Salisbury international Arts Festival 2019 by Wiltshire Creative

2019

24 MAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 JUNE 2019

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WELCOME TO THE 2019 SALISBURY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL In 1973, the first Festival blazed into life with a thrilling artistic programme that captured the hearts and minds of the City. Since then, successive inspirational Festival Directors have built upon that original offer ensuring that, for two weeks every year, the buildings, streets and open spaces of Salisbury have been alive with creativity and artistic excellence. This year the Festival enters a new stage in its evolution as part of Wiltshire Creative and we are delighted to welcome one of Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest contemporary composers, Jonathan Dove, as our Guest Festival Director in the year of his 60th birthday. As you delve into the programme, you will discover that new strands, such as A Festival of Ideas, sit alongside familiar patterns of work. We hope you find much here to enjoy and look forward to welcoming you to an event very soon. Gareth Machin Artistic Director, Wiltshire Creative

Sebastian Warrack Executive Director, Wiltshire Creative

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JONATHAN DOVE GUEST FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Salisbury has always been a significant part of my cultural landscape. My career as a full-time professional composer began here 30 years ago, when I was invited to be Musician in Residence at the 1989 Salisbury Festival. From my lodgings in the Cathedral Close, I marvelled at the range and quality of all the events in the Festival. I went on to write further works for Salisbury over the years. So it feels both natural and exciting to be Guest Festival Director for the 2019 Salisbury International Arts Festival, working with the Wiltshire Creative team to bring excitement and inspiration of all kinds to Salisbury and beyond. This year is the anniversary of two events of global significance, which are reflected in the Festival. It is 30 years since revolutions across Eastern Europe led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Artists behind the Iron Curtain often found themselves in conflict with the authorities, as one of our visiting artists will testify, and yet created music of haunting beauty even under oppression.

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Perhaps an even more momentous milestone: it is 50 years since man first landed on the moon, the climax of the Space Race that brought in its wake undreamed-of technological advances. Artists have long been fascinated by the moon, but photos from the Apollo missions also gave us a new image of ourselves floating in the void on a tiny, fragile blue planet: a revolution in human consciousness. Throughout the Festival, a stunning installation in the cathedral lets us see the earth as only astronauts have seen it. We meet the writer who talked to the men who stood on the moon, see films capturing the excitement and wonder of space exploration, and hear the music it inspired, from the Moonlight Sonata to Earthrise and The Planets. All this alongside a huge array of jazz, flamenco, streettheatre and comedy, walks and talks, with up to a dozen events each day. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a mind-expanding Festival! Jonathan Dove

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Tickertape Parade. Photo: Emma Jones

CITY ENCOUNTERS

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FREE theatre, music, dance and circus in the streets of Salisbury Sunday 26 May & Monday 27 May Salisbury City Centre

FREE

Performers include… Apocalyptic Circus – an exciting theatre show for families, inside a free-standing structure. Joss Arnott Dance – technically-charged choreography. Newton’s Ladder – an exhilarating aerial display. Spitz & Co. – glamorous French actress Gloria Delaneuf presents her one-woman version of Les Mis! Stopgap Dance Company – an explosive piece of colour and diversity where individuality is joyously celebrated. Tickertape Parade – a glitter-filled drag show for families. See website or pick up a leaflet during May for details of where to see these FREE events. Photo: George Orange (Man on the Moon)

FAMILY FIESTA AT BEMERTON HEATH Saturday 25 May | 11am–4pm Bemerton Heath

FREE

Salisbury International Arts Festival comes to Bemerton Heath with this fun day for all the family, celebrating Wiltshire Creative’s year round partnership as a cultural hub. Enjoy performance, live music and the chance to try new things. There will be a broad range of participatory arts activities to have a go at and shows to see throughout the day.

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VISUAL ARTS Gaia at Natural History Museum, 2018

VISUAL ARTS

GAIA By Luke Jerram Salisbury Cathedral, throughout the Festival Central to the Festival and measuring seven metres in diameter, Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface. The installation provides an opportunity to see our planet on this scale, floating above our heads in Salisbury Cathedral. This incredible sculpture is presented with a specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA awardwinning Composer Dan Jones. Gaia has been created in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Bluedot and the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres. Sponsored by

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VISUAL ARTS Image: Orbit 1 Dowlatshahi

INSATIABLE MIND Salisbury Arts Centre 24 May–13 June Insatiable Mind is an exhibition inspired by human curiosity and the urge to challenge accepted norms. It features work from an international selection of artists – Oksana Chepelyk, Katayoun Dowlatshahi, Susan Eyre, Eunmi Mimi Kim, Lindy María Márquez Holguín, Niccolò Masini, and Sophia Sample. This year’s anniversaries of the Moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall provided the conceptual springboard for this exhibition which explores the past, the present, and the notion of leaving behind the familiar in order to redirect the future. Produced by Wiltshire Creative. Sponsored by

VISUAL ARTS

STEAM EXHIBITION Salisbury Library and Salisbury Arts Centre Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths departments working across different media explore the themes of curiosity and human endeavour. This exhibition encourages students to interrogate ‘What would happen if…’ to allow their imaginations to run free and creatively answer the questions that interest them the most.

VISUAL ARTS

ALISON HARPER: WASTE, WANT AND OVERABUNDANCE Arundells Gallery, The Close | 25 May–11 June Based in Bath, Alison Harper’s recent PhD with Practice explores issues of reparation around our relationship with the material world. In diminishing the imagined boundaries and barriers and suggesting a form of deep materialism, she is reassessing and readjusting our relationship with matter, leading to a more caring and less harmful way to be in the world. Produced by Wiltshire Creative.

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VISUAL ARTS

GEOMETRY OF THE SMILE Anna Shuttlewood & Diliana Nikolova VISUAL ARTS

TELL IT AS IT IS

Salisbury United Reformed Church 1–9 June Exploring the ‘geometry laws’ of the smile in a paradoxical, amusing and cheerful way.

Locations around the city

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Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, community groups have been invited to share their hopes, challenges and dreams of our city through graffiti art. Large panels, displayed around Salisbury during the Festival, will reflect the lives and experiences of its residents.

AUGUSTUS JOHN: DRAWN FROM LIFE The Salisbury Museum, The Close 18 May–29 September In partnership with Poole Museum, and co-curated with David Boyd Haycock, this exhibition of the art of Augustus John, one of the towering figures in British art, looks in detail at his work, particularly in the decades between the two world wars.

VISUAL ARTS

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FRIDAY 24 MAY

MUSIC

MOON SONGS part of Friday Afternoons Music Friday 24 May | 1.30pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2.30pm Salisbury Cathedral

FREE (no ticket required)

Hundreds of school children from across the city will raise their voices to herald the start of the 2019 Festival in the magnificent setting of Salisbury Cathedral, in a joyful programme including the world premiere of Moon Songs especially written for the Festival by Guest Director Jonathan Dove and writer Alasdair Middleton. This lunchtime event is free and open to everyone (no ticket required). Audiences will be encouraged to stand, with limited seating available. Friday Afternoons is a Snape Maltings led singing project connecting teachers and young people with contemporary composers, through creating exciting music-making experiences for all www.fridayafternoonsmusic.co.uk

MUSIC

SALISBURY LIVE Great live music, FREE in the pubs and bars of Salisbury Friday 24 May, Saturday 25 May, Friday 31 May & Saturday 1 June Salisbury City Centre Also Sunday 26 May at River Bourne Community Farm, Laverstock, Salisbury

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

EARTHRISE by Alec Roth featuring Salisbury Festival Chorus and La Folia musicians Friday 24 May | 7pm & 9pm Salisbury Cathedral

Tickets £16

Musical Director Howard Moody In 1968, Apollo astronaut William Anders photographed the Earth from lunar orbit. This iconic picture, popularly known as Earthrise, has become one of the most influential photographs of all time. Its appearance has been described as the start of the environmental movement. Alec Roth’s beautiful choral work, inspired by this icon, will feature the massed voices of the Festival Chorus under the musical direction of Howard Moody. Described by The Times as “…fabulous…lushly harmonised climaxes that send shivers down the spine”, this promises to be an immersive and powerful performance. Produced by Wiltshire Creative in association with La Folia.

