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MONDAY 25 JANUARY Music Appreciation 10am FEBRUARY MONDAY 4 Lunchtime Recital: MONDAY 1 Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm Simon Watterton piano Music Appreciation 10am 1.10pm TUESDAY 5 - TUESDAY 26 Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm A Pictorial Exhibition: 200 Meantime Jazzz Course 1 Blackheath Halls Chorus Years of Entertainment in 7pm Rehearsal 7.30pm Blackheath 10am-5pm Blackheath Halls Chorus Rehearsal 7.30pm TUESDAY 2 FRIDAY 8 Beats in the Bar 7.30pm Trinity Laban Symphony Architectural Lecture: Orchestra: Side by Side 6pm Clementine Cecil 8pm WEDNESDAY 3 – SUNDAY 28 Café Bar Art Exhibition: WEDNESDAY 27 Vidma Wait 10am-5pm MONDAY 11 Tea Dance 2pm Music Appreciation 10am Spoken Word: WEDNESDAY 3 Lunchtime Recital: Ensemble Richard Bourne: Nigeria 8pm Beats in the Bar 7.30pm Lux Musicae London 1.10pm THURSDAY 4 Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm FRIDAY 29 Trinity Laban Showcase Trinity Laban Symphony Blackheath Halls Chorus Series: Stefan Melovski, Orchestra 7.30pm Rehearsal 7.30pm guitar 6pm SUNDAY 7 SUNDAY 17 Blackheath Halls Quiz Blackheath Halls Orchestra Blackheath Halls Orchestra 7.30pm Sectionals 11am Rehearsal 2.30pm SATURDAY 30 Blackheath Halls Orchestra Rehearsal 2.30pm MONDAY 18 Children’s Event: Hansel, Gretal and You… Music Appreciation 10am MONDAY 8 Who? 3pm Meantime Jazz Course 1 7pm Music Appreciation 10am Blackheath Halls Chorus SUNDAY 31 Lunchtime Recitals: Rehearsal 7.30pm Blackheath Sundays: Sean Maria Canyigueral 1.10pm Shibe, guitar 11am WEDNESDAY 20 Blackheath Halls Chorus Blackheath Halls Orchestra Jette Parker Young Artists Rehearsal 7.30pm Rehearsal 2.30pm Series: Jennifer Davis, WEDNESDAY 10 soprano, Emily Edmonds, Jette Parker Young Artists mezzo-soprano 7.30pm Series: Samuel Dale Johnson,

SUNDAY 24 baritone; David Shipley, bass Blackheath Halls Orchestra 7.30pm

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FRIDAY 12 WEDNESDAY 24 WEDNESDAY 2 Romesh Ranganathan: Tea Dance 2pm Tea Dance 2pm IrrationalSOLD 8pm OUT! Richard Grierson Annual Haydn: The Creation SUNDAY 14 Architectural Lecture: Alison A Talk by Esther Cavett Blackheath Sundays: Brooks 8pm 7.30pm Rebeca Ormondia piano, SATURDAY 27 THURSDAY 3 Jiaxin Lloyd Webber cello Children’s Event: Trinity Laban Sinfonia Wind 11am The Pesky Pirates and Strings 7.30pm 1.30pm & 4pm MONDAY 15 FRIDAY 4 Blackheath Halls Chorus Blackheath JestFest with Trinity Laban Symphony Rehearsal 7.30pm Richard Herring 8pm Orchestra: Side by Side 6pm SATURDAY 20 SUNDAY 28 SATURDAY 5 Children’s Event: Blackheath Sundays: Children’s Event: The Ugly Duckling 3pm Young-Choon Park, piano The Magic Beanstalk 3pm 11am Champions of Rock 8pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra SUNDAY 6 SUNDAY 21 Rehearsal 1.30pm Blackheath Sundays: Waldegrave Ensemble 11am Blackheath Halls Orchestra Blackheath Halls Orchestra Rehearsal 11am Performance 6.30pm Blackheath Halls Orchestra Blackheath Halls Orchestra Rehearsal 2.30pm Rehearsal 2.30pm MONDAY 29 Music Appreciation 10am MONDAY 7 Music Appreciation 10am MONDAY 22 Lunchtime Recitals: Music Appreciation 10am Peacock Ensemble 1.10pm Lunchtime Recitals: Borja Gomez-Ferrer tenor, Lunchtime Recitals: Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Ofer Falk violin, Eleanor James Williams baritone, Meynell piano 1.10pm Blackheath Halls Chorus Marcelle Zahra piano 1.10pm Rehearsal 7.30pm Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Blackheath Halls Chorus Blackheath Halls Chorus Rehearsal 7.30pm MARCH Rehearsal 7.30pm TUESDAY 23 TUESDAY 8 WEDS 2-WEDS 30 Beats in the Bar 7.30pm Trinity Laban Soloists’ Café Bar Art Exhibition: Competition Final 7.30pm Marie Keeling 10am-5pm WEDNESDAY 9 Spoken Word:

