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‘RUMBA IN THE RINGS’ OVER 70 SPECTACULAR EVENTS IN DORCHESTER’S ANCIENT HENGE
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RUMBA IN THE RINGS, TANGO IN THE TOWN HALL, SALSA IN THE STREETS, OVER 70 SPECTACULAR EVENTS AT DORCHESTER’S ANCIENT HENGE, MAUMBURY RINGS - COME AND JOIN THE FIESTA! Hello and welcome to the 6th Dorchester Festival - a celebration of Hispanic culture alongside national and local artists. 26 performances are free and happening in Maumbury Rings, our main festival venue for 2006. We have a big white tent in the Rings, where large scale events take place. We have the huge southwest based Show of Hands, from the Cameroon, members of the Baka tribe, with Baka Beyond and from Honduras a fantastic salsa band Duende. We have formed our own Festival Samba Band with Magic Drum, which will be leading the procession. This Festival links up with the Fair Trade Foundation, with a talk by its patron George Alagiah, and sponsorship from Respect Organics, who have also organised the Soil Association exhibition at a new venue Poundbury Gardens. The Dorchester Festival is supported by grants from Arts Council Southwest Heritage Lottery Fund, Dorchester Town Council, Dorset County Council for the Youth Arts activities and West Dorset District Council. This funding enables us to provide free events making Dorchester come alive with the festival buzz. Watch out for the unusual, be stunned by the passion of flamenco, taste the bananas, come to our Strictly Latino tea dance - there’s something for everyone. Sharon Hayden, Artistic Director
FESTIVAL STAFF Helen Pritchard - Creative Producer Pat Yonwin - Administrator Maddy Pethick - Community Liaison Alastair Nisbet - Chair of Dorchester Arts Centre STEERING COMMITTEE Alexina Gannon, Sue Cottam and Esther Yarnold DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 3
ART FROM ORGANIC FARMS
VISUAL ART Thursday 27th April - 1st May POUNDBURY GARDENS Open daily 12noon - 4pm FREE Exhibition opening Thursday 27th April at 1pm The Soil Association’s Art from Organic Farms exhibition aims to help bring the ‘culture’ back into agriculture during the Dorchester Festival. Over 100 artists up and down the country have been working on organic farms to create artworks that celebrate organic food: from landscapes alive with wildlife to free-ranging livestock. www.soilassociation.org/arts
There are over 50 Soil Association farms and producers in Dorset. Here is a selection to look out for: Becklands Farm, Bothen Hill Produce, Childhay Manor Organics, Clipper, Dorset Farms, Green Valley Farm Shop, Long Crichel Bakery, Long Crichel Organic Garden, Longmeadow Organic Vegetables, Manor Farm, Manor Farm Organic Milk Ltd, Neal’s Yard (Natural) Remedies Ltd, Respect Organics, Stoate, NR and Sons, Sunnyside Organic Farm, Sydling Brook Organic Farm Shop DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 4
LOOKING FOR THE BLACK REDSTART
uncover the wildlife wonders - in particular the Black Country, which is better known for its industrial heritage than its natural beauty. Excited by news that one of Britain’s rarest birds, the Black Redstart, had been spotted along the Birmingham / Wolverhampton tramline and canal network, the artist set out on her creative journey and invited local people to join her. Looking for the Black Redstart - an original commission by The Public, VISUAL ART West Midlands. www.thepublic.com 27th April - 1st May A rambling we shall go! TOWN HALL 11am - 6pm Come and join Clare and take a fresh An exhibition of textile, print and look at your local area! Wildlife photographic works inspired by Rambles take place on Friday at urban nature and adventure. This 4pm and Saturday at 11am, starting project reveals one artist’s quest to outside the Corn Exchange
PAOLA VALENCIA
VISUAL ART 27th April - 1st May DORCHESTER ART CENTRE 11am - 6pm FREE Photography exhibition from Dorset based Colombian photographer Paola Valencia. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 5
MODEL BRITAIN
VISUAL ART: DOLORES SÁNCHEZ CALVO 27th April - 1st May TOWN HALL 11am - 6pm Commissioned for the Tenerife Biennale this series connects with the artist’s interest on concepts of transposition, advertisement languages, icons, clichés, kitsch and stereotypes. The Beatles - now as much a part of Britain’s past heritage as Dickens or Shakespeare - do not represent the real musicians, but instead the idealised characters from the animated movie, “The Yellow Submarine” - together they form part of a ‘Disneyland’ image of Britain - a Model Britain.
