ABOUT TONIGHT What’s The Story? LiveFriday has An Adaptation of Dorian Grey by Creation been organised in association with Theatre Drama Clubbers MUSIC The Oxford Times and co-curated Taking their lead from the parlour feel of by Cultural Events Co-ordination & the European Art gallery, Creation Theatre Ballad recitals Company’s 16 to 19-year-old Drama Clubbers Communication Consultant, Sarah Hear local actor Fraser Prince perform 16th will perform an adaptation of Dorian Grey. century ballads on the subjects of love and loss. Mayhew Craddock, and The Oxford Times’ Music Editor and Chief To be or not to be Feature Writer Tim Hughes. Katy Snelling from Oxford Playhouse joins Lucy Askew from Creation Theatre Company in conversation with theatre critic Katherine DANCE MacAlister from The Oxford Times in a discussion about local theatre practice. Dancin’ Oxford screening PinDrop Performances presents Watch excerpts from last year’s city-wide Magic by Sam Strange After The Thought celebration of dance that provides an exciting Oxford-based magician Sam Strange specialises After The Thought describe their sound as programme of participatory activity and in close up magic and frequently entertains electronic sounds made with care and love...and performance. celebrities and important business figureheads pedals. Loads of pedals. nationally and internationally. BOUND presented by Justice in Motion Inspired by true accounts of human trafficking, Fortnight presented by Oxford Playhouse BOUND is a hard-hitting, highly physical, Look out for the interactive Fortnight posters Truck Store pop-up shop compelling and thought-provoking performance positioned around the Museum. The infamous Cowley Road independent that will debut in full at Pegasus Theatre on the record store and micro venue sets up shop in 5 October. What’s Your Story Oxford? Presented by the Ashmolean’s Baroque Art gallery selling Oxford Playhouse its musical wares in a slightly more decadent In 2014 Oxford Playhouse is thinking radically environment. ART and wants to know your radical thoughts and actions. Pull up a chair at their hot desk, take in The Sound of Oxford by OCM the brief, and leave your ideas. Old Fire Station Exhibitions Information Taking inspiration from the visual delights of Station Marc West’s photography Tim Hand of OCM The Gallery and Shop at the Old Fire Station sell will set out to evoke the sound of Oxford in the and exhibit a variety or prints and original works atrium over the course of this evening. Truck Store presents The August List of art by UK artists, over half of whom are based LITERATURE Hailing from Dorset and now residing in a small in Oxfordshire. George’s Jamboree of Music, Poetry & barn perched on a hill in Oxfordshire, The The Newspaper Process in Pictures Comedy...Possibly August List are a boy / girl two-piece who play Ashmolean Museum Exhibitions View a display of the process behind The Oxford Poet and raconteur, George Chopping, brings ‘backwards country / porch folk’ with a startling Information Station Times, from jotter to printing press. the highlights of Oxford’s premier monthly rock ‘n’ roll attitude. Collect a money-off voucher to get discounted Monday open mic night to the Ashmolean. entry to see the Ashmolean’s current, highly Letterpress-printed ballads from the PinDrop Performances presents Grudle Bay acclaimed exhibition, Francis Bacon, Henry Bodleian Library In addition to breathy vocals, sweet harmonies, Moore: Flesh and Bone; and browse exhibition Stepping back in time to ancient methods of cascading synths and fluttering guitar arpeggios PROGRAMME catalogues that are available to buy in the shop. news communication, 16th-century ballads have it is the sleek, icy soundscapes and dreamy been re-printed on an old Bodleian letterpress atmospherics that make Grudle Bay’s sound so From Wood Type to the iMac and are available to buy for £1. instantly recognisable. The Ashmolean Museum and The Oxford Times