Education Artistic Programme for Schools Summer 2016 by Warwick Arts Centre

Contents Artistic Programme for Primary Schools Laila: The Musical ............................................................................................................................ 4 Broken .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Aspiration Days ................................................................................................................................ 6 Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales ....................................................................................................... 8 Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities .............................................................................. 9 Another Minimalism ...................................................................................................................... 9 Mead Gallery Learning Space ................................................................................................... 10 Meet the Curator ........................................................................................................................ 10 Another Minimalism Opening Party ........................................................................................... 10 Exhibition Tours.......................................................................................................................... 10 A Sculpture Tour of the University of Warwick Art Collection .................................................... 10 East vs West: Another Minimalism ............................................................................................ 11 Sculpture Trails and Colour Trails ................................................................................................. 12 Stick Man........................................................................................................................................ 13

Artistic Programme for Secondary Schools and Colleges A Machine They're Secretly Building ............................................................................................. 17 Best of BE FESTIVAL .................................................................................................................... 18 Laila: The Musical .......................................................................................................................... 20 Hair Peace ..................................................................................................................................... 21 Opera for the Unknown Woman .................................................................................................... 22 Going Viral ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Broken ............................................................................................................................................ 25 Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities ............................................................................ 26 Another Minimalism .................................................................................................................... 26 Mead Gallery Learning Space ................................................................................................... 27 Meet the Curator ........................................................................................................................ 27 Another Minimalism Opening Party ........................................................................................... 28 Exhibition Tours.......................................................................................................................... 28 A Sculpture Tour of the University of Warwick Art Collection .................................................... 28 East vs West: Another Minimalism ............................................................................................ 28 Sculpture Trails and Colour Trails ................................................................................................. 29 Things I Know To Be True ............................................................................................................. 30

Artistic Programme for Primary Schools 3

Laila: The Musical by Pravesh Kumar Tue 10 – Fri 13 May 7.30pm 2hrs 30mins (including interval) / Age 8+ Theatre Schools and colleges: £10 (Tue to Thu only) Winner of the People’s Favourite Musical (for Britain’s Got Bhangra) – Off West End Awards From the creators of the award-winning Britain’s Got Bhangra comes a new contemporary musical retelling the greatest love story from the East which has been passed down through verse and song over the centuries – Laila Majnu. In 2016, Laila takes shelter from a raging storm in an old bookshop and chances on a book with her name on it. When she opens it, she finds herself in an ancient story on a new journey. From the Persian deserts, the bitter-sweet story of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is given a modern musical twist, taking you across the sands of time. “A timely, big hearted celebration.” ★★★★★ The Metro on Britain’s Got Bhangra

Motionhouse

Broken Fri 17 Jun 7.30pm 1hr 10mins / Age 6+   Theatre Schools/colleges: £10 Motionhouse’s adrenaline-filled spectacle Broken is fast-paced, gripping, moving and exhilarating. It erupts onto the stage and gives us athletic contact work, spectacular acrobatics and a gripping narrative combined with revolutionary set design and digital imagery. Broken takes audiences on a journey into the earth as they have never seen it before… “This great, surging spectacle  from Motionhouse makes you feel  as if you have been present at the  creation and destruction of  the world.” The Stage Presented as part of Tipping Point’s Doing Nothing is Not an Option event in partnership with Warwick Arts Centre and Julie’s Bicycle.

Aspiration Days Art and Aspiration for Year 6

As your Year 6 pupils are about to take the next big step in their education, Warwick Arts Centre is delighted to offer them a brand new experience – to set them thinking about what their futures might hold. For many years our highly successful Sculpture Trail and Colour Trail have introduced children to contemporary art, by engaging with the University of Warwick Art Collection, sited across campus. We are now building on those Trails, using them as a perfect vehicle to open pupils’ eyes to what they might achieve if they were to go to University in the future. We ran a pilot day in 2015 with a school which actively wanted to find an engaging and exciting way for their year 6 children to experience a University environment. Teachers were delighted at an experience where their class was able to: 

engage with contemporary, abstract art and develop their visual literacy and artistic sensitivities. This will feed into any creative work that they will undertake back at school and into their secondary school.

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talk directly to students and staff to open their eyes to possibilities for their own future and raise aspirations as they step into their life in secondary schools.

