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MONDAY 31 FRIDAY 11 SUNDAY 20 Lunchtime Recital: Early Music Festival Age Exchange Christmas Sky Ingram & John Paul Exhibition 2016 Fair 10.30am-4.30pm Ekins 1.10pm 10am-5pm MONDAY 21 Blackheath Goes Gospel SATURDAY 12 Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm Blackheath Halls Chorus Early Music Festival Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm Exhibition 2016 10am-5pm TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER Beats in the Bar 7.30pm SUNDAY 13 TUESDAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 30 Blackheath Halls Orchestra WEDNESDAY 23 Art Exhibition: Adult Dress Rehearsal Instrumental Gala: Royal Learning Lewisham 1.30pm-4.30pm Greenwich 7pm 10am-5pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra THURSDAY 24 TUESDAY 1 Performance 6.30pm Instrumental Gala: Royal Beats in the Bar 7.30pm Greenwich 7pm MONDAY 14 FRIDAY 4 Lunchtime Recital: FRIDAY 25 Eltham College Music An-Ting Chang, piano Trinity Laban Showcase Scholars Concert 7pm 1.10pm Series: Emily Gray & Comedy: Russell Kane 8pm Blackheath Goes Gospel Francesca Fierro 6pm Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm SUNDAY 6 SUNDAY 27 Blackheath Halls Orchestra TUESDAY 15 Blackheath Sundays: Rehearsal 2.30pm-5.30pm Beats in the Bar 7.30pm Clare Hammond 11am Spoken Word: Joe Swift 3pm Trinity Laban and English WEDNESDAY 16 Touring Opera: Bach’s St Spoken Word: MONDAY 28 John Passion 7.30pm Poetry South East 8pm Blackheath Halls Chorus MONDAY 7 THURSDAY 17 Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm Blackheath Goes Gospel Trinity Laban Chorus 7.30pm Turning of the Year Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm (keystage 1) 6.30pm SATURDAY 19 THURSDAY 10 Blackheath Goes Gospel TUESDAY 29 Early Music Festival Dress Rehearsal 2pm-5pm Turning of the Year Exhibition 2016 Children’s Event: (keystage 2) 7pm 10.30am-5.30pm The Selfish Giant 3pm WEDNESDAY 30 Blackheath Goes Gospel 2016 Turning of the Year Performance 7.30pm (keystage 2) 7pm SEP-DEC 2016 DIARY
MONDAY 12 Blackheath Halls Chorus DECEMBER Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm THURSDAY 1 TUESDAY 13 Trinity Laban Chamber Blackheath Halls Chorus Choir and Shapeshifter: Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm Double Bill 7.30pm FRIDAY 16 FRIDAY 2 Blackheath Halls Christmas Trinity Laban Contemporary Concert 7.30pm Music Ensemble 7.30pm SUNDAY 18 SATURDAY 3 Blackheath Sundays: Blackheath Village Day John Lenehan – A Christmas 12pm onwards Fantasia 11am Children’s Events: Jack Frost 3pm MONDAY 19 Village Day: Carols by Lunchtime Recital: Lana Candlelight tba Trotovsek, Boris Bizjak & Friends 1.10pm MONDAY 5 Beats in the Bar 7.30pm WEDNESDAY 21 Tea Dance 1.30pm-4pm Blackheath Halls Chorus Rehearsal 7.30pm-9.30pm WEDNESDAY 7 Trinity Laban Jazz: Double Bill 7.30pm THURSDAY 8 MUSIC APPRECIATION Beats in the Bar 7.30pm WITH MATTHEW TAYLOR Trinity Laban Wind MONDAYS: 19 & 26 SEPTEMBER; 3, 10, 17 & 31 OCTOBER; Orchestra 7.30pm 7, 14, 21, 28 NOVEMBER 10.15am-12.15pm SATURDAY 10 Children’s Events: A Due to extensive roof repairs at Blackheath Halls, this series Christmas Carol 3pm of lectures will take place at the Old Library, Charlton House, Charlton Road, London SE7 8RE Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet! 7.30pm For further details email Lionel Lewis at LJL@lioneljlewis. org.uk or visit blackheath-music.co.uk SUNDAY 11 Glenn Tilbrook 8pm BLACKHEATHCONTENTS SUNDAYS
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Corinna Hentschel violin Giulio Poggia piano Dvorˇák Sonatina in G major for violin and piano, Op.100 Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor, P 110 TZIGANE PIANO TRIO Brahms Scherzo from F-A-E Sonata Blackheath Sundays SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER 11am | Recital Room Mozart Piano Trio in G major K.564 John Marson Nocturne Op.2, No.1; Song without Words Op.2, No.3; Fantasia Stravagante Op.2, No.4 Schubert Piano Trio No.1 in B flat major Op.99. D.898 Chaminade Sérénade Espagnol Op.150
Gillian Findlay, Jennie Brown and Elizabeth Marcus formed the Tzigane Piano Trio over 20 years ago. They have released a CD of the complete music for Piano Trio by Cécile Chaminade and plan to make a recording of music by John Marson which has been composed for them. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions
