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June – September 2016 1-17 July 2016 PERSPECTIVES JUNE /SEPTEMBER 2016 Issue Box O ce 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com CONTENTS #cheltmusicfest Summer Days MUSIC FESTIVAL EDUCATION TEAM 2 Putting together each edition of Perspectives is one of NICK NELSON 4 life’s little pleasures for me. There is so much happening in the arts in Cheltenham that I’m always spoilt for choice! Listings 6 This edition we have an interview with the Music WILD WORLDS 11 Festival’s education team, who are bringing the wonder 4th International Salon of and excellence of this summer’s classical music festival to Photography 12 as wide an audience as possible. CHELTENHAM ART OFFICE 13 We meet Nick Nelson, a teacher at whose lifelong love of art history, classicism and travel is helping to shape young minds – and create some extraordinary memories for this contemporary Mr Chips. There are previews of this summer’s globe-trotting “Wild Worlds” ceramics exhibition at and of the 4th Cheltenham International Salon of Photography. And we hear from the creative entrepreneurs behind 'Welcome', Sanghamitra Sarkar, India FIAP Gold Cheltenham Art Office, a space for working, meeting and WINNER Mono CATEGORY, See page 12 the business of art. Enjoy!

Hollie Smith-Charles

Do get in touch if you would like to comment or contribute: [email protected] Featuring John Wilson Orchestra: Gershwin in Hollwood Pascal and Ami Rogé Nicola Benedetti Doric String Quartet RIMSKI’S BICYCLE PIANO, PERFORMING AT Howells’ Cello Concerto Melvyn Tan Christian Lindberg CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016 Roland Pöntinen Evelyn Glennie Vasily Petrenko & the RLPO Perspectives is produced three times a year. Fidelio Trio Guy Johnston Mendelssohn Octet Florin Ensemble Cheltenham The next issue will span October 2016-January 2017. Please email your event details to perspectives. Joshua Ellicott & Simon Lepper Fretwork with Simon Callow Arts Council Avi Avital’s Between Worlds Clare Martin: Hollywood Romance [email protected] PERSPECTIVES TEAM Barokksolistene’s Alehouse Sessions Janina Fialkowska EDITOR HOLLIE SMITH-CHARLES Advertising costs from £25 for CAC Members or £30 for non-Members. Please Oz Clarke’s Musical Wine Tour Ex Cathedra James Mayhew LISTINGS Alice Hodsdon TEMPLATE DESIGN Chantal Freeman contact editor@cheltenhamartscouncil .co.uk for more info. Tibetan Monks of Tashi Lhunpo and many more. Submissions (ads and events) must be with us by the END of JULY for consideration COVER THE FRONT COVER SHOWS RIMSKI’S BICYCLE Book now at cheltenhamfestivals.com/music PIANO, JUST ONE OF THE ACTS TAKING PART IN for the next issue. Charity No 251765 CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL’S AROUND TOWN… Illustration by Michelle Thompson ACTIVITY ON 9TH & 10TH JULY. 2 MUSIC MUSIC 3 A BIG NOISE FOR BUDDING MUSICIANS INTERVIEW WITH CHELTENHAM FESTIVALS’ EDUCATION TEAM BY HOLLIE SMITH-CHARLES

heltenham Music Festival, which cultural mixture… takes place in July, is busy putting [It gives children C together its biggest and most eclectic and young people] programme of music education yet. extraordinary But we want to do much more, say the opportunities they team behind it. Perspectives met with Ali wouldn’t normally Mawle, Director of Education, and Pip have.” Claridge, Education Manager, to find out about their new programme: Musicate. What they are now adding to ALI MAWLE When Ali Mawle joined Cheltenham this is a year-round Festivals in September 2013, fresh from the programme. Their aim is to put things in National Gallery and its vast resources, motion which have a deeper, more lasting she found a dedicated team with huge impact, to “spread out and share,” says potential for engaging more widely. Ali, “the cultural capital of Cheltenham Ali set about exploring the bigger picture Festivals to everyone… We want to show and instigating a step change in the that [the Festivals] are not just about the Workshops with