Hardy
8pm
£14/£16
28
The Shoe Kangaroo
2pm
£4/£3 U16
29
Woman in Black: Angel of Death
7.30pm
£4
30
Barnstormer’s Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
31
Faustus
8pm
£12/£14
Exhibitions
Music
Film
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craft
ovember
Until November 29 • Artspace • Ebb and Flow Until November 29 • Gallery One • Barbara Wood & Hilary Angle: Unearthed 3
Fred MacAulay
8pm
£15/£17
7
A Firm of Poets
7.30pm
£10/£12
12
Magic in the Moonlight
7.30pm
£4
13
Aynsley Lister Band
8pm
£12/£14
14
Little Axe McDonald & King Size Slim
8pm
£12/£14
19
Big Eyes
7.30pm
£4
20
A Christmas Carol
7.30pm
£12/£14
21
Judie Tzuke
8pm
£20/£22
26
Far From The Madding Crowd
7.30pm
£4
27
Barnstormer’s Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
28
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Steve Tilson & Jez Lowe
8pm
£12/£14
1
Lau
8pm
£16.50/£18
4
Brooks Williams
8pm
£12/£14
5
Robert Newman
8pm
£15/£17
11
The WIYOS
8pm
£14/£16
12
The Young ‘Uns
8pm
£13/£15
22
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
11am & 2pm
£6/£4 U16
ecember
5 - January 3 • All Galleries • Christmas Show
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The Venue is a small community venue with a capacity of around 120. For small music nights seating is cabaret-style; for all other performances it is theatre-style and seating is not numbered. Please ensure that you arrive in good time if you wish to be seated together. There is a fully licenced bar at all performances. Doors open an hour before the start of performances.
How To Book
Tickets are available: In Person at The Ropewalk. Open 7 days a week 10am - 5pm (4pm Sundays). By Telephone. Reserve your tickets for 5 days before collection or pay by credit or debit card. (An additional charge of £2 is applied) Online at www.roperyhall.co.uk
Directions
We are well signposted from the A15. Just follow the brown signs... Exit the A15 at J.3 and take the A1077 into Barton (Ferriby Road). Turn left at mini roundabout at the bottom of the hill and follow the road round to the next mini roundabout and turn left again. Follow the one-way system through Castledyke West and get in the left-hand lane. Turn left at the junction opposite the railway station, then take the first right off Waterside Road onto Maltkiln Road. For The Ropewalk Galleries turn left into Tesco’s car park where you will find us in the far left corner. There is ample free car parking adjacent to the building. For Ropery Hall, follow the road round to the Waters’ Edge park gates and then left into the car park. Please park at the end of the car park nearest Ropery Hall then walk to the first set of doors at the side of the building. For Sat Nav users please input DN18 5JR which will lead you straight to Waters’ Edge Car Park.
The Ropewalk•Maltkiln Road•Barton upon Humber.•North Lincolnshire•DN18 5JT t: 01652 660380•f: 01652 637495•e: info@the-ropewalk.co.uk•www.the-ropewalk.co.uk
The Ropewalk is the trading name for the Waterside Artists’ Co-operative Limited reg no 3820744 VAT no 875 7455 72