DORCHESTER 700 TAPESTRY
COMMUNITY PROJECT 27th April - 1st May MAGISTRATES ROOM 11am - 6pm FREE Community embroiderer, Suzanne Finch invites you to contribute to Dorchester 700’s Celebration Tapestry. You are welcome to stay for the day or just drop in! Help us paint the tapestry or just watch us work. Supported by Dorchester Town Council DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 6
PLATFORM 4 - SHIVER
THEATRE Thursday 27th April CORN EXCHANGE 8pm £8 £6 members A dark fable of love and loss, inspired by the Myth of Melusine, written by Hattie Naylor. Matthew is dead. The last guest has left the wake, leaving his parents and young fiancée in the family home. No one is sleeping. Grief can make monsters of us all... Platform 4 has developed a reputation for stunning visual theatre, blending text, movement and objects (Shivering is the body’s response to with evocative sound and light to lower body temperature and one of create unique theatrical gems. the first symptoms of hypothermia; “Poetic, moving and touching you should end your dive if you begin theatre.” Total Theatre 2004 to shiver).
LISTUS WILDLIFE RAMBLE
LIVE ART ART AND NATURE Friday 28th April Friday 28th April TOWN CENTRE 11am - 4pm CORN EXCHANGE 4pm - 5.30pm £3 / £2 FREE A rambling we shall go! Come and join Hard.Soft. Owen and Rebecca us and take a fresh look at your local hit the town during the day area! Artist Clare Thornton invites you with aspirations to get intimate to join her on a ramble accompanied with the locals. Armed with by local nature experts, who will share pillows and handbags they their expertise and enthusiasm. The invite you to slip your hands ramble starts outside the Corn into their pouches and leave a Exchange and ends at the Town Hall hard or soft story, memory or with tea and cake and a chance to curiosity in return for one of look around the exhibition - Looking theirs. No hard pressure, just for the Black Redstart. All welcome! soft pleasure! Supported by Clipper Tea DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 7
LIVE ART
LIVE ART collaboratively around ideas of Friday 28th April ecology, perception and TAPAS BAR 5.30pm orientation. £6 / £5 (includes tapas and 7.15pm: GILLIAN WYLDE WILL Sangria) BE OK Join us for Sangria from 5.30pm Gillian Wylde is not a blessed DJ. Gillian Wylde is a mongrel vinyl 6pm: PROPELLER - WE ARE rotator. THE RIVERS WE SWIM THROUGH 8pm: LISTUS - HARD. SOFT. A performance-lecture that Emptying the contents of their addresses the disappearance of handbags and pillows, the couple species and the collapse of the stand amongst the rubble of planet’s ecological infrastructure. feathers and nails, revealing your Elements of performance, video, stories and fantasies anonymously writing, academic and journalistic and forcing themselves to research come together to remember their own. question and provoke our attitude If you would like more of separateness. Propeller is a information on Live Art in Dorset performance group working see www.piCOt.org DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 8
THE JUAN MARTIN TRIO
FABULOSO & FLAMENCO DANCE Friday 28th April CORN EXCHANGE 7pm £15 / £13 members Exploring modern harmony, crossing over into contemporary ideas and yet retaining the great traditions within his compositions. His trio is in the absolute vanguard of modern flamenco utilising jazz and classical harmonies within his music. An exhilarating night of flamenco music, percussion and dance not to be missed. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 9
RUBY WAX
COMEDY NIGHT Friday 28th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 9.30pm £18 / £16 members “I couldn’t stand being a nobody. America put too much value on being tall and blonde. So I used laughter to make people take notice.” Ruby started off writing for Not the Nine O Clock News. Ruby eventually got a chat show after drunkenly interviewing Michael Grade (who was head of Channel 4 at the time) in a tent at the Edinburgh festival. She subsequently made a range of programmes (most featuring her name in the title and most you will have seen!). Join us outdoors in the ancient henge as Ruby gives us her account of what Dorchester is really like! DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 10
LESLEY WATERS
COOKING DEMONSTRATION Saturday 29th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 11am FREE Join well-known celebrity chef Lesley Waters for El desayuno (Spanish breakfast) cooking demonstration. Teaching has always been Lesley’s great passion and opening her own cookery school in THE KARAOKE TAXI Dorset is the realisation of a long held dream. Her STREET THEATRE energetic style of Saturday 29th April presentation is expertly TOWN CENTRE 10.30am FREE combined with simple and clear guidance, making her An eccentric family arrive in Dorchester classes both entertaining town centre. Look out for the Lada taxi, 3 and informative. passengers at a time.
