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Creative arts – a new era

It’s an exciting time for arts and culture at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) with our new creative arts building opening early in 2019 bringing new specialist and other facilities to use and enjoy for students, local people and partner organisations, as well as national and international visitors.

The new building takes forward the traditions of music, performance, visual arts and digital media, and engagement with heritage and history, which have characterised the contributions of CCCU and its staff and students to the cultural life of Canterbury, welcome Kent and beyond. The building will expand our potential to showcase the creative work of students and staff year round, as well as to engage local people and businesses in joint events, activities and projects.

We will draw on the state-of-the-art spaces and equipment to enhance our teaching and student experience in ever widening ways and to add to our innovative work in arts, culture and humanities.

Creative industries are a core part in the UK economy’s success and a strong focus for the region. We are proud that our students are a major talent pipeline for the sector locally and nationally, and that together with our staff they contribute in so many ways to the organisation of, and support for, a range of major events, festivals, concerts, exhibitions, conferences and talks.

We feel privileged to be an established part Gillian Youngs of the annual cultural calendar of Canterbury Professor of Creative and Digital Economy, and Kent and have ambitions to take that role Dean of Faculty of Arts and Humanities and into new dimensions with the new creative Institutional Lead: Arts, Culture and Creative arts building. We look forward to welcoming Industries, Canterbury Christ Church University you to it in the near future. 1 events SPRING

Emily Peasgood, Requiem for Crossbones, 2018.

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Exhibitions at the Sidney Cooper Gallery are free to enter. Events are free unless stated otherwise. The gallery does not have step-free access. If you require assistance, please contact the gallery in advance. 2 Sat 12 Jan - Sat 23 Feb Sidney Cooper Gallery, free Emily Peasgood: Living Sound Living Sound is the first solo exhibition of artist and composer Emily Peasgood. The exhibition brings together several recent works as well as a new commission inspired by the social and cultural history of the Sidney Cooper Gallery. The main gallery space will be dominated by Requiem for Crossbones, an interactive, site-specific & screenings exhibitions sound installation, choral work and series of sculptures, originally commissioned for the 2018 Merge Festival in London’s Southbank.

Sidney Cooper’s Living Room is a newly commissioned sound installation created to celebrate the history of the gallery since it was founded 150 years ago. In the small ground floor front room – part of Thomas Sidney Cooper’s childhood home – the living room will be transformed into an interactive tableau featuring the recorded voices of local people sharing memories and stories about the gallery and the community that has arisen around it.

Emily Peasgood is an award-winning composer and artist. From interactive sound works for galleries and public spaces to intimate installations and large-scale community projects, her work uses intricate sound and technology design to focus on creating a connection between people and locations that have become forgotten and unvalued, often rooted in political realities.

3 Thu 24 - Sat 26 Jan, free Wintersound events

Returning for its third year, the Sidney Cooper Gallery is warmed from its midwinter chill

SPRING by striking performances and sound installations by local, national and international composers, sound artists and improvisers. This year we celebrate collaborations with Free Range, Canterbury Christ Church University and The Orpheus Institute for Artistic Research In Music, Ghent.

Thu 24 Jan, 6pm - doors & drinks Sat 26 Jan, from 5.30pm, at Sidney Cooper Gallery moving Sidney Cooper Gallery, free to Free Range: Garage Coffee @ Following tours to Mutek (Montreal) Fruitworks, 1-2 Jewry Lane from and the London Barbican, sound artist 7.30pm, free (donations welcome) Magz Hall brings her powerful and Heledd Francis Wright opens the evening immersive work Voicing Gender – with a solo flute performance, followed by Radio Hats to Canterbury. CONTACT – Canterbury’s hottest new audio/visual band performing their latest Helping to close the Wintersound project Ryoanjii. weekend is a warm ritual of sound as Mute / Orindal artist Robert Stillman The evening concludes with a Free Range makes winter melt away. This is followed performance from Trance Map+ (Evan by the internationally-renowned Parker, Matt Wright and special guests). composer, producer, electronic musician and Artistic Researcher Matthew Herbert, who reads from his latest book The Music, Fri 25 Jan, from 6.15pm, and participates in a Q&A session with Sidney Cooper Gallery, free Matt Wright. Ben Horner and Sophie Stone present a fascinating new hybrid of podcast and composition. This is followed by the Chilean computer musician and network specialist Juan Parra Cancino who presents Timbre Network: TNsolo_CT-19 in association with the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

The evening ends with Free Range Orchestra (FRO) – Canterbury’s biggest and most joyful instant music collective: not to be missed!

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Fri 8 Mar, 9.30am - 6pm & Fri 8 Mar, 9.30am - 6pm, Sat 9 Mar, 10am - 6pm, Augustine House (AH3.31) Augustine House, Rhodaus Town £30/£35 concessions Canterbury Anifest Symposium: Canterbury Anifest is an award-winning animation festival and the largest annual Interactive Animation event of this kind in the South East. It’s a and Video Games great community event that invites people of all ages to come and experience the magic As definitions of animation expand to of animation; allowing them to get involved encompass a wide range of image-making with something out of the ordinary. With its technologies and multimedia practices, range of workshops, masterclasses, talks and the question of interactivity has supported films, it has something for everyone. Anifest recent critical excursions into the medium’s also caters for specialists and those in the digital present as much as its potential future. industry, featuring national and international This one-day interdisciplinary symposium awards, and guest speakers from some of explores the themes of interactive animation the biggest names in animation. and video games through a variety of topics.

