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Spring-Summer 2013 253 ARGYLE ST | GLASGOW | G2 8DL Spring-Summer 2013 www.thearches.co.uk 253 ARGYLE ST | GLASGOW | G2 8DL BOX OFFICE: 0141 565 1000 OPEN: 9.30am-8pm Mon-Sat Customer access: (Open on Sundays for events) Book online @ www.thearches.co.uk NB: TICKETS MAY BE SUBJECT TO A BOOKING FEE How to find us: Wheelchair Access: We have level access to our Studio Theatre and main arch spaces as well as a wheelchair-accessible lift to our Café Bar and basement spaces. There is room for up to 6 wheelchairs in our Studio Theatre - please let Box Office know when booking if any of your party are wheelchair users. A raised platform is available for wheelchair users at standing concerts - please let Box Office know in advance if this is required. Accessible toilets are available in both the Café Bar and main arch spaces. Guide Dogs and Hearing Dogs are welcome in the Arches. TRAIN: leave Central Station by the south Reservations: 0141 565 1035 escalator (at Platform 11) onto Argyle St - the An Induction Loop is installed at Box Office. Open: 11am-late Mon-Sat Word up. Arches is directly opposite. From Queen St Station Pre Theatre Menu served 5-7pm: turn right along George St, left down Buchanan St Please ask Box Office or Front of House staff for 2 courses £10.95 / 3 courses £12.95 Four times a year, we’ve been inviting artists to to Argyle St and then right towards Central Station. help should you require assistance with any of our inhabit the restaurant, allowing them to furnish facilities. We offer free tickets to all Arches arts Lunchtime Special: the space, add to the menu and leave their stuff BUS: from Buchanan Bus Station, walk down events to assistants for people with impairments. Dish of the day + soft drink: only £4.00 scattered across tables. Our latest makeover (until Buchanan St to Argyle St and then right towards A large print version of this brochure is available. early March) has been created with students from Central Station. Get revitalised and recharged with the superb the Contemporary Performance Practice course at selection of fresh, locally sourced delights on offer the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which UNDERGROUND: St Enoch tube (see map). NB: at the Arches Café Bar & Restaurant. We now has resulted in the walls being covered in their have a daily MARKET MENU featuring seasonal text-based work (see above). The next makeover CAR: exit at Junction 19 off the M8 and follow Events at the Arches are 18+ unless otherwise ingredients as well as our ARCHES CLASSICS (running mid March - mid June) will be created signs for City Centre Argyle St. Parking: preferential stated. If you are under 18 and would like to menu with all the favourites: burgers, fajitas, with Frock On Frock Off artists Tranny & rates at Q-Park on Howard St (see map) with an attend an arts event please let Box Office know haggis, pizzas, salads, pasta and more. Roseannah (Laurie Brown & Rosana Cade) Arches ticket - call 0141 243 2659. before booking. as part of Behaviour 2013. Meal & Ticket deals: We offer pre-show meal ACCOMMODATION: Jurys Inn Glasgow: If you would like to receive regular offers, invites, and ticket deals on many events saving you £2.00 To coincide with the makeovers, popular Modern, excellent value for money, centrally updates and news on Arches events by email per head. Please ask at the Box Office when performance evenings take place in the restaurant located and ideal for leisure and business guests please sign up at www.thearches.co.uk* booking. on certain dates, with a special themed 3 course alike. Restaurant and bar on site. Please mention menu for only £9.95: see www.thearches.co.uk the Arches for preferential rates: 0141 314 4800. *we do not share this information with any other parties. for details. Glasgow Music & Film Festival: Untitled Projects & The Arches present: WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT THE FILM Fri 15th Feb | 7pm | £8.50/£6.50 CAIN’S A stellar line-up of Scottish musicians, from Eugene Kelly and Emma Pollock to Withered Hand and Rachel Sermanni, feature in this beautiful collection of stories told in song, shot BOOK during the night in locations across Scotland. This is a snapshot of an entire nation at its most vulnerable and revealing, inspired by what takes place between by Alexander Trocchi the hours of midnight and 4am. The film is part of the Whatever Gets You Through the Night project Adapted & Directed by Alan McKendrick created by the Arches, Cora Bissett, David Greig and Swimmer One. 25th-27th February | 7.30pm (7.45pm on 27th) | £9/£7 Followed by live performances from: The film will then tour to Banchory (22 Feb), Ullapool (26 Feb), Rachel Sermanni, Swimmer One, Hawick (26 Feb), Mull (1 March), Kirkcaldy (2 March), Dundee (10 Post-show discussion on Wed 27th Feb Bigg Taj & Wounded Knee. March). See www.thearches.co.uk for details. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, SONIC CINEPLEX adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts. Sat 16th Feb | 3pm-11pm | £19.50 Cain’s Book depicts protagonist Joe Necchi’s experiences from a Glasgow childhood through The Arches is completely transformed for this to adult life in 1950s New York as a scow captain all day festival-within-a-festival, with stages and unrepentant heroin addict. A tour-de-force and screens scattered throughout the cavernous of poetic writing, simultaneously occupying the space. An incredible line-up of acts including modes of drug literature, confessional, bleak Dieter Mobius, Raime, JD Twitch and many comedy and philosophical tract, the bold and still more will provide live scores to classic films, thoroughly contemporary Cain has lost none of brand new AV shows and specially commissioned its vivid force and power to astonish. DJ sets, with the headline slot rightfully awarded “Terrific Brechtian wit & coolness… to techno legend Jeff Mills and the UK premiere Writer/director Alan McKendrick (Finished of his live, three-deck cinemix to Fritz Lang’s With Engines, Violence Was Offered) is currently astonishing political complexity… 1929 sci-fi classic The Woman In The Moon. in residence with Untitled Projects (The Salon Project, Myths Of The Near Future, Slope) and a daring piece of apocalyptic For full Glasgow Music & Film Festval the Arches, supported by a Playwrights’ Studio listings see www.glasgowfilm.org/festival Scotland Partnership fund. This inaugural theatre. “ presentation of their work upon Cain’s Book is the culmination of this year-long residency. HHHH Scotsman on Finished With Engines Scratch Night Tue 5th Mar / Tue 4th Jun | 7pm £3.50 ticket includes a glass of wine or soft drink The anarchic, anything goes evening which sees theatre companies, performers, writers and dancers from all fields take ten minutes to try an idea in front of an audience. Afterwards, the action moves to the bar, where the audience talks back. On 5th March, Scratch will be featuring snippets from new works by Harry Giles, Victoria Bianchi, Claire Willoughby, Katherine Nesbitt and Mark Traynor. On 4th June we welcome Eilidh Daniels, Jenna Watt and Juliette Burton to present their ideas. The Arches presents If you have something you’d like to show at Scratch Creative Leadership please contact [email protected] Symposium Crossing The Lines Thu 21st Feb | 3-6pm | FREE but ticketed Tue 11th June | 7pm | £3.50 How do we embed creativity into the core curriculum? How can we be responsive to the The fourth instalment of this scratch-style event individual needs of students and learners? What is sees all kinds of artists perform their versions of classroom inertia and how does creative practice contemporary plays, before moving to audience offer a way of reimaging how a curriculum is offered? feedback and discussion facilitated by Arches/ Jack Webb presents Untitled Projects’ Playwright in Residence Is it possible for artists, creative educators and Alan McKendrick. teachers to work collaboratively to offer a more radical pedagogy that is measured by more than To get involved, please email DANCE TRIPLE BILL subject achievement? Who might lead this and [email protected] does it work? Is it effective? What are the benefits Tue 12th Mar | 7.30pm | £8/£5 of this approach? How might this impact on future pedagogical approaches? Jack Webb presents a triple bill of extraordinary For several years Jack Webb has steadily dance performances including GlitterGrid, a received increasing attention and appreciation as As part of Talent Hub investment from Creative Arches Community Choir work featuring Webb’s ecstatic and euphoric a dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher Scotland, the Arches is hosting a symposium event dancing persona influenced by glam rock icons from critics, producers, dance agencies and that will be the culmination of its creative leadership Thursdays | 7pm | £3 such as Ziggy Stardust and themes of physical audiences in the UK and Europe. project at Glasgow’s Oakgrove Primary School and mental transportation, alongside a new duet called 100 Little Pennies by Gary Gardiner. With no experience required, this is a relaxed and a film that includes the faces and appearances opportunity to get together with like-minded music of exceptional performers based in Scotland. Introduced by Dee Heddon (University of fans and belt out a few of your favourite tunes – Expect bold adventure and idiosyncratic dance “one of the brightest young stars on Glasgow), contributors include Gary Gardiner and from Eurythmics and Erasure to Blur and Fleet and choreography from one of Scotland’s rising Murray Wason (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Foxes.
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