FLAMENCO DANCE WORKSHOP
with MARÍA JOSÉ GARCÍA Saturday 29th April YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 10am - 12noon £3 / £2 María José García from Cartagena, Spain (title of Bailarina Profesional: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid) is delighted to offer this workshop of flamenco dancing focussing on footwork, flowing arm movements and playing castanets. Comfortable clothing, hard soled shoes and plenty of energy are recommended. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 11
WILDLIFE RAMBLE
ART AND NATURE Saturday 29th April TOWN HALL 11am £3 / £2 A rambling we shall go! Come and join us and take a fresh look at your local area! The artist Clare Thornton STORYTELLING invites you to join her on a ramble accompanied by local nature with CASSANDRA WYE experts, who will share their expertise and enthusiasm. The Saturday 29th April ramble starts outside the Corn LIBRARY 11am FREE Exchange and at the Town Hall with Saturday 29th April tea and cake and a chance to look around the exhibition - Looking for YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS the Black Redstart. All welcome! 1pm FREE A fiesta of folktales from Spain and South America created ART THROUGH especially for Dorchester YOGA WORKSHOP Festival. To tantalize and tempt all ages DRAWING FROM WITHIN Cassandra has been dancing Saturday 29th April stories around the world since YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 12noon 1991, from Barbados to Borneo, £3 / £2 from international festivals to Using the automatic drawing inner city farms, from techniques of the Surrealists, universities to monasteries, from combined with a series of yoga the depths of the jungle to the practices, artist and yoga teacher edge of the sea. Rochelle Carswell will unleash your hidden creativity.
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BANANAS!
THEATRE OF ADVENTURE Saturday 29th April TOWN CENTRE 12noon Four Fairtrade bananas are on the streets of Dorchester. Commissioned by Fairtrade organization, Banana Link, they have an important mission in the world of humanity. Watch out for fruity, hilarious happenings. This event is sponsored by http://www.doollee.com/
FARMERS FAIR
“RESPECT THE LOCAL ORGANIC FARMERS AND PRODUCERS” Saturday 29th April MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm - 4pm FREE Sample, taste and buy fresh, organic food from your local farmers who care about the environment we live in. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 13
CARNIVAL
PROCESSION THROUGH DORCHESTER Saturday 29th April TOWN CENTRE 12.30pm Join this vibrant carnival as it stampedes through the town centre lead by The Dorchester Samba Band. The band was formed by Magic Drum especially for Dorchester Festival. The Samba Band will be TRUCK, TENT, followed by over 100 children in TAXI carnival costume. During the last two weeks Dorchester School children DESPERATE MEN have been working with textile artist, Saturday 29th April Catherine Grimaldi to discover the art of carnival! MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm - 3pm 10 minute shows for 6 people at In partnership with Departure Arts a time. FREE An eccentric family arrive... presenting their ramshackle road show from the back of their vehicle, with a story to tell and miracles to perform. With cheese, vodka, a living forest and the bear...... BOX OFFICE: 01305 266926 DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 14
GUIDED WALK AROUND THE RINGS
TALK / WALK Saturday 29th April Meet at BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 12 noon FREE Talk and walk with local historian, Bill Putnam (Principal Lecturer in Archaeology, Bournemouth AN AFTERNOON University, retired). OF FLAMENCO
PERFORMING TOMÁS JIMÉNEZ & MARÍA JOSÉ LANDSCAPES GARCÍA WORKSHOP Saturday 29th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY PROPELLER RINGS 1.15pm FREE Saturday 29th April From Cartagena, Spain, Tomás Jiménez - “a flamenco guitarist of Meet at BIG WHITE TENT, tremendous passion and virtuosity” - MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm £3 / £2 and María José García offer authentic Or: ‘when birds look into houses flamenco in which the dance, what impossible worlds they see.’ castanets and guitar solos are used We will begin with a series of walks to express all of the emotions of this and practical tasks aimed at slowing passionate art form. down our habitual patterns of seeing and recognising what’s around us. The workshop is of interest to ISLAND VOICES anyone wishing to find ways of inhabiting and responding to SINGING landscape: people who work or have Saturday 29th April an interest in art, biology, the BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY environment and ecology. RINGS 2pm A community choir. Their original songs with music by Sammy Hurden explore Portland and it’s unique character. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 15
MAGIC DRUM CIRCLE
WORKSHOP Saturday 29th April YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 2.15pm £3 / £2 The Magic Drum Circle is open to all. Drum Circles are about people coming together as a community. We provide all sorts of different drums and percussion but you are welcome to bring your own THE MIRACLE (but no snare drums please). SHOW
OUTDOOR THEATRE Saturday 29th April MAUMBURY RINGS 3pm Meet a man with a bear’s heart, a telepathic granny, and a brassy band of musical misfits. Tickle your fancy, rattle your cortex, and laugh your head off! In their 25th year the MAKING legendary Desperate Men bring to PERFORMANCE life a timely tale of travelling outsiders searching for a better life upon this WORKSHOP blessed soil.