We have created a new Art Trail especially for the Aspiration Days, taking in more of the works of the University Collection. These works are sited in outdoor spaces, Academic Departments, leisure spaces, study and administration buildings. 6

Each day will be for one class of Year 6 children and will begin at the Mead Gallery (inside Warwick Arts Centre). After the welcome, they will begin their tour of campus with our trained Trail leaders. During the Trails, the children will meet University staff and students who will answer questions about their work and what student life might be like. Thanks to funding from the University’s Widening Participation Development Fund, we are able to offer six Aspiration Days FREE OF CHARGE to schools that serve communities and neighbourhoods where access to the Arts may be rare and aspirations low. We are also able to offer a subsidy of £70 for each coach needed for your visit. Aspiration Days will run from 10am to 2.30pm on the following dates: 

Thursday 26th May

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Monday 6th June

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Tuesday 14th June

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Thursday 16th June Monday 20th June

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Wednesday 22nd June

For more information and to book an Aspiration Day please contact Brian Bishop at Warwick Arts Centre on 024 7652 4252 or b.c.bishop@warwick.ac.uk

Scamp Theatre and Watfod Palace Theatre

Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales From the bestselling books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (creators of The Gruffalo)

Tue 28 & Wed 29 Jun 10.30am & 1.30pm 60mins (no interval) Age 3+ Theatre Nurseries / schools £9 “A feast of storytelling….” Broadway Baby Is Tiddler telling the truth? Will Monkey find his Mummy? Can the old lady really squash and squeeze all those animals in? Under the sea, out on the farm and into the jungle, these terrific tales are woven together with live music, puppetry and a whole host of colourful characters from Julia Donaldsonand Axel Scheffler’s best-loved titles: Tiddler, Monkey Puzzle, The Smartest Giant in Town and A Squash and a Squeeze. Funky moves, toe-tapping tunes and giggles are guaranteed! “To call this show lively would be a whopping understatement. Packed with gleeful ditties and jolly good fun.” The Guardian

Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities Thu 5 May â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sat 25 Jun

Another Minimalism Art After California Light and Space A Fruitmarket Gallery touring exhibition curated by Melissa E. Feldman Another Minimalism brings together the work of an international group of contemporary artists whose practice builds on terrain first explored by the California Light and Space artists of the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Maria Nordman and Larry Bell (all represented in the exhibition) were producing radical and ground-breaking work characterised by an interest in immateriality, site-specificity and the experiential. They would work with signature materials such as tinted glass, mirrors, resins and coloured lights. Another Minimalism is the first exhibition to recognise and examine the influence of Light and Space artists on a younger generation of practitioners whose works deal with the perceptual and psychological aspects of seeing through stripped down, incidental or optical forms, structures and spaces. Jeppe Hein creates sculptures of glass and mirrors, Tacita Dean creates subtle engagements with

perception and the slowed-down encounter while James Welling and Uta Barth use photography to explore these ideas. The exhibition is accompanied by a colour-illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by the curator, Melissa E Feldman.

Get more from your visit Mead Gallery Learning Space To add another dimension to your visit to Another Minimalism, and deepen engagement with the works on display, we’re building a space for children to get creative. From quizzes and sketching, to creating colours and shapes with light. There is something for all ages. FREE teachers notes Teachers Notes on Another Minimalism will be downloadable from the website from April 16 onwards – meadgallery.co.uk

Exhibition Events Primary teachers are more than welcome to these events to add to their experience of contemporary art and generate new ideas for the classroom. To book, please call the Box Office on 024 7652 4524

Meet the Curator An Introduction to Another Minimalism by Melissa E. Feldman Wed 4 May, 6pm £4.50 (£3) Melissa Feldman is a Seattle-based independent curator and writer. For this event, she will outline the development of Another Minimalism and the legacy of Light and Space Art on contemporary art practice.

Another Minimalism Opening Party Wed 4 May, 7-8.30pm FREE; no booking required; all welcome. Join the exhibition curator and everyone at the Mead Gallery to celebrate the opening of this new exhibition over a glass of wine.

Exhibition Tours Sat 14 May & Sat 11 Jun, 12pm Tue 17 May & Tue 14 Jun, 6pm FREE Join the Mead Gallery curators for a 30min introduction to the exhibition.