local music teachers at Cheltenham Music Festival 2015 organisation’s approach: working out what extraordinary acts.” This is true not only of the Music Festival, but across the sister the local and national education needs are development (CPD) for non-specialist – launching in July 2016 and growing Festivals of Jazz, Science and Literature for the arts and science, understanding primary school teachers. Speaking in depth and reach throughout 2017 and too. what Cheltenham Festivals’ unique selling with great passion and enthusiasm, Ali 2018. points are and then trying to match up the Cheltenham Festivals’ unique commented, “we want to make them It’s an ambitious, strategic and deeply two to create some magic: a unique and characteristic is that it gives audiences advocates and ambassadors, to give them thought-out project: “We want to embed cohesive schools and outreach programme access to exceptionally high quality live the skills to listen musically and the it and roll it out beyond Gloucestershire, and a better understanding of the impact music performances that they couldn’t confidence to share it with their pupils.” spreading our purpose nationally.” their work is having on young hearts and normally experience, as well as world- They will work with Birmingham minds. class speakers from the worlds of science When she moved out of London and back Conservatoire, to train students in and literature. The trick is to find ways to her native Gloucestershire, Ali wanted The 2016 Music Festival programme will “music communication”, showing to build on this to support the long-term a job where she could bring the arts to reach twice as many pupils as last year, die-hard music-lovers how to broker development of young people’s skills and as wide an audience as possible and to she says. It’s “high octane, engaging” an appreciation of live music to non- lifelong learning. share Cheltenham’s cultural richness and and a way to give children that “first specialist audiences – from teachers creativity. Last year, her team reached 173 touch” of outstanding classical music. The For the Music Festival in particular, the and students to unsuspecting parents. schools and 18,000 children through the programme is as inspiring as it is mind- big idea is “Musicate”, their new schools As with all Festivals’ education projects, Festivals’ education work. But it sounds blowing. They have open rehearsals with and outreach programme which will see the work in schools will be book-ended like that is just the start. renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie the team working with 27 schools across with attendance at those extraordinary and trombonist Christian Lindberg for Gloucestershire over three years. The aim performances at each summer’s Festival GCSE and A Level students; a Concert is to arm children with the tools they need For Schools series; workshops on music, to enjoy all types of music and therefore to Cheltenham Festivals’ education programme is for everyone: schools, families, culture and religion with Tibetan Monks; engage them in the arts. practitioners – even businesses – can all take part in different ways. and a masterclass with superstar violinist If you would like to find out more, please contact education@cheltenhamfestivals. Nicola Benedetti for talented young Teachers, of course, are the gatekeepers to com or visit www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/education string players from Gloucestershire and much of this understanding, so the project Worcestershire. It is, says Pip, “a very rich has at its heart continuing professional perspectives CHELTENHAM ARTS COUNCIL.CO.UK 4 ART ART 5 INTELLECTUAL WINDSURFING AND THE HISTORY OF ART home; taking a rather precious German princess, replete NICK NELSON OF ARCADIA EDUCATION REFLECTS ON TWENTY with bodyguard ‘heavy’, into YEARS SPENT ENDEAVOURING TO INSPIRE YOUNG MINDS a controversial exhibition of Mapplethorpe’s homo-erotic ick Nelson of Arcadia Education, photographs at London’s a company