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Happy New Year
Welcome to the first Magalogue of 2016! We hope you had a peaceful and happy Christmas and that Father Christmas was good to you. Now all the eating and drinking of the festive season is over, we have lots of film, music, opera, theatre, dance and visual arts treats in store for you in the spring season here at Salisbury Arts Centre. Do come and enjoy immersing yourself in Wiltshire’s landscape at our new visual arts exhibition during the first two months of 2016. Four artists display their work which is inspired by features of our local countryside. It may be that you’d like to dance off a few of those extra Christmas pounds as you enjoy the lively, energetic music of Broken Brass Ensemble later in January. We have our regular Altar Club sessions coming up too, as well as folk legends Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick performing here in February. During January and February we have five Live Lunches and a Big Band Brunch, showcasing talented singers, songwriters and guitarists performing a range of musical styles from folk to jazz, blues and ragtime music. So come and enjoy a meal with us and be entertained as you do so. If film is your passion, we have a pot pourri of delights for you, drawn from all corners of globe; from the Ottoman Empire during World War I, to France, the USA, Japan and even into a dystopian future world, as well as films shot in the UK and even right here in Wiltshire. Just a tiny taste of the treats in store for you this spring season, explore Magalogue to find out more.
Image: Puccini’s Turandot
film
This January we bring you a diverse selection of films to shake up your perspective as we begin a new year.
Theeb (15)
Thursday 7 January | 7.30pm “There is a stark authenticity to this beautifully shot story of a Bedouin boy’s fight for survival during the first world war.” The Guardian In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during WW1, a young boy embarks on a perilous desert journey with his brother to guide a British officer to his secret location. Directed by Naji Abu Nowar | 100 mins | Arabic with subtitles
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5 Greedy Bankers (12)
La Famille Bélier (12)
Catherine (Pippa Haywood Green Wing) was dumped by her bank after the 2008 crash and has become an alcoholic mess. Enter the enigmatic master of chaos: Fidel (Ramon Tikaram - Game of Thrones). He’s on a mission to get revenge against the five greedy bankers who ruined Catherine’s bank and brought the country to its knees. Fidel doesn’t have much money but he’s a master of the art of ensnaring and exposing the bankers with edge of the seat stings. But as Catherine gets a taste for revenge she wants more pushing Fidel into a final nail biting heist where it’s all or nothing.
In the Bélier family, sixteen-yearold Paula is an indispensable interpreter for her deaf parents and brother on a daily basis, especially in the running of the family farm. One day, a music teacher discovers her gift for singing and encourages Paula to participate in a prestigious singing contest in Paris, which will secure her a good career and a college degree. However, this decision would mean leaving her family and taking her first steps towards adulthood.
Directed by Simon DaVison
Plus post-film chat
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Friday 8 January | 7.30pm
Wednesday 13 January | 7.30pm
Directed by Eric Lartigau | 103 mins | French and Sign Language with subtitles
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film
The Wolfpack (15)
Friday 15 January | 7.30pm ‘Offering a unique look at modern fears and our fascination with film, The Wolfpack is a fascinating -and ultimately haunting -- urban fable.’ Rotten Tomatoes Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed, ‘The Wolfpack,’ the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favourite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes. Directed by Crystal Moselle | 80 mins
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Paper Planes (U)
45 Years (15)
Every child has a special talent for something, it just takes a bit of time to find it. For 12 year old Dylan, it is making paper planes that fly further than any of his classmates. Hooked by the magic of flight he sets out to hone his skills and fold his way into the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.
One of the best British films of the year, this intriguing and deeply moving drama features superb performances from Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtney as a retired couple preparing for their 45 wedding anniversary. When news reaches them that the perfectly preserved body of Geoff’s first love has been found frozen in the Swiss Alps, it stirs up repressed memories and long buried secrets that puts an ice pick through their marriage.
Saturday 23 January | 11am
An uplifting (in more ways than one) family film that builds to an exhilarating finale. Directed by Robert Connolly | 96 mins
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Wednesday 27 January | 7.30pm
Loyalty Card holders earn double points on this event Directed by Andrew Haigh | 97 mins
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opera
There’s nothing like a blast of quality opera to wake up your senses after the festive period. January brings two wonderful works by Bizet and Puccini, streamed live in HD to the Arts Centre screen from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles Saturday 16 January 5.55pm
Set in a pearl-fishing village in the Far East, this opera follows the bittersweet love triangle between two friends and the Hindu priestess they both desire. As the villagers prepare for their next dive, a rekindled love affair threatens to derail the fishermen’s fortunes. Will the town survive the impending storm, while the lovers contend with the jealousy of the village leader? A chance to absorb an early work by Bizet, before the outstanding success of Carmen brought him international acclaim.
