MUSIC DANCE THEATRE Film Lectures Visual Arts Welcome Arts Calendar spring 2013 so, what’s new? Award-winning dance also comes from Theo Clinkard jan MAR Funny you should ask: it’s a New Year; we’re presenting and Joe Moran in a double bill Ordinary Courage and lots of new work and new ideas and we hope you’ll Obverse, plus Theo’s short film, To Leap or Skip in an WED 9 Lunchtime Recital FRI 1 RUSH HOUR CONCERT enjoy discovering them with us. Emotional Manner (6 February). FRI 11 Rush Hour Concert WED 6 LUNCHTIME RECITAL MON 14 Pottery classes begin FRI 8 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC TUE 15 Preview of MARK MICHAEL’S EXHIBITION FESTIVAL begins The first University of New Writers’ Festival takes In these pages you’ll find performances by Guildford Creative Writers’ Group CHAMBER CHOIR place on 15 and 16 March. Exploring Lewis Carroll and School of Acting; dance, theatre studies and music WED 16 Pottery/Painting & Drawing classes begin AND ORCHESTRA his relationship with Guildford via workshops, cabaret, students; professional performances; exhibitions, FRI 18 RAY THE SYMPHONOVA CONCERT panel discussions, interactive tours and competitions, lectures and festivals, often in conjunction with Painting & Drawing classes begin ACTUAL SIZE DANCE COMPANY established writers and aspiring authors, playwrights local and professional partners, created by university MON 21 Book Circle SAT 9 GUITAR GREATS WEEKENDS starts and songwriters will find something fascinating and academic staff, students and our peers. Some events TUE 29 Poetry Reading Group BIG BAND CONCERT inspiring. may still be in the planning stages; some of them SUN 10 GUITAR GREATS WEEKENDS take place in venues around Guildford as well as on MON 11 Preview of WEAK FORCE EXHIBITION There’s new thinking about how and why artists campus. Whatever they are, we know you’ll find it an FEB TUE 12 SURREY COMPOSERS CONCERT WED 13 LUNCHTIME RECITAL work together from The Weak Force, an international entertaining experience. THU 14 GSA: THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND opens collaboration between artists Matthew Sansom (UK), FRI 1 Rush Hour Concert TOM DOWD AND THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC Andy Thomson (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Laresa Kosloff Why not make your New Year’s resolution to try MON 4 GSA: JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA opens TUE 5 Preview of ZOROASTRIAN MIGRATION FRI 15 RUSH HOUR CONCERT (Aus), Bruce Barber (Can), and Kim Morgan (Can) in the something new with us? EXHIBITION LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR Lewis Elton Gallery as part of the Guildford International WED 6 CROSER HUGHES CHAMBER MUSIC AWARD THE Dhol FOUNDATION Music Festival. GSA: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE opens Surrey New Writers’ Festival Andy Lavender Dance Double Bill SUN 17 GSA SINGERS: Here’s Where I Stand The Festival springs into life in March bringing new Head of the School of Arts FRI 8 CROSER HUGHES WINNERS EVENT MON 18 Book Circle artists and programmes, as well as returning Festival SURREY ARTS YOUR PAINTINGS TRAIL TUE 19 Creative Writers’ Group IT MIGHT GET LOUD friends, to the University and to venues around SUN 10 COMPOSERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS WED 20 QUATTRO MANI COMPETITION Guildford. Look out for performances in heritage spaces; CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS WEIGHTLESS a music documentary film series; new dance works WED 13 LUNCHTIME RECITAL SURREY SCULPTURE SOCIETY LECTURE BY GSA: THE COLOUR OF JUSTICE opens - Weightless, celebrating choreographer Yael Flexer’s ANGELA CONNER FRBS SHAKESPEARE PROJECT 20th anniversary and The Protocol Project, which invites GSA: ROMEO & JULIET opens THU 21 PIANO PLUS! the audience to try out digital effects; Guitar Greats, DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN FRI 22 SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE opens with John Wiliams, Craig Ogden and friends; and the FRI 15 RUSH HOUR CONCERT TUE 26 Poetry Reading Group high-energy drummers of The Dhol Foundation. There’s SAT 16 BRAHMS’ REQUIEM plenty of opportunity to find something new to enjoy. MON 18 Book Circle TUE 19 Creative Writers’ Group APR The Making of the Extraordinary WED 20 LUNCHTIME RECITAL MON 8 Preview of BOBBIE BALES’ EXHIBITION FRI 22 BYRON WALLEN PROJECT University Box Office this Spring TUE 9 CAPTURING THE EPHEMERAL opens MON 25 WEAK FORCE EXHIBITION installation begins THU 11 In person and phone bookings: PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE TUE 26 Poetry Reading Group MON 15 Book Circle Open from 15 January 2013, 10.00 - 18.00 WED 27 LUNCHTIME RECITAL TUE 16 Creative Writers’ Group ENSEMBLES CONCERT TUE 29 Poetry Reading Group Events still available to book online: www.surrey.ac.uk/arts

All GSA shows go on sale 15 January 2013, 10.00 KEY Please note there are reduced opening hours and closed periods over Christmas and Easter holidays. Please call MUSIC Film the Box Office for further information. DANCE Lectures THEATRE Visual Arts

2 3 dance Fri 8 Mar, 19.30 ACTUAL SIZE DANCE COMPANY Box Office Mon – Fri, 10.00 – 18.00 PATS Dance Studio Actual Size is a student led dance This year Actual Size, co-directed T: 01483 686876 Tickets: £4, £2.50 students company, working with professional by Victoria Giles and Rachel Gildea, dance artists and developing their presents a diverse programme of Enquiries own work. In the past the company work made by visiting artists and E: [email protected] has worked with artists including the students themselves. Luke Birch, Annie Lok, Karen Da Founded in 2005 by Surrey Online booking Silva and most recently Rosie Dance students, the company www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/whatson Heafford (Second Hand Dance). continues to serve as a forum Actual Size has also been fortunate for students to explore movement enough to tour work and perform and choreography. at dance platforms such as Dancin’ Joe Moran Obverse (credit Benedict Johnson) Oxford in 2010.

