Theatre l Music & Dance l Comedy l Film l Visual Arts January to April ‘10
... the creative heart of the community Friends
What’s On Welcome to 2010 at the Queen’s Hall Join our circle of Friends and We’ve got a great season lined up for you, with some of the best support the North East’s most 03 Queen’s Hall Friends * shows out on tour this Spring, including Trestle’s Moon Fool, Blackeyed vibrant Arts Centre. 04 January Theatre’s production of Alfie, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, and my favourite from the last Edinburgh Festival, 2Faced Dance with their 20% off tickets 06 February hip hop spectacular. And it’s not just great shows! Spreading across * 2 free tickets each season 09 March both galleries in February to banish the winter blues will be the * exclusive ticket exchange 13 April spectacular Contemporary African Art from the October Gallery in * London - a highlight of our annual exhibition programme. scheme Queen’s Hall Friends 14 Visual Arts special friends events As well as programming top professional artists we support a large 16 Taking Part * variety of community based activities. In this brochure you’ll find many Become a member of the Queen’s Hall 20 Season’s Diary shows from local amateurs, clubs and other groups. Our community Friends. Enjoy a range of great benefits for Exclusive Ticket Exchange Scheme 21 Seating Plan programme at the Queen’s Hall includes over 50 performances a year you and your friends. And save money! with an audience of more than 10,000, and a wide range of classes * Newsletter with advance details of each 20% off tickets for you and your guest 22 Box Office Info and workshops. * new season * to QHA-promoted shows 23 Booking Your Tickets 10% discount in the Exchange Café Outside Hexham we’re delivering rural touring, mobile cinema and A complimentary seat for you and your * craft workshops. We’ve recently launched a youth dance development * guest each season to a selected QHA programme and a drama summer school to serve the whole of show All this for a yearly payment Northumberland. It’s going to be a busy year with something for Exclusive invitations to special Friends of only £20. everyone - join us, it’s fun! * events Free postage of tickets Ring the Box Office to join. Geof Keys * Artistic Director | Queen’s Hall Arts Student Standby Tickets
Our Student Standby Scheme aims to encourage young people to gain inexpensive access to the arts. The Student Standby Scheme allows any person aged over 13 yrs and in full time education to buy a ticket to a Queen's Hall Arts-promoted show in the 24 hours www.queenshall.co.uk before curtain-up for the reduced price of £2.50.
... the creative heart of the community These seats can’t be reserved and will only be available in person at the Box Office. A valid student card or proof of age (under 18) must be shown. 21 3 4 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 ikt:£12.00 | £6.00 (student) Tickets: Horowitz there is music for all listeners. jazz. Between Jeremiah Clarke, Bach and Renaissance to contemporary music and and varied repertoire ranging from perform as a quintet. They have lively have extended their partnership to the nucleus of most orchestras in area Five Durham-based brass players who form Friday 15 January 7.45pm Prince Bishops Brass Ensemble presents Hexham & District Music Society £10.00 Tickets: the lamp! laundry to the palace - and even inside to riches and back again, from the as the Twankey family career from poverty 2.00pm Washee, and many more lovable Wishee Twankey,rascally Genie, frantic Widow Meet sprightly Aladdin, evil Abanazar, a Saturday 9 January 7.00pm Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 January 27 Up Pantomime - Aladdin Clubs present Northumberland Young Farmers’ £6.00 (14yrs and under) £1.00 (schoolchildren) Tickets: £8.50 l £4.00 (student) circuit. some of the best comedy on national Laugh your new Christmas socks off with In the Exchange Café Saturday 16 January 8.30pm