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WELCOME... This season we present a magnificent feast With a thought provoking selection of of arts and culture events including two talks and debates plus the work of Adam new artistic residencies, a new Creative Chodzko featured at our own Sidney Partner relationship, plus a wonderful Cooper Gallery, there really is something selection of music and theatre as part of for everyone. Canterbury Festival. Join the feast and book your tickets online The autumn programme is always one today! of our busiest and this year there is so much to look forward to. We are proud Sally Abbott, Director of Arts and Culture to announce that we are now the Creative Partner of the Creative Foundation’s Folkestone Book Festival and that Propeller Theatre Company and Reckless Sleepers now have new homes as Associate Companies here. Don’t miss Reckless Sleepers performing The Last Supper – a superb and intimate theatre show designed as a dinner party of last words and last moments from the famous and not so famous from Marilyn Sally Abbott, Director of Arts and Culture (right) Monroe to Beethoven. Sophie Hosking, Arts and Culture Co-ordinator For alternative formats, please email: [email protected] Designed and produced by the Department of Art, Culture and Sport Canterbury Christ Church University. ART 02 MUSIC 07 THEATRE 17 LEARNING 19 WORD 20 DIRECTIONS 22 CALENDAR 24 MICHAEL JANISCH PARADIGM SHIFT Image © Monika Jakobowsk P13 A R T Our visual arts programme contains an extensive and dynamic range of events and exhibitions. We have three dedicated gallery spaces, the Sidney Cooper Gallery, an acclaimed contemporary art space within Canterbury city centre, and The Burton Gallery and The Old Lookout Gallery at Broadstairs, which both offer an exciting range of exhibitions, events and annual publications. To be among the first to hear about forthcoming exhibitions and events, sign up to our free monthly e-bulletin at [email protected] GEORGE EKSTS CASUAL CURSIVE George Eksts is an artist using video, printmaking, drawing and sculpture to explore ideas of progress, completion, time and the temporary. For his upcoming exhibition at Sidney Cooper Gallery, ‘Casual Cursive’, Eksts will show a combination of pre-existing works and new work developed for the gallery during a studio residency. As suggested by the show’s title, the emphasis will be on making and breaking connections between multiple works and the meaning generated by ordering and reordering within a modular system. THU 13 AUGUST–WED 30 SEPTEMBER SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY EXHIBITION, FREE ARTIST TALK Exhibiting artist George Eksts will give a talk about his practice and the new pieces created during his residency. TUE 22 SEPTEMBER, 5PM–6PM £6, £4 CONCESSIONS Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] | Tel: 01227 453267 THE SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY IS OPEN: TUE–FRI 10.30AM–5PM, AND SAT 11.30AM–5PM 2 ADAM CHODZKO DESIGN FOR A FOLD FRI 16 OCTOBER–SAT 21 NOVEMBER SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY EXHIBITION, FREE Adam Chodzko’s art explores the interactions Design for a Fold is a new installation mapping, and possibilities of human behaviour. Working place, time and community from Chodzko’s across media, from video installation to subtle continued engagement with Kent and the people interventions, with a practice that is situated who form its communities. Proposing a new both within the gallery and the wider public understanding of Kent, the viewer is invited to realm, his work investigates and invents the revisit these communities and their place creating possibilities of collective imagination through new connections between shared spaces, using a poetics of everyday life. By wondering collective mythology and imagination within the how, through the visual, we might best engage context of Chodzko’s practice. with the existence of others he reveals the realities that emerge from the search for this This exhibition has been kindly supported by the knowledge. Elephant Trust. ADAM CHODZKO IN CONVERSATION WITH DR. ANDY BIRTWHISTLE HANNAH CONROY, CURATOR OF FOLKESTONE ARTWORKS ON ADAM CHODZKO Hannah Conroy, Curator of Folkestone Artworks will give a talk on Adam Chodzko’s practice in relation to place. TUE 27 OCTOBER, 5PM–6PM SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY TALK, £6, £4 CONCESSIONS THU 15 OCTOBER, 5.30PM–6.30 PM SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] TALK, £6, £4 CONCESSIONS Tel: 01227 453267 3 WORKSHOPS AND COURSES SOFT GROUND ETCHING WITH FOUND OBJECTS An object is pressed into soft wax causing an SAT 12 SEPTEMBER, 10AM–4PM impression which is bitten in acid and printed. The SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY object could be a finger print, a feather, cut card, WORKSHOP, £45, £40 CONCESSIONS string, anything to structure an image. The finger print could symbolize movement, material, the shape of a building, abstract or realistic. LIFE DRAWING WITH ROY EASTLAND, ONE DAY COURSE Artist Roy Eastland will run a day’s workshop on Life Drawing. This session will