DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 1 ‘RUMBA IN THE RINGS’ OVER 70 SPECTACULAR EVENTS IN DORCHESTER’S ANCIENT HENGE DORCHESTER FESTIVAL 2006 27 APRIL - 1 MAY DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 14:52 Page 2 RUMBA IN THE RINGS, TANGO IN THE TOWN HALL, SALSA IN THE STREETS, OVER 70 SPECTACULAR EVENTS AT DORCHESTER’S ANCIENT HENGE, MAUMBURY RINGS - COME AND JOIN THE FIESTA! Hello and welcome to the 6th Dorchester Festival - a celebration of Hispanic culture alongside national and local artists. 26 performances are free and happening in Maumbury Rings, our main festival venue for 2006. We have a big white tent in the Rings, where large scale events take place. We have the huge southwest based Show of Hands, from the Cameroon, members of the Baka tribe, with Baka Beyond and from Honduras a fantastic salsa band Duende. We have formed our own Festival Samba Band with Magic Drum, which will be leading the procession. This Festival links up with the Fair Trade Foundation, with a talk by its patron George Alagiah, and sponsorship from Respect Organics, who have also organised the Soil Association exhibition at a new venue Poundbury Gardens. The Dorchester Festival is supported by grants from Arts Council Southwest Heritage Lottery Fund, Dorchester Town Council, Dorset County Council for the Youth Arts activities and West Dorset District Council. This funding enables us to provide free events making Dorchester come alive with the festival buzz. Watch out for the unusual, be stunned by the passion of flamenco, taste the bananas, come to our Strictly Latino tea dance - there’s something for everyone. Sharon Hayden, Artistic Director FESTIVAL STAFF Helen Pritchard - Creative Producer Pat Yonwin - Administrator Maddy Pethick - Community Liaison Alastair Nisbet - Chair of Dorchester Arts Centre STEERING COMMITTEE Alexina Gannon, Sue Cottam and Esther Yarnold DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 3 ART FROM ORGANIC FARMS VISUAL ART Thursday 27th April - 1st May POUNDBURY GARDENS Open daily 12noon - 4pm FREE Exhibition opening Thursday 27th April at 1pm The Soil Association’s Art from Organic Farms exhibition aims to help bring the ‘culture’ back into agriculture during the Dorchester Festival. Over 100 artists up and down the country have been working on organic farms to create artworks that celebrate organic food: from landscapes alive with wildlife to free-ranging livestock. www.soilassociation.org/arts There are over 50 Soil Association farms and producers in Dorset. Here is a selection to look out for: Becklands Farm, Bothen Hill Produce, Childhay Manor Organics, Clipper, Dorset Farms, Green Valley Farm Shop, Long Crichel Bakery, Long Crichel Organic Garden, Longmeadow Organic Vegetables, Manor Farm, Manor Farm Organic Milk Ltd, Neal’s Yard (Natural) Remedies Ltd, Respect Organics, Stoate, NR and Sons, Sunnyside Organic Farm, Sydling Brook Organic Farm Shop DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 4 LOOKING FOR THE BLACK REDSTART uncover the wildlife wonders - in particular the Black Country, which is better known for its industrial heritage than its natural beauty. Excited by news that one of Britain’s rarest birds, the Black Redstart, had been spotted along the Birmingham / Wolverhampton tramline and canal network, the artist set out on her creative journey and invited local people to join her. Looking for the Black Redstart - an original commission by The Public, VISUAL ART West Midlands. www.thepublic.com 27th April - 1st May A rambling we shall go! TOWN HALL 11am - 6pm Come and join Clare and take a fresh An exhibition of textile, print and look at your local area! Wildlife photographic works inspired by Rambles take place on Friday at urban nature and adventure. This 4pm and Saturday at 11am, starting project reveals one artist’s quest to outside the Corn Exchange PAOLA VALENCIA VISUAL ART 27th April - 1st May DORCHESTER ART CENTRE 11am - 6pm FREE Photography exhibition from Dorset based Colombian photographer Paola Valencia. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 5 MODEL BRITAIN VISUAL ART: DOLORES SÁNCHEZ CALVO 27th April - 1st May TOWN HALL 11am - 6pm Commissioned for the Tenerife Biennale this series connects with the artist’s interest on concepts of transposition, advertisement languages, icons, clichés, kitsch and stereotypes. The Beatles - now as much a part of Britain’s past heritage as Dickens or Shakespeare - do not represent the real musicians, but instead the idealised characters from the animated movie, “The Yellow Submarine” - together they form part of a ‘Disneyland’ image of Britain - a Model Britain. DORCHESTER 700 TAPESTRY COMMUNITY PROJECT 27th April - 1st May MAGISTRATES ROOM 11am - 6pm FREE Community embroiderer, Suzanne Finch invites you to contribute to Dorchester 700’s Celebration Tapestry. You are welcome to stay for the day or just drop in! Help us paint the tapestry or just watch us work. Supported