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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

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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 © Melanie Image

7 TEARS AND ICE – A JOURNEY INTO MADNESS F. SCHUBERT, WINTERREISE Philip Eve and Christopher Gould return SAT 10 OCTOBER, 5PM to Schubert’s great song cycle, a setting ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC of Wilhelm Müller’s poems depicting CONCERT, FREE a lovelorn journey into madness. The performance is preceded by a short talk Retiring collection in aid of The Alzheimer’s by the performers, and illustrated by Society and Pilgrims Hospices 24 specially commissioned photographic images by Melanie Ryder. Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] • Philip Eve (tenor) Tel: 01227 782994 • Christopher Gould (piano)

Image © Melanie Ryderr • Melanie Ryder (photography) LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Lunchtime concerts are given in St Gregory’s Centre of Music, Canterbury, and last about 45 minutes. They are open to all, free of charge (unless otherwise indicated). Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture

DELICATESSEN – A AURORA ENSEMBLE: ELIZABETH BURGESS CHOICE SELECTION OF ESSENTIAL QUINTETS (PIANO) AND MATTHEW EARLY ENGLISH SONG LOWE (CELLO) Steven Divine (keyboard) and • Mendelssohn, Variations Kate Semmens (soprano) Concertantes in D, Op.17 • Bloch, From Jewish Life Award-winning stars of the UK • Brahms, Sonata for Cello and early music scene Steven Divine Piano No.1 in E minor, Op.38 and Kate Semmens present Image Bowles © Tom English songs of the 17th One of Britain’s most FRI 16 OCTOBER, 1.10PM and 18th Centuries, from the celebrated wind quintets ST GREGORY’S CENTRE compelling beauty of Purcell to presents repertoire to set FOR MUSIC music for the London Pleasure pulses racing while delighting Gardens. Songs by Purcell, the heart. Lunchtime concert followed at Blow, Arne, Boyce and Maurice 2.30pm by a public masterclass Greene. • J. Ibert, Trois Pieces Breves on musicians’ stagecraft and • F. Danzi, Quintet in G minor, working in ensembles. WED 7 OCTOBER, 1.10PM Op.56, No.2 ST GREGORY’S CENTRE • G. Ligeti, Six Bagatelles FOR MUSIC • W. Walton (arr. Mason), Façade Suite

WED 14 OCTOBER, 1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC

8 The University is the proud Partner and Principal Sponsor of the Canterbury Festival

CANTERBURY FESTIVAL LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

AUTOMATRONIC: NEW MUSIC FOR ORGAN AND ELECTRONICS Automatronic—Michael Bonaventure, Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua—perform new works for organ and live electronics, including music written by the performers and by Canterbury Christ Church composer Rosie Johnson.

MON 19 OCTOBER, 1.10PM UNIVERSITY CHAPEL, NORTH HOLMES ROAD

SAM CORKIN THE CROMWELL TRIO (SAXOPHONE) AND Matthew Shipton (piano) Julia Vohralik (cello) DAVID KNOTTS and Grenville Hancox (clarinet) (PIANO) An eclectic recital of • J. Brahms, Trio in A minor, Op.114 saxophone music from • R. Muczynski, Fantasy Trio, Op.26 Baroque to Britten and beyond. WED 21 OCTOBER, 1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC • B. Britten, Pan • S. Crowther, Songs for Ada TRIO ‘MANOR MANOUCHE’ • A. Marcello, Oboe TOM ABRAHAMS AND NEV WILLIS Concerto (arr. for (GUITARS), ANDEE PRICE (BASS) soprano saxophone) • R. Rodney-Bennett, Three Sondheim Waltzes • E. Bozza, Aria • G. Carpenter, Sonata for Alto Saxophone: ‘Danse Macabre’ TUE 20 OCTOBER, 1.10PM Thrilling acoustic jazz, influenced by the greatest ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC gypsy guitarist of them all, Django Reinhardt. THU 22 OCTOBER, 1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC

9 CREAM OF CHRIST CHURCH COMMERCIAL MUSIC ‘UNPLUGGED’ Recent and distinguished graduates of Christ Church, many now performing professionally, return to offer a varied solo and chamber music recital.