A Sculpture Tour of the University of Warwick Art Collection Sat 21 May, 1-3pm 10

FREE but please book with Box Office This tour will visit a sample of the 75 sculptural works in the University Art Collection. It will concentrate on outdoor works by some of the leading contemporary sculptors. Please dress appropriately for walking outdoors.

East vs West: Another Minimalism Thu 26 May, 6pm FREE but please book with Box Office A conversation between Lucy Bradnock (Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Nottingham) who has a specialist interest in post-war American art and Dr Bill Roberts (Research Fellow in History of Art at the University of Warwick) who has a research interest in the legacy of Minimalism in contemporary art.

Sculpture Trails and Colour Trails Recommended for Primary pupils FREE The University of Warwick has its own Art Collection of over 900 worksâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is accessible to young people and teachers through our guided trails. All trails are led by trained leaders who are skilled in drawing out responses from students to a wide and varied range of contemporary art. Sculpture Trail With our trained leaders, your pupils will take a journey around campus looking at a number of abstract sculptural works. These vary in size, shape, material, colour and making technique â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from the small carved marble of Dark at Heart by Peter RandallPage to the sweeping, bird-like painted aluminium of Op Mobile no. 10 by Nechemia Azaz. Find out more. Colour Trail Following our trained leaders on an indoor trail, your pupils will focus on highly coloured, abstract art works. They will consider the use of colour, thinking and talking about the spectrum, how colours are made, the feelings they evoke and the techniques the artists have used. Works include Orange with Lemon and White by Patrick Heron and the huge wall painting Everything by Ian Davenport. Find out more. To book either Trail, please contact Carly Mee in the Education Department on 024 7657 4786 or c.mee@warwick.ac.uk.

Scamp Theatre

Stick Man Thu 24 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm Mon 28 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm

Wed 7 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Thu 8 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm

Tue 29 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm Wed 30 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm Thu 1 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Mon 5 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 6 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm

Mon 12 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 13 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Wed 14 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Thu 15 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm

55mins / Age 3+ Theatre Schools and colleges: £9.40 Scamp Theatre’s delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s hugely popular children’s book Stick Man is coming to Warwick Arts Centre! Touching, funny and utterly original, this award-winning production features a trio of top actors and is packed full of puppetry, songs, live music and funky moves. “Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three…”

But the world outside the family tree is a dangerous place for Stick Man. A dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him and he even ends up on a fire! How will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree? Guarantees more fun than you can shake a stick at! “Wonderfully exuberant and imaginative! Our 3 year old was engrossed from start to finish” ★★★★★ Time Out Critics’ Choice “Zesty and delightful. A clever compelling treat.” ★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Sunday Express ★★★★★ What’s on Stage ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ Daily Mail “Scamp Theatre send shivers down my spine. They are so lively and innovative. I love their production of Stick Man and so do the audiences” Julia Donaldson, author and former Children’s Laureate Note: The performance times/dates listed above are general admission events designed for school groups. Members of the public are also welcome to buy tickets for these performances.

Artistic Programme for Secondary Schools and Colleges

Made in China

Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me Tue 26 Apr 7.45pm 65mins / Age £14+ Studio Schools/colleges: £9

“A hugely talented young company who make noisy, bubblegum theatre that often has a melancholic edge.” The Guardian A woman takes to the stage. A man watches from the wings. They both wonder if their love will survive what’s about to happen – an arresting physical endurance act that crashes headfirst into an impossibly true love story. Made in China performances are a careful blend of dark humour, deadpan dialogue and punishing physical tasks. They invite audiences to relax and enjoy then put difficult questions to them. They aim to excite and unsettle in equal measure. triggered@warwick. Supported by Soho Theatre, The Place, Bios and Shoreditch Town Hall. Developed at National Theatre Studio and Cove Park via Fuel’s Jerwood Residencies. Funded by Arts Council England, Peggy Ramsay Foundation and Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.

