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What's on Autumn 2018 What’s on at Twickenham’s exciting new venue Autumn 2018 To fi nd out more, visit @ExchangeTwick www.exchangetwickenham.co.uk @exchangetwickenham 020 8240 2399 @exchangetwickenham What’s on at The Exchange Autumn 2018 | 1 Welcome Welcome to this programme of live events In addition to our growing programme of live planned for The Exchange. We are greatly events, we also have a burgeoning line-up of enjoying bringing these events to a growing short courses. The Exchange is host to an audience in Twickenham and the surrounding array of exercise and wellbeing courses, and area. we will also be hosting several short courses supported by St Mary’s University. These will The Exchange is managed by St Mary’s be in creative writing, an art course and a University and has been a major initiative make-up course. Please check our website for for the University, with students, particularly details. in drama and the arts, utilising the building. However, we are also very much a public Finally, I’m pleased to announce that The venue, and our studio rooms are also being Exchange is developing a project with used by a large number of diverse community Twickenham Film Studios to celebrate the work groups. of The Beatles, who filmed several feature films in Twickenham, including ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ Inside this brochure you will find some headline and ‘Help!’, and also used the studio for the names such as Robin Ince (18th October), ‘Let It Be’ sessions. It’s 50 years ago since they Michael Portillo (20th October), Wendy Cope filmed the famous ‘Hey Jude’ video, where (5th November) and Rory Bremner (21st they invited local young people to take part. November). We have an ongoing partnership Please get in touch if you or your company with the Manford’s Comedy Club, which would like to sponsor this project. We would brings to us four of the best comedians on also be delighted to hear from anyone the circuit. We also have six theatre shows in who remembers seeing The Beatles in the this programme, including two with Turtle Key Twickenham area or who has any memorabilia Arts: He Ain’t Heavy and Thunder Road. Plus, linked to their work at Twickenham Studios. there is a growing music programme, with Ana Please email exchangetwickenham@stmarys. Silvera (14th September) and guitarist Martin ac.uk. Simpson (11th October), as well as several concerts planned with local performing groups. For full details of our events and courses In November, we have additional events and how to book, please check out planned for Richmond Literature Festival – look www.exchangetwickenham.co.uk. You can out for their brochure for details. also follow us on social media. There really is something for everyone in this Many thanks. programme, so please come along and tell your friends. Stuart Hobday Creative Director, The Exchange 2 | Comedy Manford’s Comedy Club 7th September, 8pm | £12.50/£10 (concs) Manford’s Comedy Club will be heading back into town with a live comedy show that features four hilarious comedians who are well-known names on both the comedy circuit and television, and are all personally chosen by Jason Manford. This show will be headlined by Paul McCaffrey, compèred by Jojo Smith (pictured), and will also feature great comedians, Pierre Hollins and Julian Deane. Music Eel Pie Records presents Ana Silvera and Support 14th September, 7.30pm | £12-£30 Ana Silvera’s folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes are lyrical, intimate and emotive works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’. Drawing on stories from her own eventful life as well as folklore and myth, Ana’s songs are vignettes; poignant snapshots in time that weave poetry and melody to magical effect. For this autumn tour, alongside other original work, Ana will perform songs from her latest release, an alt-folk song cycle, ‘Oracles’. Spoken word The Story Exchange 18th September, 16th October, 13th November, 7.30pm | £6 adv / £7 door Storytelling is one of our most ancient art forms. Stories, and our need to share them, can be the simplest of activities, making connections and creating a sense of unity. How often do we get to spend time with someone who can transport us to another time and place just with the power of the spoken word? Ancient stories like epics, myths, folktales and fairy tales have survived the test of time, each retelling a unique connection between the audience and the teller. Bring a story to share or simply come along to listen; either way, we would love to see you. What’s on at The Exchange Autumn 2018 | 3 Film and discussion Resilience: the Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope 19th September, 6pm | £8/£6 (concs) Resilience is an award-winning one-hour documentary that