This year it returns with a one day academic symposium on interactive animation Sat 9 Mar, 10am - 6pm, and video games. On Saturday, a public Augustine House, free facing event will incorporate a number of screenings, family workshops, and talks Industry speakers, from industry experts. workshops and screenings A variety of animation related events over the course of the day which are open to all.

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Sat 16 Mar - 27 Apr, Sidney Cooper Gallery, free Chad McCail: Compulsory Education

Compulsory Education spans across McCail has exhibited around the world and Chad McCail’s entire body of work from has works in the permanent collections of 1999 to the present revealing one consistent major museums internationally, including theme to which he has repeatedly returned: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the politics of education. McCail’s work the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; has often invited us to imagine an ideal and Musee d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg. education system. What if our education system was not geared towards relentless This exhibition has been produced in competition, but fostered unity between collaboration with Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art. peers? He also wonders that were education not compulsory, might we be able to become our best selves? ARTIST TALK: Sat 16 Mar, 1pm McCail originally studied in Canterbury Chad McCail will be delivering an artist talk before training at Goldsmiths’ College at 1pm on the opening day. alongside many of the figures who became the ‘Young British Artists’ including Damien Hirst. This marks his first exhibition in the region. Across the last 25 years he has been one of the few British artists to consistently address highly charged political ideas about who we have become – and speculative ideas about who we might yet be. McCail’s work asks what alternative ways we might organise ourselves, in order to liberate our fullest potential as human beings. He also asks how the systemic mechanisms by which we become subordinated to others are created and sustained. © Chad McCail, The competitive reflex is not developed, 2008 6 Fri 10 May - Sat 15 Jun, Fri 10 May - Sat 15 Jun, Sidney Cooper Gallery, free Sidney Cooper Gallery, free Waking the Witch: Jemima Brown: Old Ways, New Rites The Great Indoors Drawing on the the British Isles’ rich histories The Great Indoors brings together Jemima of magic and the occult, this exhibition looks Brown’s assemblage sculpture, installations, at the ever-shifting figure of the witch within and drawings to investigate social structures the practices of contemporary artists. and the personal and political histories that define our lives. Using a wide variety Understood as gatekeepers to altered of media and objects ranging from broken consciousness, witches have been both ironing boards, to laundry baskets, to feared and sought out for their dealings custom wallpaper, her works explore the & screenings exhibitions with the unknown. Historically persecuted narratives we use about ourselves and those as an outsider, the witch has been taken that we project on to public figures and on by artists as a challenging force to archetypes including trapped housewives, prevailing norms and as a symbol of local Thanet politicians, and Greenham dissidence. Through symbols, crafts, and Common women. covens, the rituals of witches continue to suggest ways in which we can connect Currently based in Thanet, Brown received an with the earth and with each other. MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1995 and a Fulbright Scholarship as a guest Exhibiting artists: Verity Birt, Anna Bunting of the Graduate Program at University of Branch, Nadine Byrne, Mary Beth Edelson, California Los Angeles as well as the Cocheme Fiona Finnegan, Blue Firth, Fourthland, Fellowship at University of the Arts, London. Georgia Horgan. Ben Jeans Houghton, She received the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Serena Korda, Candice Lin, Katarzyna Majak, at Standpoint in London in 2011. Lucy Stein, Monica Sjöö, Ayesha Tan Jones and Cathy Ward.

Waking the Witch is a UK Touring Exhibition curated by Legion Projects and supported by Arts Council England.

Sat 2 Mar & Sat 27 Apr, 2 - 3.15pm, Sat 30 Mar, 2 - 3.15pm, Powell Lecture Theatre, Powell Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Campus Canterbury Campus £5 on the door £5 on the door Archive Film Count Zborowski Screenings Screening Screenings of archive amateur films of A screening of a ‘lost’ amateur film from Canterbury and the surrounding area. 1924 featuring Count Zborowski and his Many of these films have not been private Higham Railway. screened publicly for 60 years or more.

8 Sun 13 Jan, 3pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music

£15 on the door (limited free tickets music available for 18-25 year olds) John Harle (saxophone), Steve Richards (piano) John Harle is an Ivor Novello Award-winning composer, record producer and saxophonist whose work spans musical genres from classical to contemporary pop. John was the youngest-ever Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama when appointed,

music founding the saxophone department at the age of 26; his teaching has produced many of the leading players of today.

Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church University.

Details and advance booking: canterburymusicclub.com

MUSIC AT CHRIST CHURCH

Our ambition is to make music more accessible and enjoyable for all: from classical and jazz to contemporary and commercial music, there is something for everyone.

We welcome children aged five and over to our performances when accompanied by an adult.

