0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE WHAT’S ON BOX OFFICE PHOENIX.ORG.UK JAN 2020 0116 242 2800 BAR É Available as Midweek Matinees – see p9 CINEMA / ART / CAF CINEMA / ART 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE FILMS P. 8 ART & SHORT BOLLY– DIGITAL PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE COURSES WOOD CULTURE 1917 Fri 10 – Thu 30 Jan P. 13 P. 7 P. 4 By jove, it’s January! With the lifting a golden statuette after her three COMING NEXT MONTH STAGE jingle-bell jollity of the festive previous Academy Award nominations; and JoJo Rabbit could be in the running, ON SCREEN season over we cast our “mince having won the People's Choice Award P. 5 pies” (thank you, Cockney at the Toronto Film Festival – ten of the rhyming slang) over another last eleven People's Choice winners have THE LIGHTHOUSE full-to-busting Phoenix brochure been nominated for best picture at the and ponder just how we’re Oscars. going to fit everything in around Our fascinating new exhibition Thanatos the intensive exercise regime is a multisensory installation that takes we’re undoubtedly committing the viewer on an olfactory journey. PARASITE ourselves to as part of our New Thanatos opens in our Cube Gallery on Year resolutions. Friday 20 January – and don’t forget that all our exhibitions are free. 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Sam Mendes’ epic 1917 is being it at Phoenix. described by critics as a masterpiece; Phoenix is a registered Little Women could see Saoirse Ronan charity, No 701078 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE ART & DIGITAL CULTURE PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE ANNE FRANK: STAGE RUSSIA BOLSHOI BALLET PARALLEL LIVES Mon 27 Jan, 6.30pm COUNT ORLOV MUSICAL GISELLE KINKY BOOTS: Sun 12 Jan, 3.30pm Sun 26 Jan, 3pm THE MUSICAL THANATOS Tue 4 Feb, 7.30pm THE BROTHERS SWAN LAKE FTP ARTIST Sun 9 Feb, 3.30pm ENCORE KARAMAZOV Sun 23 Feb, 3pm Sun 2 Feb, 5pm MEET-UP: BOTS JONAS KAUFMANN: ROMEO AND JULIET Fri 10 Jan – Sun 23 Feb Wed 15 Jan, 6pm – 8pm MY VIENNA Sun 29 Mar, 3pm Tue 24 Mar, 6.30pm ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Multisensory installation Thanatos a sculpture modelled on an autopsy FTP is a monthly, open session JEWELS – a collaboration between artist table. It is also accompanied by for peer-to-peer learning and BERLINER Sun 19 Apr, 4pm Eric Fong, perfumer Euan McCall a short film evoking the intensity discussion about digital tools PHILHARMONIKER LIVE: KING JOHN and forensic anthropologist Dr of searching for a cadaver in a used in digital arts projects. Each SEASON FINALE Wed 29 Apr, 7pm Anna Williams – takes the audience forest, and eerie photographs of month we feature a specific tool Fri 12 Jun, 6.30pm EXHIBITION ON SCREEN on an olfactory journey from the staged crime scenes taken at the and think about the ways these THE WINTER’S TALE scentscape of an open meadow Crime Scene House at the Forensic can be deployed within arts Wed 10 Jun, 7pm to the middle of a secluded forest Anthropology Department at practices. We also have space NT LIVE LUCIEN FREUD: A SELF where a decomposing body is Teesside University. for participants to present work THE COMEDY PORTRAIT discovered. to the group and develop new OF ERRORS Tue 14 Jan, 6.15pm Thanatos considers the bodily collaborations. FLEABAG Wed 15 Jul, 7pm Sun 19 Jan, 3pm Inspired by the observation that processes that occur after death and Sun 5 Jan, 5.30pm ENCORE some of the volatile organic the advances in forensic science that This session will provide a fun PERICLES EASTER IN ART compounds (VOCs) produced by help us to better understand them. introduction to the use of bots SMALL ISLAND Wed 23 Sep, 7pm Tue 7 Apr, 6.15pm decomposition are identical to some and the different ways they can Thu 16 Jan, 7.30pm ENCORE Sun 12 Apr, 3pm of the natural ingredients used in be used within creative projects. commercial perfumes, Thanatos is Thanatos is a collaboration between artist Participants will learn which PRESENT LAUGHTER GREAT COMPOSERS FRIDA KAHLO a blend of selected VOCs plus floral Eric Fong, perfumer Euan McCall and forensic tools can be used to implement Tue 18 Feb, 7.30pm ENCORE Tue 7 Jul, 6.15pm and wood scents. anthropologist Dr Anna Williams, whose interactive text and bot-driven Sun 12 Jul, 3pm research on the 400+ VOCs emitted during engagements. Tools that we will CYRANO DE BERGERAC IN SEARCH OF MOZART The exhibition centres on the human decomposition underpins the project. be exploring include DialogFlow Thu 20 Feb, 7pm Tue 28 Jan, 6.15pm presentation of the perfume and Cheap Bots Done Quick. Thanatos displayed as both the THE WELKIN IN SEARCH OF CHOPIN physical product and as the scent. The meet-up is free and open Thu 21 May, 7pm Sun 1 Mar, 3pm The aroma of Thanatos can be to all. Bring along a laptop or discovered through interaction with project if you’d like to share it IN SEARCH OF HAYDN with the group. Tue 31 Mar, 6.30pm 4 5 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE FAMILIES CELEBRATING @PHOENIX JAVED AHKTAR’S With our BFI Musicals season BOLLYWOOD in full swing, we bring you a selection of our favourite family MUSICALS musicals – perfect entertainment, whatever your age. PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE Screening as part of BFI Musicals! 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