specialising in History National Portrait Gallery; but N of Art, reflects on twenty years of most of all, having to view via teaching at Cheltenham College CCTV a student knocking a large and always endeavouring to inspire young chunk of paint off a Pollock in minds. the Guggenheim, Venice – by accident, I hasten to add. An Teaching at a major public school interesting conversation with is a great experience. I inherited my the College’s Bursar inevitably passion for teaching from my father, a ensued! hugely committed Director of Music at Marlborough College (my alma mater) In tutoring students in Art and other schools. At Cheltenham College, History, one surprising, but we all, collectively, strive to nurture essential discipline is public individuality and creativity, and to teach speaking. Rhetoric is almost a prerequisite art form in the pupils critical thinking, encouraging them NICK NELSON to see both sides of an argument. Manners eyes of employers these days; are important to us, and our collective confident presentation skills aim is to shape the whole child and foster In teaching Art History, much depends instil a sense of belief in the employee. Thus, students are the chief tenets of trust, respect, fairness upon an individual’s subjectivity in the Boston, Washington, Paris and Italy have encouraged to participate in national and forgiveness in our charges. These, I appreciation of aesthetics. It largely provided great stimulus for pupils over competitions, such as the ARTiculation feel, are the building blocks for life, even consists of a series of opinions and the years; at best, culminating in a private Competition organised by Roche Court in in today’s rapidly advancing and multi- judgements, so having a ‘voice’ as a viewing of Monet’s restored Water Lily Wiltshire. cultural environment. teenager is key – the ‘teacher monologue’ series in the Tuileries; at worst, having to While History of Art remains my (aka ‘chalk and talk’) is no longer Equally important is the exposure to take responsibility for breaking a window specialism, it is a subject that is inherently appropriate in today’s media-spun society. vocational aspects and I’ve been pleased in Siena’s Duomo with a football, during inter-disciplinary. One commentator, Mark Many students use iPads as their new to offer students work placements at a heated fixture in the Piazza del Campo Roskill, said: “works of art are part of the school bag, several type notes on their Prinknash Abbey and Sotheby’s, for between Cheltenham and the Sienese. MacBook Air in class, and most History example. In the case of the latter, a memory society from which they spring, and one More recently, I’ve been lecturing further of Art candidates follow galleries like worth forgetting is how a former student cannot learn about one without learning afield, for the Cheltenham Decorative & the Louvre or MoMA on Instagram and took the advice of “offer to do anything about the other”. I agree wholeheartedly Fine Art Society, Marlborough College Twitter. Primarily, Art History will always to be keen” a bit too far. He created an art and have devised a series of events over Summer School, and at venues such as remain relevant and readily available as historical disaster by unwrapping a Christo the years to draw together ‘like-subjects’: Ellenborough Park Hotel. I’m a regular a strain of popular youth culture, as it – an artist renowned for wrapping up the Gothic in art, music and literature, the on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, as the arts is often the ultimate zeitgeist, defining objects, including the Reichstag in 1995 – Elements, the Senses and the Fibonacci correspondent on Dominic Cotter’s show the ‘spirit of the age’. (Take, for example, mistaking it for a Sotheby’s mail delivery! Series to name but a few. This ‘intellectual and am keen to break into more radio Banksy’s recent monochromatic mural windsurfing’ allows teenagers to drift The first-hand experience of viewing work and television work, inspired