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Exhibitions Workshops Events January - April 016 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
Here we go again!.
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new year and another Ropewalk Magazine packed to the margins with cultural gems. There is so much going on this season that we haven’t been able to do every event justice so please use this publication as a prompt to look for further details on our very comprehensive website. 2016 is a year that will claim some significant anniversaries; unfortunately our garden has no relevance to Capability Brown’s tercentenary so we will have to go with 400 years since the death of the Bard. Shakespeare reputedly died on the same day of his birth, April 23. There is a huge wealth of his work to choose from so what did I
do? Yes, I booked three versions of the same one! By the end of April you will have had chance to see Macbeth adapted for two actors by Out of Chaos Theatre, the 2015 film starring Michael Fassbender and Diochan, the story known as the Chinese Macbeth, brought to us by Red Dragonfly Productions. Your homework this season is to compare and contrast the treatment of this play and I will be checking your conclusions! I wish you all the best for the New Year and hope to greet you at The Ropewalk very soon. Liz Managing Director Cover image: Cara Dillon
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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.
January - April 2016
jewellery
Featured Jewellers
January - Joanne Tinley Joanne’s jewellery range is produced at her studio in Eastleigh, Hampshire. Using sterling and fine silver, 24k gold and merino wool she uses her growing collection of hammers to build up textures on her whimsical woodland creatures and the earrings and bangles that accompany them.
February - Gill Pottle Gill works in sterling silver, gold and gemstones to create work that is rich in texture, colour and movement. Having received training in traditional methods of hand-crafting both fine and contemporary jewellery, she uses basic hand tools to maximum effect to create her pieces with inspiration coming from many different areas.
March - Jessica Hewitt Jessica finds inspiration from floral motifs found in modern and vintage textiles, particularly Asian and Japanese prints. Floral motifs are simplified and reduced to create symmetrical forms with crisp lines and a geometric edge. Pieces are produced in two and three dimension exploring scale and pattern. Semi-precious stones add colour and elegance to some pieces
April - Jennie Gill Jennie has been making precious jewellery for over 20 years, with many years producing work in collaboration with high street fashion labels. After an Arts Council funded research trip to New York, Jennie found an interest in vintage cut diamonds. Most of her work is individual created on the basis of the individual stones.
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BOX GALLERY
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uring March the Box Gallery will be hosting a solo show of textile artist Amanda Cobbett’s work. From her studio in the Surrey Hills Amanda creates sculptures, embroideries and paintings based on life outside her back door using a mixture of papier mache, wire, found objects, antique and upcycled fabrics. The sculptures of garden birds are life size and accentuate colour and the intricacies of feathers using torn silks and lace, they often have little wire speech bubbles with quotes and phrases, quirky sayings or machine embroidered text in the body of the fabric and sometimes ticker tape with a little ‘ode’ about each bird. All have a bird tag on their ankle with the makers mark stamped on it. Amanda also makes jewel like flowers made from wire, antique buttons and jewellery findings on a wooden base. Box Gallery – March 2016
Winter Wraps
Hat by Barbara Cassell (detail)
As we welcome in the New Year, with winter still on our doorstep why not wrap up with something from our Box Gallery this January. Scarves by Jane Withers and Michael Hanmer of Janie Knitted Textiles are in stock. They use lambswool and British wool on hand operated knitting machines to create contemporary textiles. If a hat is more your thing, we have Barbara Cassell’s wool hats. Her handmade hats are decorated with machine and hand embroidery. Box Gallery – January 2016
January - April 2016
exhibitions
Prizewinning Prints
In January we have two shows from printmakers who have both been prizewinners in The Ropewalk’s Open Exhibitions. Andi Dakin, who recently won the Selector’s Prize in this year’s Humber To The Wash, explores the similarities between microscopic life forms and the dramatic energies of the Infinite Universe. He uses materials and processes that simulate frozen moments of invertebrate activity, which can also illustrate speculations of the birth and destruction of galaxies. They convey intrigue through their inventive assemblage and hint at the very temporary nature of life and the small stake that earth dwellers have in the context of space, infinity and eternity.
