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Heritage Open Weekend on 10 and 11 September. With years’ Edinburgh festival Operation Greenfi eld as well as tours of the building, time to meet our team, hands-on presenting Corn Exchange resident company You Need creative workshops and back-stage access – we really Me’s latest piece. hope you will come and join us and learn more about We can also promise you our usual fantastic line-up everything we do. of great comedy, inspiring exhibitions, live music, We will also be continuing to do what we do best, and and fi lms as well a whole host of opportunities to that’s presenting an exciting programme of work that get involved with us through workshops, classes, really does have something for everyone. This Autumn, discussion groups or even volunteering to really make we are welcoming renowned ballet company Ballet the most of this terrifi c theatre. Black to the Corn Exchange for the fi rst time with their So, whether you’re already a regular here with us or 10th anniversary programme, we’ve got a thrilling story perhaps thinking about coming along for the fi rst of an extraordinary friendship adapted from Michael time, come and join us as we celebrate this amazing Morpurgo’s best-selling novel Friend or Foe, multi- building and look forward to the next 150 years. award winning Little Bulb bring us their hit from last We hope to see you soon.
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BLACKEYED THEATRE PRESENTS JOAN LITTLEWOOD MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT’S OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR! Tuesday 13 September 2.30pm & 7.45pm (duration 2 hrs 20 mins, including interval) Corn Exchange A classic of modern theatre and a powerful reminder of the atrocities of the First World War, that cost twenty million lives. Told through the songs and documents of the period, this incredibly moving show is a satirical attack on military incompetence and a chilling tale of man’s inhumanity to man. At turns funny, yet deeply moving, Oh What A Lovely War has a style all of its own, combining live music, dance, songs and sketches to create ICARUS THEATRE PRESENTS a picture of life for those on the front line, and those behind it. MACBETH Magnifi cent... Extraordinary... As Fri 16 & Sat 17 September haunting as it is harrowing... Forty 7.45pm (ends 10.15pm) years on, we need Littlewood’s vision Corn Exchange more than ever. Blackeyed Theatre A playful and experimental journey restore it to us with astonishing Something wicked this way comes… power. Catch it if you can. The vicious, barbaric undercurrent in The Stage Shakespeare’s epic tragedy surfaces in Tickets: £14 (£12 concs) this kinetic, blood-thirsty production. Age Guide: 11+ Unrivalled on the battlefi eld, Macbeth In association with South Hill Park is rewarded with rank and favour by Arts Centre, The Courtyard Centre a grateful king. But with each enemy for the Arts and Joan Littlewood’s butchered to serve his vaulting Musical Entertainment ambition, Macbeth’s lust for power takes a more menacing grip. 4 | www.cornexchangenew.com
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ROGER MCGOUGH THAT AWKWARD AGE Thursday 22 September 7.45pm (ends 9.30pm) Corn Exchange An evening of poems to amaze and delight! McGough wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette and jives in Macca’s trousers. He shares the pain of SHANTYSHANTY THTHEATREEATRE PRESENTSPRESENTS Lord Godiva and Mr Nightingale, THE MYSTERIOUS considers his Final Poem and AND FANTASTICAL shakes a fi st at Alzheimer’s. Addresses, elegies and ever WARTIME TALE OF perceptive playfulness make this THE SALTY SOCKS a must-not-miss. Honoured with a CBE for services to literature, OF DUNKIRK there’s poetry in the house and Tuesday 20 September McGough fi tted it. Followed by a 8pm (ends 10pm) book signing. New Greenham Arts He is a true original and more This is a story about a boy. And a than one generation would be boat. And some socks. much the poorer without him. Set at the beginning of World War II The Times and dripping with Brylcreem, bunting Tickets: £16 (£14 concs) Lauded as one of the most fearless and BBC broadcasts, a young boy has Age Guide: 14+ and dynamic theatre companies in the world at his feet. There is nothing the UK , this new production goes he can’t do. There’s no tree he can’t straight for the jugular. Blending climb, no race he can’t win and no traditional and inventive physical challenge he can’t meet. Until one day theatre techniques, original live he fi nds his mother crying. music, evocative design, and the original verse, this slick production is With Shanty’s mix of mystery, perfect for audiences new to Macbeth mayhem and musical mirth, stories and those already well acquainted come to life, adventures become with Shakespeare’s tragedies. history and socks become legend. Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) Tickets: £14 (£12 concs) Age Guide: 11+ Age Guide: 6+ Post Show Discussion 01635 522733 | 5
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SCAMP THEATRE & WATFORD PALACE THEATRE PRESENT FRIEND OR FOE Thu 13 & Fri 14 October 7.45pm (duration 75 mins, no interval) & Fri matinee 1.30pm Corn Exchange From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes a thrilling tale of extraordinary friendship, adapted by the team behind Private Peaceful in February. Set at the height of the Second World War, two boys, embark on a wondrous adventure deep in the Devonshire countryside. Evacuated from London, war seemed far away from David and Tucky’s new lives in the country. Until one THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES night, the skyline is lit up with gun fl ashes and the Starring Wendi Peters, Louisa Lytton and Tiana Benjamin distant crump of bombing Wednesday 12 October shatters their new 7.45pm (ends 9.45pm) found peace. Corn Exchange Eve Ensler’s hilarious Broadway and West End smash hit returns, featuring a new all star cast including the brilliant Tiana Benjamin (Eastenders), the stunning Louisa Lytton (Eastenders and The Bill) and the sensational Wendi Peters (Coronation Street and Celebrity Masterchef). This hilariously witty and moving collection of stories is an unmissable show for every generation - bring your mum, your best friend, your sister or even your gran – this is the ultimate girls night out… trust us! Sex has never been funnier or more poignant. New York Times Tickets: £18.50 Groups of 10+: £16.50 Age Guide: 16+
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I’m thrilled to bits. I just think the quality of what Scamp do is amazing. Michael Morpurgo, The Independent Tickets: £12 (£10 concs) Age Guide: 8+ Post Show Discussion
LITTLE BULB THEATRE PRESENTS OPERATION GREENFIELD Wednesday 19 October PENNYPENNY DREDREADFUL’SADFUL’S 8pm (ends 9.30pm) ETHERDROME New Greenham Arts Friday 28 October Somewhere in middle England four 8pm (ends 9.10pm) unlikely teenagers are preparing for New Greenham Arts judgement day with ladders, Elvis and Forest Fruits squash – Stokely’s Frankenstein’s alive and he’s about to annual talent competition is nigh. extract your wisdom teeth! Award-winning With a stage full of instruments and an Penny Dreadful cordially invite you to enter eclectic mix of recorded music, Little the Etherdome. Take your seats for this Bulb Theatre capture the confusing, darkly funny, true tale of 1850’s America, awkward and beautifully naïve time of where carnival-sideshows meet live adolescence. The time when the once bluegrass… and dentistry! Mick Barnfather simple beliefs you held dear need (Peepolykus, Right Size, Complicité) directs re-adjusting to face the complexities this extraordinary disaster-comedy, where of adulthood. A bizarre and visually the quest for pain relief takes a detour via fantastical exploration of music, faith lunacy, addiction and a duck pond! and friendship, from Total Theatre, Trust us this won’t hurt a bit… Fringe First, Arches Brick and Herald Tickets: £12 (£10 concs) Angel Award Winners. Age Guide: 14+ Recklessly talented...insanely brave.**** Post-show discussion Lyn Gardner, The Guardian Penny Dreadful, Jackson’s Lane and Richard All Tickets: £10 Jordan Productions, in association with Assembly. Age Guide: 11+ 01635 522733 | 7
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YOU NEED ME PRESENTS DEATH SONG Fri 21 & Sat 22 October 7.45pm (duration 1 hour) Corn Exchange Juan lives alone with his 15 year old daughter, Paulina, in a trailer park just south of Las Vegas. He works hard to build a life for them both; cleaning casinos by night and NIE THEATRE PRESENTS washing cars by day. But beneath the surface of their quiet existence, TALES FROM A SEA JOURNEY the claustrophobic relationships that Thursday 24 November | 7.45pm (duration 1 hour) | Corn Exchange will lead to tragedy are forming. In November 2009, eight performers from award-winning theatre company With a haunting live original New International Encounter (NIE) embarked on a 3500 mile voyage across soundtrack on cello and guitar, and the Atlantic Ocean from France to Guadaloupe aboard a cargo ship. performed by a cast of Puerto Rican, With the help of Icelandic novelist, poet and Björk lyricist Sjón, Basque, Catalan and English actors, their experiences on the voyage are delicately intertwined Death Song is the tense, electric with seafaring tales from around the world. NIE combine story of a Mexican man on death their trademark mix of storytelling, physical theatre, row in Nevada during the 1980s, live music, multiple languages and a European ensemble and the events leading to his arrest to create this lyrical and funny theatre show. for murder seven years earlier. Tickets: £13 (£11 concs) You Need Me (How It Ended, Age Guide: 14+ Certain Dark Things) are a multinational storytelling company combining theatre with live music and sound effects to create intensely atmospheric and thought-provoking performances. You Need Me are resident at the Corn Exchange, Newbury.
All Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) Age Guide: 14+
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CRYING OUT LOUD PRESENTS MURMURS Wed 9 & Thu 10 November 7.45pm Corn Exchange A woman alone and on the run, fl eeing from reality; her life packed up in cardboard boxes. In this follow-up to the 2FACED DANCE PRESENTS internationally acclaimed Aurelia’s IN THE DUST Oratorio, mystery takes over JEAN ABREU DANCE PRESENTS Thursday 15 September and Aurelia is pursued through 7.45pm (ends 9.15pm) abandoned buildings and streets INSIDE Corn Exchange that lead nowhere; the walls close Thursday 8 September 2Faced Dance return with a triple bill in as she becomes immersed 7.45pm (ends 9pm) in snippets of others’ lives. A Corn Exchange of darkly explosive new break-infused tour of whirlwind romance, city contemporary dance works from Dynamic dance-theatre with confusion, undersea encounters critically acclaimed choreographers music from 65daysofstatic and dining-room debacles Tom Dale “Dale’s edgy work takes told through Victoria Fiercely Thierrée evocative, highly-charged dance theatre featuring the temperature of Britain” (The Chaplin’s mischievous blendfi ve outstanding of male dancers and choreography by Guardian), Place Prize fi nalist Freddie illusion, manipulation, Braziliancircus Jerwood Award winner, Jean Abreu. INSIDE Oppiku-Addaie and 2Faced Artistic and dance. explores violence, incarceration, solitude and hope Director Tamsin Fitzgerald, exploring within the prison walls – a gritty, compelling themes of decay and destruction. Tickets: TBC production revealing surprising tenderness within Marvelous choreography, fi erce, Age Guide: 8+ the starkness of captivity. The dance hit of the bitter and brutal, that takes In Association with Corn 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with sold out the potential for total theatre Exchange, Newbury and Arts performances, standing ovations and Council England seriously. Plenty of companies massive critical acclaim, INSIDE succeeds claim to experiment. Plenty of in creating a work of grace and beauty companies make high claims for from the boredom, frustration and the grim their work. 2Faced deliver.” ***** reality of prison life. INSIDE will also treat Skinny you to the music of instrumental guitar/noise/ Tickets: £12 (£10 concs) glitch band 65daysofstatic, one of the most arresting and fi ercely independent bands around while still selling over 100,000 albums worldwide. All Tickets: £12 Please note. Includes a brief scene of full frontal male nudity 01635 522733 | 9
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BALLET BLACK TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMME
Thursday 29 September | 7.45pm (ends 9.30pm) Corn Exchange Now celebrating their tenth year, Cassa Pancho’s award- winning company of black and Asian ballet dancers has gathered huge success and a cult following over recent years. Presenting entirely new work from a range of dynamic choreographers, the company has worked with everyone from Richard Alston, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Hampson, to Shobana Jeyasingh, Will Tuckett and many more. For their debut at the Corn Exchange, the company present a mixed bill of highlights from the past decade, including the critically acclaimed Da Gamba by the Welsh-Nigerian choreographer Henri Oguike, Shift by former New York City Ballet dancer, Antonia Franceschi, and the company’s fi rst narrative ballet, Orpheus created by Will Tuckett. Tickets: £14 (£12 concs)
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ESSENCE OF IRELAND 5 STAR IRISH MAGIC BGROUP PRESENTS Tuesday 8 November 7.45pm | Corn Exchange THE LESSENING OF Now with their biggest and most talented cast of Dancers, Singers, and DIFFERENCE Musicians, Essence of Ireland combines breathtaking dance routines with Wed 23 November | 7.45pm the very best of Irish music, a touch of Irish craic, all cleverly woven into a (ends 8.45pm) | Corn Exchange heart-warming tale. Described by the Irish World as “Entirely unique” and Eye to Body, Eye to Eye, Voice to Voice, “Highly Recommended”, the critically acclaimed Essence of Ireland is Hand to Hand, Arm to Shoulder, Arm to taking theatres by storm. Waist, Mouth to Mouth, Hand to Head, If you liked Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, and Spirit of the Dance, Hand to Body, Mouth to Breast…. you will love this show, because it’s even better! Southampton Echo Following the critical success of Tickets: £24.50 (£20 concs) (£20 concs) bgroup’s extraordinary last work about around and the recent national tour of Dance 3, choreographer Ben Wright MANMADE DANCE PLATFORM creates his most ambitious work to Wednesday 2 November 7pm (ends 9.30pm) Corn Exchange date for his inspirational company. An exciting new collaboration with Corn Exchange are working with Fuzzy Logic dance company to support author David Charles Manners, The schools across the region in promoting and developing boys’ dance. lessening of difference marks refl ects Fuzzy Logic will be going into schools to lead workshops and help upon the concept of intimacy. With an develop performance pieces culminating in a public performance platform. electrifying soundtrack and sumptuous performance will feature the best young talent from across the region – lighting, Wright and his quartet of come and celebrate with us. exceptional dancers Ticket prices: TBC invite you to dream and join them in snowfall… All Tickets: £12 Created with funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Co-commissioned by Corn Exchange, Newbury, ICIA, Bath, The Place and South East Dance. 01635 522733 | 11
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CORN EXCHANGE NEWBURY AND HISS & BOO PRESENT ROBIN HOOD WRITTEN BY PHIL WILLMOTT DIRECTED BY PHIL WILLMOTT WITH KATHERINE HARE Fri 2 December 2010 – Mon 2 January 2011 Corn Exchange Tickets: £14.50 - £17 (concs available)
Join us for Newbury’s wackiest, most tuneful, and action packed pantomime adventure yet! Legendary hero Robin Hood is heading our way this festive season and he wants you in his gang of merry maids and men. And not a moment too soon! Not content with making everybody pay lots of nasty taxes wicked Prince John has devised his most dastardly scheme yet, he plans to steal the crown from his brother King Richard the Lion Heart! Can you help Robin save the kingdom and win the love of the fair and feisty Maid Marian? New dame in town, the outrageous Shania Tuck, will be on hand to join in the fun - along with a host of fresh and familiar faces to make this brand new pantomime from the team behind the action-packed Aladdin, the purrrrfect Puss in Boots and the scintillating Sleeping Beauty, the perfect holiday treat for all. TICKETS SELLING Prepare to scale the castle walls, sign up for singalongs around the camp fi re, expect daring FAST! deeds, duals and daftness and shout hooray for a hunky hero... in green tights! Robin Hood is coming to Newbury!