Comedy Club Tickets: £4.00 Running time: 1hr 55mins Golightly (Audrey Hepburn). (1961) by his pretty, quirky neighbour Holly apartment building and becomes intrigued A struggling writer moves into a New York Saturday 16 January 7.30pm Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG) Film in the Theatre | £3.00 (Friends) Tickets: £3.00 on the door Tickets: Carroll Trio. Then sit back and enjoy guests, the Paul in an informal and supportive atmosphere. with the rhythm section of evening gig-type setting. Come and play along This is your opportunity to play in a In the Exchange Café 8.00pm - Jam Session Thursday 21 January 8.00pm Jazz Club Box Office 01434 652477 Book through Queen’s Hall Tickets: £20 includes all materials For aged 16 yrs + provided but bring lunch. the birds flocking. Refreshments individual decorations to keep clay. There’s plenty of scope for feeder in a day using terracotta Build your own ceramic bird at the Burnlaw Centre, Whitfield. Ceramic Workshop with Sue Dunne Saturday 23 January 10.00am - 4.00pm Burnlaw Craft Workshops Under 18’s free
WORKSHOP Tickets: £8.00 Suitable for all the family. show has it all! contemporary and jazz to hip hop, this Dance. From ballet to breakdancing, tap students of Hexham's own Terpsichore A showcase of dance presented by the Friday 29 - Saturday 30 January 7.00pm Step to It! l £8.00 (conc) £9.00 Tickets: average age 10yrs, will perform. produced the version that TAPA cast, amateur groups for the script, Parker countless requests from schools and look at the life of gangsters. After Prohibition era, it takes a light hearted based on events in Chicago during the featuring a cast of only children. Loosely musical film from director Sir Alan Parker Bugsy Malone started life as a 1976 £6.50 (Under 16’s & Over 65’s) 2.00pm & 6.00pm 23 January Saturday Bugsy Malone presents Performing Arts Academy of Tynedale
5 January Hexham & District Music Society presents Soojin Han with Mariangela Vacatello (piano)
Friday 12 February 7.45pm
Soojin Han left her native Korea at the February age of two to come to England where she attended the Menuhin and Purcell Schools. Beginning the violin at the age of eight, she was the youngest ever prize winner at the Wieniawski Competition and comes to Hexham with Countess of Munster sponsorship. The programme will include sonatas by Beethoven, Film in the Theatre Prokoviev and Ravel. Easter Parade (U) Tickets: £12.00 | £6.00 (student) 2Faced Dance Company presents Thursday 11 February 7.30pm £1.00 (schoolchildren) Still Breathing Fred Astaire plays one half of a top Saturday 6 February 7.30pm Broadway dance team whose partner (Ann Miller) goes off to strike it alone. Stunning athleticism, explosive abstract Finding an untried unknown (Judy breaking and masculine vulnerability Jazz in the Café Garland) he grooms her to fill the same combine in a highly charged, gritty new Paul Edis Sextet shoes. Romance and jealousies inevitably work which explores the space we occupy. Friday 5 February 8.00pm ensue. (1948) Set to an electrifyingly intense and specially commissioned score, this is an Running time: 1hr 47mins hour of unstoppable, seemingly Tickets: £4.00 | £3.00 (Friends) impossible, movement; a dynamic blend of hip-hop and contemporary dance, performed by the all male company Burnlaw Craft Workshops Make your own beautiful bag,
Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 01434 office: box the Call l www.queenshall.co.uk online: Book purse or tool holder from leather described as “a force to be reckoned with” Saturday 13 - Sunday 14 February with the guidance of a master by the The Scotsman and “they dance like 10.00am - 4.00pm adrenalin junkies” by The Times. leather worker. Refreshments One of the most in demand jazz pianists in Two Day Leather Workshop with included but bring lunches. Tickets: £10.00 | £9.00 (conc) the area, Paul appears regularly with John Simon Potts at the Burnlaw Centre, This is a two day course. £8.00 (Friends) | £5.00 (student) Whitfield. Warren's Splinter Group, Voice of the Accommodation is possible North and a host of other bands. This through the Burnlaw Centre. sextet, an expanded version of his trio, “shows signs of becoming one of the most For 16 yrs + accomplished and original new bands of Tickets: £40 plus additional cost recent years” Jazz North East Website. of the leather used Supported by Jazz Action. Book through Queen’s Hall Box Office 01434 652477 Tickets: £7.50 | £6.00 (Friends) WORKSHOP 6 £4.00 (student) 7 8 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Tickets: £8.50 In the Exchange Café Friday 19 February 8.30pm Comedy Club £3.00 on the door Tickets: sit back and enjoy guests, The Jump Leads. informal and supportive atmosphere. Then the rhythm section of evening in an gig-type setting. Come and play along with This is your opportunity to play in a In the Exchange Café 8.00pm - Jam Session Thursday 18 February 8.00pm Jazz Club Tickets: £6.00 of the Drama competition. Northumberland YFC in the next round from the final will then represent for the final. The winning performance with the top three performances qualifying of eliminators in the Drama Competition, Northumberland compete in two nights Young Farmers’ Clubs from across Final: 7.00pm Monday 15 - Tuesday 16 February Eliminators: audy2 eray 6.00pm Saturday 20 February £4.00 (16yrs and under / conc) Under 18’s free Drama Competition Young Farmers’ Clubs Northumberland | £4.00 (student) national circuit. comedy on the some of the best warmers off with Laugh your winter Tickets: £10.00 Moon Fool is supported by South Hill Park Suitable for ages 13+. of Shakespeare’s well-loved play. is an emotive and inventive re-imagining acrobatic movement with original text, this Balkan folk with circus jazz and playful Midsummer Night’s Dream. Combining into different characters from A Mountain produced by Trestle ( emerging company Moon Fool and In this brand new show created by summer’s night. that changes the course of one hot Together, they create a heady confusion tries to puckishly lead them astray. a Queen fall in and out of love, Fool Deep in the heart of forest, a King and Tuesday 23 February 7.30pm Moon Fool Trestle & Moon Fool presents £8.00 (Friends) ), three performers transform | £9.00 (conc) Lola | £5.00 (student) and The Glass
Photographer: Joel Chester Fildes Tickets: £10.00 journey to understanding her mother. mystical power of henna and one girl’s this is a joyous and moving story about the Based on real stories from Muslim women discover some unexpected truths. tongues of relatives, she is about to friends, and surrounded by wagging monsoon rain, not being able to text no fun for 13-year-old Nasreen. In the family village thousands of miles away is Being dragged by her mother back to the Thursday 4 March 7.30pm Handful of Henna Company presents Rasa and Oxfordshire Theatre Pakistan Cultural Society. Presented in partnership with £8.00 (Friends) | £9.00 (conc) | £5.00 (student) Tickets: Pay on the door £2.50 per session Tickets: evening concerts see page 12. Festival including piano classes and For more details about the Tynedale Music Saturday 6 March 9.30am Tynedale Music Festival (Vocals) Tickets: £14.00 English Song. county with a wonderful programme of Visiting Hexham brings him to his native the major opera houses of world. Andrew Kennedy has sung in most of Cardiff Singer of the World competition, Since winning the Lieder prize at Friday 5 March 7.45pm with Roger Vignoles (piano) Andrew Kennedy (Tenor) presents Hexham & District Music Society £1.00 (schoolchildren) | £7.00 (student)
9 March Jazz in the Café Comedy Club Gerry Richardson Trio Friday 12 March 8.30pm Northern Harmony Concert Saturday 6 March 8.00pm In the Exchange Café Friday 12 March 7.30pm In Hexham Abbey Gerry Richardson's