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SATURDAY 25 MAY

WALK

VICTORIAN SALISBURY Sat 25 May, Thu 30 May, Sun 2 June & Wed 5 June 2.30pm Meet at Salisbury Information Centre, Fish Row Tickets £7.50 (under 18s £3.75) Explore the rich history, colourful characters and architecture of Victorian Salisbury on these guided walks led by Blue Badge Guides. Tickets available from Salisbury Information Centre on 01722 342860.

FILM

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD 1965 | PG | 107 mins Saturday 25 May | 12pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 After Tinker Tailor, The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl, it seems the world can’t get enough of John Le Carre at the moment, so what better time to revisit his first big screen adaptation. Richard Burton stars as British agent Alec Leamas, who stages a defection to the East. However, as double crosses and shifting loyalties emerge, he begins to realise that he is just a pawn in a much bigger game.

LITERATURE

FILM

SUE NELSON

MERCURY 13

Wally Funk’s Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer

2017 | U | 79 mins

Saturday 25 May | 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £10 Science journalist and broadcaster Sue Nelson discusses women’s achievements in space and why Wally Funk should have been the first woman on the moon. Prior to the Apollo missions, a group of female pilots in the US had taken the same physical tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts, and thirteen of them passed. One of those women was Wally Funk.

Saturday 25 May | 4pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets FREE Introduced by Sue Nelson. Through exclusive interviews and a wealth of revealing archive footage, this inspiring documentary tells the story of a remarkable group of female aviators. In the late 1950s NASA began the rigorous process of selecting a group of test pilots to spearhead their space programme. Less well known was a similar programme for women pilots, many of whom passed and performed better in the same tests as the men, yet were not selected because of their gender.

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THEATRE

THE NATURE OF FORGETTING Theatre Re Saturday 25 May | 2pm & 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £18 (under 25s £16) | Ages 8+

Following a sell-out run at the 2017 London International Mime Festival, Latitude and the Edinburgh Fringe, this is a powerful, explosive and joyous piece about what is left when memory is gone. Tom is 55 today. As he dresses for his party, tangled threads of disappearing memories spark him into life, unravelling as a tale of friendship, love and guilt. Theatre Re is a London-based international ensemble creating thought-provoking and poignant work that examines fragile human conditions and spans the boundaries of mime and theatre. “profoundly moving… an action-packed celebration of life” John Wilson, Front Row, BBC Radio 4.

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MUSIC

TIM KLIPHUIS TRIO Saturday 25 May | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £17

Internationally renowned legends, the Tim Kliphuis Trio (Tim Kliphuis, violin, Nigel Clark, guitar, Roy Percy, bass) perform their stunning musical blend of gypsy jazz, classical and folk music – delivered with astonishing finesse. “Playfully inventive and technically brilliant” Time Out.

IN CONVERSATION

FILM

MARK WIGGLESWORTH

SERGIO & SERGEI

The Silent Musician – why conducting matters. In conversation with Jonathan Dove

2017 | 12a | 107 mins

Saturday 25 May | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £13 A conductor is one of classical music’s most recognisable figures. Rarely though does such a well-known profession attract so many questions. The Silent Musician is for all who wonder what conductors actually do, and why they matter. In conversation with Festival Director Jonathan Dove, celebrated conductor Mark Wigglesworth will explore conductors’ relationships with musicians, music, and the public and personal responsibilities they face, talking about the features of a conductor’s art: precision, charisma, intuition, diplomacy and passion.

Saturday 25 May | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 Loosely based on a true story, this warm hearted political satire follows the unlikely friendship that forms between Sergei, a stranded cosmonaut, and Sergio, a Marxist philosophy professor in Cuba. It’s 1991, and as the Soviet Union collapses, both men feel abandoned – one on an island dependent on the financial support of the USSR, the other trapped on the Mir Space Station which has now lost its funding. Both are keen amateur radio enthusiasts, and when they meet over the airwaves, Sergio makes it his mission to bring Sergei home – even if it requires the intervention of the US government to do so. Spanish/English/Russian with subtitles.

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SUNDAY 26 MAY

FAMILY

CITY ENCOUNTERS

FAMILY

FREE theatre, music, dance and circus

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BOOKS ABOUT BEARS?

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Sunday 26 May | 2pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets ÂŁ8 Join Kristina Stephenson, the brilliant author of Sir Charlie Stinky Socks, for a fun-packed family event with a very cute surprise in store!

FILM

BEING NEIL ARMSTRONG 2009 | 60 mins Introduced by director Andrew Smith and including a post-screening Q&A Sunday 26 May | 2.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets ÂŁ9

It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Armstrong. But in the five decades since he first set foot on the moon, Armstrong has become increasingly reclusive. This BBC4 documentary sees Andrew Smith, author of the best-selling book Moondust, journey across America to try and discover the real Neil Armstrong. He tracks down the people who knew Armstrong, from his closest childhood friend to fellow astronauts and Houston technicians, and even the barber who sold his hair, in a wry and sideways look at the reluctant hero of the greatest event of the 20th century.

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DANCE

RAICES FLAMENCAS (FLAMENCO ROOTS) Lourdes Fernández Sunday 26 May | 7pm The Chapel Night Club, Milford Street

Tickets £16 (under 25s £14)

Raíces Flamencas (flamenco roots) is a flamenco show in which you will discover the flamenco world across its different facets. A journey full of magic, along the different palos which composed the flamenco; from the traditional to the most contemporary. From the inspiration of a guitar solo, the strength of a Cajón, with the passion of a singer and his dance, all of them will fill the stage with a wonderful show full of beautiful emotions. WORKSHOP

AN INTRODUCTION TO FLAMENCO HISTORY A flamenco percussion and dance workshop with Lourdes Fernández Sunday 26 May | 4pm–5.30pm The Chapel Night Club, Milford Street

Tickets £8 (suitable for all ages)

Prior to the performance, experience a fascinating introduction to flamenco history, flamenco rhythms, Cajón percussion techniques and hand clapping. Learn about flamenco movements, foot works, body percussion and style. Come and have a go – or just listen and watch.

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LITERATURE

MINETTE WALTERS The Turn of Midnight Sunday 26 May | 6pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £13

Minette Walters discusses the inspiration for her latest book, The Turn of Midnight. As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorsetshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors.

IN CONVERSATION / MUSIC

MOONDUST IN SALISBURY Andrew Smith with Jonathan Dove Sunday 26 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £18

Moondust in Salisbury brings together Festival Director Jonathan Dove, composer of the award-winning TV opera Man on the Moon, and Andrew Smith, author of the international bestseller Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth and BBC documentary Being Neil Armstrong. This celebratory evening to mark the 50th anniversary of the first moonlanding will combine lively conversation with performance, including Dove’s improvised piano accompaniment to George Melies’ classic 1905 short film La Voyage dans la Lune and Smith’s dramatic reading of his account of the first landing, with music and recently-uncovered film footage from a camera behind Buzz Aldrin’s head as the lunar module descended.

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MONDAY 27 MAY

FAMILY

CITY ENCOUNTERS FREE theatre, music, dance and circus See page 4 for details. Kindly supported by

FAMILY

FAMILY FIESTA Monday 27 May | 11am–4pm Salisbury Arts Centre FREE Immerse yourself in a day of arts and crafts activities for all the family. Once again Salisbury Arts Centre throws open its doors to families, providing opportunities to try new things and make something for yourself to take home. There will be a broad range of participatory art activities to have a go at, space to relax and music to enjoy.