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Box office: 020 8463 0100 5 CLASSICAL MUSIC SCHOLARS CONCERT Eltham College FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER 7pm | Recital Room
Featuring the finest talent from Eltham College. TICKETS: £7 adults | £5 senior citizens FREE under 18s To reserve tickets please email your request TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY to: [email protected] ORCHESTRA English Radicals: Music of Progress and Transformation JS BACH’S ST JOHN PASSION THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER 7.30pm | Recital Room Trinity Laban and English Touring Opera SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall Szambolcs Zempleni Horn Conductor Jonathan Peter Kenny Conductor Martyn Brabbins Director James Conway Holst The Perfect Fool Orchestra Old Street Band Benjamin Pearson* New Work Knussen Horn Concerto Tippet Symphony No.1
As part of the English Radicals – Music of Progress and Transformation series, hear the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra perform works by composers who pushed boundaries and challenged traditions. TICKETS: £12 | £7 concessions Deeply personal, inspiring and questioning, *Trinity Laban student Bach’s St John Passion is a brilliant reflection of an extraordinary gospel. VOLT & POTENZA DUO Between the opening and the final chorus, Trinity Laban Showcase Series we are called to face up to some of the most FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 6pm | Recital Room basic questions in life, all in the form of an urgent, unsentimental story. Oda Voltersvik Piano Trinity Laban’s Early Music Vocal Ensemble Giulio Potenza Piano perform in association with the English Touring Opera in a new translation of the Dvorˇák Slavonic Dance, Op.72 (No.2 in chorales from writers of different faiths and E minor; No.6 in B flat major; backgrounds. No.7 in C major) ADMISSION – PAY WHAT YOU DECIDE Medtner Sonata Reminiscenza, Op.38, No.1 There is no obligation to pay until after Scarlatti Sonata in D major, K.29; the show. You decide what to pay based on Sonata in D minor, K.141 how much you enjoyed the performance. Rachmaninov Six Morceaux, Op.11 Ticket reservation essential with tickets only available via experiencetickets.co.uk ADMISSION FREE but ticketed
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LUNCHTIME RECITALS Friends of Blackheath Halls bring you a series of recitals for Oct-Dec 2016. All concerts are in the Recital Room and start at 1.10pm. A light lunch is available prior to the recital. Admission is free with a retiring donation to Blackheath Halls.
ROYAL GREENWICH SKY INGRAM soprano JOHN PAUL EKINS piano INTERNATIONAL EARLY MUSIC English and American Art Song FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION 2016 MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 10.30am-5.30pm Domenick Argento Sky Ingram Great Hall & Recital Room Six Elizabethan Songs; Samuel FRIDAY 11 & SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER Barber Four Songs 10am-5pm | Great Hall & Recital Room Op.13; Frank Bridge Four Songs; Gerald A vibrant market place attracting over 100 Gover Shall I instrument makers from around the globe. Compare Thee To a Visit shops, music publishers, recording Summer’s Day. companies, societies and forums, all gathered under one roof. AN-TING CHANG piano Shakespeare in Piano Instruments on display and for sale will include: recorders, flutes, crumhorns, MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER shawms, racketts, lutes, viols, fiddles, Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Ten Pieces sackbuts, trumpets, rebecs, harps, hurdy- for Piano, Op.75; Liszt/Mendelssohn gurdies, drums, harpsichords, plus a superb Midsummer Night’s Dream S.410; collection of sheet music, CDs and books. Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy MAKER’S DEMONSTRATION RECITALS Overture. Recitals throughout the day will take place Lana Trotovsek at St Michael & All Angels Church, 1 Pond Road, SE3 9JL. Admission FREE to exhibition ticket holders ADMISSION TO EXHIBITION (payable on the door – includes programme) 1 day ticket £10 | £8 2 day ticket £15 | £12 LANA TROTOVSEK violin 3 day ticket £20 | £16 BORIS BIZJAK flute Children under 14 FREE MASUMI YAMAMATO harpsichord The Early Music Shop Tel: 01274 288100 AND FRIENDS Tickets available online A concert of Baroque Music for Christmas earlymusicfestival.com MONDAY 19 DECEMBER Email: [email protected]