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FRIDAY 11 MONDAY 21 SATURDAY 9 The Christians 8pm Music Appreciation 10am Kate Rusby 8pm SATURDAY 12 Lunchtime Recitals: SUNDAY 10 Children’s Event: How the Blaze Ensemble 1.10pm Blackheath Sundays: Koala Learnt to Hug 3pm Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Piatti Quartet 11am Cara Dillon 8pm Trinity Laban Musical Opera Gala Night 6.30pm Theatre Showcase 7.30pm SUNDAY 13 MONDAY 11 Blackheath Halls Orchestra THURSDAY 24 Lunchtime Recitals: Rehearsal 2.30pm Trinity Laban String Canorum Trio 1.10pm Ensemble 7.30pm MONDAY 14 WEDNESDAY 13 Music Appreciation 10am TUESDAY 29 – THURSDAY 31 Jette Parker Young Artists Children’s Opera: Meantime Jazz Course 2 7pm Series: Lauren Fagan, Noye’s Fludde Rehearsals soprano; Yuriy Yurchuk, Blackheath Halls Orchestra baritone 7.30pm and Chorus Rehearsal 7pm WEDNESDAY 20 Jette Parker Young Artists FRIDAY 15 TUESDAY 15 Series: Jennifer Davis, Spoken Word: Ruby Wax Beats in the Bar 7.30pm soprano, Emily Edmonds, Frazzled 8pm mezzo-soprano 7.30pm WEDNESDAY 16 Live at the Halls 7pm SATURDAY 23 The Magic of the Beatles THURSDAY 17 APRIL 8pm Trinity Laban Wind Orchestra 7.30pm FRIDAY 1 - FRIDAY 8 SATURDAY 30 Children’s Opera: Mark Steel: SATURDAY 19 Noye’s Fludde Rehearsals Who Do I Think I Am 8pm Junior Trinity Spring Concert 7pm SATURDAY 2 - THURSDAY 28 Café Bar Exhibition: BOOKING NOW SUNDAY 20 Griff Davies 10am-5pm Blackheath Sundays: THURSDAY 9 JUNE Neave Trio 11am THURSDAY 7 Spoken Word: Professor Children’s Opera: Robert Winston: Modifying Haydn: The Creation Humans 8pm Dress rehearsal 2pm Noye’s Fludde performance 2pm & 6pm Haydn: The Creation SATURDAY 18 JUNE Performance 7pm FRIDAY 8 Fay Hield 8pm Children’s Opera: Noye’s Fludde performance 2pm & 6pm

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£12concessions CLASSICAL MUSIC APPRECIATION WITH MATTHEW TAYLOR Mahler Revisited MONDAY 11, 18 & 25 JANUARY; 1, 8, 22 & 29 FEBRUARY; 7, 14 & 21 MARCH 10am | Recital Room

Though Mahler has become one of the best loved and most widely played symphonic TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY composers in more recent times his music ORCHESTRA can provoke wildly different reactions Side by Side and interpretations amongst conductors, FRIDAY 8 JANUARY 6pm | Great Hall players, singers and listeners. This course will try to define the essential Conductor Jonathan Tilbrook aspects of Mahler’s music by examining Conductor George Jackson their origins, assessing how they influenced Debussy La Mer later composers and questioning what direction he was taking; whether he Ravel Alborada del Gracioso represented a Farewell to Romanticism and the death throes of pre-1914 or whether his Trinity Laban’s ever popular Side by Side all-embracing vision was actually more series returns with Jonathan Tilbrook compatible with the 20th Century artist of and George Jackson conducting highly the post-WW1 period to come. So do join us experienced orchestral musicians alongside for this Mahlerian Fest. Trinity Laban students. For more information, make a booking Both written in the early twentieth century, or arrange your free taster lecture contact: Debussy’s impressionistic milestone La Mer, Lionel Lewis on 020 8297 1075, email a work inspired by the Eastbourne coast, [email protected] or visit begins the evening, followed by Ravel’s www.blackheath-music.co.uk Alborada del Gracioso, a highly spirited COURSE FEE: £85 (10-week course) Spanish morning dance. £10 (£5 students) per lecture ADMISSION FREE but ticketed

STEFAN MELOVSKI guitar Trinity Laban Showcase Series FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 6pm | Recital Room

Gold Medal finalist, Stefan Melovski, presents a programme including Bach’s Fugue in A minor, Manuel Ponce’s Sonata Clásica and Dusan Bogdanovic’s 6 Balkan Miniatures. ADMISSION FREE YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... SEAN SHIBE guitar SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 11am See page 7 for further details Box office: 020 8463 0100 5 CLASSICAL The Jette Parker Young Artists return for a new series of Wednesday evening JETTE PARKER YOUNG recitals, all accompanied by Artistic Director David Gowland. They will ARTISTS RECITALS follow the established format of a first Rising Stars of the , Covent Garden half of song repertory followed by a second half of operatic arias and duets Artistic Director David Gowland and usually ending with an informal Administrator Siri Fischer Hansen Q&A session in the bar.

WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH 7.30pm | Recital Room 7.30pm | Recital Room

JENNIFER DAVIS soprano JENNIFER DAVIS soprano EMILY EDMONDS mezzo-soprano EMILY EDMONDS mezzo-soprano This recital is given by Irish soprano Jennifer Irish soprano Jennifer Davis and Australian Davis and Australian mezzo-soprano Emily mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds, both in their Edmonds, both in their first year as a Young first year on the Programme, make a quick Artist and making their Blackheath debut. return visit after their first appearance in In the autumn they appeared together in January with a new programme of songs, Rossi’s Orfeo at Shakespeare’s Globe and in arias and duets. May 2016 will reunite for 4.48 Psychosis at Lyric Hammersmith. WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 7.30pm | Recital Room WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 7.30pm | Recital Room LAUREN FAGAN soprano SAMUEL DALE JOHNSON baritone YURIY YURCHUK baritone DAVID SHIPLEY bass Finally, there will be another opportunity to hear Australian soprano Lauren Fagan Australian baritone Samuel Dale Johnson and Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk, both makes his third visit to the Halls to present a in their second year, when they return in final selection of songs and arias before his April after their successful Halls debuts last Young Artist contract ends in July. He will season in January and April respectively. be joined by British bass David Shipley, who started on the Programme in September and TICKETS: £7 | £5 students is appearing for the first time at the Halls. Jette Parker Young Artists Programme is generously supported by Oak Foundation

6 blackheathhalls.com BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL SUNDAYS SEAN SHIBE guitar Blackheath Sundays SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 11am | Recital Room Jan Antonín Losy Overture Marco Ramelli Im Nebel zu Wandern Takemitsu In the Woods Janácˇek On an Overgrown Path (excerpts) Dowland Forlorn Hope Fancy Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland

Born in Edinburgh of REBECA OMORDIA piano Scottish and Japanese JIAXIN LLOYD WEBBER cello heritage, Sean studied at Blackheath Sundays the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and currently SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY 11am | Recital Room with the inspirational Bach Adagio in G Paolo Pegoraro in Italy. He is the first guitarist Fauré Elegy Op.24 to be admitted to the prestigious BBC New Bach Cello Suite No.1 Generation Artists Scheme and (Prelude and Gigue) the only solo guitarist to have John Ireland Decorations for Piano: received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust The Island Spell & Scarlet Fellowship. Ceremonies TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions John Ireland Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello and Piano ORCHESTRA in G minor, Op.19 THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 7.30pm | Great Hall Jiaxin Lloyd Webber was principal cello of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, a founder Conductor Elgar Howarth member of the Aroha String Quartet Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer and played regularly with the Auckland WWV 59 ‘Flying Dutchman’ Philharmonia Orchestra and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. (Overture) Webern Passacaglia Op.1 Married to the world renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber she has performed Alexander Ling* New work with Julian for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, CNN Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A major Global TV and the BBC. WAB 106 For this recital she performs with the Elgar Howarth conducts the Trinity Laban brilliant young pianist, Rebeca Omordia. Symphony Orchestra in an evocative and Rebeca has performed as a soloist and dramatic programme of Austro-German with orchestras in venues works. including , Kings TICKETS: £12 | £7 concessions Place and at Highgrove for the Prince’s Trust. *Trinity Laban student TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions Box office: 020 8463 0100 7 BLACKHEATHCLASSICAL SUNDAYS

LUNCHTIME RECITALS Friends of Blackheath Halls brings you a series of recitals for Jan-Apr 2016. All concerts are in the Recital Room and start at 1.10pm. A light lunch is available prior to the recital. Admission is free with a retiring donation to Blackheath Halls. TRINITY LABAN SOLOISTS’ ENSEMBLE LUX MUSICAE LONDON COMPETITION FINAL Picturing Music TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 7.30pm | Great Hall MONDAY 11 JANUARY Giovanni Bassano Ricercata Quarta; Competing for the opportunity to perform a Fantasia No.8 a tre voci; Giovanni Pierluigi concerto with the Trinity Laban Symphony da Palestrina O quam pulchra es; Thomas Orchestra, hear students perform (with Morley La Girandola, La Sirena, Il Lamento, piano accompaniment) in one of the most La Caccia; Orlando di Lasso Susanne un popular and prestigious competitions in the jour; Thomas Crecquillon Un gay bergier; Trinity Laban music calendar. Clemens non Papa Frais et Galliard; Andrea ADMISSION FREE Gabrieli Sancta et immaculate virginatas. SIMON WATTERTON piano YOUNG-CHOON PARK piano MONDAY 25 JANUARY Blackheath Sundays Schumann SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 11am | Great Hall Arabesque Op.18; Mozart Sonata No.9 in D major, KV311 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. Beethoven Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.2, No.1 12; Bach/Busoni Ich Schumann Humoreske in B flat major, Op.20 ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Chopin Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor, Op.31 Christ; Beethoven Sonata in E Flat Young-Choon Park Major Op. 27 No. 1. is no stranger to the piano. Born in MARIA CANYIGUERAL piano South Korea, she MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY started playing at Haydn Sonata in E minor Hob. XVI:34; Guix the age of four, and Drizzle Draft; Casablancas Una pàgina per by the time she Chopin; Berg Sonata Op.1; Montsalvatge was nine she had Sonatine pour Yvette; Scriabin Preludes performed with the Op.11 (selection). Seoul Symphony Orchestra. She has OFER FALK violin since continued to flourish, broadcasting for radio and ELEANOR MEYNELL piano television, working with MONDAY 22 FEBRUARY leading orchestras, and giving over 700 Mozart Violin Sonata in E flat major, K.302; recital and concerto performances at major Violin Sonata in E minor, K.304; Violin concert venues world-wide. Sonata in A major, K.305. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions

8 blackheathhalls.com CLASSICAL TRINITY LABAN SINFONIA WIND AND STRINGS THURSDAY 3 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall Elgar Serenade Skalkottas 5 Greek Dances Richard Durrant The Girl at the Airport Nigel Hess Shakespeare Pictures for Wind Orchestra

PEACOCK ENSEMBLE Two concerts for the price of one, as first MONDAY 29 FEBRUARY and second year string and wind students Schumann Dunkler Lichtglanz, blinder take it in turns to entertain with a varied Blick; Schubert Des Tages Weihe, D.763, Der selection of works, including Elgar’s Tanz, D.826, Die Advokaten, D.37; Brahms Serenade, Skalkottas’ 5 Greek Dances, Neue Liebeslieder Op.65; Verdi Bella figlia Richard Durrant’s The Girl at the Airport dell’ amore (Quartet from Rigoletto). for strings and guitar solo and Nigel Hess’s Shakespeare Pictures for Wind Orchestra. BORJA GOMEZ-FERRER tenor JAMES WILLIAMS baritone MARCELLE ZAHRA piano MONDAY 7 MARCH Joaquin Turina Miniatures Op.52 (solo piano), Zarzuela; opera arias and duets by Sorozabal, Verdi, Puccini and Bizet. BLAZE ENSEMBLE MONDAY 21 MARCH Nielsen Serenata In Vano; Beethoven Septet in E flat major, Op.20. TICKETS: £5 CANORUM TRIO MONDAY 11 APRIL TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op.132; ORCHESTRA Vytautas Germanavicius Crumbling Side by Side Words; Rebecca Clarke Prelude and Allegro for Viola and Clarinet; Bruch Extracts from FRIDAY 4 MARCH 6pm | Great Hall 8 Stücke Op.83. With Members of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Schubert Symphony No.3 in E flat major, Op.97

Players from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra join Trinity Laban students in a performance of Schumann’s Symphony No. 3. Composed during Schumann’s tenure as conductor in Düsseldorf, this late work embodies the spirit of the River Rhine. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed

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Conductor Keith Brion Sousa Quintet from the Smugglers Incidental Suite from The Charlatan Humoresque Symphonic Sketch Grand Medley