FILM

COLD WAR 2018 | 15 | 98 minutes Monday 27 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £9

Paweł Pawlikowski follows the Oscar-winning Ida with this sweeping romance set against the background of the Cold War. Spanning decades and nations with ease, we see a story of love in the face of seemingly insurmountable political, social and character differences unfold on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Ravishingly shot in luminous black and white, and featuring some wonderful passages of music and dance, it’s a thrillingly seductive cinematic experience that demands to be seen on the big screen. Polish/French/German/Croatian with English subtitles.

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DANCE

OSCiLLATE Old Kent Road Monday 27 May | 4.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £18 (under 25s £16)

Following their sell-out performances in The Salberg last year, Old Kent Road take to the Main Stage with their ground-breaking tap dance show that explores human interaction and the effects of communication on our relationships. With specially composed electronic dance music, it promises to be an energetic show. Look out for the dancers performing a short jam session in Market Square at 1.30pm as part of City Encounters! WORKSHOP

TAP DANCE WORKSHOP Old Kent Road Monday 27 May | 2pm–3pm Salisbury Playhouse, Rehearsal Room

Tickets £5

Learn the Shim Sham Shimmy and maybe join the dancers on stage for the finale of their show later today! Suitable for intermediates with some basic technique. Bring your own tap shoes.

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LITERATURE

THEATRE

HELEN BROWNING

STATUS

Pig – tales from an organic farm

China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz

Monday 27 May | 11am Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £10

Monday 27 May | 7.45pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £14 (under 25s £12)

What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts? One of the pioneers of the organic farming movement, Helen Browning discusses her new book, an evocative and illuminating account of the wonder of pigs. Helen is CEO of the Soil Association and runs Eastbrook Farm in Wiltshire, where she grew up.

We all have a nationality. Or almost all of us. Status is a show about someone who doesn’t want his anymore. About running away from the national story you’re given. About who is responsible for that story and what might happen to it if you give it up. A globe-spanning journey of attempted escape, with songs along the way. Status springs from conversations about whether your country needs you more than you might need it. “… the words are eloquent, the music essential and powerful, and the performance full of a brilliant, prowling precision…” Scotsman Fringe First Award Winner 2018 Sponsored by

FAMILY

SALISBURY FIVE RIVERS FESTIVAL Also on Monday 27 May look out for events organised by our friends at the Five Rivers Festival. Help celebrate our wonderful rivers with a leisurely family float within the Avon Valley Nature Reserve or a quick dash down the River Avon at Churchill Gardens. Visit www.salisburyrotary.org.uk for details.

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TUESDAY 28 MAY

FAMILY / COMEDY

LITERATURE

THE NOISE NEXT DOOR: ALL AT SEA

DIANA DARKE

Tuesday 28 May | 11am & 2pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £8

Tuesday 28 May | 6pm Salisbury Playhouse, Rehearsal Room Tickets £10

The UK’s premier improv comedy troupe present their shiny new family show. Sell-out veterans of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and one of the country’s most sought after comedy club headliners, The Noise Next Door leave audiences everywhere in awe of their lightning-quick wit and totally original comedic talents. “Hilarious… a superior kind of chaos” Daily Teleg.

Diana Darke is a Middle East expert and author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria. After studying Arabic at Oxford University, Diana worked for the British government and lived in Syria, Egypt and with a Bedouin tribe. Her latest book tells the remarkable true story of a Syrian ambulance driver who built a cat sanctuary in war-torn Aleppo.

The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo

FILM

THE WHITE CROW 2019 | 122 minutes Tuesday 28 May | 7pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £9

Ralph Fiennes directs and co-stars in this beautifully crafted biopic of iconic Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. In the early 60s Nureyev visited Paris as part of a Soviet dance troupe, where his exposure to western culture and art, along with his burgeoning sexuality, lead him to make the dramatic decision to defect. Ukranian dancer Oleg Ivenko is captivating as the charismatic dancer whose leap to freedom saw him rock the worlds of ballet and international relations. Russian/French/English with subtitles.

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COMEDY

THE NOISE NEXT DOOR: REMIX Tuesday 28 May | 7.45pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg

Tickets £13 (under 25s £11)

The undisputed masters of off-the-cuff comedy will transform audience suggestions into ferociously funny scenes and songs in the blink of an eye with a perfect blend of ludicrous characters, witty one-liners, and explosive physicality. Sponsored by

CLASSICAL MUSIC

MELVYN TAN Tuesday 28 May | 7.30pm St Thomas’s Church, Salisbury

Tickets £20

Beethoven Op 27 No 2 ‘Moonlight’ Sonata Liszt Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este Ravel Miroirs Debussy Suite Bergamasque Jonathan Dove Catching Fire Pianist Melvyn Tan is acclaimed for the wit and poetry of his playing. Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Beethoven’s popular ‘Moonlight Sonata’ bring a touch of airiness to an elemental programme that features romantic and impressionistic views of water alongside Catching Fire, written to display the virtuosity of this celebrated pianist. Sponsored by

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CIRCUS

IN COLOUR Swing Circus Tuesday 28 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £15 (under 25s £13)

This ground-breaking new show will transport you to the colourful world of the Harlem Renaissance, the energetic and joyful emergence of African American arts in 1920s Harlem, New York. It will dazzle you with world-class circus skills including cyr wheel, hulahoop and acrobatic dance; and will invite you to consider issues of racism and racial cohesion in modern day Britain. Choreographed by Lana Williams, choreographer and performer from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. The 45-minute performance will be followed by a Q&A with the company and an opportunity for those feeling adventurous to join a short ‘watch and copy’ session.

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WEDNESDAY 29 MAY

FAMILY

READY STEADY LIFT OFF! A Line Art Wednesday 29 May | 11am, 1pm & 3pm (50 mins) Salisbury Playhouse, Rehearsal Room

Tickets £8 | Ideal for ages 3–8

Take part in our weird and wacky astronaut programme. Come and navigate, sing, colour and play your way through the 7 stages of training, from working as a team in a space station to piloting your own rocket around our galaxy. This immersive experience will get the family creating together, and once you’ve decorated your rocket, you will orbit around space meeting strange creatures and overcoming some cosmic catastrophe. An immersive theatre show for 3–8 year olds and their families combining live performance, music, storytelling and painting in one interactive show

WORKSHOP

DOES ART=SCIENCE? Young Roche Artists Workshop Wednesday 29 May | 10am–12.30pm New Art Centre, Roche Court Tickets £10 | 12–18 years Ideas and understanding of scientific enquiry can be communicated and questioned. This is a practical workshop to explore sculpture and science at Roche Court and for participants to develop their own creative responses in two and three dimensions.

IN CONVERSATION

PETER NEWMAN: SKYSTATION Wednesday 29 May | 5pm New Art Centre, Roche Court Tickets £10 Sculptor Peter Newman discusses his newly unveiled Blue Skystation at Roche Court. At this informal event, learn more about this long-term project and the inspiration of NASA and enjoy the sculpture park in the evening.

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THEATRE

NIGHTCLUBBING Rachael Young Wednesday 29 May | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £13 (under 25s £11) | Suitable for ages 12+

1981: Grace Jones releases her landmark album ‘Nightclubbing’; her body is brown and soft. 2015: Three women are refused entry into a London nightclub; their bodies are brown and soft. WE are those women, we zoom through galaxies and solar systems, traveling through time, preparing for our moment to land… and it’s now! Rachael Young and her band of superhumans embrace Afrofuturism and the cult of Grace Jones in this explosive new performance that combines visceral live music and intergalactic visions to start a revolution. Women to the front, People of Colour to the front, LGBTQIA+ to the front!

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IN CONVERSATION

ROBIN MERRILL From Salisbury to Berlin Wednesday 29 May | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg

Tickets ÂŁ13

Salisbury boy Robin Merrill spent ten years touring the world with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, then changed tack to become a journalist, and was one of the few journalists to actually witness the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In conversation with Christopher Wain, he will be talking about his experiences as the Iron Curtain came tumbling down.