FRI 23 OCTOBER,1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC

CANTERBURY FESTIVAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION Staff on the University’s Commercial Music This annual Composition Competition, held programme perform toe-tapping, uplifting during the Festival, presents works written during acoustic arrangements of pop, rock, jazz and the previous academic year by composers on blues classics. Not to be missed! the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes at Canterbury Christ Church WED 28 OCTOBER, 1.10PM University. The competition is judged by a panel ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC of resident and visiting judges.

MON 26 OCTOBER, 1.10PM DANCE@CANTERBURY: RE-MIX ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC Students studying dance at Canterbury Christ Church University perform a selection of their choreography, including sequences that combine TOP VOICES AND UNIVERSITY digital media and film. BIG BAND DIRECTED BY CHRIS PRICE AND THU 29 OCTOBER, 1.10PM STEVE WATERMAN ANSELM STUDIO 1 Two of the University’s finest ensembles join forces: expect a blast! Big Band presents jazz UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR WITH and swing classics by the likes of Benny Golson STRING ORCHESTRA and Dizzy Gillespie while Top Voices will perform DIRECTED BY DAVID ALLINSON AND beautiful pieces for upper voices from the Renaissance to the present day. MARTIN OUTRAM Two of the University’s flagship ensembles TUE 27 OCTOBER, 1.10PM combine to perform stirring and spiritual choral ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC and string music by composers including Purcell and Schubert.

FRI 30 OCTOBER, 1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC

Free lunchtime performances at St Gregory’s Centre for Music at 1.10pm (unless otherwise stated). For further information and to book tickets please visit: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture or call 01227 782994.

10 CONCERTS IN THE SPIEGELTENT Tickets for the Spiegeltent morning concerts are £5 (BKG FEES APPLY*) and are available through the Canterbury Festival Box Office. Visit: www.canterburyfestival.co.uk or call: 01227 787787

COFFEETIME JAZZ CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY Cool classics, funky covers and original MUSIC SHOWCASE compositions from the University’s finest student The best of the University Music Society’s current jazz ensembles, led by Richard Rozze. ensembles take to the stage, performing music from instrumental to vocal, classical to pop. FRI 23 OCTOBER, 10.30AM Featuring the Society’s brilliant Pops Orchestra. THE SPIEGELTENT, CRICKET GROUND WED 28 OCTOBER, 10.30AM THE SPIEGELTENT, CRICKET GROUND

*Booking fees apply for these Canterbury Festival events, by phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when booking by phone or in person is £8.

HERE AND NOW THE PHONOS ENSEMBLE Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church University The members of the Phonos Ensemble comprise guest principal players from the country’s leading period instrument groups, including the Orchestra of the Age Guitarist James Dean performs music from of Enlightenment and his forthcoming jazz album Here and Now. Academy of Ancient Featuring Paul Booth (saxophone), Steve Music. Programme Hamilton (piano), Dave Whitford (double includes Bach, bass) and Andrew Bain (drums). Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture music by Telemann, Email: [email protected] Image © Magnus Rew Handel and Vivaldi. Tel: 01227 782994 SUN 25 OCTOBER, 3PM SAT 24 OCTOBER, 8PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC ANSELM STUDIO 1 DETAILS AND ADVANCE BOOKING: CONCERT, £5, FREE TO WWW.CANTERBURYMUSICCLUB.COM MPA STAFF AND STUDENTS (TICKETS £15 ON THE DOOR)

11 CANTERBURY FESTIVAL CONCERTS Tickets for Canterbury Festival concerts can be booked through the Canterbury Festival Box Office: www.canterburyfestival.co.uk Tel: 01227 787787

BURSARY COMPETITION For many, the Festival Foundation’s Bursary Competition TUE 20 OCTOBER, 7.30PM has become the hottest ticket of the fortnight. Young, ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC talented, emerging players and vocalists are judged TICKETS £14, STUDENTS £7 not only on their technical brilliance but also on their (BKG FEES APPLY*) personalities – and their ability to act as an ambassador for music among their peers.

MICHAEL FOYLE (VIOLIN) LINA ZILINSKYTE (PIANO) Praised by the Daily Telegraph for playing with ‘compelling conviction’ at his Purcell Room debut, 24 year old Michael Foyle’s career is flourishing. Winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 Tabor Award for promising talent, Michael is the current Leverhulme Trust Postgraduate Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music.

Michael and his pianist Lina Zilinskyte will present a programme exploring the musical evolvement from Baroque’s ingenious musical dialogue to Classical simplicity, from romantic intensity to virtuoso light-heartedness in the 20th century.