by the of Steve Jobs, whose father was a Syrian between subjects, enabling them to forge artworks in their natural environment success of my father-in-law, Nick Hewer, of refugee to the USA, adorning the walls of key links, and to explore shared themes. is, of course, both key and intrinsic to Apprentice and Countdown fame. This provides more of a 360-degree Calais’ concrete jungle.) studying Art History. Trips to New York, encapsulation of a given theme, genre or So what are some memorable moments for period, encouraging what the Germans this contemporary Mr. Chips? Teaching The Arcadia Education website contains information regarding forthcoming events, including Art History dubbed the gesamtkunstwerk, or total students about two Canalettos only to talks, tours, courses and private tutoring: www.arcadia.education artwork experience. find a member of the class owned them at perspectives CHELTENHAM ARTS COUNCIL.CO.UK 6 EVENTS EVENTS 7

Events for JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2016 Events for JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2016

VISUAL ARTS MUSIC a piano and technological Tibetan Monks & local innovations. choirs to Rimski’s bicycle Cotswold Art Club Annual Cleeve Harmony Rehearsals, Cleeve Chorale Summer piano & Kwabana Lindsay, Exhibition, Wed 25 May–Tue 7 every Weds, 7.30pm, Bishop’s Sat 2 July, 7.30pm, violin playing rope walker. June, Lower Slaughter. Cleeve Tithe Barn, ladies a Concert, cappella chorus welcoming Bishop’s Cleeve Academy Cheltenham Connections: Broadway Arts Festival, Fri new members regardless of School, inc. Flanders and The Acoustic Boys, Fri 22 3–Sun 19 June, programme: experience. Horovitz: Captain Noah and July, 11.15am, Town Hall, broadwayartsfestival.com his Floating Zoo. dance and sing along, see Cleeve Harmony at the artshape.co.uk Open Art Competition Bishop’s Cleeve Street Fair, Cheltenham Symphony 2016, Fri 3–Sun 19 June, Sun 12 June, cleeve-harmony. Orchestra, Sun 3 July, 3pm, Cleeve Harmony Open 10am-5pm, Little Buckland org.uk Pump Room, Bizet: Rehearsal, Wed 24 Aug, Carmen, Prokofiev: Peter 7.30pm, Bishop’s Cleeve Gallery, exhibition of short- Cheltenham Bach Choir: A and the Wolf, Beethoven: Tithe Barn, hear the chorus listed artists, part of the Night at the Opera, Sun 19 Symph no.6. and guest singers in action Broadway Arts Festival. Info: June, 6.30pm, Pittville Pump littlebucklandgallery.co.uk for 40th anniversary of the 'Individual V The Masses',Sami Lommi (Finland), Room, cond. David Crown. Oriel Singers, Hubert Parry: Pupil, Teacher & Ladies Assoc of British Cheltenham International 3rd Cheltenham International Salon of Photography Cotswold Savoyards: G Friend, Fri 8 July, 7.30pm, Barbershop Singers. Salon of Photography & S from Scratch, Sat 25 Christine Dack, Wed Christine Smith, Wed Highnam Parish Church, Cheltenham Chamber Awards Ceremony, June, June, pm/eve, St Andrew’s 15–Tue 21 June, wild 10–Tue 16 Aug, original part of the Highnam Parry Orchestra: Holst Birthday details tbc, presenting the Church, further info: landscapes in oil, paintings, glassware, Festival. Concert, Sat 17 Sept, very best from thousands collograph prints. prints, cards & crafts. cotswoldsavoyards.org The Arthur Bliss Society: 7.30pm, St Andrew’s of images submitted. See Oriel Singers Concert, Sat Alex Small, Wed 22–Tue 28 Pam Stone, Wed 17–Tue Talk, Tea & Recital, Sat Church, Montpellier, cond. cheltenhamcameraclub.co.uk 25 June, 7.30pm, Malmesbury June, drawings & oils. 23 Aug, portraits, marine, 9 July, 3pm, St Andrew’s Alissa Firsova. Ravel, Holst, Abbey, Cheltenham Camera Club architectural, wildlife. Church, Maria Marchant, Haydn. Stephen Belinfante, Exhibition, Fri 22–Sun 31 July, Cheltenham Philharmonic piano. Britten, Holst, Bliss, Wed 29 June–Tue 5 July, Kate Dove, Wed 24–Tue 30 Oriel Singers choral part of the Guiting Music Orchestra feat. Rebecca Venables. 