Box office: 020 8463 0100 7 BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL SUNDAYS TRINITY LABAN CHORUS From J S Bach to Stevie Wonder THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall Conductor Dominic Peckham Anúna* St Nicholas Johann Standen Herr, unser Herrscher MacMillan O Radiant Dawn Nusch Subvenite Sancti Anon Dindirin Trad Swedish** Till Öesterland Duruflé Tota Pulchra Es Joni Mitchell** Both Sides Now Stevie Wonder** Higher Ground Greg Gilpin Nothin’ Gonna Stumble My Feet CLARE HAMMOND piano Mash’d Improvisation for chorus Blackheath Sundays Hailed as ‘one of the most exciting SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 11am | Recital Room conductors of his generation’, Dominic Bach Toccata in D minor, BWV 913 Peckham returns to work with Trinity Laban students in a varied programme for Robert Saxton Three Movements from massed voices. Hortus Musicae, Book 2 TICKETS: £5 Beethoven Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 *arr McGlynn **arr Peckham 'Pathétique' Medtner Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 Stravinsky Three Movements from Petroushka
Acclaimed as a pianist of ‘amazing power and panache’ (The Telegraph), Clare Hammond has developed a ‘reputation for brilliantly imaginative concert programmes’ (BBC Music Magazine, ‘Rising Star’).
Emily Gray She recently won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award, in recognition of outstanding achievements in 2015. Over EMILY GRAY soprano the past year Clare has performed at the FRANCESCA FIERRO piano Barbican Hall, where The Guardian described her as a "dazzling athlete", and Trinity Laban Showcase Series has recorded discs for Sony, BIS and Signum. FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 6pm | Recital Room Highlights in 2016 include her Royal Festival Soprano Emily Gray presents Schumann’s Hall debut with the Philharmonia and three song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben, performances at the Belfast International interspersed with songs by Schoenberg, Festival for the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Duparc, Henry Krieger and Copland. Series. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions
8 blackheathhalls.com CLASSICAL TRINITY LABAN CHAMBER CHOIR AND SHAPESHIFTER Double Bill THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall Conductor John Ashton Thomas Mark Lockheart Saxophones Liam Noble Piano John Parricelli Guitar Tom Herbet Bass Seb Rochford Drums
Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter ensemble perform Mark Lockheart’s Brave World, a new piece created in response to climate TRINITY LABAN CONTEMPORARY change and global conflict. MUSIC ENSEMBLE This joint commissioned piece by the FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall London Jazz Festival and Trinity Laban is an An evening of multi-disciplinary work by adventurous and glorious collaboration Trinity Laban composition staff, conducted between jazz and contemporary classical by Gregory Rose. music. Combining the rich orchestral palettes of Claus Ogerman and Gil Evans ADMISSION FREE but ticketed with the ‘off kilter’ groove sounds of Polar Bear, Mark has devised a work of great originality, beauty and optimism. TRINITY LABAN WIND ORCHESTRA THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall In the other half of the double bill, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir perform works by Masters of English Church Music William Byrd (1540-1623) and Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012), conducted by composer John Ashton Thomas.
Witness the Head of Wind, Brass and Percussion, Andrew Dunn, as he conducts the Trinity Laban Wind Orchestra in an eclectic performance of varied repertoire, including a world premiere by Trinity Laban student Erica MacLeod. TICKETS: £5 TICKETS: £5
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BLACKHEATH VILLAGE DAY SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER 2016
The day when Blackheath celebrates the start of the festive season with events for all the family, culminating with the switching on of the Christmas lights. As always Blackheath Halls are privileged to be involved and will have a variety of free events throughout the day.