WED 28 OCTOBER, 7.30PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC TICKETS £15, STUDENTS £10 (BKG FEES APPLY*)

LUTES AND UKES THE WOLVES OF ST ELVIS PLAY SHAKESPEARE Created by founder members of the legendary Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and Theatre of the Ayre, Lutes and Ukes will give a Halloween twist to the diverse repertoire for plucked instruments. Made up from lutes, theorboes, ukuleles, Renaissance guitars, performed by world-class musicians, this fantastic ensemble will provide a programme ranging from the earliest lute tablature from Wolfenbüttel, to Werewolves of London. Lutes and Ukes are here to confirm that any genre of music can be given a new perspective when introduced to this exciting and unique sound world.

THU 29 OCTOBER, 7.30PM AUGUSTINE HALL TICKETS £15, FESTIVAL FRIENDS £12, STUDENTS £8 (BKG FEES APPLY*) Image © James Wagg

12 MICHAEL JANISCH PARADIGM SHIFT We are proud to present American bassist, producer and record label owner Michael Janisch with his new band Paradigm Shift, as he presents his second solo album of the same name. A gig not to be missed!

‘Janisch seizes the instrument with a blend of speed and energy as if he wants to be melody, harmony and rhythm all at once.’ Daily Telegraph

Concert is preceded by a public masterclass, at which our student performers will be coached.

WED 4 NOVEMBER, 7.30PM (WITH PUBLIC MASTERCLASS 3.30-5.30PM) DWELL BAR, BROADSTAIRS CONCERT AND MASTERCLASS, FREE

Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] Tel: 01227 782994 Image © Monika Jakobowsk

ALEXANDRA DARIESCU (PIANO) Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church University

Young Romanian-born pianist Alexandra Dariescu is a rising star: garlanded with major prizes and awards, she made her debut at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall in 2012, where she was one of five young international pianists invited by Andras Schiff to join him in a residency. She will play music by Faure, Chopin – including his Polonaise in A flat major – Mendelssohn and Szymanowski.

THU 12 NOVEMBER, 7.45PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC DETAILS AND ADVANCE BOOKING: WWW.CANTERBURYMUSICCLUB.COM (TICKETS £15 ON THE DOOR) Image © Adrian Stoicoviciu © Image

13 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Free lunchtime performances at St Gregory’s Centre for Music at 1.10pm (unless otherwise stated). For further information and to book tickets please visit: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture or call 01227 782994.

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE: MUSIC SOCIETY SHOWCASE SABOTAGE SONGS Proudly presenting the The University’s Contemporary Music Ensemble Music Society’s flagship presents British Composer Nick Williams’s ensembles, with excellent Sabotage Songs, which deal with management, vocal and instrumental protest and subversion in the workplace, music that will brighten any alongside short protest works written by our dreary autumn day. undergraduate composers. WED 18 NOVEMBER, 1.10PM WED 4 NOVEMBER,1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC CHRIST CHURCH BIG BAND The University Big Band presents jazz and swing CANTERBURY SCRATCH classics by composers such as Benny Golson, ORCHESTRA: WYATT, DAVIS Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and many others, featuring many of the fine jazz soloists in AND CARDEW the band. With this concert the Scratch Orchestra hopes to make connections between the WED 25 NOVEMBER,1.10PM works of three musicians who ought to ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC have worked together but sadly never did. This student ensemble, named after the experimental performance collective formed in 1969, is deliberately difficult to define. Improvisation, adventurousness and a sense of creative ownership are the key features of their music making.

WED 11 NOVEMBER, 1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC

14 CANTERBURY ROTARY VOCES8 CLUB PRESENTS SING JOYFULLY JOHN PAUL EKINS (PIANO)

Canterbury Christ Church is honoured to welcome the brilliant John Paul Ekins, pianist extraordinaire, to perform a concert sponsored by the Rotary Club in aid of Music Scholarships at the University. In international demand as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician with leading instrumental and singer soloists, John Paul made his Royal

Albert Hall debut with South Bank Sinfonia Stuart © Decca.Paul Image in 2014. We are delighted to welcome world-beating ensemble VOCES8 to Christ Church once again. SAT 14 NOVEMBER, 7.30PM If you’ve seen the group on their previous visits, ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC you’ll know that this concert will combine TICKETS: £20, INCLUDING PRECEDING ethereal and angelic singing with warm humour RECEPTION WITH JAZZ BAND AND and extraordinary stage presence. Book your NIBBLES FROM 5.30PM place early!

Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture • W. Byrd, Sing Joyfully Email: [email protected] • G. Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo Tel: 01227 782994 • J. Tavener, Mother of God Here I Stand • Trad. German (arr. Stefan Claas), Maria durch ein Before the concert, John Paul will coach Christ Church Dornwald ging piano students (soloists and accompanists) from • C.V. Stanford, Beati Quorum Via 3.30pm to 5.30pm. This masterclass is free to attend. • R. Pearsall, Lay a Garland • Plus a selection of pop and jazz numbers

FRI 20 NOVEMBER,1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC CONCERT £5, FREE FOR MPA STUDENTS AND STAFF

Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] Tel: 01227 782994

The Lunchtime concert is followed at 2.30pm by a participatory public masterclass with VOCES8, who will also coach student ensembles. This masterclass is free to attend. Image © Robin Hendy 15 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Free lunchtime performances at St Gregory’s Centre for Music at 1.10pm (unless otherwise stated). For further information and to book tickets please visit: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture or call 01227 782994.

FESTIVE STRINGS EARLY/HISTORICAL A celebration of chamber music DANCE AND MUSIC for strings, performed by our Year 1 Dance Education student ensembles. Featuring students perform a variety the University String Orchestra of dances from 16th to 19th (dir. Martin Outram), the century with live musical programme will include Hubert accompaniment, directed by Parry’s English Suite. Angela Pickard.

WED 2 DECEMBER, WED 9 DECEMBER, 1.10PM 1.10PM ST GREGORY’S CENTRE ST GREGORY’S CENTRE FOR MUSIC FOR MUSIC

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

FRI 11 DECEMBER, 7.30PM AUGUSTINE HALL £5 (£3 CONCESSIONS; MPA STAFF AND STUDENTS FREE) Join Ensembles from the Department of Music and Performing Arts for a celebratory evening to mark the end of term. The varied programme SUNG EVENSONG includes Smetana’s ‘Vltava’ from Ma Vlast, Parry’s English Suite and lashings of festive choral music. A weekly service featuring prayer, readings Featured ensembles include the University’s and beautiful sacred choral music performed Symphony, String and Wind Orchestras, Chamber by the University Chapel Choir. Open to all; Choir, Top Voices and Chorus. See the term out free entry. Refreshments served afterwards. in style! EVERY THURSDAY IN TERM TIME, Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture 5.30PM FOR HALF AN HOUR Email: [email protected] UNIVERSITY CHAPEL, Tel: 01227 782994 ANSELM BUILDING

16 T H E A T R E Our theatre programme highlights some of the best of Christ Church talent as well as bringing in new exciting companies to challenge and explore.

RECKLESS SLEEPERS THE LAST SUPPER Reckless Sleepers invites you to a dinner party of lasts; last words and last moments from the famous and not so famous. From Marilyn Monroe and Beethoven to prisoners on death row, this performance serves up a startling collection of last statements, last minute scenarios and last meals in this multi-sensory theatre piece. Sit, sip your wine and watch as last words are literally eaten before your eyes.

MON 19–FRI 23 OCTOBER AND SUN 25 OCTOBER, 8PM ANSELM STUDIO 1 PERFORMANCE, £20, £15 CONCESSIONS (SUITABLE 16+) Book online: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] Tel: 01227 782994 Image © Heidrun Löhr 17 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROPELLER

We are proud to announce our newest Artists Associate Company – Propeller, who are residence with us for a whole year, performing their work, running workshops and making life here at the university just a little bit more special!

Under Edward Hall’s direction, this all-male Shakespeare company combines a rigorous approach to text with a physical aesthetic creating productions full of fun, poetry, speed, and imagination.

COMING UP IN 2016 POCKET DREAM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES DIRECTED BY EDWARD HALL If you like your Shakespeare fast-moving, easily understood and visually stunning then Propeller’s sixty minute version of its award-winning production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is for you.

Under Edward Hall’s direction, this all-male Shakespeare company combines a rigorous approach to the text with a physical aesthetic creating a production full of clarity, poetry, humour and imagination, with a little bit of magic thrown in.

