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WELCOME TO THE 2019 SALISBURY JONATHAN DOVE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL GUEST FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
In 1973, the first Festival blazed into life with a thrilling artistic programme that Salisbury has always been a significant part of my cultural captured the hearts and minds of the City. Since then, successive inspirational landscape. My career as a full-time professional composer Festival Directors have built upon that original offer ensuring that, for two weeks began here 30 years ago, when I was invited to be Musician every year, the buildings, streets and open spaces of Salisbury have been alive in Residence at the 1989 Salisbury Festival. From my lodgings in the Cathedral Close, I marvelled at the range and with creativity and artistic excellence. quality of all the events in the Festival. I went on to write This year the Festival enters a new stage in its evolution as part of Wiltshire further works for Salisbury over the years. So it feels both Creative and we are delighted to welcome one of Britain’s finest contemporary natural and exciting to be Guest Festival Director for the composers, Jonathan Dove, as our Guest Festival Director in the year of his 2019 Salisbury International Arts Festival, working with the Wiltshire Creative team to bring excitement and inspiration 60th birthday. of all kinds to Salisbury and beyond. As you delve into the programme, you will discover that new strands, such as This year is the anniversary of two events of global A Festival of Ideas, sit alongside familiar patterns of work. significance, which are reflected in the Festival. It is 30 years since revolutions across Eastern Europe led to the fall of We hope you find much here to enjoy and look forward to welcoming you to an the Berlin Wall. Artists behind the Iron Curtain often found event very soon. themselves in conflict with the authorities, as one of our visiting artists will testify, and yet created music of haunting Gareth Machin Sebastian Warrack beauty even under oppression. Artistic Director, Wiltshire Creative Executive Director, Wiltshire Creative 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
1969 1989 2019 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, street- theatre and comedy, walks and talks, with up to a dozen events each day. It’s going to be a mind-expanding Festival!
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VISUAL ARTS Tickertape Parade. Photo: Emma Jones Gaia at Natural History Museum, 2018 Gaia at Natural History
CITY ENCOUNTERS Kindly supported by 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)
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 earth’s surface. The installation provides an opportunity to see our planet on this scale, floating above our heads in Salisbury Cathedral. FAMILY FIESTA AT BEMERTON HEATH This incredible sculpture is presented with a specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award- Saturday 25 May | 11am–4pm winning Composer Dan Jones. Bemerton Heath FREE Gaia has been created in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Bluedot and the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres. Salisbury International Arts Festival comes to Bemerton Heath with this fun day for all the family, Sponsored by 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. 6 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 7
VISUAL ARTS Image: Orbit 1 Dowlatshahi INSATIABLE MIND Image: Anna Shuttlewood
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 VISUAL ARTS the familiar in order to redirect the future. Produced by Wiltshire Creative. GEOMETRY OF THE SMILE Sponsored by Anna Shuttlewood & Diliana Nikolova Salisbury United Reformed Church VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS 1–9 June Exploring the ‘geometry laws’ of the smile in a TELL IT AS IT IS paradoxical, amusing and cheerful way. Locations around the city
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, community groups have been invited to share Museum Augustus John/The Salisbury c.1932 c. The Estate of Image: Lady Dorothea Head 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. Produced by Wiltshire Creative.
VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS STEAM EXHIBITION ALISON HARPER: WASTE, WANT AND OVERABUNDANCE Salisbury Library and Salisbury Arts Centre AUGUSTUS JOHN: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths Arundells Gallery, The Close | 25 May–11 June DRAWN FROM LIFE departments working across different media explore Based in Bath, Alison Harper’s recent PhD with the themes of curiosity and human endeavour. This The Salisbury Museum, The Close Practice explores issues of reparation around our exhibition encourages students to interrogate ‘What 18 May–29 September relationship with the material world. In diminishing would happen if…’ to allow their imaginations to run the imagined boundaries and barriers and suggesting free and creatively answer the questions that interest In partnership with Poole Museum, and co-curated a form of deep materialism, she is reassessing and them the most. with David Boyd Haycock, this exhibition of the art of readjusting our relationship with matter, leading to a Augustus John, one of the towering figures in British more caring and less harmful way to be in the world. art, looks in detail at his work, particularly in the Produced by Wiltshire Creative. decades between the two world wars. VISUAL ARTS 8 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 9
FRIDAY 24 MAY Image: NASA
MUSIC MOON SONGS part of Friday Afternoons Music
Friday 24 May | 1.30pm–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
CLASSICAL MUSIC EARTHRISE by Alec Roth featuring Salisbury Festival Chorus and La Folia musicians
Friday 24 May | 7pm & 9pm Salisbury Cathedral Tickets £16
MUSIC Musical Director Howard Moody In 1968, Apollo astronaut William Anders photographed the Earth from lunar orbit. This iconic picture, SALISBURY LIVE popularly known as Earthrise, has become one of the most influential photographs of all time. Its Great live music, FREE in the pubs and bars of Salisbury appearance has been described as the start of the environmental movement. Friday 24 May, Saturday 25 May, Friday 31 May & Saturday 1 June 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 Salisbury City Centre climaxes that send shivers down the spine”, this promises to be an immersive and powerful performance. Also Sunday 26 May at River Bourne Community Farm, Laverstock, Salisbury Produced by Wiltshire Creative in association with La Folia. 10 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 11
SATURDAY 25 MAY
WALK FILM VICTORIAN SALISBURY THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD Sat 25 May, Thu 30 May, Sun 2 June & Wed 5 June 2.30pm 1965 | PG | 107 mins Meet at Salisbury Information Centre, Fish Row Saturday 25 May | 12pm Tickets £7.50 (under 18s £3.75) Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Explore the rich history, colourful characters and Tickets £9 architecture of Victorian Salisbury on these guided After Tinker Tailor, The Night Manager and The Little walks led by Blue Badge Guides. Drummer Girl, it seems the world can’t get enough Tickets available from Salisbury Information Centre on of John Le Carre at the moment, so what better 01722 342860. 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: 2017 | U | 79 mins THEATRE The Extraordinary Story of a Female Saturday 25 May | 4pm THE NATURE OF FORGETTING Aviation Pioneer Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Theatre Re Saturday 25 May | 2pm Tickets FREE Saturday 25 May | 2pm & 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Introduced by Sue Nelson. Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £18 (under 25s £16) | Ages 8+ Tickets £10 Through exclusive interviews and a wealth of revealing Following a sell-out run at the 2017 London International Mime Festival, Latitude and the Edinburgh Fringe, Science journalist and broadcaster Sue Nelson archive footage, this inspiring documentary tells the this is a powerful, explosive and joyous piece about what is left when memory is gone. Tom is 55 today. As discusses women’s achievements in space and why story of a remarkable group of female aviators. In he dresses for his party, tangled threads of disappearing memories spark him into life, unravelling as a tale Wally Funk should have been the first woman on the the late 1950s NASA began the rigorous process of of friendship, love and guilt. selecting a group of test pilots to spearhead their moon. Prior to the Apollo missions, a group of female Theatre Re is a London-based international ensemble creating thought-provoking and poignant work that space programme. Less well known was a similar pilots in the US had taken the same physical tests examines fragile human conditions and spans the boundaries of mime and theatre. programme for women pilots, many of whom passed as the Mercury 7 astronauts, and thirteen of them “profoundly moving… an action-packed celebration of life” passed. One of those women was Wally Funk. and performed better in the same tests as the men, yet were not selected because of their gender. John Wilson, Front Row, BBC Radio 4. 12 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 13
SUNDAY 26 MAY
FAMILY FAMILY CITY ENCOUNTERS WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MUSIC FREE theatre, music, dance and circus BOOKS ABOUT BEARS? TIM KLIPHUIS TRIO See page 4 for details. Kristina Stephenson
Saturday 25 May | 8pm Kindly supported by Sunday 26 May | 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £17 Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £8 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 – Join Kristina Stephenson, the brilliant author of Sir delivered with astonishing finesse. Charlie Stinky Socks, for a fun-packed family event “Playfully inventive and technically brilliant” with a very cute surprise in store! Time Out.
