january – april 17 Hello, welcome to our new What’s On Guide This is your essential guide to cultural events from Renfrewshire Leisure! We’ve changed things around a bit so you can see our whole range of events each month and will be publishing an extra Summer What’s On Guide so you have a year round programme of cultural events. This year is the 30th anniversary of With this in mind, we would love you Paisley Arts Centre and we are planning to let us know the following: a programme of events and shows to • What has been your programme/event mark the occasion. highlights over the past 30 years? We want to celebrate with everyone who • What does Paisley Arts Centre has supported Paisley Arts Centre over mean to you? the past three decades to make this • What would you like to see in the a year to remember. programme as part of the 30th birthday celebrations? Email us at [email protected], or pop into the arts centre to have a chat to our staff or fill out a comments card. As a thank you, we will enter your name into a prize draw to win free tickets to our 30th Anniversary edition of A Buddy Good Laugh on 27 April. drama music dance film comedy exhibitions family events special events regular events Drop in Lunchtime Our Booking Fees Talks and Events We charge a £1 transaction fee for all bookings made online. This includes at Paisley Museum postage if you opt to have your tickets Look out for our brand new programme posted out to you. of free, hands on activities, talks Tickets booked by phone can be and events for people of all ages, held at the Box Office for collection launching in January. or posted out at a cost of £1. There are no charges for tickets purchased in person. Sign up to our monthly Have your say e-newsletter! We love hearing from you, why not let us Don’t miss out on any upcoming know what you think of our events or if you events with our free monthly have a suggestion about what you would 1 e-newsletter. To register, visit our like to see? Facebook page or our website and click the sign up link @RenArtsMuseums www.renfrewshireleisure.com/arts. /renfrewshirearts [email protected] #Paisley2021 Renfrewshire Leisure backs the bid Paisley for UK City of Culture 2021 /paisley2021 @Paisley2021 @Paisley2021 image: Mapping the Moon january january exhibition Until 25 January Mapping the Moon 2 Paisley Museum FREE Paisley Museum recently received a donation of Moon maps, created by NASA in the early 1960s to provide an accurate depiction of the lunar surface. These maps, hand drawn with incredible accuracy and detail, were then used to select suitable sites for the Moon landings. This display showcases a small sample from our collection of these 0300 300 1210 very impressive, highly detailed and decorative maps. box office & information january image: Mapping the Moon image: Skeleton Dermott Egan image: Recurrance Kevin Egan exhibition exhibition 14 January–26 February 27 January–18 April 3 Form and Colour: Inspired a way of being Paisley Museum in the world FREE An exhibition from Paisley-born Inspired is the annual exhibition artists Kevin and Dermott Egan of artwork from children and young book online www.renfrewshireleisure.com Paisley Museum people in schools and nurseries FREE across Renfrewshire. Paisley-born brothers Kevin and This year, the exhibition will include Dermott Egan invite you to engage community artworks created in with some of their recent work workshops facilitated by ‘Ice Cream which includes paintings, drawings, Architecture’: We Made Paisley City carvings and sculpture. is an installation of architectural models based on a fantasy future Paisley and Our Story is a large multi media mural. *see page 1 for details of our booking fees image: Swan Lake january 4 dance Sat 28 January Ballet West Presents Swan Lake Paisley Town Hall 7.30pm £12 (£10 conc) + bkg fee* £10 (£8 conc) + bkg fee* 0300 300 1210 Using Tchaikovsky’s stirring score and a moving adaptation of the original choreography, the dancers of Ballet West will tell the story of the love of a young man for the cursed Odette, who is destined to spend her life as a swan, unless true love can release her from the spell of the evil Von Rothbart. box office & information february image: Die Mommie Die LGBT History Month February 2017 exhibition film 31 January–16 February Tues 7 February Ian Passmore: Outspoken Arts and Paisley Arts Centre presents Five Crossroads Die Mommie Die (18) 5 to a Gay Space Paisley Arts Centre 7pm Paisley Museum FREE FREE Its 1967, retired singer