MON 1 – TUE 2 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM ANSELM STUDIO 1

For more information and to be notified when online booking opens please sign up to our mailing list: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture Email: [email protected] Tel: 01227 782994 Image © Nobby Clarkh 18 L E A R N I N G

Discover | Learn | Enjoy COMMUNITY ARTS & EDUCATION at Canterbury Christ Church University Discover | Learn | Enjoy COmmUNItY ARts & EdUCAtION at Canterbury Christ Church University

We’re delighted to launch our Spring 2015 programme of day schools and short courses. All our tutors are specialists in their We are delighted to launch our autumnfield and our2015 programmes programme offer of day schools and short courses. you the opportunity to broaden your interests and/or to explore something new. All our tutors are specialists in theirFor fullfield details, and including our our spring programmes offer you the opportunityand summer to broadenprogramme, your visit our interests and/or to explore somethingwebsite new.or call us to be added to our mailing list and receive a copy of our 2014/15 brochure. For full details, including our spring and summer programme, visit our website or call us to be added to our mailing list and receive a copy of our 2015/16 brochure. BOOK YOUR PLACE ONLINE www.canterbury.ac.uk/community-arts-education BOOK YOUR PLACE ONLINE You can call the Programme Administrator on (01227) 863451 www.canterbury.ac.uk/on weekdays between the hours of 9.30amcae - 2.30pm. Email: [email protected] Tel: 01227 863451 E: [email protected]

19 W O R D Our programme of fascinating talks, debates and readings, aims to inspire and inform.

FOLKESTONE BOOK FESTIVAL Canterbury Christ Church University and the There will be approximately forty five events at this Creative Foundation are delighted to announce year’s Book Festival and will include authors and a new partnership which sees CCCU as Creative speakers such as Louis de Bernières, Wendy Cope, Partner of the Folkestone Book Festival, Lynne Truss, Zoe Williams, Terry Wogan, Melvyn 20–29 November 2015. Bragg, Tracey Thorn, Jessica Hynes, Claudia Roden, HRH Princess Michael of Kent and more. Canterbury Christ Church University will support the Creative Foundation in developing the For more info about the programme and to book creative content of the festival. In particular, tickets go to www.folkestonebookfest.com working closely with the educational strands of the festival, supporting its efforts to inspire new thinking, encourage writing and build joint relationships with schools, the community, artists and local businesses.

JOHN BOYNE AUTHOR EVENT John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of nine novels for adults and four for younger readers, including the international bestsellers The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which has sold more than six million copies worldwide, The Absolutist and, most recently, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave. His novels are published in over forty-five languages. He is married and lives in Dublin.

WED 14 OCTOBER, 5PM OLD SESSIONS HOUSE, MICHAEL BERRY LECTURE THEATRE EVENT, £5

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20 PUBLIC LECTURES 2015/16 All talks are free and open to the public. To book a place, please visit www.canterbury.ac.uk/publiclectures

THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS Michael Morpurgo OBE, author of War Horse and former Children’s Laureate

Connecting children with the environment is of critical importance if we are to turn the tide of environmental illiteracy. Michael Morgurgo will explore the subject of writing about the environment for children, a subject that he has continued to return to through more than 130 books.

FRI 25 SEPTEMBER, 4PM | OLD SESSIONS HOUSE, MICHAEL BERRY LECTURE THEATRE

A RESPONSIBLE WAY TO REORIENT GLOBAL BUSINESS Dr Ted Malloch, Professor and Fellow in Management Practice at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

In his lecture, Dr Malloch argues that we have a responsibility to care for all of the ‘resources’ that we have been given, in order to preserve and pass them on to future generations. Humans, even in their business lives, are effectively trustees. Such responsibility means that we must adjust our ends to overall goals in life and in the light of changing circumstances. Prudent businesses, like prudent and responsible people, employ good self-governance as personal responsibility. Global business needs this kind of reorientation to secure a sustainable future.

WED 30 SEPTEMBER, 6PM | OLD SESSIONS HOUSE, MICHAEL BERRY LECTURE THEATRE

ON LIBERTY Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty

On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West’s response to 9/11 morphed into a period of exception. Shami Chakrabarti – who joined Liberty, the UK’s leading civil rights organisation, on 10 September 2001 – will explore why our fundamental rights and freedoms are indispensable. She will show, too, the unprecedented pressures those rights are under today. Drawing on her own work in high-profile campaigns, from privacy laws to anti-terror legislation, her talk will expand upon the threats to our democratic institutions and why our rights are paramount in upholding democracy.