FOOD AND DRINK 11.30am-5pm | Café Bar JOHN LENEHAN piano Teas, coffees, homemade cakes and savoury Blackheath Sundays snacks, mulled wine and minced pies. SUNDAY 18 DECEMBER 11am | Recital Room A CHRISTMAS FANTASIA FREE MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE Festive collection of silent film and music 12pm-4pm | Great Hall Featuring: Featuring Edison (1910) A Christmas Carol Royal Greenwich and Blackheath Halls Youth Choir Edison (1905) The Night Before Blackheath Halls Gospel Choir Christmas Laurel & Hardy (1929) Big Business JACK FROST 3pm | Recital Room John Lenehan’s career as a pianist has taken This magical, wintery production brings him all over the world, from Abu Dhabi to Jack Frost to life through puppetry, live Zurich and from Aberdeen to Zimbabwe. music and enchanting storytelling. As well as recording more than 70 CDs he has appeared as soloist with major See page 16 for further details. orchestras and collaborated with some of TICKETS: £8.50 the leading instrumentalists of our time. His interest in the combination of music and film has been long-standing. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SWITCH ON As director of ‘Sounds for Silents’ he wrote 4.30pm | Blackheath Village and arranged more than 20 film scores, which were performed throughout the CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT | Great Hall UK at festivals such as All your festive favourites Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Brighton and Harrogate as well Please check our website as in Italy, Germany, Norway and blackheathhalls.com for more details Australia. as they are confirmed. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions 10 blackheathhalls.com Blackheath Halls cafe bar Stay after attending an event for drinks, a chat and music in our relaxed and friendly bar RUSSELL KANE Right Man, Wrong Age FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER 8pm | Great Hall
Famed for his critically acclaimed tours Russell has been performing to sell out audiences across the globe and now he is back with this brand new show! Are you 16 years old, yet feel 21? Are you 40, but tragically faking 25? Or maybe you’re full on 80 years, with the heart of three oxen and the sex drive of a bonobo chimp. Don’t COMEDY worry: this is normal. No one is ever the ‘right’ age, it’s the beauty and the curse of being a real person. In this brand new show, Russell Kane unleashes another blisteringly funny, award winning stand-up performance about growing up and growing down. Multi award winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and scriptwriter Russell Kane is best known as the host of three series of BBC3’s Live At The Electric, regular appearances on BBC1’s Live At Apollo, BBC3’s Unzipped, ITV2’s Celebrity Juice and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now! TICKETS: £17 Parental Guidance Rating: Age 14+ due to swearing and adult content.
‘One of the quickest, most stimulating stand-ups in the land’ The Times
12 blackheathhalls.com COMEDY MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE Why the long face? SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 8pm | Great Hall
The award-winning comedian returns to the Halls with his critically acclaimed show. Marcus Brigstocke’s talent was noted early on in his career in 1996 when he won the BBC New Comedian Award at the Edinburgh Festival. He is now regarded as a major comedy, writing and acting talent, performing stand up nationally to sell out audiences around the UK and globally at international comedy festivals. Radio 4 has become somewhat of a second home to him with regular slots on The Now Show and Just A Minute, and he has RICH HALL notched up an impressive list of TV credits Live 2016 including team captain on Argumental (DAVE) and the host of BBC 4’s The Late SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 8pm | Great Hall Edition and I’ve Never Seen Star Wars. Rich Hall is the star of the critically Other appearances include Have I Got News acclaimed BBC 4 documentaries Rich Hall’s For You (BBC 1), QI (BBC 2), Sorry I’ve Got No California Stars, Rich Hall’s You Can Go To Head (BBC 1), The Late Edition (BBC 4), and Hell, I’m Going To Texas and Rich Hall’s the 11 O’Clock Show (Channel 4). Inventing the Indian. TICKETS: £16 Rich has also become well-known for his television and radio work with regular Parental Guidance Rating: Age 16+ due to appearances on QI, Live At The Apollo, Have swearing, nudity and adult content. I Got News For You and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. His grouchy, deadpan style has established him as a master of absurdist irony and the king of rapid-fire wit. TICKETS: £16 Parental Guidance Rating: Age 14+ due to swearing and adult content.