WED 6 FEB, 19.30 Actual Size Dance Company DANCE DOUBLE BILL Ivy Arts Centre Tickets: £12, £10 senior citizens, University staff £5 students, concessions

New work by two exciting dance artists: OBVERSE by Joe Moran Commissioned for The Place Prize for dance sponsored by Bloomberg, Obverse by Joe Moran is a complex, detailed and choreographically intricate new trio that tests the remarkable virtuosity of its dancers to visibly transform their state of being, from moment to moment, in both body and thinking

Commissioned in 2012 Obverse pursues formalism in choreography to liberate the poetics and immediacy of dance.

ORDINARY COURAGE Wed 20 Mar, 19.30 by Theo Clinkard WEIGHTLESS “We are defined by how well we rise after falling” Flexer and Sandiland

Theo Clinkard’s rousing new group work for six dancers and live piano Tickets: £15, £12 senior citizens, University staff brims with visceral and eloquent physicality. T: 01483 444789 £5 students, concessions

Ordinary Courage follows a community in repair and harnesses the capacity Weightless is a new work celebrating Yael Flexer’s 20th Weightless playfully references its own historical for movement and touch to communicate when words are not enough. anniversary as a choreographer. Engaging, thoughtful, position. It questions the ‘weight’ of history, both A luminous room lit by Zerlina Hughes and an original score by Alan Stones but with a cheeky wink, this show carries Yael’s personal and aesthetic: what is it that roots us down that incorporates Scarlatti and Bach provide the canvas for breathtaking trademark witty text and humour combined with fast- physically and emotionally? What might it feel like to performances. Clinkard completes an international, seven-strong cast paced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical let go or take flight? score by Israeli cellist Karni Postel. drawn from the likes of Random Dance, Akram Khan, Richard Alston, As the cast of international performers attempt to Siobhan Davies, Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre. Weightless features an exciting digital element with ‘get on with the show,’ their meaningful glances, radio-controlled floating objects drifting through mutual teasing and asides to the audience subvert TO LEAP OR SKIP IN AN EMOTIONAL MANNER the auditorium and a multiplicity of sound objects; the choreography and unsettle their choreographer by Theo Clinkard disembodied voices immersing both audience and - who desperately tries to keep things under control performers. from the wings. A film about the making of dance.

4 5 Exhibitions Tue 5 Feb – Thu 21 Feb Preview: Tue 5 Feb, 18.00 – 20.00 LEWIS ELTON GALLERY Tue 15 Jan - Thu 31 Jan Mon – Fri: 10.00 – 17.00 Preview: Tue 15 Jan, 18.00 – 20.00 Sat – Sun: by prior appointment LIKE SUGAR IN MILK: STORIES OF ZOROASTRIAN MIGRATION TO THE Admission free The Society of SOUTH COAST OF Co-ordinators: Fickle Fingers BandBazi Patricia Grayburn, Jo Baker Mark Michael

Enquiries: Laugh or frown, giggle or flinch, you are sure to have something T: 01483 689167 / 686641 to say about Mark Michael’s art. E: [email protected] John Hayes, The Art Café & Jewry St. Gallery, Winchester www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts Satirist Mark Michael studied at Winchester School of Art and achieved First Class Honours in Fine Art. The Society of Fickle Fingers comments on how mobile technology, internet and instant messaging have influenced the new ‘Me generation.’ He says “It’s important for me not to censor my thoughts; I love the reactions and happenings that I see everywhere from books, movies, television, the bludgeoning of advertising and excessive fear from the media. The digital age seems to have isolated and insulated us, forcing us to change.”

Like Sugar in Milk is a Heritage Lottery funded oral history and photographic exhibition.

It marks the culmination of an 18 month project involving over twenty volunteers. Volunteer ‘memory collectors’ from Sussex and Surrey have captured the migration stories of twelve Zoroastrian Elders from the wider South East region. The project has been guided by a Steering Group made up of members and leaders of Zoroastrian organisations.

Bandbazi are proud to present these captivating and poignant stories to venues across the South East.

6 7 Fri 8 – Sun 24 Feb Preview: Mon 11 Mar, 18.00 – 20.00 Exhibition dates: Tue 12 – Thu 27 March Surrey Arts Your Paintings Trail GUILDFORD INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL EXHIBITION How much do you know about the University’s Art Golden Sections © Peter Clarke Collection? Did you know that it features in the Public Catalogue Foundation edition for Surrey and that the THE WEAK FORCE oil, acrylic and mixed media paintings can now be COLLABORATIVE ART INSTALLATION discovered online? www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings

In February a ten year project to record the nation’s public artwork approaches completion. To celebrate, the BBC invited participants to organise events across the UK. The University of Surrey’s contribution is a fun quiz for art-lovers of all ages to discover the treasure- trove of paintings within the county. Visit participating galleries and museums and the BBC Your Paintings website to discover the paintings, people, places and stories behind the artworks.