Proto-Type

A Machine They're Secretly Building Wed 27 Apr 7.45pm 1hr / Age £14+ Studio £9 “Daring, experimental and theatrically engaging.” Theatremania I want you to know what’s happening… From what might be a news desk, an office, a bedroom, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre, two people speak up, speak out, blow the whistle and lift the veil on the insidious machine of surveillance. They chart a course from the Top Secret secrets of WWIintelligence (via the moon, 1972’s Chess World Championships, a disco in Oklahoma and the cafeteria at CERN) through to 9/11, the erosion of privacy, Edward Snowden and to the terror of a future that might already be upon us. Proto-type are a company of multi-disciplinary artists who devise their own work that is diverse in scale subject and medium. In their new show they combine original text and classified intelligence documents with film and sound to vent their frustration at the insidious machine of surveillance. A Machine they’re Secretly Building was commissioned by Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (Lincoln), triggered@warwick and hAb/Word of Warning (Manchester). Supported by Tramway, Glasgow, the Britten-Pears Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 17

Best of BE FESTIVAL Travel across Europe in a night! Tue 3 May 7.30pm 2hrs (including interval) / Age 14+ Studio / £9 For students with a taste for the contemporary, with three separate shows, Best of BE Festival is a showcase of BE FESTIVAL’s favourite European theatre, dance and circus performances.

Grumelot (Spain) #sobrejulieta ACT Festival – Best performer A humorous and honest one-woman show with Carlota Gaviño trying to win hearts in this stripped-back take on Romeo and Juliet.

Squarehead Productions (Ireland) The Whistle BE FESTIVAL – Special mention The Whistle is packed with deft circus skills and invites spectators to determine what they watch.

TIDA (Italy) Beating Quintetto BE FESTIVAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1st PRIZE Beating Quintetto is razor sharp and interactive comedy, dance and physical theatre piece dealing with the realities of shoestring budget entertainment.

Get more from your visit Meet the Artists FREE The artists in this eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daring solo shows have all been ready to play with audience expectations. Stay behind after the show and talk with them about their work, how they make it and what they are trying to achieve.

Theatre Rifco, Watford Palace Theatre And Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch

Laila: The Musical by Pravesh Kumar Tue 10 – Fri 13 May 7.30pm 2hrs 30mins (including interval) / Age 8+ Theatre Schools and colleges: £12 (Tue to Thu only) Winner of the People’s Favourite Musical (for Britain’s Got Bhangra) – Off West End Awards From the creators of the award-winning Britain’s Got Bhangra comes a new contemporary musical retelling the greatest love story from the East which has been passed down through verse and song over the centuries – Laila Majnu. In 2016, Laila takes shelter from a raging storm in an old bookshop and chances on a book with her name on it. When she opens it, she finds herself in an ancient story on a new journey. From the Persian deserts, the bitter-sweet story of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is given a modern musical twist, taking you across the sands of time. “A timely, big hearted celebration.” ★★★★★ The Metro on Britain’s Got Bhangra 20

Victoria Melody

Hair Peace Thu 26 May 7.45pm Running time tbc / Age 14+ Studio Schools/colleges £9 “Victoria Melody must rank as one of the most charming independent performance-makers in Britain — smart, warm, and unpretentiously funny.” The Times When Victoria Melody competed in beauty pageants for her previous show (Major Tom) a hairdresser advised her that she needed hair extensions. Freaked out by wearing a piece of somebody else’s body, she set out on an extraordinary quest to find out exactly where this hair comes from. Victoria’s boundless curiosity takes Hair Peace’s live audience from the temples of India to the shopping malls of Russia, via hair salons and forensics labs on a humorous, moving and serendipitous journey around the world. Created and performed by Victoria Melody. Produced by Farnham Maltings. Co-commissioned by LIFT, Warwick Arts Centre and Battersea Arts Centre. Supported by The Marlborough Theatre and Arts Council England.

Get more out of your visit Meet Victoria Melody after the show FREE Victoria Melody makes one-woman theatrical shows, performance interventions and films mainly about Britain’s pastimes, passions and tribes. In the past she has become a pigeon racer, a northern soul dancer, a championship dog handler and a beauty queen. Stay after the show and talk with her about her work.

Fuel

Opera for the Unknown Woman by Melanie Wilson Wed 25 & Thu 26 May 7.45pm 60mins / Age 14+ Theatre Schools/colleges £8 Opera for the Unknown Woman is a bold new sound work for voices. It is an epic science-fiction dream of Earth in the 21st and 22nd centuries, seen through the eyes of its women and a visitor from the far future. Melanie Wilson has collaborated with co-composer Katarina Glowicka and projection designer Will Duke to fuse contemporary classical and electronic music, choral singing, film and choreography. The performances at Warwick Arts Centre are previews before the show’s premiere at the Wales Millennium Centre’s Festival of the Voice and its tour to the Yorkshire Festival in June. Commissioned by Wales Millennium Centre Festival of Voice and Yorkshire Festival in association with Warwick Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by the Fidelio Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation. Development commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre and funded by Arts Council England & PRSF for Music Foundation. Developed in association with Opera North Projects.