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Puccini’s Turandot
Saturday 30 January 5.55pm
This epic fairy tale is set in Imperial China, and is loosely based on an 18th-century play by Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. The beautiful but cold-hearted Princess Turandot has declared any prince seeking to marry her must answer three riddles correctly. If he fails, he will die. As the most recent suitor is led to his execution, young onlooker Calaf vows to win the affection of the princess, to the dismay of the slave girl Liu who loves him. Puccini’s final opera, unfinished at the time of his death, is seen as his most tonally adventurous with innovative use of chorus and orchestra.
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Image: Bizet’s Le Pecheurs de Perles
music
Music (and a bit of dancing) to warm the soul this January Broken Brass Ensemble, a Dutch eight piece brass orchestra, stop off at Salisbury Arts Centre as part of their UK tour on Friday 22 January. Their music combines traditional New Orleans brass with hiphop, balkan, funk, fanfare (and much more) into a blazing mixture of energy. The eight BBE members are all very young and talented musicians who combine swinging brass with tight percussion. All their work is original, though the band isn’t ashamed to rock the audience with a surprising cover every now and then. The band was formed in 2013 and their first EP released in June of that year sold out by that November. Their second CD ‘Brasshopper’ was released in March 2015 and has been selling at a similar rate of popularity. Jess Hardiman of Time Out says of the band: “The brass band game has never been bigger, these days tinged with more urban styles of music to make the tunes recognisable, fun and to turn them into sure-fire party pieces.” Dig out your dancing shoes and come and join the fun on Friday 22 January at 8pm.
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exhibitions
January’s a time for blowing away the cobwebs with brisk walks in the countryside, and we’ve got an exhibition to inspire you on your way. Walking…Landscape… Memory features work from four artists, all influenced by the act of walking through the landscape and the stories (and spectres) it can bring about. Taking centre stage will be a collection of black and white photographs from the late Fay Godwin, taken in 1975 as part of her Wessex Landscape series. A source of personal inspiration for Exhibitions Manager Fiona Cassidy -“She was one of the first artists I was inspired by, even before I studied art. I had one of her pictures on my wall when I was eighteen.” – Godwin’s images capture the beauty of vast rural settings.
Also on show will be text and photographic works by Richard Long, Wessex local and one of the best known British land artists. Crop circle maker Rob Irving presents his series of photographs and modified LiDAR (Light and Radar) maps, which explore the myth of ‘earth energies’ and activity centred on the Avebury countryside. Painter Lydia Halcrow will also be showcasing brand new work as part of the collection, including brooding landscapes drawn from her walks on Salisbury Plain. These paintings, overlaid with satellite imagery of army tank tracks, OS maps and her own photographs, tell of Salisbury’s military heritage, as well as Halcrow’s fascination with how individuals relate to the land they live in. Walking…Landscape… Memory runs from Thursday 7 January until Saturday 27 February.
Image: Lydia Halcrow
Meet the faces behind the landscapes… Accompanying our new exhibition ‘Walking…Landscape…Memory’, a special ‘Meet the Artists’ talk on Saturday 23 January will enable you to hear more from two of the artists featured in the collection, as well as to take a guided tour of the works with the curator. So who will you hear from?
Dr. Rob Irving
Modern day myth-maker Rob Irving is known for his intricate crop circle creations, and exquisite rural photography. He’s interested in how people make meaning out of place, particularly how people have very spiritual experiences while visiting manmade installations, like his crop circles. Using modern technology to explore ancient myth and mysticism, Rob raises interesting questions about how our stories and our surroundings are intricately linked.
Lydia Halcrow
Painter Lydia Halcrow is fascinated by how we relate to places, particularly how we move through them and change them on a microscopic level as we go. Her paintings are a way to record this walking through a particular place, overlaid with the marks left on the landscape by other activities - in this case tank tracks left on Salisbury Plain.