Further information about the quiz will be available in February at: www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo

8 – 24 MAR GUILDFORD INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Artist-In-Residence Roger Dellar ROI RI PS

This is the fifth occasion Roger has been Artist-In- The Weak Force is an international collaboration Residence at the biennial Guildford International Music between artists Matthew Sansom (UK), Andy Thomson Festival. He says “Each time I enjoy the challenge of (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Laresa Kosloff (Aus), Bruce getting the sense of the music, the movement, and Barber (Canada), and Kim Morgan (Can). It is part drama of lighting, all during the period of the recital. of Unified Field Theory, a larger arts research project Sometimes I don’t know the outcome until the painting based at Auckland University of Technology. Visit this can be seen in better lighting. I’m aware that I must be multimedia artwork to explore connections between inconspicuous as the musicians and audience must not gravitational theory, the 100th anniversary of Luigi be distracted.” Russolo’s manifesto The Art of Noises, and questions about how and why artists work together. As an educator, Roger is always happy to talk about his work during the interval or after a performance. For more information: uft.gravity.com

8 9 “WHAT DOES IT film

SOUND LIKE, BABY?” Please see the Box Office details under each event. THE QUEST FOR

Webs of Lights ©Bobbie Bale Webs SOUND IN MUSIC CREATION, PERFORMANCE & RECORDING

Curated by Jamie Harber and Dr Tim Hughes

Tickets: £7, £5.50 concessions, University Staff and Friends of the Electric Theatre

Please note each venue has its own Box Office.

This series brings together four extraordinary films about a broad range of artists who share a common goal: the right sound for their music. Sometimes this was done by fusing unrelated existing Photograph © Terry Townsend sounds to create entirely new Production Still of Tom Dowd Mixing Layla On the Soundboard Tue 9 Apr – Thu 25 Apr genres (Ray Charles or Jimmy Page), sometimes by bringing highly 18 Jan: Thu 14 Mar: Preview: Mon 8 April, 18.00 – 20.00 traditional sounds into the present

to be opened by Carole Seymour-Jones, (Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch or Ray Tom Dowd (2004) Dir Taylor Hackford, author and Vice-President of English PEN Jack White); sometimes by endlessly 152 min, Cert 15 and the searching for the right sound for CAPTURING THE EPHEMERAL a simple part (U2’s The Edge); The Electric Theatre, Guildford, Language or sometimes combining all of the Bobbie Bale Box Office: 01483 444789 of Music above (producer Tom Dowd). This (2003) Dir Mark Moormann series draws from the research of Bobbie Bale’s colourful abstract expressionist 13 Feb: 90 min, Cert E paintings are inspired by her wild garden. University of Surrey popular music She explains that the seeds for the ideas had scholar Tim Hughes, who will give Down The Electric Theatre, Guildford, been germinating for some time when a a short introductory talk before Box Office: 01483 444789 particular experience galvanised her into action. each screening, and will be from the After walking through wet grass, she turned available after the screenings to Mountain Tue 19 Mar: back to see the silver pathway made by her engage in more relaxed discussions (2000) Dir Nick Doob, footsteps emerge and, just as quickly disappear. at the bar. Chris Hegedus and It Might The experience became a metaphor for the D A Pennebaker Get Loud beautiful moment, change and memory. 98 min, Cert PG (2008) Dir Davis Guggenheim Bobbie says “I have been particularly also PATS Dance Studio, 98 min, Cert PG, influenced by the fragility and edginess of University of Surrey, The Electric Theatre, Guildford, work by Eva Hesse and Anya Gallacio, LOOK Box Office: 01483 686876 Box Office: 01483 444789 the poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman”. OUT FOR For further information and to view There will be an opportunity to view sketch The Electric Theatre’s trailers of these films, please see books showing how the work has evolved and January Film Festival our website: listen to poetry readings recorded by the GSA students. www.guildford.gov.uk/electrictheatre www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/film

10 11 lectures

Box Office Mon – Fri 10.00 – 18.00 T: 01483 686876 Online booking: www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts WED 13 feb, 19.30 Enquiries: Surrey Sculpture Society The Surrey Sculpture Co-ordinator, Lisa Pettibone T: 07714 587536 Society spring Lecture www.surreysculpture.org.uk Angela Conner FRBS

Austin Pearce Lecture Theatre 1 Rocking Lady © John Bulmer Tickets: £3, Surrey Sculpture Society members, students and concessions free

Angela Conner’s sculptures harness the natural forces of our environment using elements such as water and wind to move and unfold their abstract forms. She has captured this energy in a staggering array of materials including clay, steel and glass. The breadth of her sculpture moves easily from figurative to modern kinetic art.

Unburdened by formal art training, she followed a creative path that led her to work for Barbara Hepworth. Encouraged by work there, she set up her studio in London and has been based there since.

Her work is represented internationally in many public and private collections, including that of the Royal Family. Her 126ft sculpture Wave in Ireland won the Kinetic Art International Organisation’s First Prize and is the tallest mobile in Europe.