Lunchtime concerts

Held at the St Gregory’s Centre for Music, Canterbury, concerts last about 45 minutes John Harle, Canterbury Music Club © Nobby Clark and are open to all. Performances are free of charge, unless indicated. For advance bookings, see details below:

BOOK ONLINE: canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture

Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1227 922994 9 LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

Wed 23 Jan, 1.10pm, Wed 30 Jan, 1.10pm,

events St Gregory’s Centre for Music St Gregory’s Centre for Music £5/£3 concessions £5/£3 concessions (CCCU staff and students, free) (CCCU staff and students, free) SPRING Xenia Pestova (piano) Kentish Piano Trio Award-winning professional pianist with Fiona Cross (clarinet) Xenia Pestova presents an unusual and O. Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin quirky programme drawing connections de temps between the music of J.S. Bach and pieces by living composers Ed Bennett, Heather For International Holocaust Memorial Day, Hindman, Glenda Keam and Ailis Ni Riain. a performance of Messiaen’s exquisite and eloquent Quartet for the End of Time by one of the UK’s finest chamber ensembles. MASTERCLASS: 2.30pm Scored for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, This concert is followed by a public Messiaen’s piece was written while he was masterclass. Xenia will explore wellness a prisoner of war; the first performance for musicians: health, injury prevention was given by fellow inmates of Stalag VIII-A and tackling performance anxiety before in January 1941. moving on to coach students of the keyboard. Entry to the masterclass is free.

Tue 5 Feb, 8pm, The Lounge, St George’s Centre (SU bar, opposite Waitrose), St George’s Place, Canterbury, free Drums, Drums, Drums Our Commercial Music students do what they do best: gig! Tonight the focus is on the motor of any band: drummers. Pay bar available.

Xenia Pestova © Damien Wojcik 10 music

Wed 6 Feb, 1pm, Clagett Auditorium, Cathedral Lodge, The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH £10 (limited non-dining spaces for CCCU members: see below) The Musicians of Canterbury Christ Church University: recital with lunch Canterbury Christ Church University is Paying tickets include a sandwich lunch the daughter institution of Canterbury and hot beverage. 30 free balcony seats Cathedral. With a distinguished tradition (no refreshments) are available to members of musical study, composition and of CCCU (ID required). performance, the University boasts ensembles and solo performers working in Tickets are available from: classical, choral, jazz, experimental, pop, 3 The Precincts, Canterbury Cathedral. and rock styles. Today’s recital offers a Mon-Fri: 10am - 12 noon & 2 - 4pm or by snapshot of our best current and developing telephone 01227 865292. undergraduate talent. Expect choral music, solos and instrumental pieces – from searing All proceeds go to the work of the Friends classical masterpieces to lighter, poppier of Canterbury Cathedral. items – to help your lunch go down!

11 Sun 17 Feb, 3pm, Tue 19 Feb, 8pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music The Lounge, St George’s Centre (SU bar, opposite Waitrose), £15 on the door (limited free tickets St George’s Place, Canterbury, free

events available for 18-25 year olds) Open Mic Night: Tippett String Quartet Commercial Music SPRING with Emma Abbate (piano) Our Music students take the stage for an open J. Haydn, Quartet in B minor, Op.33, No.1 mic event. Relax with a drink and enjoy the Stephen Dodgson, Piano Quintet in C impressive array of talent. Pay bar available. G. Puccini, Chrisantemi R. Schumann, Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44

Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church University.

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Open Mic © Jess Ufton

Wed 20 Feb, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music £5/£3 concessions (CCCU staff and students free) Kate Semmens (soprano) & Steven Divine (keyboard) Songs to the fortepiano: Tippett Quartet, Canterbury Music Club Early Classical masterpieces In 1791, the year that Mozart died, the young Beethoven travelled to Vienna where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn. His song Adelaide was composed around 1795 and is likely to have been strongly influenced by Haydn’s song O Tuneful Voice. Beethoven was already familiar with Vienna, having made an earlier attempt to study with Mozart in 1785. This concert balances the later lieder of Mozart with an early song of Beethoven and songs by Haydn. Also featured are keyboard works by Beethoven and Haydn.

Steven Divine will play a copy of a Viennese fortepiano, exactly the kind of instrument that Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn would have known, bringing the listener into an intimate sound world perfect for these Emma Abbate, Canterbury Music Club chamber masterpieces. 12 PERFORMANCE WEEK 2019

Mon 25 Feb - Fri 1 Mar music A week of concerts and workshops by top professionals

Mon 25 Feb, 1.10pm, Tue 26 Feb, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free St Gregory’s Centre for Music CONTACT Free concert / £5 workshop (CCCU staff and students free) Don’t miss CONTACT: the University’s hottest new ensemble fusing sound and An afternoon of vision technology. In this performance- workshop, we focus on the combination choral music with of acoustic instruments with striking Harry Christophers CBE surround sound in the beautiful acoustics of St Gregory’s Centre for Music. Chamber Choir (dir. David Allinson) Top Voices (dir. Chris Price) WORKSHOP: 2.30pm Chapel Choir (dir. Sam Cross) Following the concert there is a two We are thrilled to welcome world-renowned hour workshop for all Music students conductor Harry Christophers back to (performers, songwriters, producers, Canterbury, the city in which he grew composers, arrangers) interested in up, to work with our student singers – performance with live electronics, including and with you, the public. Harry is the sampling, looping and multi-tracking. director of The Sixteen, one of the world’s Free entry. most celebrated chamber choirs; he has conducted, broadcast and recorded all over the world and has a special expertise in Renaissance polyphony.