FILM

SALYUT-7 2017 | 111 minutes Wednesday 29 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room

Tickets ÂŁ9

Combining elements of Oscar winners Gravity and Apollo 13, and just as thrilling and visually stunning, this gripping film tells the astonishing true story of the most technically challenging rescue mission in the history of space exploration. When the unmanned Soviet space station Salyut-7 malfunctions, two brave cosmonauts volunteer for the life or death mission to prevent the out of control craft crashing to earth, or, even worse, being intercepted by the USA. Spectacular special effects and edge of your seat storytelling make for an immersive cinematic experience that demands to be seen on the big screen. English/Russian with subtitles.

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THURSDAY 30 MAY

FILM

WALL•E

Free craft workshop for ticketholders at 10am

2008 | U | 102 minutes Thursday 30 May | 11am Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room

Tickets £5

WALL•E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a small waste collecting robot who has been left to clean up the mess left by mankind after they flee from the Earth they have ruined. After hundreds of years sifting through Earth’s history, with only a pet cockroach for company, a sleek reconnaissance robot called Eve comes into his life. It’s love at first byte…

LITERATURE

ALISON WEIR Anna of Kleve Thursday 30 May | 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £12 Alison Weir discusses the spectacular fourth novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. Drawing on new evidence, the book conjures up a startling image of Anna as you’ve never seen her before. A charming, spirited woman, she was loved by all who knew her – and even, ultimately, by the King who rejected her.

LITERATURE

PATRICK GALE Thursday 30 May | 6pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £13 Author Patrick Gale (A Place Called Winter) discusses his latest book, Take Nothing With You, which draws, in part, on his own boyhood. In 1970s WestonSuper-Mare ten-year-old oddball Eustace has his life transformed when his mother signs him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. In conversation with Festival Director Jonathan Dove.

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COMEDY

MARK WATSON The Infinite Show Thursday 30 May | 8.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £19

Inspired by the mostly alarming state of the world his children are growing up in, and a genuine, urgent desire to do something about it, this show is about empathy. 99 percent of the world’s population is made up of other people: why can’t we understand them? As scrawny and impassioned as ever, one of the UK’s most beloved and thinnest acts offers some suggestions, with his usual notoriously high joke-and-rant-per-minute rate. ★★★★ “This is a stand-up operating at the very top of his game” Independent

THEATRE

WORKSHOP

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

ORAL

Family workshop

Viv Gordon

Thursday 30 May 10am–12.30pm New Art Centre, Roche Court Tickets £5 per child | 5–11 years accompanied by an adult)

Thursday 30 May | 7.45pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £13 (under 25s £11) | Age 14+

Did you know that there are spaceships and portals to other worlds in the sculpture park? Join an interactive tour and what you discover will inspire your own futuristic sculptures in a practical workshop.

A show about mouths. What goes on in them. What comes out of them. And what they are actually for. Based on her own experience, Viv Gordon and company sink their teeth into childhood sexual abuse, dentistry, voice and crocodiles. This is a rebellious gobby kind of show about biting back. A jaw-dropping call to arms.

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DANCE

BALLET CENTRAL Mixed Bill Thursday 30 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £18 (under 25s £14)

This is a fantastic opportunity to see young dance graduates on the cusp of their professional careers perform a varied programme of classical ballet and contemporary dance theatre. Highlights include Christopher Marney’s Carousel Dances, inspired by the 1945 musical Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein, a unique version of the Dying Swan Solo created by Calvin Richardson, and the company is delighted to present an extract from Frederick Ashton’s acclaimed Valses Nobles et Sentimentales performed to Maurice Ravel’s suite of waltzes. “...Commitment and understanding on display in abundance” Dance Europe Kindly supported by Wiltshire Creative’s Founding Benefactors.

WORKSHOP

BALLET CENTRAL: SKETCHING SESSION Thursday 30 May | 12pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £10 (plus, save £5 on a ticket for the evening performance)

A unique chance to sit in the auditorium to watch and draw the dancers during ballet class. This is an untutored session and open to all. Bring your own materials. Please note Company Class takes place during preparation for the evening performance and can be subject to delay. You will not have access to the stage and any conversation and noise should be kept to a minimum.

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FILM

COLLISIONS A virtual reality film from the Sundance Film Festival Friday 31 May | 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, 5pm (also Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 June) Pop-up city centre venue Tickets ÂŁ5 Each screening lasts approx. 20 minutes. You will be provided with a personal VR headset to experience this film. Directed by acclaimed film maker and artist Lynette Wallworth, Collisions is a virtual reality journey to the homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in remote Western Australia. The tribe lived largely untouched by Western culture until the 1960s. Nyarriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first contact with western culture came when he witnessed firsthand an atomic test. In the film Nyarri offers a view on what he saw and how his tribe cares for the planet.

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FAMILY

BABY DISCO DANCE HALL Monski Mouse Friday 31 May | 11am & 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £5 | Ideal for under 5s

Designed as a disco for children under 5 and their parents/carers, Australian DJ Monski Mouse spins the discs to bring high energy fun and smiles as head and shoulders, knees and toes bop along to lashings of swing, jazz, rock, pop, funk, Latin, soul and more. The musical selection is a combination of fun retro dance tracks and funky nursery rhymes, striking a balance between anthems for the adults and those that the children know, with audio surprises for both thrown in to keep them all on their toes!

IN CONVERSATION

MARY PORTAS Friday 31 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £21.50*

Mary – retail guru, columnist and ‘Queen of Shops’ – comes to Salisbury to discuss her life, her career, and her new book Work Like a Woman. Packed with top tips and drawing on her decades of business experience, don’t miss this chance to hear Mary’s advice on how to be happier, more productive and collaborative, whoever you are and wherever you work. *Includes copy of Mary’s new book.

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OUR FRAGILE HOME: A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

This year we are delighted to launch a fascinating programme of discussion, debate and special events inspired by the wider artistic programme. Our Fragile Home: A Festival of Ideas considers the fragility of our planet, revealed from space as a shining blue jewel in an ocean of darkness. Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very existence is in jeopardy and we are doing too little, too late. Can we change course and if so, how? Our Fragile Home is curated by Rebecca Johnson, long-time feminist peace campaigner and founding co-chair of ICAN (The Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Festival of Ideas events will take place around the weekend of Friday 31 May, Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June. The full programme will be announced in April.

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TALK

PROFESSOR CHRIS RAPLEY The Play: 2071 The World We’ll Leave our Grandchildren Friday 31 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Cathedral

Tickets £15 (under 18s £10)

Chris Rapley is Professor of Climate Science at UCL. With playwright Duncan Macmillan he wrote the play 2071 and has performed it at the Royal Court Theatre, as well as in Hamburg and Brussels. Part memoir, part a discussion of the controversies around climate change, it asks how has climate changed in the past? How is it changing now? How do we know? And what kind of future do we want to create?