Sara Clark won second prize in the North Lincolnshire Print Open in 2012. The shapes, lines and vistas within her prints are developed from drawings and photographs of actual spaces, merged, and layered with places from her memory. “Images morph and are manipulated on the edge of recognition-familiar in texture, yet fragile to grasp and understand,” she said. “Images, both real and experienced, remembered and half-forgotten are disassembled, reassembled, twisted, layered, blocked out, and removed. Boundaries are explored and made to reveal a different reality”. Sara’s experimental approach also extends to the actual process of printmaking. “The experimental nature of print, its unpredictability, is something I explore and relish, but an element of control is never far away.”
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Out of the woods Whilst many of you will be familiar with the sculpture of Phil Burman, few will have seen his painting. In this latest exhibition new sculptures and painting have been developed from the common theme of woodlands. “Whilst my sculptures are an abstract exploration of wooded landscape and the underlying terrain, the paintings are a record of my emotional responses to woods and forests.”
Lou Hazelwood
Andi Dakin Sara Clark Lou Hazelwood Phil Burman Lindy Norton Handmade
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Having had an Arts Council grant and a year to research Victorian Children’s Magic Lantern Slides and their proposed (by the artist) embedded ethics and moral values of The Empire, Lou Hazelwood presents a multimedia show. Showing large scale photographic prints, acrylic slides, showcasing results of a chemical process based investigation with the support of Dr Mark Lorch and the Chemistry department at Hull University. She has also worked with artist and designer Phil Ratcliffe to model some modern viewing machines, referencing old technologies and using Instagram’s toy projector ‘The Projecteo”.
January 9 – February 21 January 9 – February 28 February 27 - April 17 March 5 - April 24 April 23 - June 5 April 30 - June12
January - April 2016
Featured Workshop
workshops
Lindy Norton Atmospheric Dry Point Etching Workshop Saturday 30th April 2016 Lindy Norton has been practising print making for well over a decade, after completing her MA in Print Making at the Chelsea School of Art, London, she now has more than 30 years’ experience of teaching and is currently running the Illustration and Print Making course at the Hull College School of Art. During the workshop students will learn how to prepare a plate, using a selection of tools to create marks, interest and build up tonal value. Lindy will explain how to ink up the plate and by using controlled wiping, add atmosphere to the finished print and by the end of the workshop a series of prints will have been created showing varying degrees of atmosphere, This workshop is running alongside an exhibition of Lindy’s own work, which will be displayed within the ArtSpace Gallery until 5th June. Her inspiration for her own work comes from a passion for dry point etching and the versatility it allows for her to create a varied tonal range. Lindy has had her prints regularly accepted into the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.
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Workshops January – April 2016 Drawing from the figure with Richard Hatfield Sunday 21st February 10.30-3.30pm £40/£35* Six Week Silversmithing course with Diane Lee Thursdays –3,10, 17, 24, 31 March and 7th April 6:00pm – 8:00pm £70/£60* Willow Birds with Alison Walling Saturday 5th March 10:30- 4:30pm £40/£35* Needle Felting – Oyster Catcher with Fi Oberon – Saturday 9th April 10:30- 4:30pm £45/£40* Woodcut Printing with Jo McChesney Saturday 23rd April 10:30- 4:30pm £45/£40* Atmospheric drypoint etching with Lindy Norton Saturday 30th April 10:30- 4:30pm £50/£45* *reduced price for Ropewalk Members
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New Theatre
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illiam Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the Chinese Macbeth both take to the stage this winter season.
