2019 24 MAY – 9 JUNE 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk | 01722 320333 2 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 3 WELCOME TO THE 2019 SALISBURY JONATHAN DOVE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL GUEST FESTIVAL DIRECTOR In 1973, the first Festival blazed into life with a thrilling artistic programme that Salisbury has always been a significant part of my cultural captured the hearts and minds of the City. Since then, successive inspirational landscape. My career as a full-time professional composer Festival Directors have built upon that original offer ensuring that, for two weeks began here 30 years ago, when I was invited to be Musician every year, the buildings, streets and open spaces of Salisbury have been alive in Residence at the 1989 Salisbury Festival. From my lodgings in the Cathedral Close, I marvelled at the range and with creativity and artistic excellence. quality of all the events in the Festival. I went on to write This year the Festival enters a new stage in its evolution as part of Wiltshire further works for Salisbury over the years. So it feels both Creative and we are delighted to welcome one of Britain’s finest contemporary natural and exciting to be Guest Festival Director for the composers, Jonathan Dove, as our Guest Festival Director in the year of his 2019 Salisbury International Arts Festival, working with the Wiltshire Creative team to bring excitement and inspiration 60th birthday. of all kinds to Salisbury and beyond. As you delve into the programme, you will discover that new strands, such as This year is the anniversary of two events of global A Festival of Ideas, sit alongside familiar patterns of work. significance, which are reflected in the Festival. It is 30 years since revolutions across Eastern Europe led to the fall of We hope you find much here to enjoy and look forward to welcoming you to an the Berlin Wall. Artists behind the Iron Curtain often found event very soon. themselves in conflict with the authorities, as one of our visiting artists will testify, and yet created music of haunting Gareth Machin Sebastian Warrack beauty even under oppression. Artistic Director, Wiltshire Creative Executive Director, Wiltshire Creative Perhaps an even more momentous milestone: it is 50 years since man first landed on the moon, the climax of the Space Race that brought in its wake undreamed-of technological 1969 1989 2019 advances. Artists have long been fascinated by the moon, but photos from the Apollo missions also gave us a new image of ourselves floating in the void on a tiny, fragile blue planet: a revolution in human consciousness. Throughout the Festival, a stunning installation in the cathedral lets us see the earth as only astronauts have seen it. We meet the writer who talked to the men who stood on the moon, see films capturing the excitement and wonder of space exploration, and hear the music it inspired, from the Moonlight Sonata to Earthrise and The Planets. All this alongside a huge array of jazz, flamenco, street- theatre and comedy, walks and talks, with up to a dozen events each day. It’s going to be a mind-expanding Festival! Agencja Fotograficzna Caro / Alamy Jonathan Dove JOIN THE CONVERSATION @SalisburyFest #SalisburyFest19 Salisbury International Arts Festival @salisburyfestival 4 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 5 VISUAL ARTS Tickertape Parade. Photo: Emma Jones Tickertape Gaia at Natural History Natural Gaia at Museum, 2018 CITY ENCOUNTERS Kindly supported by FREE theatre, music, dance and circus in the streets of Salisbury Sunday 26 May & Monday 27 May Salisbury City Centre FREE Performers include… Apocalyptic Circus – an exciting theatre show for families, inside a free-standing structure. Joss Arnott Dance – technically-charged choreography. Newton’s Ladder – an exhilarating aerial display. Spitz & Co. – glamorous French actress Gloria Delaneuf presents her one-woman version of Les Mis! Stopgap Dance Company – an explosive piece of colour and diversity where individuality is joyously celebrated. Tickertape Parade – a glitter-filled drag show for families. See website or pick up a leaflet during May for details of where to see these FREE events. Photo: George Orange (Man on the Moon) VISUAL ARTS GAIA By Luke Jerram Salisbury Cathedral, throughout the Festival Central to the Festival and measuring seven metres in diameter, Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the earth’s surface. The installation provides an opportunity to see our planet on this scale, floating above our heads in Salisbury Cathedral. FAMILY FIESTA AT BEMERTON HEATH This incredible sculpture is presented with a specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award- Saturday 25 May | 11am–4pm winning Composer Dan Jones. Bemerton Heath FREE Gaia has