LISTUS SINGING Saturday 29th April WORKSHOP BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 2.30pm £3 / £2 with SAMMY HURDEN Live Art group Listus presents a Saturday 29th April workshop to explore alternative ways of YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 4pm £3 creating performance, using the self as / £2 principle tool and site of investigation. The aim of the workshop is to provide Sammy Hurden is a Dorset-based an exploration into ways of working / voice workshop leader and creating as an independent artist, with songwriter. No need for experience particular emphasis on the process of of singing in a choir or reading creating and making performance. music... just bring your voices. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 16
DORSET STORIES
DORSET STORIES by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER published by Black Dog Books Talk & Readings by local author JUDITH STINTON and publisher PETER TOLHURST. Saturday 29th April DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM. ZACFIRE 7.30pm. £8 / £6 (to include glass of wine) FIRE PERFORMANCE The writer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Saturday 29th April spent the best years of her life in MAUMBURY RINGS 2.30 and Dorset. Most of her short stories are 7.30pm FREE set in Dorchester (Dumbridge) during ZacFire welcome you to the war years. Warner’s characters Maumbury Rings with a come from all walks of village life and spectacular outdoor fire show. are observed in stories that are elegant, original and witty.
THE WIMBORNE MINSTRELS
SUMER IS ICUMEN IN Saturday 29th April ST PETER’S CHURCH 7.30pm £7 A concert of early music from both sides of the Channel. Tickets (concs. available) from Harmony Music 01305 260360 Camera Corner 01305 264535, St Peter’s Church or on the door.
PAPA GEORGE BAND
BLUESNIGHT Saturday 29th April DORCHESTER ART CENTRE 8pm £9 / £4.50* in advance. £10 / £5 on door. *Under 18s / NUS Papa George is one of Britain’s leading live blues artists. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 17
SHOW OF HANDS
FOLK MUSIC Saturday 29th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 8pm £15 / £13 members England’s most successful acoustic roots duo and one of the finest folk acts around return to Dorchester for this special event. “formidable operators in the roots arena. A class act.” The Independent DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 18
FESTIVAL WEEKEND TIMETABLE
Thursday 27th April Platform 4 - Shiver • Corn Exchange • 8pm Friday 28th April Listus • Town Centre • 11am - 4pm Wildlife Ramble • Corn Exchange • 4pm - 5.30pm Live Art • Tapas Bar: Dorchester Arts Centre • 5.30pm The Juan Martin Trio Fabuloso • Corn Exchange • 7pm Ruby Wax • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 9.30pm Saturday 29th April Desperate Men • Town Centre • 10.30am Lesley Waters • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 11am Flamenco Dance workshop • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 10am - 12noon Storytelling with Cassandra Wye • Library • 11am Wildlife Ramble • Meet at Corn Exchange • 11am Guided History Walk • Maumbury Rings • 12noon Art Through Yoga workshop • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 12noon Bananas! • Town Centre • 12noon Carnival Procession • Town Centre • 12.30pm Dorchester Festival Farmers Fair • Maumbury Rings • 1pm - 4pm Storytelling with Cassandra Wye • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 1pm The Man with the Bear’s Heart • Maumbury Rings • 1pm - 3pm Performing Landscapes workshop • Maumbury Rings • 1pm - 2.30pm An Afternoon of Flamenco • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 1.15pm Island Voices • Maumbury Rings • 2pm Circus Arts • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 2pm Magic Drum Circle • Maumbury Rings,Yurt • 2.15pm Singing workshop • Maumbury Rings,Yurt • 4pm The Miracle Show • Maumbury Rings • 3pm Making Performance workshop • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 2.30pm Sumer is icumen in • St Peter’s Church • 7.30pm ZacFire • Maumbury Rings • 7.30pm Dorset Stories • Dorset County Museum • 7.30pm Show of Hands • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 