IN CONVERSATION FILM MARK WIGGLESWORTH SERGIO & SERGEI The Silent Musician 2017 | 12a | 107 mins – why conducting matters. Saturday 25 May | 8pm In conversation with Jonathan Dove Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room FILM Saturday 25 May | 7pm Tickets £9 Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Loosely based on a true story, this warm hearted BEING NEIL ARMSTRONG Tickets £13 political satire follows the unlikely friendship that 2009 | 60 mins forms between Sergei, a stranded cosmonaut, and A conductor is one of classical music’s most Sergio, a Marxist philosophy professor in Cuba. It’s Introduced by director Andrew Smith and including a post-screening Q&A recognisable figures. Rarely though does such a 1991, and as the Soviet Union collapses, both men Sunday 26 May | 2.30pm well-known profession attract so many questions. feel abandoned – one on an island dependent on the The Silent Musician is for all who wonder what financial support of the USSR, the other trapped on Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 conductors actually do, and why they matter. In the Mir Space Station which has now lost its funding. conversation with Festival Director Jonathan Dove, It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Armstrong. Both are keen amateur radio enthusiasts, and when But in the five decades since he first set foot on the moon, Armstrong has become increasingly reclusive. celebrated conductor Mark Wigglesworth will explore they meet over the airwaves, Sergio makes it his This BBC4 documentary sees Andrew Smith, author of the best-selling book Moondust, journey across conductors’ relationships with musicians, music, mission to bring Sergei home – even if it requires the America to try and discover the real Neil Armstrong. He tracks down the people who knew Armstrong, from and the public and personal responsibilities they intervention of the US government to do so. face, talking about the features of a conductor’s art: his closest childhood friend to fellow astronauts and Houston technicians, and even the barber who sold precision, charisma, intuition, diplomacy and passion. Spanish/English/Russian with subtitles. his hair, in a wry and sideways look at the reluctant hero of the greatest event of the 20th century. 14 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 15
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.
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 IN CONVERSATION / MUSIC 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. MOONDUST IN SALISBURY Andrew Smith with Jonathan Dove WORKSHOP Sunday 26 May | 7.30pm AN INTRODUCTION TO FLAMENCO HISTORY Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £18 A flamenco percussion and dance workshop with Lourdes Fernández Moondust in Salisbury brings together Festival Director Jonathan Dove, composer of the award-winning TV Sunday 26 May | 4pm–5.30pm opera Man on the Moon, and Andrew Smith, author of the international bestseller Moondust: In Search of The Chapel Night Club, Milford Street Tickets £8 (suitable for all ages) 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 Prior to the performance, experience a fascinating introduction to flamenco history, flamenco rhythms, Dove’s improvised piano accompaniment to George Melies’ classic 1905 short film La Voyage dans la Lune Cajón percussion techniques and hand clapping. Learn about flamenco movements, foot works, body and Smith’s dramatic reading of his account of the first landing, with music and recently-uncovered film percussion and style. Come and have a go – or just listen and watch. footage from a camera behind Buzz Aldrin’s head as the lunar module descended. 16 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 17
MONDAY 27 MAY
FAMILY FAMILY CITY ENCOUNTERS FAMILY FIESTA FREE theatre, music, dance and circus Monday 27 May | 11am–4pm See page 4 for details. Salisbury Arts Centre FREE Kindly supported by 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.
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 FILM 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 COLD WAR City Encounters! 2018 | 15 | 98 minutes WORKSHOP Monday 27 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 TAP DANCE WORKSHOP Old Kent Road 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 Monday 27 May | 2pm–3pm insurmountable political, social and character differences unfold on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Salisbury Playhouse, Rehearsal Room Tickets £5 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. Learn the Shim Sham Shimmy and maybe join the dancers on stage for the finale of their show later today! Polish/French/German/Croatian with English subtitles. Suitable for intermediates with some basic technique. Bring your own tap shoes. 18 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 19
TUESDAY 28 MAY
LITERATURE THEATRE HELEN BROWNING STATUS Pig – tales from an organic farm China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz FAMILY / COMEDY LITERATURE Monday 27 May | 11am Monday 27 May | 7.45pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg THE NOISE NEXT DOOR: DIANA DARKE Tickets £10 Tickets £14 (under 25s £12) ALL AT SEA The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo
What is it about the humble pig that holds such a We all have a nationality. Or almost all of us. Tuesday 28 May | 11am & 2pm Tuesday 28 May | 6pm special place in our hearts? Status is a show about someone who doesn’t want Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Salisbury Playhouse, Rehearsal Room One of the pioneers of the organic farming his anymore. About running away from the national Tickets £8 Tickets £10 movement, Helen Browning discusses her new book, story you’re given. About who is responsible for an evocative and illuminating account of the wonder that story and what might happen to it if you give it The UK’s premier improv comedy troupe present Diana Darke is a Middle East expert and author of My of pigs. Helen is CEO of the Soil Association and runs up. A globe-spanning journey of attempted escape, their shiny new family show. Sell-out veterans House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria. After Eastbrook Farm in Wiltshire, where she grew up. with songs along the way. Status springs from of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and one of studying Arabic at Oxford University, Diana worked conversations about whether your country needs you the country’s most sought after comedy club for the British government and lived in Syria, Egypt more than you might need it. headliners, The Noise Next Door leave audiences and with a Bedouin tribe. Her latest book tells the “… the words are eloquent, the music essential everywhere in awe of their lightning-quick wit remarkable true story of a Syrian ambulance driver and powerful, and the performance full of a and totally original comedic talents. who built a cat sanctuary in war-torn Aleppo. brilliant, prowling precision…” “Hilarious… a superior kind of chaos” Daily Teleg. Scotsman Fringe First Award Winner 2018 Sponsored by
FILM THE WHITE CROW 2019 | 122 minutes
