Normansfield Theatre Tour Guided Tour Through the Development of Opera, Saturday, 21 May 10Am to Midday Illustrated with a Variety of Recent and Historic Audio And

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APRIL TO JULY 2016 WHAT’S ON Richmond Upon Thames Performing Spring is here with a mix of performances including two operas, a choral society, classical concerts, a jazz concert Arts Festival 2016 and a performing arts group. We also continue our Saturday 22 May at 2.30pm series of talks and tours. Our project Normansfield – Ticket: £5 on the door Protecting a Theatrical Past is progressing well and we’re OnHold Satu therday, Hearse! 22 May the Richmond Performing Arts now starting our educational tours. Visitors can also use Festival will be holding their Festival Showcase at our virtual theatre to create their own stage scenery and NormansfieldHold the Hearse!Theatre. Full details of the programme will view our extensive catalogue of original Victorian beExcept availableional onand their Extraordinary website www.richmondfestival.org with Julie McNamara .uk scenery. If you are interested in arranging a theatre tour, Hold the Hearse! please contact me. Tuesday, 7 June at 7pm Best wishes, Tickets: £5 and £3 concessions

Hold The Hearse! is an interactive, Lesley Alabaf, extraordinary theatrical journey through Langdon Down Centre Manager myriad museum collections that have

impacted on the lives of the Mad, the Tickets for all events… Bad and the Unruly in our midst. This comic tale takes us through the history can be purchased by calling 0333 1212 300 or online at of two remarkable characters who www.langdondowncentre.org.uk evaded the ‘collectors’, complete with

Normansfield Theatre grime, gruesome grave robberies and grisly murder ballads. Julie McNamara invites audiences to question Carmen our collective attitudes towards difference.

Commedia Productions Flowers and Gardens Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 7.30pm Teddington Summer Music Tickets: £20 and £16 concessions Saturday, 11 June at 7.30pm With a roar from the bullring, Bizet’s Tickets: £12.50 and £10 concessions masterpiece charges into an evening Teddington Summer Music of compelling entertainment. Sung in will be returning for 2 nights on English, fully staged and accompanied 11 and 18 June. Flowers and by The Virtual Reality Orchestra, the Gardens is a programme of story of opera’s most notorious words and music by Mozart, Femme Fatale is brought to you by Schubert, Schumann, Delibes, Debussy, Bliss and other Commedia Productions. composers. Words are by Shakespeare, Keats, Kipling,

Frost, Yeats and others. The performers will include Tony

Lamb on clarinet, Roy Stratford on piano and Paul Alexander.

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APRIL TO JULY 2016 WHAT’S ON

Hey, Ho, The Wind and The Rain, will be a programme of La Traviata music for a summer’s evening, including Rutter Birthday Villa InCanto Madrigals, George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets for Shakespeare, and music by Purcell and Bernstein. Sunday, 12 June at 7.30pm Tickets: £20 and £16 concessions Normansfield – Protecting a Theatrical La Traviata (the fallen Past - Student Exhibition woman) tells the moving story of how a beautiful, but Tuesday, 5 July 10am to 7pm doomed courtesan Violetta, Whilst photographing of all of in the Paris of 1850, finds our scenery for the digital true love, but then has to sacrificetrue her real happiness for catalogue and virtual theatre, the sake of her lover’s reputation. This intimate opera, we held student photography through its instantly recognizable arias and the tense workshops and filming students produced a short emotionality of the music, has remained one of the most documentary. The full scenery catalogue and Virtual widely performed operas today. Theatre will be displayed. Please drop in and see the

student’s work on display. Admission is free. String Ensemble Teddington Summer Music TW12 Jazz Festival Saturday, 18 June at 7.30pm Saturday, 23 July Tickets: £12.50 and £10 concessions 6pm – Richmond Youth Jazz Band 8pm – Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three This second concert is a String Ensemble. The Tickets: available from www.tw12jazzfestival.com conductor will be Tom Higgins and the leader of the ensemble is Madeleine

Mitchell. The music will be MozartMitchell. – Divertimento The . in D (K 136); Finzi – Clarinet Concerto (soloist Tony Lamb); Elgar – Serenade for Strings; Holst – St Paul’s Suite. The Richmond Youth Jazz Band is made up of students Hey, Ho, The Wind and The Rain from the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. Marble Hill Singers They are part of the Richmond Music Trust and are led by Saturday, 25 June 2016 at 7.30pm their Musical Director Roger Perrin. Tickets: £10 Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three is a new collaboration between acclaimed jazz pianist/composer Kate Williams Marble Hill Singers are a and the Guastalla String Quartet. The repertoire includes Twickenham based choir who material by Bill Evans, Cole Porter and A C Jobim as well perform an annual concert at as originals by Williams. See www.tw12jazzfestival.com Normansfield Theatre in aid for all concert details and how to book tickets. of the Down’s Syndrome Association. Before Matilda Langdon Down Centre, 2a Langdon Park, Teddington TW11 9PS. The Langdon Down Centre is owned by the Down’s Syndrome Association. Registered Charity No 1061474 Tel: 0333 1212 300 email [email protected] LANGDON DOWN CENTRE

