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The Nevill Arts Trust Stephen & Ann Gerlis Scholarship SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2014 King’s School Canterbury

It’s time again for the CANTERBURY FESTIVAL Many of our Members have Events on during the festival which runs from 18th October to 1st November. See http://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk for all events.

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For more information about events listed below, please see contact Wednesday 8 October, 1.10pm details for affiliated organisations on the back page. St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Performance Showcase: Voices, Strings and more MUSIC Our talented student musicians take the stage, as we proudly present some of our best singers and string players. CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY Friday 10 October, 8.00pm Lunchtime concerts are free of charge. Performances at other times may be Anselm Studios, North Holmes Road ticketed, as indicated. Canterbury Live presents… Blue Rose Code & Danny Thompson, with support by Raphael Mead. Saturday 13 September, 7.30pm Material from both Blue Rose Code albums and one or two surprises St. Gregory’s Centre for Music from Danny's peerless back catalogue. Doors open 7.30pm. Public Concert for Schoenberg Conference- Schoenberg at 140: Tickets £17 in advance / £12 students available at Legacy and Reminiscence www.wegottickets.com/CanterburyLive and by phone 01227 To mark the 140th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Christ 367377. Info: canterburylivemusic.com Church hosts a two-day conference which aims to bring together Monday 13 October, 5.15pm scholars investigating Schoenberg's life and works from a broad Maxwell Davies Building range of perspectives, including performance, analysis and historical Migrant Piano: Contemporary piano music by composers of the musicology, in an effort to enhance the understanding of the legacy Greek diaspora of this renowned composer. Presented by Migro Records. Soloist: Christos Triantafyllou For details on the Conference please visit: Panayiotis Kokoras, Bold Ridge Apex https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-humanities/Music/Conferences- Harris Kittos, ARTHROS and-Research/Schoenberg-at-140-Legacy-and-Reminiscence.aspx Dimitris Bakas, Logos Dichos Ennies Thursday 25 September, 7.45pm Nicolas Tzortzis, L'accrochage du menteur St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Yannis Kyriakides, God Good Luck The Galliard Ensemble Panos Ghikas, Condor does it Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church Wednesday 15 October, 1.10pm University St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Works by Holst, Britten, Arnold, Sullivan, Clarke and Paul Patterson. Performance Showcase: Woodwind, Brass and more Kathryn Thomas (flute), Owen Dennis (oboe), Katherine Spencer Our talented student musicians take the stage, as we proudly (clarinet), Richard Bayliss (horn) and Helen Storey (bassoon) present some of our best wind and brass players. Tickets: £15 on the door or in advance at canterburymusicclub.com Wednesday 15 October, 7.30pm Thursday 2 October 7.30pm Anselm Studios, North Holmes Road St Gregory’s Centre for Music Lost in the Neuron Forest Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition Final Bread & Goose Theatre Company Now in its eighth year this competition regularly attracts around 150 A story about memory and how it defines us, and an exploration entries and the standard is consistently high. Budding poets: why into what becomes of us when our memories are gone. not come along to the final – and maybe enter a poem of your own As her memories begin to fade away completely, Edna is reminded next year? of the doctor who helped her retain her sense of self amongst her Tickets £5 on the door lost and fragmented visions of the past. What begins as an

interactive lecture on the science of the brain becomes a personal Wednesday 22 October, 7.30pm story of one woman’s struggle to hold onto who she is. Augustine Hall Bread & Goose is a collective of theatre makers who work together James Rhodes (piano) with the shared aim of creating top quality, exciting theatrical Dubbed ‘the Russell Brand of piano’, the revolutionary pianist’s experiences through collaboration and play. recent number one iTunes debut album, Razor Blades, Little Pills www.breadandgoose.co.uk and Big Pianos reflects his personal struggle with rehab and psych Friday 17 October, 1.10pm wards. Expect engrossing, highly personal interpretations of St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Schubert, Chopin and Blumenfeld. The English Oboe: Rediscovered £15, students £8 (bkg fees apply*) Box office 01227 787 787 James Turnbull (oboe), Libby Burgess (piano) canterburyfestival.co.uk Jonathan Dove, Music for a Lovelorn Lenanshee Wednesday 22 October, 7pm Helen Grime, Three Miniatures Anselm Studio, North Holmes Road Finzi (arr. Ferguson), Interlude ‘Best for the Fest’ Fringe Performances Richard Rodney Bennett, Four Country Dances First of two evenings of performances specially selected by curators A wonderful chance to hear contemporary repertoire for oboe and of the Canterbury Festival Fringe, directed and devised by our piano superbly played by prize-winning practitioners. Performing Arts students. (See also 29 October.) Followed by a public masterclass, 2.30–4.30pm: Full details including ticket prices on the Fringe website: Stay to watch Libby and James coaching the University's talented canterburyfringe.co.uk from 15th August. BMus performance students Thursday 23 October, 1.10pm St. Gregory’s Centre for Music CONCERTS IN THE SPEIGELTENT Christ Church Clarinet Trio St Lawrence Cricket Ground, Canterbury David Campbell, Margaret Archibald and Paul Bourdillon, with Tickets for the Speigeltent morning concerts are £5 and are Jonathan Duke (piano) available through the Canterbury Festival Box Office. Telephone Works by Bouffil, Waterson, Gershwin, Milhaud and Debussy. 01227 787787 or visit canterburyfestival.co.uk Friday 24th October, 1.00pm (please note the start time) Speigeltent Monday 20th October, 10.30am Broadway Choir and Friends Speigeltent Headlined by the University’s talented musical theatre vocal Coffee-time Jazz 1 ensemble, expect glittering Broadway hits and exuberant West End Cool classics, funky covers and original compositions from the showstoppers, along with vocal solos and instrumentals. University’s finest student jazz ensembles. Friday 24 October, 1.10pm Monday 20 October, 1.10pm Anselm Studios University Chapel Piano in the Woods Automatronic: New Music for Organ and Electronics In May 2013 Sam Bailey placed a piano in private woodland near Automatronic is a collective that seeks to explore, commission, Canterbury. Over a year he played the piano monthly, improvising in promote and perform new music for the unique combination of response to its changing state, joined in the project by a range of organ and electronics. New works by Huw Morgan, Michael musicians, poets, photographers, filmmakers and dancers. This Bonaventure and Lauren Redhead and their international composer- performance, directed by Angela Pickard, uses images and sound collaborators. generated during the project as the basis for improvised music and Monday 20 October, 7.30pm dance. St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Monday 27 October, 10.30am Canterbury Festival Foundation Young Musicians’ Bursary Concert Speigeltent Last year’s winner cellist Matthew Roberts joins the panel of judges Music Society Showcase for another hard-fought final to select the recipient of the Festival The newly-founded Christ Church University Music Society is a hive Foundation Young Musicians’ Bursary. Not just a challenge of of creativity. The best of its current ensembles take to the stage, musical artistry, the Bursary winner will play an ambassadorial role performing music from instrumental to vocal, classical to pop. promoting music to their peers. In addition to stunning Featuring the Society’s Pops Orchestra. performances, the judges are also seeking a sparkling personality to Monday 27 October, 1.10pm win the prize. St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Tickets £10 (bkg fees apply*) Box office: 01227 787 787 Alumni Concert canterburyfestival.co.uk Vocal and instrumental music performed by our finest recent Tuesday 21 October, 1.10pm graduates. St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Monday 27 October, 7.30pm Christ Church Piano Quintet St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Schubert, Quintet in A Major D667 (‘Trout’) Julian Perkins (clavichord) The chamber masterpiece in five movements performed by teaching JS Bach French Suites Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 staff from the Department of Music and Performing Arts: Matthew Tickets £10 (bkg fee applies*) Box office: 01227 787 787 and Shipton (piano), Erica Buurman (viola), Elina Hakanen (violin), Julia canterburyfestival.co.uk Vohralik (cello) and Robert Rawson (double bass). Tuesday 28 October, 1.10pm Wednesday 22 October, 1.10pm St. Gregory’s Centre for Music St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Dance and Music Collaboration Commercial Music 'unplugged' Our student musicians work with Canterbury Dance Company Staff on the University’s Commercial Music programme perform (choreographer: Angela Pickard) to create intriguing and inspiring acoustic arrangements of pop, rock and blues classics. Featuring interpretations in sound and movement. Simon Foster (vocals), Izzy Chase-Philmore (vocals), Lawrie Bolton Wednesday 29 October, 1.10pm (piano), James Dean (guitar), Steve Rickwood (bass) and Jason St. Gregory’s Centre for Music McCluskey (drums/percussion). University Chamber Choir