LOOK WED 19 JUN OUT FOR ANNUAL ARCHITECTURE LECTURE Further details will be available in the Summer Arts Calendar In association with The Guildford Society

Alan Powers, Writer and authority on the 20th Century

Threads in the Urban Fabric – Guildford in the 20th Century and Beyond

School of Management Lecture Theatre

Admission free

Enquiries: 01483 686641 www.theguildfordsociety.org.uk Poise © Simon Stringer

12 13 These events are concerned with areas Tue 19 Feb, 19.30 of academic Thu 11 – Sun 13 Apr research The Making of the Extraordinary What is Performance Philosophy? and study Staging a new field There may be limited numbers of tickets Dr Peter Lamont, University of Edinburgh available to the public. If you’d like to Ivy Arts Centre Co-organised by Laura Cull (University of Surrey) come on a journey with us, please keep Admission free Eve Katsouraki (University of East London) an eye on www.surrey.ac.uk/arts Dan Watt (Loughborough University) Magicians, mesmerists, mediums and psychics performed to find out more. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Martin Puchner (Harvard) extraordinary feats for centuries. In the process, they have Professor Bojana Kunst (Giessen) provoked some extraordinary beliefs. But how does one make an extraordinary feat happen? How does one make it seem truly The inaugural conference of the new professional association, Performance Philosophy. The aim extraordinary? And what have people made of this? Peter Lamont of this conference is to explore the scope and diversity of research being undertaken by scholars provides a brief glimpse into how magicians have faked the and practitioners concerned with the relationship between performance and philosophy broadly impossible, how psychics have made it seem real, and how people construed. continue to come to the conclusions that they do. T: 01483 686876 Online booking: www.surrey.ac.uk/arts Wed 20 and Thu 21 Mar Theatre Studies Shakespeare Project Ivy Arts Centre, Studio 2

A Year 1 Theatre Studies studio project based on a play, or plays, by William Shakespeare which will be created over the next few weeks.

14 15 MUSIC Wed 6 Feb, 13.10 CROSER HUGHES Box Office Mon – Fri, 10.00 – 18.00 CHAMBER MUSIC AWARD T: 01483 686876 PATS Studio One Enquiries Admission Free T: 01483 689351 This is an annual competition for the performance of Chamber Music with keyboard. E: [email protected] The competition was started over 20 years ago by two former piano tutors to Online booking encourage students to explore the vast range of interesting chamber music that is www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/music available. This is always a highly-charged event, as a guest adjudicator is invited to have the final say and make the Award. The repertoire is really varied and excellent performances make judging a winner very difficult.

The Winners and Highly Commended will perform at 7.30pm on Friday 8 February Every Wed at 13.10 plus occasional Fri at 17.30 at the United Reformed Church, 83 Portsmouth Road, Guildford GU2 4BS.

LUNCHTIME RECITALS More details available at www.gurcms.org.uk AND RUSH HOUR CONCERTS Presented by students from Music and Sound Recording PATS Studio One Admission Free

Recharge your batteries on Wednesday The dates for the Spring semester are: lunchtimes, or avoid the Guildford gridlock 9, 11 January at the end of a week, at these short and 1, 6*, 13, 15, 20, 27 February refreshing Lunchtime Recitals and Rush 1, 6, 13, 15, 20** March Hour Concerts. Even if you can only stay for a little while, do drop in and enjoy a * Croser Hughes Chamber Music Award musical break in your day. ** Duet Competition The performances are usually given by students from Music and Sound Recording, although occasionally we feature a competition or a visiting performer or ensemble.

Lunchtime Recitals are every Wednesday at 13.10 and Rush Hour concerts this Wed 9 Jan spring are on Friday 11 January, 1 and 15 February, and 1 and 15 March. LUNCHTIME RECITAL The concerts cover a wide range of Lionel Handy cello repertoire and styles from classical to jazz Britten Suite No 2, Opus 80 and include pop and digital works JS Bach Suite No 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Programmes for these events are not Our first programme after each vacation features a concert usually available much in advance but can by a distinguished visiting player who has connections to the be emailed to you a few days before the School of Arts. The outstanding Lionel Handy marks the start recital. To join the e-list please email: of Benjamin Britten’s centenary year with a performance of his [email protected] second cello suite, together with Bach’s second suite, and some more recent shorter pieces for solo cello.

16 17 Dream of Gerontius

Sat 16 Feb, 19.30 After last year’s sell-out performance of the irreligious Carmina Burana the University forces tackle one of the highlights of 19th Century sacred BRAHMS’ GERMAN REQUIEM choral and orchestral writing, Brahms’ magnificent and eloquently University of Surrey Symphony Orchestra uplifting German Requiem. and Choir This setting of biblical texts, rather than the usual Latin Requiem text, Conductor Russell Keable carries performers and listeners through music of consoling beauty to Soloists Pippa Goss soprano grand and powerfully dramatic climaxes. David Pike baritone Canadian baritone David Pike and soprano Pippa Goss join the by kind permission of the and Chapter student performers to add an international flavour to this emotional Tickets: £13, £5 students and concessions and spine-tingling work.

18 19 Fri 22 Feb, 19.30 THE BYRON WALLEN PROJECT Pats Studio One Tickets: £10, £5 students and concessions “Byron’s always absorbing music genuinely draws in the disparate elements of African and Eastern cultures, while retaining true jazz spirit …”

Byron Wallen is “one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive” (Jazzwise Magazine). Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, he is constantly travelling the world recording, teaching and performing.

Byron was raised in a musical environment and started learning his first instrument, the piano, at an early age. He then went on to study the trumpet with Jimmy Owens, Donald Byrd and Jon Faddis in New York. His early music career was forged while he was studying for a degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Maths at Sussex University (he graduated in 1992). Byron has been working on jazz improvisation, composition and performance with Music students for several months. This concert is the culmination of this mini-project which will showcase the ideas they have been developing together. Byron and the band will play a set based on compositions by Surrey students, all of which will be interpreted through improvisation.