01242 522763. evensong, Sat 24 Sept, Festival, guitingfestival.org photography. Aug, Cheltenham mixed McNaught, Sun 26 June, 3pm, Cheltenham Symphony Tewkesbury Abbey. media paintings. , Glos Royal Photographic Society Patricia Lee, Wed 6–Tue 12 Orchestra + Pianist Young Musician 2015 plays the Cheltenham Cantilena International Audio-Visual July, portrait, architectural, Helen Dewbery, Wed Thomas Nickell, Sat 9 July, Dvorak Cello Concerto. Rienzi Orchestra Charity Concert, Festival, Sat 24–Sun 25 Sept, wildlife, mystical. 31 Aug–Tue 6 Sept, 7.30pm, Pittville Pump creative photographs of Overture: Wagner, Slavonic Sun 25 Sept, 3pm, Town 1914 Centenary Hall, Dean Alan Shearer, Wed 13–Tue Room, Bach/Elgar: Fantasia Cheltenham. Dances: Dvořák. Hall, in aid of British Heart Close Prep School, full 19 July, land and seascapes & Fugue C minor, Bach, Foundation. weekend of programmes in oil. Frances Whitman, Wed Cheltenham Music Liszt. Festival, Fri 1–Sun 17 July, shown on theatre widescreen. 7–Tue 13 Sept, animal Musica Vera: Cheltenham Keith Cooper, Brian cheltenhamfestivals.com/ Details and entry: rps.org/iavf paintings, ethereal Goes to Sea!, Sat 9 July, Swinyard, Chris Boulton, music paintings & poetry. 7.30pm, St Peter’s Church, AT THE GARDENS Wed 20–Tue 26 July, Keyboard Inventions , light-hearted GALLERY, MONTPELLIER photography. Antje Smith , Wed 14–Tue Trail, early July, indoor & voyage around British sea GARDENS: 20 Sept, oils, watercolours, Sarah Warrington, Wed outdoor locations around songs, cond. David Dewar. acrylics, mixed media. 10am-5pm daily, as listed: 27 July–Tue 2 Aug, oil Chelt, inc. Parabola Arts Proceeds to Sue Ryder. Centre, celebrating Erik Lorna Rankin, Wed 8–Tue 14 paintings reverse glass. Josie Anderson , Wed Music Festival…around Satie’s inventiveness artists 'Can we Share the Fish', Huzhong Cai (USA), RPS June, paintings, jewellery, 21–Tue 27 Sept, paintings & town, Sat 9–Sun 10 July, Gold WINNER – Nature CATEGORY Shelley Winnett, Art For + inventors have created enamel work, silk scarves. sculpture. free stages Cambray Place, 3rd Cheltenham International Salon of All, Wed 3–Tue 9 Aug, jewelled, mosaic, urban art Photography Imperial Square, pop- group exhibition. and sculptural interpretations up performances, from plus new functional uses for perspectives CHELTENHAM ARTS COUNCIL.CO.UK 8 EVENTS EVENTS 9

Events for JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2016 Events for JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2016 Cheltenham Poetry Society Workshop, Tue 7 June, Cheltenham Writers’ Terr, encouraging creative Cheltenham Writers’ 7-10pm, Parmoor House, Circle, Mon 4 July, 7.30pm, writing at all levels. Theme: Circle, Mon 29 Aug, 7.30pm, Lypiatt Terr, info: Sharon Parmoor House, Lypiatt Farewell. Parmoor House, Lypiatt Terr, encouraging creative Terr, encouraging creative Larkin 07540 329389. Cheltenham Poetry writing at all levels. Theme: writing at all levels. Guest Society, Poets, Dead or Cheltenham Science Writing Exercise. Speaker. Festival, Tue 7–Sun 12 June, Alive, Tue 2 Aug, 7-10pm, includes…around town, a Cheltenham Poetry Society Parmoor House, Lypiatt Cheltenham Poetry Society series of live demos on the Workshop, Tue 5 July, Terr, poetry of Philip Larkin, Members’ Writing Group High St and Promenade at 7-10pm, Parmoor House, info: Sharon Larkin 07540 Meeting, Tue 30 Aug, the w/e. Lypiatt Terr, info: Sharon 329389. info: Sharon Larkin 07540 Larkin 07540 329389. 329389. Afternoon Tea in aid of Cheltenham Writers’ Glos Young Carers, Sun 12 Cheltenham Civic Society: Circle, Mon 15 Aug, 7.30pm, Cheltenham Poetry Society June, 3pm, Pittville Pump Brutalism, Tue 5 July, Parmoor House, Lypiatt Workshop, Tue 6 Sept, Room, info: Jane 07828 7.30pm, Parmoor House, Terr, encouraging creative 7-10pm, Parmoor House, 'Cambodian Monk', Paul Jay (Uk), 016857. Divisive Architecture of the writing at all levels. Theme: Lypiatt Terr, info: Sharon CCC members medal winner, 3rd Cheltenham International Salon of Photography 1960’s/70’s, with Tim Mars. Have a Drink on Me. Larkin 07540 329389. Civic Day, Sat 18 June, STAGE & DANCE celebrating where we live. Cheltenham Italian 18 Sept, 7.30pm, 2.30pm cheltenhamcivicsociety. Society, La Cena Legally Blonde: The w/e matinee, Bacon Theatre. org.uk Estivale, Mon 18 July, at Musical, Cheltenham a local restaurant, info: Operatic & Dramatic LECTURES & MEETINGS Cheltenham Writers’ cheltenhamitaliansociety. Society, Tue 14–Sat 18 June, Circle, Mon 20 June, Cheltenham German Club webs.com or Frank Smith Everyman Theatre, 01242 7.30pm, Parmoor House, Stammtisch, twice a month, 01242 231647. 