Keith Brion leads the Trinity Laban Wind Orchestra in a concert celebrating the work of American icon, John Philip Sousa. Sousa WALDEGRAVE ENSEMBLE is known primarily for his patriotic military Blackheath Sundays marches – and of course for supplying SUNDAY 6 MARCH 11am | Recital Room the theme tune for Monty Python’s Flying Circus – but this entertaining and Mozart Quintet for Winds and Piano intriguing concert promises to reveal that Matthew Taylor Wind Quintet there’s so much more to him than that. Saint-Saëns Tarantella for Flute, This concert is followed by a recording Clarinet and Piano project for the Wind Orchestra, which will Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon be recorded and released on the Naxos and Piano record label as part of their acclaimed Sousa Paul Taffanel Wind Quintet Wind Band Series. TICKETS: £5 The Waldegrave Ensemble has been established with players from the , Royal Academy of Music, Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Its primary core is focused on repertoire for wind quintet. The ensemble’s many highlights include: the Schubert Octet; Ravel Introduction et Allegro; Neilsen Wind Quintet; Ligetti 6 Bagatelles; Damase Dix-sept variations and the première performance of Intolerable Inventions From Around The World for Wind Quintet by Raymond Yiu. Inspired by their 2015 performance of the Nielsen Wind Quintet as part of his Music JUNIOR TRINITY SPRING CONCERT Appreciation Series, Matthew Taylor has SATURDAY 19 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall composed a new work for the quintet which will receive its première performance. The Featuring the Junior Trinity Symphony work features mini-concertino movements Orchestra, Wind Orchestra and Four Part for each of the player’s individual characters Choir, this concert includes performances followed by a grand finale. by selected final year students. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions ADMISSION FREE but ticketed

10 blackheathhalls.com CLASSICAL TRINITY LABAN STRING ENSEMBLE If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On A selection of beautiful music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare 1564-1616 THURSDAY 24 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall Conductor Nic Pendlebury Locke Suite from The Tempest Fauré Shylock Nocturne from Suite, Op.57 Finzi Let us Garlands Bring Op.18 Stephen Montague Night Eternal NEAVE TRIO Tavener Song for Athene Blackheath Sundays Walton Henry V Suite SUNDAY 20 MARCH 11am | Recital Room Ashton Thomas Variations on the Fourth Tune Korngold Piano Trio in D major, Op.1 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Bernstein Piano Trio Thomas Tallis Dvorˇák Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65

Hailed by critics as “absolutely stunning” and nominated as the “Best of Boston” by the Boston Phoenix, the Neave Trio is Trio- in-Residence at San Diego State University. The Trio, whose members hail from the US, Scotland and Russia, have enjoyed international success at recital and festival To mark the 400th anniversary of William performances across the US, Canada, South Shakespeare’s death, the Trinity Laban America, UK and Europe in String Ensemble brings a programme some of the world’s finest inspired by the works of Shakespeare. concert halls. TICKETS: £14 Nic Pendlebury conducts an eclectic and £12 concessions varied programme guiding us through 400 years of musical history, opening with Locke’s music from The Tempest, and TRINITY LABAN MUSICAL THEATRE ending with Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. SHOWCASE TICKETS: £5 MONDAY 21 MARCH 7.30pm | Great Hall

Every year, final year students on Trinity Laban’s Musical Theatre course perform PIATTI QUARTET Blackheath Sundays a West End showcase in front of invited industry specialists. But you can catch them SUNDAY 10 APRIL 11am here first in an outrageously entertaining Recital Room evening of songs from the shows. ADMISSION FREE but ticketed See page 4 for further details. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions

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THE BLACKHEATH JESTFEST With Richard Herring SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 8pm | Great Hall

An evening of serious merriment as acclaimed comedian Richard Herring is joined by a selection of some of the funniest stand-ups in the UK. Celebrated for his hilarious and insightful stand-up shows like Talking Cock, Hitler Moustache and Christ on a Bike, Herring is a pioneer of comedy podcasting and a Metro newspaper columnist. Originally one half of acclaimed standup comedy double act Lee and Herring with Stewart Lee, he’s written for the likes of Al Murray, Armando Iannucci, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions Presented by Antelope Entertainments

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THE BLACKHEATH JESTFEST With Richard Herring SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 8pm | Great Hall

See opposite for further details. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions Presented by Antelope Entertainments

ROMESH RANGANATHAN Irrational Stay after attending an event for drinks, FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 8pm | Great Hall SOLD OUT! a chat and music Romesh Ranganathan is back at the Halls in our relaxed and with a brand new show exploring the rationality of his worldview. Irrational will friendly bar see Romesh examine the issues close to his heart, and explain why everybody else is wrong about them. TICKETS: £14 | £12 concessions Parental Guidance Rating Age 14+ due to swearing and adult content. Returns only – call the Box Office to be added to the waiting list

MARK STEEL Who Do I Think I Am SATURDAY 30 APRIL 8pm | Great Hall

See Mark Steel in his newest stand up show, a surprising and enthralling story told with aplomb. “It never really bothered me that I’d never met my mum. It never occurred to me I needed to meet her to ‘Find out who I was’, as it didn’t seem likely I’d discover I was someone different to who I thought I was. “Could it turn out I was three stone lighter than I thought, or I spoke Italian or supported Arsenal or had a fear of Liquorice Allsorts? “But after the birth of my own son, I realised it’s quite an event to have a child, and she may well remember giving birth to me, and maybe even the adoption.” TICKETS: £15 ‘He has got an amazing tale to tell’ – The Guardian ‘Profound yet funny’ – Sunday Times blackheathhalls.com Box office: 020 8463 0100 13 CHILDREN’S EVENTS THE MAGIC BEANSTALK SATURDAY 5 MARCH 3pm | Recital Room