Tuesday 28 May | 7pm FAMILY Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 SALISBURY FIVE RIVERS FESTIVAL 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 Also on Monday 27 May look out for events organised by our friends at the Five Rivers Festival. Help to western culture and art, along with his burgeoning sexuality, lead him to make the dramatic decision to celebrate our wonderful rivers with a leisurely family float within the Avon Valley Nature Reserve or a quick defect. Ukranian dancer Oleg Ivenko is captivating as the charismatic dancer whose leap to freedom saw dash down the River Avon at Churchill Gardens. him rock the worlds of ballet and international relations. Visit www.salisburyrotary.org.uk for details. Russian/French/English with subtitles. 20 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 21
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 CIRCUS MELVYN TAN IN COLOUR Tuesday 28 May | 7.30pm Swing Circus St Thomas’s Church, Salisbury Tickets £20 Tuesday 28 May | 7.30pm Beethoven Op 27 No 2 ‘Moonlight’ Sonata Liszt Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este Ravel Miroirs Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £15 (under 25s £13) Debussy Suite Bergamasque Jonathan Dove Catching Fire This ground-breaking new show will transport you to the colourful world of the Harlem Renaissance, the Pianist Melvyn Tan is acclaimed for the wit and poetry of his playing. Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Beethoven’s energetic and joyful emergence of African American arts in 1920s Harlem, New York. 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. 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 Sponsored by 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. 22 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 23
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 IN CONVERSATION THEATRE DOES ART=SCIENCE? PETER NEWMAN: SKYSTATION NIGHTCLUBBING Young Roche Artists Workshop Wednesday 29 May | 5pm Rachael Young Wednesday 29 May | 10am–12.30pm New Art Centre, Roche Court Wednesday 29 May | 8pm New Art Centre, Roche Court Tickets £10 Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £13 (under 25s £11) | Suitable for ages 12+ Tickets £10 | 12–18 years Sculptor Peter Newman discusses his newly unveiled 1981: Grace Jones releases her landmark album ‘Nightclubbing’; her body is brown and soft. 2015: Three Ideas and understanding of scientific enquiry can be Blue Skystation at Roche Court. At this informal women are refused entry into a London nightclub; their bodies are brown and soft. WE are those women, communicated and questioned. This is a practical event, learn more about this long-term project and we zoom through galaxies and solar systems, traveling through time, preparing for our moment to land… workshop to explore sculpture and science at Roche the inspiration of NASA and enjoy the sculpture park and it’s now! Rachael Young and her band of superhumans embrace Afrofuturism and the cult of Grace Court and for participants to develop their own in the evening. Jones in this explosive new performance that combines visceral live music and intergalactic visions to start creative responses in two and three dimensions. a revolution. Women to the front, People of Colour to the front, LGBTQIA+ to the front! 24 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 25
THURSDAY 30 MAY
IN CONVERSATION ROBIN MERRILL From Salisbury to Berlin FILM Wednesday 29 May | 7pm WALL•E Free craft workshop for ticketholders at 10am Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £13 2008 | U | 102 minutes 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 Thursday 30 May | 11am Berlin Wall in 1989. In conversation with Christopher Wain, he will be talking about his experiences as the Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £5 Iron Curtain came tumbling down. 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 LITERATURE FILM ALISON WEIR PATRICK GALE SALYUT-7 Anna of Kleve 2017 | 111 minutes Thursday 30 May | 6pm Thursday 30 May | 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Wednesday 29 May | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £13 Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 Tickets £12 Author Patrick Gale (A Place Called Winter) discusses Combining elements of Oscar winners Gravity and Apollo 13, and just as thrilling and visually stunning, Alison Weir discusses the spectacular fourth novel his latest book, Take Nothing With You, which draws, this gripping film tells the astonishing true story of the most technically challenging rescue mission in the in the Six Tudor Queens series. Drawing on new in part, on his own boyhood. In 1970s Weston- history of space exploration. When the unmanned Soviet space station Salyut-7 malfunctions, two brave evidence, the book conjures up a startling image of Super-Mare ten-year-old oddball Eustace has his cosmonauts volunteer for the life or death mission to prevent the out of control craft crashing to earth, or, Anna as you’ve never seen her before. A charming, life transformed when his mother signs him up for even worse, being intercepted by the USA. Spectacular special effects and edge of your seat storytelling spirited woman, she was loved by all who knew her – cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy make for an immersive cinematic experience that demands to be seen on the big screen. and even, ultimately, by the King who rejected her. who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. In English/Russian with subtitles. conversation with Festival Director Jonathan Dove. 26 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 27
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
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 WORKSHOP THEATRE is delighted to present an extract from Frederick Ashton’s acclaimed Valses Nobles et Sentimentales performed to Maurice Ravel’s suite of waltzes. TO INFINITY AND BEYOND ORAL “...Commitment and understanding on display in abundance” Dance Europe Family workshop Viv Gordon Kindly supported by Wiltshire Creative’s Founding Benefactors.
Thursday 30 May 10am–12.30pm Thursday 30 May | 7.45pm WORKSHOP New Art Centre, Roche Court Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £5 per child | 5–11 years accompanied by Tickets £13 (under 25s £11) | Age 14+ BALLET CENTRAL: SKETCHING SESSION an adult) A show about mouths. What goes on in them. Thursday 30 May | 12pm Did you know that there are spaceships and What comes out of them. And what they are actually Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £10 (plus, save £5 on a ticket for the evening performance) portals to other worlds in the sculpture park? for. Based on her own experience, Viv Gordon and Join an interactive tour and what you discover will company sink their teeth into childhood sexual A unique chance to sit in the auditorium to watch and draw the dancers during ballet class. This is an inspire your own futuristic sculptures in a practical abuse, dentistry, voice and crocodiles. This is a untutored session and open to all. Bring your own materials. workshop. rebellious gobby kind of show about biting back. Please note Company Class takes place during preparation for the evening performance and can be subject to delay. You will A jaw-dropping call to arms. not have access to the stage and any conversation and noise should be kept to a minimum. 28 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 29
FRIDAY 31 MAY
EMMY AWARD WINNER
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!