unique approach to Northern Harmony, a powerful singing group based in March the huge, immediate Vermont USA, is renowned for its command of varied world ethnic singing styles. This group of gifted, committed singers, sound of the led by Larry Gordon and Patty Cuyler, world authorities on a capella vocal traditions, Hammond organ, will be working with students from QEHS, Hexham Middle Schools and Tynedale combined with Garry Community Choir, all of whom will join them in this feast of compelling music. Linsley's soulful saxophone and Paul Smith's consummate Laugh your March Hares off with some of Tickets: £6.00 | £3.00 (conc) drumming, makes the band sound so much the best comedy on the national circuit. bigger than a trio! Gerry also has a long Tickets: £8.50 | £4.00 (student) Vocal Workshop with Informal Ceilidh - A Right association with one of the North East’s Northern Harmony Good Song and Dance favourite sons, Sting, having formed the Saturday 13 March 1.30pm - 5.30 pm Saturday 13 March 7.30pm band Last Exit with him in the seventies. At Allendale Village Hall At Allendale Village Hall Supported by Jazz Action. An afternoon of vibrant song led by Larry A lively, spontaneous evening of music, Tickets: £7.50 | £6.00 (Friends) Gordon and Patty Cuyler. Open to singers song and dancing led by David Oliver £4.00 (student) of all levels of experience, with a and the members of Northern Harmony performance at the evening’s ceilidh. with Tynedale Community Choir. Tickets: £10.00 | £6.00 (conc) Tickets: £5.00 | £3.00 (conc) All supported by Queen’s Hall Arts. Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham Thursday 11 March 7.30pm Tynedale Academy of Jazz Club With their extraordinary skills, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have taken their respective Performing Arts Thursday 18 March 8.00pm instruments, fiddle and accordion, to new heights, and have both been honoured with the presents MBE and several honorary doctorates between them for their services to Scottish Music. 8.00pm - Jam Session Applause, Applause They were also winners of the Best Duo Award at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2005. In the Exchange Café Saturday 13 March Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 01434 office: box the Call l www.queenshall.co.uk online: Book Aly Bain is the best known and most significant 2.00pm & 6.00pm This is your opportunity to play in a fiddle player in the celtic tradition. He is rightly gig-type setting. Come and play along with regarded as Scotland's supreme fiddler - arguably TAPA is proud to present its first revue; a the rhythm section of the evening in an the finest of all time. Phil Cunningham is a world show which combines music, dance and informal and supportive atmosphere. Then famous accordion player and composer. Trained sketches. Devised by the students, the sit back and enjoy guests, The Blue Jazz classically in the accordion and violin he light-hearted sketches cover topics ranging Quintet with Karen Rann (sax) and later joined the highly acclaimed from society’s obsession with television, Caroline Lee (keys). Scottish band Silly Wizard. especially The X Factor, to love, Tickets: £3.00 on the door disappointment, family relationships and Tickets: £15.00 | £12.00 (Friends) Under 18’s free £10.00 (student) even jealousy. Dance numbers demonstrate a variety of choreographic styles and the sung pieces embrace folk, pop, rock & musical theatre traditions. 10 Tickets: £9.00 | £8.00 (conc) 11 12 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Tickets: £10.00 In association with South Hill Park Arts Centre too deeply. anyone or anything that might touch him conquest to conquest, carefully rejecting swaggers and philosophises his way from tells the story of a cockney ‘Don Juan’ who pathos, along with live 60s music, as it Alfie combines great comedy and genuine desire for the ladies. about a young man with an overwhelming Alfie; the brilliant, original stage play of Bill Naughton’s classic comedy drama, What A Lovely War From the company that brought us Friday 19 March 7.30pm Alfie Blackeyed Theatre presents £8.00 (Friends) | | £9.00 (conc) comes a major revival £5.00 (student) Oh Tickets: £2.50 per session for festival categories. music from the winners of featuring a diverse assortment of Concert of Festival Highlights the festival, as well Evening Vocal Day and the Piano classes of Queen’s Hall Arts will be hosting the other categories. strings, woodwind, choral, folk and including brass, piano, recorder, many different musical categories opportunity to meet and compete in ages from across the north east Festival has offered musicians of all Since 1904, the Tynedale Music Highlights Evening Concert of Festival 6.15pm Saturday 20 March All day Piano Classes Saturday 20 March Festival Music Tynedale Queen’s Hall Box Office Book through £5.00 Evening Concert: Pay on the door Piano Classes:
Photograph courtesy of the Hexham Courant in go back to the nursing home, Elsie is And just when you thought it was safe to day…watching you! Watcher; he is on duty 24 hours a Watch ikt:£10.00 | £9.00 Tickets: writer Tom Kelly. There will also be readings by the show’s is doing to his family? club members but does he know what everyone’s business from the committee to is Keeping the door at a working men's club sweet as she seems? outside but what about inside? Is she as old spinster, a lovely granny figure on the Elsie of Jarrow-born playwright Tom Kelly. Talking Tom is the hilarious monologues Wednesday 24 March 7.30pm Talking Tom presents The Customs House The Club Doorman present or gift? Stuck for the ideal birthday QHA GIFT VOUCHERS Elsie Rides Again looks at a seemingly sweet 77 year is the ultimate Neighbourhood £8.00 (Friends) | £5.00 (student) ! . He knows Neighbourhood (conc) 01434 652477 for details. Contact the Box Office on redeemable against performances? Why not give a QHA gift voucher, Tickets: £4.00 | £3.00 (Friends) Running time: 1hr 40mins big screen. (1987) watch it again on the time of your life and Jennifer Grey. Have the Patrick Swayze and Classic cult film starring Thursday 1 April 7.30pm £9.00 | £8.00 (conc) Tickets: New York. Weinberger Ltd on behalf of R&H Theatricals production is presented by arrangement with Josef Grahame. Adapted by Jane Iredale. This amateur Perry.and William Based on the novel by Kenneth Perry.Music by William Lyrics by Roger McGough friends have a lot to contend with. the Evil Weasels’ wicked ways, Mole and Toad’s mischievous motoring mishaps and of Kenneth Grahame’s popular book. With new friend Ratty in this musical adaptation home to begin a life full of adventure with Join Mole as she leaves her underground 2.00pm & 7.30pm 7.30pm Saturday 27 March Friday 26 March The Wind in the Willows presents Jemms Performance Company Dirty Dancing (12A) Film in the Theatre
13 March Jazz in the Café Ruth Lambert Quintet Thursday 1 April 8.00pm Visual Arts / April Ruth Lambert is an accomplished and Dreamt Vessels - versatile jazz singer based in the north Aether and Hemera east of England, and one of the UK’s most Saturday 9 January - classy and distinctive jazz vocalists. Saturday 20 February Whether fronting a big band or working with one or two other musicians to create GALLERY ONE - FREE ENTRY a more intimate vibe, Ruth has won herself Filling Gallery One with beautiful, blue Contemporary African Art the reputation among her contemporaries lighted ‘ships’ Milan-born artists Aether Saturday 27 February - Saturday 17 April as ‘the musician’s singer’. and Hemera hope that the glowing GALLERY ONE & TWO - FREE ENTRY Supported by Jazz Action. Dreamt Vessels will allow viewers to travel and sail with absolute freedom to Tickets: £7.50 | £6.00 (conc) Contemporary African Art will be the all the places they care to imagine. £4.00 (student) biggest exhibition QHA will be hosting this Aether and Hemera’s installations year and is a rare opportunity to see work explore light’s creative and artistic from artists living and working in Africa potential and are crafted to generate a today. Curated by the October Gallery in Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 01434 office: box the Call l www.queenshall.co.uk online: Book Comedy Club sense of joy in everyone. Dreamt Vessels London, the paintings, textiles, sculpture Friday 9 April 8.30pm aims to inspire people to think creatively and prints will fill the lower and upper about the spaces around them. Galleries. In the Exchange Café Laugh your Easter eggs off with some of Pukka Prints the best comedy Saturday 9 January - Saturday 20 February GALLERY TWO - FREE ENTRY on the national This is a collection of quirky and original prints created in art sessions at the Tynedale circuit. Centre. Using a variety of printmaking techniques, including relief printing, Tickets: £8.50 | £4.00 (student) monoprinting and collography, the group has also been making cyanotypes (the original blueprints) using natural materials, such as feathers and plants, resulting in strikingly beautiful prints, both on paper and fabric. 14 15 16 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Sophy Ball. An exciting youth folk band led by Starts Monday 11 January Queen’s Hall Arts Centre. Mondays 5.45pm till 7.15pm at the Down in the Attic Jackie Craig on 01670 533526 For more information contact pre-Grade 1 to Grade 3. Lively junior strings orchestra for Starts Saturday 9 January Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Saturday Mornings at the Hexham Junior Strings Music on 01434 652482 or email [email protected] For more information about Queen's Hall Arts Outreach contact Holly Clay building as their commission with local artists comes to a spring time conclusion. schools throughout the area. Look out for Phoenix in new Priory School Queen’s Hall Arts will also be supporting the developments of arts programmes in Prudhoe and Silver Singing & Mature Movement sessions along the Tyne Valley. There will be experimental film workshops with young people in Haltwhistle & traditional musicians into local schools. food culture and with the Hexham Gathering placing some of country’s best the North Tyne and Redesdale area on a community project themed around local schools and communities. This season we are working with Hexham Book Festival in Queen’s Hall Arts outreaches works across Northumberland delivering arts projects in Schools and Community Queen’s Hall Arts Outreach Projects more. or call Louise 01434 682040 to find out Book through Box Office 01434 652477 £35 / £23 (conc) for the term Starts Monday 11 January Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Mondays 4.00pm - 5.30pm at the Minims Junior Choir available. Come and join in!. regularly and most of all have fun! Places voices, learn to sing in harmony, perform children are encouraged to develop their musician and teacher Louise Khazaee, some percussion. Led by Sessions incorporate folk & show music. sings rounds, spirituals, Minims Junior Choir For ages 7-12 years, 0191 272 1435 / 07899 743380 More details from Sue Amey welcome. musician Modou Mane. New beginners West African Drumming with Senegalese Tuesday evenings at The Artspace, Hexham West African Drumming Classes Jane Dammers 01434 604512 For more information contact David Oliver. spirituals, folk and world music. Led by Sing, relax and unwind with rounds, Starts Monday 11 January Hexham Community Church Mondays 8.00pm; meet in Tynedale Community Choir £35 / £23 (conc) for the term music. playing contemporary and traditional folk Led by Sophy Ball, Toble is a youth band Starts Monday 11 January Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Mondays 7.30pm - 9.00pm at the Toble Ring Louise on 01434 682040 to book 9.30am and 11.00am at The Hearth. Mondays 1.00pm & Wednesdays Horsley Book through Box Office 01434 652477 £30 for six week term (inc. coffee and cake) 1.00pm & 2.30pm at St Mary’s Church Hall. Sessions start on Tuesday 5 January Hexham also welcome. song for toddlers from age 1. Baby siblings Joyful exploration in to rhythm, dance and Squeaky Feet Book through Box Office 01434 652477 £33 for six week term (inc. coffee and cake) 9.30am & 11.00am at St Mary’s Church Hall. Sessions start on Tuesday 5 January Hexham nursery rhymes. enjoy with your baby through songs and A magical, musical journey for you to Singing Babies Box Office Queen’s Hall to book a place Unless specified, call the Booking your place 01434 652477 to book 01434 682040 Ring Louise on at The Hearth. Wednesday 1.00pm & 11.00am and Mondays 9.30am Horsley