20 21 TUE 12 MAR, 19.30 Wed 27 Feb, 19.30 SURREY COMPOSERS ENSEMBLES CONCERT CONCERT PATS Studio One Ivy Arts Centre An exciting evening of new work by the Admission Free Tickets: £5, students FREE University of Surrey’s composition students. With nine pieces being premièred, surround Student conductors direct an entertaining and diverse programme Conductor Tom Kilworth, Alex Blencowe of music for small orchestra and ensembles. The range of ensembles sound electronics and a symphony orchestra changes with each concert and could include the University String Composers Tom Kilworth, Sandy Dobson, Jeevan Rai, formed exclusively for the concert, this will Orchestra, the Close Harmony Choir or the Percussion Ensemble Alice Hunter, Jake Willson, James Whitcher, be an exciting evening of inventive music- - or any other of our many ensembles! Alex Blencowe, Felix Askew-Conti making by up and coming composers.

Come along to this free event to hear some familiar and some new works played and conducted with verve and enthusiasm.

Please email [email protected] nearer the date for a full programme.

Wed 20 Mar, 13.10 Fri 8 Mar, 19.30 QUATTRO MANI competiton UNIVERSITY OF SURREY PATS Studio One CHAMBER CHOIR AND Admission Free ORCHESTRA The Quattro Mani Competition There is also a chance to see Maureen for piano duet playing was established in action during the Piano Day, which United Reformed Church, 83 Portsmouth Road, Guildford GU2 4BS in 2010 with the generosity of concert closes the 2013 Guildford International Admission Free (There will be a retiring collection) pianist Maureen Galea. Maureen was Music Festival, when she will give a DIRECTED BY RUSSELL KEABLE our first PhD performance, and is now piano duet concert with her University Britten Hymn to St Cecilia, Op 27 (Words by W H Auden) a well-established piano tutor at the colleague, Margaret Roberts. Stravinsky Mass University and locally. The aims of the Music by Bach and Purcell Competition are to encourage the exploration of an under-played, but The University of Surrey’s Chamber Choir and Orchestra return to the URC rather wonderful, area of the piano Music Series with a programme of music to nurture the soul. Britten’s setting repertoire, while developing of Auden’s poem was written at the same time as his Ceremony of Carols, and the team-working and collaborative shares the same wonderful music effects. The Hymn contrasts with the austere skills for which performing musicians beauty of Stravinsky’s Mass and the extreme purity of Bach and Purcell. are renowned. If the first Competition is anything to go by, we anticipate a This concert is one of the opening events of the 2013 Guildford International high standard of entry from students. Music Festival. We are thrilled to welcome the pianist, See also www.gurcms.org.uk and Benjamin Frith, to Surrey to judge www.guildfordinternationalmusicfestival.co.uk this event.

22 23 Guildford International Music Festival 8 – 24 March 2013 LOOK The twelfth Guildford International Music Festival springs into life in March OUT FOR bringing new artists and programmes and welcoming back some Festival friends special Hidden Heritage and favourites. For two majestically musical weeks, the spotlight shines brightly on Guildford as the University works with local partners to mix a delicious sonic cocktail of concerts, talks, community projects and more. The Love of Beauty To join the Festival’s mailing list, please email [email protected] Clandon Park Visit www.guildfordinternationalmusicfestival.co.uk for the full programme. A Celebration of Maori Culture St Martha-on-the-Hill The full programme will be published in January, but here are some of the artists and highlights: Concerts for Walkers

The Brodsky String Quartet, The Wheel The Dhol Foundation – one of the highlights St Mary’s Church of 4Tunes – a spin of the wheel results in a perfect of the Olympics Closing Ceremony, these astounding Brahms in the programme! drummers and musicians bring a one-off, high energy Red Hedgehog Tavern! show to the Festival. Guitar Greats – a weekend of recitals, talks and workshops, featuring John Williams, Craig Ogden, the symphonova concert – a truly unique Historic Keyboards Recitals Gary Ryan, Thomas Leeb, John Wheatcroft, and orchestral event. friends. Music and Words – Janacek’s Intimate Letters There is also a full programme The London Community Gospel Choir at the , with the actor Timothy at The Electric Theatre, including – joyous, uplifting voices in Guildford Cathedral. West and the stunning Pavao String Quartet. a specially curated music Dance and the Digital – choreographer Yael Piano Plus! – a closing day of pianistic passion with documentary film series, Flexer showcases her choreographic credentials in a Mark Bebbington, Emilie Capulet, Maureen Galea the unique folk group Spiro, new show, Weightless (see page 5), and emerging and Margaret Roberts, and Nikolai Demidenko. comedian Boothby Graffoe, artists Sian Goldby (choreographer) and sound artist theatre show Silly Songs of Red Priest – the virtuosic early music group’s new (Sandy Dobson) encourage playful interaction with their Shakespeare... show Handel in the Wind. Protocol Project.

…as well as performances at GLive, Guildford Cathedral and new Guildford Fringe events at the Boileroom and pubs around the town.

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Box office Mon – Fri 10.00 - 18.00 T: 01483 686876 Sun 10 Feb, 19.30 theatre Enquiries E: [email protected] COMPOSERS AND Ivy Arts Centre CHOREOGRAPHERS CREATIVE Mon – Fri, 10.00 - 18.00 Online Booking T: 01483 686876 www.surrey.ac.uk/arts PRESENTATIONS Enquiries PATS Dance Studio E: [email protected] Admission Free Online Booking This will be the 25th annual celebration of collaboration and creative www.surrey.ac.uk/arts work presented by students from Dance, Music and Sound Recording.

