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Arts Week Harlequin Arts Week Gala Evening ? Orbit Shed, Arts Festival Society, Bastet School of Dancing, Star Tickets: ? Steppers Performing Arts, Vocal Dimension, CARRISMA Performing Arts Text to come Saturday 20 October, 7.30pm - Tickets: £5 You will find a wealth of talent and variety in our Gala Evening. School-age musicians perform HARLEQUIN ARTS WEEK ARTS HARLEQUIN classical works. Enjoy dance in different styles (classical ballet, contemporary, Irish). There will be drama with music and choreographed movement. A women’s a cappella harmony chorus Harlequin Arts Week concludes. Come and enjoy! MONDAY 15TH - SATURDAY 20TH OCTOBER 2012

Harlequin Arts week takes place following a £1m refurbishment of The Harlequin Theatre and is an opportunity to showcase the performing and visual arts in the Borough. Photographic Society Productions will feature drama, dance, music-making and singing. There will be displays of 2012 Exhibition art work, photographs, embroidery and quilting. There will be something for all tastes and all ages to enjoy. Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 October, Upper Foyer The week has been organised by the Arts Council jointly with the Borough of Reigate and Reigate Photographic Society will present an exhibition of members’ Banstead. All the facilities of the theatre will be used and the contributors - essentially work, both as mounted prints and projected images. amateur societies and schools - come from the full extent of the Borough. This exhibition is the beginning of the celebrations for Our thanks go to all who have organised the week and to all who are participating. This is an our 75th anniversary, which will continue into 2013. excellent opportunity to see the high quality of work in the arts which is being produced on our doorstep! We invite you to come and enjoy it. To book tickets for any of the events, simply call The Harlequin Box Office on Exhibitions & Workshops 01737 276500 or go online www.harlequintheatre.co.uk Function Rooms Beehive Quilters Banstead Art Group What’s On Monday 15 - Tuesday 16 October Thursday 18 - Friday 19 October Beehive Quilters started over 20 years ago and Activities include workshops, demonstrations, members enjoy talks, workshops, outings and an annual exhibition, a painting holiday and A Musical Miscellany a painting day. exhibitions on the subject of patchwork and quilting. Redhill Sinfonia, St Cecilia Chorus, The Singers East Branch of the Embroiderers’ WEA: Learning For Life Monday 15 October, 7.30pm - Tickets: £10 Guild: Fun with Stitch Friday 19 October The wind ensemble from the Redhill Sinfonia, conducted by Thursday 18 - Friday 19 October Arts and Dances course for adults: John Beswick, will be performing Mozart's sublime serenade for Exhibiting some individual and communal The Life of Beatrix Potter. thirteen wind instruments. projects that display the fun and excitement Workshop in Ballet, Flamenco or Latinocise. of embroidery. Join us in making some colourful To book your free space call 0800 3281060 St Cecilia Chorus, celebrating its 90th anniversary and just returned from fabric autumn leaves. a successful concert tour of Paris, performs works by Hadyn and Vivaldi. The Horley Singers provide a programme of quality arrangements Please visit www.harlequintheatre.co.uk for full of classic popular music, mixed with folk song arrangements and classical pieces. programme details and bookings or call 01737 276500 Arts Week_Layout 1 08/08/2012 16:37 Page 3 HARLEQUIN ARTS WEEK Hobgoblin Theatre Company Workshop Peace and War Monday 15 October 5pm-6.15pm English Arts Chorale Tickets: £3 Thursday 18 October, 7.30pm - Tickets: £15 Love drama? 7-11 years old? Come and join us at Hobgoblin Youth Theatre for a drama This programme combines the gentle tranquillity of Fauré's

HARLEQUIN ARTS WEEK ARTS HARLEQUIN workshop as part of Harlequin Arts Week. Develop your acting much-loved Requiem with the more driving rhythms of Karl skills, play games, meet some new friends and have fun Jenkins' immensely popular The Armed Man: A Mass for working with professional actors. Peace. While the Requiem has been called a "lullaby of death", Jenkins has an altogether more apocalyptic vision of the Hobgoblin Youth Theatre run weekly drama youth theatres in horrors of war, but both have a similar vision of eventual Redhill and Reigate. This event will be in The Waller Cinema. peace, in Paradise and on Earth.

MADS & BODS The Shakespeare Revue Wednesday 17 October, 7.30pm - Tickets: £6 Archway Theatre Company Amateur Dramatic Society (MADS) presents 'The Foreigner' by Larry Shue. In deep Georgia, USA, an Englishman combating his shyness by Thursday 18 October masquerading as a foreigner, finds confidence in his persona and soon must 7.30pm save the guesthouse where he is staying from the KKK! Tickets: £6 Betchworth Operatic & Dramatic Society (BODS) presents a sparkling review In The Waller Cinema, poems, songs and sketches around on its highly acclaimed production 'Betchworth Remembers', which evokes a Shakespearean theme will be performed. Works by the mood and emotions of the 1940's in words, song and dance. Victoria Wood, Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, Patrick Barlow, Monty Python, Ned Sherrin, Michael Green and many more ensure a fun night out!

Harvesting The Good Times Born to Perform St Mark’s Players Starmakerz Theatre School, Charisma & Friday 19 October, 7.30pm - Tickets: £7, Concs £5 Wednesday 17 October 7.30pm Starmakerz Theatre School perform a variety of dance and musical theatre Tickets: £7.50 numbers from top West End shows including Sister Act and Billy Elliot. In The Waller Cinema, local amateur dramatic group St Mark's Players Charisma is a young vocal entertainment group of seven members aged presents an evening of drama, comedy and song to celebrate the season 12-16, which has raised almost £5,000 for charity this year. and Life in General. Reigate School with special guests, St John's Primary School, Expect to be happily entertained and go home smiling. present A Midsummer Nights Dream performed as part of the National Schools Shakespeare Festival.

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