17 Taking Part 18 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 [email protected] find out more, contact 01768 353954 or To receive a Highlights brochure or to world. puppetry and comedy from around the funding for performances of music, theatre, Bellingham and Prudhoe provides Haydon Bridge, Henshaw, Newbrough, local promoters in Greenhead, Wark, your doorstep. Queen’s Hall Arts supports which brings high quality entertainment to Highlights is a Community Touring Scheme Touring Scheme Highlights Community aged 8-14yrs. young performers and theatre–makers from group will meet weekly and is open to environment. This new skills-based theatre and confidence in a safe fun writing and set design, expand your skills From acting and movement to script Tuesday 12 January 4.00pm - 5.30pm Starts at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre on Queen’s Hall Arts Youth Theatre Theatre This project is supported by Dance City and Youth Dance England. contact Holly Clay at Queen's Hall Arts on [email protected] To find out about opportunities near you visit www.youthdancenortheast.co.uk or Morpeth, Alnwick, Berwick, Ashington and Cramlington. and setting up new high quality projects across six zones - Hexham, for young people in the County. We are supporting existing initiatives funding, support and direct activity to increase dance opportunities Queen's Hall Arts has recently begun an ambitious project providing Northumberland Dance Hub [email protected] Development, Queen’s Hall Arts or email Holly Clay, Arts Outreach and For an application pack, please write to in February. are being fundraised for. Auditions will be cost to participate but subsidised places on their career aspirations. There will be a inspiring and have a profound influence residential programme that will be both to two weeks of intensive work on a passionate about theatre and committed from across Northumberland and must be Participants, aged 16-19, will be recruited companies. groups and professional theatre performances by regional youth theatre participants at the Queen’s Hall, alongside presentation of two productions by the professional artists culminating in the Sunday 25 July to Saturday 7 August 2010 Theatre Festival Northumberland Youth of work led by week programme Festival; a two Youth Theatre Northumberland producing the first Queen’s Hall Arts is age on your entry; closing date for entries is remember to put your name, address and [email protected] (Please Hexham, NE46 3LS or emailed to Book Festival, Office 4, Queen’s Hall, Submissions should be sent to Hexham to Sunday 2 May 2010. Hexham Book Festival, Wednesday 28 April story read by a professional actor at the book tokens and the chance to have your Superhero Pet’. Prizes include £50 worth of more than 1000 words, entitled ‘My Tickets: £55.00 presence in what and how we write. importance of a sense place and adults, led by Linda France, will explore the These practical fortnightly sessions for Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Six evenings 6.15pm - 8.30pm at Thursday 4 February - Thursday 15 April Creative Writing Course You Are Here Thursday 1 April). Short Story Competition Literature Box Office Queen’s Hall to book a place Unless specified, call the Booking your place the best stories, of not Spy Dog, Lara) to choose author Andy Cope (and his invited award-winning Hexham Book Festival have Queen’s Hall Arts & aged 9 to 13 years; Calling all Young Authors 01434 652477 Henshaw First School Before Sunrise Fri 12 Mar Comrades Club, Haltwhistle Age