Three of our best University choirs will perform in the lunchtime concert with Harry Christophers offering critique and coaching.

WORKSHOP: 2.30pm Join us for a very special choral workshop led by world-famous conductor, Harry Christophers. Open to all and lasting two hours, the session will focus on Renaissance choral music. Some basic sight-reading skill is required. Scores will be provided.

The concert is free but the workshop costs £5 which includes sheet music to keep (no concessions).

Harry Christophers © Marco Borgreve 13 PERFORMANCE WEEK 2019

Wed 27 Feb, 8pm, Westgate Hall, Thu 28 Feb, 1.10pm,

events Westgate Hall Road, St Gregory’s Centre for Music Canterbury CT1 2BT (note venue) £5/£3 concessions £5/£3 concessions (CCCU staff and students free) SPRING (CCCU staff and students free) David Owen Norris Commercial Music (piano) presents: Oli Rockberger We are honoured to welcome world- We’re excited to welcome keys man, renowned pianist, composer and academic producer, singer and songwriter Oli David Owen Norris to Canterbury. He will Rockberger to the Westgate Hall for his play his signature repertoire – Byrd, Billy debut performance in Canterbury. Oli has Mayerl, Percy Grainger and Elgar along worked with a galaxy of stars including with his virtuoso transcriptions of Walton John Mayer, Jordan Rakei, Carly Simon, and Purcell – along with some music Chris Daddy Dave, Gloria Gaynor, Becca of his own. Expect blistering keyboard Stevens – and Laura Mvula, as a long time technique, combined with the kind of member of her touring band. Oli will be eloquent speaking that has made him such performing an intimate solo set of originals a respected presenter on BBC television – one not to be missed! A couple of our and radio. student bands will open the concert and warm the crowd. Pay bar available. MASTERCLASS: 2.30pm Please note: access to the Hall is via the This concert is followed by a free two hour Pound Lane car park, not via St Peter’s Lane / public masterclass at which our student Westgate Hall Road, save for disabled access. performers will be coached. Includes David Owen Norris in conversation about the life of a musician. MASTERCLASS: 4pm This concert is preceded by a free two hour public masterclass at which our student performers will be coached by Oli Rockberger, who will also talk about his remarkable career.

David Owen Norris © Simon Weir

Oli Rockberger © Rob Blackham

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In person If the line is busy or you ring outside of the Box Office opening hours, please leave a Visit our main Box Office which is located in message with your name and telephone number Augustine House, Rhodaus Town, and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Canterbury CT1 2AY In the rare instance that the Box Office The Box Office is open Monday - Thursday, is closed within these hours please book 10am - 12.30pm and 1.30 - 4pm. online or leave a message on the Box Office answering machine.

Tickets can also be purchased from the Sidney Cooper Gallery which is located in St Peter’s Street, Canterbury CT1 2BQ

The Gallery is open Tuesday - Friday, 10.30am - 5pm and Saturday, 11.30am - 5pm.

Drums, Drums, Drums (page 10) © Jason Dodd 15 16 SPRING events spr ing 19 jan 20 Mar Music Society Showcase 21 6 Jan Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 22 Mar Band of the Scots Guards (Public rehearsal: 2.45pm) 21 7 Jan Masters Performances 31 27 Mar Elizabeth Vogan Award: Prizewinners’ Concert 22 12 Jan Emily Peasgood: Living Sound 3 27 Mar Julia King public lecture 33 The School of Music and Performing Arts’ 13 Jan Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 29 Mar 22 Annual Cathedral Concert 13 Jan John Harle (saxophone), Steve Richards (piano) 9 30 Mar Count Zborowski Screening 8 20 Jan Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 23 Jan Xenia Pestova (piano) (Masterclass: 2.30pm) 10 apr 24 Jan Wintersound: Heledd Francis Wright; CONTACT; Free Range 4 Wintersound: Ben Horner and Sophie Stone; 2 Apr Staff-run ensembles 23 25 Jan 4 Juan Parra Cancino; Free Range Orchestra 3 Apr Chapel Choir (dir. Sam Cross) 23 26 Jan Wintersound: Magz Hall; Robert Stillman; Matthew Herbert 4 Philharmonia Chamber Players: concert and masterclass 5 Apr 23 (Workshop: 2.30pm) 27 Jan Motion Alpha Dance Company Class 31 9 Apr Staff-run ensembles 24 30 Jan Kentish Piano Trio with Fiona Cross (clarinet) 10 10 Apr New Music Ensemble: Now and Proud! (dir. Matt Wright) 24 feb 12 Apr Broadway Choir (dir. Phil Hornsey) 24