RUSSELL KANE Right Man, Wrong Age FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER 8pm | Great Hall
See opposite for further details. ‘Intelligent, dark, subtle stuff’ TICKETS: £17 The Observer Parental Guidance Rating: Age 14+ due to swearing and adult content. blackheathhalls.com 13 ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 3pm | Recital Room Box Tale Soup
CHILDREN’S EVENTS Drawing on the wealth of peculiar own imagination and perhaps the author episodes from both Alice’s Adventures of her dreams. in Wonderland and Through the Looking Featuring a dozen colourful handmade Glass, Box Tale Soup invite you down puppets, a beautiful set that unfolds the rabbit hole into a timeless world of from a vintage trunk and magical wondrous fantasy. original music, this is a constantly Follow Alice on her remarkable journey, inventive and refreshing take on Carroll’s from her fleeting encounters with the classic. Young and old alike will find White Rabbit to her eventual showdown magic in Wonderland and make it safely with the crazed Queen of Hearts. home – the only danger is, you may not want to leave! A confrontational Caterpillar, Ukelele twanging Tweedle twins and an array of TICKETS: £8.50 other characters pop up along the way, Suitable for Ages: 4+ before Alice comes face to face with her Running Time: 55mins
14 blackheathhalls.com CHILDREN’S EVENTS THE SELFISH GIANT SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER 3pm | Recital Room Sea Legs Puppet Theatre
Since building a wall to keep the children out of his garden, the only visitors the Selfish Giant gets are Lady Snow and her friends. One morning he hears the most beautiful music coming from his bedroom window and is delighted with the sight that greets him. Set in a magnificent steel sculpted garden, the story is told using beautifully crafted puppets, a brilliant musical soundtrack and superb storytelling. TICKETS: £8.50 Suitable for Ages: 3+ Running Time: 45 minutes + 15 minutes Meet the Puppets
JACK AND THE BEANS TALK SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 3pm | Recital Room Garlic Theatre
From the company that brought you Shoe Kangaroo and the Big Bad Boot, Billy Goats Gruff and There’s a Monster in My Piano, Garlic Theatre return with a fresh and funny retelling of this classic fairytale. Was it a dream or did I hear a talking bean? Jack lives on a small farm with his mum and very little to eat. He likes to talk to the birds, his cow and anyone who will listen. Imagine his surprise when he swaps his cow for some magic beans and starts to hear a whispering in the breeze and a giant rumble in the sky... Charming and inventive with plenty of interaction, an enormous beanstalk, bags of gold and a smelly old giant. Jack and the BOOK MORE — SAVE MONEY! Beans Talk is a cautionary tale about what Multibuy discounts are might happen if you throw things out of available on all events the window! where you see the logo – TICKETS: £8.50 See page 27 for details or contact the box office. Suitable for Ages: 3+ Running Time: 45 minutes
Box office: 020 8463 0100 15 CHILDREN’S EVENTS A CHRISTMAS CAROL SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 3pm | Recital Room Booster Cushion Theatre
With the help of a large 60cm tall pop- up book and lots of humbugs, this very entertaining version of the Dickens’ classic tale takes the audience back to Victorian England using mime, voice and a couple of suitcases loaded full of ghosts! An old Dickensian narrator arrives to tell us the news, fresh from London town about the story he has heard of Scrooge. He opens his Big Book but as he does he starts transforming into the different characters! The audience watches as he turns into a grumpy Scrooge, a very goofy Marley and the Three Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. JACK FROST TICKETS: £8.50 SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER 3pm | Recital Room Suitable for Ages: 4+ Moon on a Stick Running Time: 50 minutes A magical, wintery production brings Jack Frost to life through puppetry, live music and enchanting storytelling. Jack has no idea that his ability to freeze everything he touches is spreading havoc wherever he goes and causing all sorts of problems in the village. One day a small girl spots him out of the corner of her eye and Jack is no longer alone. She reaches out to him despite his icy hands and realises what it must be like for him to never have felt the warmth of another’s touch. A story of friendship and bravery to warm our hearts this winter. Meet our mischievous sprite as he takes us on a snowy adventure but wrap up warm or you’ll catch him nipping at your fingers and toes! Moon On A Stick transform the stage using their unique combination of light play, song and visual theatre to reimagine this well- known Nordic legend. TICKETS: £8.50 Suitable for Ages: 3+ Running Time: 50mins
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GLENN TILBROOK The Best of Times SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 8pm | Great Hall