APRIL TO JULY 2016 WHAT’S ON Friday, 2 September & Saturday, 3 September 7.30pm A detailed tour of the theatre, Tickets: No charge, but pre-booking of seats is required including a presentation, 'Matilda the book, Matilda the refreshments and a guide film, Matilda the musical…’ From a through a selection of the fascination with Roald Dahl’s child Victorian scenery pieces (not

prodigy and heroine, a new work

comes to our stage. The Life of James Henry Pullen A brand new musical comedy, with songs and script written Saturday, 9 July 10am to 11am by George Griffiths, Before Matilda delves into what went on before Matilda was born. Birth, marriage, death? £5 includes light refreshments There’s something for everyone! George Griffiths (AKA A talk about the life of James George G, Children in Need Rickshaw star) directs as the Henry Pullen (1835 – 1916), a production hits the big stage. resident of the Royal Earlswood Asylum, who was known as the Talks and Tours at the genius of Earlswood. He created

Langdon Down Centre model ships including Brunel’s Great Eastern and the Princess Alexandra. The visit includes a short film and In the Footsteps of Dr John Langdon guided tour of the museum.

Down (A Walk around Normansfield) Classes at the Langdon Saturday, 9 April 10am to Midday £10 including light refreshments Down Centre This tour will begin with a talk We’re delighted to be able to offer this range of classes about the development of at the Langdon Down Centre. If you’d like to arrange a Normansfield and its history class here, please contact Lesley. through maps and photographs.

The group will then walk around the original Normansfield site, A Taste of Opera (mostly on pavements, but some areas will be Wednesdays 7.15pm-9.15pm grass/rough paths). The total distance covered will be Next course starts on 20 April about one mile. Now in its fourth year, Glyn Paul

will take the class on a lighthearted, Normansfield Theatre Tour guided tour through the development of opera, Saturday, 21 May 10am to Midday illustrated with a variety of recent and historic audio and

Tickets £10 includes light refreshments video recordings. Courses are 10 weeks long and run A detailed tour of the theatre, including a presentation, during term times. (Sept, January and April). Cost: £80 refreshments and a guide through a selection of the for 10 weeks. Please contact Lesley to book. Victorian scenery pieces (not on general display)

Langdon Down Centre, 2aThere Langdon will Park, be an Teddington opportunity TW11 9PS. The Langdon Down Centre is owned by the Down’s Syndrome Association. Registeredto see ourCharity new No Virtual 1061474 Theatre Tel: 0333 1212 300 email [email protected] and view our extensive catalogue of restored Victorian Scenery. Places are limited LANGDON DOWN CENTRE

APRIL TO JULY 2016 WHAT’S ON Seasons Art Class Please remember that our Tuesdays 10am-1pm or 2pm-5pm. Virtual Theatre and digital Adult beginners to improvers catalogue is now available

Next Seasons Art Course starts on 12 April for viewers to the

Learn new skills with this exciting 14 week course Langdon Down Centre. which has proved very popular. Morning and afternoon Our Student Tours are sessions are held (3 hour classes.) Call 0203 174 2028 to starting in April. If you would like to book a theatre tour book your place. for your students or to find out more about what we can

offer a group of students , please contact Lesley. Yoga Class The River Scene – a sample of one Thursdays 6.30pm to 7.45pm of the original Victorian backdrops This is your chance to take up a truly at Normansfield Theatre amazing discipline which will not only inspire you physically, it will also open you up mentally and emotionally. To find out more or to book your place contact Diego Avila on 07720 837083 or at [email protected]. This project is being funded by:

Laugher & Relaxation – Everyone welcome Hiring the LDC facilities Rooms are available for hiring for classes at the Langdon Down Mondays 10-11am Centre available. Contact Lesley for details. C ome and have a giggle. Forthcoming Events Donation only. Start your week The programme of events is constantly being updated. Visit Children’ssmiling! Class Call Nargises on 07903 www.langdondowncentre.org.uk for up to date information on 596878 for further details. what’s on. Dragon Drama Down’s synDrome AssociAtion Dragon Drama The Langdon Down Centre is owned and managed by the Evening midweek classes Down’s Syndrome Association (DSA). Our aim is to help people Dragon Drama encourage young imaginations to roam with Down’s syndrome live full and rewarding lives. All of the free, to grow strong, and to be unique. At Dragon activities which take place in the Langdon Down Centre go to Drama, they believe that stage technique can be learnt the Down’s Syndrome Association and are an important source when children are older or when they desire to learn it. of income for our organisation. For information on how you, your company, your friends and Workshops for preschool to eighteen years old. For family can get involved in fundraising for us, please contact our further information, contact 07590 452 436 or fundraising team on 03331212300. www.dragondrama.co.uk Your continued support is needed and appreciated for us to continue with the work and support that we provide. Normansfield – Protecting a theatrical past update Langdon Down Centre, 2a Langdon Park, Teddington TW11 9PS. The Langdon Down Centre is owned by the Down’s Syndrome Association. Registered Charity No 1061474 Tel: 0333 1212 300 email [email protected]