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TALL STORIES PRESENTS MR BENN BASED ON THE TV SERIES BY DAVID MCKEE Thu 25 & Fri 26 August TALL STORIES PRESENTS Thu 1.30pm/Fri 10.30am & 1.30pm THE SNOW DRAGON Corn Exchange Saturday 1 October As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared… 11am (duration 50 mins, no interval) Tall Stories (creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom stage shows) Corn Exchange present their latest production, with catchy songs and astounding magic – Billy has everything a young goat could for everyone, old friends of Mr Benn and new adventurers alike. need – and more besides. On New Year’s One ordinary day, Mr Benn receives an invitation to a fancy dress party – Eve, Billy’s parents tell him about the and comes across an extraordinary shop. As if by magic, the shopkeeper legendary Snow Dragon, who will bring appears with an array of costumes, and shows him into the dressing room. him even more goodies during the night. Inside is a mysterious door that leads Mr Benn into incredible adventures, But when Billy bumps into some wolves full of dragons, princesses and sea monsters… in the woods, New Year’s Day seems a long way off. Find out how Billy escapes Will Mr Benn ever go back to his ordinary life? – and whether the Snow Dragon will bring This lovingly staged adaptation delights a whole new him a present. Has Billy been naughty or generation of youngsters The Herald **** nice? Story-telling, comedy and songs Tickets: £10, Family of Four: £38 create a magical world for everyone aged Age Guide: 4+ 3 and up, from the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. If you are a kid, if you have kids, if you ever were a kid, go and see The Snow Dragon. ***** Three Weeks Tickets: £8 (£6 concs) Age Guide: 3+
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SSTUFFT AND NONSENSE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTSP THEHE ELELVESVES AND THE SHOEMAKER BLUNDERBUSBLUNDERBUUS PRESENTS Tue 25 & Wed 26 October THE OWL WHO WAS Tue 2.30pm & Wed 10.30am & 1pm (duration 50 mins, no interval) Corn Exchange AFRAID OF THE DARK Sat in his kitchen workshop, Sam Lacey makes terrible shoes and tries to sell Saturday 12 November them online. They are so bad that no-one wants them, not even his neighbour 12pm (duration 1 hour, no interval) (who thinks he should give up and get a real job!). One night, two tiny visitors Corn Exchange climb in through the window and start cutting and stitching and gluing... Based on Jill Tomlinson’s classic children’s and Sam’s life is never quite the same again! book, this funny, gentle and reassuring Following their sell-out tours, The Enormous Turnip, Little Red Hen and tale helps children discover that dark is 3 Little Pigs, the inescapably eccentric Stuff and Nonsense Theatre return fun, dark is exciting and dark is beautiful. with an up-to-date, size 13½ retelling of everyone’s favourite story featuring Plop was a baby barn owl. He lived at stunning puppets, music and surprises aplenty. the top of a tall tree and was exactly the Tickets: £8 (£6 concs) Age Guide: 3+ same as every barn owl that has ever been – except for one thing. He was HALLOWEEN HULLABALOO AFRAID of the DARK. Join Plop, the baby barn owl, as he discovers the wonders of Sunday 30 October | Market Place | 5 - 9pm night-time; campfi res, fi re-works, starry Join our third spookilicious Hullabaloo for hubble, bubble toil and skies and magical, moonlit adventures. An trouble this Halloween Eve as Newbury town centre is once again irresistible mix of live music, puppetry and overtaken over by witches, wizards, imps and sprites for an evening of storytelling, this beautiful show introduces ghostly goings-on ahead of Halloween. Join the hordes of folk in fancy Plop, an old favourite, to a new generation dress for a night of music, magic and ghoulish family fun that kids and of theatre-goers. grown-ups will all enjoy. With so many mystical and marvelous activities, you’ll be spoilt for choice in this cauldron of concoction - the best place to spend Tickets: £8 (£6 concs) Halloween for all the family! Age Guide: 3+
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THE CAVERN BEATLES Thursday 1 September | 7.45pm (ends 10pm) Corn Exchange Forty years on the music of the Beatles remains as fresh and uplifting as it was back in the swinging sixties. The songs that have inspired and infl uenced generations are brought back to life in this staggering live show that perfectly captures the feel of the original Fab Four. Performed with passion and reverence, the attention to detail and seemingly effortless accuracy of The Cavern Beatles will have you singing all the way home. Like a scene from A Hard Day’s NIght – Amazing. The Sunday Times All Tickets: £16
DENNIS LOCORRIERE WITH SPECIAL GUEST EMILY MACGUIRE Saturday 10 September 7.45pm (ends 10.20pm) Corn Exchange Dennis Locorriere, without reservation still has one of the fi nest voices of all time. As lead singer for Dr Hook, he fronted one of the biggest bands of the seventies and early eighties, clocking up hit after hit like The Cover of Rolling Stone and When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman. With a voice recognised the world over, his collaborations and songwriting credits since Dr Hook ‘called it a day’ read like a who’s who of music. Now he heads out on a headline tour where you’ll get to hear that classic pop vocal live on the Corn Exchange stage. Tickets: £15 (£13 concs)
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Southern Sinfonia’s series of Café Concerts take pace at the Corn Exchange on Friday lunchtimes. Concerts begin at 1pm and last approximately 1 hour, with no interval. All Concerts: 1pm (ends 2pm, no interval) Corn Exchange Tickets: £7 (£11.25 incl. food, £5 under 25s) Sponsored by Gardner Leader
Friday 23 September JUBAL ACAPELLA GROUP ARISE MY LOVE SOUTHERN SINFONIA BARB JUNGR Acapella at its very best, many of the PRESENTS SINGS BOB DYLAN countries top young singers brought SONGS WITHOUT together a year ago by director Peter WANT YOU Asprey (of Stile Antico fame). This starry WORDS A JOURNEY OF SYMPHONIC group are already known for singing that Friday 16 September MUSIC FROM PRAGUE TO is hauntingly beautiful and technically 8pm (ends 10pm) COPENHAGEN TO LEIPZIG New Greenham Arts outstanding and their programme Friday 4 November includes pieces by Bairstow, Whitacre In 2005 the BBC hosted a Barbican 7.45pm (ends 9.30pm) and Wilbye. A diary must, particularly if concert to celebrate the work of Bob Corn Exchange you are not familiar with this genre. Dylan. In introducing Jungr, Billy CONDUCTOR Bragg described her as “possibly Friday 28 October DAVID HILL our best interpreter of Dylan’s SOLOIST songs”. He is not alone in this GEORGE ROSS ELLIE NUGENT view, as Jungr has been wowing CELLO (WINNER OF NEWBURY YOUNG audiences and critics worldwide ALISTAIR ROSS MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR 2010) with her astonishingly powerful HARPSICHORD Dvorák Serenade Op.22 in E Major reinterpretations of this great Two generations of early music Nielsen Flute Concerto (1926) songwriter’s work. This Autumn she specialists join together in an intimate Schumann Symphony No. 2 embarks on a tour to celebrate partnership, to include Bach’s Cello Composition project by children on Dylan’s songs and to promote her Concerto in G Minor. our Junior Schools programme. record The Man In The Long Black Coat, which features 13 Dylan Friday 25 November Pre concert talk 6.30pm-7.15pm Free To Ticket Holders. songs she has recorded over SOUTHERN SINFONIA the last 8 years WIND PRINCIPALS Tickets: £14 Tickets: £13 (£11 concs) SUBLIMELY WINDY (£10 concs, £5 students) An exciting programme of dynamic pieces by the stars of Southern Sinfonia’s wind section. 01635 522733 | 17