Sometimes known as the Scottish Play. Macbeth will be played in just 80 high-octane minutes in early March when Out of Chaos, in association with Barnsley Civic, mac Birmingham and Oxford Playhouse, appear at Ropery Hall on March 5. The multi-award winning creators of Unmythable and Norsesome take on their biggest challenge yet when just two actors bring more than 30 characters brilliantly and boldly to life in a fast and very furious production. A fortnight later on March 19, Red Dragonfly Productions will be performing an exciting adaptation based on the ancient Chinese legend of Diao Chan, and known as the Chinese Macbeth with its epic story of lust, jealousy and revenge. Children’s theatre also takes a prominent role in this season’s programme. During the February half-term Hearthside Tales will be performing a winter’s storytelling show, The Snow Bear, with music and puppets. Featuring live music, songs, puppets and a beautiful travelling theatre packed full of delights, it tells the story of a polar bear who is taken away from his arctic home and of his adventures with mischievous elves, goblins, trolls and a friendly Tomten who helps him find his way back. In the Easter holidays Tucked In returns with Leaper, a spell-binding blend of beautiful puppetry and mesmeric music following one fish’s moving quest to return home. This modern fairytale aims to help children create a relationship with marine life and help nurture it for generations to come.
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January - April 2016
spoken word
Write On!
discussing what it is to write with a ‘northern voice’ in Three Voices, here a growing number of a light hearted evening of poetry, opportunities to get involved prose, questions and answers. in creative writing at The Ropewalk either as a participant or Yorkshire born dramatist John by simply sitting back and enjoying Godber is internationally renowned a number of spoken word evenings. for his observational comedies. He has also been calculated as the Wordy evenings kick off in February third most performed playwright in the UK behind only Shakespeare with an interesting project from the Ossett Observer, Threshold. Original and Alan Ayckbourn. Helen Cross is a novelist as well as a dramatist songs, reworking of classic texts with her plays and short stories and beautiful story-telling combine frequently being performed on to make this an evening of warmth Radio 4. Her first novel My summer and contemplation of the meaning of love won the Betty Trask award of welcome. Join musicians Peter Spafford, Richard Ormrod and guest in 2002. It was subsequently made vocalist Jacqui Wicks for an evening into a film starring Emily Blunt. of song that explores the possibilities Peter Sansom is a poet whose books include On the Pennine Way of hospitality and welcome. and Everything You’ve Heard is True and among other things his Take Back Your Freedom commissions have included writing 2 March 2016, marks 80 years since the publication of Winifred Holtby’s for the guardian, Radio Three and a best known novel, South Riding. As billboard in the centre of Lancaster.
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well as being a prolific writer Holtby, born in the East Riding of Yorkshire and bought up in Cottingham, was also a political activist, journalist, reviewer and lecturer.
Don’t miss this thoroughly entertaining evening listening to them read from their work and talk about their This dynamic and thought– relationships with provoking show written and performed by Felix Hodcroft and Sue the north and how Wilsea (aka the Hull to Scarborough it has shaped their work and careers, Line ), throws a spotlight on this then take the remarkable woman and what she opportunity to ask achieved in her tragically short life. them questions in the relaxed atmosphere From Northern Accent, the for what is sure to Arts Council England funded be an entertaining project which kicked started The question and answer Ropewalk’s involvement in spoken session. word and creative writing, we have three great northern writers Feb 6 Threshold March 2 Take Back your Freedom March 6 Northern Voices
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Winifred Holtby
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Get involved Occasional Workshop by Louise Beech and Cassandra Parkin supported by Northern Accent Literature project Louise Beech is an East Yorkshire author who has always been haunted by the sea. She regularly writes travel pieces for the Hull Daily Mail, where she was a columnist for 10 years. Her short fiction has won the Glass Woman Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose, and the Aesthetica Creative Works competition, as well as shortlisting for the Bridport Prize twice and being published in a variety of UK magazines.
