Leytonstone Festival 2011 14-24 July 2011leytonstone festival Welcome to the 2011 Leytonstone Festival. We have a fine selection of high quality events, often showcasing local talent, and covering comedy, dance, drama, film, literature, music, and poetry. For news of any late changes to the programme, please check our website www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk Enjoy the Festival, and a warm thanks to everybody who makes it happen, especially our funders - London Borough of Waltham Forest and the Leytonstone Community Council. Nick Tiratsoo (Chair, Leytonstone Festival Association 2010-11) Thursday 14 July Lunchtime Concert Returning to the Festival by popular demand, Meridian Opera present staged scenes from popular operas and operettas by Mozart, Offenbach, Gilbert and Sullivan, and more. Time 13.00-14.00 Location St John’s Church Entrance Free, with retiring collection Website www.stjohns-leytonstone.org.uk; www.facebook.com/MeridianOperaPage Deep Green Delights A vibrant evening of deep green entertainment organised by E11 Eco, Transition Leytonstone’s ecopoetry performance group. Guests include ceilidh band Green Kite Midnight, slam poet Danny Chivers, and soprano Deborah Fink. Time 19.30-21.30 Location Leytonstone Library Entrance £2 Website http://on.fb.me/kzOd9B www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk 3 Thursday 14 July Curry and Quiz Night Your chance to become Festival Mastermind! The evening starts at 19.30 and includes a quiz, prizes, and a delicious buffet. Entrance is £10 per person for tables of four or six. Time 19.30-23.00 Location The Star of India Entrance £10 per person Website www.star-of-india.co.uk The Dirty Beggars ‘The Dirty Beggars are from Central Scotland, but with the music of the Appalachians running in their blood. Five boys born in the wrong country, the band’s brand of down and dirty bluegrass has been electrifying crowds all over the UK, with a first studio album due this summer’. Time 20.00-22.00 Location The North Star Entrance Free, with bucket collection Website www.myspace.com/thedirtybeggars1 4 www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk Friday 15 July An Olympiad of Sweet Sounds In the run-up to the Festival, the Mornington Trust in partnership with Lontano (Waltham Forest’s own professional contemporary music ensemble) have been working with pupils from Jenny Hammond Primary School and Buxton Primary Phase to produce original music inspired by the forthcoming 2012 Games. Tonight sees the culmination of this unique project, a one-off public performance which is guaranteed to captivate and excite. Time 18.15-19.15 Location The Epicentre Entrance Free Website www.lontano.co.uk Mr Will Gaines, plus Sabor Flamenco Where there’s a Will, there’s tap! Legendary jazz hoofer Will Gaines returns to the Festival for an evening of hot jazz and cool rhythms. Joining him are Brett Jones and Jacky Pert, while Sabor Flamenco open the show. Time 19.30-22.30 Location Leytonstone Social Club Entrance £3 Website www.ukjtd.force9.co.uk/ JazzTapUK/willg.htm www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk 5 Friday 15 July Lost Horizons @ The Leytonstone Festival Lost Horizons, Leytonstone’s new folk and acoustic club, presents singer-songwriter Robb Johnson (‘An English original’ - The Guardian), Bow & Bellows (‘a stunningly versatile violin, horn and accordion duo, playing their own compelling arrangements of Klezmer, Balkan and Gypsy music’), and na-mara (‘the bards of the Celtic world’), supported by resident artists Steve O’Donoghue, Will O’Donoghue, James O’Hara-Knight, Louis Gilman, and George Gilman. Time 19.30-Late Location The Sheepwalk Entrance Free, with bucket collection Website www.losthorizonsfolkclub.btck.co.uk; www.robbjohnson.co.uk; www.bowandbellows.co.uk; www.na-mara.com 6 www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk Saturday 16 July St John’s Church Open Day Come and see the newly restored church, and enjoy, amongst other things, a free exhibition featuring the work of internationally famous wood engraver Peter Smith (commissioned to produce 100 prints of the restoration work); St John’s Photography Group’s unique record of how the church changed as the building work proceeded; access to the bell tower; a wide range of music; and enticing refreshments. Time 10.00-16.00 Location St John’s Church Entrance Free Website www.stjohns-leytonstone.org.uk The Leytonstone Muslim Community Centre’s Family Fun Day Fast becoming a Festival favourite, the Leytonstone Muslim Community Centre’s Family Fun Day this year features a rodeo bull, bouncy castles, henna painting, stalls, food, and lots more. Time 10.00-18.00 Location Pastures Youth Centre Entrance Free Website www.leytonstonemuslim.co.uk www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk 7 Saturday 16 July A leisurely walk round the Leytonstone Arts Trail On the final day of the Leytonstone Arts Trail, Bill Measure of the Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society leads a leisurely walk