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Further activities, news and views its 12th year, had a very Kent Youth Theatre, in e showcase performances, CAC Scholarships busy 12 months with thre roductions.With two films and two major p The Council is delighted to have been in a position to help the following young artists ime, KYT is bursting numbers swelling all the t further their creative careers. Sincere congratulations to them all. with confidence! s Contact: Richard Andrew This year’s scholar were: .co.uk richard@kentyouththeatre 2011/12 Award Name Medium Course £500 Michael Bacon Cellist Performance Course at Oxford Cello School £440 Zoe Russell Dancer Ballet Course & Jazz Course at London Studio Centre What’s An Arts Council For? £300 Rebecca Mulville Dancer Ballet Course at London Studio Centre ‘Cavemen in the dark did it, Shelley Recent history has demonstrated how £240 Hannah Sheppard Dancer Classical & Contemporary Short Course at Bird College Michael Bukht, OBE with a lark did it ...’ Not quite Cole the tweet, the chant and the image are Very sincere congratulations to them all! It was with great sadness that we heard of the Porter, but making art is as essentially more than a match for any sword. Kent Youth Th human as falling in love. Singing, eatre untimely death of our President, Michael The problem, therefore, is to find a form ade her painting, acting, carving and, more Laure Meloy, soprano, m Whitstable Community Samba Band, a 60-strong, Bukht, on 4 August 2011. When accepting of semi-permeable membrane between t as Queen recently, writing – we can’t help it. Art Royal Opera House debu lively group of 12-76-year olds, had a great 2011 in Annual Review the presidency, Michael declared, ‘You do the patron and the artist, one that löte. Other of Night in Die Zauberf which it took part in the opening of the Tu is in our genes. of a CD rner Centre, 2012-3: realise, don’t you, that I’m not the sort of permits the passage of support without highlights were the release Luto ueens,' n Carnival, a workshop/performance in the person to see this post as purely honorary? I Ok, fine. So let the arty types get on influence, allows through money but of opera arias, 'Virgins & Q Email contact details (copy 60 th tenor Folkestone Triennial, the Ashford Midnight Walk for the intend to get involved.’ And how! Although and a joint song recital wi words max) and pics relating with what they can’t help doing and filters out meddling. With this in mind, ristopher Pilgrims Hospice, Folkestone Charivari, Lo Philip Eve and pianist Ch unge on the to your 2012 activities to he had served for only a relatively short time, leave the others to carry on with their Britain established its network of ury Festival. Farm, Canterbury, a Gould for the Canterb private party in Thanet, the [email protected] Michael brought to our table a dynamism, lives. What’s the problem? It is, of national and local Arts Councils with r to treasure. Contact: Canterbury Festival P All in all, a yea arade and the Oyster Festival by 1 January 2013 please. professionalism and insight (spiced with a course, that artists need to live and the function of enabling those with the www.lauremeloy.co.uk Parade. Contact: Sue Grogan, www.sambap Laure Meloy elomar.co.uk delightful twinkle) that we cannot hope to nearly all art forms cost money. Aye, as means (especially governments, in all replace. He is most sorely missed and our another artist once put it, there’s the their forms) to support the essential CAC contacts heartfelt condolences go to his wife Jennie rub. Patronage. business of artistic endeavour without Thank you… and their four children. obliging artists to join their PR Chair: Sara Kettlewell Hon. Treas: Geoff Bush Patrons, however altruistic, seek a return to Anthony Underwood of Truprint for machine. [email protected] [email protected] giving so freely of his time and expertise on their investment. One lucky lord got 01227 266272 01227 264723 in putting together this Review. Our Backers himself compared to a summer’s day; The system is not perfect – political less imaginative Ozymandiases, correctness inevitably seeps under Hon Sec: Jean Gray Webmaster: Brian Davis The Council remains hugely grateful to the governmental and individual, had Council doors – but it’s better than [email protected] [email protected] Members’ Finance following for their most generous support: themselves glorified in symphonies, having our sense and sensibilities 01227 750576 Canterbury City Council Arts Events Co-ordinator: Linda Jordan It would help the Council management statues and song. Even the most bone- dictated by fat cats or bowler hats. Any Canterbury Christ Church University Vice-Chair: Stewart Ross [email protected] considerably if