TALK

TIM MARSHALL Divided Saturday 1 June | 11am Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £15 (under 18s £10)

The 21st century has seen walls go up across the world with the concrete mixed and laid at such a pace most of us haven’t even noticed. We’re in a new era of tribalism – money, race, religion, politics divide us; social media amplifies those divisions. Trump’s wall says as much about America’s divided past as it does its future. The Great Firewall of China separates ‘us’ from ‘them’. In Europe, the explosive combination of politics and migration threatens liberal democracy itself. Tim delves into our past and our present to reveal the fault lines shaping our world, and the emerging technologies which could divide us further, or help bring us closer together. Kindly supported by Christopher & Frances Wain.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FRIDAY 24 MAY PAGE 8

1.30pm Moon Songs Salisbury Cathedral

7pm & 9pm Earthrise Salisbury Cathedral

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11am–4pm Family Fiesta Bemerton Heath

12pm The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Salisbury Arts Centre

2pm Sue Nelson Salisbury Arts Centre

2pm & 7.30pm The Nature of Forgetting Salisbury Playhouse

2.30pm Victorian Salisbury Walk Information Centre

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10.30am Festival Eucharist Salisbury Cathedral

11am–4pm City Encounters City Centre

2pm Why are There So Many Books About Bears? Salisbury Playhouse

2.30pm Being Neil Armstrong Salisbury Arts Centre

4pm Flamenco Workshop Chapel Nightclub

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11am–4pm City Encounters City Centre

11am–4pm Family Fiesta Salisbury Arts Centre

11am Helen Browning Salisbury Playhouse

2pm Tap Dance Workshop Salisbury Playhouse

4.30pm Oscillate Salisbury Playhouse

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11am & 2pm All At Sea Salisbury Playhouse

6pm Diana Darke Salisbury Playhouse

7pm The White Crow Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Melvyn Tan St Thomas’s Church

7.30pm In Colour Salisbury Playhouse

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10am Does Art=Science? Roche Court

11am, 1pm & 3pm Ready Steady Lift Off! Salisbury Playhouse

5pm Peter Newman: Skystation Roche Court

7pm Robin Merrill Salisbury Playhouse

7.30pm Salyut 7 Salisbury Arts Centre

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10am To Infinity and Beyond Roche Court

11am Wall.E Salisbury Arts Centre

12pm Ballet Central Sketching Salisbury Playhouse

2pm Alison Weir Salisbury Arts Centre

2.30pm Victorian Salisbury Walk Information Centre

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11am & 2pm Baby Disco Dance Hall Salisbury Arts Centre

2pm–5pm Collisions City Centre pop-up

7pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rack Close

7.30pm Mary Portas Salisbury Playhouse

7.30pm Professor Chris Rapley Salisbury Cathedral

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9.30am Historic Mills, Hills… Walk

11am Tim Marshall Salisbury Playhouse

11am, 12pm, 2.30pm & 3.30pm Once Upon a Wall Arundells Garden

12.30pm–4.30pm Oh Europa Maltings Green

2pm–5pm Collisions City Centre pop-up

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11am Stephen Moss Coombe Bissett Village Hall

11am Shlomo’s Beatbox Salisbury Playhouse

12pm–4pm Oh Europa Maltings Green

2pm–5pm Collisions City Centre pop-up

2pm & 5pm Zvizdal Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre

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11am David Lammy MP The Guildhall

7.30pm Victoria Hislop The Guildhall

7.30pm Taylor Downing Salisbury Playhouse

8pm Dollywould Salisbury Arts Centre

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7pm Vic Marks Salisbury Playhouse

7.15pm The Space Movie Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Orpheus in the Underworld Salisbury Playhouse

7.30pm Sacconi Quartet St Martin’s Church

7.30pm Smack That Salisbury Arts Centre

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12pm–4pm Imber: You Walk Through City Centre pop-up

2pm Bryony Gordon Salisbury Playhouse

2.30pm Victorian Salisbury Walk Information Centre

3.30pm, 5pm & 6.30pm Binaural Dinner Date Zizzi Restaurant

7pm Eddie Butler Salisbury Playhouse

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11am Alan Rusbridger Salisbury Playhouse

12pm–4pm Imber: You Walk Through City Centre pop-up

6.45pm 1950s Double Bill Salisbury Arts Centre

7pm Martin Harper Salisbury Playhouse

7pm Earth, Moon and Sky Salisbury Cathedral

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12pm–4pm Imber: You Walk Through City Centre pop-up

6pm Piers Bizony Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Mark Austin Salisbury Playhouse

7.30pm Voces8 St Martin’s Church

8pm First Man Salisbury Arts Centre

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9.30am Historic Mills, Hills… Walk

11am–4pm Imber: You Walk Through City Centre pop-up

11am & 2pm Muckers Salisbury Playhouse

11.30am Mini BSO Salisbury Playhouse

2pm Red Joan Salisbury Arts Centre

SUNDAY 9 JUNE

4.30pm Festival Evensong

Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Live City Centre

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4pm Mercury 13 Salisbury Arts Centre

7pm Mark Wigglesworth Salisbury Playhouse

8pm Sergio & Sergei Salisbury Arts Centre

8pm Tim Kliphuis Trio Salisbury Arts Centre

6pm Minette Walters Salisbury Arts Centre

7pm Raices Flamencas Chapel Nightclub

7.30pm Moondust in Salisbury Salisbury Playhouse

Salisbury Live River Bourne Community Farm

7.30pm Cold War Salisbury Arts Centre

7.45pm Status Salisbury Playhouse

Five Rivers Festival Various locations

6pm Patrick Gale Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Ballet Central Salisbury Playhouse

7.45pm Oral Salisbury Playhouse

7.45pm Lights! Planets! People! Salisbury Playhouse

7.45pm The Day the Earth Stood Still Salisbury Arts Centre

Salisbury Live City Centre

2.30pm The Annual Music Festivals Talk Salisbury Museum

2.30pm & 5.15pm Robert E Frye Films Salisbury Arts Centre

3pm Young Carers Showcase Salisbury Arts Centre

6.30pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rack Close

7.30pm When the Wind Blows Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Salisbury Cathedral

2pm Dr Strangelove Salisbury Arts Centre

2.30pm & 7.30pm The Spring Medieval Hall

2.30pm Victorian Salisbury Walk Information Centre

4.30pm Threads Salisbury Arts Centre

7pm Kitty Whately Salisbury Playhouse

8pm Grace Petrie Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Andreas Boyde St Martin’s Church

8pm Fallen Fruit Salisbury Arts Centre

7pm Rihab Azar Trio Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm As A Tiger In The Jungle Salisbury Playhouse

7pm Cosmic Voyage Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Clare Teal Salisbury Playhouse

Salisbury Live City Centre

7.45pm Remix Salisbury Playhouse 8pm Nightclubbing Salisbury Arts Centre

7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet Wilton Italianate Church

8.30pm Mark Watson Salisbury Arts Centre

8pm Zvizdal Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre

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OUTDOOR THEATRE

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM The Lord Chamberlain’s Men Friday 31 May | 7pm (gates open 6pm) & Saturday 1 June | 6.30pm (gates open 5.30pm) Rack Close, Cathedral Close Tickets £20 (under 18s £18) Following their performances of The Comedy of Errors in 2017, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the UK’s premier all male theatre company, invite you to join them to celebrate their 15th year with Shakespeare’s enchanting comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed in the open air, by an all male cast with Elizabethan costumes, music and dance. Bring a picnic and your own seating and enjoy this magical experience. Sponsored by

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THEATRE

LIGHTS! PLANETS! PEOPLE! Molly Naylor & Company Friday 31 May | 7.45pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg

Tickets £13

Renowned astronomer Maggie Hill is giving a lecture about her career, to inspire young women to work in science. She’s also attending her first therapy session, in which she’s at pains to state how her bipolar disorder isn’t relevant to the conversation. Lights! Planets! People! is an intimate and exhilarating story about communication, both interpersonal and intergalactic. “Naylor writes with a poet’s ear for rhythm and metaphor, and delivers with a stand-up’s comic timing.” Irish Times

FILM

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 1951 | U | 92mins Friday 31 May | 7.45pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room

Tickets £9

US cinema of the 1950s was awash with sci-fi films carrying thinly veiled Cold War propaganda, but Robert Wise’s 1951 allegory preaches for a more amicable solution. A spaceship arrives carrying a softly spoken alien, who has an important message for humankind – they must learn to live peacefully and cooperatively, or face deadly consequences. Unlike many films from this era, this enduring classic still seems fresh, intelligent and entertaining, and it’s timeless warnings of the dangers of international conflict seem more relevant today than ever.