3 Feb Motion Alpha Dance Company Class 31 13 Apr Tudors and Stuarts History weekend 26 5 Feb Drums, Drums, Drums 10 13 Apr Canterbury Cathedral Archive and Library Treasures 29 6 Feb The Musicians of Canterbury Christ Church University: recital 11 13 Apr Exploring Tudor Education: The King’s School 29 The Campden Wonder of 1662: The Murder and Miraculous 17 Feb Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 13 Apr 29 ‘Deliverance’ of William Harrison 17 Feb Tippett String Quartet with Emma Abbate (piano) 12 “There is nothing more dangerous than security”: 13 Apr 27 19 Feb Open Mic Night: Commercial Music 12 Tudor and Stuart Narratives of Treason 20 Feb Kate Semmens (soprano) and Steven Divine (keyboard) 12 13 Apr Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets 27 24 Feb Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 13 Apr Investigating Christ Church Gate and it’s Environs 28 25 Feb CONTACT (Workshop: 2.30pm) 13 13 Apr Musk, Amber and the Spirit of Roses 27 An afternoon of choral music with Harry Christophers CBE 13 Apr Elizabeth I: A study in insecurity 27 26 Feb 13 (Workshop: 2.30pm) Stuart Soldier, Politician, Diplomat: 13 Apr 27 27 Feb Commercial Music presents: Oli Rockberger (Masterclass: 4pm) 14 The Generalship of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough 28 Feb David Owen Norris (piano) (Masterclass: 2.30pm) 14 13 Apr Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories 29 13 Apr The Human Costs of the English Civil Wars 28 mar 13 Apr Jamestown: Designs, Desires and Disasters 29 The Band of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment and 1 Mar 19 13 Apr The Tudor Counter-Reformations 28 The Canterbury Christ Church Music Society Concert Band 13 Apr Early Modern Monsters 29 2 Mar Archive Film Screening No.8 8 13 Apr King, Court and Chamber 27 3 Mar Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 14 Apr The King James Bible, 1611: Crown, Church and People 28 5 Mar Guitars, Guitars, Guitars 19 14 Apr Tudor Calais: A little piece of England overseas 28 6 Mar Christ Church University Big Band (dir. Steve Waterman) 19 14 Apr The Downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots: Sex, Lies and Propaganda 27 8 Mar Maggini Quartet 20 14 Apr Thomas Wolsey: England’s Universal Cardinal? 28 Canterbury Anifest - 8 Mar 5 14 Apr Michael Sittow: Tallinn’s Finest Talent 29 Symposium: Interactive Animation and Video Games ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’: Canterbury Anifest - 14 Apr 29 9 Mar 5 why didn’t Oliver Cromwell persecute witches? Industry speakers, workshops and screenings 27 Apr Archive Film Screening No.14 8 9 Mar University Viola Day (dir. Martin Outram) 20 10 Mar Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 may 13 Mar Top Voices (dir. Chris Price) 21 16 Mar Chad McCail: Compulsory Education (Artist Talk: 2.30pm) 6 15 May Kevin Ruane public lecture 33 17 Mar Motion Alpha Dance Company class 31 10 May Waking the Witch: Old Ways, New Rites 7 19 Mar Vocals, Vocals, Vocals 21 10 May Jemima Brown: The Great Indoors 7

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For information on how to get to our campuses, please visit: canterbury.ac.uk/about/maps 18 Fri 1 Mar, 7pm, Wed 6 Mar, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free

The Band of The Princess Christ Church University music of Wales’s Royal Regiment Big Band (dir. Ian Collins) (dir. Steve Waterman) & The Canterbury The Christ Church University Big Band directed by Steve Waterman presents a Christ Church Music programme of classic jazz and big band Society Concert Band repertoire by composers such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Woody (dir. Richard Blake) Herman and many others. The concert will The locally-based army regimental band and feature the many talented jazz soloists from the University’s student-run Concert Band within the band. join forces for the first time ever. Expect an exuberant evening of concert band repertoire.

Tue 5 Mar, 8pm, Big Band © Megan Barney The Lounge, St George’s Centre (SU bar, opposite Waitrose), St George’s Place, Canterbury, free Guitars, Guitars, Guitars Our Commercial Music students take the stage with the spotlight on the heroes of the band – the guitarists. Pay bar available.

Electric Guitar © Jason Dodd 19 Fri 8 Mar, 7.30pm, Sat 9 Mar, 9.30am - 4.30pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music St Gregory’s Centre for Music £10/£7 concessions £16 adult, £8 student

events (CCCU staff and students free) Tickets are for the whole day, as a player or observer. Maggini Quartet (Entry to the concerts only is free.) SPRING J. Haydn, Quartet Op.20, No.6 in A major University Viola Day W. Alwyn, Quartet No.2 (‘Spring Torrents’) (dir. Martin Outram) P. Tchaikovsky, Quartet Op.30, No.3 in E flat minor The University’s annual celebration of all things violistic. The day features a concert at We are delighted to present our superb 11am of new music by University composers, Quartet in Residence. William Alwyn’s a recital at 1.10pm by acclaimed violist second string quartet takes its inspiration Martin Outram and Julian Rolton featuring from a novel by the great Russian writer music by Vaughan Williams and a short Turgenev. It is framed here by a Haydn concert of chamber music at 2.15pm quartet of exceptional invention and one of given by students. The day will also include the nineteenth century’s greatest chamber ensemble playing and a masterclass. works, by Tchaikovsky. Please note: the day is open to all viola players aged 11+ and Grade 5 or above.