The students come together over an intensive weekend of non-stop Electric Theatre activity, which tests their inventiveness and creativity. Choreographers Mon – Sat, 10.30 - 17.00 and composers are paired together and discuss their ideas which are T: 01483 444789 then shared with the dancers and musicians; collectively they devise Mon 4 – Sat 9 Feb, 19.30 and present the emerging pieces which have evolved over the weekend. Online Booking Sat 9 Feb, 14.30 There is also an opportunity for you to ask questions and to gain an www.guildford.gov.uk/electrictheatre insight into this fascinating creative process. Be prepared for dancers JERRY SPRINGER: playing, and musicians dancing! GLive THE OPERA Mon – Fri 10.00 - 18.00 T: 0844 7701 797 Music by Richard Thomas Book and Lyrics by Stewart Lee Online Booking and Richard Thomas www.glive.co.uk This amateur production is presented by arrangement with

Avalon Promotions Limited YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE (Mill Studio) Director Charlotte Conquest Mon – Fri, 10.00 - 18.00 Musical Director Niall Bailey T: 01483 440000 Designer Colin Mayes

Online Booking The Electric Theatre www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk Tickets £10, £9 Concessions

Winner of 6 Olivier Awards, this musical satirizes America’s trash TV culture taking a raucously irreverent look at religion, sexuality and popular culture. Based on the notorious TV talk show of the same name, this musical is an audacious and scandalous, yet ultimately moral and challenging show that’s recommended to anyone who can accept the odd dose of outrage in their lives.

This production is not recommended for under 16 years

26 27 Wed 13 – Fri 15 Feb 19.30 Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare THU 14 and FRI 15 Mar, 19.30 Director Sarah Malin The Ivy Studio The World Tickets £10, £9 Concessions Goes ‘Round Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of The Kander & Ebb Musical passion and violence has been adapted and produced for a schools Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb: Conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and David Thompson Wed 6 – Sat 9 Feb, 19.30 audience. Sat 9 Feb, 14.30 This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd. on behalf of Music Theatre International of New York

The Drowsy Chaperone Director Phyllida Crowley Smith

Music, Lyrics and Book by Lisa Lambert G-Live - Studio, Guildford and Greg Morrison, Bob Martin and Don Tickets: £10, £9 Concessions McKellarson A modern day musical theatre addict Fans of the Broadway songwriting duo Fred Ebb and John Kander Original Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone known simply as ‘Man in Chair’ drops the won’t want to miss The World Goes Round, an engaging musical revue produced by Kevin McCullum, Roy Miller, Bob Boyett, needle on his favourite LP. From the crackle embracing musicals from Chicago to Funny Girl, from New York, New York Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny 1928 to Kiss of the Spiderwoman. GSA brings you the best of this important musical magically bursts to life on stage, Broadway song-writing team in an evening of music offering a seamless, This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef telling the tale of a pampered Broadway uninterrupted roller-coaster ride from beginning to end. Weinberger Ltd. on behalf of Music Theatre International of New starlet who wants to give up show business York Rouses theatre-goers to their feet with its infectious tunes.... to get married, His infectious love of The Director: Michael Vivian Drowsy Chaperone speaks to anyone who Musical Director Peter Roberts has ever been transported by the theatre.

The Mill Studio at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Winner of Five Tony Awards including Tickets £10, £5 Student concessions available Best Book and Best Original Score

28 29 Sun 17 Mar, 17.00 and 20.00

GSA Singers present HERE’S WHERE I STAND Director Samantha Lloyd The 2013 GSA Singers present their Musical Director Peter Roberts annual ‘Electric’ concerts. These highly renowned performers are back for just The Electric Theatre two performances and will be delighting Tickets £12 [no concessions] audiences with songs from modern and traditional musicals, popular music featuring some well known favourites and lesser known gems.

Fri 22 and Sat 23 March, 19.30 Sat 23, 14.30 Smokey Joe’s Cafe Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited on behalf of R&H Theatricals

Director Kenn Oldfield Musical Director Steven Hill

The Ivy Studio Wed 20 – Sat 23 Mar, 19.30 Tickets £10, £9 Concessions Sat 23, 14.30 Legendary songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller virtually invented rock ‘n’ roll and their songs provide The Colour Of Justice the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates a golden age of American culture, in an Based on the transcripts idealised 50s setting. Classic themes of love won, of THE STEPHEN LAWRENCE INQUIRY lost and imagined blend with hilarious set-pieces and slice-of-life emotions. Not just pop music but Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor compelling musical theatre! An amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd and Oberon Books Five time Tony Award nominated and Grammy Director Trevor Rawlins Award winning Broadway musical

The Ivy Arts Centre Tickets £10, £9 Concessions

This dramatic reconstruction, based on the transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, was originally produced at the Tricycle Theatre in London. Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths in Eltham, South-East London in 1993. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict at the time, and the public inquiry into the investigation caused a national outcry when it found that the police force was guilty of ‘institutionalised racism’. The case was back in the news in early 2012, when two members of the gang (Gary Dobson and David Norris) were finally convicted of the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

This production contains strong language

30 31 classes clubs

Enquires and societies T: 01483 686641

Co-ordinator Jo Baker

E: [email protected]