8pm Bluesnight • Dorchester Art Centre • 8pm Sunday 30th April Singing workshop • Corn Exchange • 10.30am Build a Bull • Maumbury Rings • 12noon Carmen • Dorchester Arts Centre • 12noon Blood Wedding • Dorchester Arts Centre • 2.15pm Moveable Feast • Maumbury Rings • 12noon - 6pm Viva la Vida • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 12.30pm Richard Hill • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 1pm and 2.30pm QX • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 1pm Antara workshop • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 3pm Giant open-air tea dance • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 3pm MakeShift Theatre • Maumbury Rings,Yurt • 4pm George Alagiah • Corn Exchange • 5.30pm El Nocha Latino • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 7.30pm Antara and Kausary • Dorset County Museum • 8pm Monday 1st May Whiskey • The Plaza Cinema • 11am A Story for all Seasons • Corn Exchange • 11.30am and 2pm Flamenco Guitar For Beginners workshop • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 11.30am Youth Theatre Platform • Maumbury Rings • 11.30am and 2pm Russell Dawson and Peter Oakes • St. Mary’s Church • 11am and 3.30pm Jewellery workshop • Maumbury Rings,Yurt • 1pm John Bullock • Food Tent • 1.30pm The Celtic Fiddle Festival • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 1pm and 3.30pm DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 19
FESTIVAL VENUES
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1. Dorchester Arts Centre 2. Dorset County Library 3. Old Crown Court 4. Dorset County Museum 5. Corn Exchange / Town Hall 6. The Plaza Cinema 7. St Mary’s Church 8. Poundbury Gardens 9. Maumbury Rings
Baka Voice Music workshop • Maumbury Rings, Yurt • 2pm Rinky Dink • Maumbury Rings • 2pm Children of Utopia • Maumbury Rings • 2.30pm Thomas Hardy Society • Poundbury Gardens • 3pm The Gondoliers • Old Crown Court, High West Street • 4.30pm and 6.30pm Bombon el perro • The Plaza Cinema • 4pm Big Banana • Maumbury Rings, Banana Campaign Stage • 4.30pm Baka Beyond • Maumbury Rings, Big White Tent • 8pm-11pm Exhibitions: Thursday 27th April - Monday 1st May Art from Organic Farms • Poundbury Gardens • 12noon - 4pm Looking for the Black Redstart • The Town Hall • 11am - 6pm Model Britain • The Town Hall • 11am - 6pm Paola Valencia • Dorchester Art Centre • 11am - 6pm Dorchester 700s Tapestry • Magistrates Room • 11am - 6pm DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 20
BUILD A BULL
VISUAL ART WORKSHOP Sunday 30th April - Monday 1st May MAUMBURY RINGS 12noon FREE The bull is one of the most powerful symbols of the hispanic world. To celebrate this mighty beast join artist Karen Abadie to build a larger than life 3D bull. Come along, get your hands dirty with this exciting creation.
SINGING WORKSHOP
QUANGLE WANGLE CHOIR Sunday 30th April CORN EXCHANGE 10.30am £3 / £2 Come and help the Quangle Wangle Choir raise the roof of the Corn Exchange. Whatever your level of experience come and have fun learning new songs at a Harmony singing workshop. Then sit back and enjoy a short but lively concert. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 21
HISPANIC FILM
CARMEN WHISKEY (15) (1983) Dir. Carlos Saura. 102 min. PLAZA 11am £5 / £4 Sunday 30th April Monday 1st May DORCHESTER ARTS CENTRE (2005) Dir: Juan Pablo Rebella, 12noon £5 / £4 Pablo Stoll. 94mins. Carlos Saura’s exhilarating “A deadpan comedy shot through flamenco Carmen based on Bizet’s with a vein of despair, Whisky is most popular opera. the story of two souls seemingly stuck in neutral, with a third in BLOOD WEDDING relentless drive!” Manohla Dargis, (1981) Dir. Carlos New York Times Sunday 30th April BOMBON EL DORCHESTER ARTS CENTRE 2.15pm £5 / £4 PERRO (2004) Dir Carlos Sorin. 97 mins. Ballet version of the Federico Garcia Lorca play about a young Monday 1st May man who is forced to take revenge PLAZA 4pm £5 / £4 against his would-be bride and her In Patagonia, a mechanic who lover when, during the wedding dreams of a different life starts to rehearsal, she runs away with a think big after his adopted pup married man. wins first prize at a local dog show.