round its constituent sites, stopping off to admire and discuss the various entries. Time 11.00-12.30 Location Meet at Leytonstone Underground Station, Church Lane entrance Entrance Free Website www.leytonstoneartstrail.org ‘Leytonstone Life’ Photo Exhibition The annual Ferndale Area Residents Association photo competition focuses on ‘Leytonstone Life’.Entry is open to anyone who lives, studies, or works in the area; the 2011 themes are ‘Active’,‘Green’,and ‘Old and New’; and there are adult and junior prizes in each category. The Association’s website has further details, and this exhibition displays all the photos entered. Time 11.00-17.00 Location Davies Lane Primary School Entrance Free Website www.fara-leytonstone.org.uk/photo-competition Family Values The Aspire Fathers Project invites fathers, children, and mothers, to a fun and friendly workshop on cameras of every shape and form, in order to explore how to take a more professional picture. Plus there is a special competition for those aged 5 to 16, with a voucher prize. For further information, ring 07929 738 277. Time 12.00-16.00 Location CBHA Meeting Room (access at rear of offices, using car park) Entrance Free Website www.fathersproject.org 8 www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk Saturday 16 July E17 Designers Market This ever popular event features a selection of designer makers, selling hand-made goods including jewellery, children’s wear, accessories for the home, and art prints, plus Suzie’s Kitchen, and music from DJ SiSamo and The Singing Room. Time 14.00-18.00 Location Leytonstone Library Entrance £1 (includes a drink and the chance to win a goody bag) Website www.e17designers.co.uk The Sound of the Gong ‘Experience an amazing "gong bath". Just lie back and allow the sounds of the gongs to wash over you and resonate through you. A massage with sound, tuning you to the greatest possible resonance’. Time 15.00 and 16.00 Location The Quaker Meeting House Entrance Donations welcomed Website www.beingsound.com www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk 9 Saturday 16 July Blackhorse and Standard Women’s Morris Dance ‘Come and see the merry Morris dancers of Old England’ Time 15.30-16.15 Location St John’s Churchyard Entrance Free Website http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Morris_dance Only Madmen Change the World ‘Who is mad? And how sane are the people who run this world? Come and have a think, a laugh, a glass of something, and a song. Hear some sanity-making music and poems by a line-up of local talent. Floor spots welcome. Enquiries: 0208 555 5248’. Time 19.30-21.30 Location The Quaker Meeting House Entrance Free, donations welcomed. Arias and duets from Aida Vision Opera is based in East London and aims to include all sectors of the community in the exciting, energetic, fun world of opera. Tonight’s performance is a concert version of Aida, Verdi’s wonderful masterpiece set in Egypt, featuring love, war, jealousy, and pyramids. Time 19.30-21.00 Location Leytonstone United Free Church Entrance £5 Website www.visionopera.org; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Aida era.org 10 www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk Sunday 17 July Thanksgiving Service at St John’s St John’s has given great support to the Leytonstone Festival over the years, and as a gesture of gratitude we commend this service which gives thanksgiving for the restoration of the church, and is addressed by the Archdeacon of West Ham, the Ven. Elwin Cockett. Time 10.30-11.30 Location St John’s Church Entrance Free Website www.stjohns-leytonstone.org.uk The Alfred Hitchcock Cycle Ride Organised by the Waltham Forest Cycling Campaign, this is a circular tour round early film production facilities in Walthamstow, ex-cinema buildings in Walthamstow, Leyton, and Leytonstone, and sites particularly associated with Alfred Hitchcock. There will be a number of stops, and the pace will be easy, so all you need is your bike and , if it’s hot, a drop of water. Time Meet from 10.45, ride 11.00-13.00 Location Meet at Leytonstone Underground Station, Church Lane entrance Entrance Free Website www.wfcycling.org.uk; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock A celebration of Irish Culture Irish Culture at its very best, with old school food, live music from traditional dance band Raggle Taggle, and of course Guinness. Time 15.00-23.00 Location The Plough and Harrow Entrance Free www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk 11 Sunday 17 July Poetry Cafe Leytonstone poet Julie Stephenson’s Poetry Cafe is an informal get together, with two poetry readers and refreshments, aimed at sharing, reflecting, and networking, in order to strengthen the local grassroots poetry scene. Time 17.00-19.00 Location Sun Way Cafe Entrance Free Suitcase ‘So we’ve got no information on him, we don’t know his name, anything about his past...only that he is from New York...But we have got ears and there are four songs on his MySpace from which to draw conclusions.