Light Theatre UK Set in present day Cornwall, beautiful hand-carved puppets, illusion and Jack, his mum and their cow Daisy amazing experiments are used to retell are in trouble. Their house is leaking, the classic story of Jack and the Giant the phone’s cut off, there’s no food who lives through the clouds and over in the fridge – and they’ve got NITS! the rainbow. Something’s got to change and what TICKETS: £7 happens next is an exciting adventure for all girls and boys who believe in Suitable for Ages: 5+ magic. Running Time: 60 minutes

14 blackheathhalls.com CHILDREN’S EVENTS THE PESKY PIRATES A Hip Hop Adventure SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 1.30pm & 4pm Recital Room Let’s All Dance

Our cheeky pirates love playing, dancing and having fun. They would love to have some fun with you too so come along and HANSEL, GRETAL AND YOU…WHO? help them find their treasure! Sometimes they like to play tricks on each SATURDAY 30 JANUARY 3pm | Recital Room other and can be a little mean. Can you help Booster Cushion Theatre them be better friends and be kind, while having fun at the same time?! Hansel and Gretal journey around the Back after sell-out tours, Let’s All Dance world to find food. They become fit trying brings you this high-energy, interactive out all the sports that the woodland production, full of action, giggles and animals teach them. But they give into the fantastic hip hop dancing. Children will Candy House and are trapped by the Ginger be able to clap along and join in with the Witch. Can the Ginger Bread Man save them? pirate moves…a terrific treat for 2-8 year TICKETS: £7 olds and their families. Suitable for Ages: 4+ Running Time: 50 minutes

THE UGLY DUCKLING SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 3pm | Recital Room Finger and Thumb Theatre

TICKETS: £7 Suitable for Ages: 2-8 year olds Running Time: 40 minutes

Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Ugly Duckling is the story of a little bird who sets off on an adventure to find BOOK MORE — SAVE MONEY! out who he is. The show features the hand Multibuy discounts are shadow puppetry of Drew Colby, live cello available on all Saturday music by Penny Callow, beautiful light- children’s events – See scapes, and whimsical humour. page 31 for details or TICKETS: £7 contact the box office. Suitable for Ages: 4+ Running Time: 60 minutes Box office: 020 8463 0100 15 CHILDREN’S EVENTS CHILDREN’S OPERA

THE MAGIC BEANSTALK SATURDAY 5 MARCH 3pm | Recital Room Come and perform Light Theatre UK NOYE’S FLUDDE See page 14 for further details REHEARSALS: From mid-March leading to TICKETS: £7 an intensive rehearsal period during the Suitable for Ages: 5+ Easter Holidays from TUESDAY 29 MARCH Running Time: 60 minutes SUBSCRIPTION: £40 PERFORMANCES: THURSDAY 7 & HOW THE KOALA LEARNT TO HUG FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2pm & 6pm | Great Hall SATURDAY 12 MARCH 3pm | Recital Room TICKETS: £10 | £5 under 12s The People’s Theatre Company Director Harry Fehr Based on the best-selling book by Steven Musical Director Christopher Stark Lee, How The Koala Learnt to Hug is a charming new musical about the magic of Mr Noye Matthew Rose family and, of course, the importance of a Mrs Noye Sarah Pring nice warm hug! For the fourth year running Blackheath So join Steven and a host of wild characters Halls will be staging the children’s opera. including Natasha the Witch, the reggae Britten’s Noye’s Fludde was written with beavers and Karen the Koala for some great children performers in mind and is the stories, sing along songs, superb games and perfect vehicle for us. We are looking for: first class hugging. All you need are your ears, and your arms! l A children’s chorus of 40 children aged between 8 and 12 to sing and act l An adult chorus of 20 to sing and act l 10 adult chaperones who can also choose to be part of the adult chorus l Young string players, recorder players and percussionists to join the orchestra Participants will get the opportunity to work with a professional creative team and perform alongside professional opera singers and Trinity Laban students. TICKETS: £7 For more information on how to get involved email Rose Ballantyne Suitable for Ages: 3+ [email protected] Running Time: 60 minutes 16 blackheathhalls.com Comments from participants and audience members in 2015 ‘These operas are so fabulous – the highlight of my daughter’s year every time she’s been involved. I cannot praise the team enough. Thank you.’ ‘It’s a really unique opportunity for a boy of his age. Please, please, please do another one next year!’ ‘The performances were excellent, committed, well performed and inspirational.’ ‘Thank you once again. What a wonderful thing you have enabled.’

Above and below: Pictures from last year’s children’s opera, Brundibar

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KATE RUSBY SATURDAY 9 APRIL 8pm | Great Hall

Of all the stars in Folk music’s whether she’s performing traditional firmament, few shine as brightly as songs or her own hugely popular self- Yorkshire’s Kate Rusby. And we’re very penned tunes. happy to have her back at Blackheath She’ll be performing much-loved classics Halls once more after many fantastic from her back catalogue, as well as evenings in recent years. songs from her latest album, Ghost. As A remarkable, interpretive singer, Kate’s ever, she will be joined on stage by the soulful vocals resonate with wistful cream of British folk musicians who beauty, and she’s able to inhabit a form her band. lyric with a rare conviction that both TICKETS: £24 | £16 under 16s transports and touches her audience,

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CHAMPIONS OF ROCK UK’s authoritative Queen Concert SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 8pm | Great Hall

Fully emulating the charismatic appeal of rock's most flamboyant frontman, the UK’s official No1 Queen show will rock you. Described as “the next best thing to the real thing” by Freddie Mercury’s mum – following their show at the unveiling of Britain’s first memorial to her son. Have a champion night as the band revives classic hits including We Will Rock You, We are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Somebody to Love.

