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FREE PROGRAMME - BUT FEEL FREE TO MAKE A DONATION FOR MARCH/APRIL FILMS SEE INSIDE BACK COVER GREAT TORRINGTON MARCH - AUGUST 2019 PROGRAMME FILM | THEATRE | MUSIC | COMEDY | DANCE | EXHIBITIONS | WORKSHOPS SATELLITE EVENTS | CAFÉ | BAR | OUTREACH BOX OFFICE: 01805 624624 BOOK ONLINE VIA WWW.THEPLOUGHARTSCENTRE.ORG.UK GET IN TOUCH: Box office [email protected] WELCOME TO THE PLOUGH ARTS CENTRE 01805 624624 The small venue with the big reputation! Or book online via: the list. www.theploughartscentre.org.uk A message from Richard Look inside the back cover and Director you will see a list of all our film Richard Wolfenden-Brown Wolfenden-Brown screenings for March/April [email protected] Director of 2019. For more details and for Marketing The Plough information on films from May – Julie Cooke Arts Centre Aug 2019 please visit our website [email protected] www.thploughartscentre.org.uk Rozalind Best or pick up a monthly film flier at [email protected] If we can raise £20,000 before the box office. Sept 2019, Arts Council England The Plough Café’s popular will match it pound for pound Gallery Director / Visual Arts Brunch/Lunch menu is available Peter Stiles through their Catalyst match- from 10am – 2.30pm and [email protected] funding scheme! Please support us as we launch some new vital delicious pre-show meals are Film fundraising campaigns. Let's available on busy live event nights. Caroline de Groot Check the live events pages in [email protected] make sure Plough audiences and participants benefit from the this programme for details and to Social Media funding we can claim. Please play book a table please call Tina on Sean Harrison your part! 01805 625925. [email protected] Dig deep to uncover 194 diverse The Plough survives and thrives Mark Phillips thanks to our supporters, [email protected] live events, 12 exhibitions, 150+ film screenings and hundreds customers, volunteers, staff and of individual arts workshops. trustees. However, we continue Plough Youth Theatre to exist with very little core & Outreach Director In addition to The Plough Arts Centre in Great Torrington public funding which is why Sophie Hatch / 0752 754 4694 the charity needs your support. [email protected] we also have live events and workshops at ThePlough@ You could join our e-mail list, Catalyst Fundraisers StAnne’s in Barnstaple, live events become a supporter or a lifetime Annemarie Shillito at ThePlough@TheGeorge in supporter, a volunteer, sponsor a [email protected] South Molton, a season of 36 seat, sponsor an event, or make Peter Stiles open-air theatre shows at 14 a regular donation, arrange a [email protected] regional venues, plus outreach arts fundraising event, support our activities led by Sophie Hatch, our PloughPlus Development Fund, Technical Manager be a crowdfunder, leave a legacy, Andrew Hawkins Outreach Director, all over North [email protected] Devon. or simply come to even more events, screenings and workshops! Buildings & Maintenance Several events in this programme If you want to help then please let are already sold out! To receive us know. Thank you! Manager a weekly reminder by e-mail Paul Bennett of all that is going on and to We look forward to welcoming [email protected] hear first about additions to our you soon. The Plough Café programme, please contact julie@ Richard Wolfenden-Brown and all [email protected] theploughartscentre.org.uk to join staff, volunteers and Trustees 01805 625925 ThePlough@StAnne’s Sharon Dixon (Welcome Manager) Event Locations: [email protected] 07474 380254 Admin: 01805 622552 ThePloughArtsCentre @PloughArts 2 INDEX Live Events February 3 Live Live Events March 3-7 Live Events April 7-12 Events Live Events May 12-16 Live Events June 16-21 LATE February Live Events July 21-24 Live Events Aug 24-27 Ghost Walk: Barnstaple Gallery Exhibitions 30-31 Town Centre Thurs 28 Feb 7.30pm Regular Workshops 32-33 Climax Blues Band ThePlough@StAnne’s, Barnstaple Fri 1 March 8pm Childrens Theatre Workshops 34-35 Walking haunted history tours of The Climax Blues Band of today old Barnstaple, sharing true tales Workshops & Courses 36-37 carries the same standard of quality of the ghosts that apparently still as it did when the band formed Films March - April 38-39 haunt buildings in the town, the back in the late 60s and achieved murders,' working girls' enterprising such great success and recognition antics and more... This popular through the 70s and 80s, huge Save money while you are enjoying walk with Susan Pengelly includes selling albums like FM / Live and yourself…. a fascinating town tour of haunted Gold Plated, the 1976 hit single sites; ... then back to St Anne's Couldn’t Get It Right (from Gold JOIN THE PLOUGH for refreshment and cakes, while Plated) and I Love You in 1981. SUPPORTERS CLUB perusing documents and photos George Glover has been at the Do yourself a favour and Support related to the tour. keyboards in Climax since 1981, the Plough at the same time…..! £10 very much part of the nucleus of Plough Supporters save money on the band, Lester Hunt on guitar every film, live event and in-house March joined in 1986, drummer Roy workshop for a whole year. Over Adams in 1987 and Neil Simpson 1000 Plough Supporters can’t be on bass in the early 90s. This solid wrong! Pick up a form at the Box unit has flown the Climax flag with office or call us for further details – tremendous passion and style. 