monologue works, looking at opportunities for getting your work into print and exploring if and when poetry should rhyme! Whatever form you favour – prose (fiction or non-fiction), poetry or script - the emphasis will be on producing crafted pieces of writing. Led by local writer Sue Wilsea, a friendly atmosphere guarantees that each participant can progress at his or her own pace while accessing professional support. Course begins Tuesday January 26, 6.30pm - 8.45pm £75 members/ £80 non-members
Fathom Writers also runs a monthly Writers’ Support Group Writing can be an isolating activity and it’s sometimes difficult to Cassandra Parkin is an East be objective about what you’ve Yorkshire writer with a passion for produced. This group, meeting fairy-tales, who loves writing about monthly, will offer participants the the extraordinary truths that lie opportunity to have their work just beneath the mundane surface which can be prose, poetry or script of modern life. Her short story collection, New World Fairy Tales (Salt – read and critiqued by others in Publishing, 2011), won the 2011 Scott the group. Sessions will be chaired Prize for Short Stories. Her work has by local writer Sue Wilsea who will offer some ideas for unblocking been also published in numerous creativity but most of each two magazines and anthologies. The hour session will be devoted to the Summer We All Ran Away (Legend offering of constructive criticism on Press, 2013) was Cassandra’s work in progress. We now have one debut novel and nominated for full group and will start a second the Amazon Rising Stars 2014. The Beach Hut (Legend Press, 2015) is her once 5 people have indicated they are interested so to add your name second novel. to the list please email fw@theropewalk.co.uk and it will hopefully Saturday 6 February 10.30am – 1pm start in February. £15 non-members, £12 members Whether you are a complete beginner or already writing, why not kick start 2016 with a Creative Writing course? Each of the eight weekly sessions will provide triggers / stimuli for creativity and focus on one aspect of writing, for example learning how the dramatic
Wednesday 6.30 – 8.45pm £36 for the 6 months
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comedy
COMEDY
An overload of laughs is just what is needed to start the year right. The monthly Barnstormers Comedy Club has really taken off since it started in September. The format of three different acts on the last Friday of each month for just £10 is proving very popular. Added to this new venture we have our usual smorgasbord of comedians that you may have heard on the radio or seen on TV so there is absolutely no excuse to be miserable. We are delighted to work with Barton Rotary Club with a fundraising evening in the company of comedian and Humberside policeman Alfie Moore in January. Profits from the evening will go towards the good work that the organisation does with charities and the local community while the postponed Evening with Virginia Ironside from last season is rescheduled for Saturday 20 February. Alfie is followed by five top performers starting with Simon Evans in February, Romesh Ranganathan in March and Rob Beckett, Rory McGrath and Mark Steel in April. Romesh has already sold out and the others will not be far behind. Liz Alfie Moore An evening of comedy with BBC Radio4 ‘Fair Cop’ Alfie Moore. Fresh from his hit Radio 4 series ‘It’s A Fair Cop’ and a sell-out Edinburgh festival Alfie brings a mix of stand-up comedy and real-life stories from his days as a Humberside copper – including his dogged determination to track down a serial flasher in Scunthorpe which led to a shocking conclusion.
rant about his children but these are at least the lofty aspirations he starts with this time.
Simon Evans - In the Money Host of BBC Radio 4’s Goes to Market and star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo, Simon Evans has been immersing himself in economics for the last couple of years, like a pig immersing itself in organic cleansing elements. He has unpicked why the French don’t want to own their own home (sex, obvs), why mass spectrometers reveal Americans to literally be made of corn, and why Alco-Synth - the effects of alcohol but with an effective antidote - is not likely to be appearing at a wine bar near you in the near future, despite having been invented years ago. As usual the whole thing deteriorates swiftly into a heartfelt
Mark Steel - Who Do I Think I Am Mark Steel used to be sneeringly disdainful of the vogue for tracing one’s family tree, imagining his South London upbringing was the main reason for his leftwing views and hatred of billionaire capitalists and North London. S a n g u i n e
Rob Beckett – Mouth of the South Beckett’s back with a brand-new hour of funnies and he’s taking on the big issues like Kit Kats and flatbread! Star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo, BBC2’s Mock the Week & Channel 4’s 8 out of 10 Cats.