One of Britain's most cherished songs, there are few musicians able to singers, guitarists and songwriters, connect with their audience on such Glenn Tilbrook is delighted to be an immediate and warm level. returning to Blackheath Halls as part The ever-burgeoning festival circuit of his solo UK tour, The Best of Times. is frequently enriched by Tilbrook the Anyone who has witnessed Glenn troubadour, whether he be leafing Tilbrook on the live stage can attest through his own plentiful back pages to the properness of his doings, as it or dashing off impromptu audience were. Armed with ready wit, raucous requests. vibes and a shed load of grin-inducing TICKETS: £23 | £21 concessions
18 blackheathhalls.com BLACKHEATH SUNDAYSMUSIC HAVEN’T STOPPED DANCING YET! SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall DJ Lord Anthony Hula DJ Da’Lynne
It’s back! After selling-out two Christmases running HSDY return with another dance-tastic night of 70s & 80s soul, funk and disco. TICKETS: £15 in advance | £18 on the door 10% of profits to Cancer Research UK
TRINITY LABAN JAZZ Double Bill WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall
A double bill of jazz from Trinity Laban’s Jazz Choir and Jazz Ensemble. The first part features Trinity Laban’s Jazz Choir, directed by internationally acclaimed jazz choral director and composer Pete Churchill. GLENN TILBROOK Expect to hear folk music, some gospel, The Best of Times some soul and more besides. With a choir SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 8pm | Great Hall of 30 and a great band in tow, Trinity Laban Jazz Choir is sure to raise the roof. See opposite for details. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed TICKETS: £23 | £21 concessions
BEATS IN THE BAR Trinity Laban students perform in this regular series of jazz gigs in our Recital Room. All sessions are FREE but ticketed and start at 7.30pm TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER TUESDAY 15 NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER MONDAY 5 DECEMBER TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER
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MICHAEL PORTILLO Life: A Game of Two Halves FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 8pm | Great Hall
Hear Michael Portillo speak about his for the ordinary citizen. But since leaving extraordinary life story and take the house almost a decade ago Michael questions afterwards. has endeared himself to many with his obvious respect for solid workmanship It took Michael Portillo little more than and creative energy, as found in our great 10 years to get a seat in the Commons Victorian Railways, and the daily toil of and then rise in power and esteem to a the working man, as well as the point where he was a favoured leader of underprivileged (Michael becomes a his party and possible future PM. A track Single Mum) and the troubled (Death of record like that suggests to many a a School Friend). privileged friend of the rich and famous with little or no understanding of or care TICKETS: £18 | £16 concessions
20 blackheathhalls.com SPOKEN WORD JOAN RUDDOCK CELIA AND JOHN LEE Going Nowhere HRH The Duke of Kent: A Life Of Service WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER 8pm | Recital Room 8pm | Recital Room
The story of Joan His Royal Highness Prince Ruddock, born in the Edward The Duke of Kent Welsh valleys, who came has devoted his life to the to lead one of Britain’s service of his country. biggest protest His interest in modern movements, and went technology, especially on to address the United computing and Nations and become an engineering, in issues of MP and minister, is health, fitness and social remarkable. welfare, and in the After her election to the Commons in 1987, development of the intellect, has seen him Joan held three consecutive shadow become the patron, president or active portfolios and, by 1997, was thought to be member of more than one hundred on the fast track to high office. Why, then, charities and social organisations, including did Blair pass her over in his first round of being Patron of Trinity Laban Conservatoire appointments, leaving her ‘going nowhere’? of Music & Dance. Going Nowhere charts the course of a His military service, and deep interest in public and political career from early military history, sees him making a radicalism and success, through personal particularly important contribution to tragedy, to significant ministerial office and many military-related organisations – the an ultimate return to the freedom of life on chief of which must be the Commonwealth the back benches. War Graves Commission. ‘This is the memoir of a pioneer. At the time of his eightieth birthday on 9 October, 2015, the Duke remains one of the Joan was a woman ahead of her time … busiest members of the royal family. This Future generations who read this memoir book is offered as a tribute to his life of will learn a great deal about how to make service, and to the myriad organisations, large and small, local, national and progressive change.’ international, that make up the fabric of the Harriet Harman United Kingdom in the twenty-first century. TICKETS: £10 including glass of wine TICKETS: £10 including a glass of wine Promoted by Friends of Blackheath Halls, registered charity no.1023390 Promoted by Friends of Blackheath Halls, registered charity no.1023390
Box office: 020 8463 0100 21 SPOKEN WORD MICHAEL PORTILLO Life: A Game of Two Halves FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 8pm | Great Hall
