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New Year DISCOVERIES in January
New Year’s resolutions often feel like a chore. How about joining us this January in resolving to have more fun in 2015? We plan to make more time to spend with our families and friends and, of course, enjoy more arts! In January discover the power of music to transform lives, the magical world of sprites and some marvellous musicians in our free Live Lunch series. Plus take up a new hobby with a whole new term of workshop courses. Find out more in this month’s Magalogue. Happy reading and, more importantly, have a very Happy New Year!
January Booking If you can’t wait until we re-open our doors on Tuesday 13 January to snap up your tickets for spring 2015, you can still book:
Online at www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
By Telephone on 01722 321744 from Tuesday 6 January. Open Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 3pm Then we’d love to see you at our first film in January, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, as we test out our brand new seating in the main space!
The Space Between Launch: Wednesday 14 January 6 - 8pm
Thursday 15 January - Sunday 22 February Our first exhibition of the year feels particularly apt after a hectic festive period and the opportunity, if you were lucky, to step back from your busy day to day and enjoy a Christmas break. The Space Between is the result of our annual call-out for exhibition proposals on the theme of ‘Worth Fighting For?’ Emerging curator Fay Stevens addresses the theme by exploring whether the elusive space and time we crave in our busy world is indeed worth fighting for. Bringing together a group of artists whose works offer the potential to create space, The Space Between combines films, sculpture and sound.
We’d love to see you at the launch of this intriguing exhibition. Take some time out and join us on Wednesday 14 January between 6 and 8pm.
Image: Lynne Heller Images: Sveta Antonova ‘Wirepiece’, Robert Good ‘Demolition’, Zejing Liu ‘High Shoes’
New Year... New Hobby?
Introducing our Spring 2015 Workshop Courses Learn a new craft
Get children crafting
Many of our workshop courses are already fully booked but there’s still time to snap up one of the last places for our new courses, which begin in midJanuary.
Introduce children to their first creative course with one of our fantastic pottery workshops led by new tutor Hiro Takahashi or arts and craft with Smarties led by Melanie Evans.
Try your hand at Life Sculpture with professional artist and teacher Charlotte Moreton who trained at the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture.
From pottery to printing with potatoes and found objects on fabric, there’s plenty of fun to be had in our craft workshops this spring.
Dance at any age
Learn filmmaking skills
If you’ve decided to be more active in 2015, why not embrace dance as a fun and creative way to boost your fitness?
As well as eating too much, we have no doubt there will have been a lot of festive film-watching going on over the Christmas break.
With dance classes for children as young as 3 right through to adults, there are dance classes for everyone in our spring term. If you don’t want to commit to a full 10 weeks, there are one-off Salsa and La Rueda workshops too.
If you’re aged 10 - 19 or know a film fan who is then we’ve got the perfect courses beginning in January. Young Filmmakers and Filmmakers Anonymous give budding filmmakers the opportunity to learn all about filmmaking and create short films of their own.
Find out more about all the fantastic workshop courses on offer in Spring 2015>>>
Film This spring, enjoy our films in the main space from brand new seats! We’ve listened to your feedback and by the time we screen our first January film, more comfortable seating will be installed. Hooray!
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (15): Thursday 15 January 7.30pm Be the first to test out those new seats when you join us for this endlessly entertaining adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s best seller.
Giovanni’s Island (PG): Saturday 17 January 11am Taking place in our White Room Studio, Giovanni’s Island is one of our bargain family screenings at just £4 per person. Giovanni’s Island is a Japanese animated tale of family, unlikely friendship and growing up after WWII.
On his 100th birthday, Allan Karlsson breaks out of his retirement home and embarks on a rollicking road trip involving stolen money, elephants and dynamite.
It’s 1945 and the island of Shikotan is invaded by Russian troops. In this remote part of the world, friendship among children from different countries timidly blossoms.
Book tickets now>>>
Book tickets now>>>
Images: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Giovanni’s Island, Two Days One
Coming soon...
