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Exhibitions Workshops Events September - December 2016 The Ropewalk • Barton upon Humber September - December 2016
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.
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.
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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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.
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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
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hilst thinking about this magazine it occurred to me that we might be reaching a significant anniversary for part of the building. Indeed it will be 10 years on 14 September since we showed the first film The Constant Gardener in Ropery Hall. What started as a small project in 2006 to show a few films and a couple of performances has blossomed over the years to the full programme we have on offer today. A big thank you to all of you who have supported us over these 10 years – it’s because of you that I have had the confidence to expand the programme and to keep throwing in new things. Talking about throwing new things at you, our Spoken Word programme is developing nicely with a Wednesday night show each month. We start in September with Bookish, a charming new show where spoken word meets cabaret. There are five books adaptations on offer and the audience will be invited a week before to pick two which will then be performed on the night. Those of you who came to A Firm of Poets will have been struck by the talent of Kate Fox. With more than just a touch of Victoria Wood about her Kate, who can be heard regularly on Radio 4, really bowled us over with her dynamic comic poems (who would have thought a Henry VIII rap would work that well?!). She will be supported in November by local wordsmith Ruth Dixon. Partnerships are as important to us as ever. Ropery Hall will be hosting the Barton Jazz festival in October with Darius Brubeck opening proceedings in partnership with the Ted Lewis Group and The Ropewalk will be throwing open its studio doors for the 15th Insight Northern Lincolnshire Open Studios over the last two weekends in September. As we live in changing times I hope that The Ropewalk can remain a constant, you can rely on us for culture, entertainment and a warm welcome. Liz Managing Director
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Admission Free Galleries Open 7 days a week: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sundays and Bank Holidays 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 2016
jewellery
Featured Jewellers
September – Fiona Liung Fiona’s new honey pot collection is a range of work based around her drawings of buds and flowers and made from sterling silver or 14 carat gold. Each piece is designed individually by placing the honey pots and spikes together and moving them into the most attractive configuration. From there, Fiona selects bright faceted gemstones, and sets them within the shapes to create one of a kind statement jewellery.
October - Gwenyth Williamson After many years spent as a children’s illustrator, Gwyneth decided on a new creative outlet and after a short Jewellery making course at Leeds College of Art she hasn’t looked back. She uses stones to hammer texture or uses textures to imprint on the silver - the possibilities are endless and surprising. The illustrator in her can’t resist making little silver and copper characters which she often turns into brooches, decorations and even mini “sculptures”.
November - Diane Lee Diane’s collection of jewellery stems from traditional metalsmithing skills, mixing silver, copper, and minerals, as well as Murano and artisan glass, to create pieces inspired by nature and narratives. She tries to create jewellery that is more than a pretty adornment and has significance to the owner and is interwoven with stories known to the wearer, hidden to the viewer. It’s jewellery, it’s pretty, but it carries a story, tenacity and strength.
December - Hilary Angle Texture and mixed metals are the main themes of Hilary’s jewellery. Small, coloured, mixed media panels on gessoed copper are married to oxidised silver. The coloured panels are inspired by Hilary’s paintings, the silver is milled or forged, the shape organic. Every piece is unique and will never be repeated.
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Box Gallery David Wright
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uring October in the Box Gallery, David Wright will be displaying a selection of his boxes and vessels. David has been making pots since 1974, working in rural Leicestershire.
All work is made from coils or ropes of clay. The slow method of working, beating and scraping the surface allows the form to be modified whilst building. Each pot is therefore very individual, a unique character, with a distinct textural surface. The pots are glazed with simple ash glazes made from the ashes of different woods; traditional Shino glaze is also used to give warm reds and oranges. Finally the pots are fired in a wood fuelled kiln to over 1300°c; the flame and ash from the fire give their colours and warmth to the work. Boxes bottles and bowls are David’s reference point. It is important the pieces he makes can have some function, albeit only to hold a single flower or stem of grass. Using reclaimed wood, boxes and caddies form a large part of the work that he produces. Boxes at the Box Gallery demonstrate the diversity and unique qualities of David’s pots. Box Gallery: October 1 - 30
September - December 2016
exhibition
Anomalies
Sinclair Ashman A regular member of the Ropewalk Print Group, Sinclair Ashman’s first major exhibition, Anomalies, will be in the Artspace from this September. The show will explore the role of quick decision-making, incidentals and ‘happy accidents’ in his collagraph printmaking. His textured, largely abstract prints are both elemental expressions of mood and responses to everyday materials. Sinclair uses fabric edging, plastic fruit bags, plumbing washers, layers of card, gels, matchsticks and other ordinary materials to make printing plates. He then prints his compositions on fine papers, with subtle mixes of traditional and metallic inks.