affiliation fees could headed realise that art, whatever its form day. Dean and Chapter of Canterbury [email protected] 01227 818547 henceforward be paid by BACS. If help and however banal, is a powerful means Cathedral Stewart Ross, Vice-chair CAC 01227 470267 needed, contact Hon. Treasurer. of directing thought and emotion. King’s School, Canterbury tival Chamber Orchestra began Nevill Arts Trust Crowther Wind Quintet and Fes in February before giving two with Musica per La Notte di Natale Wine Room, Tankerton nist Jacob Barnes, who tragically concerts with the talented young pia University for the Creative Arts New Showcase, New Sponsorship! Festival Chamber Orchestra gave died shortly afterwards. In April the University of Kent Broadstairs.The FCO performed To publicise its work and that of its affiliates, during March 2012 the Council launched sell-out concerts with two choirs in Margate, and the autumn saw the a glittering Showcase featuring 14 events put on by some of its 90-odd member groups. at the new Turner Contemporary in Please support local independent • Letterheads • Brochures • Leaflets • Invites • Posters • Business Cards • Wye Church, and, as part of the Festival Chamber’s concert series in creativity. The initiative was launched on 8 March at a • NCR Forms • Folders • Menus • Banners • ol’s Shirley Hall. Contact: Canterbury Festival, the King’s Scho estivalChamber.html Dominican Priory reception generously supported • Design • Artwork • Printing • Finishing • Publishing • www.crowthersofcanterbury.co.uk/F To join this illustrious list, see A Complete Printing Service contacts on back page. by our new patron, the Wine Room of Tankerton. Crowther Wind Qu Call us on 01843 220200 for a quote or email [email protected] intet A9 Continental Approach Westwood Ind. Est., Margate, Kent CT9 4JG Samba Band in full swing Lindley Players dive in! Folk in the Barn held a record 21 concerts in local venues, attracting massive attendances from their 900-strong mailing list to hear, among others, folk legends Martin Carthy and Dougie MacLean, classical star John Williams, newcomers P Canterbu hilip Henry and Hannah Martin, BBC ry Ceramic Circle’s ex citing year started with a h award winners Lau, and chart-toppers talk from Andy McConn umdinging ell, then moved on throug Turin Brakes. Contact: excellent talks (eg h a range of other Debs Earl ‘London archaeology thro the evid ugh the centuries as seen www.folkinthebarn.co.uk ence of excavated pottery in ' by Jacqui Pearce of the M London and Antony Pack useum of man on a fabulous collect porcelain miniat ion of 18th century ures) to a very successful f undraising Christmas Part Chestfield Golf Clu y at he Barn b. Contact:Virginia Webb, with Folk in t webbv Nick H [email protected] www.canterburyartscouncil.org.uk CANTE RB URY E affiliated members by our many nual Sounds New festival, undertaken p held its An of activities Arts Grou h CREATIV A selection Herne Bay nited Churc following the 2011 theme n at the U er Exhibitio fresco Baltic+, welcomed Estonia’s Summ r-popular al- dation Halls, its eve to k Foun Canterbury Orchestra’s productive and Lower nt from May Arvo Pärt as Guest Composer on Par ful Drama in Charlton Park n the seafro Charlt wonder xhibitions o ibition at for four days.The programme, several rgan stimulating year under the sensitive direction of e a winter exh hosted ing Mo tember, and enjoyed highlighting music from , includ y Andrew Lowen featured three concerts in St Peter's Sep embers also mances milla Pa y Library. M iday perfor tar), Ca Methodist Church before ever-growing audiences Herne Ba the first Fr Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, ski (gui (piano), nstrations on Szyman alliday vening demo ber, at First also included work from hony H ray in which Alisa Liubarskaya played Tchaikovsky's e March-Octo rp),Ant tor Mo ach month, ollands, Scandinavia, Poland, and (ha , the ac Rococo Variations (spring) and Nicky Catterwell of e act: Pamela H imavera touring Club. Cont Pr Illyria Reinecke's Flute Concerto (summer). Contact: Over 60’s 47. Britain. Performances by the on, the ht & 01227-3649 Wats fth Nig Choir of King’s College, e (Twel heatre Anthea Cook, [email protected] or theatr Castle T Cambridge, Philharmonia r. Fox), t www.canterburyorchestra.org.uk astic M excellen Fant o), and t WEDG (G £200) has had Orchestra, Cello Octet uch Ad halkfoo a year of adapting (M with C and Amsterdam and Jakob Kullberg as fun tact: ociety, refocusing in order to establish itself Christm in. Con raphic S and the Aarhus Sinfonietta, ’s Aladd g Photog ix of locally in a more commercialised education Theatre park.or nterbury aluable m nce arlton- Ca ffered a v ed audie market.A CAC grant helped in mixed creatively with ww.ch c.