of Stupid Tues 9 Mar Comrades Club, Haltwhistle Goodnight Mister Tom Fri 26 Feb TheWallace Arms, Featherstone Drink Man Woman Eat Fri 12 Feb The Apartment At Greenhead Village Hall Fri 8 Jan T: 01434 320360 South Tyne Cinema Circuit All at Slaley Commemoration Hall Mountain Patrol Mar (Kekexili) 19 Fri of Rambow Son Vicky Cristina Barcelona Fri 19 Feb Fri 15 Jan Slaley Film Club All at Allendale Village Hall Slumdog Millionaire Mon 8 Mar at the Gates Enemy Mon 8 Feb Inkheart Mon 11 Jan Allendale Film Club Film Stocksfield. Tarset, Allendale, Ovingham and Bardon Mill (South Tyne), Bellingham, Slaley, Wylam, Henshaw (South Tyne), Film clubs supported by QHA include an eye out for a screening near you. village halls, schools and film clubs - keep Tynedale each year! Films are shown at providing 80-90 film screenings across promotes a rural film programme Centre in Hexham, Queen’s Hall Arts As well as showing films at the Arts Cinema Mobile (PG) (12A) (15) (18) (12A) (15) (15) (PG) (PG) (12) (15)
19 Taking Part 20 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 hr1 ac Jz lb11 10 11 11 11 11 9 10 9 Jazz Club Ceilidh at Allendale Village Hall Informal 10 TAPA presents Applause, Applause 8 Vocal Workshop at Allendale Village Hall Harmony at Hexham Abbey Northern Thur 18 March 8 Comedy Club Sat 13 March 8 9 Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham Sat 13 March in the Café - Gerry Richardson Trio Jazz 15 Sat 13 March 8 Tynedale Music Festival Fri 12 March Andrew Kennedy (Tenor) with Roger Vignoles (piano) Fri 12 March of Henna Handful Thur 11 March 6 Sat 6 March 8 Sat 6 March Fri 5 March Thurs 4 March 7 Moon Fool March 5 YFC Drama Competition Final Contemporary African Art 5 6 7 7 Comedy Club 5 Sat 27 Feb – Sat 17 Apr Jazz Club Tues 23 February 4 Sat 20 February Fri 19 February Soojin Han with Mariangela Vacatello (piano) Leather Workshop at Burnlaw Centre YFC Drama Competition Thurs 18 February Film in the Theatre - Easter Parade (U) Still Breathing Mon 15 Feb – Tues 16 Feb 5 Jazz in the Café - Paul Edis Sextet Sat 13 – Sun 14 Feb 14-15 4 Fri 12 February 14 Thurs 11 February Sat 6 February Fri 5 February 4 Bugsy Malone February to It! Step Ceramic Workshop at Burnlaw Centre 4 Jazz Club Fri 29 Jan - Sat 30 Comedy Club Film in the Theatre - Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG) Sat 23 January Prince Bishop Brass Ensemble Sat 23 January Thurs 21 January Sat 16 January Pukka Prints Sat 16 January Dreamt Vessels Fri 15 January 27 Up Pantomime - Aladdin Sat 9 Jan – 20 Feb Sat 9 Jan – 20 Feb Thurs 7 Jan - Sat 9 January Page Front 14 Auditorium Main 14 12 13 Balcony 13 13 12 Seating Plan Comedy Club Lambert Quintet Ruth Film in the Theatre - Dirty Dancing (12A) Fri 9 April Thurs 1 April Thurs 1 April Talking Tom Tynedale Music Festival April in the Willows Wind Alfie Fri 26 Mar - Sat 27 Wed 24 March Sat 20 March Fri 19 March March W1716 U1716 V1716 X1716 Y1716 Z16 M Q G N D H K B R E P F L J A14 C14 S 514 15 14 15 15 14 15 15 14 15 14 15 14 15 15 14 15 514 15 14 15 14 15 14 15 413 14 413 14 13 14 13 14 15 15 15 10 11 12 15 13 14 15 15 312 13 12 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 41 12 13 14 12 13 14 12 13 14 12 13 14 12 13 14 211 12 21 09 10 11 12 9 10 11 12 12 12 21 09 10 11 12 9 10 11 12 9 12 10 11 9 12 10 11 9 12 10 11 9 12 10 11 9 12 10 11 9 12 10 11 12 9 10 11 12 110 11 10 11 110 11 110 11 10 11 09 10 11 9 10 11 10 11 9 10 11 9 10 11 9 10 11 9 7 98 9 9 9 876 87 8 8 8 8 5 876 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 5 876 8 5 876 8654 9876 5 9876 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 876 876 876 876 6 6 5 5 54 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4321 43 4 4 4 4 43 4 43 4 4 43 4 4 43 4 5 5 5 5 3 321 321 321 321 321 321 321 321 321 321 432 4 4 4 4 2 21S 2 2 2 2 32 32 32 32 32 1 1E 1H 1L 1P A C M Q G N D K B R F J 1 1V 1 1 1Y 1 W U X Z Aid Users for Hearing Induction Loop Seating Reserved Page
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