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Anomalies: works by Sinclair Ashman Artspace: 10 September - 31 October 2016
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Lee Karen Stow: Poppies - The Colours
This exhibition is one stage in a visual journey spanning seven summers. “In 2012 I began photographing the red common corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) in fields around my home in the East Riding of Yorkshire. A small body of work grew into a documentary photographic project entitled Poppies: Women, War, Peace. It became a response to forgotten women of war, past and present and as a tribute to the resilience of the poppy flower itself, able to grow tall and spectacular, especially in areas of great upheaval and trauma. This work will continue to evolve until its final destination in 2018. In the meantime, I am immersed in an intense period of study of the
family Papaveraceae: the poppy family in all its colours, red, yellow, orange, pink, burgundy, white and black, plus its striking relatives such as Meconopsis, the Himalayan blue poppy. I photograph poppies in daylight as I see them. I leave the prints out in rain and hail and still they are beautiful. I press them, noticing how their pigments change and deepen, from scarlet to purple, yellow to orange, white to brown. I photograph these pressed poppies against my window, daylight revealing the threads and veins of the petals, a make-up that is the same, whatever the colour.” Lee Karen Stow Gallery One: September 17 – November 20
December 3 - January 3 Gallery One December 3 - January 3 Artspace
Christmas Craft Studio Artists’ Exhibition
December 3 & 4 Christmas Art Market
September - December 2016
workshops
Profile: Lucy May Schofield
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ucy was born in Barrowon-Humber, but is based in Manchester. She has taught many workshops in Book Arts around the UK, but most often at Hot Bed Press Printmaking Studio in Salford over the past 10 years. She has also worked as an associate lecturer for Manchester School of Art and University of the Arts London. In 2013 Lucy moved to Japan and studied the art of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking and Paper-making. The skills acquired during this time have expanded her arts practice and inspired Lucy to offer workshops in water-based printmaking techniques. Mokuhanga (water-based woodcut printmaking) is a captivating technique perfect for artists interested in a non-toxic, table-top printmaking method. It doesn’t require a heavy press and can be done at home with easily accessible materials and equipment. With endless possibilities, artists fall in love with the stunning results of this wonderfully mediative print medium. Lucy strongly believes that through the process of printmaking, crosscultural dialogues can occur. She is interested in using printmaking techniques as a tool to connect and converse. By creating a space for a shared making experience, boundaries are blurred and connections fostered. The tradition of making can be a tool for communication and connectivity between strangers.
unspoken narratives, she create archives with image, text and objects, which often manifest into prints, photographs, installations and book works. Her practice explores memory, impermanence and vulnerability, with the intention to make records of transient moments as mementos of experience. Responsive to the cultural, emotional and geographical landscapes we inhabit, her work attempts to combine a visceral tactility with an invitation for dialogue. “I am drawn to isolated places, spaces that are at once remote or time extending. I am interested in exploring how spaces impact on our sense of dislocation or belonging. The cultural narratives we inhabit, how sense of place is expressed and the definition of home has taken my practice to the Shetland Islands, rural Japan, the north of Iceland and most recently the Nevada desert.” Saturday 29th October Japanese Water-based Woodcut Printmaking 10.30-4.30pm £46/£41* (reduced rate for Ropewalk members)
At the core of her practice she is concerned with observing the overlooked. In memorialising
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workshops
image: Janet Cox
Have you ever considered using our Print Room facilities? We have regular weekly sessions with our print tutor Tim Needham and visiting tutor Martin Mayood and we also offer a rolling print buddy session on alternate Thursdays.
