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Corn Hall Apr-Jun 2011:JanMar 2011 14/2/11 16:22 Page 2 APR-JUN 2011 www.disscornhall.co.uk Corn Hall Apr-Jun 2011:JanMar 2011 14/2/11 16:30 Page 3 Spring entertainment for everyone Spring is almost here and the Corn Hall is blooming with good news and fantastic events. After a full year, the picture is even more positive than we could have hoped. More and more people are coming forward to help, our Friends membership is growing fast and, most important of all, so are our audiences. Our spring line-up is as exciting as any we’ve had so far – here are just a few highlights… In April, we have music for every taste with the final stages of our amazingly popular Band DISScovery, musical legends John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett and the wonderful Klezmer fusion band, Three Beards. We’re also delighted to be launching two important new regular slots – The Saturday Club (monthly entertainment for all the family) and The Stand-up Poetry Club hosted by performance poet of the moment, Luke Wright. May and June will be sure to delight too. We’ve screenings of The King’s Speech, an exhibition, workshop and a talk by distinguished Royal Academician, Norman Ackroyd, a classical Indian concert by the inspiring sarod player Ameen Ali Khan, premier UK Blues Rock band The Hamsters, who’ll be playing the songs of Jimi Hendrix and ZZ Top, a rare opportunity to see celebrated guitarist John Etheridge performing solo and a breathtaking talk by Cathy O’Dowd, the first woman to climb Everest from both sides. With the pick of the very best movies at our Thursday film nights, regular exhibitions of outstanding quality and the riotous Red Card Comedy Club on the last Friday of every month, it’s always worth checking out what’s on at the Corn Hall. As always, we welcome ideas from you for the future. This is your Corn Hall and our aim is to provide the best of entertainment for everyone. Angela Sykes, Diss Corn Hall Manager Corn Hall Apr-Jun 2011:JanMar 2011 14/2/11 16:23 Page 4 BOX OFFICE 01379 652241 11am-4pm Mon-Sat www.disscornhall.co.uk The Old Stables beside the Corn Hall St Nicholas Street Diss IP22 4LB DATE EVENT TIME PAGE Fri 1 April Music Band DISScovery – Heat 4 7.30pm 4 Sat 2 April Family The Saturday Club – Bert and Bert Clowns 2pm 5 6-30 April Art Jane Lewis – Lie of the Land 11am-4pm Mon-Sat 4 Thur 7 April Theatre Tangram Theatre Company – The Origin of Species 7.30pm 6 Fri 8 April Music Band DISScovery – Grand Final 7.30pm 4 Thur 14 April Film The Kids are All Right (15) 8pm 6 Fri 15 April Word The Stand-Up Poetry Club 8pm 7 – Luke Wright, John Osborne & Molly Naylor Sat 16 April Music Three Beards 8pm 7 Sat 23 April Theatre Nudge Productions – Lady Windermere’s Fan 7.30pm 8 Thur 28 April Music John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett 8.30pm 8 5 May - 4 June Art Norman Ackroyd – Norfolk Skies and Random Journeys 11am-4pm Mon-Sat 9 Thur 5 May Film The King’s Speech (12A) 8pm 10 Fri 6 May Theatre Open Space Theatre Company 7.30pm 10 – The Importance of Being Ernest Sat 7 May Film The King’s Speech (12A) 3pm 10 Sat 7 May Music Steve Ashley – support band Something Happened 8pm 11 Thur 12 May Workshop Etching demonstration with Norman Ackroyd 2.30pm-5pm 9 Thur 12 May Word Talk & Q&A session with Norman Ackroyd 8pm 9 Sat 14 May Music Ameen Ali Khan 8pm 11 Thur 19 May Film Social Network (12A) 8pm 12 Fri 20 May Music The Hamsters play Jimi Hendrix & ZZ Top! 8.30pm 12 Sat 21 May Family The Saturday Club – The Classic Buskers Classical 2pm 5 Music Without the Boring Bits Fri 27 May Comedy Red Card Comedy Club – On the Road 8.30pm 13 Thur 2 June Film Monsters (12A) 8pm 14 Fri 3 June Music John Etheridge (Solo) – with special guest Kit Holmes 8pm 15 Sat 4 June Word Cathy O’Dowd – Just For the Love of It 7.30pm 15 6-25 June Art 7 x 7 = 49&Rising – Winbolt • Page • Ripley • Ashley 11am-4pm Mon-Sat 14 • Green • Hincks • & Hincks Sat 11 June Dance An evening of Argentine Tango 8pm 16 Thur 16 June Film Please Give (15) 8pm 16 Sat 18 June Music The Pure Floyd Show 8pm 17 Fri 24 June Comedy Red Card Comedy Club – On the Road 8.30pm 17 Sat 25 June Family The Saturday Club – Blunderbus Theatre Company – 2pm 5 Elmer the Elephant 3 Corn Hall Apr-Jun 2011:JanMar 2011 14/2/11 16:30 Page 5 April “...the visual language of landscape and coast” Art Music An exhibition in the Old Stables Heat 4 Friday 1 April 7.30pm 6-30 April 11am-4pm Mon-Sat Free Grand Final Friday 8 April 7.30pm Tickets Advance £4 / Door £5 Jane Lewis Diss Corn Hall, Pyramid Audio