THE CHRISTIANS TICKETS: £22 | £20 concessions FRIDAY 11 MARCH 8pm | Great Hall SPECIAL OFFER: Book with Magic of the The Christians had a string of irresistible Beatles for just: £40 | £36 concessions international hits in the late 80s and early 90s including Forgotten Town, Ideal World, Born Again, Harvest for the World, What’s in a Word, Hooverville, Words, and Father. BEATS IN THE BAR Their double-platinum-selling debut album, Trinity Laban students perform in The Christians, entered the UK album chart this regular series of jazz gigs in our at number 2 and spawned four top 30 Recital Room. All sessions are free but singles, while their second album, Colour, ticketed and start at 7.30pm. went to number one. TUESDAY 2 FEBRUARY With the Liverpool band’s infectious BMus first and second year students in melodies and warm harmonies masking jazz combos. a deep emotional undercurrent, it’s no surprise that BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY described The Christians’ recent set on air Featuring Trinity Laban third year in December 2014 as “The best gig I’ve ever students performing in jazz combos. been to”. TUESDAY 8 MARCH As well as the old hits, they’ll be playing Featuring Trinity Laban jazz vocal stunning new material from their new students. album We. TUESDAY 15 MARCH TICKETS: £20 in advance | £22 on the door Featuring fourth year Trinity Laban Presented in association with Antelope students in jazz combos. Entertainments

Box office: 020 8463 0100 19 MUSIC THE MAGIC OF THE BEATLES Yesterday the Golden Anniversary Tour SATURDAY 23 APRIL 8pm | Great Hall

Join the authoritative Beatles live concert show, celebrating the Golden Anniversary of Yesterday. 1966 saw Lennon and McCartney come of age as songwriters – the Beatles’ EP, Yesterday, and album, Revolver, both topping the charts. Their legendary live performances are recreated, and more... taking you from their Mop Top roots to the psychedelia of Sgt Pepper and beyond. TICKETS: £22 | £20 concessions

SPECIAL OFFER: Book with Champions of Rock for just: £40 | £36 concessions

FAY HIELD CARA DILLON SATURDAY 18 JUNE 8pm | Recital Room SATURDAY 12 MARCH 8pm | Great Hall Fay Hield’s material and delivery reflect If you don’t know the voice of Cara Dillon, a rare sensitivity and appreciation of the you’re in for a treat. If you are already tradition while remaining naturalistic and amongst her legions of admirers around highly distinctive. Her first two solo albums, the world, you know you have something Looking Glass and Orfeo, have won her many special in store. accolades, and a nomination for the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. This extraordinary Irish singer makes music that transcends genres and crosses barriers. With her longstanding band, The Hurricane She has won every folk award going, but Party, alongside members of the English confesses to being no purist, making music folk mega group The Full English, Fay brings that reaches beyond the constraints and new arrangements to old songs, as she limitations of tradition. continues her exploration of the English Tradition, with her latest album, Old Adam. A Thousand Hearts, Cara’s fifth solo album, is another small masterpiece of song and emotion, ethereal and radiant, beautifully honed and perfectly true. TICKETS: £21 | £19 concessions

KATE RUSBY SATURDAY 9 APRIL 8pm | Great Hall

See page 18 for details. TICKETS: £24 | £16 under 16s TICKETS: £17 | £15 concessions

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RUBY WAX Frazzled! A Guide to Mindfulness FRIDAY 15 APRIL 8pm | Great Hall A forum for discussion

Ruby Wax is a US-born comedian, sanity with our own thinking. actor and writer now based in the UK. The forum is an opportunity to She has also become a mental health engage in discussion with Ruby, to campaigner and gained a Masters in explore the power of mindfulness Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy practice and how it can be applied from Oxford University. in daily life. This event is a follow up to her sell-out This event is our passport to saner touring show, and best-selling book living. She might not be sane herself Sane New World, which helps us but she does a pretty good imitation. understand why we sabotage our TICKETS: £18 | £16 concessions

22 blackheathhalls.com SPOKEN WORD RICHARD BOURNE RUBY WAX Nigeria A New History of a Turbulent Century Frazzled! A Guide to Mindfulness WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 8pm FRIDAY 15 APRIL 8pm | Great Hall Recital Room See opposite for further information. Nigeria’s story is a TICKETS: £18 | £16 concessions complex one. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, PROFESSOR ROBERT WINSTON and most recently the Modifying Humans: Where does genetics stop? Boko Harem armed insurgency, has the THURSDAY 9 JUNE 8pm | Great Hall country managed to Professor of Science and Society and stay together for a Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at hundred years? Imperial College London, Lord Robert Why, despite an abundance of oil, mineral Winston, comes to the Halls this summer and agricultural wealth, have so many of its to discuss Modifying Humans: Where does people remained in poverty? genetics stop? These are key questions explored by Richard Advances in gene technology mean that we Bourne in this wide-ranging account into can not only select embryos for ‘desirable’ the shaping of a country where – despite characteristics but we can now modify the seemingly dashed hopes that were genes of animals with remarkable ease. raised at independence – there still remains So possibly very soon we may be able to hope the ‘Nigeria project’ may still succeed. enhance humans by genetic modification. TICKETS: £10 (includes a glass of wine) Will ethical considerations prevent us from the next step - manufacturing stronger, more gifted and very intelligent children? TOM McCARTHY Or will our imperfect knowledge of how our Satin Island abilities are inherited mean that there are WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH 8pm | Recital Room some major surprises in store? U is a corporate anthropologist, tasked with writing the Great Report, an all- encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. Tom McCarthy captures the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning and discern the narratives we think of as our lives. TICKETS: £10 (includes a glass of wine) TICKETS: £18 | £16 concessions

Box office: 020 8463 0100 23 SPOKEN WORD – ARCHITECTURE EVENTS CLEMENTINE CECIL MONDAY 25 JANUARY 8pm | Recital Room Times Correspondent in Moscow Since then Clementine has 2001-2004 Clementine Cecil, talks acquired an MA from the about Moscow’s buildings and Ironbridge Institute, Birmingham their prospects. University on Historic Environment Conservation and in 2012 was While in Moscow, Clementine appointed Director of SAVE became very interested in the Britain’s Heritage and has had problems of conservation of some notable successes – such as buildings and co-founded the the successful campaign to save Moscow Architecture Preservation Smithfields and King’s College Society (MAPS), with which she is buildings from redevelopment. still very much involved. TICKETS: £10 | £5 students