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UPBEAT MANAGEMENT PRESENTS GOSPEL GREATS FEATURING THE LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR Saturday 15 October 7.45pm (ends 9.45pm) Corn Exchange When you want to hear gospel greats who better to give you a superb evening STACEY KENT than The London Community Gospel AND HER MUSICIANS Choir. Highly sought-after throughout the world, their concerts are full of Thursday 20 October songs and spirituals that will soothe the 7.45pm (ends 10pm) mind, heal the spirit uplift the soul and Corn Exchange cheer your heart. Stacey Kent is the best-selling Join the LCGC for an evening of Gospel member of the Blue Note (EMI) Greats like: Oh Happy Day and His roster of recording artists, now Eye is on the Sparrow, Amazing Grace, boasting eight best-selling Hallelujah plus songs from the movie albums including the Grammy Sister Act and many more. nominated, platinum selling Breakfast on the Morning Tram. Tickets: £16 (£14 concs) With a string of awards including the British Jazz Award, The BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist, and Album of the Year, as well as a fan base that enables her to sell-out concert halls around the world, she comes to Newbury with a sublime pedigree, and in support of her much anticipated recent release Raconte-Moi. Devastatingly stylish...a beauty in any circumstances. The Observer All Tickets: £17.50
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THE IAN MCMILLAN ORCHESTRA Friday 11 November 7.45pm (ends 9.30pm) Corn Exchange A steaming, pulsing collection of songs and musically illuminated stories coming home to roost. Here be tales of family, longing, love and long histories. Told by an Orchestra, ring-mastered by composer Luke Carver Goss and whirlingly dervished by Bard of Barnsley and English National Opera poet-in- residence Ian McMillan. A scintillating night of poems, music, comedy and improv – like nothing you’ve ever seen before! From poignant historical nostalgia to broad comedy and cosmopolitan rap...masterly. Roots Tickets: £14 (£12 concs)
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TONY LAW JONGLEURS SHOW ME THE GO! Friday 23 September FUNNY: LIVE! Thursday 22 September Friday 28 October Friday 30 September 8pm (ends 9.30pm) Friday 25 November New Greenham Arts 7.45pm (ends 9.45pm) 7.45pm (ends 10pm) Corn Exchange As seen on Russell Howard’s Good Corn Exchange News, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle A guaranteed laugh-laden night out, The series winner and the two and Edinburgh or Bust, Tony Law is Jongleurs monthly comedy club runners up from ITV’s newest and charming and bizarre and set to take returns with three more fantastic toughest comedy reality show are out the comedy world by storm. Join evenings of comedic chaos. on tour this autumn. By the time you him for an evening of off-the-wall, see them one will have been crowned Every month a stellar line-up of as the UKs newest comedy superstar. boundary-defying stand-up and fi nd the fi nest acts on the circuit make out why it is he’s regarded as one of Newbury rock with laughter in an Meet in person the last three the fi nest performers on the comedy evening of raucous comedy that standing from Britain’s funniest and circuit right now. will leave your fancy well-and-truly fi ercest new stand-up show. The All Tickets: £12 (£13.50 concs) tickled. The line-up is kept a closely winner has been chosen by a phone Age Guide: 16+ guarded secret until the week of vote of ITV viewers at a live fi nal in the show, but Jongleurs can August, and they will all have had to guarantee a giggle that has impress a panel of judges including hundreds coming back month Jason Manford, Alan Davies, Kate after month. Book early. Copstick, Jo Brand, Johnny Vegas, Jimmy Tarbuck, Bob Mortimer, Tickets: £14 (£12 concs) Canon and Ball and Ross Noble to Age Guide: 18+ make it into the fi nal three. Audiences are always hungry for the next big thing - well here it is! All Tickets: £17.50 Age Guide: 16+ 22 | www.cornexchangenew.com
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FRISKY AND MANNISH Thursday 6 October 8pm (ends 9.45pm, includes interval) CHRIS COX New Greenham Arts Friday 7 October 8pm (ends 9.30pm) New Greenham Arts That skinny mind-reader who can’t read minds has won awards, been on TV, got a load of 5 star reviews and sold out shows around the world and is somehow still getting away with it. Using a mongrel mix of techniques including magic, psychology and lying, Chris Cox will amaze and Everyone wants a career in pop, and if The Saturdays can do it, then, by God, so astound as does things no human can you. After rigorous education at the School of Pop (sell-out smash 2009), should be able to do, controls and intellectual training during The College Years (again, sell-out smash 2010), coincidence, amazes and astounds. it’s time to move out of your parents’ house and get a job. Everything you need is It will be weird and wonderful, at F&M’s Pop Centre Plus. Meticulous analysis of your skills and strengths will Chris’ll be wonderful. reveal your optimum career-path. Are you a Bieber? Maybe more Cher? Or just You just turn up. The Wanted? If you don’t sign on, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW. Slicker than a baby seal on a Unerringly sharp and upbeat from start to fi nish, this is a gold-star waterslide… seriously impressive. masterclass in the mechanics and semantics of pop. **** The Scotsman Mail on Sunday Tickets: £12 (£10 concs) Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) Age Guide: 14+ Age Guide: 14+
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PEACOCK AND AN AUDIENCE WITH JAMES SHERWOOD GAMBLE TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR Friday 21 October IN CONVERSATION WITH 8pm (ends 9.30pm) Saturday 15 October CHRIS SERLE New Greenham Arts 8pm (ends 10pm) New Greenham Arts Wednesday 19 October James Sherwood is one of the UK’s 7.45pm (ends 9.45pm) foremost musical comedians. If you We have all been at a show that goes Corn Exchange like your comedy tuneful, or your wrong. Actors can forget their lines, Tim Brooke-Taylor has been delighting music hilarious, his new show is a technicians can miss cues, or a lion audiences with his gentle, zany must-see, and coming to Newbury as can get in the room and go mental. humour ever since he rocketed from the part of his latest national tour. But there has never been, until now, a Cambridge Footlights into West End A veteran of 6 consecutive Edinburgh back–up show waiting in the wings, stardom trading custard pies with John Festivals, and a regular presence across ready to leap in and save the day Cleese and one-liners with Bill Oddie in television and radio, James taps out (and kill the lion). Step forward 2011 the hugely successful Cambridge his “acclaimed, inspired ditties” (Three Chortle Award nominees Ray Peacock Circus revue. Weeks) in a beguiling evening of comic and Ed Gamble (Russell Howard’s This was only the start of a sparkling song and biting satire. Good News, Peacock & Gamble career, which includes the long-running Podcast) with their ramshackle, His entire set, from humorous songs TV series The Goodies and BBC Radio’s to witty repartee, is beautifully, seat-of-the-pants, emergency comedy I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. painstakingly sculpted. There’s no night. Don’t bring a lion. fl ab and no fi ller. Unfettered roars of laughter. Tickets: £16.50 (£14.50 concs) The Scotsman The Guardian All Tickets: £12 Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) Age Guide: 16+ Age Guide: 16+