and – Lie of the Land The Music Outpost present ‘My paintings are concerned with the visual language of landscape and coast. Particularly the Band DISScovery East Anglian landscape. This is my starting point. – The best bands in the area Where the painting goes and what palette is used battle it out may be influenced by many other factors. Some may be relevant to landscape but not necessarily! The line-up for Heat 4 – Garage Rock, Thrash, In most cases my work may undergo several Heavy Rock and Dance Rock – this is Rock with a capital R from four brilliant exponents of transformations before developing an identity and the genre: reaching the point at which I consider them Electric Youth Revolt finished. They are (to me at least) abstracts with from Diss Swarmed strongly suggested elements of landscape. I from Mulbarton therefore refer to them as landscape paintings.’ Lost? from Saxlingham Thorpe Feed Me to the Villains from Norwich This is an exhibition of oil paintings and related works in other media (drawings, watercolours). Don’t miss the Grand Final on the 8th April when just one group will be named Winner of www.janelewisart.co.uk Band DISScovery 2011! Evening viewing with Jane Lewis Regular DISScovery updates will be posted on Thursday 7 April 5.30-7.15pm www.myspace.com/banddisscovery and Diss Corn Hall’s facebook page so keep checking. The event is free with a pay bar. Join us afterward You can follow us on twitter @DissCornHall. for Tangram Theatre’s acclaimed production of www.disscornhall.co.uk The Origin of Species (see p.6). 4 Corn Hall Apr-Jun 2011:JanMar 2011 14/2/11 16:23 Page 6 The Saturday Club – monthly matinées for the whole family Saturday 2 April 2pm Tickets £5 / Children £3 Bert and Bert Clowns – Pass the Bucket Whoever thought that decorating a house could cause so much confusion, calamity and comedy? Cosmo and Joe Fool (aka Bert and Bert) show us a thing or two about how not to paint a wall, hang a picture and have a tea break in this stomach-achingly funny clowning special. ‘Comic Genius’ Colchester Arts Centre Saturday 21 May 2pm Tickets £5 / Children £3 The Classic Buskers – Classical Music Without the Boring Bits If you’ve ever wondered about the difference between the cowhorn and the crumhorn, or how to play the ‘Stars and Stripes’ using your socks, then this entertaining concert is for you! For those that haven’t, this musical tour of centuries and continents will reveal a world of crazy classical music. Two men and 40 instruments, Viking costumes, speed waltzing and a bit of audience participation make this an event not to be missed! ‘They are quite extraordinary musicians and kept everyone mesmerised’ Bath Bach Festival Saturday 25 June 2pm Tickets £5 / Children £3 Elmer the Elephant – presented by Blunderbus Theatre Company From the best-selling children’s book by David McKee. Adapted for the stage by Bill Davies, with music and lyrics by Frank Goodhind. Elmer was different. Elmer was patchwork. He was yellow and orange and red and pink and purple and blue and green and black and white. But, he was not elephant-coloured. One night Elmer couldn’t sleep for thinking, and the think that he was thinking was that he was tired of being different… This brand new, fun-filled version of ‘Elmer’ bursts to life with jungle characters, catchy songs, and beautiful hand-crafted puppets! Supported by and Diss Express 5 Corn Hall Apr-Jun 2011:JanMar 2011 14/2/11 16:30 Page 7 April “Remarkably inventive, thoroughly entertaining” Theatre Film Thursday 7 April 7.30pm Thursday 14 April 8pm Tickets £10 / Concessions £9 Tickets £4 / Students £2 Tangram Theatre Company presents The Kids are The Origin of Species All Right (15) Written and Performed by John Hinton Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, Directed by Daniel Goldman 2010 USA, 104 mins ‘Witty, clever, absurd… Comic genius… Grown-ups will love it. With Annette Benning, Kids will adore it. A gem.’ Broadway Baby Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo A total sell out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 and at A hit in Sundance in 2010, and Komedia, Brighton Festival in 2010, this is a show for young and a witty portrait of postmodern old alike. Packed with big ideas, terrible puns, brilliant physical family life in which script, comedy and six cracking original songs, it tells the incredible casting, direction and location story of how Charles Darwin came to discover the secrets of float together without any evolution and why it took him over 20 years before he plucked up apparent effort at all.