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SATURDAY 1 JUNE

OUTDOOR

OH EUROPA

WALK

HISTORIC MILLS, HILLS AND A PALACE

Action Hero Saturday 1 June | 12.30pm–4.30pm (also Sunday) The Maltings Green FREE Over 6 months in 2018, Action Hero travelled over 30,000km across Europe in a motorhome, asking the people they met to sing them a love song. These voices, singing with sentiments of love, hope, heartbreak, loss and desire are broadcast 24/7 from beacons placed, by us, on edges, boundaries, meeting places, borders, margins and the edgelands of the continent.

A day’s walk with Moonrakers Walkers Saturday 1 June | 9.30am Tickets £15 (accompanied children free) Join the Moonrakers Walkers on this fascinating 12 mile walk taking in river valleys, Old Sarum, Figsbury Ring and Clarendon Park. All ages welcome, but children should be able to walk at least 7 miles. For further details of the walk email John Turley at jfturley@tiscali.co.uk

TALK

FILM

COLLISIONS A virtual reality film from the Sundance Film Festival Saturday 1 June | 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, 5pm Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £5 Each screening lasts approx. 20 minutes. You will be provided with a personal VR headset to experience this film. See Friday 31 May for details.

THE ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVALS OF 18TH CENTURY SALISBURY Nigel Wyatt Saturday 1 June | 2.30pm Salisbury Museum, The Close Tickets £5 Salisbury’s annual music festivals made the city an important centre during the 18th century, attracting many of the best known contemporary performers – from J. C. Bach to Tenducci the famous Italian castrato. Nigel Wyatt of Opera at Chilmark will explore the festivals’ growing prominence until personal rivalries led to their decline in the 1780s.

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MULTIMEDIA

ZVIZDAL [CHERNOBYL – SO FAR, SO CLOSE] A multimedia performance for the stage by BERLIN (Bart Baele & Yves Degryse) and Cathy Blisson Saturday 1 June | 8pm (also Sunday | 2 June 2pm & 5pm) Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre

Tickets £15 (under 25s £13)

Ukraine. Around one thousand locals have moved back to the contaminated territories of the Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl. Petro and Nadia never left. When journalist Cathy Blisson met them in 2009 (both in their eighties), they were the two remaining inhabitants of a phantom village that stretched over 4km. Zvizdal puts the figures of Petro and Nadia centre stage, filmed across the four seasons of the years 2011 to 2015. Blisson got in touch with BERLIN and asked them to tell this story together with her. Generous funding provided by the General Representation of the Government of Flanders in the UK.

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FAMILY

ONCE UPON A WALL Fully Booked Dance Theatre Saturday 1 June | 11am, 12pm, 2.30pm & 3.30pm Arundells Garden, The Close

Tickets ÂŁ5 (running time approx. 30 minutes)

An egg. A wall. A very big fall. Join Hum-T on a dancing adventure through the streets of Lost Sandwiches. Build a giant wall, throw down your signature moves and land sunny side up. This is a delightful interactive dance-theatre show for children and families. Bring a rug or your own low-backed seating. The performance goes ahead whatever the weather.

FILM

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS 1986 | PG | 84 minutes. Introduced by Executive Producer Iain Harvey Saturday 1 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets ÂŁ9

Made four years after The Snowman, this Raymond Briggs adaptation tells a much darker, but no less charming story. With the same spellbinding hand-drawn animation, a moving soundtrack by Roger Waters and a voice cast including Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills, it follows an elderly couple who are preparing for a nuclear attack, but are unable to grasp the fact that this is going to be a very different experience from their romantic memories of the Blitz.

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ROBERT E. FRYE FILMS A double bill of films made by Robert E. Frye, former ABC News producer Saturday 1 June | 2.30pm & 5.15pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room

Tickets £9 each (or £15 for both films)

In My Lifetime | 109 mins In one lifetime a nuclear-armed world emerged, and with it the potential for global destruction on a scale never before possible. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film portrays the history of the nuclear era and the complex search for “a way beyond.” Filmed in Europe, Japan and the U.S., the film features international voices from many perspectives and different parts of the history. The Nuclear Requiem | 90 mins For over seven decades the nuclear bomb has been a presence in our lives. The Nuclear Requiem is a meditation, based on a journey taken during the 70th anniversary, with voices representing different views on the continuing struggle of dealing with the most lethal weapon ever created, the nuclear weapon.

OUTDOOR THEATRE

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM The Lord Chamberlain’s Men Saturday 1 June | 6.30pm (gates open 5.30pm) Rack Close, Cathedral Close Tickets £20 (under 18s £18) See Friday 31 May for details. Sponsored by

MUSIC

YOUNG CARERS SHOWCASE – WE GLOW IN THE DARK With Bath Philharmonia Saturday 1 June | 3pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £2 (under 18s FREE) Wiltshire Young Carers light up the stage with original music and animations made with Bath Philharmonia’s Creative Learning Team and supported by the ScottishPower Foundation. Even though it can be dark, Youth Action Wiltshire’s Young Carers shine like stars in a performance that will make you glow inside.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: THE PLANETS Saturday 1 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Cathedral

Tickets £44, £38, £30, £24, £18, £12

Ives The Unanswered Question Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Elgar Serenade for Strings Holst The Planets Conductor Bramwell Tovey The BSO returns to Salisbury with works that bring emotions to life unlike any others in the repertoire. Elgar’s and Vaughan Williams’ heart-felt pieces for string orchestra speak to the spirit; while Holst’s grand Planets suite travels through the galaxy from threatening boisterous Mars to quick and powerful Mercury and beautifully eerie Venus. Kindly supported by

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SUNDAY 2 JUNE

LITERATURE

FILM

STEPHEN MOSS

COLLISIONS

Mrs Moreau’s Warbler: how birds got their name

A virtual reality film from the Sundance Film Festival

Sunday 2 June | 11am Coombe Bissett Village Hall Tickets £12

Sunday 2 June | 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, 5pm Pop-up city centre venue | Tickets £5 Each screening lasts approx. 20 minutes. You will be provided with a personal VR headset to experience this film.

Naturalist, broadcaster and author Stephen Moss combines detective work, natural history, folklore and first hand observations to explore how birds got their names and our long and eventful relationship with the natural world.

See Friday 31 May for details.

OPERA

THE SPRING Salisbury’s 1761 Opera Revived performed by Opera at Chilmark Sunday 2 June | 2.30pm & 7.30pm The Medieval Hall, The Close

Tickets £22.50

James Harris, an MP who lived in the Cathedral Close and was a friend of Handel, was central to musical life in the city for many years in the mid-18th century. He created The Spring as a pasticcio – a collection of vocal music by a variety of composers, including Handel and Pergolesi, to which he set English words to make a topical story. The opera was first performed at the 1761 Salisbury Festival. The score was held in Cambridge University Library, before being discovered and recreated by Nigel Wyatt. Sponsored by

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OUTDOOR

OH EUROPA Action Hero Sunday 2 June | 12pm–4pm The Maltings Green

FREE

See Saturday 1 June for details.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / SPOKEN WORD

KITTY WHATELY From the Pens of Women Sunday 2 June | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £22

Kitty Whately (Mezzo-soprano) | Simon Lepper (piano) | Kevin Whately | Madelaine Newton An evening of English Song settings of some of the 20th century’s best-loved female poets and writers, including Ursula Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Margaret Atwood. Composers include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove, Rebecca Clarke, Lori Laitman, Judith Cloud, Julianna Hall and Dominic Argento. The programme is interspersed with spoken poetry and letters read by actors Kevin Whately and Madelaine Newton. Kevin Whately and Madelaine Newton appear subject to availability. Kindly supported by Rosemary and Fraser Macdonald.