Angela Ian Passmore began to explore Arden’s career has hit rock bottom his own life through art following and she is trapped in a loveless book online www.renfrewshireleisure.com redundancy shortly before marriage. She gets involved in an his untimely death in 2000. affair and her husband suddenly dies. This leads to Angela’s His work documents his life in daughter plotting a conspiracy Paisley as a gay man at a time of revenge. when the expression of homosexual love was illegal. This hilarious murder mystery movie is a must see for the stellar Please note: Some of the language cast, never mind the fab outfits, and images in this exhibition may psychoactive drugs and 50’s/60’s cause offence. vibe. *see page 1 for details of our booking fees LGBT History Month February 2017 february film film Thurs 9 February Wed 15 February LGBT + (Student Association of University Outspoken Arts and Paisley Arts Centre presents West of Scotland) and Paisley Arts Centre Prick Up Your Ears (18) presents Rent (PG) Paisley Arts Centre 7pm FREE Paisley Arts Centre 7pm The story of the spectacular life and FREE violent death of British playwright The film version of the Pulitzer and Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is Tony Award-winning musical about befriended by the older, more Bohemians in the East Village of reserved Kenneth Halliwell. But New York City struggling with life, Orton’s success takes him farther love and AIDS, and the impacts from Halliwell, whose response they have on America. ended both his life and the life This will be followed by a post of the up-and-coming playwright. 6 show discussion hosted by LGBT+, There will be a post- exploring the themes raised show discussion around in the film. domestic violence and community safety. image: 1987 Prick up your ears film Thurs 16 February LGBT + (Student Association of University West of Scotland) and Paisley Arts Centre presents Pride (15) Paisley Arts Centre 7pm 0300 300 1210 FREE U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. The film will be followed by a post show discussion hosted by LGBT+, exploring the themes raised in the film. box office & information february image: Mars, Credit NASA-JPL-Caltech February 2017 february family Thurs 9 February Valentine’s Baby Disco Paisley Museum 10.30am–12pm 7 £2 per adult + bkg fee* (children go free) Join in the fun with dancing and games as well as art activities. Music will be provided by our own DJ with a mixture of Disney tunes, nursery rhymes and pop music. book online www.renfrewshireleisure.com special event Tues 14 February Valentine’s Night at Coats Observatory Coats Observatory 6.30–9pm (last admission 8.45pm) Venus and Mars will be in conjunction on Valentine’s Night. Why not drop in for a romantic evening of star-gazing! *see page 1 for details of our booking fees image: White february family Fri 24 and Sat 25 February Catherine Wheels Presents White Paisley Arts Centre 8 Fri 24 Nurseries only 10.30am and 1.30pm £3 + bkg fee* Sat 25 public 11am £5 + bkg fee* film Suitable for ages 2–4 Tue 28 February Welcome to the beautifully strange Frame by Frame world of White. Full of birdsong and Paisley Arts Centre 7pm–9.30pm birdhouses, it gleams and dazzles and shines in the night. Two friends £2 on the door look after the birds and make sure Do you have a film and want to get the eggs stay safe. We watch, we it screened? Want to meet other help. The world is bright, ordered filmmakers? Or just see locally 0300 300 1210 and white. But high up in the trees, produced films? Then Frame all is not white. Colour appears. by Frame is the place to be! First red... then yellow... then blue... For more information or to be White is a playful, highly visual added to the Frame by Frame new show for very young children mailing list contact and is a perfect first time theatre [email protected] experience. box office & information *see page 1 for details of our booking fees march march image: White drama 9 Thurs 2 March Arts Enigma Presents Hell’s Hunner Acres Paisley Arts Centre 7.30pm £12 (£10 conc) + bkg fee* Suitable for ages 14+ book online www.renfrewshireleisure.com Flit back in time as the “Cairns” family close the door on tenement strife and catch a ‘lift’ to the heaven of high rise life at Queen Elizabeth Square. Live, laugh and cry with them as new design unravels a family and its’ community. The smash hit comedy/drama, written and directed by Paul Moore, takes you back to the banter of Tenement Brick, Beaverbrooks & The Barrowlands Ballroom.