Click the images above to watch trailers of upcoming films. View all Spring 2015 films and book your tickets now>>>
e Night, Attila Marcel, Ida, 20,000 Days on Earth
Live Lunches FREE lunchtime music 12noon - 2pm
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new series of free Live Lunches kicks off in January, programmed by our Music Programmer Thomas Brooman (OBE & CBE). We’re looking forward to welcoming two distinctive new acts to our café stage as well as an old Arts Centre favourite, Declan Millar. Declan Millar - Saturday 17 January Young Folk singer Declan blends traditional and original songs, deeply rooted in historical and mystical themes. He has supported Folk giants Lau and Robin Williamson (formerly of the Incredible String Band), as well as performing at Priddy Folk Festival, Bristol Folk Festival, Larmer Tree, Green Scythe Fair and the Green Gathering. Until the Bird - Saturday 24 January Alternative Folk band Until the Bird is described as “nothing less than inspirational” live by Nightshift Magazine, The band fuses irresistible melodies with a restless musical curiosity. They’ve received airplay on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Sam Lee’s show for Folk Radio UK/ Resonance FM and Kathryn Tickell’s
spot on Amazing Radio. Their playfully beautiful music will surprise you with daring arrangements and unusual turns. The Paper Trains - Sunday 25 January Modern string band The Paper Trains will entertain audiences with their distinctive Anglo-Americana sound. Drawing influences from Blues, Roots, Country and Folk traditions, the three-piece will perform a distinct repertoire of evocative and vocally-fuelled originals. Expect an exciting blend of elegant ditties and highenergy foot stompers! Live Lunches are a series of free lunchtime gigs in the relaxed Cafe Arts Centre. Treat yourself to a tasty lunch or cake and enjoy free live music from 12noon - 2pm.
View the full season of Live Lunches now>>>
Image: Declan Miller
MET Opera Screened Live in HD via satellite from New York
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ith two operas to begin the year, you can enjoy both Lehar’s The Merry Widow and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman this January. We brushed up on the stories to guide us through these stunning productions from New York:
Lehar’s The Merry Widow Saturday 17 January Our first is Lehár’s The Merry Widow, a beloved operatta that sparkles with romance, high society and amorous intrigue. Evoking all the decadence of nineteenth-century Paris with an artnouveau setting, The Merry Widow will enchant you with an intoxicating whirl of elegant ladies, eligible bachelors, can-can dancers and ever-flowing champagne. This new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact) sees the great Renée Fleming take the title role as the beguiling femme fatale. Nathan Gunn sings the role of Danilo with Kelli O’Hara as Valencienne. Sir Andrew Davis and Fabio Luisi conduct.
Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman Saturday 31 January We head to nineteenth-century Nuremberg for a wild, kaleidoscopic production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Saturday 31 January. Enter a surreal, highly visual world in which fantasy and the supernatural blend smoothly with satire and the grotesque. The poet Hoffmann weaves together three tales for his drinking companions in this operatic masterpiece. Illustrating different facets of his stormy romance with the singer Stella, Hoffmann tells of Olympia, a mechanical doll, Antonia, a singer who sings herself to death, and Giulietta, a courtesan who steals people’s reflections. Magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer. Soprano Hibla Gerzmava faces the operatic hurdle of singing all three heroines. Thomas Hampson portrays the shadowy Four Villains, and Yves Abel conducts the sparkling score.
Book your MET Opera tickets now>>>
Image: Les Contes d’Hoffman
Regular Events A
ll the Salisbury Arts Centre classics return in January, beginning with Big Band Brunch on Sunday 18 January. Don’t miss your favourites! Big Band Brunch Sunday 18 January 12noon Treat yourself to a tasty brunch from the café and sit back and enjoy the return of the Girls Only Jazz Orchestra. Performing Swing classics and fresh new hits, they’ll blow you away with their Big Band sound. Magic Lantern Tuesday 20 January 7.30pm The bi-monthly masterclasses for local filmmakers begin, with time available for networking and discussion. Dr Sketchy’s Salisbury Wednesday 21 January 7.30pm Our new Salisbury Arts Centre classic returns, uniting entertainment and life drawing. Imagine an art class let loose in the Moulin Rouge with competition prizes, drinks and laughs.