572573. Lypiatt Terr, encouraging town centre, for details: creative writing at all Cheltenham Writers’ cheltenhamgermanclub. Scottish Country Dancing: levels. Theme: Your Unique Circle, Mon 18 July, 7.30pm, webs.com or Greg Arnold Tartan Dance Party, Thu 16 Number. Parmoor House, Lypiatt June, 2pm, Pittville Pump 01684 772966. Terr, encouraging creative Room. Cheltenham Poetry Society writing at all levels. Theme: WEA Walking Book Group, Reading Group Meeting, Blowing in the Wind. Cotswold Savoyards monthly, 2-4pm, Pittville Tue 21 June, 7-10pm, Open Day & Princess Park, info: wea-cheltenham. Parmoor House, Lypiatt Cheltenham Poetry Society Ida pre-auditions, July, co.uk or 01242 524621. Terr, info: Sharon Larkin Reading Group Meeting, 'Dune before Sunrise', Stephan Fuernrohr (Germany) details tbc, please see Tue 19 July, 7-10pm, PSA Gold Winner, Colour category, 3rd Cheltenham International Salon of Photography Cheltenham Writers’ 07540 329389. cotswoldsavoyards.org Parmoor House, Lypiatt Circle, Mon 6 June, 7.30pm, Prestbury Local History Terr, info: Sharon Larkin Promenade Productions Parmoor House, Lypiatt Society Village History 07540 329389. Cheltenham Poetry Society Heritage Open Days 2016, Concert, Sun 10 July, Terr, encouraging creative Walk, Mon 27 June, new Reading Group Meeting, Thu 8–Sun 11 Sept, open Sacred Hearts Hall, writing at all levels. Theme: Cheltenham Poetry Society route for 2016, time & Tue 16 Aug, 7-10pm, buildings and events in and . It’s All Over Now. Members’ Writing Group location tbc. Parmoor House, Lypiatt around town. Meeting, Tue 26 July, Scottish Country Dancing: Cheltenham Civic Society, Terr, info: Sharon Larkin Cheltenham Poetry Society info: Sharon Larkin 07540 Cheltenham Civic Society Tartan Dance Party, Thu trip to Witley Court, 07540 329389. Members’ Writing Group 329389. Open Days, Sat 10–Sun 11 25 Aug, 2pm, Pittville Pump Worcs., Tue 7 June, inc. Meeting, Tue 28 June, Cheltenham Civic Society Sept, 11am–4pm, Parmoor Room. Great Witley Church. Cheltenham Writers’ info: Sharon Larkin 07540 Members Garden Party, House, inc. work and cheltenhamcivicsociety. Circle, Mon 1 Aug, 7.30pm, Promenade Productions: 329389. Sat 27 Aug, 6-8pm, Parmoor archives of the Society. org.uk Parmoor House, Lypiatt The King and I, Thu 15–Sun House. perspectives CHELTENHAM ARTS COUNCIL.CO.UK 10 EVENTS ART 11 Events for JULY – SEPTEMBER 2015 THE WILD CARNIVAL IS COMING! Cheltenham Writers’ Prestbury Local History Beginners’ French, Thu 22 Circle, Mon 12 Sept, Society, Mon 26 Sept, Sept–Thu 8 Dec (ex.27/10), A SNEAK PREVIEW FOR EXPLORERS OF 7.30pm, Parmoor House, 7.30pm, W.I. Hall, Archive & 11am-1pm, Christ Church THE WILSON’S SUMMER EXHIBITION Lypiatt Terr, encouraging Quiz Evening. Hall. creative writing at all levels. Cheltenham Poetry Society his summer, The Wilson will be Theme: Lumbered. Further your French with Members’ Writing Group Fun, Thu 22 Sept–Thu hosting a family exhibition, Wild Cercle Français, Mon 19 Meeting, Tue 27 Sept, 8 Dec (ex.27/10), 2-4pm, T Worlds, centred on ideas about Sept, 7pm, new venue: St info: Sharon Larkin 07540 Christ Church Hall. animals, storytelling, imagination, Philip & St James Church 329389. exploration and creativity. Centre, Cold Pool Lane, Up A Celebration of Charlton Kings Local The exhibition will be split across two Hatherley. cercle-francais- Gloucestershire Poets, History Society, Tue Wed 28 Sept–Wed 16 galleries. The first will be home to a cheltenham.webs.com fascinating display of animal ceramics 27 Sept, 