THE RICHARD GRIERSON ANNUAL ARCHITECTURE LECTURE Alison Brook: The Cultures of City-Building WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 8pm | Recital Room

This year, Alison Brooks of Alison Brooks Architects (ABA) will present the Annual Richard Grierson Architecture Lecture. Named recently by The Sunday Times as one of Britain’s 500 Most Influential Above: Newhall Be; below, Accordia Brass Building, Cambridge People, Alison is the only UK architect to have won all three of the UK’s most prestigious awards for architecture. Her Accordia Brass Building for high density housing in Cambridge won the 2008 RIBA Stirling Prize. Her live-work residential development Newhall Be was shortlisted for the 2013 Stirling Prize and Supreme Winner of the Housing Design Awards. And in 2012 Alison and her team were named Architect of the Year and Housing Architect of the Year. She was awarded 2013 Woman Architect of the Year by the Architects' Journal in recognition of her work in housing, regeneration and education. TICKETS: £12 | £10 concs | £6 students

24 blackheathhalls.com SUPPORT US Why Blackheath Halls deserves your support…

Blackheath Halls is a Grade II listed building. It opened its doors as a concert hall in 1895. Since then it has presented a diverse programme of performances and events, featuring some of the world’s leading artists.

Help us to maintain and improve Blackheath Halls We have ambitious plans for the We are keen to ensure that the Halls remains further development of the Halls’ facilities a vibrant centre for the arts for future and services, to realise our vision for making generations. During the last three years the the Halls into a customer focused, flexible, generosity of our supporters has enabled us performing arts centre. to install a lift to the first floor, refurbish the Recital Room, and improve the outside of our Support Blackheath Sundays recitals building. Our Blackheath Sundays recitals bring some As a result of the support of the Friends of of the country’s leading classical artists to Blackheath Halls, we have recently been able perform in the Halls’ beautiful Recital Room. to install cooling fans in the Great Hall to This is only made possible by the support of improve the audience experience, and as the individual donors and sponsors. We hope you first stage in the Halls’ new Capital Plan the will consider making a donation to the series Friends have supported a complete or sponsor an individual recital on your own refurbishment and redecoration of the Café or as part of a group. A great way to Bar and Foyer. celebrate a special occasion!

Support our Community Engagement Programme Friends of Blackheath Halls Each year we offer people of all ages and all is a great village network. levels of ability the opportunity to work with We exist to support the halls, raising funds, providing first class professional performers and audiences and putting on our creative teams, to learn new skills and to own cultural events. perform in ensemble productions in our historic building in front of large audiences. The Friends programme includes regular lunchtime concerts, exciting architectural visits Remember Blackheath Halls in your will and spoken word evenings with well-known If you would like future generations to authors and occasional special events, such as experience the joy of coming to event, please our New Year’s Party. consider leaving a legacy to Blackheath I hope you will consider making a commitment Halls. There are tax incentives for leaving a to the Halls by picking up a Friends brochure at legacy to a registered charity. the Halls or by emailing [email protected] Gift Aid Dame Joan Ruddock If you are a UK taxpayer, we are able to claim Chairperson 25% Gift Aid on top of your donation. For further details on how to support us, please contact Blackheath Halls’ General Manager Keith Murray on 020 8318 9758 or at [email protected] Box office: 020 8463 0100 25 COME AND SING Blackheath Halls Chorus REHEARSALS*: MONDAYS 11, 18, 25 JANUARY; HAYDN: THE CREATION 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 FEBRUARY & 7 MARCH 7.30pm-9.30pm; 14 MARCH | 7pm-10pm DRESS REHEARSAL: SUNDAY 20 MARCH 2pm-5pm PERFORMANCE: SUNDAY 20 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall Musical Director Peter Asprey Assistant Musical Director Charles Andrews

Once again Blackheath Halls Chorus joins with Choral Society for a large-scale performance of a classic choral work. This time we will be presenting Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation. The final performance will be accompanied by the Blackheath Halls Orchestra. COMMUNITY All are welcome to join this friendly choir for rehearsals and performance. Email Rose Ballantyne r.ballantyne@ trinitylaban.ac.uk for more information. SUBSCRIPTION: £65 | £58 concessions | Under 18s free *Participants are also welcome to join Eltham Choral Society rehearsals on Thursday evenings. COME AND PLAY Blackheath Halls Orchestra REHEARSALS: SUNDAY 21 FEBRUARY 11am-1.30pm; SUNDAYS 6 & 13 MARCH 2.30pm-5.30pm; MONDAY 14 MARCH 7pm-10pm DRESS REHEARSAL: SUNDAY 20 MARCH 2pm-5pm PERFORMANCE: SUNDAY 20 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall Musical Director Peter Asprey

Blackheath Halls Orchestra will accompany a large- scale performance of Haydn: The Creation. If you are a violinist, viola player or play a brass instrument, there could be a space for you. Email Rose Ballantyne r.ballantyne@trinitylaban. ac.uk for more information.

26 blackheathhalls.com COMMUNITY – COME AND JOIN IN COME AND LEARN ABOUT A talk by Esther Cavett HAYDN: THE CREATION WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH 7.30pm | Recital Room What inspired Joseph Haydn to write this masterpiece and what was the historical context in which it was composed? Esther Cavett explores these and other themes in this illuminating lecture. Esther Cavett has a doctorate on Mozart from King’s College London, taught music theory at Oxford University and went on to publish numerous articles on Mozart and other musical topics before taking up a career in the City. Returning to her musical interests, she is now an associate of the Royal Academy of Music, a governor of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and has recently returned to King’s as Senior Research Fellow in the department of music. TICKETS: £10 (includes a glass of wine)

HAYDN: THE CREATION SUNDAY 20 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall Conductor Peter Asprey Gabriel, Eve Rebecca Bottone soprano Uriel Sam Furness tenor Raphael, Adam James Oldfield bass-baritone Blackheath Halls Chorus Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls Orchestra