The University’s flagship choir (director: David Allinson) presents a turns out that her imaginary world is very much disturbed by the selection of superb vocal music from the Renaissance to the present ‘drab monochrome’ reality of capitalism. The play is a manifesto of day. thirty year-old Poles who are the generation of people raised at the Wednesday 29 October, 7pm. time when Poland was just emerging from communist to capitalist Anselm Studio, North Holmes Road era. ‘Best for the Fest’ Fringe Performances There will be an exposition of the two eras, available for the Second of two evenings of performances specially selected by audiences to interact with before and after the show. curators of the Canterbury Festival Fringe, directed and devised by Thursday 13 November, 7.45pm our Performing Arts students. (See also 22 October.) St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Full details including ticket prices available on the Fringe website: Stephan Loges (Bass/Baritone) Simon Lepper (Piano) canterburyfringe.co.uk from 15th August. Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church Thursday 30 October, 1.10pm University St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Lieder by Johannes Brahms, Carl Loewe and Robert Schumann. Composers' Competition Tickets: £15 on the door or in advance at canterburymusicclub.com Showcasing the wide diversity of composition within the Wednesday 19 November, 1.10pm Department of Music and Performing Arts, from chamber music and St. Gregory’s Centre for Music songwriting to surround sound installations and more. Contemporary Music Showcase Friday 31 October, 10.30am The Contemporary Music Ensemble (director: Lauren Redhead) Speigeltent performs music by Luiz Henrique Yudo and Paul Patterson plus new Coffee-time Jazz 2 works by composition students. Cool classics, funky covers and original compositions from the Friday 21 November, 7.30pm University’s finest student jazz ensembles. St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Friday 31 October 2014, 1.10pm Keith Ramon Cole: a birthday celebration St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Malcom Macmillan (clarinet), Jeff Alexander (guitar) with the Le Jardin Féerique: Piano Duets composer. Christ Church staff accompanists David Knotts and Helen Crayford An evening of music by Ramon Cole on the occasion of his 75th celebrate the world of four hands at one piano in a varied birthday, including his Shakespeare Songs for soprano and guitar, programme of music by Schubert, Ravel, Debussy and Walton. music for clarinet and piano, and the Concierto Iberico for guitar. Friday 7 November, 1.10pm Saturday 22 November, 7.30pm St. Gregory’s Centre for Music St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) Apollo Orchestra and Chamber Choir Last Generation of a Great Clan The Music Society's prestige classical ensembles perform beautiful Sonatas and Polonaises by W.F. Bach, J.C. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach orchestral and choral works by Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart under We are delighted to welcome internationally-acclaimed recitalist the direction of Marius Reklaitis. and concert soloist Mahan Esfahani, to perform and then to lead a Wednesday 26 November, 1.10pm public masterclass. An opportunity not to be missed. St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Followed by a public masterclass, 2.30–4.30pm: Top Voices sing Autumn Leaves Stay to watch Mahan coaching the University's talented BMus The University’s versatile group of high-voice singers (director: Chris performance students Price) performs another of its famously eclectic programmes for an Friday 7 November, 7.30pm autumnal lunchtime: from Hildegard to big-band jazz standards, Anselm Studios, North Holmes Road there’s sure to be something here to delight everyone. Jazz: Richard Rozze Group featuring Trevor Tomkins Friday 28 November A wide ranging programme of jazz standards and original North Holmes Campus (visit website or call to check venue daytime compositions performed by some of the most in-demand jazz information) musicians on the scene, including legendary drummer Trevor MAXWELL DAVIES AT 80: CHRIST CHURCH CELEBRATES Tomkins. The Department of Music and Performing Arts has enjoyed a long Wednesday 12 November, 1.10pm and fruitful association with its Visiting Professor, Peter Maxwell St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Davies, whose status as one of the towering figures of British post- Broadway Choir war music is assured. We are delighted that, on the occasion of his This energetic and versatile University choir (director: Phil Hornsey) 80th birthday, the composer who spent the last decade as Master of performs a selection of stirring Musical Theatre numbers. Expect big the Queen’s Music – but is known simply and affectionately as ‘Max’ ensemble classics interspersed with powerful solos. – will visit the University as we spend a day celebrating his Wednesday 12 November, 8 pm achievements. Anselm Studios, North Holmes Road 11am-1pm: Public Lecture - ‘Maxwell Davies and the post-war Polish Theatre Ireland presents Bubble Revolution development of British music’ By Julia Holewińska, translated by Artur Zapałowski 2pm-5pm: Public workshop – The Maggini Quartet “I’m thirty years old. No, I don’t feel grown-up. Responsibility? I The Maggini Quartet plays newly-composed music for string quartet prefer other words, such as: independence, prospects, travel, no by Christ Church composers, with commentary from Maxwell Davies commitments, sex with no strings attached, fusion cuisine, (the student compositions will be based on fragments from his dermocosmetics, and – oh, yeah – inner harmony, macrobiotics, Naxos quartets). political correctness, and tofu-burgers.” 6.30pm: Pre-concert round table discussion with Dr Nicholas (Julia Holewińska, “Bubble Revolution”) McKay, Head of Music and Performing Arts, and Martin Outram of Polish Theatre Ireland (PTI) is coming to Canterbury with a one- the Maggini Quartet woman show about growing up during and after the fall of St. Gregory’s Centre for Music communism. "Bubble Revolution" is a story of Wictoria aka Vica, a 7.30pm: Concert: The Maggini Quartet woman in her early thirties, who wants to live in a fairytale filled P. Maxwell Davies, Naxos Quartet No 8; with the memories, colours, scents and sounds of the past but it J. Haydn, String Quartet Op.55 No.2 in F minor