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RUSSELL KANE MITCH BENN AND JEREMY HARDY MANSCAPING THE DISTRACTIONS Saturday 5 November 7.45pm (ends 10pm) Thursday 27 October Friday 4 November 7.45pm (ends 9.30pm) Corn Exchange 8pm (ends 9.30pm) Corn Exchange New Greenham Arts Jeremy Hardy has been a stand-up comic since 1984 and will be one Join Fosters Comedy Award Winner From BBC Radio 4’s Sony nominated until he dies or wins the lottery. and star of loads of stuff on the Now Show, BBC1’s One Show and Best known for his work on Radio telly Russell Kane as he mercilessly Watchdog multi-award winner Mitch 4, notably on News Quiz, I’m Sorry explores the ridiculous state of Benn and his band take to the road I Haven’t a Clue and Jeremy Hardy masculinity in the modern world. in a two hour show packed with new Speaks to the Nation, he is also a He shaves his chest fur, you watch songs and old favourites. Described fi rm favourite on a host of TV panel and laugh. by The Times as “the country’s shows. In 2010, he published a Sure to storm Edinburgh Festival once leading musical satirist”, for music book My Family and Other Strangers, more this summer, Russell heads out and comedy fans of all ages this is an chronicling his desperate search for on his biggest tour yet – and he is evening not to be missed. interesting ancestors. sure not to disappoint in his welcome There’s probably no one better at return to Newbury this October. capturing the essence of a song or In an ideal world, Jeremy Hardy All Tickets: £17.50 style and twisting it into a spoof. would be extremely famous. The Guardian Age Guide: PG Chortle Tickets: £14 (£12 concs) Tickets: £12 (£10 concs) Age Guide: 15+ Age Guide: 16+
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SUPPORT US CELEBRATING 150 YEARS
orn Exchange Newbury and New Greenham Arts are two of the South East’s most exciting venues, we comprise a 400-seat theatre, art gallery, digital cinema, studio C space, rehearsal venue, 120-seat auditorium and café bar. We present some of the best national and international performance in the area as well as working closely with local companies and the community to showcase their work.
This year the Corn Exchange celebrates its 150th anniversary, and we are looking to you – our audiences, friends and supporters to help us secure our future as we look forward to the next 150 years. As a charity, and like so many arts organisations, we rely on the support of local companies, individuals and trusts to help us raise the funds we need so that we can continue our work; so your support really makes a difference. So, in our anniversary year, we are offering individuals a unique opportunity to have your name on the wall at the Corn Exchange. For £150 your name will appear on a specially commissioned plaque which will be displayed in the Corn Exchange foyer for the next 150 years. And all the funds we raise in this way will go towards helping us to maintain this beautiful building. We’re also hoping to fi nd at least 150 new friends, best friends or patrons who are able to support us by giving from as little as £5 a month - to say thank you we’re able to offer our friends a host of extra opportunities including priority booking, exclusive ticket offers and special events. There are so many ways you can help support us, become a friend or patron, hire our venue, sponsor our events or even volunteer your time - but perhaps most importantly you can keep buying tickets, maybe even try something new, and come along and get involved with everything we do. For further details or to discuss supporting the Corn Exchange in any other way, please contact Joanne Windsor, General Manager on 01635 582666 ext 248 or [email protected] or you can fi nd more information on our website www.cornexchangenew.com where you can also donate on line.
Patrons We also gratefully acknowledge support from: Mrs J Bensley Mr Patrick & Linda Griffi n Mrs J Bowrage Ms Helena Herd D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Mrs L Bravery Mrs J Milsom The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Mr L Bretz Mr Paul Richardson Sackler Foundation Mr M Cowley Mr Alan Stark Englefi eld Charitable Trust Mr Michael Foy Ms Fiona Walker Mr & Mrs I Freeman Mrs D Watson
With thanks to: All volunteers | Fortiori Design | The Graphic Design House
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LOCAL COMPANIES AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
NEWBURYNEWBURY YYOUTHOUTH NEWBURY COMMUNITY ROBERT BONE PRESENTS THEATRE PRESENTS DANCE COMPANY PRESENTS DEMONSTRATOR OF THE PORTRAIT DANCE WEEK EXTRA-SENSORY Sat 30 July | 7.45pm (ends 10pm) Friday 26 August | 7.45pm CURIOSITIES Corn Exchange Corn Exchange Wed 7 September | 7.45pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concs) Tickets: £3.50 New Greenham Arts Newbury Youth Theatre has build Participants will work with members of the Tickets: £8.50 (£6.50 concs) up an enviable reputation as one of professional dance company experiencing Robert uses a combination of sleight the leading young companies in the the daily routine of a dancers life; morning of hand, memory feats, psychological UK. Here they present a vibrant new class, choreographic sessions, rehearsals reading and hypnotic suggestion, ensemble adaptation of Gogol’s The & then more rehearsals to perfect their engaging the audience and blurring Portrait. Chartkov was once the toast steps...leading towards a final performance the boundaries of magic and reality. of St Petersberg, painting only those of at the end of the week. Experience in dance This isn’t a magic show. There’s no big highest Russian society. However he is not essential...complete beginners to illusions, doves, dancing girls, sequins dies in obscurity without a Kopek to his more advanced students are welcome, but or frilly shirts. There are lots of laughs name. Is there a connection between enthusiasm, energy and a willingness to and mind-twisting, creating a unique his downfall and a portrait by the work hard are vital for a successful and experience for the audience. mysterious moneylender of Kolomna? rewarding week. FOR HIRE Corn Exchange Auditorium, Balcony Bar, Screen One and New Greenham Arts can be hired. With it’s central location and sophisticated bar Corn Exchange is an ideal venue for hosting your conference, meeting, seminar, workshop or party. We offer first class facilities, excellent catering by Rosemary & Thyme, dedicated support staff and personalised service to ensure your event is a success. For more information contact Kate Williams, Theatre Manager on Tel 01635 582666 ext 208 or Email [email protected]
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BONHAMS AUCTIONEERS THE APOLLO BIG BAND NEWBURY NOMADS JEWELLERY CELEBRATES THE MUSIC PRESENT VALUATION DAYS OF THE BIG BANDS OUR HOUSE – THE Thursdays 11 Aug, 8 Sep, 13 Sat 24 September | 7.45pm MADNESS MUSICAL Oct, 10 Nov | 10am -12pm Corn Exchange | Tickets: £10 Wed 5 - Sat 8 October | 7.30pm Balcony Bar, Corn Exchange (£8 concs) Sat 2.30pm | Corn Exchange Bonhams Auctioneers, one of the world’s The ever popular Apollo Big Band Tickets: £13 (£10 concs Wed/Thu only) leading Jewellery auctioneers, sells returns to take you on a musical journey £10 on Sat 2.30pm more jewellery that any other auction through space and time, from the Nomads spectacularly present another house. Regular specialist sales are held traditional sounds of Glenn Miller and Newbury premier this October. Our in our London and Oxford salerooms. Count Basie through to popular modern House, is a love story following a On the second Thursday of each month, hits. As it expands its repertoire, the struggle with good and bad. This fast Jewellery specialist Tessa Parry is Apollo Big Band not only keeps the paced, energetic gem of a show has many available for confidential valuations, free spirit of the big bands alive with old surprises, complimented by the famous, of charge, on any jewellery you may be favourites but also rejuvenates this well loved Madness score. Packed full considering selling. Alicia Rogers is also wonderful music with new, modern of your favourite hits including Baggy be on hand to value general antiques. To arrangements. An exciting collection Trousers, Our House, My Girl, It Must Be book an appointment call 01865 853 654. of band and vocal numbers provides a Love and many, many more. This nutty, superb evenings entertainment. lovable musical will have you singing and dancing all night.