FILM COLLISIONS A virtual reality film from the Sundance Film Festival IN CONVERSATION Friday 31 May | 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, 5pm (also Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 June) MARY PORTAS Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £5 Each screening lasts approx. 20 minutes. You will be provided with a personal VR headset Friday 31 May | 7.30pm to experience this film. Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £21.50*
Directed by acclaimed film maker and artist Lynette Wallworth, Collisions is a virtual reality journey to the Mary – retail guru, columnist and ‘Queen of Shops’ – comes to Salisbury to discuss her life, her career, homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in remote Western Australia. The tribe and her new book Work Like a Woman. Packed with top tips and drawing on her decades of business lived largely untouched by Western culture until the 1960s. Nyarri’s first contact with western culture came experience, don’t miss this chance to hear Mary’s advice on how to be happier, more productive and when he witnessed firsthand an atomic test. In the film Nyarri offers a view on what he saw and how his collaborative, whoever you are and wherever you work. tribe cares for the planet. *Includes copy of Mary’s new book. 30 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 31
OUR FRAGILE HOME: A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
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? 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. Earth’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 TALK Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), which was awarded the TIM MARSHALL Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Divided
Saturday 1 June | 11am Festival of Ideas events will take place around the weekend of Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £15 (under 18s £10) Friday 31 May, Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June. 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; The full programme will be announced in April. 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. 32 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk01722 320333 | 33
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FRIDAY 24 MAY 1.30pm 7pm & 9pm PAGE 8 Moon Songs Earthrise Salisbury Live Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury Cathedral City Centre
SATURDAY 25 MAY 11am–4pm 12pm 2pm 2pm & 7.30pm 2.30pm 4pm 7pm 8pm 8pm PAGE 10 Family Fiesta The Spy Who Came In Sue Nelson The Nature of Victorian Salisbury Mercury 13 Mark Wigglesworth Sergio & Sergei Tim Kliphuis Trio Salisbury Live Bemerton Heath From The Cold Salisbury Arts Centre Forgetting Walk Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Arts Centre City Centre Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Information Centre SUNDAY 26 MAY 10.30am 11am–4pm 2pm 2.30pm 4pm 6pm 7pm 7.30pm PAGE 13 Festival Eucharist City Encounters Why are There So Many Being Neil Armstrong Flamenco Workshop Minette Walters Raices Flamencas Moondust in Salisbury Live Salisbury Cathedral City Centre Books About Bears? Salisbury Arts Centre Chapel Nightclub Salisbury Arts Centre Chapel Nightclub Salisbury River Bourne Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Community Farm MONDAY 27 MAY 11am–4pm 11am–4pm 11am 2pm 4.30pm 7.30pm 7.45pm PAGE 16 City Encounters Family Fiesta Helen Browning Tap Dance Workshop Oscillate Cold War Status Five Rivers Festival City Centre Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Various locations
TUESDAY 28 MAY 11am & 2pm 6pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.45pm PAGE 19 All At Sea Diana Darke The White Crow Melvyn Tan In Colour Remix Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre St Thomas’s Church Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 10am 11am, 1pm & 3pm 5pm 7pm 7.30pm 8pm PAGE 22 Does Art=Science? Ready Steady Lift Off! Peter Newman: Robin Merrill Salyut 7 Nightclubbing Roche Court Salisbury Playhouse Skystation Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Arts Centre Roche Court THURSDAY 30 MAY 10am 11am 12pm 2pm 2.30pm 6pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 8.30pm PAGE 25 To Infinity and Beyond Wall.E Ballet Central Alison Weir Victorian Salisbury Patrick Gale Ballet Central Oral Mark Watson Roche Court Salisbury Arts Centre Sketching Salisbury Arts Centre Walk Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Information Centre FRIDAY 31 MAY 11am & 2pm 2pm–5pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 7.45pm PAGE 28 Baby Disco Dance Hall Collisions A Midsummer Night’s Mary Portas Professor Chris Rapley Lights! Planets! The Day the Earth Salisbury Live Salisbury Arts Centre City Centre pop-up Dream Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Cathedral People! Stood Still City Centre Rack Close Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre SATURDAY 1 JUNE 9.30am 11am 11am, 12pm, 2.30pm & 12.30pm–4.30pm 2pm–5pm 2.30pm 2.30pm & 5.15pm 3pm 6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm PAGE 36 Historic Mills, Hills… Tim Marshall 3.30pm Oh Europa Collisions The Annual Music Robert E Frye Films Young Carers A Midsummer When the Wind Bournemouth Zvizdal Walk Salisbury Playhouse Once Upon a Wall Maltings Green City Centre pop-up Festivals Talk Salisbury Arts Centre Showcase Night’s Dream Blows Symphony Orchestra Five Rivers Health & Arundells Garden Salisbury Museum Salisbury Arts Centre Rack Close Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Cathedral Wellbeing Centre SUNDAY 2 JUNE 11am 11am 12pm–4pm 2pm–5pm 2pm & 5pm 2pm 2.30pm & 7.30pm 2.30pm 4.30pm 7pm 8pm PAGE 41 Stephen Moss Shlomo’s Beatbox Oh Europa Collisions Zvizdal Dr Strangelove The Spring Victorian Salisbury Threads Kitty Whately Grace Petrie Coombe Bissett Village Salisbury Playhouse Maltings Green City Centre pop-up Five Rivers Health & Salisbury Arts Centre Medieval Hall Walk Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Hall Wellbeing Centre Information Centre MONDAY 3 JUNE 11am 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm PAGE 45 David Lammy MP Victoria Hislop Taylor Downing Dollywould The Guildhall The Guildhall Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre
TUESDAY 4 JUNE 7pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm PAGE 46 Vic Marks The Space Movie Orpheus in the Sacconi Quartet Smack That Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Underworld St Martin’s Church Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE 12pm–4pm 2pm 2.30pm 3.30pm, 5pm & 6.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 8pm PAGE 48 Imber: You Walk Bryony Gordon Victorian Salisbury Binaural Dinner Date Eddie Butler Andreas Boyde Fallen Fruit Through Salisbury Playhouse Walk Zizzi Restaurant Salisbury Playhouse St Martin’s Church Salisbury Arts Centre City Centre pop-up Information Centre THURSDAY 6 JUNE 11am 12pm–4pm 6.45pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7.30pm PAGE 51 Alan Rusbridger Imber: You Walk 1950s Double Bill Martin Harper Earth, Moon and Sky Rihab Azar Trio As A Tiger In The Salisbury Playhouse Through Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury Arts Centre Jungle City Centre pop-up Salisbury Playhouse FRIDAY 7 JUNE 12pm–4pm 6pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm PAGE 55 Imber: You Walk Piers Bizony Mark Austin Voces8 First Man Through Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse St Martin’s Church Salisbury Arts Centre City Centre pop-up SATURDAY 8 JUNE 9.30am 11am–4pm 11am & 2pm 11.30am 2pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Historic Mills, Hills… PAGE 57 Imber: You Walk Muckers Mini BSO Red Joan Cosmic Voyage Clare Teal Pavel Haas Quartet Walk Through Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury Playhouse Wilton Italianate City Centre pop-up Church SUNDAY 9 JUNE 4.30pm Festival Evensong Salisbury Cathedral 34 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 35
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
OUTDOOR THEATRE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM FILM The Lord Chamberlain’s Men THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Friday 31 May | 7pm (gates open 6pm) & Saturday 1 June | 6.30pm (gates open 5.30pm) 1951 | U | 92mins Rack Close, Cathedral Close Tickets £20 (under 18s £18) Friday 31 May | 7.45pm Following their performances of The Comedy of Errors in 2017, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the UK’s Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 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 US cinema of the 1950s was awash with sci-fi films carrying thinly veiled Cold War propaganda, but Robert Elizabethan costumes, music and dance. Bring a picnic and your own seating and enjoy this magical Wise’s 1951 allegory preaches for a more amicable solution. A spaceship arrives carrying a softly spoken experience. 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, Sponsored by intelligent and entertaining, and it’s timeless warnings of the dangers of international conflict seem more relevant today than ever. 36 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 37
SATURDAY 1 JUNE Photo: © Frederik Buyckx Photo: © BERLIN
OUTDOOR WALK OH EUROPA HISTORIC MILLS, HILLS AND A Action Hero PALACE Saturday 1 June | 12.30pm–4.30pm (also Sunday) A day’s walk with Moonrakers Walkers The Maltings Green Saturday 1 June | 9.30am FREE Tickets £15 (accompanied children free)
Over 6 months in 2018, Action Hero travelled over Join the Moonrakers Walkers on this fascinating 30,000km across Europe in a motorhome, asking 12 mile walk taking in river valleys, Old Sarum, the people they met to sing them a love song. Figsbury Ring and Clarendon Park. All ages welcome, These voices, singing with sentiments of love, hope, but children should be able to walk at least 7 miles. heartbreak, loss and desire are broadcast 24/7 For further details of the walk email John Turley at from beacons placed, by us, on edges, boundaries, [email protected] meeting places, borders, margins and the edgelands of the continent.