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comedy Jan 16 Alfie Moore Feb18 Simon Evans Feb 20 Virginia Ironside April 1 Rob Beckett April 8 Rory McGrath April 21 Mark Steel Jan 29, Feb 26, March 25, April 29 Barnstormers Comedy Club
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about being adopted, he knew his birth name was Phillip Anderson and his birth father was French but it never preoccupied him. Yet the arrival of his son in his midthirties prompted a change of heart, and he set about trying to find his natural mother. Rory McGrath:Remembers (…or is it Forgets?) Comedy writer and TV presenter Rory McGrath makes his first appearance at Ropery Hall. In his latest show Rory McGrath looks back on his life and career.
Rob Beckett
Rory started off writing for The Dave Allen Show and Alas Smith and Jones in the mid-eighties, before moving onto TV in 1989 and appearing as a panellist on Whose Line Is It Anyway? He has also presented many quiz shows and factual programmes on travel, sport and history, including Three Men in a Boat, A Word in Your Era, The Holiday Show, The History Fix, (all BBC), Killer Queens (ITV), Bloody Britain and Engineering Britain (Discovery).
Rory McGrath
Mark Steel
His latest show contains adult themes and traces of peanut oil.
January - April 2016
music
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We are continuing our 80s revival theme into 2016 with Carol Decker’s T’Pau in February. The monthly folk slot has a variety of acts from fresh faced youngsters to more experienced hands to choose from, mtm is promoting four new artists to Ropery Hall, Snake Davis appears with Burden of Paradise as one of his four visits in 2016 and as always the theme that links them all together is artistic quality. Liz Mick Harding, our Mad Dog Folk programmer, may have put some distance between Barton and himself by moving to London but with the wonders of email he is still able to make sure we have the best in folk on the Ropery Hall stage. The annual Young Folk showcase has been moved to February this year to accommodate a well-known face on the folk circuit Steve Knightley. Steve is the song writing force behind Show of Hands, widely acclaimed as the finest acoustic roots duo in England. Once described by The Times as the “gravel voiced spokesman of the rural poor” he possesses a vast repertoire of songs about those who live and work in the countryside. Tom Moore, Archie Churchill-Moss and Jack Rutter hail from three distinct regions of the UK combining musical material, style and tradition from Norfolk, Somerset and Yorkshire respectively. The trio have performed widely, at venues and events ranging from Glastonbury, to folk clubs and
Cara Dillon
he question always occurs to me when looking at all the music we have on offer – why would you want to stay in? One evening that I am already doing my home work for is Ryley Walker with Danny Thompson in February. I’ll explain why later.
living rooms. Moore Moss Rutter were winners of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2011. Since Sam Carter released his debut album Keepsakes in 2009, there has been a mounting excitement about this songwriter, guitarist and singer. Sam is no stranger to Ropery Hall and we were delighted that he has agreed once again to play for us. Touted as one of the finest banjo players in the UK as well as being a superb singer, songwriter and guitarist, Dan Walsh is described as “the real deal” (UNCUT). He now has three critically acclaimed solo albums with his new album Incidents and Accidents receiving excellent reviews. In addition to the monthly slots we have added Cara Dillon in February and Kings of the South Seas present Chasing the Whale in April. If you don’t know the voice of Cara Dillon, you’re in for a treat. If you are already amongst her legions of admirers around the world, you know you have something special in store when she
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Ryley Walker & Danny Thompson
music craft
appears at Ropery Hall. A Thousand Hearts, Cara Dillon’s fifth solo album, is another small masterpiece of song and emotion, ethereal and radiant, beautifully honed and perfectly true. Chasing the Whale brings together six distinctive and hugely talented artists. Kings of the Seas come from the three corners of folk, indie and jazz. They have invited the acclaimed traditional New England and Southern Appalachia singer Tim Eriksen to join them. Presenter and author Philip Hoare writes and directs captivating and eloquent tales for screen and his book, Leviathan, about man’s relationship with the sea and whales, won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. The powerful images associated with these voyages are captured by Bafta nominated documentary maker Adam Clitheroe Jan 30 Feb 12 Feb 19 Feb 21 Feb 27 Mar 26 April 2 April 23 April 30
Finally a gem of an evening for which I will set you a task. Spend some time looking through your record collection and spot how many times Danny Thompson appears. I am on 10 different artists so far including T-Rex and Kate Bush. Let me know how you do! Singer-songwriter Ryley Walker plays guitar (a Guild D-35) like Bert Jansch and sings like Tim Buckley. Still only in his mid-twenties, he’s going to be a major figure, as the rave reviews for his second album, ‘Primrose Green’ attest. For this unmissable date, Walker is joined by the revered double-bassist Danny Thompson, who of course performed with both Bert Jansch (in Pentangle) and Tim Buckley, as well as with Nick Drake, John Martyn and many more, helping to create the lyrical, folk-jazz style that so influenced Ryley Walker close to half a century later. As duos go, it’s a unique marriage made in heaven.