Maggini Quartet © Melanie Strover Martin Outram Viola Day © Melanie Strover

20 Wed 13 Mar, 1.10pm, Wed 20 Mar, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free

Top Voices Music Society Showcase music (dir. Chris Price) The University boasts a flourishing Music The University’s Top Voices ensemble is made Society. Today their flagship ensembles up of young women who sing divinely as they get their chance to shine: explore an astonishingly varied repertoire expect a variety of genres written and arranged for this distinctive and styles, performed sound-world. This spring’s repertoire will by an intriguing range of comprise an eclectic mix of compositions student-led instrumental music from diverse times and places. and vocal groups.

Fri 22 Mar, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music £5/£3 concessions (CCCU staff and students free) Band of the Scots Guards We are thrilled to welcome the world-famous Band of the Scots Guards. This symphonic wind band is sure to raise the roof of St Gregory’s an inch or two under the inspired direction of their Bandmaster, Warrant Officer Class Two Joe Barrett. Expect exhilarating artistry delivered with military precision! Top Voices © Chris Price

Tue 19 Mar, 8pm, PUBLIC REHEARSAL: 2.45pm The Lounge, St George’s Centre The concert will be followed by a public (SU bar, opposite Waitrose), rehearsal lasting two hours, at which members St George’s Place, Canterbury, free of the University’s Wind and Big Bands will be coached by the Bandmaster and members of Vocals, Vocals, Vocals the Scots Guards Band. Free entry. Voices galore tonight, as our Commercial Music students strut their stuff. Relax with a drink in one of the bar’s comfortable sofas and revel in our students’ talent. Pay bar available.

Band of the Scots Guards © UK Ministry of Defence Crown, 2018

Vocals © Jason Dodd

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Cathedral Concert © Jason Dodd

Wed 27 Mar, 1.10pm, Fri 29 Mar, 7.30pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free The Eastern Crypt, Elizabeth Vogan Award: Canterbury Cathedral £12/£6 concessions Prizewinners’ Concert (CCCU staff and students free) The Elizabeth Vogan Award is made by the Early bird offer: £10/£5 concessions University to final-year singers who display if purchased before the day exceptional potential and outstanding musicianship and who have developed The School of Music substantially as performers over the course of their degree. Join us for a song recital by and Performing Arts’ the stars of tomorrow. Annual Cathedral Concert (Musical Directors: David Allinson, Martin Outram and Tony Castro) University Symphony Orchestra University Chamber Choir University Chorus University String Orchestra University Wind Ensemble

The University’s professionally-directed ensembles present a spectacular programme in the peerless surroundings of Canterbury Cathedral’s Eastern Crypt, culminating in a combined sacred work for orchestra, choir and soloists – Haydn’s joyous Heiligmesse. 22 Tue 2 Apr, 8pm, Fri 5 Apr, 1.10pm, The Lounge, St George’s Centre St Gregory’s Centre for Music (SU bar, opposite Waitrose), £5/£3 concessions music St George’s Place, Canterbury, free (CCCU staff and students free) Staff-run ensembles Philharmonia As part of their degree our Commercial Music students participate in a number Chamber Players: of ensembles run by our superb staff. concert and masterclass Come and enjoy the fruits of their labours. Pay bar available. Wind quartet comprising four principals from the Philharmonia, including: Timothy Rundle (oboe) and Wed 3 Apr, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free Laurent Ben Slimane (clarinet) Chapel Choir We are proud to welcome world-class (dir. Sam Cross) players from the Philharmonia once again to Canterbury Christ Church University’s lunchtime The University’s hardworking Chapel Choir concert series as part of the orchestra’s wider – a mix of Choral Scholars and voluntary residency at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. singers – sings for the service of evensong Join members of the Philharmonia’s woodwind once a week during term time and on special section as they perform timeless classics from occasions performs in the Cathedral. This recital the chamber music repertoire. will feature sacred repertoire from across the liturgical year, as well as showcasing some of the individual talents of some of our choristers. WORKSHOP: 2.30pm This concert is followed by a free two hour public workshop at which our student musicians will be coached by the Philharmonia’s players.

To find out more about the Orchestra’s residency at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, please visit philharmonia.co.uk

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Tue 9 Apr, 8pm, Fri 12 Apr, 7.30pm, The Lounge, St George’s Centre Anselm Studio 1, free (SU bar, opposite Waitrose), St George’s Place, Canterbury, free Broadway Choir Staff-run ensembles (dir. Phil Hornsey) Our brilliant Broadway Choir presents a As part of their degree our Commercial Music stirring selection of music theatre numbers, students participate in a number of ensembles including old favourites as well as lesser- run by our superb staff. Tonight they share the known works. Expect an energetic and fruits of their labours. Pay bar available. emotional performance of toe-tapping songs, big ballads and showstoppers. Wed 10 Apr, 1.10pm, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, free New Music Ensemble: Now and Proud! (dir. Matt Wright) This unmissable new ensemble brings together composition students from a wide range of genres to explore the music of the 21st century: it is now and it is proud!