7.30pm, Baptist Nov (ex.26/10), 2-4pm, St selected from Aberystwyth University’s Cheltenham Poetry Society Church, Church St, Mark’s Methodist Ch Hall, renowned ceramics collection. Reading Group Meeting, Troubled Waters, with Lt Gloucester Rd. Tue 20 Sept, 7-10pm, Col David O’Connor. From faraway animals like lions, tigers, Concepts in Early 20th 'Tiger', Anna Noel Parmoor House, Lypiatt rhinoceroses and monkeys, to more CHELTENHAM WEA Century Art, Tue 4 Oct–Tue Terr, info: Sharon Larkin familiar creatures like cows, foxes, mice COURSES: Details: wea- 15 Nov, 2-4pm, St Mark’s 07540 329389. and dogs, this part of the exhibition cheltenham.co.uk or Derek Methodist Ch Hall. Cheltenham Local History Briggs 01242 234488. will encourage children and families to Society, Tue 20 Sept, Please enrol at wea.org.uk Philosophy, Thu 6 Oct–Thu consider how animals are used all around 7.30pm, Municipal Offices, or tel. 0845 4582758. 17 Nov, 2-4pm, St Mark’s the world in storytelling, myth and to represent human emotions. H.H.Martyn, with James Methodist Ch Hall. Exploring Drawing & Rendell. Meanwhile, in the second gallery, visitor- Painting, Mon 19 Sept–Mon Calligraphy: the Art of explorers will be invited into a wild world Cheltenham Writers’ 7 Nov (ex. 24/10), 10.30am- Beautiful Lettering, Wed 19 of imagination, specially created by artist Circle, Mon 26 Sept, 12.30pm, Foyle Learning Oct–Wed 30 Nov, Bishop’s Sarah Butterworth and inspired by the 7.30pm, Parmoor House, Centre, The Wilson. Cleeve Tithe Barn. ceramics from Aberystwyth University and Lypiatt Terr, encouraging The Early 1960s: literature by work produced in a series of children’s creative writing at all levels. Submission (ads and events) must & social history, Tue 20 workshops, led by Kerrie Reading in Away Evening. be with us by the end of JULY for Sept–Tue 29 Nov (ex.25/10), consideration for the next issue. advance of the exhibition. 10.30am-12.30pm, Christ Please email event details to The gallery will be transformed into an University Aberystwyth PhotoS courtesy Church Hall, Malvern Rd. [email protected] immersive experience for children and grown-ups alike. With special lighting, 'Noah’s Ark', Conception Aguilar different textures on the walls and floors, sound, movement and experiments in – with activities being held daily at the scale and colour, this will be an intriguing museum. The programme will include interpretation of The Wilson’s gallery storytelling, mask making, a group project space. for all visitors to take part in, museum trail, exhibition trail and activity sheets. Wild Worlds will encourage children and Come and let your imagination run wild! families to explore, imagine and create

Wild Worlds will be on open from 25 June – 4 September 2016 at The Wilson. Tony Allain 'Team Blue' showing at Broadway Arts Festival 2016 Jay Harrison: Electromechanical Lithophone. Entry is £5 adults / free for 16s and under. 3-19JUNE 2016. TONY IS ALSO LEADING A PASTELS WORKSHOP. Part of the Keyboard Inventions Trail, Visit www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk for further info and to book. broadwayartsfestival.com July 2016 at Parabola Arts Centre perspectives CHELTENHAM ARTS COUNCIL.CO.UK 12 PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS 13 "TO INSPIRE AND CHALLENGE" COFFEE, CAKE AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY AN INTRODUCTION TO CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL CHELTENHAM ART OFFICE SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARTIN FRY