Online booking www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts

SU poetry creative PHOTO- reading writers’ GRAPhic group group

SOCIETY Tue 13.00 - 14.00 Tue 13.00 - 14.00 29 Jan 15 Jan thursdays 26 Feb 19 Feb POTTERY Painting 18.00 - 20.00 26 Mar 19 Mar Classes and drawing Enquiries: 29 Apr 16 Apr E: [email protected] School of English and School of English and www.facebook.com/ussuphotosoc Mon 14 Jan - 18 Mar classes Languages, 55AC05 Languages: 55AC05 or Joining information: Admission free Admission free Wed 16 Jan - 20 Mar Wed 16 Jan - 20 Mar www.ussu.co.uk/photo Enquiries: Penny Rance Enquiries: Co-ordinator: Kate Brady 18.00 - 20.00 or Tel: 01483 686663 Fri 18 Jan - 22 Mar The Photographic Society is run Tel: 01483 684358 Pottery Workshop, through the Students’ Union and Email: [email protected] 18.00 - 20.00 Email: [email protected] Undercroft of Speirs Residence, is open to people of all abilities The Creative Writers’ Group meets The totally relaxed Poetry Battersea Court Lecture Theatre H and photographic backgrounds. on Tuesdays, usually the third Reading Group meets on the It operates as a forum for the Tuesday of the month. Meetings Fees: External £110, staff £95, Fees : External £95, staff £80, exchange of ideas and information last Tuesday of the month. offer a stimulating and supportive students and concessions £75 students and concessions £60 and to promote the work of its A delightful way to spend your environment for both novice and members. Work by the Society lunchtime reading poetry books Tutor: Karen Watson BA (Hons) Mixed ability classes from complete more experienced writers. Open members can be seen in the with others and chatting about Three Dimensional Design beginners to more advanced to University staff, students and Senate House Stairwell and the them. No knowledge of poetry is students. There is the opportunity members of the public over the 10 week courses. Mixed ability Ivy Arts Centre. The venue and necessary – just a spirit of curiosity to explore a considerable range age of 18. There is no need to book classes, suitable for beginners locations change with the various and adventure. of media during these ten week in advance, just turn up and join in. and more advanced students. courses. Materials supplied include: photographic workshops and Bring poetry to read, if you like. Limited availability, early booking watercolour, acrylic, chalk and oil shoots. If not, you can either just listen or recommended. pastels, charcoal, pencil and ink. pick a poem at random to read The subject matter is predominantly from anthologies available at the still life. These courses can be booked meetings. online. Open to all over the age of 18, Tutor: Annie Boisseau BA (Hons) this group is run in collaboration Fine Art (Wed) between the University’s Centre for Tutor: William Lawrence BA (Hons) Wellbeing and the Department of Fine Art, PGCE (Fri) English.

32 33 book Mon 21 Jan MARY ANN IN AUTUMN circle by Armistead Maupin

Co-ordinator: Jo Baker Introduced by David Page T: 01483 686641 E: [email protected]

Admission free Mon 18 Feb

The University Book Circle meets PEREIRA MAINTAINS monthly, usually on the third by Antonio Tabucchi Monday of the month from Introduced by Leslie Powell 17.30 – 19.00. Meetings take place in the Lewis Elton Gallery where FRI 15 and SAT 16 MARCH you can enjoy the latest exhibitions Mon 18 Mar while reviewing selected books. SURREY NEW THE GINGER TREE by Oswald Wynd WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Dive down the rabbit hole and follow Alice to the Introduced by Jo Baker first annual Surrey New Writers Festival – a literary wonderland where writers from the community and the University of Surrey can interact with text Mon 15 Apr in dynamic and contemporary fashions. This literary THE OTHER HAND festival will feature a variety of workshops, discussion by Chris Cleave panels, interactive tours and competitions. This year’s programme will celebrate Guildford’s Introduced by Avril Kirkpatrick historical connection with renowned author, Lewis Carroll, with a fantastical Alice in Wonderland Cabaret evening. There will also be specialist workshops on translation, digital texts, film, screenwriting, and song writing. Industry experts, such as editors and agents, will be amongst the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts and other familiar faces, ready to offer tips and advice to all aspiring writers.

