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Jan Apr 2010 Brochure.Pdf 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 Northumberland Young Farmers’ Jazz Club Tynedale Clubs present Thursday 21 January 8.00pm Academy of 27 Up Pantomime - Aladdin 8.00pm - Jam Session Performing Arts Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 January 7.00pm In the Exchange Café presents Saturday 9 January 2.00pm Bugsy Malone This is your opportunity to play in a Meet sprightly Aladdin, evil Abanazar, a gig-type setting. Come and play along Saturday January rascally Genie, frantic Widow Twankey, with the rhythm section of the evening 23 January lovable Wishee Washee, and many more in an informal and supportive atmosphere. 2.00pm & 6.00pm as the Twankey family career from poverty Then sit back and enjoy guests, the Paul Bugsy Malone started life as a 1976 to riches and back again, and from the Carroll Trio. musical film from director Sir Alan Parker laundry to the palace - and even inside featuring a cast of only children. Loosely the lamp! Tickets: £3.00 on the door Under 18’s free based on events in Chicago during the Tickets: £10.00 Prohibition era, it takes a light hearted £6.00 (14yrs and under) Film in the Theatre look at the life of gangsters. After Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG) countless requests from schools and amateur groups for the script, Parker Saturday 16 January 7.30pm Burnlaw Craft Workshops produced the version that the TAPA cast, A struggling writer moves into a New York average age 10yrs, will perform. apartment building and becomes intrigued Saturday 23 January 10.00am - 4.00pm Tickets: £9.00 l £8.00 (conc) by his pretty, quirky neighbour Holly Ceramic Workshop with Sue Dunne Golightly (Audrey Hepburn). (1961) at the Burnlaw Centre, Whitfield. Running time: 1hr 55mins Tickets: £4.00 | £3.00 (Friends) Comedy Club Saturday 16 January 8.30pm Hexham & District Music Society In the Exchange Café presents Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk Laugh your new Christmas socks off with Prince Bishops Brass Ensemble some of the best comedy on the national Build your own ceramic bird Step to It! Friday 15 January 7.45pm circuit. feeder in a day using terracotta Friday 29 - Saturday 30 January 7.00pm clay. There’s plenty of scope for Five Durham-based brass players who form individual decorations to keep the nucleus of most orchestras in the area A showcase of dance presented by the have extended their partnership to the birds flocking. Refreshments students of Hexham's own Terpsichore perform as a quintet. They have a lively provided but bring lunch. Dance. From ballet to breakdancing, tap to contemporary and jazz to hip hop, this and varied repertoire ranging from For aged 16 yrs + Renaissance to contemporary music and show has it all! jazz. Between Jeremiah Clarke, Bach and Tickets: £20 includes all materials Suitable for all the family. Horowitz there is music for all listeners. Book through Queen’s Hall Box Office 01434 652477 WORKSHOP Tickets: £8.00 Tickets: £12.00 | £6.00 (student) Tickets: £8.50 l £4.00 (student) £6.50 (Under 16’s & Over 65’s) £1.00 (schoolchildren) 4 5 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 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk 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) Warren's Splinter Group, Voice of the Whitfield. 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 Northumberland Rasa and Oxfordshire Theatre Young Farmers’ Clubs Company presents Drama Competition Handful of Henna Eliminators: Thursday 4 March 7.30pm Monday 15 - Tuesday 16 February 7.00pm March Final: Saturday 20 February 6.00pm Being dragged by her mother back to the family village thousands of miles away is Young Farmers’ Clubs from across no fun for 13-year-old Nasreen. In the Northumberland compete in two nights monsoon rain, not being able to text of eliminators in the Drama Competition, friends, and surrounded by wagging with the top three performances qualifying Trestle & Moon Fool presents tongues of relatives, she is about to Hexham & District Music Society for the final. The winning performance Moon Fool discover some unexpected truths. presents from the final will then represent Tuesday 23 February 7.30pm Based on real stories from Muslim women Andrew Kennedy (Tenor) Northumberland YFC in the next round this is a joyous and moving story about the with Roger Vignoles (piano) of the Drama competition.
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