2020 22 MAY – 6 JUNE 2020 2 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2020 Tickets 01722 320333 | 3 WELCOME Welcome to the 2020 Salisbury International Arts Festival where, for two weeks, our city will pulsate with jubilant celebrations of the beauty and courage of human movement. Inspired by the extraordinary events of 800 years ago when the Cathedral at Old Sarum was moved to its current location, we will also reflect upon remarkable journeys, both large and small and journeys that were made against all odds. Leading our celebrations will be the acclaimed violinist, Harriet Images from 2019 Festival Mackenzie, joining us this year as our Associate Artist. Harriet will be performing alongside dancers from Ballet de l’Opéra Grand Avignon in the premiere of a new piece inspired by Bach’s WELCOMING TO ALL Chaconne, which we are proud to be co-producing with the Sebastian Warrack & Gareth Machin Liberation International Music Festival in Jersey. She will also be performing as part of our presentation of Cecilia McDowell’s Wherever we present work, Salisbury International Arts Everyday Wonders; The Girl from Aleppo – an extraordinary Festival and Wiltshire Creative aim to make your experience cantata that tells the story of Nujeen Mustafa, a young as enjoyable and comfortable as possible. wheelchair-bound Kurdish refugee and her remarkable journey across Europe. All venues for Festival events are accessible, most with Everyday Wonders will be performed at Salisbury Cathedral as wheelchair access and accessible toilets. part of Move It! a day long fiesta that will bring the route from Old Sarum to Salisbury alive with performances and activities for To help with selecting the Festival events you may enjoy, all. Music, sport, theatre, circus, dance and craft will animate the look out for these handy icons throughout this brochure: journey, culminating in the amazing work of French artist Olivier Grossetête who, with your help, will recreate the lost Bell Tower Hard of hearing? in The Cathedral Close in a stunning cardboard structure. Harriet Mackenzie This event does not rely heavily on audio content This Festival, however, is not just about looking at our history. Over the middle weekend, we will be reflecting on the future Visually impaired? of Salisbury through a series of fascinating conversations and This event does not rely heavily on visual content events – What Next For The City? The weekend will begin with FULL EVENT the international premiere of Congress, a co-production between DIARY This event will have a less formal atmosphere Wiltshire Creative and Australian theatre makers, All the Queens INSIDE BACK Men. This remarkable event will see members of our community COVER Listen to music samples on the Festival website making their very first public speeches, reflecting on their hopes and dreams for the future. For further details about Festival venues and performances Alongside all of this, our programme is bursting at the seams with please visit world-class music, dance, film, circus, theatre, visual art, comedy and spoken word. www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk or contact Ticket Sales on 01722 320333 Come and join us! or email [email protected] Gareth Machin Sebastian Warrack Mark Simonds, Operations Director, is our Access Contact. Artistic Director, Wiltshire Creative Executive Director, Wiltshire Creative You can get in touch with him on 01722 320117 or by emailing [email protected] 4 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2020 www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk | 5 Tech sponsor of VISUAL ARTS visual arts programme Image: THE MAKERS’ TALE Image: Nicholas Beer in his studio © Peta Jacobs Salisbury Arts Centre Throughout the Festival The Makers’ Tale examines craft and making art as a highly relevant component of contemporary life. This exhibition will concentrate on the movement of concepts between creative disciplines. It will reveal new insights into the particular craft methods deeply rooted in a historical context yet connected to today. It will divulge them as the conveyors of new ideas, as the conductors of disciplinary crossovers, and will highlight the persistence of craft knowledge within the context of modern creative industries and present-day living. Curated by Loucia Manopoulou and Mirka Golden-Hann. CELEBRATION IN STITCH AS YOU SEE ME The exhibition is a co-operation between Wiltshire Creative and the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, in by the Machine Embroidery Group at British Portraiture: A Living Tradition association with Salisbury Cathedral. Sarum College The Salisbury Museum Tuesday 2 June | 2pm Sarum College, The Close Throughout the Festival Join Resident Artist Mirka Golden-Hann for a 20 April – 23 May As you see me is a brand new and original exhibition guided tour of the exhibition (free; no need to book). The Machine Embroidery Group has met quarterly of British portraits. The aim is to reveal the history at Sarum College for the past seven years. This of the technique that underpinned it from 