Met Brochure May - July 1999

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May to July 1999

LIVE Kate Rusby

Streets Ahead

The Holmes Brothers

Big Nazo

Folk • Children’s Shows • Theatre • World Music • Street Entertainment

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May Street Entertainment

Bank Holiday Monday 3 May

Free !

Artists appearing in Bury on Bank Holiday Monday include:

Aggressive Honey Fungus Bizarre walkabout characters who really know how to play!

Aksident (Belgium) An investigation into the scientific basis of love.

Sally Barker Percussive guitar and gutsy folk singing.

Black Eagles (Tanzania) African acrobats who perform astonishing tumbling and backflips faster than you can breathe. You feel tired at the end!

Bury Arts Project Seventy Aliens invade Bury!

treets Ahead, the spectacular international festival of street entertainment, returns making Bury the only place to be this Bank Holiday! Artists from across the globe will be appearing across the town centre, and local groups will perform specially created pieces. Music, comedy, circus and theatre – it’s the best entertainment around!

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“They promised something for everyone and the organisers of the 1998 Bury Streets Ahead Festival delivered… Roll on next year!” Bury Times, reviewing 1998’s Streets Ahead Festival.

Why not spend the day in Bury? Take in an exhibition at the Art Gallery, browse around the shops, see Thomas the Tank Engine on the East Lancs Railway, enjoy lunch – and then get out on the streets and enjoy the shows! All festival sites will be closed to traffic, for your comfort and safety.

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Cirque Ronaldo (Belglum) A genuine old-world circus, complete with a roving wagon of props, just like the itinerant street performers of the past.

Eso Es House music meets Latin and Ibiza dancefloor styles. Gets your blood racing!

La Fanfarra (Spain) The adventures of a janitor looking after a theatre. A new show from one of Spain’s best-known puppet companies.

Osagyefo African drumming and dancing.

Dennis Rogers (USA) Traditional native American dances using fronds, sashes, ribbons and knives.

Skokiaan Brass-led six piece band playing South African township jive.

Wormwood Gaul Percussion duo who make an amazing range of sounds from just two drums.

Whalley Range All Stars The secret life of a tailor’s dummy!

Zambura Bury’s samba group.

Danny Zapparelli Speciality and cabaret acts.

For a full Streets Ahead programme call in to The Met or phone 0161 953 4238.

SPECIAL EVENT on the Wylde…

Utopium Theatre (France) Snow White meets Tintin, Robin Hood runs amok, King Kong takes on Little Red Riding Hood. Fairy stories with a sting in the tale.

Family entertainment. In English.

Streets Ahead in Bury is organised by The Met Arts Centre, in association with Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

12.15pm 5.15pm

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Free

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May Rock ’n’ Roll Puppets

Thursday 6 May

Theatre

Friday 14 May Kaos Theatre UK

Big Nazo

Metropolis

Rock’n’Roll puppet orchestra Big Nazo from the USA are a group of visual artists, puppet performers and masked musicians who create bizarre and hilarious musical extravaganzas filled with larger-than-life characters.

Their innovative mask and puppetry techniques combined with live rock music and improvised comedy has evoked laughter, dancing and applause throughout the world.

They were award winners at the International Performers Festival in Nova Scotia and recipients of the Judge’s Choice Award at the World Performance Festival in Osaka, Japan.

Big Nazo is big fun for adults and children alike!

On Stage 8pm

Tickets £6 Conc £4

Family Ticket £16 for four people including at least one child

Children’s Theatre

Saturday 8 May Quicksilver Theatre

By Roger McGough For 4-7 year olds Be on your guard – The Sound Collector is loose in your neighbourhood!

This cunning thief will steal your Dad’s snores, your cat’s purr, the snap, crackle and pop noise your cereal makes. Life will never be the same again! Think: What would you do if you couldn’t atchoo?

The Sound Collector is a bright, funny play which explores the potential of sound

and silence through poetry, music and audience participation.

“A witty, poetic look at how sounds shape and, in some ways, dictate our lives. A play to amuse and gently instruct.” Time Out

2pm Duration approx 1 hour

Tickets £4.50 Conc £3.50

Family Ticket £14 for four people including at least one child

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Metropolis is a city in turmoil.