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NEWBURY DRAMATIC KENNET OPERA PRESENTS NEWBURY SALVATION ARMY SOCIETY PRESENTS DIE FLEDERMAUS PRESENTS TAMING OF THE SHREW Thu 17 - Sat 19 November CAROLS AT THE Thu 17 - Sat 19 November 7.30pm | Corn Exchange CORN EXCHANGE 7.30pm | New Greenham Arts Tickets: £12.50 Saturday 26 November | 7.45pm (£10 concs on opening night only) Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) Corn Exchange | Tickets: £9 Music by Johann Strauss II, adaptation Join Newbury Salvation Army for an “He that knows better how to tame by Phil Park and Ronald Hanmer evening of Christmas cheer which is sure a shrew, Now let him speak…” Die Fledermaus is the perfect antidote to a to kick-start the festive season in style. The Scotsman Wealthy Baptisa has grey November evening. Johann Strauss’ The concert and Carol singing will be led two daughters to marry off: head strong, music is a bucketful of glorious tunes, by Staines Salvation Army Band and will argumentative Katherina and pretty, comedy and waltzes. Sung in English in a include a local school choir. charming Bianca. Everyone wants to marry contemporary setting. Proceeds will go to the Salvation Army, Bianca. No-one wants to marry Katherina. The cream of society meet at Prince with a donation to the school. Unfortunately for Bianca. her father decides Orlofsky’s ball to witness the playing out that before he will accept any proposal of of Falke’s practical joke on Eisenstein in marriage from her many suitors, Katherina revenge for a past sleight. Eisenstein, in must be wed. Enter dissolute Petruchio disguise, by mistake woos his wife, also who hatches a plot to marry Katherina for in disguise, who in turn is furious to see her dowry and Lucentio who falls in love her maid, Adele, who has come to the ball with Bianca at first sight. Directed by Suzy pretending to be a famous dancer and is Hudson, Newbury Dramatic Society dressed in her mistress’ clothes. Mistaken brings Shakespeare’s great comedy of identifies abound, champagne flows and deception, manipulation and disguise to the party gets completely out of hand and Newbury, with the support of the RSC’s all end up at the jail having to explain Open Stages programme. themselves to the authorities!
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150 YEARS OF THE STUDIO 8 PRESENTS LUKE SKIFFINGTON CORN EXCHANGE GROWTH Wed 12 October – Tuesday 21 June – Friday 2 September – Thu 24 November Wednesday 31 August Thursday 6 October New Greenham Arts Corn Exchange New Greenham Arts Skiffi ngton’s practice highlights the Tuesday 6 September – This exhibition marks the 150th ambiguities and abstract qualities of Thursday 6 October Anniversary of the Corn Exchange, our everyday environment. Man-made Corn Exchange exploring the history of the building as structures, vegetation, and mask well as sharing your experiences of the Growth affects us all. From industrial or like heads feature in an ongoing venue. Having appeared in a number economic growth to the changing shape dialogue, occupying the space between of guises through the last 150 years, of our bodies, the continuing growth representation and abstraction. His the Corn Exchange has always stood at of our lives takes place both inside and work emphasizes the overlooked, the centre of and for the community. As outside of us, very often beyond our contradictory or banal attributes of our such public contributions have been key control. The artists of Studio 8 present surroundings and our relationship with to the exhibition, refl ecting this history a new exhibition considering ideas of them. Luke graduated from Goldsmiths as well as its ongoing mission as a growth that both challenge and inspire. College in 2000 and completed an MA charitable arts venue to provide quality at Chelsea College of Art in 2004. He entertainment for local people. This is has exhibited widely and his work is an unusual exhibition in that the public represented in collections in the UK were able to get involved and shape what and internationally. it is like, as it’s based on their memories PANTO MURAL PROJECT of the venue. It has also sparked the Friday 2 December – Monday 2 January | Corn Exchange imaginations of the artists showing in this exhibition, who have been inspired For the 7th year running, we will be working with local primary school children to by building’s importance within the town. produce an art installation to beautify the Corn Exchange foyer for the duration of The artefacts that people have contributed our pantomime run. This year the children will take inspiration from the characters trigger memories and give a sense of what of Robin Hood working with a professional artist to create the display following the place they live in was like in the past. their own ideas. We look forward to seeing what they create this year.
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SARAH JANE HENDER NEW GREENHAM PRESENTS ART FAIR THOUGHT HAS Sunday 4 December NO NATURAL 10am-4pm BOUNDARIES New Greenham Arts Tuesday 11 October – The annual New Greenham Art Fair Thursday 24 November returns to help you fi nd the perfect git Corn Exchange or unique piece of art for your home. Showcasing original and innovative The new exhibition from Sarah work by local professional artists, DRAWN TOGETHER PRESENTS Jane Hender investigates notions of New Greenham Art Fair provides power, hierarchal struggles, human THE OSTRICH a great opportunity to discuss and inner strength when confronted purchase works direct from the artist. LEGACY with authoritarian force and power Stalls will include jewellery, paintings, of the self that can either overturn Tuesday 6 December – prints, ceramics and sculptures or unite. The work combines Tuesday 20 December all under the same roof. Entry by the duplexity of structure and New Greenham Arts donation spontaneity in approaching ideas, This exciting and thought-provoking expressed in painting, drawing and exhibition by mixed-media art sculpture. Historical references are group ‘Drawn Together’ explores the an important structurization and disturbances of natural cycles through often a trigger, for housing a political land and water pollution, and the impassioned aspect, whilst pervading exploitation of natural resources by man. contemporary concerns. Title taken from Reborn Susan Sontag early diaries 1947-1963.
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Learn something new, develop a hobby or just brush-up on some skills that you’ve let slip of late. All the workshops take place at New Greenham Arts in Studio 2. For full details of all the workshops please see www.cornexchangenew.com or contact the artist listed.