THU 26 NOVEMBER, 6PM AUGUSTINE HALL | AUGUSTINE HOUSE

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ONLINE Book tickets online from: www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture

IN PERSON TELEPHONE Our main Box Office is situated in Augustine Tickets can be booked on 01227 782994 with House, Rhodaus Town, Canterbury, CT1 2AY all major debit and credit cards (excluding American Express). The Box Office is open Monday–Thursday, 10am–5pm and Fridays, 10am–4pm. If the line is busy or you ring outside of Box Office opening hours, please leave a message In the rare instance that the Box Office is closed with your name and telephone number and our within these hours please book online or leave a Box Office Administrator will get back to you as message on the Box Office answering machine. soon as possible.

23 AT A GLANCE – DIARY THU 13 AUGUST– GEORGE EKSTS, CASUAL CURSIVE p2 WED 30 SEPTEMBER SAT 12 SEPTEMBER 10am–4pm SOFT GROUND ETCHING WITH FOUND OBJECTS p4 SAT 19 SEPTEMBER 10am–4pm LIFE DRAWING WITH ROY EASTLAND p4 TUE 22 SEPTEMBER 5pm ARTIST TALK–GEORGE EKSTS p2 THU 24 SEPTEMBER 7.45pm JANE LINDSAY (CELLO) JENNIFER HUGHES (PIANO) p7 FRI 25 SEPTEMBER 4pm THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS p21 SAT 26 SEPTEMBER 10am–4pm DEEP ETCH IN TWO COLOURS p4 WED 30 6pm A RESPONSIBLE WAY TO REORIENT GLOBAL BUSINESS p21 SEPTEMBER WED 7 OCTOBER 1.10pm DELICATESSEN – A CHOICE SELECTION OF EARLY p8 ENGLISH SONG FRI 9 OCTOBER 7.30pm MAGGINI QUARTET p7 SAT 10 OCTOBER 5pm TEARS AND ICE – A JOURNEY INTO MADNESS p8 WED 14 OCTOBER 1.10pm AURORA ENSEMBLE: ESSENTIAL QUINTETS p8 WED 14 OCTOBER 5pm JOHN BOYNE AUTHOR EVENT p20 THU 15 OCTOBER 5.30pm– ADAM CHODZKO IN CONVERSATION p3 6.30pm FRI 16 OCTOBER 1.10pm LIBBY BURGESS (PIANO) AND MATTHEW LOWE (CELLO) p8 FRI 16 OCTOBER– ADAM CHODZKO DESIGN FOR A FOLD p3 SAT 21 NOVEMBER MON 19 OCTOBER 1.10pm AUTOMATRONIC: NEW MUSIC FOR ORGAN AND p9 ELECTRONICS MON 19 OCTOBER 8pm RECKLESS SLEEPERS: THE LAST SUPPER p17 TUE 20 OCTOBER 1.10pm SAM CORKIN (SAXOPHONE) AND DAVID KNOTTS p9 (PIANO) TUE 20 OCTOBER 7.30pm BURSARY CONCERT p12 TUE 20 OCTOBER 8pm RECKLESS SLEEPERS: THE LAST SUPPER p17 WED 21 OCTOBER 1.10pm THE CROMWELL TRIO p9 WED 21 OCTOBER 8pm RECKLESS SLEEPERS: THE LAST SUPPER p17 THU 22 OCTOBER 1.10pm TRIO ‘MANOR MANOUCHE’ p9 THU 22 OCTOBER 8pm RECKLESS SLEEPERS: THE LAST SUPPER p17 FRI 23 OCTOBER 10.30am COFFEETIME JAZZ p11 FRI 23 OCTOBER 1.10pm CREAM OF CHRIST CHURCH p10 FRI 23 OCTOBER 8pm RECKLESS SLEEPERS: THE LAST SUPPER p17 SAT 24 OCTOBER 8pm HERE AND NOW p11 SUN 25 OCTOBER 3pm THE PHONOS ENSEMBLE p11 SUN 25 OCTOBER 8pm RECKLESS SLEEPERS: THE LAST SUPPER p17

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Front cover image: Copse, 2011, Alastair Mackie Back cover image: House, 2008, Alastair Mackie