been created in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Bluedot and the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres. Salisbury International Arts Festival comes to Bemerton Heath with this fun day for all the family, Sponsored by celebrating Wiltshire Creative’s year round partnership as a cultural hub. Enjoy performance, live music and the chance to try new things. There will be a broad range of participatory arts activities to have a go at and shows to see throughout the day. 6 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 Tickets 01722 320333 | 7 VISUAL ARTS Image: INSATIABLE MIND Image: Anna Shuttlewood Orbit 1 Salisbury Arts Centre Dowlatshahi 24 May–13 June Insatiable Mind is an exhibition inspired by human curiosity and the urge to challenge accepted norms. It features work from an international selection of artists – Oksana Chepelyk, Katayoun Dowlatshahi, Susan Eyre, Eunmi Mimi Kim, Lindy María Márquez Holguín, Niccolò Masini, and Sophia Sample. This year’s anniversaries of the Moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall provided the conceptual springboard for this exhibition which explores the past, the present, and the notion of leaving behind VISUAL ARTS the familiar in order to redirect the future. Produced by Wiltshire Creative. GEOMETRY OF THE SMILE Sponsored by Anna Shuttlewood & Diliana Nikolova Salisbury United Reformed Church VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS 1–9 June Exploring the ‘geometry laws’ of the smile in a TELL IT AS IT IS paradoxical, amusing and cheerful way. Locations around the city Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, community groups have been invited to share Museum Augustus John/The Salisbury c.1932 c. The Estate of Image: their hopes, challenges and dreams of our city through graffiti art. Large panels, displayed Lady Dorothea Head around Salisbury during the Festival, will reflect the lives and experiences of its residents. Produced by Wiltshire Creative. VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS STEAM EXHIBITION ALISON HARPER: WASTE, WANT AND OVERABUNDANCE Salisbury Library and Salisbury Arts Centre AUGUSTUS JOHN: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths Arundells Gallery, The Close | 25 May–11 June DRAWN FROM LIFE departments working across different media explore Based in Bath, Alison Harper’s recent PhD with the themes of curiosity and human endeavour. This The Salisbury Museum, The Close Practice explores issues of reparation around our exhibition encourages students to interrogate ‘What 18 May–29 September relationship with the material world. In diminishing would happen if…’ to allow their imaginations to run the imagined boundaries and barriers and suggesting free and creatively answer the questions that interest In partnership with Poole Museum, and co-curated a form of deep materialism, she is reassessing and them the most. with David Boyd Haycock, this exhibition of the art of readjusting our relationship with matter, leading to a Augustus John, one of the towering figures in British more caring and less harmful way to be in the world. art, looks in detail at his work, particularly in the Produced by Wiltshire Creative. decades between the two world wars. VISUAL ARTS 8 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2019 www.wiltshirecreative.co.ukTickets 01722 320333 | 9 FRIDAY 24 MAY Image: NASA MUSIC MOON SONGS part of Friday Afternoons Music Friday 24 May | 1.30pm–2.30pm Salisbury Cathedral FREE (no ticket required) Hundreds of school children from across the city will raise their voices to herald the start of the 2019 Festival in the magnificent setting of Salisbury Cathedral, in a joyful programme including the world premiere of Moon Songs especially written for the Festival by Guest Director Jonathan Dove and writer Alasdair Middleton. This lunchtime event is free and open to everyone (no ticket required). Audiences will be encouraged to stand, with limited seating available. Friday Afternoons is a Snape Maltings led singing project connecting teachers and young people with contemporary composers, through creating exciting music-making experiences for all www.fridayafternoonsmusic.co.uk CLASSICAL MUSIC EARTHRISE by Alec Roth featuring Salisbury Festival Chorus and La Folia musicians Friday 24 May | 7pm & 9pm Salisbury Cathedral Tickets £16 MUSIC Musical Director Howard Moody In 1968, Apollo astronaut William Anders photographed the Earth from lunar orbit. This iconic picture, SALISBURY LIVE popularly known as Earthrise, has become one of the most influential photographs of all time. Its Great live music, FREE in the pubs and bars of Salisbury appearance has been described as the start of the environmental movement. Friday 24 May, Saturday 25 May, Friday 31 May & Saturday 1 June Alec Roth’s beautiful