include a mixture of drawing exercises, demonstrations, whole-group and one-to-one tuition. The class is suitable for experienced, practicing artists and for nervous ‘beginners’ as well. SAT 19 SEPTEMBER, 10AM–4PM SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY WORKSHOP, £35 Image © Roy Eastland DEEP ETCH IN TWO COLOURS A line or shape produced with brush or pen onto the plate will be bitten in acid to produce a deep cavern with which to fill one colour. The second colour is top rolled to produce a startling two colour etching in one printing. Led by Euphemia MacTavish. SAT 26 SEPTEMBER, 10AM–4PM PRINTMAKING STUDIO, AUGUSTINE ART CENTRE WORKSHOP, £45, £40 CONCESSIONS LIFE DRAWING – 5 WEEK WORKSHOP WITH ROY EASTLAND Artist Roy Eastland will run a series of Life Drawing TUE 3 NOVEMBER, 6PM–8.30PM classes. Each session will include a mixture of drawing SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY exercises, demonstrations, whole-group and one-to- WORKSHOP, £45, £40 CONCESSIONS one tuition. These classes are suitable for experienced, practicing artists and for nervous ‘beginners’ as well. Workshops and courses can be booked online at www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture For further information email: [email protected] | Tel: 01227 453267 4 POLYCHROMATIC PRINT WORKSHOPS A workshop of Polychromatic Printing which involves painting with mark-making tools onto silkscreens using dyes. This is then printed onto paper or fabric using a gum and can create some interesting results. This workshop could be for any age group and is a wonderful way to experiment with print. Led by Dawn Dupree. SAT 21 NOVEMBER, 10AM–5PM SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY WORKSHOP, £45.00, £40 CONCESSIONS INSIDE/OUTSIDE Inside/Outside is an installation and performance for three THU 26–SUN 28 NOVEMBER musicians based on a concept by Nguyen Thanh Thuy. Adopting SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY a gender perspective on how traditional Vietnamese music INSTALLATION, FREE is presented in Vietnamese TV shows, the installation relays musical fragments and stories told by the individual musicians that place their performance against a tension between traditional Vietnamese culture and a globalized society. The installation is presented with support from the Swedish Research Council. 5 ALASTAIR MACKIE SELECTED WORKS Alastair Mackie’s practice explores states of being, and positioned on turned ends throughout the often disrupting the order of nature’s processes gallery space. Alongside this sit House, 2008 a into new systems which reference both the haunting facsimile of a dolls house fabricated from natural and unnatural worlds and their meeting reconstituted wasps nests to his more recent 2014 points. This exhibition surveys five key works from Canopy and 2015 Mud Form sculptures. In his the artist’s recent practice showcasing Mackie’s work is a richness in methodology and ambiguity seminal 2011 Copse installation, an alluring which positions Alastair Mackie as one of the most and uncanny plantation of pine trees, trimmed interesting sculptors practicing in the UK today. WED 9 DECEMBER–SAT 30 JANUARY SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY EXHIBITION, FREE SCRATCH ORCHESTRA VOCAL Sidney Cooper Gallery Canterbury Scratch Orchestra, named after the experimental performance collective formed in 1969, is a student ensemble defined by a spirit of improvisation, adventurousness and creative ownership. This performance responds to Alastair Mackie’s installation through singing. Voices occupy the space, sometimes accompanied by the presence SAT 12 DECEMBER, 12PM–4PM of singers, questioning the distinction between SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY natural and manufactured sound. PERFORMANCE, FREE THE SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY IS OPEN: TUE–FRI 10.30AM–5PM, AND SAT 11.30AM–5PM 6 M U S I C Our music programme is full, varied and exciting. Our ambition is to make music accessible and enjoyable for all: from classical and jazz to contemporary and commercial music, there is something for everyone. JANE LINDSAY (CELLO) MAGGINI QUARTET JENNIFER HUGHES (PIANO) The University’s superb quartet in residence Canterbury Music Club in association with presents three Viennese masterpieces for Canterbury Christ Church University string quartet. • L. van Beethoven, Sonata No.2 in G minor, Op.5 • F. Haydn, String Quartet Op.55, No.3 in • R. Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op.73 B flat major (‘Tost’) • L. Janáček, Pohádka • W.A. Mozart, String Quartet No.16 in E flat • C. Saint-Saëns, Sonata in C minor, Op.32 major, K.428/421b • J. Brahms, String Quartet in A minor, THU 24 SEPTEMBER, 7.45PM Op.51, No.2 ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC FRI 9 OCTOBER, 7.30PM TICKETS £15 ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC DETAILS AND ADVANCE BOOKING: CONCERT, £12, £5 CONCESSIONS, WWW.CANTERBURYMUSICCLUB.COM FREE TO MPA STUDENTS AND STAFF Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] Tel: 01227 782994 Image © Melanie Strover 7 TEARS AND ICE – A JOURNEY INTO MADNESS F.