34 35 OUR CREATIVE HUB: General Linking the Public, Research and Student Work Information Thomas Heatherwick, designer Research Guildford School of the beautiful and ingenious Questioning, challenging, testing, of Acting Olympic Flame Cauldron, said playing, looking for originality or An integral part of the School of This calendar is produced by the School of Arts. University of Surrey Box Office that the spirit of Danny Boyle’s explanation are at the centre of Arts, the GSA is a conservatoire Arts Administrator and Executive Director of Olympic Opening Ceremony was all universities. At Surrey we invite with an international reputation Box Office: Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00 Guildford International Music Festival: Patricia Grayburn about connecting with ‘people and a wide range of audiences to for excellence in training actors Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, T: 01483 689167 rooting things, rather than them enjoy, challenge, debate and even and technicians to professional Guildford, GU2 7XH E: [email protected] just being up in the air like a dream disagree with our investigations standards in all areas of theatre T: 01483 686876 in the sky’.1 E: [email protected] and findings in performances, and the recorded media. Artistic Director Guildford International Music Festival: exhibitions, talks and seminars. www.surrey.ac.uk/arts This grounded approach applies to Productions at the Ivy Art Centre, Pauline Johnson We want our audiences to the various activities of the School Yvonne Arnaud, Electric Theatre T: 01483 689690 Most events are now available to book online: explore with us and we value your of Arts, a creative hub where and London venues, whether E: [email protected] www.surrey.ac.uk/arts feedback on our events. students, staff and professional musical or contemporary theatre, School of Arts Co-ordinator: Sally Anne Lowe Advanced booking is advised for all events. visitors come together to extend are thrilling, enjoyable experiences. Lewis Elton Gallery T: 01483 686155 their creativity, curiosity and The Lewis Elton Art Gallery E: [email protected] Please note there are reduced opening hours and imagination, rooted in the reality is situated at the heart of the closed periods over Christmas and Easter holidays. of bringing academic research, University of Surrey’s campus, Assistant Arts Administrator: Jo Baker Please call the Box Office for further information. student development and artistic adjacent to the Learning Resource T: 01483 686641 practice into the public arena. Centre. Gallery staff work with E: [email protected] University of Surrey Arts Mailing List The events in this brochure many artists, academics and Marketing Co-ordinator (Events): Madeleine Gibb creative practitioners to curate are presented by the School of T: 01483 684046 Sign up to receive regular updates about arts an extensive and invigorating Arts. Our degree programmes E: [email protected] at the University of Surrey: schedule of exhibitions and events; cover Dance, Film, Music, Sound www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/signup Faculty Events Officer: Rebecca Williams Recording and Theatre and our they are also responsible for the T: 01483 683549 Facebook and Twitter: public events revolve around these maintenance of the University E: [email protected] www.facebook.com/universityofsurreyarts disciplines and artforms. Other Art Collection as well as a range of special collections. Previews www.twitter.com/uniofsurreyarts distinct strands of our creative hub include: are open to all and offer the opportunity to meet the artists. Patrons with Data Protection 1 Interview with Louise Jury, The Telegraph, 30 July 2012 special requirements If we have mailed this calendar to you, your details Please discuss your requirements with the Box Office are safeguarded under the Data Protection Act. when booking in advance, so that we may answer your However, we do work with other arts organisations queries, reserve parking spaces or wheelchair places in Surrey to promote arts events across the region, GUILDFORD ARTS and this may occasionally result in reciprocal mailings. Join Guildford Arts or simply tell you more information about our facilities and discuss ways in which we can help to make your Please let us know if you do not wish to receive such The rich and extensive arts experiences in Guildford need nurture and visit more enjoyable. There is an access ramp to the arts information and if you object to the possible particularly, more exposure. Guildford Arts promotes the arts by PATS building, and wheelchair spaces can be provided disclosure of your name and address to another local arts organisation. • Maintaining a general arts web site – www.guildfordarts.com – which all for all performances. The Lewis Elton Gallery and the arts organisations can use to promote their activities and events, giving Sponsor of the Ivy Arts Centre are both on the ground floor and are Guildford International Music Festival 2013 the public a comprehensive opportunity to see what’s available. easily accessible. Disabled parking is available outside the different venues by prior arrangement and an • Producing a magazine – ‘News & Views’ – which gives arts organisations Become a supporter. Join Guildford access leaflet is available upon request. Large print a complementary printed outlet. Arts on the web site for £10 a year. notes and programmes can be provided with prior • Sponsoring major arts oriented events e.g. the Guildford Book Festival, Enjoy many fine artistic events each notice. the Guildford International Music Festival and many others year with lectures, sociability, wine • Running a small grants scheme to encourage initiatives by arts and refreshments. Play your part in The information in this organisations and practitioners to develop a good new idea. sustaining the wider artistic life of Guildford and the surrounding area. brochure is available in • Curating several professional visual arts exhibitions a year including the renowned summer exhibition at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. www.guildfordarts.com large print on request. 36 37 Arts Buildings 1 Guildford School of Acting (GSA) Academic Buildings 2 Ivy Arts Centre and Box Office Central Facilities 3 Studios (PATS) Pay & Main Car Park Main Car Park Accommodation Display 4 Lewis Elton Art Gallery, Arts Office Parking Learning Resource Centre AQA 5 Austin Pearce Building Car Park Entrance Exit Car Parks 6 School of Management Bus stops 7 Lecture Theatre Block Disabled Parking 8 Senate House Railway 9 Wates House 6 MS 10 University Hall 5 AP AQA 11 Nodus PATS field Car AQA Park BA 12LakePottery Workshop CS ES BC BB 11 NC ATI Terry’s Car Park 1 Pond AD AC AB AA 1 2 3 PATS London GSA Ivy 4 Arts Art Gallery Centre 7 LT PM 8 SE TB AW DK AZ AY AX A3 HA University 10 Students’ Main Entrance University Hall Union

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Manor Park The Surrey Research Park Guildford Guildford The Surrey Sports Park Railway Royal Surrey County Hospital Station How to get By Rail By Bus By Road VISITOR Parking The University is only ten minutes Arriva bus numbers 17, 27 and From the A3, take the exit marked Mon - Fri, 09.00 - 17.00: to the University of Surrey walk from Guildford Station. 37 run from the Friary Bus Station with the brown mortar board Visitors should use the Pay & Alternatively there is a bus that runs to the campus. There are several sign for the University, NOT the Display Car Park near the Main frequently from the centre of town bus stops on campus, which are Guildford Town Centre exit. Car Park. via the station to the University. clearly signposted. Mon - Fri, after 17.00 Guildford is on the main London Traveline bus information and Sat - Sun, all day: (Waterloo) to Portsmouth line, with 0870 6082608 Parking is free. Visitors should use a good service. Train information the Main Car Park or Car Park 1. 08457 484950

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