An array of stellar soloists and a choir of 150 singers accompanied by Blackheath Halls Orchestra present an exciting performance of this wonderful oratorio. TICKETS: £16 | £14 concs | £5 under 12s

Box office: 020 8463 0100 27 COMMUNITY – COME AND JOIN IN BLACKHEATH HALLS ORCHESTRA REHEARSALS: SUNDAY 17, 24, 31 JANUARY; 7 & 21 FEBRUARY 2.30pm-5.30pm SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 1.30pm-4.30pm SECTIONALS: SUNDAY 7 FEBRUARY 11am-1.30pm PERFORMANCE: SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 6.30pm | Great Hall Conductor Leigh O’Hara TEA DANCES Piano Yevgeny Samoyloff WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY, 24 FEBRUARY, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in 2 MARCH B flat minor, Op.23 2pm-4.30pm | Great Hall Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27 There’s sequence dancing, quickstep, cha cha cha and much more, compered by Come and join this friendly orchestra. Mr Wonderful Dancing. French horn players are particularly TICKETS: £5 (including light refreshments) welcome.

MEANTIME JAZZ COURSE 1: MONDAYS 4, 11, 18, 25 JANUARY & 1 FEBRUARY 7pm-9pm COURSE 2: MONDAYS 22, 29 FEBRUARY; 7, 14 & 21 MARCH 7pm-9pm

Our community jazz group meets regularly on Monday evenings to rehearse jazz standards and look at improvisation. The sessions are led by Jonny Dexter. For more information about the COURSE FEE: £60 | £54 concessions group email Rose Ballantyne [email protected] COURSE FEE: £40 | £35 concessions (per 5 sessions) Support our community programme Find out how your support can ensure that we can continue to deliver this high quality work. Contact: Rose Ballantyne, Community Engagement Manager, on 020 8318 9758 or [email protected]

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BLACKHEATH HALLS ORCHESTRA SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 6.30pm | Great Hall Conductor Leigh O’Hara Piano Yevgeny Samoyloff Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27

Come and enjoy an evening of music performed by our own orchestra. HAYDN THE CREATION TICKETS: £10 | £8 concessions SUNDAY 20 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall £5 under 12s See page 26-27 for further details. TICKETS: £16 | £14 concessions Blackheath Halls is proud to be a partner £5 under 12s of the Lewisham Live Festival, a three- week long festival of music and dance performances by young people. NOYE’S FLUDDE Blackheath Halls Children’s Opera LIVE AT THE HALLS THURSDAY 7 & FRIDAY 8 APRIL WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 7pm | Great Hall 2pm & 6pm | Great Hall

Blackheath Halls and Lewisham Music See page 16-17 for further details. Service collaborate to present Live at the Halls, an evening of vocal and instrumental performances from our talented local young performers.

TICKETS: £7 | £6 concessions TICKETS: £10 | £5 under 12s

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Exhibitions 200 YEARS OF ENTERTAINMENT IN BLACKHEATH A Pictorial Exhibition TUESDAY 7 JANUARY – TUESDAY 26 JANUARY 10am-5pm | Café Bar QUIZ EVENING FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 7.30pm | Great Hall Back by popular demand this second showing of the Join us for Blackheath Halls’ popular quiz archives of the Blackheath evening when we will be testing your Society celebrates 200 years knowledge of a wide variety of interesting of varied entertainment in and amusing topics. This evening is in Blackheath. support of Blackheath Halls’ Opera Project. TICKETS: £10 per person (maximum eight per team) PAINTING LONDON By Vidma Wait WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY – SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 10am-5pm | Café Bar

The works of Vidma Wait create an impression of lightness, pulsing with lively impression.

Matthew Rose JOURNEY OPERA GALA NIGHT By Marie Keeling SUNDAY 10 APRIL DOORS 6.30pm WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH – WEDNESDAY 30 PERFORMANCE 7pm | Great Hall MARCH 10am-5pm | Café Bar

Our annual opera gala night is now firmly Marie Keeling’s part of Blackheath’s social calendar. influence comes from an early life in International opera singer Matthew Rose the industrial north will host an evening of wonderful singing and a fascination for by his illustrious friends in the opera world. machinery. This is our principal fund raising event for our 2016 tenth anniversary community opera, Bizet’s , to be performed in WOODSCAPES July. By Griff Davies SATURDAY 2 APRIL – THURSDAY 28 Ticket price includes a glass of sparkling APRIL 10am-5pm | Café Bar wine on arrival and a light supper. based artist Griff Davies This evening is very popular and sells works in plywood, cut by hand then out quickly, so please book early to avoid painted, sanded and reassembled. disappointment. TICKETS: £40 per person | £375 per table of 10

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Box office: 020 8463 0100 31 HOW TO FIND US Blackheath Halls 23 Lee Road London SE3 9RQ Greenwich

CAR The A2, A20 and South Circular all A2 provide easy access to Blackheath. Situated Royal Parade at the south end of the village, Blackheath Mont-

Halls is next to the mini-roundabout Tranquil Vale pelier Row serving Lee Road, Lee Park, Lee Terrace and Blackheath Village. PARKING The nearest car park to Blackheath Halls is Blackheath Station London Bridge 12 mins pay and display car park, which is two Cannon St/Charing X 23 mins Victoria 21 mins minutes walk from the Halls. Please note that there is no parking at Lawn Terrace Bexleyheath & Dartford the Halls and that parking is not 23 mins

permitted in Blackheath Park, the Blackheath Halls adjacent private road. Road Lee TRAIN Direct National Rail trains Lee Terrace run from London Victoria (21 mins), London Charing Cross (23 mins), London Waterloo East (19 mins), London Bridge (12 mins), Bexleyheath and Dartford (23 mins). As you come out of Blackheath Station, turn right and we are a two-minute walk up the road. DLR The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Lewisham. Connections can be made to Blackheath by National Rail or bus. BUS Routes, 54, 89, 108, 202, 380, 386 and N89 all stop in Blackheath Village.

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