Revolution is brewing amongst the workers, labouring deep in their underground city – the rich, in their golden pleasure gardens, are desperate to regain control.

The city’s rulers hire a scientist to create an android replica of Maria, the leader of the revolutionaries – the android takes her place, incites the population to rise, and in the chaos the children are lost.

But there is still hope…

Inspired by Fritz Lang’s classic film, Metropolis is a powerful new production from internationally acclaimed theatre company Kaos UK. Metropolis blends the company’s physical style with live sound and visual technology to create a distinctly cinematic, scientific piece of twenty first century fiction.

7.30pm

Tickets £6 Conc £4.50

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May Folk Roots

Friday 21 May

Nick Harper

Thursday 27 May “Nick Harper is following in the footsteps of his father, the great Roy Harper, as a singer-song writer. There are stylistic echoes of his old man in his singing, and he possesses an equally idiosyncratic artistic vision, but he is emerging as very much his own man.

“His own songs are powerful and unconventional, whether dealing with politics, love and friendship… or a favourite pub in Ireland.

“He is cutting, comic, tough and tender by turns, and sings with a disturbing, unsettling passion that is entirely compelling.

On Stage 8pm

Tickets £6 Conc £5

Theatre

“Well worth watching” The Scotsman

Spike Theatre

The Bank Job In a small, lopsided lodging house, an unlikely trio of would-be crooks plot the largest bank heist that 1950s London has known. But things do not go according to plan…

“It’s like watching the story Ealing never told.” Paul Hunter The Bank Job is Spike Theatre’s tribute to the black and white comedies of the fifties. Set in a world of bedsits, Pathe News bulletins and the Salvation Army, the show uses a range of physical theatre techniques to tell the story of a hilariously chaotic crime caper.

Children’s Theatre

Saturday 22 May Magic Carpet Theatre

Professor Tumbling’s Tricks

by Anthony Peters For 5-11 year olds When Miss Primm, the Head mistress, invites Professor Tumbling to give a talk on Science things don’t go to plan. By the end of the demonstration of his Invisibility Ray Apparatus

12.30pm & 2.30pm

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all the school dinners have disappeared and the packed lunches have gone too!

Billy the new pupil is not exactly helpful as they set off to find the dinners.

What is the secret of the Great Dinner Monster? What’s in the dark scary Woods? Will Betty Stodge, the Dinner Lady, find her packed lunches?

Professor Tumbling’s Tricks is a very funny and exciting mystery from Magic Carpet Theatre (last seen in October with the popular Mr Shell’s Seaside Spells).

Family Ticket £14 for four people including at least one child

“Spike Theatre are talented, refreshingly different and well worth seeing” BBC Radio Merseyside

7.30pm

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Tickets £6 Conc £4.50

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June Blues

Friday 4 June

Folk Roots

Saturday 5 June

and Tony The Holmes Huw Brothers Williams

Huw and Tony Williams – not related, but closer than brothers – have been performing together on the unusual musical combination of acoustic guitar (Huw) and double bass (Tony) for over twenty years.

“Well-crafted songs, prepared with humour and verve, and startlingly brilliant instrumental technique. They are the best live act in the country.”

Western Mail Returning after their popular appearance in June last year, they will be performing songs from their new album “Who Are All These People?”, including material from “A Generous Anger” their musical life story of Labour hero Aneurin Bevan.

“The Holmes Brothers’ excellence reaches beyond the catch-all labels of blues and gospel. It’s a sound also stirred profoundly with country and rural soul. They can swing and rock…

So rich, so beautiful, a Holmes Brothers’ show is a truly enriching event.” NOW Magazine The Holmes Brothers are Wendell Holmes, Sherman Holmes and Popsy Dixon – three New York musicians who have been honing their unique gospel blues sound for over 30 years. Since their ‘discovery’ in 1989 they have released six highly acclaimed albums and toured worldwide. Their appearance at The Met was one of the musical highlights of ‘97.

“Stripping their sizzling soul music to the bone, the Holmes Brothers were a living, breathing testament to the fact that great music is timeless… the trio played like they wrote the book, whipping through it all with a spiritual fervour and a total sense of commitment that you could feel way down in your bones.” Metroland

“Great songs, good humour, terrific rapport with their audience, great tea makers and they even tap dance!”