FILM TALK
COLLISIONS THE ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVALS MULTIMEDIA A virtual reality film from the Sundance OF 18TH CENTURY SALISBURY ZVIZDAL [CHERNOBYL – SO FAR, SO CLOSE] Film Festival Nigel Wyatt A multimedia performance for the stage by BERLIN (Bart Baele Saturday 1 June | 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, Saturday 1 June | 2.30pm & Yves Degryse) and Cathy Blisson 4.30pm, 5pm Salisbury Museum, The Close Saturday 1 June | 8pm (also Sunday | 2 June 2pm & 5pm) Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £5 Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre Tickets £15 (under 25s £13) Tickets £5 Salisbury’s annual music festivals made the city an Each screening lasts approx. 20 minutes. You important centre during the 18th century, attracting Ukraine. Around one thousand locals have moved back to the contaminated territories of the Exclusion will be provided with a personal VR headset to many of the best known contemporary performers Zone around Chernobyl. Petro and Nadia never left. When journalist Cathy Blisson met them in 2009 (both experience this film. – from J. C. Bach to Tenducci the famous Italian in their eighties), they were the two remaining inhabitants of a phantom village that stretched over 4km. castrato. Nigel Wyatt of Opera at Chilmark will Zvizdal puts the figures of Petro and Nadia centre stage, filmed across the four seasons of the years 2011 See Friday 31 May for details. explore the festivals’ growing prominence until to 2015. Blisson got in touch with BERLIN and asked them to tell this story together with her. personal rivalries led to their decline in the 1780s. Generous funding provided by the General Representation of the Government of Flanders in the UK. 38 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 39
FAMILY FILM ONCE UPON A WALL ROBERT E. FRYE FILMS Fully Booked Dance Theatre A double bill of films made by Robert E. Frye, former ABC News producer
Saturday 1 June | 11am, 12pm, 2.30pm & 3.30pm Saturday 1 June | 2.30pm & 5.15pm Arundells Garden, The Close Tickets £5 (running time approx. 30 minutes) Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 each (or £15 for both films)
An egg. A wall. A very big fall. In My Lifetime | 109 mins Join Hum-T on a dancing adventure through the streets of Lost Sandwiches. Build a giant wall, throw In one lifetime a nuclear-armed world emerged, and with it the potential for global destruction on a scale down your signature moves and land sunny side up. This is a delightful interactive dance-theatre show for never before possible. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film portrays the history children and families. of the nuclear era and the complex search for “a way beyond.” Filmed in Europe, Japan and the U.S., the Bring a rug or your own low-backed seating. The performance goes ahead whatever the weather. 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 MUSIC A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM YOUNG CARERS SHOWCASE – The Lord Chamberlain’s Men WE GLOW IN THE DARK FILM Saturday 1 June | 6.30pm (gates open 5.30pm) With Bath Philharmonia WHEN THE WIND BLOWS Rack Close, Cathedral Close Saturday 1 June | 3pm 1986 | PG | 84 minutes. Introduced by Executive Producer Iain Harvey Tickets £20 (under 18s £18) Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space See Friday 31 May for details. Tickets £2 (under 18s FREE) Saturday 1 June | 7.30pm Sponsored by Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 Wiltshire Young Carers light up the stage with original music and animations made with Bath Philharmonia’s Made four years after The Snowman, this Raymond Briggs adaptation tells a much darker, but no less Creative Learning Team and supported by the charming story. With the same spellbinding hand-drawn animation, a moving soundtrack by Roger Waters ScottishPower Foundation. and a voice cast including Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills, it follows an elderly couple who are preparing for Even though it can be dark, Youth Action Wiltshire’s a nuclear attack, but are unable to grasp the fact that this is going to be a very different experience from Young Carers shine like stars in a performance that their romantic memories of the Blitz. will make you glow inside. 40 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 41
SUNDAY 2 JUNE
LITERATURE FILM STEPHEN MOSS COLLISIONS Mrs Moreau’s Warbler: A virtual reality film from the Sundance how birds got their name Film Festival
Sunday 2 June | 11am Sunday 2 June | 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, Coombe Bissett Village Hall 4.30pm, 5pm Tickets £12 Pop-up city centre venue | Tickets £5 Each screening lasts approx. 20 minutes. You Naturalist, broadcaster and author Stephen Moss combines detective work, natural history, folklore will be provided with a personal VR headset to and first hand observations to explore how birds got experience this film. their names and our long and eventful relationship See Friday 31 May for details. with the natural world.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: THE PLANETS OPERA Saturday 1 June | 7.30pm THE SPRING Salisbury Cathedral Tickets £44, £38, £30, £24, £18, £12 Salisbury’s 1761 Opera Revived performed by Opera at Chilmark Ives The Unanswered Question Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Elgar Serenade for Strings Holst The Planets Sunday 2 June | 2.30pm & 7.30pm Conductor Bramwell Tovey The Medieval Hall, The Close Tickets £22.50 The BSO returns to Salisbury with works that bring emotions to life unlike any others in the repertoire. James Harris, an MP who lived in the Cathedral Close and was a friend of Handel, was central to musical Elgar’s and Vaughan Williams’ heart-felt pieces for string orchestra speak to the spirit; while Holst’s grand life in the city for many years in the mid-18th century. He created The Spring as a pasticcio – a collection Planets suite travels through the galaxy from threatening boisterous Mars to quick and powerful Mercury of vocal music by a variety of composers, including Handel and Pergolesi, to which he set English words and beautifully eerie Venus. to make a topical story. The opera was first performed at the 1761 Salisbury Festival. The score was held in Kindly supported by Cambridge University Library, before being discovered and recreated by Nigel Wyatt. Sponsored by 42 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 43
OUTDOOR FOLK MUSIC OH EUROPA GRACE PETRIE Action Hero Sunday 2 June | 8pm Sunday 2 June | 12pm–4pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £18 (under 25s £16) The Maltings Green FREE Grace Petrie’s unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, See Saturday 1 June for details. 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 ZVIZDAL [CHERNOBYL – CLASSICAL MUSIC / SPOKEN WORD ADVENTURE FOR KIDS SO FAR, SO CLOSE] KITTY WHATELY Shlomo A multimedia performance for the stage From the Pens of Women by BERLIN (Bart Baele & Yves Degryse) and Sunday 2 June | 11am Sunday 2 June | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg journalist Cathy Blisson Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £22 Tickets £8 Sunday 2 June | 2pm & 5pm Kitty Whately (Mezzo-soprano) | Simon Lepper (piano) | Kevin Whately | Madelaine Newton Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre An evening of English Song settings of some of the 20th century’s best-loved female poets and writers, makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a Tickets £15 (under 25s £13) mic. Join this sonic superhero and become one of his including Ursula Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Margaret Atwood. See Saturday 1 June for details. Composers include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove, Rebecca Clarke, Lori Laitman, Judith Cloud, sidekicks in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises Julianna Hall and Dominic Argento. and cool music, whether you’re aged 1 or 101! The programme is interspersed with spoken poetry and letters read by actors Kevin Whately and “Forget one-man band, this guy is a one-man Madelaine Newton. music festival” Kevin Whately and Madelaine Newton appear subject to availability. Kindly supported by Rosemary and Fraser Macdonald. The Times 44 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 45