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nnually to coincide with the Insight Open Studio event (17th, 18th and 24th, 25th September) the Ropewalk Print makers take part in a collective project. This year’s project is titled ‘Music and Performance’. All print makers individually interpret the title and produce a range of prints which will be displayed during the Open Studios weekends. If you miss the display the work will be exhibited in the Ropery Hall Bar from the beginning of October during the Autumn season.
Wednesdays with Tim Needham 1:30-4:30pm £12/£11* Alternate Thursdays. with Martin Maywood 10-1pm £12/£11* - 1:30-4:30 £10/£9* Print Buddy sessions with Val Mager and Janet Cox. £8/£7* (10.30-1 or 1:30-4:30) *Ropewalk members discount If you’d like further details on our activities, becoming a member or signing up for our enews please see our website: www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/printroom
Autumn workshops October 1 Creative Mark Making and Mood within Drypoint etching with Lindy Norton 2 An Introduction to Collagraph Printing with Angela Lindsley 8 Willow Birds – with Alison Walling 8 Glass Lightcatchers with Gill Hobson 15 & 16 Needle Felting – Pet Portrait with Fi Oberon 15 Open Screen Printing with Annemarie Tickle 29 Japanese Water-based Woodcut Printmaking (Mokuhanga) with Lucy May Schofield November 5 Simple Stone Set Ring with Jacqueline Warrington 12 Silversmithing with Diane Lee 19 & 20 Etching, Tone and Dynamics using Aquatint Weekend course with Chris Roantree 26 Glass Angels with Gill Hobson December 3 Willow Christmas Wreaths and Decorations with Alison Walling 10 Needle Felting – T’was the night before Christmas with Fi Oberon for more details please visit our website: www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/workshops
September - December 2016
film
Carol
Films for Autumn 8 September Brooklyn (12A)
An Irish woman living with her mother in the 1950s decides to make a fresh start in America. She makes her home in New York, and falls in love. However, her past catches up with her when she receives bad news from Ireland, and faces a harsh choice between her two homes. Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters Director: John Crowley Running time 111 min
15 September The Dressmaker (12)
This spicy take on Rosalie Ham’s beloved novel stars Winslet as Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, a glamorous exile returning in 1951 to Dungatar, the dusty, gossip-ridden town of her birth in the Aussie outback. Stars: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse Running time 118 min
29 September Hail Caesar! (12A)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s unashamed screwball comedy is a dizzy, saturated hooray to Hollywood. The Coens recreate the CinemaScope age before our very eyes, with pitch-perfect movie parodies all executed with true love. Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum Director: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen Running time 106 min
6 October Eddie the Eagle (PG)
Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. Stars: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken Director Dexter Fletcher Running time 103 min
13 October Carol (15) Patricia Highsmith’s controversial, keynote
lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, is brought lovingly to the screen. Trapped in a marriage of convenience, uptown, worldly Carol (Cate Blanchett) begins an affair with naive, besotted shop girl Therese (Rooney Mara). But this is early 1950s Manhattan and when Carol’s husband threatens her with scandal, the women embark on a road trip towards self-discovery and inalienable truths. Stars: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson Director: Joseph Sargent Running time 116 min
20 October Joy (12A)
JOY is the wild story of a family across four generations centred on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper Director: David O. Russell Running time 121 min
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High Rise
17 November High Rise (15) 27 October Trumbo (15)
This is the story of Dalton Trumbo a talented screenwriter who fell foul of the anti-communist purges during 1950s Hollywood. He found himself blacklisted and forced to write under pseudonyms. Stars: Bryan Cranston, Elle Fanning, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Alan Tudyk, John Goodman Director: Jay Roach Running time 123 min
3 November The Revenant (15)
An epic true story of revenge and redemption, it stars a shaggy Leonardo DiCaprio as frontiersman Hugh Glass, who’s mauled by a Grizzly - a scene breathtaking in its savagery - while scouting on a fur-trapping expedition along the Missouri River. Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Running time 149 min
10 November The Danish Girl (15)
Copenhagen, 1926 and Danish artist, Gerda Wegener, painted her own husband, Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne), as a lady in her painting. When the painting gained popularity, Einar started to change his appearance into a female and named himself Lili Elbe. Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw Director: Tom Hooper Running time 117 min
The unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. In this classic visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle. Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller Director: Ben Wheatley Running time 116 min
24 November Florence Foster Jenkins (PG)
A heart-warming tribute to the wealthy American socialite who desperately wanted an operatic soprano career but couldn’t sing a note. Simultaneously cringe-worthy, uplifting and sobering, this captivating look at the coloratura curiosity is hugely entertaining and masterfully moving. Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg Director: Stephen Frears Running time 110 min
1 December The Quiet Man (U)
A cinema classic with John Wayne directing and starring as retired boxer Sean Thornton who returns to his native Ireland to live out his remaining years. Sean has a secret however, one that forced him to leave his boxing career and America. Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald Director: John Wayne Running time 126 min
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hope I can be forgiven for getting a little over excited about this autumn’s music offering. There are some excellent shows displaying a real variety of genres and eras. We start the season with our house band (I wish) - four musicians at the top of their profession led by sax virtuoso Mr Snake Davis. Snake appears several times during the Ropery Hall year with different combinations of musicians but this incarnation is the most jazz orientated with Snake’s eight piece The Suspicions playing in late December having more of a Northern Soul flavour. Jazz runs throughout the programme as we welcome Darius Brubeck to our stage for the first time with his quartet, we host the Barton Jazz Festival, Pan Jumby will be playing some up beat jazz with a twist, and finally Alan Barnes will present his jazz Christmas Carol in December. In October Hazel O’Connor will be performing two sell out shows – we still can’t believe she said yes! Another great vocalist and performer Mari Wilson brings her new show Pop Delux in November after touring her show, Ready Steady Girls, for the past 18 months. We continue the theme of strong female musicians with Astrid Williamson who in the 1990s, founded indie band Goya Dress which consisted of Williamson, Terry de Castro, and Simon Pearson. Goya Dress made one album Rooms which was produced by John Cale but dissolved in 1996, after which Willamson went on to release solo material sometimes using only her first name. She is a
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classically trained pianist and has worked with Brian Eno/Jon Hopkins collaborator, guitarist and ambient expert Leo Abrahams. So have I got your attention? Please have a look on line for more details.
mtm promotions Mark Keeble of mtm is promoting Ropery Hall favourites Ezio and Martyn Joseph this season. In addition he will be bringing a duo from across the Atlantic Cam Penner and Jon Wood. When Cam Penner and Jon Wood last toured the UK and Ireland, the reviews were as glowing as the performances and followed them wherever they went. They return from their base in Canada for their own headline show at Celtic Connections after winning major TV exposure when tracks from the sensational To Build A Fire album was chosen as the backdrop to the recent BBC 2 TV drama based on Iain Banks’ Stonemouth novel.
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music Mari Wilson
standards that speak to the Trinidad aesthetic. Led by the tremendous lyrical phrasing and rhythmic drive of steel pan master Dudley Nesbitt, Pan Jumby features great improvisers and a knockout rhythm section. Pan Jumby features Dudley Nesbitt, steel pan, percussion; Richard Ormrod, saxes, clarinets, flutes, percussion; Barkley McKay, keyboard, guitar; Kenny Higgins, bass guitar and Sam Hobbs, drums.
All that Jazz The British jazz scene has always had a close relationship with musicians from the Caribbean and Africa, revitalising itself with fresh energy and new musical ideas at every collaboration. Pan Jumby draws on music from Trinidad and features calypso and soca material alongside Brazilian tunes, Reggae & jazz
We are delighted to welcome Alan Barnes back to Ropery Hall. Like the Dickens classic itself, Alan Barnes’s Christmas Carol, has something for everyone. A family night out as well as being a treat for the jazz connoisseur; it will delight anyone who loves music or literature – or just Christmas! This new suite of pieces takes the audience through the characters and scenes of A Christmas Carol. Readings from the original Dickens
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Come along and hear Alan Barnes on saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet; Bruce Adams on trumpet; Mark Nightingale on trombone; Robert Fowler and Karen Sharp on saxophones and clarinet; David Newton on piano; Simon Thorpe on bass and Clark Tracey on drums.