Ralph McTell

Don’t miss this chance to experience “the finest rhythm & blues group playing today” amazon.com

On Stage 8pm

Tickets £9 Conc £8

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On Stage 8pm

Tickets £7.50 Conc £6.50

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June Children’s Theatre

Asian Music

Saturday 12 June

Sunday 13 June

Professor Popup’s Puppet Theatre

Shola

The

Asian band Shola return following their successful appearance at The Met in January. Shola play popular bangra and film music and features Mohammed Sarwar – the first UK. singer to sing in a Pakistani film. Asian music at its best!

Amazing Stories from Old Peru

There will be music and textile design workshops associated with this event.

For 5-11 year olds A ruined jungle temple and two giant stone statues are the only things that remain of a long lost South American people. Here in the ruins we meet The Storycatchers – travellers who breathe new life back into old stories with wit, humour and imagination.

We travel through hot deserts and steamy jungles telling stories rich in colour…

Hear them tell the story of creation… see how the god of creation first tries to make people from stone… watch the ‘new people’ as they learn to farm, how to grow crops, and many other valuable lessons.

The Storycatchers is told in an innovative style with hand and rod puppets, music and atmospheric lighting.

2pm Duration approx 1 hour

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Promoted in association with the Multi Asian Arts Centre, Rochdale

Tickets £5 Conc £3.50

7pm

Children’s Theatre

Thursday 17 June Strathcona Theatre Company

The Selkie Bride For 8-11 year olds Many years ago, lonely Irish fishermen shared stories of seals that shed their skin on land to become women. If a man were to capture that skin and prevent the Selkie, as the seal women were called, from putting it back on and returning to the sea, she would have no choice but to be his wife.

A compelling and magical piece of children’s theatre created and performed

by Strathcona’s eight learning disabled actors.

7pm Duration approx 1 hour

Tickets £4.50 Conc £3.50

Family Ticket £14 for four people

Family Ticket £14 for four people

including at least one child

including at least one child

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June

July Rhythm ‘n’ Blues

Friday 18 June

King Ivory Band “Back in 1966 Yorkshire lad Chris Smith moved to London… There he met a student called Freddie Bulsara – that’s Freddie Mercury to you and me… later Chris teamed up with Brian May and Roger Taylor in Smile. He quit the band to pursue his first love, the blues.

“Thirty years on, and Chris fronts his own outfit, the King Ivory Band,

Saturday 3 July Champ Productions

delivering the sort of honest, imaginative blues which would make Eric Clapton sit up and listen.”

Bulsara’s Blues Connection

On Stage 8pm

For 3-9 year olds

Tickets £6 Conc £5 Folk Roots

Thursday 24 June

Kate

“The best female folk singer I’ve ever heard” Andy Kershaw, Radio 1

Rusby

Children’s Theatre

Twenty five year old Barnsley lass Kate Rusby first came to prominence in duo The Equation, then as a member of The Poozies. More recently she has been making a name for herself as a solo artist, her exquisite interpretations of traditional English folk song inviting comparisons with June Tabor. Her album Hourglass is one of the best selling folk recordings the UK has ever seen. “…a wonderful traditional singer.

Really, really fantastic. I think she’ll be here to stay.” Richard Thompson “…the best young voice to emerge in years.” Daily Telegraph

Two gloriously funny puppet plays for children aged 3–9 years which take an entertaining look at pollution, waste and litter.

The first story is set in the frozen Arctic and tells of two Innuits who have a big problem with their rubbish. With the help of a seal and a polar bear they find a solution which helps everyone. In the second we meet the amazingly repellent Litter Bug, a talking dustbin called Horace and a very brave girl!

Sat 3 July, 10.30am -12.30pm Tickets £2

Junk Puppet Workshop Learn how to make your own puppet out of junk in this facinating workshop with Ken Haines.

Tales from the Washing Line! features puppets created by Ken Haines, puppetry workshop leader for the Royal National Theatre.