MONDAY 3 JUNE
IN CONVERSATION LITERATURE RT HON DAVID LAMMY MP VICTORIA HISLOP FILM Monday 3 June | 11am Monday 3 June | 7.30pm DR STRANGELOVE Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb The Guildhall, Salisbury The Guildhall, Salisbury 1964 | PG | 91 minutes Tickets £12 Tickets £14 Includes a post screening Q&A with Peter Kramer, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, UEA. GQ’s Politician of the Year in 2018, David Lammy has Bestselling author Victoria Hislop (The Island, made a name for himself as an MP who gives a voice The Return) will reveal the secrets to her success Sunday 2 June | 2pm to the vulnerable. A man who speaks his mind and and reflect on her literary journey. She’ll be in Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 holds power to account, he was himself a Minister conversation with LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room! Peter Sellers is at the top of his game taking on in the governments of Blair and Brown. Expect him who will also ask her to share an insider’s view of her three hilarious roles in Stanley Kubrick’s riotously funny political satire. When an insane US general launches to tell it like it is in conversation with friend and LBC latest Greece-set novel, Those Who Are Loved, which an unstoppable nuclear strike on the USSR, the US President must work with the Soviet premier and a presenter Matthew Stadlen as they discuss his career is due to be released during the Festival. former Nazi scientist named Dr Strangelove in a desperate effort to save the world from annihilation. Made and the hottest political topics of the moment. 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.
TALK THEATRE TAYLOR DOWNING DOLLYWOULD Cold War Crises: The Unknown Accidents Sh!t Theatre and Failures that brought the World to the Monday 3 June | 8pm Brink of Nuclear Disaster Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Monday 3 June | 7.30pm Tickets £13 | Ages 14+ FILM Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Oh look, 2016 Fringe First winners Sh!t Theatre are Tickets £13 coming. What is it this time? Is it unemployment? THREADS Is there a crisis? Did the government do something The Cold War was a dangerous time. But we now 1984 | 15 | 112 minutes. Introduced by Dr Christine Cornea, UEA wrong again? No, it’s a show about Dolly Parton. know that the most dangerous moments were not They love her. It’s about country legend Dolly Parton, Sunday 2 June | 4.30pm when we were all aware that world leaders stood cloning, branding, immortality and death. on the brink, as during the Cuban Missile Crisis of Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 October 1962. There were over the decades many Sh!t Theatre are the ‘rising stars of performance art’ accidents and miscalculations that came within a (Telegraph), comprising Becca Biscuit and Louise What if Britain was involved in an all out nuclear war? What would it be like for everyday British public in an Mothersole. average British city? That’s the scenario presented in this BAFTA winning drama that shocked the nation when whisker of disaster. This talk will reveal some of these it first aired on the BBC in 1984. Scripted by Barry Hines, it follows a young couple as they prepare for marriage unknown scary moments that nearly ignited nuclear Note: Contains nudity and strong language. in a world simmering with international tension. It was a wake up call so powerful that it was rumoured to have Armageddon. “Wonderfully daft – they deliver a tour-de-force” changed Ronald Reagan’s nuclear policy and still requires high level clearance for TV screenings. In association with Arundells. Evening Standard 46 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 47
TUESDAY 4 JUNE
IN CONVERSATION FILM VIC MARKS: TEST MATCH THE SPACE MOVIE SPECIAL 1980 | U | 80 minutes Introduced by director Tony Palmer Tuesday 4 June | 7pm Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tuesday 4 June | 7.15pm Tickets £12 Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 Who better to shine a light on the biggest summer in English cricket history than the former Somerset Made at the request of NASA to celebrate the tenth OPERA and England spinner whose reflections on Test Match anniversary of the moon landings and featuring a Special are savoured by cricket-lovers up and down specially commissioned soundtrack by Mike Oldfield, ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD Jacques Offenbach the country. Vic, who played in six Tests and 34 ODIs, Tony Palmer’s meticulously assembled documentary In a new English translation by Jeff Clarke performed by Opera della Luna has taken time out from a busy World Cup schedule features never previously released film footage to share anecdotes from the past and look ahead to provided by NASA and the United States National Tuesday 4 June | 7.30pm English fortunes in the sport’s flagship competition Archive, and audio recordings of the electrifying Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £32 and the Ashes. He will be in conversation with LBC conversations between the astronauts and mission presenter and cricket obsessive Matthew Stadlen. control. 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
DANCE THEATRE
CLASSICAL MUSIC SMACK THAT (A CONVERSATION) Presented by Rhiannon Faith SACCONI QUARTET AND JAMES GILCHRIST Tuesday 4 June | 7.30pm Tuesday 4 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £13 | Ages 18+ St Martin’s Church, Salisbury Tickets £20 Beverly is having a party and you are her guest. This is shameless and subversive dance theatre about Arvo Pärt Summa | Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor | Jonathan Dove In Damascus human resilience, survival and how we care for one another. Performers and non-performers come The Sacconi Quartet is recognised internationally for its compelling ensemble work. Here they show how together to tell their real stories of domestic abuse in a unique, turbulent and empowering way. Expect artists can create luminous work even under oppression: Shostakovich and Pärt both found themselves in games, dancing, humour and a very raw and honest account of domestic abuse. conflict with Soviet authorities. They are joined by well-loved tenor James Gilchrist for In Damascus, setting The show shines a light on the subject of domestic abuse and as such, discusses themes of an adult nature, a first-hand account of life in the war-torn city: “an unforgettable example of the power of art to convey sexual violence and domestic abuse. something terrible through an expression that is paradoxically in itself beautiful.” (The Guardian) “Bold, inventive and discomforting, this is a work of urgent importance” The Stage 48 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 49
WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE
IN CONVERSATION IN CONVERSATION BRYONY GORDON EDDIE BUTLER:
Wednesday 5 June | 2pm THE VOICE OF RUGBY Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Wednesday 5 June | 7pm Tickets £13 Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Telegraph columnist and author of The Sunday Times Tickets £12 Number One bestseller Mad Girl, Bryony Gordon takes The BBC’s go-to man for the big internationals, Eddie a street-smart, thirtysomething view of the irritations, Butler’s famous tones lend poetry and atmosphere absurdities and occasional epiphanies of modern life. to the great rugby moments. A former Welsh She is not only an entertainer, whose personal highs international himself, Eddie will be in conversation and lows have the nation gripped every Saturday, but with passionate England supporter and LBC presenter also a pioneer in the campaign to remove stigma from Matthew Stadlen. Together they will talk about mental health. She will share her own experiences Eddie’s playing days, his way with words and the and reflect on the work she’s done to help others in upcoming Rugby World Cup in Japan – as well as his conversation with LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen. top World XV of all time! 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 THEATRE Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £5 BINAURAL DINNER DATE Imber. Wiltshire. 7 miles from any town. From dusty roads to floods and fires. From medieval church graffiti ZU-UK 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 Wednesday 5 June | 3.30pm, 5pm, 6.30pm audio storytelling, sound composition, film and a 3D architectural recreation of this remarkable place. Zizzi Italian Restaurant, Castle Street Tickets £14 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 Come alone or as a couple… playing, a conversation in the pub; a soldier waiting in old walls for an exercise to begin. A voice in your ear guides you through the perfect date. Part interactive performance, part dating agency, This project has been created with the support of Neil Skelton, Peter Lankester, Imber St Giles Volunteer Team, the Ministry of Binaural Dinner Date invites genuine applications from individuals looking for love, or existing couples. Defence and the Churches Conservation Trust. Come with your own date, or we can find one for you. Commissioned and produced by Wiltshire Creative. Recommended by the Evening Standard and Alix Fox (Guardian Close Encounters and BBC Radio 1). Sponsored by Sponsored by 50 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 51
THURSDAY 6 JUNE
THEATRE FALLEN FRUIT Two Destination Language IN CONVERSATION Wednesday 5 June | 8pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £13 ALAN RUSBRIDGER: BREAKING THE NEWS
1989: The Berlin Wall splits open; a young girl looks forward to life beyond Communism; a couple unravel; Thursday 6 June | 11am and 80s TV permeates everything. 2019: Britain prepares to leave the EU while Europe celebrates 30 years Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £13 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. 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.
CLASSICAL MUSIC / IN CONVERSATION AUDIO AND FILM EXPERIENCE IN CONVERSATION ANDREAS BOYDE IMBER: YOU WALK THROUGH MARTIN HARPER: A LIFE IN BIRDS Music Behind the Wall Thursday 6 June | 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm Thursday 6 June 7pm Wednesday 5 June | 7.30pm Each screening lasts approx. 30 minutes Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg St Martin’s Church, Salisbury Tickets £20 Pop-up city centre venue Tickets £13 Tickets £5 Weber Invitation to a Dance Rachmaninoff Étude-Tableaux in E flat, Op 33 No. 4 As the RSPB’s Global Conservation Director, Martin Paul Dessau Guernica Siegfried Thiele Cascade See Wednesday 5 June for details. has spearheaded campaigns and voiced his opinion Schumann Carnaval Op 9 on some of the hottest environmental topics of the Hailed by critics as ‘Monsieur 100,000 Volts’, Andreas Boyde’s performances have electrified audiences Sponsored by day. In conversation with LBC presenter and bird worldwide. In conversation with Jonathan Dove, he talks about growing up as a child prodigy behind photographer Matthew Stadlen, he will talk about the Iron Curtain and seeing his own Stasi file, and plays the music he grew up with, written in and around how he developed his passion for wildlife and what Dresden, by Weber, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Dessau and Thiele. the current challenges are in our ever-changing Kindly supported by The Oldham Foundation. world. 52 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 53
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 CIRCUS Nicholas Mulroy tenor Gerald Finzi Dies Natalis Eamonn Dougan conductor William Lloyd-Webber The Moon AS A TIGER IN THE JUNGLE London Chamber Orchestra Deborah Pritchard Edge Circus Xanti and Ali Williams Peter Warlock Capriol Suite A glorious nature-inspired programme featuring Harriet Mackenzie (violin), Eamonn Dougan (conductor) Thursday 6 June | 7.30pm and the London Chamber Orchestra. The iconic Lark Ascending celebrates the beauty of the English Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £16 (under 18s £14) 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 In this inspiring, authentic and heart-warming show about life, circus, entertainment and reflection, three by the 17th century poet Thomas Traherne reflecting the joy and wonder of a newborn child’s innocent performers from Nepal use movement, spoken word, circus and ceremony as they tell the story of how, perspective; Willian Lloyd-Webber’s hommage to the moon is a beautiful four-part song to words written against all odds, they survived their childhood and created their own destiny. by W.H.Davies and the Festival celebrates the 125th year of Peter Warlock’s birth with his Capriol Suite “Likely to have an unforgettable, life-long, profound effect on you” written for his friend and mentor Frederick Delius. Theatre Reviews 54 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 55
FRIDAY 7 JUNE
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 CLASSICAL MUSIC Two films that were ahead of their time in portraying realistic possibilities of space travel
Thursday 6 June | 6.45pm VOCES8 Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Tickets £9 Friday 7 June | 7.30pm Road to the Stars | 1957 | 52 minutes | Russian with subtitles. St Martin’s Church, Salisbury Tickets £20 A big influence on Lucas’ Star Wars and released a month after the launch of Sputnik 1, this pioneering film Join astonishing international a cappella favourites Voces8 in a celebration of singing, with music ranging about the past, present and future of Russian astronautics galvanised public support for the Soviet space from the renaissance right up to the modern day. The programme includes the world premiere of Vertue, programme and stunned American audiences when clips were screened on prime time television. a brand new work by Jonathan Dove commissioned specially for this Festival, setting words by George Destination Moon | 1950 | 91 minutes Herbert, the Rector of Bemerton, described as “a most glorious saint and seer.” The composer will also Made in consultation with scientists and experts, this ground breaking film about a privately funded moon accompany these eight exceptional singers in his song-cycle The Passing of the Year, which they recorded landing boosted national interest in space travel, wowing audiences with cutting edge special effects and with him. an easily understandable explanation of the practicalities of a trip to the moon. Commissioned by Wiltshire Creative and Lichfield Festival for Voces8. 56 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 57