01805 624624. £20 Full £17 Supporters Evening Food Tonight! Reservations: 01805 625925 SUPPORTERS NEEDED TO JOIN THE PLOUGH COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT The Plough has a democratically elected Council of Management, The Devonshire Association Music responsible for every aspect of what Section presents Orchard Family happens at The Plough. They are Gypsy Music Night Trustees of the Registered Charity Kil and Gillie Radi: A Romany and Directors of the company. We are now calling for nominations family’s culture - with Tom to the Council of Management. If Orchard and family you are a paid-up Plough Supporter Fri 1 March 8pm Manran (18yrs+) and would like to nominate ThePlough@StAnne’s, Barnstaple Sat 2 March 8pm yourself, please request a nomination form from the Box Office or see Tom Orchard talks about the living Mànran have quite literally our website for details. Completed traditions that have passed through rocketed to the top of the Scottish nomination forms must be returned generations of the family; of song, music scene with their powerful to The Plough by Fri 31 May 2019 music, dance and the Romany combination of Gaelic/English language; of tales and oral history. songs underpinned by driving Tom will be ably assisted by his accordion, fiddle, flute and a Did you know… wife Jean and their sons Ashley and backline of drum and bass to make Richard as they explain and share a any mouth water. Mànran are also The last buses back to tradition that is both contemporary the only band to host Highland and Bideford and Barnstaple and historical. Uilleann pipes together in one line leave Torrington 21:38 All tickets £8 (Tea/Coffee, Soft Drinks up to create a sound like no other. and 23:05 & Bar available) £16 Full £12 Supporters 3 MARCH 2019 LIVE EVENTS Andrew Lawrence Chocolate, Mischief & Chris Wood Sat 2 March 8pm Mayhem! Thurs 7 March 8pm ThePlough@TheGeorge, Tues 5 Mar 11.30am ThePlough@TheGeorge, South Molton The Plough Prism Drama Group for South Molton Andrew Lawrence, star of Live at adults with additional needs present In a world of soundbites and The Apollo and Michael McIntyre’s their adaptation of this Roald Dahl distractions Chris Wood is a truth Roadshow and UK comedy’s classic. Directed by Sophie Hatch. seeker. His writing is permeated foremost contrarian takes a break £7 Full £5 Supporters with love and wry intelligence, from all the controversy in this new uplifting and challenging as he show. No politics. No religion. No celebrates the sheer one-thing- smut. No swearing. Just great jokes after-anotherness of life. Tom and good clean fun. Robinson and Chris Difford are All tickets £13 fans while Stick In The Wheel and The Unthanks look to him as an influence. Winner of 6 BBC Folk Awards, he's played with The Royal Shakespeare Company and was a key member of The Imagined Village along with Billy Bragg and Martin Carthy. A wise and soulful craftsman, his concerts are a cliche free zone. All tickets £14 The Makeshift Ensemble present ‘Sofa’ Exploring memory, place and the worlds we create around us. Afternoon Tea with Jenni Murray Wed 6 March 8pm ‘A History of the World in The sofa is where we make new 21 Women’ worlds as children and seek solace as adults, a place to laugh, cry, play Talk and Book Signing with Sun 3 March 3.30pm and discover. Join Rachel and Mark Pamela Vass: Jenni Murray has been at the helm at their old family home exploring ‘Breaking The Mould: The of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for memories of a loved one living over twenty years. She talks about with dementia, and the changing North Devon Suffragettes’ the programme’s 64 year history perspectives they bring to those Fri 8 March 1pm and 7.30pm and her most engaging and most memories. The MakeShift Ensemble Hear the fascinating story of terrifying interviewees from Barbara with their distinct and compelling the fight for the vote in North Castle to Kaffe Fasset, Monica style, discover the effects of Devon - not a tale of a sleepy Lewinsky to Tom Hanks, Jack memory and 'unmemory' on family Devon backwater but of women Nicholson to Margaret Thatcher, relationships .