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FOLK MUSIC

GRACE PETRIE Sunday 2 June | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £18 (under 25s £16)

Grace Petrie’s unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over an army of loyal fans across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes. She’s toured with Billy Bragg and Frank Turner, supported comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long, and collaborated with Leon Rosselson and Peggy Seeger. She is a frequent guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and has appeared on Channel 4’s Random Acts. Her new album Queer As Folk was released last year. “She’s the urgent, pulsing, compassionate talent this world desperately needs.” The Observer

FAMILY

MULTIMEDIA

SHLOMO’S BEATBOX ADVENTURE FOR KIDS

ZVIZDAL [CHERNOBYL – SO FAR, SO CLOSE]

Shlomo

A multimedia performance for the stage by BERLIN (Bart Baele & Yves Degryse) and journalist Cathy Blisson

Sunday 2 June | 11am Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £8 Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a mic. Join this sonic superhero and become one of his sidekicks in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises and cool music, whether you’re aged 1 or 101! “Forget one-man band, this guy is a one-man music festival” The Times

Sunday 2 June | 2pm & 5pm Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre Tickets £15 (under 25s £13) See Saturday 1 June for details.

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FILM

DR STRANGELOVE Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 | PG | 91 minutes Includes a post screening Q&A with Peter Kramer, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, UEA. Sunday 2 June | 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £9

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room! Peter Sellers is at the top of his game taking on three hilarious roles in Stanley Kubrick’s riotously funny political satire. When an insane US general launches an unstoppable nuclear strike on the USSR, the US President must work with the Soviet premier and a former Nazi scientist named Dr Strangelove in a desperate effort to save the world from annihilation. Made at the height of Cold War paranoia, this irreverent and razor sharp stab at the madness of nuclear war has lost none if it’s bite.

FILM

THREADS 1984 | 15 | 112 minutes. Introduced by Dr Christine Cornea, UEA Sunday 2 June | 4.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room

Tickets £9

What if Britain was involved in an all out nuclear war? What would it be like for everyday British public in an average British city? That’s the scenario presented in this BAFTA winning drama that shocked the nation when it first aired on the BBC in 1984. Scripted by Barry Hines, it follows a young couple as they prepare for marriage in a world simmering with international tension. It was a wake up call so powerful that it was rumoured to have changed Ronald Reagan’s nuclear policy and still requires high level clearance for TV screenings.

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MONDAY 3 JUNE

IN CONVERSATION

LITERATURE

RT HON DAVID LAMMY MP

VICTORIA HISLOP

Monday 3 June | 11am The Guildhall, Salisbury Tickets £12

Monday 3 June | 7.30pm The Guildhall, Salisbury Tickets £14

GQ’s Politician of the Year in 2018, David Lammy has made a name for himself as an MP who gives a voice to the vulnerable. A man who speaks his mind and holds power to account, he was himself a Minister in the governments of Blair and Brown. Expect him to tell it like it is in conversation with friend and LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen as they discuss his career and the hottest political topics of the moment.

Bestselling author Victoria Hislop (The Island, The Return) will reveal the secrets to her success and reflect on her literary journey. She’ll be in conversation with LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen who will also ask her to share an insider’s view of her latest Greece-set novel, Those Who Are Loved, which is due to be released during the Festival.

TALK

THEATRE

TAYLOR DOWNING

DOLLYWOULD

Cold War Crises: The Unknown Accidents and Failures that brought the World to the Brink of Nuclear Disaster

Sh!t Theatre

Monday 3 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £13 The Cold War was a dangerous time. But we now know that the most dangerous moments were not when we were all aware that world leaders stood on the brink, as during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. There were over the decades many accidents and miscalculations that came within a whisker of disaster. This talk will reveal some of these unknown scary moments that nearly ignited nuclear Armageddon. In association with Arundells.

Monday 3 June | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £13 | Ages 14+ Oh look, 2016 Fringe First winners Sh!t Theatre are coming. What is it this time? Is it unemployment? Is there a crisis? Did the government do something wrong again? No, it’s a show about Dolly Parton. They love her. It’s about country legend Dolly Parton, cloning, branding, immortality and death. Sh!t Theatre are the ‘rising stars of performance art’ (Telegraph), comprising Becca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole. Note: Contains nudity and strong language.

“Wonderfully daft – they deliver a tour-de-force” Evening Standard

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TUESDAY 4 JUNE

OPERA

ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD Jacques Offenbach In a new English translation by Jeff Clarke performed by Opera della Luna Tuesday 4 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £32

Opera della Luna return to Salisbury with a sumptuous production of Offenbach’s most celebrated operetta. Performed in English with Opera della Luna’s own chamber orchestra. “I can’t think of a production of Orpheus that I’ve enjoyed as much” Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph

CLASSICAL MUSIC

SACCONI QUARTET AND JAMES GILCHRIST Tuesday 4 June | 7.30pm St Martin’s Church, Salisbury

Tickets £20

Arvo Pärt Summa | Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor | Jonathan Dove In Damascus The Sacconi Quartet is recognised internationally for its compelling ensemble work. Here they show how artists can create luminous work even under oppression: Shostakovich and Pärt both found themselves in conflict with Soviet authorities. They are joined by well-loved tenor James Gilchrist for In Damascus, setting a first-hand account of life in the war-torn city: “an unforgettable example of the power of art to convey something terrible through an expression that is paradoxically in itself beautiful.” (The Guardian)

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IN CONVERSATION

VIC MARKS: TEST MATCH SPECIAL Tuesday 4 June | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £12 Who better to shine a light on the biggest summer in English cricket history than the former Somerset and England spinner whose reflections on Test Match Special are savoured by cricket-lovers up and down the country. Vic, who played in six Tests and 34 ODIs, has taken time out from a busy World Cup schedule to share anecdotes from the past and look ahead to English fortunes in the sport’s flagship competition and the Ashes. He will be in conversation with LBC presenter and cricket obsessive Matthew Stadlen.

FILM

THE SPACE MOVIE 1980 | U | 80 minutes Introduced by director Tony Palmer Tuesday 4 June | 7.15pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 Made at the request of NASA to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the moon landings and featuring a specially commissioned soundtrack by Mike Oldfield, Tony Palmer’s meticulously assembled documentary features never previously released film footage provided by NASA and the United States National Archive, and audio recordings of the electrifying conversations between the astronauts and mission control.

DANCE THEATRE

SMACK THAT (A CONVERSATION) Presented by Rhiannon Faith Tuesday 4 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £13 | Ages 18+

Beverly is having a party and you are her guest. This is shameless and subversive dance theatre about human resilience, survival and how we care for one another. Performers and non-performers come together to tell their real stories of domestic abuse in a unique, turbulent and empowering way. Expect games, dancing, humour and a very raw and honest account of domestic abuse. The show shines a light on the subject of domestic abuse and as such, discusses themes of an adult nature, sexual violence and domestic abuse. “Bold, inventive and discomforting, this is a work of urgent importance” The Stage

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WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE

Image: Rachel Bunce/Chris Bayly

AUDIO AND FILM EXPERIENCE

IMBER: YOU WALK THROUGH Wednesday 5 June | 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm (also Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 June) Each screening lasts approx. 30 minutes Pop-up city centre venue

Tickets £5

Imber. Wiltshire. 7 miles from any town. From dusty roads to floods and fires. From medieval church graffiti to a curlew’s eye view of tanks crossing. Once open land, now a close combat fighting training ground, Imber is open to the public for a limited number of days each year. Imber: You Walk Through combines audio storytelling, sound composition, film and a 3D architectural recreation of this remarkable place. This immersive experience offers a unique opportunity to encounter Salisbury Plain’s most intriguing site. Slip on your headphones and listen. You walk on bones and earth, flint and chalk. You hear a little girl playing, a conversation in the pub; a soldier waiting in old walls for an exercise to begin. This project has been created with the support of Neil Skelton, Peter Lankester, Imber St Giles Volunteer Team, the Ministry of Defence and the Churches Conservation Trust. Commissioned and produced by Wiltshire Creative. Sponsored by

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IN CONVERSATION

BRYONY GORDON Wednesday 5 June | 2pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £13 Telegraph columnist and author of The Sunday Times Number One bestseller Mad Girl, Bryony Gordon takes a street-smart, thirtysomething view of the irritations, absurdities and occasional epiphanies of modern life. She is not only an entertainer, whose personal highs and lows have the nation gripped every Saturday, but also a pioneer in the campaign to remove stigma from mental health. She will share her own experiences and reflect on the work she’s done to help others in conversation with LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen.