chronicles the birth of a movement to disrupt intergenerational cycles of violence, addiction and disease. Includes post- screening Q&A with a distinguished panel of speakers. Film and discussion Dignity, Mental Well-being and Disability: Screening of the film ‘Summer in the Forest’ 20th September, 6.30pm | £5 (£10 drinks reception and film) ‘Summer in the Forest’ invites us to abandon the rat race and forge new friendships. Amid the ancient trees, Philippe, Patrick, Jean and the others welcome us into their lives. If there are rules to break, they will be broken; and if there is a truth to be told, they will tell it. Michel reveals his war-torn past, Andre is desperate for a date, and young David will prove himself a hero in the fight against the forces of evil. Music/theatre The Bob Dylan Story 22nd September, 8pm | £18/£15 (concs) Experience the thrill and energy of a full-blown electric Dylan concert, planted firmly in the 1960s – a time when anything seemed possible – in a show that will remind you what REAL nostalgia feels like and have you digging out your old vinyl to sustain the pleasure just that little bit longer. 4 | Music An Evening with Peter Howarth 30th September, 7.30pm | £18/£16 (concs) A great evening’s entertainment for fans of The Hollies, Cliff Richard and Roy Orbison, featuring solo acoustic arrangements of their classic hits, such as ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s my Brother’, ‘You Got It’ and ‘Devil Woman’, and songs from Peter’s solo album ‘Evermore, Songs of Love and Inspiration’. Theatre Red Cape Theatre: Thunder Road 6th October, 7.30pm, £10/£6 (concs) This bold, original performance by RedCape Theatre is about the power of the Heimlich manoeuvre, adventure and escape, the death of the Little Chef, the call of the open road, and the kind of friendship you’d take a bullet for. Taking as its inspirations the quintessentially British First Aid training course and the iconic feminist road movie ‘Thelma and Louise’, fusing theatre and stand-up, Thunder Road tells a story like you’ve never seen before, that will ring true in your heart and make you laugh ’til you cry. Music Richmond Brass Band presents: Sounds of Cinema 7th October, 3pm | £11/£8 (concs) Come and enjoy an afternoon with some of the most recognisable music in the world – music from the movies! ‘Sounds of Cinema’ sees the Richmond Brass Band return to The Exchange to delight with your favourite cinematic moments. What’s on at The Exchange Autumn 2018 | 5 Talk Living a Wild Life with Colin Stafford-Johnson 8th October, 8pm | £17.50/£15 (concs) Irish wildlife cameraman and television presenter Colin Stafford- Johnson is one of the world’s most acclaimed and internationally awarded filmmakers. Throughout his legendary career, Colin has won countless awards from wildlife festivals and events around the world. He’s lived first-hand with tigers for many years in India, filmed some of the most renowned natural history sequences in his homeland of Ireland, and now, for the first time, will be sharing his hair-raising stories with UK theatre audiences this autumn. Music Martin Simpson – A Master of His Art 11th October, 8pm | £14/£12 (concs) World-renowned guitarist, singer and songwriter Martin Simpson released his 20th solo album in 40 years, ‘Trails & Tribulations’, on 1st September 2017 via Topic Records. This new studio album, his first new solo work since the widely praised ‘Vagrant Stanzas’ in 2013, is available in standard and deluxe CD, digital download and standard vinyl (the latter through Vinyl 180). Theatre Black is the Color of My Voice 12th October, 8pm | £14/£10 (concs) Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, ‘Black is the Color of My Voice’ follows a successful jazz singer and civil rights activist seeking redemption after the untimely death of her father. She reflects on the journey that took her from a young piano prodigy destined for a life in the service of the church, to a renowned jazz vocalist at the forefront of the civil rights movement. 6 | Comedy Robin Ince’s Chaos of Delight 18th October, 8pm | £15/£12.50 (concs) The co-star of the Rose D’Or award-winning ‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’, and author of ‘How to Build a Universe (part 1)’ with Professor Brian Cox, is back on the road with an artist’s manifesto of delight and curiosity. Robin Ince mashes up the two cultures of art and science in this celebration of the human mind from bohemians to black holes, Dali to DNA; another of his stand-up sort-of lectures. Theatre Oddly Moving presents: He Ain’t Heavy 19th October, 7.30pm | £12/£8 (concs) Performer Grania Pickard tells the story of growing up with her disabled autistic brother Sean using physical theatre, aerial circus, audience interaction and storytelling.
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