E.J. Moeran, String Quartet No 1 in A minor * Booking Fees Apply for these Canterbury Festival events: by Maxwell Davies, A short quartet for Rosalind Strover's 100th phone and in person: £1 per ticket booking fee. Online: 75p per birthday (premiere) ticket booking fee. The maximum fee you will be charged when St. Gregory’s Centre for Music booking by phone or in person is £8. Booking fees are unlimited Concert, Tickets £12 (£5 concessions; MPA students free). Book online. online: canterbury.ac.uk/events. Information: email: [email protected] or tel: 01227 782428. CANTERBURY ACCORDION AND SOCIAL CLUB Wednesday 3 December, 1.10pm The Club meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month, at St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Newport Court, Cowdrey Place, Canterbury. CT1 3PB. We play Festive Strings together and organise the occasional workshop. Our friendly The University’s String Orchestra (director: Martin Outram) and members are of all standards of playing, and our button and piano string chamber groups perform a diverse range of music, including instruments are just as varied. Please come along, or contact our Ireland's atmospheric Downland Suite. Chairman, Audrey, on 780 245. Friday 5 December, 7.30pm Anselm Studios, North Holmes Road CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY Music Society End of Term Showcase Saturday 1 November 2014, 7.30pm The University’s Music Society’s diverse ensembles step up with this Mendelssohn Elijah concert in Canterbury Cathedral festive offering for the year’s end. All ensembles are directed and rehearsed by students, demonstrating the sheer talent and creative Sir Willard White bass (Elijah) variety fostered by the Society. Saturday 6 December, 7.30pm Mary Bevan soprano St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Catherine King mezzo-soprano Christmas with the Pops Orchestra Benjamin Hulett tenor The Music Society’s acclaimed Pops Orchestra (director: Dan Tomkinson) is joined by another Society ensemble, Cantiamo, to Tickets: £30, £26, £22, £18, £12 bring you traditional Christmas sounds along with a selection of (bkg fees apply*) Christmas television favourites, with music by John Rutter and See website for booking details Howard Blake. Saturday 6 December, 7.30pm University Chapel Sir Willard White will provide an imposing and impressive dimension in the Gospel Choir title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Canterbury Cathedral on 1 November The University’s acclaimed Gospel Choir (director: Vince Peilow) 2014. Elijah endures as one of the favourite large-scale works for choir and kick-starts your celebration of Christmas with joyful music by Kirk orchestra, among choirs and audiences alike. A dramatic biblical saga full of power and intensity, immersed in one of Mendelssohn’s most colourful Franklin, Hezekiah Walker, Bazil Meade, Mark Beswick and more. scores. Wednesday 10 December, 1.10pm Sir Willard will be joined by an outstanding team of soloists and with St. Gregory’s Centre for Music Canterbury Choral Society’s reputation for excellence, this performance of Early/Historical Dance with the Early Music Ensemble Mendelssohn Elijah in breathtaking Canterbury Cathedral is not-to-be- Year 1 Dance Education students perform a variety of dances from missed. Canterbury Choral Society Youth Choir will also be singing in this 16th century to 19th century, directed by Angela Pickard. Early concert. Music Ensemble director: Robert Rawson. Mendelssohn Elijah concert in Canterbury Cathedral will end at Friday 12 December, 7.30pm approximately 10pm

Augustine Hall CANTERBURY CITY BRASS BAND Christmas Concert Symphony Orchestra (director: Martin Outram) 14 Sep Sunday Upper Hardres 3-45pm Symphonic Wind Orchestra (director: Ian Crowther) 20 Sep Saturday St Marys Bay 7-30pm Chamber Choir (director: David Allinson) 4 Oct Saturday Dungeness 7-30pm University Chorus (director: David Allinson) 12 Oct Saturday Ruckinge Church 7-30pm Join Ensembles from the Department of Music and Performing Arts for a 29 Nov Friday St Nicholas Church Sturry 7-00pm celebratory evening to mark the end of term. The varied programme 5 Dec Friday Chartham Hatch Concert 7-30pm includes Schubert's beautiful Symphony No.8 ('Unfinished') and lashings of 6 Dec Saturday Cliftonville 11-00am to 12-00 festive choral music. 12 Dec Friday Sevington Church 6-30pm Tickets £5 (£3 concessions; MPA students free). Book online: 13 Dec Saturday Blean T.B.C canterbury.ac.uk/events. Information: email: 14 Dec Sunday Ivyhurch 3-30pm [email protected] or tel: 01227 78248.

Thursday 18 December, 7.45pm St. Gregory’s Centre for Music CANTERBURY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Canterbury Music Club in association with Canterbury Christ Church Tickets for all concerts available from Crowthers of Canterbury, 1 University The Borough, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2DR Tel: 01227 763965 Michael Collins (Clarinet) Michael McHale (Piano) Saturday 11th October 2014 Debussy, Saint-Saens, Brahms, Carl Reinecke and Bizet St Peters Methodist Church, Canterbury Tickets: £15 on the door or in advance at canterburymusicclub.com Friday 7th November 2014 St Peter’s Methodist Church, Canterbury Live music at our Broadstairs campus Fridays@ 7 Regular gigs are given by our Commercial Music students and staff Featuring the Thorne Trio at the Broadstairs campus in the Dwell Bar, most often on Tuesday Programme to include: evenings. Please check canterbury.ac.uk/events for details. Mozart Serenade for Winds in C minor KV 388 Dvorak Wind Serenade Op 44

CANTERBURY MUSIC CLUB CANTERURY RECORDED MUSIC SOCIETY 25 September 25 2014 7.45pm The Friends Meeting Place, 6 The Friars, Canterbury. Admission £4 Galliard Ensemble Jennifer Bolton 01227 275603 see download Chamber Music Holst - Quintet 9 September 2014 7.30pm Committee’s Choice Britten - Metamorphosis, selection from (solo oboe) An evening of recorded classical music To mark the beginning of a Arnold - Divertimento for flute, oboe, clarinet new season the choice of music has been selected by the committee Vinter - Two Miniatures members Interval 23 September 2014 7.30pm Back to Bach Sullivan - Pirates of Penzance Overture Clarke - Zoom Tube (solo flute) An evening of Recorded Classical Music Member, Ron Chadwick Paul Patterson - Westerly Winds offers an interesting evening entitled 'Back to Bach' Arnold - Three Shanties 7 October 2014 7.30pm Elgar’s Apostles Trilogy-Unfinished 18 December 2014 7.45pm Business Michael Collins - clarinet, Michael McHale - piano An evening of recorded classical music Guest presenter, Dr Richard Duet Debussy: Rhapsody Braddy will offer a programme entitled 'Elgar's Apostles Trilogy- Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata Op. 167 Unfinished Business' Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major 21 October 2014 7.30pm The Chairman Entertains -Interval- An evening of recorded classical music Chairman, Tony Thompson Carl Reinecke: Sonata Undine offers a programme entitled 'The Chairman Entertains' Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata Bizet: Carmen Fantasy 4 November 2014 7.30pm A selection of recordings from Hyperion An evening of recorded classical music A welcome return from Single Concert Ticket: £15. CAVATINA Free Ticket Scheme for those Simon Perry of Hyperion recordings. There will be an opportunity to aged 8 to 25. Other Students Single Concert Ticket: £5 purchase some of the latest recordings on CDs Members of other music clubs on presentation of membership 18 November 2014 7.30pm A Musical Tour of Europe cards: £12 An evening of recorded classical music Member, Bill Valentine will Full price tickets also available at http://www.wegottickets.com present a programme entitled 'A Musical Tour of Europe' St Gregory’s Centre for Music, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 2 December 2014 7.30pm Peter Cork, Teacher, Composer, Pianist 1NX Peter Burton 01227 462029 and Friend An evening of recorded classical music Guest presenter, Peter CANTERBURY MUSICIANS Cosker will present a programme about local composer Peter Cork welcomes enquiries from singers and instrumentalists of all ages and entitled 'Peter Cork-Teacher, Composer, Pianist and Friend standards who wish to meet others to play and sing together in social events or charity concerts. CANTERBURY SINGERS 9 October 2014 7.30pm Annual Charity Concert 29November 2014 7.30pm Canterbury Musicians' charity concert in aid of Age UK Songs, piano Christmas Oratorio music, other instrumental solos, etc., performed by members and The Canterbury Singers perform J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio. The friends of Canterbury Musicians. Proceeds to the Canterbury branch Canterbury Singers, director David Newsholme, with the Festival of Age UK http://www.ageuk.org.uk/canterbury . Admission £7. Chamber Orchestra and soloists, perform cantatas I, II, III and VI The Old Synagogue, King Street, Canterbury, CT1 2AJ Ian Carmalt, from J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Tickets £10 01227 762547 St. Mary of Charity Parish Church, Faversham Simon Wolfe, 01795 228414 THE CANTERBURY ORCHESTRA Celebrating the Orchestra's 60th Anniversary this year CHARLTON PARK FOUNDATION SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 6:30pm VIOLIN RECITAL by JAMIE CAMPBELL Canterbury_Festival Wine & canape reception followed by Solo violin concert playing Bach D minor Partita, Ysaye No. 4 violin Sonata, Bach A minor violin sonata.