CREATIVE ARTS EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING ACRYLICS IN THE AND CRAFTS WITH SALLY HAYNES AFTERNOON WITH SHIRLEY ECCLES Tue 13 Sept – Tue 22 Nov WITH SIMON JARDINE Mon 1 – Fri 5 Auguest, 10am-1pm (except 25 Oct) 7.30pm - 9.30pm Thu 15 Sept – Thu 24 Nov A whole week of creative fun for 10 -16 or (excl 27 Oct), 1.30pm-3.30pm year olds during the summer holidays! Thu 15 Sept – Thu 24 Nov Class size: Up to 15 Learn a new skill every day including (except 27 Oct) 10am - 12.30pm An introductory course to painting ceramics, printing, jewellery, fabric This 10 week course for the more in acrylics. Explore this user friendly painting...and more. experienced student. Artists will be medium and lots of general drawing encouraged to draw using all their and art techniques too by tackling a £100 (5 sessions, includes materials) senses, not just the visual. Each week different subject each week. Suitable for Contact: 07817 722330 or subject matter will be provided and those new to painting and drawing as [email protected] students will choose to develop their well as the more experienced artist who work in a variety of ways. They can would like to give acrylics a try. WATERCOLOUR & PASTELS work in sketch books and at a large WITH TESSA KIRBY £95 (10 weeks, plus your own materials) scale using the floor, walls, or easels. Contact: 01635 522733 Tue 13 Sept – Tue 22 Nov A variety of media, methods and (except 25 Oct) 10am - 12pm materials will be explored, encouraging PORTRAIT PAINTING Both beginners and intermediates are new ways of working. WITH TESSA KIRBY welcome in which mixed media will be explored with particular emphasis on £107 (10 week course) Fri 16 Sep – Fri 25 Nov (except 28 Oct), 10am - 12pm watercolour and pastels. Students will Contact: 07905 973817 or [email protected] be encouraged to develop their painting A general portrait painting class, and drawing skills at their own pace. students are welcome to use the LIFE PAINTING/DRAWING media that they prefer. Students will £90 (10 week course) WITH JANE WHITAKER be encouraged to paint/draw the head Contact: 01635 45828 Thu 15 Sept – Thu 24 Nov and the whole or part of the figure as (except 27 Oct) 7.30pm - 9.30pm well. We will examine basic anatomy Age guide 16+ as needed, composition, colour and Whether you are an experienced artist, expression. All are welcome, beginners a student or beginner, these sessions and the experienced. can help you maintain and improve your drawing skills. A structured £100 (10 week course) programme of sessions at a pace to Contact: 01635 45828 suit each individual is provided with plenty of support and advice. £95 (10 week course, plus your own materials) Contact: 01635 43187
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SSeaBro_Aut11_1.inddeaBro_Aut11_1.indd 3232 001/07/20111/07/2011 09:0809:08 UNDERSTANDING OILS ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WORKING WITH COLOUR – WITH KATHERINE AWARENESS PORTRAIT PAINTING ATTWELL-GRIFFITHS WITH TANYA WHANNELL WITH JANE WHITAKER Fri 16 Sept – Fri 25 Nov Sat 1 Oct, 10am - 1pm Sun 6 November 10am - 4pm (excl 28 Oct) | 2pm-4pm The Alexander Technique is a practical Enjoy developing your knowledge of A ten week course introducing the basic hands-on learning process which helps you colour, using it to enhance your creativity principles of oil painting. The course will identify and prevent harmful postural habits and portraiture skills. Experimentation will cover both direct and indirect methods and which may lead to stress and pain. This be encouraged. Open to all abilities. include modern and traditional techniques. workshop introduces you to some simple £60 (1 session, plus your own materials) You will need to bring your own materials; procedures in a fun and relaxed way. a list will be provided at the time of Contact: 01635 45828 £40 (1 session) booking. Suitable for all standards. Contact: 01635 522733 GLASS AND PRINT £125 (10 weeks, plus your own materials) WITH SHIRLEY ECCLES Contact: 01635 522733 TEXTILE CREATIONS Sat 26 Nov 10am-4pm WITH JO JONES Experiment and create! In this workshop INTRODUCTION TO GLASS Sat 8 Oct – Sat 12 Nov you will explore different techniques to (WORKSHOP 1) (except 22 Oct), 10am – 12pm create printed effects in glass. WITH SHIRLEY ECCLES A wide variety of techniques will be (includes materials and kiln firing) Sat 24 Sept 10am-4pm explored and developed including wax £75 Contact: 01635 522733 Create one off originals, designed entrapment, machine embroidery and [email protected] and made by your own hand. This 1 felt making. Handmade silk journals will day workshop introduces you to the also be put together to give a beautiful basic skills and techniques involved in home to your other creations. EXPERIMENT WITH creating glass objects. These will include £60 (5 week course, materials included) MIXED MEDIA using a microwave to make jewellery Contact: 01635 522733 WITH JANE WHITAKER pieces and basic fusing. Sun 27 November 10am-4pm £75 (includes materials and kiln firing) INTRODUCTION TO GLASS Enhance your creative painting. Contact: 07817 722330 or (WORKSHOP 2) Work with wet and dry media and apply [email protected] WITH SHIRLEY ECCLES different materials to a variety of surfaces Sun 22 October 10am-4pm using acrylics. Experiment with unusual Come and create some one off originals, and unexpected equipment to create designed and made by your own hand. a more varied approach to your work. This workshop will introduce you to the Open to all abilities. basic skills and techniques involved with £55 (1 session, plus your own materials) creating glass objects, including fusing Contact: 01635 43187 and slumping. £75 (includes materials and kiln firing) Contact: 07817 722330 or [email protected]
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Learning and participation at the Corn Exchange is about connecting with you, our audiences and the people of our region. For us that doesn’t just mean working with young people but opening our doors to families, children, students, people with particular needs, life long learners and the curious. We currently do this through our artistic programming, free post show talks, multi-arts schools workshops and projects, community events, running various arts groups and offering the arts award. We strive to support the involvement of all in the arts and to respond to local needs which we have done, for example, in the programming of autism friendly cinema viewings.