2pm Duration approx 1 hour

On Stage 8pm

Tickets £7.50 Conc £6.50

Tickets £4.50 Conc £3.50

Family Ticket £14 for four people including at least one child

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July World Music

Saturday 10 July

Rhythms of Africa Eight piece Rhythms of Africa incorporate the very best of African music and dance routines, featuring some of the finest musicians and talented dancers to emerge from the West Coast of Africa.

Led by Sierra Leone’s King Masco, “the king of African dance music”, this show is an electrifying music and dance experience which carries the audience along on a tidal wave of excitement.

Singing songs in English and Sierra Leone’s mother tongue Krio, King Masco has won international acclaim for his music. His song “Take me for What I Am” has been adopted as Sierra Leone’s national anthem.

featuring

King Masco

Rhythms of Africa promises a hot and joyful African party as the climax to our summer season.

“Vibrant is scarcely an adequate description” Bury Times

On Stage 8pm

Tickets £7.50 Conc £6.50

Independent Promotions These events are promoted by independent organisations. For more information on how to hire the facilities of The Met for your event, just call us on 0161 761 7107.

Samba Drumming & Dance Samba dancers and drummers wanted!

Zambura, Bury’s community samba band, is a group of over forty people who perform at many events around the region and meet regularly at The Met to play samba, the drum music of the Rio carnival. Recently the band has added a sister group for samba dancers.

No experience is necessary so if you’d like to dance or play this great music, why not join?

The groups rehearse at The Met most Sundays between 2pm and 4pm, unless they are away performing at an event. Call The Met on 0161 761 7107 to confirm that they are meeting. Sessions cost £2 (children £1).

If you are interested in having the groups appear at an event, call The Met for more information.

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Sun 18 April, Sun 9 May & Sun 20 June, 10am-1pm Tickets £5, Conc £3

Group Singing Workshops Have a go at group singing in a warm, friendly environment with leader Faith Watson. These events are open to anyone regardless of ability, but places are limited, so book early. It is hoped that these workshops will result in an ongoing ‘Singing for Fun’ group being established in Bury.

Saturday 15 May, 11am-4pm Tickets £8

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway at Work An illustrated lecture, presented by Atlantic in association with The LMS Society.

Sat 15 May, 7.30pm Tickets £4 Carol Godby Theatre Workshop

Pop Show A selection of dances and songs performed before a panel of experts, ‘Top of the Pops’ style.

Thurs 8 & Fri 9 May, 7pm Tickets £2 from The Met Ticket Office

A Celebration of Rights The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a unique treaty that protects a child’s civil and political rights. Young people in Bury have written their own charter which will be celebrated through dance, music and the spoken word at this spectacular event. It will be performed by young people from Elton High School, Bury Grammar School, Bury Youth Arts Project and the Youth Orchestra of Bury Music Service.

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PROJECT 99

Bury Arts Project shake off their alien alter ego’s from Streets Ahead to launch into a performance that uses the U.N. Rights of the Child as its theme. Young people from Bury have contributed to this U.N. convention and Bury Arts Project will develop a creative approach to turning this historic piece of legislation into a performance piece with Dance and Drama.

This piece will be given a high profile public performance at The Met on 8 and 9 July. Sessions take place at The Met every Wednesday evening from 19 May. Session Times: 8-10 year olds

4.30pm - 6pm

11-13 year olds 6pm - 7.30pm 14-25 year olds 7.30pm - 9pm Cost: £2/£1.50 concessions.

Limited spaces available.

Please book your place on 0161 253 5907.

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Booking Information Group Booking Discount

In Person

Buy ten, get an additional one free.

There is no booking fee for any event at The Met!

Special Discounts

Monday - Friday 9.30am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm and one hour before each show from The Met Ticket Office, situated alongside Bury Tourist Information Centre.

Available upon proof of eligibility for unemployed people, senior citizens, students, under 17s, registered disabled people and Stage Pass card holders. Only one discount per ticket.

Stage Pass Stage Pass

Stage Pass is the national arts discount scheme for young people between the ages of 14 and 30 and offers substantial reductions at The Met and hundreds of other leading arts companies and venues throughout the country. For further information please ring 0171 379 6722.

By Phone Ticket Office: 0161 761 2216 Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm and one hour before each show.