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YOUTH ARTS
MOVEABLE FEAST CREATIVE WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE CONTEMPORARY Sunday 30th April and DANCE Monday 1st May VIVA LA VIDA - JOSEPHINE MOVEABLE FEAST YURT, DYER MAUMBURY RINGS 12noon - 6pm FREE Sunday 30th April These workshops involve BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY sessions of building, making, RINGS 12.30pm FREE doing and having fun. Why not Viva la Vida is a dance piece come along, see what’s inspired by the Mexican painter happening and have a go at all Frida Kahlo. Hurried, colourful that is on offer - drop-in or stay still-life of exotic fruit, Viva la as long as you like! All sessions Vida affirms Frida’s passionate will be free. embrace of life.
RICHARD HILL
FLAMENCO GUITAR Sunday 30th April YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm and 2.30pm FREE Richard Hill presents guitar pieces from “guitar rich” countries of Ecuador, Cuba and Brazil. He will accompanied by perscussionist Lekan Babalola who has worked with Ry Cooder and Ali Farkre- Toure. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 23
ANTARA
SOUTH AMERICAN MUSIC WORKSHOP Sunday 30th April YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 3pm £3 / £2 Explore the music of South America in this workshop as Antara bring together rhythms, MAKESHIFT melodies and the sound of the instruments of their continent. THEATRE
DORCHESTER ARTS CENTRE COMPANY IN RESIDENCE STRICTLY LATINO Sunday 30th April COME DANCING YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 4pm FREE GIANT OPEN-AIR TEA DANCE. Dorchester Arts Centre’s new STRICTLY COME DANCING in-house company MakeShift WITH THE PURBECK BIG Theatre, are delighted to bring BAND their own brand of performance Sunday 30th April to this year’s festival. The BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY movement-based piece takes its RINGS 3pm FREE inspiration from the colours and For one afternoon only this traditions of Hispanic cultures. event will transform Maumbury To find out more about Rings into a giant dance floor. Makeshift visit their website at The Purbeck Big Band has eight www.makeshifttheatre.co.uk Brass, five Saxes, and four Rhythm. Anyone can join in for a quick dance and a cup of Fairtrade tea. See how we can all play a part in alleviating poverty in developing countries.
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PHYSICAL THEATRE
QX Sunday 30th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm £3 / £2 QX is inspired by Don Quixqote, and builds upon Carlos Cortes’ movement based works, with strong visual and interactive elements. Audience and performers share a unique experience and have the opportunity to shape their own adventure. Set in a Cuban bar atmosphere, a cast of eight performers do a live road movie. Cervantes meets David Lynch and they have a walk outdoors. Be prepared for the unexpected! “Strong choreography...it worked wonders” (Latest 7, Brighton)
SOUTH AMERICAN MUSIC
ANTARA AND KAUSARY SOUTH AMERICAN MUSIC Sunday 30th April DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM 8pm £10 / £9 (inc. glass of wine) Kausary and Antara join forces to present the music of South America, bringing together the rhythms, melodies of their continent. Featuring multi-instrumentalists and singers from Chile, Peru and Argentina, the musicians perform compositions that tell stories and share traditions in a vibrant and enchanting show. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 25
PATRON OF THE FAIRTRADE ORGANISATION Sunday 30th April Introduced by Minette Walters CORN EXCHANGE 5.30pm £15 / £13 members BBC Six o’clock News presenter George Alagiah, patron of the Fairtrade Foundation, is a passionate advocate of fair trade, with a real vision for a UK role in boosting world awareness. 58 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America supply coffee, tea, coca, fruit, spices, cotton and other products to the fair trade market. In 2004 Fairtrade sales across the globe delivered an extra $100m to producers in developing in building their businesses and in community projects focusing on education, health and the GEORGE ALAGIAH environment. George Alagiah will be speaking about Fairtrade as a powerful tool for peace and stability, offering mutual respect between producers and consumers thousands of miles apart. Book early and join George Alagiah for Yummy Cakes and tea upstairs in the Town Hall afterwards. Event sponsored by Respect Organics with support from Clipper Tea DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 26
EL NOCHE LATINO
SAMBA AND SALSA NIGHT Sunday 30th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 7.30pm £15 / £13 members MAGIC DRUM ORCHESTRA Glyn Bush and Ralph Cree (Magic Drum Orchestra) are big fans of drums from all over the world - especially Brazil and Africa and the Magic Drum Orchestra explore the rhythms of these countries. www.magicdrum.org.uk DUENDE Dance the night away to the fantastic seven piece Salsa band, Duende. Their repertoire includes uplifting Salsa and Meringue rhythms, as well as instrumental Latin, jazz and romantic ballads, most of which are their own compositions. Duende’s leader and frontman, Honduran-born Ramon Vallejo, has extensive experience as a band- leader and composer, including associations with the Afro-Cuban Allstars and members of the Buena Vista Social Club. Salsa siempre SALSA DANCE CLASSES with UKA QUALIFIED TEACHERS Mondays - Dorchester • Tuesdays - Blandford and Yeovil Wednesdays - Bridport • Thursdays - Weymouth For further information please contact Mal or Carol on 01305 835297 or 07811 987931 www.salsasiempre.co.uk • Email: [email protected] DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 27