SATURDAY 8 JUNE
AUDIO AND FILM EXPERIENCE IN CONVERSATION IMBER: YOU WALK THROUGH MARK AUSTIN: ON THE FRONT
Friday 7 June | 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm LINE Each screening lasts approx. 30 minutes Friday 7 June | 7.30pm Pop-up city centre venue Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £5 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 Sponsored by FAMILY and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed, first-hand, some of the MUCKERS most significant events of our times. In conversation with LBC presenter Matthew Stadlen, Mark will share the egg, Oxford Playhouse, Theatr Iolo and Conde Duque the often extraordinary experiences of a life on the Saturday 8 June | 11am & 2pm frontline – both on the road and in the studio. Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £8 | Ideal for ages 5+
Paloma has always mucked about with Pijon. They run wild. They dress up like tigers, flamenco dancers, queens, kings, rabbits and Lady Gaga. Life is fun and funny and a little bit loopy. Until, all of a sudden, Paloma comes face to face with a blinding light named Big Luce, and Paloma and Pijon are catapulted into a strange new world. Created by award-winning theatre-maker Caroline Horton and an international ensemble, Muckers is a funny, magical, physical production. With original songs and a tapas-sized portion of Spanish, this mischievous show asks what it takes to stand proud and be true to ourselves, and how we empower the next generation to do the same.
TALK FILM PIERS BIZONY FIRST MAN 2018 | 12a | 142 minutes Friday 7 June | 6pm Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Introduced by space historian Piers Bizony Tickets £10 Friday 7 June | 8pm Space historian Piers Bizony (author of The NASA Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space AUDIO AND FILM EXPERIENCE WALK Archives) presents a stunning illustrated talk filled Tickets £9 with plenty of things you probably didn’t know IMBER: YOU WALK THROUGH HISTORIC MILLS, HILLS AND La La Land director Damian Chazelle re-teams with about the Apollo missions. For instance, why did Ryan Gosling to tell the story of the quiet navy Saturday 8 June | 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm A PALACE all the launch technicians at the Kennedy Space engineer turned astronaut Neil Armstrong. From A day’s walk with Moonrakers Walkers Centre sit with their backs to the huge windows Each screening lasts approx. 30 minutes his acceptance into the NASA space programme in of the control room, so they couldn’t see the Pop-up city centre venue 1961 to that one small step that changed the world Saturday 8 June | 9.30am spectacular lift-offs? And why were the craft skills Tickets £5 in 1969, Chazelle deftly balances exhilarating action Tickets £15 (children free) of seamstresses and dressmakers so important for sequences with an intimate character study. The the world’s first “fly-by-wire” guidance computers See Wednesday 5 June for details. Join the Moonrakers Walkers on this fascinating script by Josh Singer, the Oscar winning screen writer that took us to the moon? 12 mile walk taking in Old Sarum, Figsbury Ring and of Spotlight, digs deep to reveal the inner turmoil Sponsored by Clarendon Park. All ages welcome, but children He will be introduced by Niki McCretton, Artistic of a man struggling to cope with the death of his should be able to walk at least 7 miles. Director of Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company, young daughter, but unstoppable in the pursuit of who has made several shows for both children his dreams. For further details email John Turley at and adults inspired by space travel. [email protected] 58 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 59
FAMILY FILM MINI BSO: UP IN THE AIR RED JOAN 2018 | 110 minutes Saturday 8 June | 11.30am Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Saturday 8 June | 2pm Tickets £13 (under 18s £11) Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £9 FILM Give your family the chance to be inspired by professional musicians from the Bournemouth Judi Dench stars as a sweet natured pensioner living COSMIC VOYAGE Symphony Orchestra with Mini BSO! Showcasing in a picturesque English village, who is harbouring a 1936 | U | 75 minutes. With live accompaniment from Neil Brand every family of the orchestra, Mini BSO explores dark secret: for over 40 years she was a spy for the a variety of musical works through fun topics and KGB. Based on an incredible true story, in flashback Saturday 8 June 7pm themes. we meet the younger Joan at Cambridge University Salisbury Arts Centre, Main Space Tickets £15 This morning’s family concert is a great way to in the 1930s, where a dashing Russian student soon introduce children to classical music and the politicises her. After the war, she secures work in a Backed by the Communist Youth League to inspire a new generation of Cosmonauts and taking advice instruments of the orchestra in an entertaining and secret government laboratory and begins leaking from a noted rocket scientist, this 1936 silent film was astonishingly ahead of its time in its depiction of enjoyable way, featuring well-known pieces from details of Britain’s nuclear programme to the USSR, space travel. Mixing live action with exquisite model and stop frame work, it tells the story of an elderly popular children’s films and animation. firmly believing that a multilateral deterrent is the only scientist who builds his own rocket and, accompanied by a young woman and a boy, flies to the moon way to secure world peace. Directed by Trevor Nunn. and back. Acclaimed composer Neil Brand will accompany the film with a newly composed piano and electronic score. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Boris Giltburg JAZZ CLASSICAL MUSIC CLARE TEAL AND HER BIG MINI BIG BAND PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
Saturday 8 June | 7.30pm Saturday 8 June | 7.30pm Salisbury Playhouse, Main House Tickets £23 Wilton Italianate Church Tickets £22
Award winning jazz vocalist and Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal and her Big Mini Big Band go from strength to Beethoven String Quartet No.9, Op.59 No.3 | Schubert Piano Quintet in A major, D.667, Op.post.114 ‘Trout’ strength bringing you more exhilarating swing and sparkling melodies as they celebrate the Great American Winning prizes around the world, with their recordings, regularly garnering Gramophone Awards and hailed and British Song books as well as contemporary writers creating the standards of today. as Recording of the Year, the Pavel Haas Quartet has established itself as one of the world’s most exciting Sponsored by contemporary chamber ensembles. After Beethoven’s sunny third ‘Razumovsky’ quartet, they are joined by pianist Boris Giltburg and double-bass player Enno Senft for Schubert’s irresistible ‘Trout’ quintet. Kindly supported by Rachel and Tony Schendel. 60 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 61
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