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Magnetic induction loop in the theatre for hearing aid users.

Cannot operate for events with amplified sound.

Guide dogs are welcome.

Water can be provided on request.

There is no additional charge if you pay by credit card.

Latecomers Please note that latecomers may not be admitted, or only admitted during an appropriate break in the programme. This will be at the discretion of the staff, and no refunds will be given.

By Freepost (no stamp required!)

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Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope, otherwise your tickets will be held for you to collect at the Ticket Office.

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Changes to Programme Whilst details of the programme are correct at time of going to press, The Met reserves the right to change or alter information if circumstances dictate.

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You have the right to see any of the information we hold about you and to have it amended or removed where appropriate.

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Speak to our Front of House Manager on 0161 761 7107.

Tourist Information Centre Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm Tel: 0161 253 5111.

Situated in the Met Foyer. Bury’s Tourist Information Centre is full of ideas on days out, walks, holiday information and to book tickets for other North West theatres.

The Met Café Bar OPENING HOURS Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Call in and try one of our tasty range of excellent value homemade meals and snacks, freshly prepared, with vegetarian options.

• Children welcome, with highchairs available • Easy access for wheelchairs and pushchairs • Facilities for the disabled.

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About The Met The Met, Market Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0BW Ticket Office: 0161 761 2216 Admin: 0161 761 7107 Fax: 0161 763 5056 e-mail: postmaster@metarts.demon.co.uk The Met on the Net: http://www.metarts.demon.co.uk/ The Met is an independent arts centre in the heart of Bury town centre, comprising a flexible performance space seating up to 250, an intimate modern studio theatre seating 80, and a Café Bar which can accommodate 100 people for music events and cabaret.

How to find us...Bury is very easy to get to!

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Head for Bury town centre following signs for East Lancs Railway or Tourist Information Centre. Car parking on Bolton Street car park, just a minute’s walk away.

The Met is situated on Market Street.

Car parks are FREE after 6pm.

The Met is one minute’s walk from the Interchange - just follow the signs for Tourist Information.

Last trams to Manchester city centre leave at 12.19am Mon-Thu, 12.57am Fri, 12.55am and Sat, 11.03pm on Sunday.

Last trams connecting to the Altrincham line leave at 11.12pm Mon-Thur, 12.12pm Fri and Sat, 10.03pm on Sunday.

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BY BUS Regular services call at Bury Interchange from Manchester, Whitefield, Prestwich, Bolton and Rochdale.

For Greater Manchester bus information please call 0161 228 7811.

The Met is run by Bury Metropolitan Arts Association, a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity (No. 701879).

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D i a r y of Events June continued...

7pm

Strathcona Theatre Company The Selkie Bride

Thu 6

8pm

Big Nazo

Fri 18

8pm

The King Ivory Band

Sat 8

2pm

Quicksilver Theatre The Sound Collector

Sat 19

12.30pm WICKID

Sun 20

10am

Group Singing Workshop

Sun 9

10am

Group Singing Workshop

Thu 24

8pm

Kate Rusby

Fri 14

7.30pm Kaos Theatre UK Metropolis

Fri 25

7pm

PURE

Sat 15

11am

Sat 15

7.30pm Carol Godby Theatre Wksp Pop Show

Fri 21

8pm

Sat 22

The London, Midland & Scottish Railway at Work

Nick Harper

12.30pm Magic Carpet Theatre & 2.30pm Professor Tumbling’s Tricks

Thu 27

7.30pm Spike Theatre The Bank Job

Fri 28

7pm

Sat 29

12.30pm WICKID

July

PURE

June

Sat 3

10.30am Junk Puppet Workshop

Sat 3

2pm

Champ Productions Tales from the Washing Line!

Thu 8

7pm

Bury Arts Project A Celebration of Rights

Fri 4

8pm

The Holmes Brothers

Sat 5

8pm

Huw and Tony Williams Fri 9

7pm

A Celebration of Rights

Sat 12

2pm

Professor Popup’s Puppet Theatre – The Storycatchers

Sat 10

8pm

Rhythms of Africa

Shola

Fri 16

7pm

PURE

Sun 13

7pm

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