A STORY FOR ALL SEASONS
ART & NATURE CHILDREN’S THEATRE Monday 1st May CORN EXCHANGE 11.30am and 2pm £4 / £3 Tell Tale Hearts present a magical, highly engaging theatre experience for children aged between 3 and 7 that combines puppetry with mesmerising interactive installations to explore the cyclical nature of the seasons. Loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Ugly Duckling’, A Story for all Seasons features creative installations and animal puppets accompanied by an inspirational soundscape designed to excite and involve young audiences. The participation element of the project brings nature into the heart of the experience as the audience journeys physically through the seasons. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 28
YOUTH THEATRE PLATFORM Monday 1st May BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 11.30am and 2pm FREE Youth theatre groups from the South West present a range of performance pieces for this exciting platform showcasing the theatre groups of the future . Some finished, some works in progress, and some experimental. If you would like to join Dorchester Youth Theatre contact DAC on 01305 266926.
JEWELLERY WORKSHOP
YOUTH ARTS Monday 1st May YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm £3 / £2. Ages 7-12 Have fun creating unique jewellery items from recycled materials and found objects. Using basic hand tools, jewellery designer Rachelle Carswell will show you how to transform a variety of common household reclaimed items into wearable art!
CHILDREN OF UTOPIA Monday 1st May MAUMBURY RINGS 2.30pm A fusion of flamenco, hip-hop and seventies disco.
ALONG THE SHORE composed by Peter Hope Saturday 6th May 2006 at Lighthouse, Poole Tickets £10 (students £5) 08700 668701 DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 29
THE CELTIC FIDDLE FESTIVAL
FOLK MUSIC Monday 1st May BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 1pm and 3.30pm Kevin Burke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (Brittany) and André Brunet (Quebec) combine their talents, musical traditions, and spontaneous humor for an evening of dazzling energy and subtle grace. Called “three of the finest folk violinists anywhere” by The Washington Post, these traditional masters showcase their regional repertoires and together conjure an experience of breathtaking performances.
RUSSELL DAWSON AND PETER OAKES
CLASSICAL MUSIC Monday 1st May ST. MARY’S CHURCH 11am and 3.30pm £5 / £3 Local musicians Russell Dawson (violin) and Peter Oakes (piano) play Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E Minor, K 304; and Brahms Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 108. Tickets are available from Harmony Music, Dorchester; Octagon Café, Poundbury and at the door. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 30 DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 31
THE GONDOLIERS
COMMUNITY EVENT Monday 1st May OLD CROWN COURT, High West Street 4.30pm and 6.30pm £8 / £6 The Gondoliers is the sunniest of the Savoy Operas. With Gilbert’s witty words and Sullivan’s marvellous music it is a favourite with many G & S fans. Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes, When a Merry Maiden Marries and Dance the Cachucha are just some of the tunes, to set your feet tapping! Costumed local soloists will sing the principal roles and an ad hoc chorus will join them for the day under the musical direction of Christina Page. Abridged by Rosemary Gameson, the opera is presented with a linking narration to last just over an hour (Courtroom benches are hard - please bring your own cushion). To join Chorus of Gondoliers and Contadine costs £15 for the day. Bring a suggestion of southern European peasant costume and arrive in time to register at 9.30am. Scores will be provided. Christine Page (choral Animateur for Dorset) will rehearse the music during the day and direct the two performances To book, contact box office (01305) 266926
DOWN TO EARTH THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY Monday 1st May POUNDBURY GARDENS 3pm. £5 / £4 with cup ot tea Dr. Alex Chadzay Barnes’ biographer and former chairman of the William Barnes society and Furse Swan former chairman of the Thomas Hardy Society - will present a programme of prose and verse entitled ‘Down to Earth’ at the new Poundbury Gardens centre to accompany the exhibition. The programme will centre on the rural heritage and will include writings by Hardy, Barnes, Edward Thomas and R.S. Thomas amongst others. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 32
BAKA VOICE MUSIC WORKSHOP
THE BAKA TRIBE Monday 1st May YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 2pm £3 / £2 Join the Baka musicians in this hands on music workshop to learn how the spirit of the music lives in the rhythm.