Folk for All Mick Harding has programmed another excellent season of Folk for Ropery Hall starting with a welcome return for Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow in September. A new act in October, Will Pound and Eddy Jay, are a dynamic and exhilarating duo who have been known to leave audiences breathless! Will, one of the finest harmonica players of his generation and a three-time nominee for BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician Of The Year, is joined by Eddy Jay a real master of the accordion. Together Will Pound and Eddy Jay create a sound and show like no other. The pair read each other instinctively, forging a path to new folk sounds with harmonica and accordion together as one instrument. We round up the season in November with Daoiri Farrell a folk singer and musician, with his main instruments being the bouzouki, guitar and banjo. A graduate of the Ceoltoir HND in Traditional Music Performance course and most recently his M.A. in Irish Traditional Music Performance from the Irish World Academy of
Music and Dance at UL, his versatile repertoire consists of Irish traditional songs, humour ballads, songs of exile, popular contemporary songs and much more. As a special festive treat Ropery Hall presents St Agnes Fountain. Each December St Agnes Fountain come together for a Christmas tour. Performing “rhythmed-up” carols and Christmas music, interspersed with laughter and spoken word, they begin their 16th sell-out year just two days before their appearance at Ropery Hall. For the other 11 months of the year the band are involved in their individual work: Chris While & Julie Matthews (Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Duo) tour the UK, Europe and Australia and have just released their new album “Who We Are” to critical acclaim; Chris Leslie performs worldwide with Fairport Convention as well as occasional solo appearances; and David Hughes (with a Q magazine album of the year to his name) has just released a new solo album “Live At The Blue Boar Hotel”. Liz
O’Hooley & Tidow
tell the story, and after each scene eight virtuoso musicians bring the characters and scenes to life, switching audiences from hilarity to pathos with a skill that would have done credit to Dickens himself!
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Snake Davis Band 8pm £15/£17 The Ropewalk and Mad Dog Folk present Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow 8pm £13/£15 The Darius Brubeck Quartet 8pm £18/£20 Ted Lewis Group and The Ropewalk Present Barton Jazz Festival 12 noon - 11pm £29 An Evening with Hazel O’Connor 8pm SOLD OUT The Ropewalk and Mad Dog Folk present Will Pound and Eddy Jay 8pm £13/£15 Ezio 8pm £14/£16 Pan Jumby 8pm £12/£14/Student £5 mtm promotions present Cam Penner and Jon Wood 8pm £14/£16 Mari Wilson: Pop Delux 8pm £15/£17 The Ropewalk and Mad Dog Folk present Daoiri Farrell 8pm £13/£15 mtm promotions present Martyn Joseph 8pm £16/£18 The Alan Barnes Octet Presents A Jazz Christmas Carol 8pm £15/£17 St Agnes Fountain 7.30pm £18/£20 Astrid Williamson 8pm £13/£15 The Suspicions (standing gig) 8pm £17/£19
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comedy
s the Ropery Hall reputation for great comedy continues to grow we have found that some shows are sold out before we go to print. If you don’t want to miss out make sure you have signed up to our enewsletter and keep an eye on our website.
they think Jo is fantastic as we do and then they are completely right! Another pair of comedians who need no introduction is the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Company. They are getting on the 2016 Bard bandwagon with Socks do Shakespeare.
On offer this autumn from Off the Kerb, the agency that we have had so many brilliant acts from such as Josh Widdecome, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, is their new tip for the top Joel Dommett. One of the UK’s most energetic and exciting comedians brings his new solo show, Joel Dommett: LIVE. Joel came onto the comedy scene in 2007 and has never looked back. After receiving great critical acclaim for his Edinburgh Fringe shows, he has gone on to appear in numerous television shows including; Impractical Jokers (BBC3), Reality Bites (ITV2), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC) and Drunk History (Comedy Central).
Every year new comedians work tirelessly to produce their best work for the Edinburgh Fringe often never to be seen again which seems a shame. This year we have picked two new comedians as our Best of the Fest choice.