Steve Knightley T’Pau Cara Dillon Ryley Walker with Danny Thompson Moore Moss & Rutter Sam Carter Kings of the South Seas – Chasing the Whale Burden of Paradise Dan Walsh Trio
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music
Rod Picott
mtm promotions welcomes exciting acts new to Ropery Hall in our winter programme.
Nashville based Rod Picott appears at Ropery Hall in early February promoting his new album, ‘Fortune’. It’s his seventh solo release, written and recorded after years of heavy touring.
UK, Europe and America with five successful CDs to their name.
For those of you who are Guardian readers, you will already be aware of Police Dog Hogan, and its famous tea towels, via the banjo player and Looking to make a record that could serve as a columnist, Tim Dowling. For everybody else this raw, authentic document of his live show, Picott is a band that provides great entertainment recorded ‘Fortune’ quickly, cutting six songs during his first day in the studio and finishing Originally a trio, Police Dog Hogan were the entire album within a week and a half. formed in 2009 and have since developed into a high-energy and eclectic eight-piece band. This new CD gave Picott the chance to put together a small band, keeping things as real Led by their main singer/songwriter James and raw as possible. They just plugged in and Studholme, they combine fiddle, banjo, played. mandolin, accordion, brass, drums and guitars
with knockout four-part harmonies in an exuberant fusing of country, pop, folk, and rocking urban bluegrass. They are, in fact, as hard to categorise as they are easy on the ear. Their literate and superbly crafted songs veer from the wistful and poetic to flat-out, footstomping tales of doomed barbecues, French mustard and falling in love on a Tennessee Ben’s music is inspired by the Blues, and is highway. being talked of as the new up-and-coming UK Blues guitarist; one of the finest to have It’s a grown-up band that clearly relishes emerged in Europe for years while singermaking the most of their increasing success in songwriter Stevie, who with his brother Alan a world of much younger acts. are the co-front men of the Nimmo Brothers, and have been successfully touring all over the The following month mtm brings two incredible guitarists/songwriters Ben Poole and Stevie Nimmo to Barton. They will be performing two electrifying live shows and sharing the same backing band of musicians! A huge treat for blues/rock fans everywhere
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Rod Piccot Ben Poole & Stevie Nimmo Police Dog Hogan
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Film
New Year Films 28 JAN OUT (12A)
A ROYAL NIGHT
4 Feb (12A)
LOVE & MERCY
On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance. Stars: Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett
In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks
11 Feb
MR HOLMES (PG)
An elderly Sherlock Holmes retires to a seaside farmhouse in the aftermath of the Second World War, and struggles to cope with his diminished faculties. Assisted by his housekeeper’s inquisitive son, he tries to piece together the events of the one case that he failed to solve. Period mystery based on Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind. Stars: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney and Milo Parker
25 Feb
AMY (15)
A documentary on the late singer/songwriter, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks. Stars: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson
3 March
45 YEARS (15)
A long-married couple’s marriage is torn apart after the death of the husband’s first love. Stars: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtney.