BIG BANANA
YOUTH MUSIC Monday 1st May BANANA CAMPAIGN STAGE, MAUMBURY RINGS 4.30pm FREE Young Dorset bands take to the Banana Campaign stage.
HENRY’S BEARD
FOOD Saturday 28th April - Monday 1st May MAUMBURY RINGS Enjoy organic food made with locally produced ingredients. Food and drinks served throughout the day. Listen to random readings by South West poets, pick up a good read or learn about local history in the café library. With celebrity Librarian literature officer Josie Hickin. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 33
BAKA BEYOND
EMBRACING THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST Monday 1st May BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 8pm - 11pm £15 / £13 members The Festival Finale performance by world music group Baka Beyond joined by five Baka people from the rain forest of Cameroon. Eight musicians have worked with Baka Beyond from Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Britain and Brittany, to create this afro-celt sound. Drawn from the sounds of the Cameroon, the music combines the rhythm and energy of these different cultures. The Baka are a hunter-gatherer community, facing changes through deforestation. Baka Beyond collect royalties from their music and reinvests them in the rain forest people. For the rain forest pygmies’ music is part of everyday life and everyday life is a communal effort with the forest. WARNING: This music can cause serious enjoyment! “If there has to be a definition of world music this is it” Andy Kershaw DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 34
HOW TO BOOK TICKETS Be sure of your tickets - book in advance!
Festival Box Office, Dorchester Arts Centre, School Lane, The Grove, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1XR Telephone 01305 266926 Monday - Friday 10am to 4pm
Priority Booking for Dorchester Arts Centre members and friends 22nd March - 3rd April
◆ By Post: Complete the enclosed booking form and return with a cheque made out to Dorchester Arts Centre. Please enclose an SAE. ◆ Telephone Booking: 01305 266926. The office will be open Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm. We accept credit / debit cards. ◆ Personal booking: Tickets can be bought direct from Dorchester Arts Centre. ◆ From Dorchester Tourism Information Centre, Antelope Walk: Tickets will be available from 24th April. NB: No telephone booking facility. ◆ At Venues: Remaining tickets will be available at venue prior to event.
Accommodation: Information from West Dorset Tourism Information Centre, Antelope Walk, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1BE. Tel 01305 267992.
Disabled access: We welcome people with disabilities at Dorchester Festival events. The Corn Exchange and Dorchester Arts Centre have good wheelchair access. Wheelchair access to The Town Hall can be provided on request. The Dorset County Museum has a shallow step to the ground floor, but does not have a disabled access toilet. The Plaza Cinema does not have disabled access. Outdoor venues are generally accessible.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dorchester Festival 2006 Main Sponsors Respect Organics based in Shaftesbury Dorset supply a range of organic cakes into Tesco’s and leading organic stores throughout the UK. Respect take great care in selecting traditional recipes, using only the best organic ingredients and making every single cake a real treat. Priced at a small premium above non organic products these products are for every consumer to take advantage of. By consumers’ interest we show our concern for maintaining the countryside in its traditional form and its links to music, art, poetry and our very being as people. We are proud of our ability to sponsor the Dorchester Festival which we believe has an amazing eclectic cultural programme that will appeal to everyone throughout the South and West. Dorchester Festival is a DAC Events Project www.dorchesterfestival.org • [email protected]
The details in this brochure were correct at the time of going to print Dorchester Festival reserves the right to make changes to the programme in the event of unforeseen circumstances. With thanks to our other sponsors and partners Coyne Butterworth (Dorchester) Ltd, The I.J Brown Partnership, www.doollee.com, Dorchester Film Society, Poundbury Gardens, Soil Association, Fairtrade Foundation.
Dorchester Arts Centre
THOMAS TROTTER
PRE-FESTIVAL RECITAL BY BRITISH VIRTUOSO ORGANIST Wednesday 26th April ST MARY’S CHURCH 7.30pm £12 / £10 (NUS) Supported by South Dorset Organists’ Association DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:42 Page 36
DORCHESTER FESTIVAL 2006 MAIN SPONSORS
FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE 01305 266926