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HERITAGE AT CHRIST CHURCH

The University’s Centre for Kent History and Heritage (CKHH) showcases regional work by our historians. Along with a popular annual weekend, the Centre also hosts public lectures, study days and workshops. The CKHH blog contains our latest news, a calendar of events, and guest posts at: blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory

BOOK ONLINE: canterbury.ac.uk/tudors-stuarts

Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1227 922994 25 events CENTRE FOR KENT HISTORY & HERITAGE SPRING

Sat 13 - Sun 14 Apr, Old Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury (venues may vary) Tudors and Stuarts History weekend

Supported by Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library

This educational weekend comprises War and Politics; the Church, and 22 ‘events’. The lectures and guided visits Social History to allow audiences to gain showcase recent research on the Early Modern access to new interpretations, ideas and period, making it readily accessible to a knowledge in a range of early modern wide audience. Among the internationally topics. Those attending should book known scholars and well-known, more their chosen events with a pick-and-mix popular historians are Alexandra Walsham, approach, using the descriptions provided David Starkey and Miranda Kaufmann, who on the Centre’s webpages. will cover topics from the Tudor Counter- Reformation to Black Tudors. Any surplus from the weekend goes into the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Award Lectures and guided visits are classified fund to aid postgraduates at Christ Church under four themes: Kings and Queens; who are studying Kent history topics.

26 KINGS AND QUEENS WAR AND POLITICS

Royalty continued to mean power and These were exciting times as nations authority, but even though this was vied with each other, and the balance of heritage tested to breaking point the monarchy power shifted frequently and considerably rose phoenix-like from the grave. Yet high over the period. Alliances were extremely politics and family quarrels often became important, as was the holding of territory, entwined as kings, queens and their the loss of Calais in Mary Tudor’s reign a offspring sought to establish their influence seminal moment in England’s long history at court and in the country at large. of colonization in France.

Sat 13 Apr, 11.30am - 12.30pm, Sat 13 Apr, 10 - 11am, Old Sessions House Old Sessions House (Og32)* (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* £10 £10 “There is nothing more Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets dangerous than security”: Tudor and Stuart Narratives Sat 13 Apr, 11.30am - 12.30pm, Old Sessions House (Og32)* of Treason

£10 Sat 13 Apr, 1.30 - 2.30pm, Musk, Amber and Old Sessions House (Og32)* the Spirit of Roses £10

Sat 13 Apr, 1.30 - 2.30pm, Stuart Soldier, Politician, Old Sessions House Diplomat: The Generalship (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* of John Churchill, 1st Duke £10 of Marlborough Elizabeth I: A study in insecurity

Sat 13 Apr, 6 - 7pm, Old Sessions House (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* £10 King, Court and Chamber

Sun 14 Apr, 12 - 1pm, Old Sessions House (Og32)* £10 The Downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots: Sex, Lies and Propaganda * Old Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury 27 WAR AND POLITICS THE CHURCH

Sat 13 Apr, 3 - 4pm, Under the Tudors and Stuarts religion and the events Old Sessions House (Og32)* ways people worshipped were transformed as the Reformation brought sweeping changes £10 to the Church. Among these changes were the SPRING establishment of the Anglican Church and the The Human Costs of the growth of non-conformity, whose followers, English Civil Wars like the remaining Roman Catholics, often faced persecution. Yet amongst this turmoil Sun 14 Apr, 10.30 - 11.30am, there was a vibrancy and religion remained Old Sessions House (Og32)* central to the lives of many. £10

Tudor Calais: A little piece Sat 13 Apr, 11.30am - 12.30pm, of England overseas Butter Market, Canterbury CT1 2JJ £10 Investigating Christ Church Gate and it’s Environs

Sat 13 Apr, 4.30 - 5.30pm, (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* £10 The Tudor Counter-Reformation

Sun 14 Apr, 10.30 - 11.30am, Old Sessions House (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* £10 The King James Bible, 1611: Crown, Church and People

Sun 14 Apr, 12 - 1pm, Old Sessions House (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* £10 Thomas Wolsey: England’s Universal Cardinal?

* Old Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury 28 Sat 13 Apr, 3 - 4pm, SOCIAL HISTORY Old Sessions House (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* For ordinary people these centuries brought £10 considerable challenges but also frequently heritage great opportunities, and these exciting Black Tudors: times witnessed new discoveries in the natural world and in medicine, as well as the Three Untold Stories persecution of witches. Books were seen as bringing knowledge, and artists expanded Sat 13 Apr, 4.30 - 5.30pm, the horizons of painting, sculpture and Old Sessions House (Og32)* other art forms to a growing audience of mercantile and other patrons. £10 Jamestown: Designs, Desires and Disasters Sat 13 Apr, 10 - 11am, Old Sessions House Sat 13 Apr, 6 - 7pm, (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* Old Sessions House (Og32)* £10 £10 The Campden Wonder Early Modern Monsters of 1662: The Murder and Miraculous ‘Deliverance’ of Sun 14 Apr, 2 - 3pm, William Harrison Old Sessions House (Michael Berry Lecture Theatre)* Sat 13 Apr, 10 - 11am, £10 Mint Yard Gate, Canterbury CT1 2DR £10 ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’: Exploring Tudor Education: why didn’t Oliver Cromwell The King’s School persecute witches?