IN CONVERSATION

EDDIE BUTLER: THE VOICE OF RUGBY Wednesday 5 June | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £12 The BBC’s go-to man for the big internationals, Eddie Butler’s famous tones lend poetry and atmosphere to the great rugby moments. A former Welsh international himself, Eddie will be in conversation with passionate England supporter and LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen. Together they will talk about Eddie’s playing days, his way with words and the upcoming Rugby World Cup in Japan – as well as his top World XV of all time!

THEATRE

BINAURAL DINNER DATE ZU-UK Wednesday 5 June | 3.30pm, 5pm, 6.30pm Zizzi Italian Restaurant, Castle Street

Tickets £14

Come alone or as a couple… A voice in your ear guides you through the perfect date. Part interactive performance, part dating agency, Binaural Dinner Date invites genuine applications from individuals looking for love, or existing couples. Come with your own date, or we can find one for you. Recommended by the Evening Standard and Alix Fox (Guardian Close Encounters and BBC Radio 1). Sponsored by

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THEATRE

FALLEN FRUIT Two Destination Language Wednesday 5 June | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £13

1989: The Berlin Wall splits open; a young girl looks forward to life beyond Communism; a couple unravel; and 80s TV permeates everything. 2019: Britain prepares to leave the EU while Europe celebrates 30 years since the end of the Cold War. A story of love, breaking free, and Europe, from multi-award-winning Two Destination Language, Fallen Fruit foregrounds a unique migrant voice born in communist Bulgaria.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / IN CONVERSATION

ANDREAS BOYDE Music Behind the Wall Wednesday 5 June | 7.30pm St Martin’s Church, Salisbury

Tickets £20

Weber Invitation to a Dance Rachmaninoff Étude-Tableaux in E flat, Op 33 No. 4 Paul Dessau Guernica Siegfried Thiele Cascade Schumann Carnaval Op 9 Hailed by critics as ‘Monsieur 100,000 Volts’, Andreas Boyde’s performances have electrified audiences worldwide. In conversation with Jonathan Dove, he talks about growing up as a child prodigy behind the Iron Curtain and seeing his own Stasi file, and plays the music he grew up with, written in and around Dresden, by Weber, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Dessau and Thiele. Kindly supported by The Oldham Foundation.

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THURSDAY 6 JUNE

IN CONVERSATION

ALAN RUSBRIDGER: BREAKING THE NEWS Thursday 6 June | 11am Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £13

Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, is one of the most important – and bravest – journalists of his generation. He oversaw that newspaper’s expose of the phone-hacking scandal, its coverage of the Wikileaks document dump and its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of Edward Snowden’s revelations of surveillance. Hear more about these, and other career-making moments, as he talks to LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen.

AUDIO AND FILM EXPERIENCE

IN CONVERSATION

IMBER: YOU WALK THROUGH

MARTIN HARPER: A LIFE IN BIRDS

Thursday 6 June | 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm Each screening lasts approx. 30 minutes Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £5

Thursday 6 June 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £13

See Wednesday 5 June for details. Sponsored by

As the RSPB’s Global Conservation Director, Martin has spearheaded campaigns and voiced his opinion on some of the hottest environmental topics of the day. In conversation with LBC presenter and bird photographer Matthew Stadlen, he will talk about how he developed his passion for wildlife and what the current challenges are in our ever-changing world.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

EARTH, MOON AND SKY Thursday 6 June | 7pm Salisbury Cathedral

Tickets £25, £22, £18, £15, £10

Harriet Mackenzie violin Peter Warlock Serenade (for Frederick Delius) Olivia Jageurs harp Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Nicholas Mulroy tenor Gerald Finzi Dies Natalis Eamonn Dougan conductor William Lloyd-Webber The Moon London Chamber Orchestra Deborah Pritchard Edge Peter Warlock Capriol Suite A glorious nature-inspired programme featuring Harriet Mackenzie (violin), Eamonn Dougan (conductor) and the London Chamber Orchestra. The iconic Lark Ascending celebrates the beauty of the English countryside; Deborah Pritchard’s critically acclaimed new concerto Edge, written for Harriet Mackenzie in response to Maggi Hambling’s powerful paintings, depicts the frailty of nature; Finzi’s Dies Natalis sets texts by the 17th century poet Thomas Traherne reflecting the joy and wonder of a newborn child’s innocent perspective; Willian Lloyd-Webber’s hommage to the moon is a beautiful four-part song to words written by W.H.Davies and the Festival celebrates the 125th year of Peter Warlock’s birth with his Capriol Suite written for his friend and mentor Frederick Delius.

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CIRCUS

AS A TIGER IN THE JUNGLE Circus Xanti and Ali Williams Thursday 6 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House

Tickets £16 (under 18s £14)

In this inspiring, authentic and heart-warming show about life, circus, entertainment and reflection, three performers from Nepal use movement, spoken word, circus and ceremony as they tell the story of how, against all odds, they survived their childhood and created their own destiny. “Likely to have an unforgettable, life-long, profound effect on you” Theatre Reviews

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WORLD MUSIC

RIHAB AZAR TRIO Thursday 6 June | 7pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space

Tickets £15

Rihab Azar Trio will take you on a journey through the rich sounds of both classical and contemporary Middle-Eastern music through the unique combination of oud (Rihab Azar), upright-bass (Dudley Phillips) and percussion (Corrina Silvester). A graduate of the Conservatoire of Damascus, Rihab was the first woman oudist to perform with the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music. In 2016 Arts Council England recognised her as a musician of ‘exceptional promise.’

FILM

1950s DOUBLE BILL Two films that were ahead of their time in portraying realistic possibilities of space travel Thursday 6 June | 6.45pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room

Tickets £9

Road to the Stars | 1957 | 52 minutes | Russian with subtitles. A big influence on Lucas’ Star Wars and released a month after the launch of Sputnik 1, this pioneering film about the past, present and future of Russian astronautics galvanised public support for the Soviet space programme and stunned American audiences when clips were screened on prime time television. Destination Moon | 1950 | 91 minutes Made in consultation with scientists and experts, this ground breaking film about a privately funded moon landing boosted national interest in space travel, wowing audiences with cutting edge special effects and an easily understandable explanation of the practicalities of a trip to the moon.

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FRIDAY 7 JUNE

CLASSICAL MUSIC

VOCES8 Friday 7 June | 7.30pm St Martin’s Church, Salisbury

Tickets £20

Join astonishing international a cappella favourites Voces8 in a celebration of singing, with music ranging from the renaissance right up to the modern day. The programme includes the world premiere of Vertue, a brand new work by Jonathan Dove commissioned specially for this Festival, setting words by George Herbert, the Rector of Bemerton, described as “a most glorious saint and seer.” The composer will also accompany these eight exceptional singers in his song-cycle The Passing of the Year, which they recorded with him. Commissioned by Wiltshire Creative and Lichfield Festival for Voces8.

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AUDIO AND FILM EXPERIENCE

IMBER: YOU WALK THROUGH Friday 7 June | 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm Each screening lasts approx. 30 minutes Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £5

IN CONVERSATION

MARK AUSTIN: ON THE FRONT LINE Friday 7 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £15

See Wednesday 5 June for details.

For over thirty years Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories at home and abroad for ITV News and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed, first-hand, some of the most significant events of our times. In conversation with LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen, Mark will share the often extraordinary experiences of a life on the frontline – both on the road and in the studio.