Tickets £30 from the Festival Office, 8 Orange Street, Canterbury, CT1 2JA Telephone: 01227 452 853 email: [email protected] Cheques payable to “Canterbury Festival Foundation Friends”

CITY OF CANTERBURY CHAMBER CHOIR Saturday 29 November, 7.30pm 5 October 2014 6.30pm Winter Concert: A Musical Love Triangle Harvest & Creation Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent Concert in support of "Catching Lives" Concert in support of Brahms: Tragic Overture "Catching Lives", sponsored by Simon Langton Lodge. Clara Schumann: Konzertsatz in F Minor Programme details to follow. soloist: Katherine Tinker Tickets £10 | £6 students | under 16s free Robert Schumann: Rhenish Symphony St. Peter's Methodist Church, St. Peter's Street, Canterbury Tony Eldridge, 01227 731293 If you are interested in playing with the Canterbury Orchestra Call Nicky Pound, Canterbury Orchestra Manager on 01304 812755 or email us to find out whether we have vacancies.

EAST BRIDGE CHORALE AND CONCERT ORCHESTRA Saturday 20 September 2014 Information and Tickets -Geraldine Wyant 01227-721319. See The Open Mikers - featuring CJ www.eastbridgechorale.com & Nick, The Reckless Sleepers ft 29 November 2014 7.30pm Phil Garvey, The Acoustic East Bridge Chorale Concert, directed by Benedict Preece Architects The Kingston Barn, nr Canterbury An Early Christmas Concert to be held in Littlebourne Church The Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start (note programme will include: - earlier than usual) Tickets £8 Te Deum – Charpentier online £9 cash or cheque in Beatus Vir R598 – Vivaldi advance £10 on the door Grosser Herr (Bass solo from 'Christmas Oratorio', featuring the trumpet) Something different. We are Christmas Day – Holst blessed here in Canterbury to have Here is the Little Door – Howells a strong, vibrant and talented local Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day – Gardner music scene. Rejoice in the Lord Alway – Purcell Zadok the Priest – Handel Saturday 4th October 2014 Kieran Goss St Vincent's Church, Littlebourne, CT3 1UA Information and tickets The Kingston Barn, nr Canterbury from Geraldine Wyant 01227 721319 or email [email protected]. Tickets also available on the door. Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start See http://www.eastbridgechorale.com for information about our Tickets £13 online £14 cash or choir - new members very welcome! cheque in advance £15 on the door We are thrilled to invite FOLK IN THE BARN Kieran Goss back to Folk in the Barn. If you like folk then please support these events we don’t want to lose this fantastic opportunity to see great acts locally. Saturday 18th October 2014 Book Tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/ Bridie Jackson & the Arbour The Playhouse, Whitstable Friday 5 September 2014 Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes Doors 7pm for 7.45pm start Tickets Revelation St Mary's, Ashford Full price £13 Students £10 Book ALBERT LEE tickets HERE “Bridie Jackson & The Albert Lee, by common consent one of the Arbour are refreshingly world’s finest guitar-players, needs no unpretentious and movingly introduction to Country Music & Rock fans. soulful” Daily Telegraph He has worked with some of the world's top Wednesday 29 October 2014 artists, from Emmylou Harris to the Everly Terry & Gerry Brothers, Dolly Parton to Eric Clapton. The Union Coffee House, CCCU St Doors 7.15pm for Tickets George's Place, Canterbury, CT1 8pm start £20 online or £23 on the door 1UT £22 cash or cheque in advance from FitB Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start Saturday 13 September 2014 Tickets £10 online £12 cash or Sally Barker with Special Guest cheque in advance £13 on the Vicki Genfan door Terry & Gerry Reunion Gulbenkian, Canterbury after 30 years! Gerry Colvin needs no introduction to Folk in Millions of viewers tuned in to see the Barn audiences. Sally's flawless performances on Sunday 2 November 2014 the BBC TV programme the Voice. Luka Bloom Sally is no newcomer to the music Canterbury Cathedral Lodge Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start scene; she has recorded 6 Tickets £15 acclaimed solo albums, with Doors 7pm for 8pm start Tickets Gulbenkian songwriting influences from folk, £15 online £16 cash or cheque in University of Kent country, soul and blues, and is well advance £17 on the door With a Canterbury respected for her work with all- poet’s heart and a rocker’s soul, Kent CT2 7NB female folk supergroup The Luka Bloom is regarded as one of Tel: 01227 769075 Poozies. Sally's years of touring Ireland’s best-respected Or have also included supporting the contemporary folk artists. Book online likes of Bob Dylan & Robert Plant. Friday 14 November 2014 Friday 19th September 2014 Martyn Joseph Turin Brakes with Nick The Kingston Barn Harper Gulbenkian, Canterbury Martyn Joseph is as performer like no other. He has been called 7pm for 7.30pm start Tickets £20 “The Welsh Springsteen”, also full price £18 students Turin shades of John Mayer, Bruce Brakes In Autumn 2014, London Cockburn and Dave Matthews based folk-pop-indy band Turin there may be – but he stands in Brakes will tour their new album his own right, built on a We Were Here Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start Tickets reputation for giving what £16 online £17 cash or cheque in thousands have described as the advance £18 on the door best live music experience of their lives.

Sunday 23 November 2014 HORSEBRIDGE ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE Andy Cutting Contact 01227 281174. Or See www.horsebridgecentre.org.uk The Black Robin Inn, Kingston, Friday 10 October 7.30pm Canterbury (doors/bar 7pm) Chantel McGregor Doors 6pm for 6.30pm start Tickets Tickets £12 in advance / £14 on the door £12 online £13 cash or cheque in Imagine the tone of Robin Trower, the advance £14 on the door Andy inspiration of Hendrix, the influence of Cutting Nominated Musician of the Stevie Ray Vaughan, the energy of Year 2012 Musician of the Year Bonamassa, the intensity of Walter Trout 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and the haunting vocal of Stevie Nicks all Andy Cutting is a rarity. rolled into one. Then let me introduce

Chantel McGregor, one of the most exciting Tuesday 9 December 2014 rock-blues musicians in the UK. Chantel has St Agnes Fountain won several awards, the latest being voted Canterbury Cathedral Lodge 'Guitarist of the Year' and 'Female Vocalist of the Year' in the British Blues Awards 2013. Doors 7pm for 8pm start Tickets

£16 online £18 cash or cheque in Friday 17 October 7.30pm advance £19.50 on the door St (doors/bar 7pm) Agnes Fountain will be embarking on their 14th A Solitary Man - The Songs of Neil consecutive sell-out Christmas Diamond tour. Tickets £12 Sunday 14 December 2014 Glitzy, charismatic stadium artiste or The Luke Jackson Trio inspired poetic songwriter?

The Lounge, Canterbury Christ Bob Drury ('The Neil Diamond Story') returns Church University with a brand new one-man show celebrating

the genius of singer/songwriter Neil Come and join us for some Diamond. In the first half many of his finely Christmas nibbles and a fabulous Doors 7.15pm for 8pm Tickets crafted songs are presented in stripped- concert from Canterbury’s own £10 online £11 by post in down ‘unplugged’ style revealing the sheer Luke Jackson and his Trio advance £12 on the door quality of Neil Diamond's music and lyrics. Friday 31 October House of Hats & Fate the Juggler £7 in advance | £9 on the door Fresh from a tour of the US & Holland this summer, Brighton’s House Of Hats return to the Horsebridge to pick up from where they left off on their show here in February. Since their last visit the group has gone from strength to strength, with their self-released debut album “This Love” picking up a wealth of enthusiastic reviews from the likes of Acoustic Magazine, Huffington Post, Q magazine and Folk Radio to name a few. Recently described by Altsounds as “Harmonically rich, passionate folk” they deliver a textured and pure sound with male and female lead figures. Friday 19 December 2014 The Albion Christmas Band Revelation St Mary's, Ashford The Albion Christmas Show is now into its 16th year and has attracted sell-out audiences across the UK.