present Join typesetting enthusiast and design professional Martin Anderson from Anderson Poetry Workshop: The One-Ton Temple Bell Design to find out how design has changed A short workshop for up to 12 participants. Led through the ages. by published poet Penny Boxall, this workshop CLASSIFIEDS What’s the Story? will use special objects from the museum’s Photographs from The Oxford Times Eastern Art collection to look at how we Rich in Love Traffic Light Party archive by Marc West communicate through poetry. Local casanova and feature writer, Max Mason, Friday 27 September 2013 Freelance press photographer Marc West’s work takes inspiration from newspaper classifieds Castaways by Sylvia Vetta jumps off the page and is projected onto the Catweazle Club and lonely hearts columns and uses exhibits The local author and feature writer introduces 7.00–10.30pm walls of the Ashmolean for one night only. Arriving in Oxford in 1994 Matt Sage established within the Ashmolean’s Money Gallery to spark her book, Castaways, and enquires if Oxford is Catweazle Club positioning the night conversation. the best place to be marooned, and if it is, what Photography by Dean Ryan and Rory somewhere between a folk club and an open in the Ashmolean’s collection you might take Carnegie mic night. The night has reached cult-status and with you to your desert/urban island. See different aspects of Oxford in the boasts an army of dedicated followers. photography of Dean Ryan who has been FOOD photographing the Oxford Music scene for Live Column Reading Truck Store presents Reichenbach Falls Writer of Radio 4’s Now Show, News Quiz, decades, and in the photography of Rory Oxford-based band Reichenbach Falls takes Macky’s Morsals BBC2’s Dara O Briain’s Science Club, author of Carnegie’s Port Meadow inspired portraits of ideas of Americana and leads them off to more The Oxford Times food critic Katherine As Thick As Thieves, Oxford Student Pranks, dogs. experimental territory. ‘Great things in waiting’ MacAlister has eaten out in the Ashmolean’s Britain’s Most Eccentric Sports, and feature according to Nightshift Magazine. 4th floor Dining Room and given her review on Oxford’s Weekend Starts Here... writer performs a first for LiveFriday. tonight’s menu. PinDrop Performances presents THEATRE Short Stories Aloud Huck & The Xander Band On the last Friday of each month, the Museum opens its Get a snapshot of Sarah Franklin’s monthly Humphrey ‘Huck’ Astley has honed his talent event, Short Stories Aloud, and lose yourself in doors from 7.00 – 10.30pm, giving visitors the opportunity The Bureau of Silly Sports by for collaboration and his skills as a poet and CROSSWORDS a book as actors perform excerpts from selected UnderConstruction Theatre Company storyteller have come to the fore with the newly short stories. to see the collections after hours. Interactive events Who needs Quidditch when one has a whole assembled Xander Band. Ashmolean and The Oxford Times inspired host of silly games such as knobbly knee Hold the front page – make the headlines! Crosswords including creative workshops and lively talks will be on competitions, out-of water synchronised Truck Store presents Salvation Bill Join local artist Jon Lockhart in a fun and hands- For those quiet, contemplative moments! Find swimming and no end of silly walks! “Ollie Thomas is definitely up there with the best on headline generating workshop. Always copies of these crosswords on tables in the café offer, with drinks and dinner in the rooftop Dining Room song-writers this city has produced in the past wanted to secure the front page of a paper? - feel free to take them away to complete at a Entering King Tut’s Tomb five years.” One Note Forever on Salvation Bill Now’s your chance to do so through print, later date. on Level 4 and a bar, selling drinks and lite bites, in the Inspired by the recently reopened Egyptian collage and other artistic endeavours! galleries and Howard Carter’s journals about PinDrop Performances presents vaulted Café on the Lower Ground Level. excavating Tutankhamun’s tomb, local actor Flights of Helios Richard Kidd, Don’t Hate the Players, and Flights of Helios are a drone/popular song/ Oxford city singers explore the nuances psychedelic ensemble from Oxford who of communication through flash theatrical describe their influences as the sound of performances. buildings collapsing and ice caps melting. www.ashmolean.org/livefriday