by Dorchester Town Council DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 6 PLATFORM 4 - SHIVER THEATRE Thursday 27th April CORN EXCHANGE 8pm £8 £6 members A dark fable of love and loss, inspired by the Myth of Melusine, written by Hattie Naylor. Matthew is dead. The last guest has left the wake, leaving his parents and young fiancée in the family home. No one is sleeping. Grief can make monsters of us all... Platform 4 has developed a reputation for stunning visual theatre, blending text, movement and objects (Shivering is the body’s response to with evocative sound and light to lower body temperature and one of create unique theatrical gems. the first symptoms of hypothermia; “Poetic, moving and touching you should end your dive if you begin theatre.” Total Theatre 2004 to shiver). LISTUS WILDLIFE RAMBLE LIVE ART ART AND NATURE Friday 28th April Friday 28th April TOWN CENTRE 11am - 4pm CORN EXCHANGE 4pm - 5.30pm £3 / £2 FREE A rambling we shall go! Come and join Hard.Soft. Owen and Rebecca us and take a fresh look at your local hit the town during the day area! Artist Clare Thornton invites you with aspirations to get intimate to join her on a ramble accompanied with the locals. Armed with by local nature experts, who will share pillows and handbags they their expertise and enthusiasm. The invite you to slip your hands ramble starts outside the Corn into their pouches and leave a Exchange and ends at the Town Hall hard or soft story, memory or with tea and cake and a chance to curiosity in return for one of look around the exhibition - Looking theirs. No hard pressure, just for the Black Redstart. All welcome! soft pleasure! Supported by Clipper Tea DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 7 LIVE ART LIVE ART collaboratively around ideas of Friday 28th April ecology, perception and TAPAS BAR 5.30pm orientation. £6 / £5 (includes tapas and 7.15pm: GILLIAN WYLDE WILL Sangria) BE OK Join us for Sangria from 5.30pm Gillian Wylde is not a blessed DJ. Gillian Wylde is a mongrel vinyl 6pm: PROPELLER - WE ARE rotator. THE RIVERS WE SWIM THROUGH 8pm: LISTUS - HARD. SOFT. A performance-lecture that Emptying the contents of their addresses the disappearance of handbags and pillows, the couple species and the collapse of the stand amongst the rubble of planet’s ecological infrastructure. feathers and nails, revealing your Elements of performance, video, stories and fantasies anonymously writing, academic and journalistic and forcing themselves to research come together to remember their own. question and provoke our attitude If you would like more of separateness. Propeller is a information on Live Art in Dorset performance group working see www.piCOt.org DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 8 THE JUAN MARTIN TRIO FABULOSO & FLAMENCO DANCE Friday 28th April CORN EXCHANGE 7pm £15 / £13 members Exploring modern harmony, crossing over into contemporary ideas and yet retaining the great traditions within his compositions. His trio is in the absolute vanguard of modern flamenco utilising jazz and classical harmonies within his music. An exhilarating night of flamenco music, percussion and dance not to be missed. DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 9 RUBY WAX COMEDY NIGHT Friday 28th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 9.30pm £18 / £16 members “I couldn’t stand being a nobody. America put too much value on being tall and blonde. So I used laughter to make people take notice.” Ruby started off writing for Not the Nine O Clock News. Ruby eventually got a chat show after drunkenly interviewing Michael Grade (who was head of Channel 4 at the time) in a tent at the Edinburgh festival. She subsequently made a range of programmes (most featuring her name in the title and most you will have seen!). Join us outdoors in the ancient henge as Ruby gives us her account of what Dorchester is really like! DF 2006 Guide SB 15/3/06 13:41 Page 10 LESLEY WATERS COOKING DEMONSTRATION Saturday 29th April BIG WHITE TENT, MAUMBURY RINGS 11am FREE Join well-known celebrity chef Lesley Waters for El desayuno (Spanish breakfast) cooking demonstration. Teaching has always been Lesley’s great passion and opening her own cookery school in THE KARAOKE TAXI Dorset is the realisation of a long held dream. Her STREET THEATRE energetic style of Saturday 29th April presentation is expertly TOWN CENTRE 10.30am FREE combined with simple and clear guidance, making her An eccentric family arrive in Dorchester classes both entertaining town centre. Look out for the Lada taxi, 3 and informative. passengers at a time. FLAMENCO DANCE WORKSHOP with MARÍA JOSÉ GARCÍA Saturday 29th April YURT, MAUMBURY RINGS 10am - 12noon £3 / £2 María José García from Cartagena, Spain (title of Bailarina Profesional: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid) is delighted to offer this workshop of flamenco dancing focussing on footwork, flowing arm movements and playing castanets.