Returning favourite Jo Caulfield brings her show The Customer is Always Wrong – unless of course
Mark Cooper-Jones Geographically Speaking. Much of Mark’s material is derived from his past experiences of teaching Geography, Mark (Sir) is an authoritative stand up with a penchant for rules, countries and capitals’ tests. Mark is still a parttime teacher of geography. He’s not boasting, he just is! He sets out not so much to question the stereotypes surrounding this most fabled of professions, as to emphatically reinforce them. Expect elbow pads. Be prepared to be taken back to the
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comedy classroom with a difference for an hour…remember to listen and sit up straight …there may just be a test at the end!
Kieran Boyd
Mark Cooper-Jones
Kieran Boyd – Egg. Kieran presents his debut stand up show about how weird we all are and features stupid jokes about his exponentially worsening hangovers, warped eulogies to his mad uncle, and a far-too-thorough examination of public toilet etiquette. He likes heavy metal and grammar, so this one hour long set will be wild, but also correct.
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Joel Dommett: Live 2016 Barnstormers Comedy Club Jo Caulfield- The Customer is Always Wrong Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare Barnstormers Comedy Club Best of the Fest double header Kieran Boyd & Mark Cooper-Jones Barnstormers Comedy Club Seann Walsh: One for the Road
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spoken word Two of the titles from the list below will be chosen by ticket holders in the run up to the show. But never fear, whatever books are chosen you will have an evening filled with music, laughter, words and maybe even a quiz…
BOOKISH
The Dairy Book of Family Cookery Ginger-My Story – The Autobiography of Ginger Rogers Tales of The Unexpected – Roald Dahl Remains Of The Day – Kazuo Ishiguro How to Analyse People – Brian Masters Once again we are indebted to Northern Accent and Arts ake musician, composer and Council England, as Bookish is an theatre maker Tom Adams and entertaining evening inspired by add a dash of comedian, theatre words in all their forms. Ropery maker and dramaturg Laura Mugridge Hall is a member of the Small and what do you get? Venues Network, made up of 12 of the smaller arts venues in the A sparkling start to the autumn season Yorkshire area that aims to celebrate at Ropery Hall when the two combine all forms of literature and writing. to present a show about books…. and not just any books! 7th September 2016 7.30pm £7adv/£9otd £5 students
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Kate Fox
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ate Fox is a stand up poet and writer who is sometimes described as a spoken word artist and a comedian. She’s appeared on Radio 4 a lot and telly a bit but has never gone viral apart from when she’s had a nasty cold.
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Kate is one of the United Kingdom’s top stand-up poets and has been Poet in Residence for the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run. Her show contains some of the material from her past and forthcoming Radio 4 series “The Price of Happiness”, a few rants on the joy of being Northern and some funny poems. Kate Fox – The Price of Happiness Support from Ruth Dixon Wed 30 November 7.30pm tickets £7/ £9otd/£5 students
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Blofeld and Baxter: Rogues on the Road Expect a world map to be pinned behind a couple of chairs, a table containing the inevitable decanter and a Wisden as Baxter plays the role of gentle interviewer and Blofeld that of charming raconteur in this amusing canter through some of the highlights of their TMS days.
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wo stalwarts of that much loved British institution, Test Match Special, Henry Blofeld and Peter Baxter, are preparing to bowl the Ropery Hall audience over with an evening of cricketing anecdotes fitting of two bastions of TMS who have more than a century of anecdotes to share. Their show, Rogues on the Road, was one of the highlights of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe as Henry and Peter , share an hour of amusing travel themed anecdotes from a century’s experience of travelling the world, watching cricket. Peter was the show’s producer from 1973 until his retirement in 2007 while Henry has been remarking on the progress of buses down London’s Vauxhall Road and the state of health of the pigeon population since 1974 and he’s still going strong.