1723 up Image: John Taylor exhibition showcases how members of the to 1925, known as sight-size. Sight-size is a way extended Sarum College community are inspired of working from nature to the scale of life, so that by the ethos, hospitality, community of caring, and the finished portrait has the very presence of the structures of the building. The exhibition will also sitter. The first part of the exhibition will include include members’ own work, covering a range of portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas machine stitched art works. Gainsborough. Bringing the tradition of sight-size technique right up to date, the main part of the exhibition will showcase the work of Salisbury- based portrait painter Nicholas Beer, whose work is a contemporary expression of the tradition. For further information visit www.salisburymuseum.org.uk Image: David Walker PLAIN ARTS SALISBURY ART TRAIL FLOW STATE STEAM EXHIBITION Across the city Jo Taylor 30 May – 14 June Salisbury Library and Tidworth Library Arundells Gallery, The Close Throughout the Festival For two weeks, Salisbury and the surrounding Throughout the Festival area will play host to the 13th Salisbury Art Trail. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths The trail is organised by Plain Arts, an artist led, Jo Taylor is a ceramicist living and working – STEAM is an integrated learning system which self-funding organisation providing support for the in Wiltshire. “Flow state” concerns complete removes limitations and replaces them with wonder local artistic community. During the Art Trail you immersion in an activity, crucial to the making and innovation. This exhibition showcases the work can view artists’ work in studios, galleries, shops process. Jo’s work is created by the encapsulation of young artists from schools and other settings and even their homes. Meanwhile, throughout June of the movement instrumental for their production across Salisbury and Tidworth, responding to the The TrailBlazers exhibition at Salisbury City Library and is frequently inspired by the heritage and theme of movement. Gallery 4 will present work from each of the venues. architectural ornamentation of buildings in this For further information visit historic county. www.plainartssalisbury.co.uk 6 | Salisbury International Arts Festival 2020 Tickets 01722 320333 | 7 FRIDAY 22 MAY SATURDAY 23 MAY Kindly sponsored by SATURDAY 23 MAY FILM IN CONVERSATION WONDERSTRUCK SUE ALLENBY 2017 | PG | 1 hour 57 mins Elias: A Story of the Founding of Salisbury Saturday 23 May | 2.30pm Saturday 23 May | 2pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room Salisbury Playhouse, The Salberg Tickets £9 Tickets £13 Recalling The Artist and Hugo in its celebration Sue had never thought she would be writing a of cinematic magic and childhood curiosity, this novel when she was researching the role of Elias of captivating film weaves together two stories of Dereham, the elusive rebel lawyer-priest and artistic children searching for missing parents, one set genius. And John Elliott, of Spire Books, had never in a Spielbergian 1970s, the other in a beautifully thought of publishing one. This story, of the excited, rendered 1920s silent film, their stories meeting in resilient people watching Salisbury being built STONE SONGS an exquisite scale model of New York originally built around them, is her 800th birthday gift to the city. by Howard Moody for the 1964 World’s Fair. featuring Salisbury Festival Chorus and La Folia musicians Friday 22 May | 7pm & 9pm Salisbury Cathedral Tickets £16 (a promenade performance; running time approx. 60 mins) 800 years after the laying of the Cathedral’s foundation stone, Stone Songs will reflect on the skill, vision and WALK FILM dedication that it took to build such a magnificent building, inspired by the BLUE BADGE GUIDE AND THEN WE DANCED ancient chants that have resonated WALKING TOUR 2019 | 1 hour 53 mins from the stones since the 13th century. Underpinned by the power of the newly- 800 Years of Salisbury’s Rich Heritage Saturday 23 May | 7.30pm refurbished Cathedral organ, the voices Saturday 23, Thurs 28 & Saturday 30 May | 2.30pm Salisbury Arts Centre, White Room of the Festival Chorus will explore the Tickets £9 acoustic possibilities of the building Wednesday 3 & Saturday 6 June | 2.30pm and reflect on the incredible vision that Tickets £8 (children £4) The ultra conservative world of ‘Georgian dance’ is created it. available from Salisbury Information Centre the stage for this passionate tale of forbidden love. Merab has devoted his life to working towards the MUSIC Explore Salisbury’s colourful past with tales of goal of a place in the Georgian National Ballet. Just intriguing Mayors and citizens, landmark buildings as this seems within his grasp, his life is upended by Produced by Wiltshire Creative in association with La Folia and exciting, significant events over eight centuries. the arrival of a handsome new dancer who awakens These fascinating 90 minute walks are suitable for feelings within him that he finds hard to suppress.