Sat 13 Apr, 10 - 11am & Sun 14 Apr, 2 - 3pm, 11.30am - 12.30pm, Old Sessions House (Og32)* Canterbury Cathedral Archives £10 £10 Michael Sittow: Canterbury Cathedral Archive Tallinn’s Finest Talent and Library Treasures

* Old Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury 29 events SPRING drama dance &

DANCE & DRAMA AT CHRIST CHURCH

Our dance and theatre programmes feature some of the most exciting young talent coming out of the south east, as well as bringing in new inspiring companies to challenge and explore.

BOOK ONLINE: canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture

Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1227 922994 30 Sun 6 Jan - 17 Mar (no class 10 Feb), Anselm Studio 2, Canterbury Campus 7-14yrs: 11.45am - 12.45pm 15+ yrs: 1 - 2.30pm £65 per term / £7.50 per session Motion Alpha Dance Company Classes dance & drama Part of Dance@Canterbury (dir. Angela Pickard) Aimed at male dancers from 7+ years, these creative dance classes use movement to build physical confidence, co-ordination, movement vocabulary and sequences, imagination and creativity. The classes are taught by two male dancers (James Middleton and Aaron Smith) who are graduates from Christ Church and are experienced in teaching dance across a range of ages and stages. Participants can drop-in for individual classes and do not have to take the whole course.

Mon 7 Jan - Fri 18 Jan, Anselm Studio 1 & Maxwell Davies, Canterbury Campus, free Masters Performances Performance themes include: Relationships; Within the Walls; Inspire; Jigsaw; Homelessness; Disconnection and Expression

The Arts and Cultural Management Masters programme aim to create an awareness around a variety of different topics by allowing audience members to engage with the ideas embodied within these performances.

Performances are also held around Kent. Check our event listing for more details: canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/ theatre

31 PUBLIC LECTURES 2018

Book your place at our free public lectures, events part of our exciting programme of talks by high-profile and engaging speakers.

SPRING The series continues in 2019 with an inspiring line-up of speakers.

Find out more and book your place at canterbury.ac.uk/publiclectures word

FURTHER INFORMATION

Our programme of fascinating talks, debates and readings aims to inspire and inform. For an up-to-date list of events, please check our website.

BOOK ONLINE: canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture

Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1227 922994 32 Wed 27 Mar, 6pm, Wed 15 May, 6pm, Old Sessions House, Longport, Old Sessions House, Longport,

Canterbury, free Canterbury, free word Julia King Kevin Ruane Baroness Brown of Cambridge Professor of History at and Chair of the Carbon Trust Christ Church and By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge What difference will leaving the European Union make to the UK’s achievement of greenhouse gas emissions reduction and to The Bulldog of Brexit? addressing the risks posed to the UK by the Winston Churchill and the changing climate? Great Debate on Europe The Climate Change Act (2008) enshrines Winston Churchill was a great European, and our emissions reduction targets in UK a great believer in European unity, especially legislation; however, the majority of our after the Second World War. But what kind environmental regulation – critical to of unity did he have in mind? A federal our progress in addressing risks such as super-state or looser inter-governmental flooding, drought, heatwaves – is from cooperation? And what part was Britain to the EU, which also provides the critical play in what he called a ‘United States of enforcement function. Europe’? In this Age of Brexit, both sides, Leave and Remain, have claimed Winston In this thought-provoking lecture, Churchill as one of their own, an ally and Baroness Brown will examine the supporter of their respective causes. In this implications of EU exit for both climate compelling lecture, Kevin Ruane looks at the change mitigation and adaptation, the way that Brexiteers and Remainers have used measures being taken and the gaps that and abused Churchill’s Europeanism. As he may remain. will show, Churchill’s relationship with Europe is at once more complicated, compelling and surprising than either side in the Brexit argument have allowed.

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COMING SOON

Although summer feels impossibly far away during the short and dark winter days, our staff and students are already preparing for end-of-year performances and exhibitions. We are very excited to be hosting all of these activities centrally on our Canterbury Campus and welcoming the community to discover the energy and creativity of our teaching and research.

In the next issue, we’ll have details about our upcoming Arts and Humanities Festival, the conference and events in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Canterbury’s designation as a World Heritage Site, and the 2019 Degree Show which will showcase exceptional graduate works from across the University.

There will also be events popping up between now and then, including new dates for Writing Comes Alive, our series of candid talks with authors about their careers and professional practices. If you want to be the first to know about all our events, workshops, and activities, subscribe to our monthly newsletter. You’ll see a selection of cultural highlights, and easy links for finding out more information or booking your place. canterbury.ac.uk/AC-subscribe

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