And as each day of TMS involves around seven and a half hours of unscripted commentary, it’s inevitable that the odd glitch is going to occur. This travel-themed hour allowed the pair to recount various tales of woe, many of which were centred on India and the untold damage spicy food can do to the western digestive system. Indeed, this frailty nearly led to dear old Blowers appearing in a test match for England until that stalwart of the game Micky Stewart discharged himself from hospital to fill the breach, so to speak. And a veritable legion of the great and the good such as Brearley, Cowdrey, Gower and Greig to name but a few, feature in a series of amusing stories each delivered with warmth and droll humour as well as a twinkle in the eye. Sunday 13th November 2016 7.30pm £18.50/£20otd
Fathom Writers
Creative writing classes led by Sue Wilsea Getting the Words Right - Tuesday afternoons 2 – 4.15 pm, 8 weeks starting Tuesday 27th September £75 for members, £80 non members Scriptwriting - Tuesday evenings 6.30 – 8.45, 8 weeks starting Tuesday 27th September £75 for members, £80 non members Writers’ Support Group - The last Wednesday of the month, 6.30 – 8.45, starting Wednesday 28th September £8 per session or £25 for 4 months Full details can be found on www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/fathomwriters
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heatre lovers have much to look forward to this autumn as the programme includes homage to 17th century diarist, novelist Rudyard Kipling, a Gothic thriller and, the return of James Hyland with a thought-provoking play A Lesson from Auschwitz. The play, written, produced and directed by James, is based upon real events, exploring how and why the Nazis did what they did, shedding light on the mentality of the perpetrators and the disturbing reality of life in a death camp. In a lighter vein North Country Theatre celebrate 20 years of rural touring with The Wish House, a story of fierce, insane, possessive love and dark goings-on down on the farm that is based on one of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories. This tongue in cheek version of Kipling’s tale of obsessive love is in turn hilarious and chilling and has been described as Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm meets Chaucer’s Wife of Bath meets Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Patrick Garland’s much feted one man show, Brief Lives, focuses on a day in the life of the 17th century diarist, John Aubrey, played by Neil King. Today John Aubrey would be described as a “blogger” and in this production directed by Richard
Avery, he takes the audience by the hand and leads them through a date late in his life and regales his audience with stories of his contemporaries including Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and Nell Gwyn as well as stories gleaned as a child from folk who knew the likes of Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and Sir Walter Raleigh. By turns he is a stand-up comic, a philosopher, a lodger in a garret room suffering crying babies and other noisy co-tenants. Once he starts speaking to you he is like the Ancient Mariner – you cannot choose but hear. In previous years Austen’s Women and I, Elizabeth were very popular here and Rebecca Vaughan returns to perform an autumnal Halloween treat Female Gothic. Also adapted by Rebecca the play, directed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson, is in the thrilling tradition of M R James and Edgar Allan Poe and celebrates three lost gothic works from the great Victorian female writers. In the unquiet darkness between life and death, a haunted woman tells strange tales of the macabre and terrifying; eerie stories that have gathered dust and been forgotten, until now. An artist, gripped by the clutching fingers of a dead past; a scientist, defying nature in the dark realm of the senses; an expectant father, driven mad by creeping shadows…
image: Rebecca Vaughn in Female Gothic
A Lesson from Auschwitz The Wish House Brief Lives Female Gothic
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resented by 154 Collective this October half-term show comes highly recommended by START co-ordinator Janine Knight. This is something quite different to family theatre we usually show and she is sure children (grown-ups can get involved too but they don’t have to) will love deciding what happens to Cardboard Joe in this epic adventure story. With a live animator, a musician and a storyteller this is a show that you control. Make sure you’re ready for loads of joining in as you and Joe decide together what happens in this mega-new, mega-awesome adventure. Perfect for children aged 3 to 8 and their grown-ups too – make sure you don’t miss the antics of our thicker than paper, but thinner than wood, hero and his friends. The performance takes place on Wednesday 26th October at 2pm adults £7, children £5, ask about our £20 family ticket.
out into the cold night air. But things don’t quite go to plan on Santa’s trip around the world! Don’t miss this warm and giggly show suitable for all the family. Recommended age of 3 plus. Meet Santa and his Elves after the show! There will be performances on December 7 and 8 at 4pm and 7pm. Tickets cost £7/£5 concs.