Doors 6.45pm for 7.30pm start (Note earlier start than usual) Tickets £16 online or from Ashford outlets* (booking fee applies) £18 cash or cheque in advance from Folk in the Barn £19.50 on the door

*Soundcraft Hi-Fi 40 High Street, Ashford Kent, TN24 8TE 01233 624441 Mon-Sat: 9am-5.30pm (Wed & Sat 5pm) INVICTA BAND The Band practises every Tuesday evening from 7:30 to 9:30 at Tourist Information Centre Herne Bay High School. This is situated in Bullockstone Road, Herne 2nd Floor, Ashford Gateway Plus, Church Road, Ashford Kent, TN23 1AS Bay. If you are interested, why not come along to a rehearsal. You 01233 330316 should be capable to Grade V on your instrument.

Mon-Sat: 10.15am-3pm Right Track Music Shop MOCK TUDOR BAND Javelin House, Henwood Industrial Estate, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8DE Please note: Schools who include the Tudor Period in their 01233 647474 curriculum, we would be very happy to contact them with a view to Mon-Sat: 9am-5.30pm giving a concert. We have two costumed dancers who also teach about the clothes they used to wear. HERNE BAY ORGAN & KEYBOARD CLUB All start at 7.30 pm, Pettman House, Hanover Square, Herne Bay. nd th Meetings on the 2 and 4 Wednesdays of each month.

MUSIC AT ST PETER’S Africa and Wales and, remarkably, both nations share a centuries-old St Peter's Methodist Church, St Peter's St, Canterbury, CT1 2BE tradition of intricate oral history, expressed through music, song and verse. Jenny Devenish 01227 456359 or [email protected] Together, Finch and Keita have risen to the tough challenge of blending two completely different musical cultures and creating something truly beautiful and entirely new. SARAH FIELD Saxophone and Tickets: Full £15 / Concessions £10 BEN DAWSON Piano SUPPORTED BY CANTERBURY ARTS COUNCIL GABRIEL JACKSON Coral Sea SNOWDOWN COLLIERY MALE VOICE CHOIR DARIUS MILHAUD Scaramouche Silver Song mornings at Eastry Court, Aylesham : 6th September, 4th

BEN DAWSON New Composition October, 1st November, 6th December CONCERT DATES : RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT Country Sat. 13 Sept. St. Radigund's Church, Capel-le-Ferne, A Church Dances Fundraiser. Tickets: 01303 251403 Sat. 27 Sept. Lyminge Methodist Church, A Church Fundraiser. Saturday, 20 Sep 2014, 7.30pm TAKASHI YOSHIMASTU Fuzzy Bird Tickets: 01303 863049 Tickets: £ 12. Full Time Sonata Sat. 11 Oct. St. Nicholas' Church, Ash. For a Parkinson's Disease

Students Half Price, Under 16s Charity. Tickets: 01304 812970

Free Sat. 8 Nov. Northgate Community Centre, Canterbury, A Community Event. Tickets:01227 456611 John Lenehan Piano, Sarah-Jane Fri. 19 Dec. Our Christmas Concert with Snowdown Band. Venue Bradley Viola and Emma TBD. Tickets: 07515 027912. Johnson Clarinet - Concert JOHN LENEHAN Piano, SOUNDS NEW SARAH-JANE BRADLEY Viola See website for programme – www.soundsnew.org EMMA JOHNSON Clarinet

THE HUNDRED Wednesday 22 Oct 2014 Saturday 25 Oct 2014, 7pm for 8pm 7.30pm Tickets £18 Wednesday, 29 October, 7.30pm GWILYM SIMCOCK Piano, NORMA WINSTONE Vocals

An innovation this year is entering the world of crossover jazz. The gifted pianist Gwilym Simcock is joined by the vocalist Norma Winstone.

Single Tickets £18.00, Full Time Canterbury Festival Concert Students Half Price, Under 16s Free (booked in advance) 22 November, 7.30pm Divertimento Piano Trio – Concert. Ticket Information: £12

MUSIC FOR CHANGE 12 October, 7.30pm Gulbenkian Theatre Music for Change presents a unique collaboration between two world-class musicians; Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita. Winners of the fRoots Album Of The Year 2013, nominated for two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and featured in Songlines Magazine’s top ten albums of 2013, the sky is the limit for this pair of virtuoso musicians whose ‘heavenly music…intricately realised’ (Songlines) merges the boundaries between the genres of classical, world, folk and traditional music.

WHITSTABLE CHORAL SOCIETY Saturday 15 November 2014 at 7.30pm Autumn Concert 2014 Gounod – St Cecilia Mass Pergolesi – Magnificat Venue – Herne Bay High School Directed by David Flood The harp occupies a vital place in the incredibly rich cultures of both West Tickets prices: £12.00 for Adults and £8.00 for children and students.

Saturday 13 December 2014 delivers them using physical theatre and spine-chilling storytelling technique. Christmas Carol Concert This uniquely creepy show takes the audience further into a world of St Alphege Church, High Street, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AY darkness and lost souls and will have you looking over your shoulders for at 7.30pm days to come! Suitable for Ages 12+ Tickets: Adults £12, Concessions £10. Groups of 8+ £8 Conductor – David Flood Organist – David Newsholme Extensive parking in Middle Wall car park, within 5 minutes’ walk of St Sunday 21st December 3pm Alphege Church. ‘SANTA'S TICKLY TALE’ presented by Whizz Bang The audience will be invited to sing a number of the most well-known and Pop Theatre (visit website) traditional carols with the choir. Carol books will be made available to the audience before the concert. “It's 2 days before Christmas and Santa seems to Children in the audience will be invited to perform “Away in a Manger” have gone missing. The Feathered Phantom is trying under David Flood’s personal direction. to ruin the big day and Mrs Claus has to work with Afterwards, every child will receive a small reward for their glorious the children to stop the big baddie in his tracks” contribution to the evening. A fun filled hour of songs, dances, chases and This concert is a wonderful mixture of choral and well known seasonal music merriment with a very happy ending. appealing to the whole family – a tradition in the Whitstable calendar. Ticket Prices: £7.50 Adults – £5.00 Children Under 12 – No concessions Tickets: Adults £7.50 Children £5 suitable for 3 - 11yrs. Tickets available at the door or from: Refreshments & snacks available. CANTERBURY TICKET SHOP Online – canterburyticketshop The Canterbury Ticket Shop sells tickets for events in many venues By phone – 01227 787787 or call at the Marlowe Theatre Box Office throughout the year. Visit their website opposite for more The Friars, Canterbury Kent CT1 2AS information

Gatefield Sounds shops: 70 High Street, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1BB – Phone 01227 263337. LINDLEY PLAYERS 163 High Street, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 5AQ – Phone 01227 374759. Whitstable Playhouse Theatre www.playhousewhitstable.co.uk See: www.whitstablechoral.org.uk. Sylvia Greg and Kate have been married for

twenty odd years, their lives have DRAMA AND DANCE changed, the children have left home and they have moved back from the suburbs to Manhattan and city life. They are CANTERBURY PLAYERS reacting to their new lives in very different ways. Kate is excited at the Thu 06th Nov - 19:30pm prospect of her career finally taking off. Fri 07th Nov - 19:30pm Greg however is having a “male Sat 08th Nov - 19:30pm menopausal” moment and is finding his The House of Bernarda Alba. job deeply unsatisfying.