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dance
Sumptuous and evocative dance from Arts Centre favourites Tavaziva Dance Tuesday 9 February | 8pm
Warm up on a chilly winter evening in February with a trip to Africa! Tavaziva’s AfriCarmen is a sumptuous and evocative dance production loosely based on Bizet’s popular opera Carmen. Bawren Tavaziva’s highly inventive and powerful choreography is a synthesis of ballet, contemporary and African dance. It is energetic, intricate and physically challenging, performed by a cast of outstanding dancers. Played out through the entanglement of desire, deceit and corruption in a township of oil-laden Equatorial Guinea, lingering ancestral voices are at work here amongst the dreams of a better life. With a new score composed and arranged by Fayyaz Virji of the acclaimed Warriors International, AfriCarmen is Bawren Tavaziva’s most ambitious work to date. Kindly supported by Fletcher & Partners
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your Arts Centre
What you said – what we have done At Salisbury Arts Centre we always like to respond to what you say to us and do our best to address your concerns and suggestions for improvement. As you will know, we reopened our doors in September following improvement work over recent months. With the support of different sources including Arts Council England and Wiltshire Council as well as generous donations from many people who live locally, our facilities have had a significant upgrade in a process that has taken just over a year to complete. You said that we needed to replace our entry doors and lift, which we have done, so improving the suitability of the venue for two important sections of our audience: families and
people with disabilities. You commented that the seats were uncomfortable so we have upgraded our raked seating to improve your experience and to attract new audiences and hirers. You asked us to refurbish the toilets to resolve plumbing issues that have proved an ongoing frustration to you – we have refurbished and upgraded all our toilet facilities. Those of you who enjoy pottery workshops and classes asked us to replace the kiln to maintain our existing pottery workshop programme, enable our resident ceramicist to offer new and innovative workshops, and to extend firing capacity for activities like Youth Pottery residencies. The funding we secured enabled us to purchase PA and AV equipment to improve the quality of performances and outreach
purchased and installed. Last January the raked theatre seating and the kiln were replaced. During a closure of 26 days during August and September this year the entrance doors at the front and rear of the building were replaced, together with the lift, refurbishment of all toilets and the exhibition walls and dance floor.
projects and replace the system that is currently on loan. We were also able to replace exhibition walls to improve the presentation of visual arts and to replace the dance floor. We have been able to upgrade broadband facilities to allow live streaming of events and digital artist residency and to replace lighting with LEDs to save energy and improve our carbon footprint. We also replaced outdated IT equipment to reduce time spent resolving issues and software/ hardware incompatibility. Performers who used our dressing rooms commented that they needed a refurbishment and we have done that too, so they have a better experience when they come to entertain us. The project was undertaken in three main stages: during last autumn audio visual, IT and sound equipment was
Our Director Gemma Okell said: ‘We are delighted with the improvements and are confident that the project will benefit our existing audiences, help us attract new audiences, and reach people locally who currently have limited access to the arts through an outreach programme. We would like to thank everyone who has helped and contributed in any way to make the upgrade project possible and to encourage everyone to visit to see the improved facilities at Salisbury Arts Centre.’ The changes to the building have been warmly welcomed from audiences old and new. The seating bank feels far more stable and is much more comfortable, and artists have commented favourably on the improved technical facilities, particularly the quality of the PA and sound we can now provide within the building. So we would like to thank you for taking the time to tell us what changes you wanted to see in your Arts Centre and to thank everyone who contributed financially to enable us to undertake the work. Now we are inviting you to come and see the changes in place and to enjoy the improvements that have been made. Come and see us in 2016!
diary January Thursday 7 Theeb film 26 Friday 8 5 Greedy Bankers film 26 Saturday 9 Live Lunch: Ben Cipolla music/café 4 Tuesday 12 RSPB independent 31 Wednesday 13 Café LUA café 6 Wednesday 13 La Famille Bélier film 26 Friday 15 The Wolfpack film 26 Saturday 16 Live Lunch: Rob Johnson music/café 4 Saturday 16 MET Opera: Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles opera 29 Sunday 17 Big Band Brunch music/café 6 Tuesday 19 Magic Lantern film/café 6 Wednesday 20 Dr Sketchy’s Salisbury visual arts 6 Friday 22 Broken Brass Ensemble music 8 Saturday 23 Paper Planes family film 26 Saturday 23 Altar Club: Karl Phillips music 7 Wednesday 27 45 Years film 26 Thursday 28 Hijack Open Mic music 7 Friday 29 Barnstormers Comedy comedy 7 Saturday 30 MET Opera: Puccini’s Turandot opera 29
February Thursday 4 Dear White People film 27 Friday 5 Robert Newman: ‘The Brain Show’ comedy 9 Saturday 6 Live Lunch: Maz O’Connor music/café 4 Sunday 7 Circling The Square independent 31 Tuesday 9 AfriCarmen dance 10 Wednesday 10 Café LUA café 6 Wednesday 10 Tom Stade: ‘You’re Welcome’ comedy 10 Saturday 13 Live Lunch: Will Robert music/café 4 Saturday 13 Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick music 11 Tuesday 16 RSPB independent 31 Wednesday 17 Dr Sketchy’s Salisbury visual arts 6 Thursday 18 Tom Thumb family 12 Thursday 18 Hijack Open Mic music 7 Saturday 20 Live Lunch: The FB Pocket Orchestra music/café 4 Saturday 20 Amy film 27 Thursday 25 The Legend of the Holy Drinker theatre 12 Friday 26 Barnstormers Comedy comedy 7 Saturday 27 Altar Club: Signals music 7
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