Arc Stockton

Going Viral Written and performed by Daniel Bye Winner of the Scotsman Fringe First award 2015 Fri 27 May 7.45pm 60min / Age 14+ Studio Schools/colleges: £9 “…further proof that Bye is one of the most astute and thoughtful contemporary theatre makers around.” The Stage An aeroplane flies from India to England. Everyone on board is weeping. Everyone except you. On the ground, the weeping spreads. Is it a strange new disease? An outbreak of hysteria? Or has the world become genuinely sad? Going Viral is a thrilling new development in Daniel Bye’s unique blend of storytelling, playful comedy and performance lecture. “Theatre that makes us think about the world and how we may want to change it.”The Guardian

Developed with support from Arts Council England, Camden People’s Theatre, Northern Stage, The Yard Theatre, Triggered@Warwick , QPT India and the Wellcome Trust.

Get more from your visit Meet Daniel Bye FREE Daniel Bye says of himself – “I juggle with comedy and tragedy, roughness and polish, truth and lies. I wrestle down big ideas about the world until they’re small enough for us all to swallow. I want you to laugh, cry, gasp and change the world.” Stay after the show and talk to this playful theatre maker.

Motionhouse

Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities Thu 5 May â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sat 25 Jun

Another Minimalism Art After California Light and Space A Fruitmarket Gallery touring exhibition curated by Melissa E. Feldman Another Minimalism brings together the work of an international group of contemporary artists whose practice builds on terrain first explored by the California Light and Space artists of the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Maria Nordman and Larry Bell (all represented in the exhibition) were producing radical and ground-breaking work characterised by an interest in immateriality, sitespecificity and the experiential. They would work with signature materials such as tinted glass, mirrors, resins and coloured lights. Another Minimalism is the first exhibition to recognise and examine the influence of Light and Space artists on a younger generation of practitioners whose works deal with the perceptual and psychological aspects of seeing through stripped down, 26

incidental or optical forms, structures and spaces. Jeppe Hein creates sculptures of glass and mirrors, Tacita Dean creates subtle engagements with perception and the slowed-down encounter while James Welling and Uta Barth use photography to explore these ideas. The exhibition is accompanied by a colour-illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by the curator, Melissa E Feldman.

Exhibition Tours Sat 14 May & Sat 11 Jun, 12pm Tue 17 May & Tue 14 Jun, 6pm FREE Join the Mead Gallery curators for a 30min introduction to the exhibition.

A Sculpture Tour of the University of Warwick Art Collection Sat 21 May, 1-3pm FREE but please book with Box Office This tour will visit a sample of the 75 sculptural works in the University Art Collection. It will concentrate on outdoor works by some of the leading contemporary sculptors. Please dress appropriately for walking outdoors.

COMING SOON Frantic Assembly

Things I Know To Be True We’re delighted to announce that Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia are bringing Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell, to Warwick Arts Centre from Tue 11 – Thu 20 Oct 2016. As beautifully touching as it is funny and bold, Things I Know To Be True tells the story of a family and marriage through the eyes of four grown siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents’ love and expectations. “Bovell’s hypnotic, poetic use of language and his unusual plotting structure… are piercingly beautiful.” Arts Hub Australia Regarded as one of Australia’s greatest storytellers, Andrew Bovell writes about the mechanics of family in a way that is both poetic and frank. Partnered with a brilliant cast of performers, Things I Know To Be True will tug at your heart strings while asking the big questions about what it is that keeps us going. Things I Know To Be True contains strong language and is suitable for ages 14+ 30

Resources for your students Frantic Assembly is dedicated to producing resources for academics and students to describe, document and contextualise the company and its work. These resources will be made available to you free of charge when you book an education group into one of our shows. In the meantime you can find a wealth of information about the company, its work and Things I Know To Be True at franticassembly.co.uk.