Tickets: Full £12/ GulbCard and Canterbury Along comes Sylvia, a vivacious stray dog Players Members £10 / Schools and Greg finds in the park (or perhaps she Concessions £7 finds him) on an afternoon when he should be at work. His life takes on new Venue: Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 meaning. He takes Sylvia home to the Box Office: 01227 769075 September - 7.45pm smart New York apartment where he and

Kate live. Kate is less than enthralled by The House of Bernarda Alba, by Spanish playwright Lorca, is a fantastic Tickets Sylvia and demands that Greg gets rid of piece of theatre. Lean and to the point, with not a single word wasted, this £8 | £9 | £10B the dog, but Greg is smitten. Sylvia plays powerful play drives to a tragic conclusion with speed and intensity. Book onlline up to him for all she is worth, delighted to As the Alba household enters a lengthy period of mourning following the find a new home. Kate’s place in Greg’s death of Bernarda’s husband, the tyrannical Bernarda tightens her affections is threatened and she controlling grip upon everyone and everything within it. Bernarda’s five determines to get rid of Sylvia. Who will adult daughters and her aged mother live entombed in a sterile, joyless Greg chose? home where her rule is law. With most of the local men deemed unworthy Thursday 23 - Friday 24 October - 7.45pm of Bernarda’s daughters, the young women seem doomed to enter middle DNA age with no romance, no sex and no children of their own. When Angustias Tickets £5 book online becomes engaged to Pepe, this stirs up destructive passions within the A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and family. Bernarda’s servant Poncia tries to open her eyes to the unhappiness cover the whole thing up. But when they find that their cover-up unites she is creating, but Bernarda refuses to see and tragedy ensues. them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where is the incentive to put things right. Buy tickets for Gulbenkian Theatre online from Written by Dennis Kelly for the 2007 National Theatre Connections http://www.canterburyticketshop.com/ Festival, he wrote DeoxyriboNucleic Acid (better known by the title DNA) which after the connections received a professional production. CHARLTON PARK FOUNDATION The play is now used widely in schools and is on several curriculums for GCSE drama. Fri 31st October & SAT 1st November, 7:30pm STILL THE BEATING OF MY HEART – Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 November - 7.45pm by Theatrical Niche (visit website) Humble Boy Tickets £8 | £9 | £10 Classic Ghost Stories retold & adapted by Alice Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones is a comedy about broken vows, failed Knapton & Venetia Twigg. hopes and the joys of bee-keeping. Ghost stories with a difference. Theatrical Niche Felix Humble has come home after the sudden death of his “bee- takes the ghouls and ghosties from the foremost keeping” father. However, relations with his Mother are not good and storytellers of all time - HG Wells, Bram Stoker & Edgar Allen Poe - and

get worse when she announces her marriage to old family friend UKC MUSICAL THEATRE SOCIETY George, the father of Felix’s old girlfriend, Rosie. September 1, 2014 - July 31, 2015 Simon Russell-Beale played Felix at the National before transferring to University of Kent Musical Theatre Society 2014-2015 UKCMTS is a the West End where the play was Winner of the Critics’ Circle Best New Play and the People’s Choice Best New Play Awards 2002, “Sad, very society at the University of Kent providing theatre opportunities sad; funny, very, very, funny... this is a seriously wonderful play.” – both on and off stage. Sunday Times Following the success of previous productions including RENT, HAIR and Sweet Charity, in 2015 we bring you CABARET at The Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 January - Gulbenkian Theatre, with details to follow shortly. 7.45pm The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury Email: [email protected] Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 January - Facebook: MTS - University of Kent Musical Theatre Society 7.45pm Twitter: UKCMTS Matinees: Sat 24, Sun 25 & Sat 31 January - 2.30pm VISUAL ARTS Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Panto Box Office Opens BEACH CREATIVE Saturday 6 December, 7am BEACH STREET, HERNE BAY, CT6 5JL Our opening hours are 10am - 4pm every day Written by Ben Crocker. When the Evil Queen discovers that she is about to be ousted as the "fairest CANTERBURY SOCIETY OF ART of them all" what is she to do? Saturday 18th October to Sunday 26th October Art Exhibition So sparks our funny and sometimes frightening ride through Ben Crocker's take on the timeless tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. St. Alphege Church, Canterbury during the Canterbury Festival. Cheer our heroine as she evades the Evil Queen's sinister plot, and boo the Open daily from 10am to 5pm. Free admission. Come and see an minions sent to do her bidding. Join Snow White as she escapes with the eclectic mix of original art at affordable prices. help of her friends, making new ones on her journey to true love. With Saturday 18th October 6 - 8pm PRIVATE VIEW - everyone is elements such as a Magic Mirror, a Poisoned Apple and a Teddy Bears' welcome. picnic, this year's storybook pantomime has got something for everyone. Be ready to laugh, boo, cheer and gasp at the story that is Snow White and CCCU - SIDNEY COOPER GALLERY the Seven Dwarfs. St Peters Street, Canterbury CT1 2BQ

Opening Hours: 10:30 am – 5 pm Tuesday – Friday PLAYTIME THEATRE COMPANY 11:30 am – 5 pm Saturday Workshop progamme Email:[email protected] Tel: 01227 453267 Workshops at the Horsebridge and www.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-cooper Arden theatre, plus schools touring for PTC. Two new commissioned plays - 6 - 20 September one by Essex CC - theme being to solve MAFAA Graduating a problem from 3 different religious Exhibition 2014 points of view / religions so Nick Champion (our artistic director) has This exhibition of five graduating written a play about the call to war, set students celebrates the end of during WW1 in Gallipoli, looking at the MAFAA programme. Their pacificism from a Quaker point of view, work involves a range of a Turkish muslim and a non-pacifist disciplines from painting, Christian stance. sculpture and installation, which address contemporary This tours Essex in October and is approaches to Fine Art, while then available for theatre and schools maintaining a belief in a hands to tour throughout 2014 -2015. on approach towards creativity Second piece of commissioned work is and the use of materials. for a road safety play to tour Oman, which as they don't have bicycles, 27 September – 1 November public transport, or even pavements, is quite a challenge!! With some John Copnall Paintings Our company with our new van, secured with a loan from the KCC adaptations we also hope to tour this The Sidney Cooper Gallery is loan scheme Expansion East Kent, play in the UK. proud to present a selection of on their latest tour to Europe. works by acclaimed painter John Copnall (1928-2007). Son of sculptor Bainbridge Copnall, John studied painting at the Sir John Cass College before enrolling at the Royal Academy in 1949. Later John became an influential John Copnall, Stripes (1971) Acrylic on lecturer and for many years Pictures from production of Bugsy Malone canvas, courtesy the artist’s estate taught at the Central School of Art Playtime Theatre also have a 2 week tour to Germany & Belgium In late September / early October, a tour to the UAE in November and another tour & Design and at the Canterbury College of Art. During this time he continued to Germany in December. All enquiries to [email protected]. to exhibit widely having solo shows at the ICA, Ikon gallery Birmingham and De la Warr Pavillion and was elected to The London Group in 1989. UNIVERSITY MUSIC AT UKC See website for details http://www.kent.ac.uk/music/whatson.html

Saturday 4th October HORSEBRIDGE ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE BIG DRAW 2014 Contact 01227 281174. Or See www.horsebridgecentre.org.uk The Big Draw gets COLOURED IN! Explore drawing and making through colour in our BIG DRAW workshop We all think we know about the SAS inspired by the amazing works of abstract painter John Copnall. 1-30 September don’t we? But do we? What is it? It’s hands-on and brimming with technicolour materials. Weave with paper, Who created it? What’s its history? draw with coloured tape and sculpt with card to create pieces that will My SAS Family arztip What famous people have been in become part of a huge, brightly coloured and textured collage. it? Who’s in it now? Where is it All materials will be provided, free and suitable for ages 5+ Mixed media based? How do you get in? Can you join? What’s the training like? Who pays for it? What does it do? Would Lecture Series you recognise it if you saw it? Come 13th October, 5 - 7pm, £6 Colour Theory: Monday along and find out more during 20th October, 5 - 7pm, £6 Organic Abstraction: Monday September you may get a chance to Monday 3rd November, 5 - 7pm, £6 Geometric Abstraction question the man in the balaclava if Tuesday 25th November, 5 - 7pm, £6 Art and War you can find him that is!

Mum’s the word, say nothing to no Saturday 18th October, Saturday 25th October and Saturday 1st one!