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CROSSWORDS MUSIC ART THEATRE DANCE MUSIC 7.00–10.30pm 7.15–7.45pm 7.00–10.30pm 7.20–7.25pm, 8.00–8.05pm, 8.20– 7.00–10.30pm 7.00–10.30pm Ashmolean and The Oxford Times PinDrop Performances presents After Old Fire Station Exhibitions Informa- 8.25pm, 9.20–9.25pm Dancin’ Oxford screening Truck Store pop-up shop inspired Crosswords The Thought tion Station Entering King Tut’s Tomb LEVEL 1: Islamic Middle East (31) LEVEL 2: Baroque Art (46) LEVEL -1: Café LEVEL -1: Café LEVEL G: Ancient Cyprus (18) LEVEL G: Egypt (22–24) THEATRE MUSIC CLASSIFIEDS THEATRE ART LITERATURE 7.00–10.30pm 7.15–7.50pm 7.00–10.30pm 7.30–8.00pm 7.00–10.30pm 7.45–8.00pm, 8.45–9.00pm, 9.45– What’s Your Story Oxford? presented Truck Store presents Reichenbach Rich in Love Traffic Light Party To be or not to be Ashmolean Museum Exhibitions Infor- 10.00pm by Oxford Playhouse Falls LEVEL -1: Money (7) LEVEL -1: Lecture Theatre mation Station Short Stories Aloud LEVEL 1: Asian Crossroads (28) LEVEL 2: Baroque Art (46) LEVEL G: Ancient World (9) LEVEL G: Chinese Paintings (11) ART THEATRE LITERATURE THEATRE 7.00–10.30pm 7.30–9.30pm THEATRE THEATRE 7.30–8.10pm, 8.30–9.10pm 7.30–8.00pm, 8.30–9.00pm Photographs from The Oxford Times Magic by Sam Strange 7.00–10.30pm 7.25–9.20pm Poetry Workshop: The One-Ton An Adaptation of Dorian Grey by archive by Marc West LEVEL -1: Cafe Fortnight presented by Oxford Play- George’s Jamboree of Music, Poetry & Temple Bell Creation Theatre Company Drama LEVEL -1: Atrium house Comedy...Possibly LEVEL 1: Jameel Study Centre (enter Clubbers MUSIC LEVEL G: Greek and Roman Sculpture LEVEL G: Greek and Roman Sculpture via gallery 29) LEVEL 2: European Art (44) MUSIC 8.00–8.30pm (21) (21) 7.00–10.30pm PinDrop Performances presents Huck LITERATURE LITERATURE The Sound of Oxford by OCM & The Xander Band THEATRE THEATRE 7.00–10.30pm 7.30–7.45pm, 8.30–8.45pm, LEVEL -1: Atrium LEVEL -1: Café 7.00–8.15pm 8.00–10.00pm The Newspaper Process in Pictures 9.30–9.45pm The Bureau of Silly Sports by Under- Catweazle Club LEVEL 2: Italian Renaissance (43) Castaways by Sylvia Vetta WORKSHOP LITERATURE Construction Theatre Company LEVEL G: Cast Gallery (14) LEVEL 2: England (41) 7.00–10.30pm 8.15–8.30pm, 8.40–8.55pm LEVEL G: Forecourt ART Hold the front page – make the head- Live Column Reading 7.00–10.30pm MUSIC lines! LEVEL -1: Lecture Theatre From Wood Type to the iMac – How 8.15- 8.50pm LEVEL -1: Education Centre Design Has Changed Truck Store presents Salvation Bill THEATRE LEVEL 2: Music and Tapestry (39) LEVEL 2: Baroque Art (46) ART 8.30–9.30pm 7.00–10.30pm The Bureau of Silly Sports by Under- MUSIC MUSIC Photography by Dean Ryan and Construction Theatre Company 7.00–10.30pm 9.15- 9.50pm Rory Carnegie LEVEL -1: Atrium (2) Ballad recitals Truck Store presents The August List LEVEL -1: Atrium (2) LEVEL 2: Music and Tapestry (39) LEVEL 2: Baroque Art (46) MUSIC DANCE 8.45–9.15pm LITERATURE FOOD 8.00–8.10pm, 9.00–9.10pm, 10.00– PinDrop Performances presents 7.00–10.30pm 7.00–10.30pm 10.10pm Flights of Helios Letterpress-printed ballads from the Macky’s Morsals Tasting Notes BOUND presented by Justice in LEVEL -1: Café Bodleian Library LEVEL 4: Dining Room Motion LEVEL 2: Music and Tapestry (39) LEVEL -1: Atrium MUSIC 9.30–10.00pm PinDrop Performances presents Grud- Find us on Facebook and Twitter le Bay @AshmoleanMuseum Please note that all listings are correct at the LEVEL -1: Café time of printing but are subject to change