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Summer Music & Arts Festival Drama Lectures, Seminars & Conferences Open Days & Exhibitions Download a pdf of Open Campus this booklet at www.sheffield.ac.uk/ June –– September 2010 whatson/opencampus.html University Of Sheffield Events. Photo: Joshua Holt For more information on events at the University of Sheffield see: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson SUMMER MUSIC AND ARTS Music FESTIVAL 2010 THURSDAY 3 – SATURDAY 12 JUNE All events take place in Sheffield Cathedral The result of the continuing artistic, collaborative partnership between the University of Sheffield’s Department of Music and Sheffield Cathedral. The Festival delivers a jam packed series of events exploring music, film, literature, contemporary art, local history, current trends, world cultures and much more. Tickets and Enquiries The Students’ Union Box Office T: 0114 222 8777 (ticket sales and information) www.sheffield.ac.uk/union/services/boxoffice Also available at www.wegottickets.com Department of Music T: 0114 222 0499 (enquiries only) www.musicandartsfestival.co.uk THURSDAY 3 JUNE 7.30pm FRIDAY 4 JUNE, 7.30pm THE REEL MONTY AND A POETRY AND JAZZ WITH IAN SHOPAHOLIC’S GUIDE TO MCMILLAN & IMPRESSIONS 1970S SHEFFIELD Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions), Tickets £5, £3 (concessions), £2.50 (students/unwaged) £2 (students/unwaged) Jazz numbers will be The Reel Monty comprises interspersed by wise words of two short films which in an entertaining and documented Sheffield in its enlightening evening not to be `boom and bust´ era of the missed! 1970s. “City on the Move”, Ian McMillan has been a poet, and “Sheffield International broadcaster, commentator and City” shows Sheffield programme-maker for over 1970s Sheffield depicted as a swinging city 20 years. His poems have been of tourism and commerce. published in many magazines In The Shopaholics Guide and newspapers including to 1970s The City Centre’s The Observer and the Evening retail heritage is remembered Standard, and broadcast in an illustrated talk by Neil on numerous television and Anderson (author of a book radio shows, including BBC1’s with the same title), packed Football Focus. He also hosts with rare photos and memoirs BBC Radio 3´s The Verb. of the people that made the Impressions are an exciting forgotten era when the Steel jazz quintet based in Sheffield City was renowned as the featuring the stunning vocals shopping capital of the North! of Karen Lake with a cool line up of Pete Lyons on tenor saxophone, Jez Matthews on piano, Rich Keates on double bass and Brian Bestall on Ian McMillan drums. Music & Arts Festival MONDAY 7 JUNE, 7.30pm SHEFFIELD’S LOST SYMBOLS Tickets £5, £3 (concessions), £2 (students/unwaged) The Lost Symbol is a 2009 novel by American writer Dan Brown, and is the sequel to the best selling The Da Vinci Code.It is the third Brown novel to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, focusing on Freemasonry, the story takes the form of a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, unseen truths, and draws attention to the popularity of a visual language we have largely lost. Sheffield is home to a number SATURDAY 5 JUNE, 7.30pm SUNDAY 6 JUNE, 10.30am of its own lost symbols. A brief stroll around the City KRAR COLLECTIVE CHORAL EUCHARIST Centre, you will find evidence Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions), Admission free and tickets are of Freemason symbolism £2.50 (students/unwaged) not required etched on buildings dating back A stunning programme of Bruckner Mass in E Minor centuries. The Very Reverend music and dance from different Peter Bradley, teams up with Sheffield University Brass and a Freemasonry expert parts of Ethiopia. The dancers Voices present a number of pieces Dr Andreas Onnerfors to (often re-enacting scenes explore why Dan Brown´s work of village life) in colourful SUNDAY 6 JUNE, 8.00pm is so intriguing, if the rituals traditional dress and with and imagery described is fact DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC or fiction, in an illustrated talk jaw-droppingly energetic folk END OF YEAR CONCERT dances unique to Ethiopia. bursting with images from the Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions), book´s setting. In addition they £2.50 (students/unwaged) will host a tour, pointing out Sheffield´s hidden symbols you Representing all aspects never knew existed! of the Department’s work, the programme will include performances of orchestral, choral, chamber, world and contemporary music. The event will also mark the departure of the final year students and celebrate their achievements. Krar Collective Music & Arts Festival –– 01 WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE FRIDAY 11 JUNE 2.00pm TWILIGHT, VAMPIRES AND SING! THE UNCANNY, 7.30pm Admission free and tickets are Tickets: £5, £3 (concessions), not required £2 (students/unwaged) Since Stephenie Meyer’s FRIDAY 11 JUNE 9.00pm young-adult vampire-romance novel Twilight took the world THE STRANGE CASE OF by storm in 2005 