November, 10.30am - 4pm, £160 / £130 concessions 3-9 September Workshops: Radical Painting A Viewpoint

Abstract Formalism, the radical, super-simplified abstract painting style of Recent Work by Three Local Artists British Artists like John Copnall and, among others, John Hoyland, Gillian Ayres and John Maclean, was characterized by a rigorously reductive Paintings offering a contemporary approach - the central question seems to have been ‘what can we get rid of response to the light and shapes of our next?’ - but, for some viewers at least, it produced paintings joyous in their coastal environment, alongside David Lewis, Colin Whitaker, freedom, paintings like visual music, liberated from tradition and the sculptures that explore the thinking Weaver constraints of the past. behind our seeing. Paintings, sculpture 10-16 September Charles Williams, painter, writer and lecturer on the Fine and Applied Art Counterpoint degree at CCCU, will lead a three day workshop exploring the principles of Ron Freeman three important influences that shaped British Abstract Formalism; Joseph Oil Paintings Albers' work on colour at the Black Mountain College in the USA, Basic Latest paintings by Ron Freeman Design, and the Bauhaus, as well as looking at the art historical context in a www.ronfreeman.co.uk more general way. The sessions will take place in the Painting Studios in the 10-23 September Sidney Cooper Centre, behind the Sidney Cooper Gallery. Expect to be Vintage Aircraft Furniture challenged. Drawing on both civilian and Vintage Aircraft Furniture returns to military inspiration, Vintage the Horsebridge after a very successful Aircraft Furniture designs and 12th November - 17th December show last year. creates high quality home Remembering, we Forget; Poets, Historic and Vinatge Aircraft Parts furniture using original and Artists and the First World War. authentic aeroplane parts. The designs cover a range of wall- This exhibition has been structured mounted plane art and unique round key poems of the First World one-off designer pieces of art War, by poets such as Vera Brittain, Ivor and furniture. As a UK-based Gurney, David Jones and Siegfried company we create sculptures Sassoon. Alongside these, contemporary and exciting furniture items that artists respond to the First World War, not only enhance any living and specifically to its memorialisation, space but also pay tribute to the from the distance of 100 years. engineering that goes into this great age of aviation. Saturday 15 November, Saturday 22 November and Saturday 29 November, 10.30am - 4pm, £160 / £130 concessions 24-30 September Drawing Days at the Sidney Cooper Gallery with Roy Eastland Crossing Places

Roy Eastland (exhibiting artist) will lead a workshop focusing on Life Drawing as a way to explore the act of Drawing. Part of the session will include a discussion about his approach to the Art of Drawing and about his work in Ashford Visual Artists the current exhibition. The Drawing session will include a mix of short Soundtracks, neon, film, drawing exercises as well as a series of longer drawings. He will show a printmaking, drawing, paint number of his sketchbooks. The sessions will take place in the Painting 'Crossing Places' by members of Ashford Visual Artists. An investigation into Studios in the Sidney Cooper Centre, behind the Sidney Cooper Gallery. how Crossing Places affect our way of life and philosophy: Are some boundaries too difficult to cross? Is uncertainty created by change? Are memories being transposed? Is a birdcage a reminder of times gone by? From soundtracks to neon, film to printmaking, drawing to paint, 2D to 3D. CT6 CONTEMPORARY ART GROUP This eclectic mix has something for everyone. November/ December: Following on from last year's Xmas Pop Up Shop, we decided to have another one at the Bay Art Gallery - all showcasing the work from the CT6 Contemporary Art Group. Hope to see you there!

24-30 September ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION Paul Mitchell & Nina Shilling For all events apply to Dr Valerie Ainscough 01227 471180, [email protected] Acrylics, Drawing and Mixed Media This is a joint exhibition of our most current work which will include mixed HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: CANTERBURY BRANCH media, urban and street paintings, [email protected] Tel: 01227 750576 landscapes and drawings. There will Talks are open to the public and are free to HA members, associate www.ninashillingartist.co.uk be a huge variety of themes explored members and students; non-members £3 per meeting. Associate www.paulmitchellartist.co.uk in a showcase of our eclectic membership of the branch is £10 per year. For further details of inspirations. events, please contact [email protected] or 01227 750576 or 01227 768131 THE LITTLEBOURNE ART GROUP Thursday 25 September 2014 Committee Meeting Friday 12th September CALL FOR ART WORK 4.30pm Kent College, Room H1, Canterbury, CT2 9DT For ANNUAL OPEN ART SHOW in THE LITTLEBOURNE to be held on Thursday 9 October 2014 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 13 & 14 September Heritage weekend 6.15 pm Canterbury Christ Church University, Room Og32, Old Artists are asked to bring works to the Littlebourne Barn between Sessions House, Longport CT1 1PL the hours of 10 am & 6 pm. There is no restriction on size or followed by:- number we have the space and sculpture would be most Placing women in the landscape: the works of Lady Anne Clifford in appreciated. There is no entry fee, but 20% will be deducted on 'the lands of mine inheritance’ sales which will be divided between The Art Group & The Barn. 7.00pm Canterbury Christ Church University, Og32, Old Sessions Collection will be after 4pm on Sunday 14th. Enquiries to: Wendy House, CT1 1PL Blanchet on 01227 721 632. Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, University of Kent 13 and 14 SEPTEMBER Tuesday 11 November 2014 6th Form DEBATE Topic:- What does THE LITTLEBOURNE BARN Magna Carta Mean to me? (A heat in the HA national debate) Open daily 10 am- 4 pm. Free entry . Come & see our magnificent 7.00pm King’s School Canterbury, Gateway Chamber, St 14th century thatched Barn, browse & buy from the Open Art Augustine’s, Lady Wootton’s Green, CT1 1NG Exhibition and try the delicious home-made refreshments in the Thursday 13 November 2014 English Medieval Shrines Barn Pantry. There will also be a grand raffle and viewing of The 7.00pm Darwin Lecture Theatre 1, University of Kent, CT2 7NY Littlebourne Giant. All visitors welcome. Enquiries to Wendy Dr John Crook, FSA Blanchet on 01227 721 632 . Thursday 4 December 2014 A Brief History of God Sunday 30th November from 11 am – 3 pm. Christmas Market Free 7.00pm Kent College, Old Library, CT2 9DT Professor John Butler entry to this historic Barn with its seasonal atmosphere, colourful stalls, home-made refreshments including mince-pies & mulled wine KENT ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE and a grand raffle. Please come and enjoy the Christmas festivities. Many Arts courses including Silversmithing, Oil and acrylic painting, Stall-holders can apply to Jackie Payne on 01227 721 716. Enquiries Life drawing and many more. For more information and to see the to Wendy Blanchet on 721 632 full course programme for Canterbury call 0845 606 5606 or visit https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/pages/courses/SearchResult PERRYWOOD ARTS s.aspx?keywords=&locations=Canterbury 26 October to 1 November 2014, 11am to 4pm Daily or visit Canterbury Adult Education Centre, Knight Avenue, ART IN THE BARN Canterbury, Kent CT2 8QA As part of Canterbury Festival we will be showing artworks both individual and diverse. WHITLIT www.whitlit.co.uk Visitors also have the opportunity to help Friday 12 September 2014 7:30pm create a large mobile Barn Kathy Lette Owl. Doors/Bar: 7:00pm Venue: The Barn, Foxhill Tickets: £10 advance | £12 door Stud, Oversland, WhitLit is delighted to announce its first Boughton under Blean, 'WhitLit @ The Horsebridge' fundraiser Faversham ME13 9PF featuring bestselling author, journalist and This is a free event. commentator Kathy Lette. Kathy will be in conversation with Jane Wenham Jones

discussing her hilarious new novel 'Courting

Trouble'. Please come and support us - all proceeds will go to the Horsebridge Centre OTHERS and the WhitLit festival funds. CANTERBURY CERAMIC CIRCLE Do come along and try us out. Please ring me, Dr Virginia Webb on 01227- 452563 with any queries, or just come along.