10 March MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL
Comedy from the Monty Python team. AD 932: King Arthur and his page Patsy are seeking knights to join them at the Round Table. But a more demanding task awaits them when God appears telling them of their quest to find the Holy Grail.
17 March
LEGEND (18)
24 March
THE WALK (PG)
Legend tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s. Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston. A US drama telling the story of the French high wire artiste who walked the gap between the World Trade Centre Twin Towers in New York. Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Ben Schwartz
31 March
LIFE (15) The true story of the unique friendship forged between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) and actor James Dean (Dane DeHaan) when Stock is commissioned to photograph the actor for Life magazine in 1955 weeks before his untimely death. Stars: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley. 7 April
CRIMSON PEAK (15)
14 April CAUSE (PG)
REBEL WITHOUT A
28 April
MACBETH (15)
A young American writer in 19th-century Cumbria discovers that her new husband is not who he claims to be. Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain
This classic drama about juvenile delinquents takes place over a 24-hour period and follows Jim Stark a restless teenager always in trouble with the law. Stars: James Dean and Natalie Wood Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris
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Alfie Moore
8.00pm
£15/£17
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A Royal Night Out
7.30pm
£4
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Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
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Steve Knightley
8pm
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Until February 28 • Gallery One • Sara Clark Until February 21 • Artspace • Andi Dakin Until February 7 • Box Gallery • Winter Wraps February 27 - April 17 • Artspace Lou Hazelwood 4
Love and Mercy
7.30pm
£4
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Rod Picott
8pm
£12/£14
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Threshold
7.30pm
£10/£12
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Mr Holmes
7.30pm
£4
12
T’Pau
8pm
£18/£20
18
The Snow Bear
11am &2pm
£6/£4
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Simon Evans
8pm
£14/£16
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Cara Dillon
8pm
£20/£22
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Virginia Ironside
7.30pm
£12/£14
21
Ryley Walker/Danny Thompson
8pm
£14.50/£16
24
Supposed Drowned
7.30pm
£7/£8
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Amy
7.30pm
£4
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Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
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Moore, Ross & Rutter
8pm
£13/£15
M
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5 - April 24• Gallery One • Phil Burman Until April 17 • Artspace • Lou Hazelwood 5 - April 3 • Box Gallery • Amanda Cobbett 2
Take Back Your Freedom
7.30pm
£6/£5 conc
3
45 Years
7.30pm
£4
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Out of Chaos: Macbeth
7.30pm
£13/£15
6
Northern Voices
7.30pm
£10/£12
10
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
7.30pm
£4
17
Legend
7.30pm
£4
18
Ben Poole & Stevie Nimmo
8pm
£12/£14
19
Diaochan: The Rise of the Courtesan
7.30pm
£13/£15
20
Romesh Ranganathan
8pm
SOLD OUT
24
The Walk
7.30m
£4
25
Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
26
Sam Carter
8pm
£13/£15
31
Life
7.30pm
£4
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A
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Until April 24 • Gallery One • Phil Burman Until April 17 • Artspace • Lou Hazelwood Until April 3 • Box Gallery • Amanda Cobbett April 23 - June 5 • Artspace • Lindy Norton 30 - June 12 • Gallery One • Handmade 1
Rob Beckett
8pm
£14/£16
2
Kings of The South Seas
8pm
£13/£15
5
Leaper
11am &2pm
£6/£4
7
Crimson Peak
7.30pm
£4
8
Rory McGrath
8pm
£14/£16
14
Rebel Without A Cause
7.30pm
£4
21
Mark Steel
8pm
£15/£17
22
Police Dog Hogan
8pm
£15/£17
23
Burden Of Paradise
8pm
£14/£16
28
Macbeth
7.30pm
£4
29
Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
30
Dan Walsh Trio
8pm
£13/£15
KEY Exhibitions
Music
Film
Theatre/Comedy
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the ropewalk Ropery Hall
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
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