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POETRY SOUTH EAST WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 8pm | Recital Room
Join Blake Morrison and poets Graham High, Penny McCarthy, Nancy Hynes and Jocelyn Page for an evening of poetry and verse as each reads from their recent collections. Blake Morrison (pictured left) is a JOE SWIFT Fellow of the Royal A Man about the Garden Society of SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 3pm | Great Hall Literature, and former Chair of the TV presenter and regular columnist for The Poetry Book Society Times and Gardeners’ World Magazine Joe and Vice-Chair of Swift digs deep to reveal his fascinating PEN. He has written story from his rock ‘n’ roll youth to fiction, poetry, becoming one of the country’s journalism, literary top garden designers. Hear what really criticism and happens behind the scenes at the RHS libretti, as well as adapting plays for the Chelsea Flower Show and Gardeners’ World stage. and find out what it takes to get a Chelsea Since 2003, Blake has been Professor of Show Gold Medal. Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths Joe will share all this with you, taking College, South East London. questions on his life and career but warns TICKETS: £10 including a glass of wine that answering questions on dead plants Promoted by Friends of Blackheath Halls, isn't going to be top of his list! registered charity no.1023390 TICKETS: £18 | £16 concessions
Friends of Blackheath Halls is a authors and occasional special events, such as great village network. We exist our New Year’s Party. to support the Halls, raising I hope you will consider making a commitment funds, providing audiences and to the Halls by picking up a Friends brochure putting on our own cultural at the Halls or by emailing events. [email protected] The Friends programme includes regular lunchtime concerts, exciting architectural visits Dame Joan Ruddock, and spoken word evenings with well-known Chairperson
22 blackheathhalls.com SUPPORT US Blackheath Halls at the heart of the community
As a registered seating, charity, all upgraded donations to backstage areas Blackheath Halls, and modern whether large or stage small, are vital to our equipment, all of continued success. We are which will immensely grateful to enhance the everyone who already experience and contributes to the Halls in so comfort of many different ways, from audiences and the Capital Works and artists alike! Artistic Programme to the If you are Community Engagement work, and by interested in making a gift, please contact joining the Friends of Blackheath Halls.. Ruth Thomas, Development Officer, or visit With the refurbishment of the Halls, our website for more information about including the complete re-roofing of our supporting Blackheath Halls. main building, now underway this summer, Email: [email protected] this support is now more important than Telephone: 020 8305 3894 ever. Once these renovations are complete, Website: blackheathhalls.com/support-us not only will the Great Hall be vastly improved, but we will also have new Box office: 020 8463 0100 23 BLACKHEATH GOES GOSPEL 2016 COMMUNITY REHEARSALS: MONDAYS 26 SEPTEMBER, 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 OCTOBER, 7 & 14 ADVANCE LEVEL NOVEMBER 7.30pm-9.30pm | Recital Room REHEARSALS: MONDAYS 5 & 12 SEPTEMBER, WEDNESDAY 14 & DRESS REHEARSAL: SATURDAY 19 MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 7.30pm-9.30pm NOVEMBER 2pm-5pm In advance of this course a small group (15 Gospel Leaders maximum) of more experienced gospel Lena Wright and Abraham Hampton singers will have 4 high level rehearsals focusing on performing lead vocals at our Come and join our friendly and inclusive gospel concert. gospel choir this autumn. COURSE FEE: £80 | £72 concessions Working with our leaders Lena Wright and Abraham Hampton, Blackheath Halls will gather a gospel choir of 60 BLACKHEATH GOES GOSPEL adult singers to rehearse on Monday 2016 PERFORMANCE evenings leading to a concert on Saturday 19 November. SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall At the concert the adult choir will be Come and hear the Blackheath Halls joined by a children’s gospel choir from Gospel Choir perform a wonderful St Margaret’s Lee Primary School and the uplifting concert in our Great Hall. Royal Greenwich Schools’ gospel choir. Community singers perform alongside pupils from St Margaret’s Lee Primary You will also perform at Blackheath School and the Royal Greenwich Music Village Day on 3 December when Hub gospel choir. Blackheath lights up for Christmas. COURSE FEE: £70 | £63 concessions TICKETS: £10 | £8 concs | £6 under 12s
24 blackheathhalls.com COME AND JOIN IN PERFORMANCES BLACKHEATH HALLS ORCHESTRA REHEARSALS: SUNDAYS 25 SEPTEMBER, 2, 9, 16 & 30 OCTOBER & 6 NOVEMBER 2.30pm-5.30pm SECTIONALS: TBC DRESS REHEARSAL: SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 1.30pm-4.30pm PERFORMANCE: SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 6.30pm Conductor Leigh O’Hara Elgar Enigma Variations, Op.36 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad; Rhapsody for Orchestra and other English BLACKHEATH HALLS ORCHESTRA repertoire SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 6.30pm | Great Hall