CANTERBURY COMMEMORATION SOCIETY Thursday 7 August 7.30pm Kent and Canterbury Club no. 17 Old Dover Road Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh (Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University) Nurturing Local Arts Since 1967 'Pilgrimage at the time of Geoffrey Chaucer' ALL WELCOME

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AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS

Member Name Main Contact Telephone Email Address Website Address

Bay Art Gallery M Troughton 01227 372266 [email protected] www.bayartgallery.org.uk Beach Creative Community Interest M Broughton 0300 111 1913 Company [email protected] www.beachcreativecic.co.uk

Cantemus Mr A Moore 01303 210037 [email protected] www.cantemus.org.uk

Canterbury Historical and Miss G Wyatt 01843 294452 [email protected] www.canterbury-archaelogy.org.uk Archaeological Society Canterbury Ceramic Circle Dr V Webb 01227 452563 [email protected]

Canterbury Chamber Choir Tony Eldridge 01227 731293 [email protected] www.canterburychamberchoir.org.uk Canterbury Choral Society Mr T Meire 01622 607436 [email protected] www.canterburychoral.co.uk Canterbury Classical Guitar Society Mr J Kemp 01227 265503 [email protected] [email protected] Canterbury Commemoration Society Mr Michael Steed 01227 470837 [email protected] Canterbury Gregorian Music Society Miss H Nattrass 01227 459727 [email protected] www.gregoriansociety.org Canterbury Music Club Mr P Burton 01227 462029 [email protected] www.canterburymusicclub.com Canterbury Music Makers Mrs V Da Costa 01843 847213 [email protected] Canterbury Musicians Mr I Carmalt 01227 762547 [email protected] www.e- canterbury.co.uk/organizations.php?id+91&area

Canterbury Operatic Society Anne Stevenson 01227 711703 [email protected] www.canterburyoperatic.co.uk Canterbury Orchestra Dr E Harris 01227 728152 [email protected] www.canterburyorchestra.org.uk Canterbury Photographic Society Richard Hunt 01227 792981 [email protected] www.canterburyphotographicsociety.com

Canterbury Players Sarah Gooch 01227 [email protected] www.thecanterburyplayers.co.uk Canterbury Recorded Music Society Mrs J Bolton 01227 275603 [email protected] www.thefrms.co.uk/affprogs/canterburyrms Canterbury Singers Elizabeth Jenkins 01795 536778 [email protected] www.canterburysingers.com/ Canterbury Society of Art Mrs W Child 01227 371877 [email protected] Canterbury Three Cities Association Mary Hodgson 01227 769785 [email protected] www.canterbury.gov.uk Canterbury Vocals Kerry Boyle 07530 929821 [email protected] www,canterburyvocals.co.uk

Cantium Brass Mrs B Goold 01304 380332 [email protected] www.cantiumbrass.co.uk CCCU Music Dept. Sophie Hosking 01227 767700 [email protected] www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/music

Charlton Park Foundation Mrs G Twigg 01227 831355 [email protected] www.charltonpark.com Christian Art Mr M Hannah 01227 464906 City of Canterbury Brass Band Mr M Wadey 01227 700526 [email protected] Crowther Wind Quintet Mr I Crowther 01227 763965 [email protected] www.crowthersofcanterbury.co.uk CT6 Contemporary Art Group Mrs M Troughton 01227 372266 [email protected] www.ct6arts.co.uk Dawn Chorus Recording Company Mr J Magill 07970 046668 [email protected] Dickens Fellowship, Canterbury Mr J Ingram 01227 472589 www.dickensfellowship.org

Dolce Singers Mrs L Edwards www.dolcesingers.co.uk East Bridge Chorale Geraldine Wyant 01227 721319 [email protected] www.eastbridgechorale.com/ English-Speaking Union (Canterbury Dr V Ainscough 01227 471180 [email protected] www.esu.org & East Kent) Folk in the Barn Mrs D Earl 01227 831493 [email protected] www.folkinthebarn.co.uk

Friends of Canterbury Festival Mrs S Martell 01227 452853 [email protected] www.canterburyfestival.co.uk Herne Bay Arts Group Mrs P Hollands 01227 364947 [email protected] Herne Bay Muisical Theatre Society L McCann 01227 361146 hbmts.co.uk Herne Bay Organ & Keyboard Club Mr P Sweet 01227 371591 [email protected] www.organfax.co.uk/clubs/hernebay Historical Association - Canterbury Jean Gray 01227 750576 [email protected] Branch Horsebridge Arts & Community Liz Daone 01227 281174 [email protected] www.horsebridge-centre.org.uk Centre Invicta Concert Band Mrs L Dack 01622 858179 [email protected] Kent Adult Education Abigail Levitt 01227 592710 [email protected] www.kentadulteducation.co.uk Kent Competitive Festival (Singing & Mrs S Rooke 01227464668 [email protected] Instrumental) Kent Piano Festival Mrs S Rooke 01227464668 [email protected] www.kentfestival.org Kent Youth Dance Lesley Cox 01227 365013 [email protected] www.kentyouthdance.co.uk Kent Youth Theatre Mr R Andrews 01227 730177 [email protected] www.kentyouththeatre.co.uk Lees Court Music Mrs J Norford 01227 368679 [email protected] http://www.leescourtmusic.co.uk/ Lindley Players Mr H Lee 01227 275959 [email protected] Littlebourne Art Group Mrs W Blanchet 01227 721632 [email protected] Littlebourne Barn Committee Mrs W Blanchet 01227 721632 [email protected] www.littlebournebarn.co.uk Mock Tudor Band Mrs Jean Starke 01227 367383 [email protected] www.mocktudorband.co.uk Music at St Peters Mrs J Devenish 01227 456359 [email protected] www.musicatstpeters.org.uk Music for Change Rosie Escott 01227 459243 [email protected] www.musicforchange.org Musical Theatre Society - University Jess Moloney [email protected] www.kentunion.co.uk/societies/musicaltheatre of Kent Oyster Morris Mrs M Darby 01227 450580 [email protected] www.oystermorris.org.uk Perrywood Arts Sally Higgs 07835706197 [email protected] www.perrywoodarts.co.uk Phoenix Performing Arts Sophie Guariglia 07968367397 [email protected] www.phoenixperformingarts.co.uk Playmakers (Herne Bay Little Theatre) Ms J Challis 01227 361255 www.playmakers.co.uk Playtime Theatre Company Ms S Kettlewell 01227 266272 [email protected] www.playtimetheatre.co.uk Quodlibet Mrs J Farrell 01227 766301 [email protected] Saveas Writers’ Group Luigi Marchini [email protected] Sidney Cooper Gallery Harriet Gifford 01227 453267 [email protected] www.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-cooper Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir Margaret Hanlon 01233 732684 [email protected] www.snowdown-choir.co.uk Sounds New Ms M Castelletti 01227 780800 [email protected] www.soundsnew.org.uk South East Dance Rowena Price 01273 645264 [email protected] www.southeastdance.org.uk

Strode Park Foundation T Burden 01227 373292 [email protected] www.strodepark.org.uk The Hundred Matt Kingsland [email protected] The Really Promising Company Christel Moor 01227 458892 [email protected] www.reallypromisingcompany.org.uk Theatrecraft Mrs C Railton 01227 365882 [email protected] www.theatrecraft.org.uk Whitstable Art Society Mr G Lewns 01227 751727 [email protected] www.whitstableartsociety.co.uk Whitstable Brass S Holness 01227 266248 [email protected] www.whitstablebrass.co.uk Whitstable Choral Society Mr C Potts [email protected] www.whitstablechoral.org.uk Whitstable Community Samba Band Ms S Grogan [email protected] www.sambapelomar.com Whitstable Music Society Mr J Walker 01843 853790 [email protected] www.whitstablemusicsociety.org.uk World Education Development Group Ms C Tagart 01227 766552 [email protected] www.wedg.org.uk YearOne, The Gallery Project J Farnham 07702188990 [email protected]

The next edition of Arts Events January 2015 to cover the period to April 2015. Deadline for submitting material is December 15th 2014 Please send copy to: [email protected] or [email protected] Or Linda Jordan, The Old Rectory, Ashford Road, Chartham Canterbury Kent CT4 7HS or Tel: 01227 818547