Most of all creative learning is about channelling our enthusiasm for our work, our building in its 150th year and our locality into creating opportunities for you. So, if you are just interested in taking part as a parent, a teacher, a young person or audience member go to www.cornexchangenew.com/learning to fi nd out more or contact me, Sarah Gregson, the new Learning and Participation Manager at the Corn Exchange to get involved or discuss projects. [email protected]
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MANMADE YOUTH THEATRES LIVING PICTURES We are working with boy’s dance We have two resident youth theatres, Living Pictures is a group open to company Fuzzy Logic to support Newbury Youth Theatre and SLY all blind and visually impaired local schools across the region in Theatre. Both are for young people residents run in partnership with promoting and developing boys’ aged 14-21 and meet during term Kingsclere-based charity Living dance. Fuzzy Logic will be going time at New Greenham Arts. NYT is Paintings. We meet on the second into schools to lead workshops and open to all and SLY auditions for each Monday of each month, 10.30am – help develop performance pieces, production. Full details online at: 12pm to look at works of art through culminating in the public performance newburyyouththeatre.co.uk audio descriptions and tactile platform at the Corn Exchange on shininglightsyouththeatre.com images, and to meet local craftsmen, 2 November. If you’re interested in painters and musicians. We will being involved please contact Sarah arrange transport to the sessions Gregson. CINECLUB where necessary. We work with Primary and Secondary We also offer audio described YOUNG CORN schools across West Berkshire to performances and fi lm screenings EXCHANGE support young fi lmmakers clubs – please contact the Box Offi ce through Cineclub, the national young on 01635 522733 for up-to-date Young Corn Exchange is for anyone fi lmmakers network. Three times a information. who is interested in live events. year Cineclub members gather at the Joining is free and gives you access Corn Exchange to see the fi lms they to free tickets, special events and have made on the big screen. WORKSHOPS training, as well as the opportunity This season visiting artists are We are always looking for new to take part in putting on your own offering workshops for the events schools and youth groups to join, and events at the Corn Exchange. We listed below. Visit the Learning pages full training in digital fi lmmaking is hold monthly social get-togethers for on the Corn Exchange website for provided as well as ongoing support all YCE members. For more details more information. and advice. Please get in touch if you about joining Young Corn Exchange are interested. • Oh What A Lovely War download a membership form from the Learning and Participation section • Macbeth of the Corn Exchange website, and • Friend Or Foe return it to Sarah Gregson. • Inside • In the Dust • Death Song • Tales From A Sea Journey
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SSeaBro_Aut11_1.inddeaBro_Aut11_1.indd 3535 001/07/20111/07/2011 09:0809:08 WIN Tickets to the Royal County Show Newbury Showground, 17th-18th September 2011 Enter Our Free Prize Draw
Comvita has teamed up with Natures Corner to celebrate the Royal County of Berkshire Show 2011. We have 5 pairs of tickets to give away - simply fill out your details below and return this voucher to Natures Corner. With a thrilling array of arts and crafts stalls, livestock displays, acrobatic riding, show jumping, popular bands and fantastic food, it is sure to be a great day out for everyone.
Name: Natures Corner Address: 12 Bartholomew Street, Newbury, RG14 5LL T. 01635 33007 Tel. The prize draw is open to all UK residents. Only one entry per person is considered. Entry to the draw is free and must be submitted directly or by post to Natures Corner on or before Friday 26th August. Only 5 pairs of tickets available with no cash substitutes. Winners will be notified by telephone or post by Friday 3rd September. The promoter reserves the right to vary these terms and conditions or cancel the prize draw at any stage in the event of circumstances arising beyond reasonable control. Promoter: Comvita UK Ltd, Box 220, 5 High Street, Maidenhead, SL6 1JN.
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CORN EXCHANGE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES CORE FUNDING FROM:
WE ALSO GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FROM:
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MEMBERS PRIORITY BOOKING OPENS: MONDAY 4 JULY 2011 PUBLIC BOOKING OPENS: MONDAY 11 JULY 2011
ONLINE BOOKING • Please note that only one discount VOLUNTEERS cornexchangenew.com per ticket may apply. Concession The people who assist the Front of Our online booking facility allows tickets purchased online or over House managers are Volunteers. you to choose your seats 24 hours the phone will need to be collected Events simply couldn’t happen a day. No booking fees apply. in order to show proof of without them. Volunteers also help eligibility. Tickets for babies in other areas of the Corn Exchange TELEPHONE BOOKING (where suitable) up to 18 months when needed. If you are 18 or over Box office 01635 522733 is open cost a £1 administration fee. and would like to be part of a Monday 10am - 5pm, Tuesday - • Where family tickets are available, friendly team, please contact the Saturday 10am - 6pm, Sundays a family consists of 4 people, at Front of House team on and bank holidays 1 hour before least two of which are under 19 01635 582666 x 208, or email the show starts. [email protected] • All children under the age of TERMS 12 must be accompanied by DATA PROTECTION POLICY • Tickets are non-refundable except a paying adult. The Corn Exchange (Newbury) Trust in the case of a cancelled event; is committed to complying with The FILMS in the case of a sold-out show £1 Data Protection Act (1998) and to Details of films showing at the per ticket will be payable on tickets upholding the principles of good Corn Exchange are listed in a returned for resale. information handling practice. separate leaflet, available from • There is a £1.20 charge for the box office. Film listings are postage if required. ACCESS also on the website or email • Please tell the box office when • Please contact the box office for [email protected] booking if you require the induction details of our group rates. to receive our free weekly email. loop (the Corn Exchange only) or • Those eligible for concessions use a wheelchair. include (with proof) ages under EMAIL LISTS • Corn Exchange is fully accessible, 19, senior citizens, full-time To sign up to receive our regular with a disabled drop off point students, benefit and family credit newsletter, including last minute behind the theatre (Bear Lane). claimants, key workers, Equity offers, exclusive email deals cardholders and Registered and information about new • Corn Exchange and New Disabled. Registered disabled get events, send an email to Greenham Arts welcome a free ticket for their companion. [email protected] guide dogs. • West Berkshire Council • New Greenham Arts gallery, employees are entitled to 10% auditorium and Tandoori are off most performances or accessible to wheelchair users concession price. and toilets are also accessible.
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FOR HIRE TRAVEL HOW TO FIND US Corn Exchange Auditorium, • There is a car park directly in front Corn Exchange New Greenham Arts, Balcony Bar of New Greenham Arts Market Place, Newbury, and Screen One can be hired. • Corn Exchange is surrounded by Berks RG14 5BD Administration 01635 582666 With its central location and a number of large car parks, Fax 01635 582223 sophisticated bar Corn Exchange £1 payable after 6pm. [email protected] is an ideal venue for hosting your • Corn Exchange is in the town conference, meeting, seminar, centre, 5 minutes walk from New Greenham Arts workshop or party. We offer fi rst class the station. 113 Lindenmuth Way, Greenham Business Park, facilities, excellent catering, dedicated Newbury, support staff and personalised service Berks RG19 6HN to ensure your event is a success. Administration 01635 817480 For more information contact Fax 01635 817479 Kate Williams, Theatre Manager on [email protected] 01635 582666 ext 208 or katew @cornexchangenew.co.uk
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SSeaBro_Aut11_1.inddeaBro_Aut11_1.indd 3939 001/07/20111/07/2011 09:0809:08 CELEBRATING 150 YEARS
I joined the team here at the Corn Exchange and New Greenham Arts earlier this year, and I have been really struck by the passion and enthusiasm that exists for our theatre and its work. Enthusiasm
and belief from our staff, our volunteers, our local WELCOME... community and you, our audience, that what we do really makes a difference. This year the Corn Exchange celebrates its 150th So, in this, our 150th year, we’re going to be anniversary. The foundations were laid in 1861, celebrating the history of this beautiful building and the doors fi rst opened in July 1862. and remembering all the different ways in which the Over the last 150 years, the Corn Exchange has Corn Exchange has made a difference to the lives of played a central role in the community; from war- people here in Newbury. time dance hall, sports hall and roller disco to the For the fi rst time ever we will be throwing open our vibrant theatre and performing arts venue it is today. doors for you to explore the building as part of the
1861 1887 1912 1939-45 £6,250 was Queen Victoria’s Work carried out Corn Exchange used as borrowed to Golden Jubilee to repair the an air raid shelter and build the Celebrations building’s roof social centre for mothers Corn Exchange trusses and children 1862 1911 1913 June – Masque Ball to £3,000 loan to build The grand celebrate the coronation dressing rooms and opening of the of King George V a hydraulic stage Corn Exchange
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