Hijack Open Mic Thursday 22 January 5 – 7pm New Year brings a whole new wave of young talent as we open the stage for young performers, from musicians to poets and comedians, to showcase their skills. Altar Club Saturday 24 January 8pm If you thought the party season was over then think again! Altar Club returns with a lively showcase of acts performing at the 2015 Sausage Music Festival, including Ska giants The Talks, Bamboo Vipers, Aqua Vista and the Neighbourhood Strange. Barnstormers Comedy Friday 30 January 8.30pm Then it’s time for a spot of Laughter Therapy as Barnstormers returns with Nick Wilty and more great comedians. “Just three adjectives to describe Wilty - brilliant, brilliant, brilliant” Chortle
Book your tickets for regular events>>>
“Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant” Chortle on Nick Wilty
Image: Nick Wilty
The Inner Vision Orchestra Friday 23 January 8pm
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ed by ‘Sitarist to the Stars’ Baluji Shrivastav, we can’t wait to hear the world music blend of The Inner Vision Orchestra. We found out a bit more about the world-famous sitar player and what we can expect from his orchestra, which is entirely made up of musicians who are blind or partially sighted:
Introducing Baluji Shrivastav: Baluji Shrivastav is one of the greatest instrumentalists India has produced excelling in sitar, surbahar, dilruba, pakhavaj and tabla. The outstanding characteristic of Baluji’s musical career is his versatility. His ability to concentrate on sound as his primary mode of interaction with the world has enriched his musicality and his courageous attitude to life is reflected in his approach to music. Firmly established in the Hindustani classical tradition he delights in exploring music in all its forms-recently entertaining the world at the closing ceremony of 2012 Paralympic Games with Chris Martin and Coldplay. He composes for film, dance, theatre and original works for Western orchestra and Indian ensembles.
He is “sitarist to the stars”- Evening Standard - recording with Massive Attack, Madness, Doves, Amorphous Androgynous, and performing with great artists such as Stevie Wonder. He has his own Jazz ensemble Jazz Orient/Re-Orient and has recorded several albums made on stars, and snow! What makes the orchestra special? Our focus on sound, our variety of musical styles and the central role music plays in our lives. What kind of music can we expect? Uplifting music including songs from Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria as well as soulful Gospel and Blues through to Indian Ragas and Western Classical compositions. Driven by the intensity of an inner vision, we celebrate the power of music to transform lives.
Book your tickets for The Inner Vision Orchestra now>>>
Image: Baluji Shrivastav
Image: Once Upon A Snowflake
Once Upon a Snowflake Saturday 31 January
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e love the music and trailer for this show and can’t wait to see it live. We chatted to Artistic Director Alex Kanefsky to find out more:
What inspired the show? We worked from an original story by director Maria Litvinova (Trickster Theatre, Moscow) about tiny elf-like creatures called sprites who flew on snowflakes. We wanted to create a piece about our love of stories combined with the magic of seeing that first snowfall of winter. At the same time we wanted to make a piece looking at stories in a slightly different way - can they be dangerous? Does everybody trust stories? We like the idea of having ambiguous, anarchic central characters. We love the music! How does the live music add to the overall experience? Glad you liked it! Music is integral to all our performances. For this piece we wanted a live score to accompany action all the way through. It helps set the atmosphere, tell the story, provides tension and adds an extra dimension to the words and images of the performance.
For ‘Snowflake’, Musician/composer Darren Clark uses a ‘loop pedal’ in the show - a technical gizmo that allows him to build up a range of sounds and tunes with different instruments and his voice. This makes the overall sound larger than just one person; as though there were a whole band on stage. What are the key themes? Snowflake is a mystery piece. Our central characters must examine what they know and what they think they know. Do they know what they think they know? That is the question! The piece explores the power of stories, the mystery of ‘the unknown’, and unlikely friendships. What would you like the audience to take away from the performance? A magical experience made for all the family. After enjoying the show (and taking part in telling the story) we’d love for children and grown-ups to share their stories with each other. We also wonder if after seeing the performance whether people will look a little more closely at falling snowflakes...
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Hot tickets for 2015
The shows that are flying out the door Last month we shared some of our highlights of the spring. Here’s a taste of the audience favourites so far:
Folk stars Martin and Eliza Carthy are the number 1 hot ticket for 2015. Book early to avoid disappointment>>>
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (15)
‘Beta Testing’ by Circus Geeks
Tom Stade ‘Decisions Decisions’
‘Safe’ by ZoieLogic
Mitch Benn ‘Don’t Believe a Word’
Le Vent du Nord