A pre-Christmas treat is in store thanks to Blunderbus Theatre. After the success of last year’s family Christmas show The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Blunderbus will be back with ‘Santa’s Little Helper’ on Sunday 18th December. Young Albert Tuttle is nearly 7 years old, - far too old to believe in Santa! How does a big fat man wearing bright red pyjamas fit down the chimney, anyway? But, Albert is in for a big surprise. For as he sleeps on Christmas Eve, a big fat man wearing bright red pyjamas tumbles down his chimney like a roly poly pudding. In early December Duckegg Theatre It’s Santa – and he’s come for Albert’s return with Santa Claus is Coming To... help! Barton! “Have all the children from There will be two performances Barton been good this year?” It’s that at 11am and 2pm and we are expecting time again; naughty list – check! Really, both to sell out fast. Tickets are priced REALLY BIG SACK – check! Reindeer at £7 for adults and £5 for children and (and carrots) – check! Time for Santa to family tickets are also available. get out of his steamy bubble bath and
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Until 4 September • Both Galleries • Summer Exhibition September 10 - October 30 • Artspace • Sinclair Ashman September 17 - November 20 • Gallery One • Lee Karen Stow 7
Bookish
7.30pm
£7/9*
8
Brooklyn
7.30pm
£4
15
The Dressmaker
7.30pm
£4
17
A Lesson from Auschwitz
7.30pm
£13/£15
22
Joel Dommett - Live 2016
8pm
£12/£14
23
Snake Davis Band
8pm
£15/£17
24
Belinda O’Hooley & Heidi Tidow 8pm
£13/£15
29
Hail Caesar!
7.30pm
£4
30
Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
INSIGHT OPEN STUDIOS - SEPTEMBER 17,18 & 24,25. OPEN 10.30AM - 5PM
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ctober
Until October 30 • Artspace • Sinclair Ashman Until November 20 • Gallery One • Lee Karen Stow October 1 - 30 • Box Gallery • David Wright 1
The Wish House
7.30pm
£13/£15
6
Eddie The Eagle
7.30pm
£4
7
The Darius Brubeck Quartet
8pm
£18/£20
8
Barton Jazz Festival
12 noon - 11pm
£29
13
Carol
7.30pm
£4
14
Jo Caulfield
8pm
£14/£16
15 & 16
Hazel O’Connor
8pm
SOLD OUT
19
Brief Lives
7.30pm
£7/£9*
20
Joy
7.30pm
£4
21
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets
8pm
£13/£15
22
Female Gothic
7.30pm
£13/£15*
26
Cardboard Joe
2pm
£7/£5U16**
27
Trumbo
7.30pm
£4
28
Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
29
Will Pound & Eddy Jay
8pm
£13/£15
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ovember
Unti November 20 • Gallery One • Lee Karen Stow 3
The Revenant
7.30pm
£4
4
Kieran Boyd & Mark Cooper Jones 8pm
£10/£12
10
The Danish Girl
7.30pm
£4
11
Ezio
8pm
£14/£16
12
Pan Jumby
8pm
£12/£14*
13
Blofeld & Baxter
7.30pm
£18.50/£20
17
High Rise
7.30pm
£4
18
Cam Penner & Jon Wood
8pm
£14/£16
19
Mari Wilson - Pop Deluxe
8pm
£15/£17
24
Florence Foster Jenkins
7.30pm
£4
25
Barnstormers Comedy Club
8pm
£10/£12
26
Daoiri Farrell
8pm
£13/£15
30
Kate Fox + Ruth Dixon
7.30pm
£7/£9*
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ecember
December 3 - January 3 • Gallery One • Christmas Craft December 3 - January 3 • Artspace • Studio Artists’ Show 1
The Quiet Man
7.30pm
£4
2
Martyn Joseph
8pm
£16/£18
3
A Jazz Christmas Carol
8pm
£15/£17*
4
St. Agnes Fountain
7.30pm
£18/£20
7&8
Santa Claus is coming to Barton
4pm & 7pm
£7/£5 conc
9
Astrid Williamson
8pm
£13/£15
10
Seann Walsh
8pm
SOLD OUT
17
A Christmas Carol read by Charles Dickens
7.30pm
£14/£16*
18
Santa’s Little Helper
11am & 2pm
£7/£5**
30
The Suspicions
8pm
£15/£17
* £5 Student tickets available ** £20 Family tickets available KEY Exhibitions
Music
Film
Theatre/Comedy
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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, 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.
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