vampires DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE, AND are suddenly the hot topic THE CABINET OF in present cultural trends. DR CALIGARI This illustrated talk explores Tickets: £6, £4 (students/ our current obsession with unwaged) Vampires, the mythology A sequel event to last TUESDAY 8 JUNE, 7.30pm and history behind their year’s sell-out Nosferatu existence, the bizarre concept ELECTRIC PROM – the Vampyre, two further of a vegetarian vampire, in a SCREAMING MALDINI cinematic horror masterpieces must see for all who currently Tickets: £5, £3 (concessions), of the silent film genre. obsessed with the Cullens, and £2 (students/unwaged) Prepare to be spooked in the vampire craze! a late night screening, the Screaming Maldini is a band perfect architectural setting, of six from Sheffield who and improvised organ combine complex melodies and THURSDAY 10 JUNE, 7.30pm accompaniment by virtuoso unpredictable harmonies with This event is sponsored by the Darius Battiwalla. a lot of energy. The Electric Friends of Sheffield Cathedral Prom format will see the THE PAINTER, THE group presenting orchestral FRENCHMAN AND THE and choral arrangements ORGANIST of their sensational songs, Tickets £8, £5 (concessions), combined with some of the £2.50(students/unwaged) classics in a unique and rare OR With buffet afterwards programme where popular £13, £10 (concessions), music of the 21st century £7.50(students/unwaged) meets the classical greats. This event aims to explore interpretation; how Maurice Duruflé the Frenchman interpreted Gregorian chant and subsequently worked this material into his compositions, how Anthony Gowing the One of Mark Rowan-Hull’s vibrant organist interprets what he colour canvasses sees on the page, and how Mark Rowan-Hull, the painter interprets what he hears in vibrant, colourful canvasses. In addition to hearing some of Duruflé’s most loved and cherished compositions, will be the opportunity to find out about the life and work of these three extraordinary artists. 02 –– Music & Arts Festival Music & Arts Festival FREE LUNCHTIME RECITALS 1.15pm, Admission free and tickets not required Thursday 3 June Asian Music Ensemble Friday 4 June Peter Warring (Piano) Saturday 5 June Jessop Piano Trio Gabriel Jackson Monday 7 June Sheffield University Big Band SATURDAY 12 JUNE, 6.00pm (SUBB) CATHEDRAL CHOIRS Tuesday 8 June CONCERT with special guest David Palmer (Tenor) Gabriel Jackson Pauline Garrett (Piano) £8, £5 (concessions), £2.50 Wednesday 9 June (students/unwaged) Lee Horne (Piano) Thursday 10 June The Choir of St John the Divine French Music Concert: Cathedral, New York, The Susan Yarnall (Piano) Choir of Blackburn Cathedral, SUNDAY 6 JUNE, 6.30pm, Matthew Redfearn (Trumpet) The Choir of Sheffield TUES 8, WED 9, THURS 10 & Stephanie Pitts (Piano) Cathedral. Rounding off the FRI 11 JUNE, 5.45pm, 2010 festival, the almighty SAT 12 JUNE, 3.00pm sound of the combined CHORAL EVENSONG cathedral choirs are met with Admission free and tickets are composer Gabriel Jackson not required talking about his approach to composition for choirs. The winner of the Friends of Sheffield Cathedral Composition Competition (for students of the University of Sheffield) will be announced at this event and the work premiered. SHEFFIELD AND DISTRICT CAMBRIAN SOCIETY – CYMDEITHAS GYMREIG SHEFFIELD AR CYFFINIAU In Association with The University of Sheffield Department of Music SATURDAY 17 JULY, Glain Dafydd (Harpist) 6.30pm for 7.00pm Côr Meibion y Traeth CENTENARY CONCERT (Male voice choir) Firth Hall, Firth Court, Robyn Lyn (Tenor) Western Bank S10 2TN Tickets available from: Tickets: £15 [email protected] or T: 0114 230 1673, further information at: www.sheffieldcambrians.org Music & Arts Festival –– 03 UNIVERSITY DRAMA STUDIO Shearwood Road (off Glossop Road), Sheffield S10 2TD All productions are open to the public. Details are correct at time of Drama publication, but please see the Drama Studio website for up-to-date information and news. www.sheffield.ac.uk/drama T: 0114 222 0200, E: [email protected] NB: Tickets can be booked by contacting each show’s box office in the details given below. Sheffield University Drama Society WEDNESDAY 9 – FRIDAY 11 JUNE, 7.30pm SUNDAY MORNING AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD by Louis de Bernières Tickets: £8, concessions £6 T: 0114 262 0574 www.suds.ac.uk A slice of life on a typical The Company Handsworth and Hallam Sunday morning in a typical WEDNESDAY 16 – SATURDAY Theatre Company working class community 19 JUNE, 7.30pm WEDNESDAY 23 – SATURDAY somewhere in Britain. All are 26 JUNE, 7.30pm (also here: young and old, potty TREASURE ISLAND by SATURDAY 26 JUNE AT and desperate, animal and Robert Louis Stephenson 2.30pm) corpse. SUDS’ actors create (adapted by Alison Munro) a dynamic ensemble and use Tickets: £7, concessions £5, T: THE LIKES OF US by Andrew music, movement and comedic 0114 201 0090, E: boxoffice@ Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice characterisation to bring this thecompanysheffield.co.uk (Sheffield premiere) poetic text to life.