Come and join this friendly orchestra as Conductor Leigh O’Hara they present a programme of English music Elgar Enigma Variations, Op.36 this autumn. We have spaces available for French horns, trumpets, violins and violas. Butterworth A Shropshire Lad; Rhapsody for COURSE FEE: £59 | £53 concessions Orchestra and other English repertoire BLACKHEATH HALLS CHORUS Come and enjoy an evening of English REHEARSALS: MONDAYS 21, 28 NOVEMBER, music performed by our own orchestra. 5, 12 & 13 DECEMBER 7.30pm-9.30pm TICKETS: £10 | £8 concessions DRESS REHEARSAL: TBC PERFORMANCE: FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 7.30pm BLACKHEATH GOES GOSPEL 2016 Programme to include: PERFORMANCE Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall See opposite for full details. Come and join Blackheath Halls Chorus to perform A Ceremony of Carols and other TICKETS: £10 | £8 cons | £6 under 12s Christmas repertoire, with a performance at the 2016 Christmas concert (see page 26). INSTRUMENTAL GALA For more information, email: Royal Greenwich [email protected] COURSE FEE: £57 | £51 concessions WEDNESDAY 23 & THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 7pm | Great Hall CHRISTMAS TEA DANCE Organised and led by the Royal Greenwich WEDNESDAY 21 DECEMBER Music Hub, Blackheath Halls hosts this showcase of instrumental performances 1.30pm-4pm | Great Hall by children and young people from Royal There’s sequence dancing, quickstep, cha Greenwich primary and secondary schools cha cha and much more, compered by Mr and The Royal Greenwich Fusion Orchestra, Wonderful Dancing. Big Band and String Orchestra. TICKETS: £8 (including refreshments/raffle) TICKETS: £7 | £6 concs | £5 under 12s Box office: 020 8463 0100 25 COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES
TURNING OF THE YEAR Exhibitions and fairs MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER 6.30pm Royal Greenwich International (keystage 1) | Great Hall EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL TUESDAY 29 & WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 7pm (keystage 2) | Great Hall THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 10.30am-5.30pm FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 10am-5pm Turning of the Year celebrates its 22nd birthday with three festive evenings of song SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 10am-5pm performed by Lewisham primary schools. See page 7 for full details Promoted by Lewisham Music Hub. TICKETS: £6 ADULT LEARNING LEWISHAM SCHOOL OF ARTS & DESIGN Let’s Print TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER – WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 10am-5pm | Café Bar
An exhibition put together by learners who have attended print courses with Adult Learning Lewisham’s BLACKHEATH HALLS School of Arts CHRISTMAS CONCERT & Design. The FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 7.30pm | Great Hall work shows a variety of print Blackheath Halls Chorus techniques including Blackheath Halls Gospel Choir etching, kitchen litho, Meantime Jazz Orchestra screen printing and mono printing. Royal Greenwich and Blackheath Halls ADMISSION FREE Youth Choir Programme to include: BLACKHEATH CHRISTMAS FAIR Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols Organised by Friends of Age Exchange in aid of Age Exchange Blackheath Halls presents its popular Christmas concert with performance from SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER many of its community groups. 10.30am-4.30pm | Great Hall The core of the concert will be a The perfect place to performance of Benjamin Britten’s A find gorgeous gifts, Ceremony of Carols alongside Christmas gourmet foods, music and carols for all. Christmas cards and TICKETS: £15 | £12 concs | £6 under 12s festive decorations (inc glass of mulled wine and a mince pie) from local artists, designers and independent traders from l For more information on how to get across the south. involved in our community engagement ADMISSION: £2 | FREE under 16s and programme, please email Rose Ballantyne Friends of Age Exchange [email protected]
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CAR The A2, A20 and South Circular all A2 provide easy access to Blackheath. Situated Royal Parade at the south end of the village, Blackheath Mont-
Halls is next to the mini-roundabout Tranquil Vale pelier Row serving Lee Road, Lee Park, Lee Terrace and Blackheath Village. PARKING The nearest car park to Blackheath Halls is Blackheath Station London Bridge 12 mins pay and display car park, which is two Cannon St/Charing X 23 mins Victoria 21 mins minutes walk from the Halls. Please note that there is no parking at Lawn Terrace Bexleyheath & Dartford the Halls and that parking is not 23 mins permitted in Blackheath Park, the
Blackheath Halls adjacent private road. Road Lee TRAIN Direct National Rail trains Lee Terrace run from London Victoria (21 mins), London Charing Cross (23 mins), London Waterloo East (19 mins), London Bridge (12 mins), Bexleyheath and Dartford (23 mins). As you come out of Blackheath Station, turn right and we are a two-minute walk up the road. DLR The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Lewisham. Connections can be made to Blackheath by National Rail or bus. BUS Routes, 54, 89, 108, 202, 380, 386 and N89 all stop in Blackheath Village.
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