he 4th Cheltenham International ucked away amongst the burly Salon of Photography (CISP) is a warehouses and mechanics’ sheds T competition which celebrates the T of Lansdown Industrial Estate, is the best photographic images from Art Office, a social enterprise for around the world. Martin Fry, a member of Cheltenham’s creative community. We Cheltenham Camera Club (CCC), and one asked co-founder, Anna Poulton, to tell us of last year’s judges, explains more. more. Cheltenham’s Salon is under the patronage What is the Art Office and what does it of the Royal Photographic Society 'Making Nets', David Poey-Cher Tay, Singapore RPS Gold WINNER, 3rd Cheltenham International offer? Hannah Brown and Anna Poulton (RPS), Photo Society of America (PSA) Salon of Photography and the International Federation of Cheltenham Art Office is a small venue from Art’ network of local artists develops Photographic Art (FIAP) and is organised on Lansdown Industrial Estate. During over the next few months. by Cheltenham Camera Club. the day it offers regular or occasional desk space for people looking for a convenient Last year, over 1,000 photographers What are your favourite things about the and affordable environment from which entered images from more than 50 arts in Cheltenham? to work and to meet with others. It’s an countries, in five categories – Colour, alternative to the noise of a coffee shop, I moved to Cheltenham because I fell in Monochrome, Nature, Creative and Travel. the family interruptions when working love with the Festivals. I spent several A total of over 8,000 images were received at home or the solitude of being a loan years in a very rural environment, so and it is expected that this year’s entry 'The Mad Horse', Kam Chui Tam, Canada worker. In the evenings and at weekends I really appreciate what’s available in will be similar. “Acceptances” are highly RPS Gold WINNER, 3rd Cheltenham International it’s used for planning meetings, training Cheltenham. Developing the Art Office sought-after, as photographers gather Salon of Photography and workshops. has introduced me to a much wider group points towards distinctions, as well as of artists and creative people of all types, aiming for the major awards. Once the judging is completed all entrants Why did you set it up? often hidden away and looking to find The images are projected over four days receive a colour catalogue portraying the My co-founder, Hannah Brown and I both space to flourish. in front of national and international very best images. Cheltenham Camera enjoy the variety and independence of How would you like to see the arts and judges, who score each image out of 5. Club also makes a two-hour audio- not having a regular, office-based job, but culture in Cheltenham develop further? Each section has three judges, with the visual presentation for the Salon Award we wanted an alternative to the solitary top images being reviewed over and over Ceremony (in June) and for a tour around ‘spare bedroom office’ that is where so I would really like to see more affordable again to finalise the awards. photography clubs in the region. many self employed people spend their space for all kinds of creative activity, and In today’s world, where everyone can The Salon is a great opportunity for our working lives. We’ve been able to create more innovative, contemporary theatre. A operate whatever device they own, the town to enhance its profile as a centre for an environment we enjoy spending time in much larger Cheltenham Art Office would technical aspect of photography is taken the arts. It puts Cheltenham Camera Club ourselves and it’s great when people tell us be good! for granted. So what do the judges look for? as one at the forefront of international how much they enjoy working at the office. How can people get involved with In the first instant it is the initial impact, photographic competitions in the country We enjoy providing an affordable space for Cheltenham Art Office? just like when the first chords of a piece of and provides its members with the people to develop their work, business or music are played or a painting is unveiled. opportunity to see the very best work creative ideas, and ‘try out’ different ideas Visit www.cheltenhamartoffice.co.uk or For the painting to be appreciated, it is to inspire them on their photographic for creative workshops. www.facebook.com/cheltenhamartoffice to all about composition and colour and journey. see more. 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