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Online Arts Newsletter
Welcome to the Elmbridge Online Arts Newsletter. This brings you arts updates from arts organistations across the Borough with news, views and arts opportunities.
Coming Soon
Look:Hear Youth Arts Festival 2012
"What can we do that all be fresh and new,
And with significance be pleasing too?"
Look:Hear is a Festival of Arts celebrating young people in Elmbridge running from Friday 10 - Saturday 24 November 2012. The Festival will include events that cover all aspects of the arts, involving schools, youth groups, and young people's arts, theatre, dance and music companies. The Festival will be divided into two strands:
Storm the Stage; A celebration of young people's performance arts.
The Tale-Spinners; A celebration of storytelling by young people through the visual and literary arts.
For information about talking part in the Festival call 01372 474584 or email arts@elmbridge.gov.uk
Music
Elmbridge Music Grants Scheme
Elmbridge Community Music Society grants support individuals, groups and organisations who are looking to improve their own or their community's lives through music. Individuals can apply for grants up to a maximum of £1,000, groups and organisations a maximum of £2,000. There are four application deadlines each year - 28 February, 31 May, 31 August, 30 November. For further details about eligibility criteria, the application process and Elmbridge Community Music Society |click here.
Singersandsongs
Lunchtime courses at King George's Small Hall-Esher.
Have you always wanted to sing? Have you sung in the past? Develop your individual voice. All styles of music from Sinatra toSondheim, Ella Fitzgerald to Annie Lennox.Pop, Jazz, Musicals, Rock, Soul, Motown, Standards and Country.Friendly adult classes for all abilities. Learn how to use your voice correctly, and sing in a lovely environment. Established since 2007 by Elaine Hallam. Elaine has played leading roles in London's West End and is a session vocalist, jazz singer, coach and teacher.
£70.00 Course / Concs £65.00
To book a place call 07956 323782 or visit singersandsongs.com or e-mail elainehallam@googlemail.com
Theatre
Riverhouse Young People's Theatre (RYPT)
Mondays 7 - 9pm
Ages 16 - 21
£100 / term
Come along and see what there is on offer at RYPT - a theatre group for anyone aged 16 - 21 who wants to further develop their drama skills. Sessions are led by different drama specialists and include work on masks, mime, stage combat, devising, writing and performing plays - everything to make a show!
You can come for a free trial session, and if you stay, you get to have your say in what RYPT does next...
Contacts: Adrian@rypt.co.uk/Jo@rypt.co.uk
The Cecil Hepworth Playhouse
Programme of Events
The Ember Players present
Animal Farm
Adapted from the George Orwell novel by Peter Hall
Anne Segall directs this famous story of a farm take-over by animals from abusive human masters that parallels the wickedness, ignorance and greed that corrupted the Russian revolution. Published in 1945, it still resonates strongly with contemporary world events.
19-21 April
Evenings @ 8pm
Box Office 020-8398-6470
For details visit www.emberplayers.org.uk
Walton & Weybridge Amateur Operatic Society present
Show People
A Musical Compilation
An original production - a tale about the highs and lows of mounting a new musical theatre production, featuring a host of popular songs from shows like 'The Drowsy Chaperone', 'Hairspray', 'Mame', 'Mamma Mia' and many more.
16-19 May
Evenings 7.45 p.m., Saturday matinee 2.30 p.m.
Ticket prices £9 to £12.50
Box Office and Enquiries: 01483 770130 or bookings@wwaos.org.uk
Bookings www.OurBoxOffice.co.uk
The Desborough Players present
Lord Wollocombe's Birthday
Based on the novels by Agatha Christie
7-9 June 2012
7.30 pm
Tickets 07754 580 862
Staines Players present
A Midsummer Nights Dream
By William Shakespeare
19-21 July 2012
7.30 pm
Tickets £10.00 and £8.50 concessions
boxoffice@stainesplayers.com
Literature
The Eighth Elmbridge Literary Competition 2012
Following the success of the 2011 'Breaking the Barrier' Literature Competition, Elmbridge Borough Council and the RC Sherriff Trust will soon be announcing details of the 2012 competition. This year's theme will celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of one of the world's greatest literary figures, Charles Dickens.
For information and details about the 2011 Elbridge Borough Council and R C Sherriff Literary Competition and Literature Festival and a list of winners |click here.
Film
Dance
Photography
Elmbridge Borough Council will soon be launching the 2012 Photographic Competition
This Sporting Life
As part of the 'Elmbridge Celebrates' festival, we're looking for images that celebrate the spirit of sporting life in the Borough. Whether it's the moment of victory, the despair of defeat or the sheer enjoyment of the challenge, we want to see photographs that detail how important sport can be to competitors and supporters alike. So, if it's the sprinter crossing the finishing line or the solitary, lifelong fan sitting alone on a wet and windy terrace, send us your picture and help celebrate Elmbridge's sporting life.
For competition details and entry forms |click here.
Visual Arts
Art Gallery for Hire
The Simple Gallery, Esher
A small and attractive gallery space near the centre of Esher. With over 9m of hanging space as well as display surfaces, it is suitable for both art and craft exhibitions.
For more details and hire rates, email: thesimplegallery@gmail.com
St George's Arts Programme
April
Dance Signatures
Exhibition and residency by Richenda Court
This exciting project will follow our 2012 artist in residence Richenda Court as she explores the relationship between art and dance.
Residency Dates Friday 9 March - Thursday 26th April, Open Studio Dates every Friday (except 6 April)
Time 10.00am - 2.30pm
Also Saturdays 17 March and 21 April
Time 10.00am - 5.00pm
FREE
May - June
Modern Madonnas
An exhibition celebrating the 'mother and child' relationship.
The Madonna theme seems an appropriate subject for a church, and this exhibition, by groundbreaking artists chosen from all over Britain, will offer a fresh, contemporary interpretation of the mother and child theme. The exhibition will include painting, sculpture and installation art, and incorporates three related art workshops.
Exhibition Dates Saturday May 26th - Sunday June 17th
Time 11am - 3pm Monday - Saturday
FREE
Details 01372 464881 or st.georgesarts.esher@gmail.com
Modern Madonnas Workshops & Back-to-Art Mothers
A workshop for mothers, whose artistic practice has been interrupted by looking after a family. An opportunity to meet other slightly frustrated artist mothers, produce some work and share strategies for reintroducing your art into your life.
Saturday 26 May
Time 10.00am - 2.00pm
Cost £8.00
Booking essential 01372 464881 or st.georgesarts.esher@gmail.com
Parent and Child Art Workshop
A chance to work alongside your children and to create a collaborative artwork with them, inspired by work in the 'Modern Madonna's' exhibition. All abilities welcome.
Date Friday 8 June
Time 10.00am - 2.00pm
Cost £8.00
Booking essential 01372 464881 or st.georgesarts.esher@gmail.com
Modern Madonnas Art Workshop
Looking at 'mother and child' depictions through the ages, as well as working on our own interpretations of this theme, using a variety of media, and drawing a mother and baby from life. All abilities welcome.
Date Wednesday 13 June
Time 10.00am - 2.00pm
Cost £8.00
Booking essential 01372 464881 or st.georgesarts.esher@gmail.com
July
Festival of British Archaeology
Church Architecture and Heritage
An Exhibition by the Royal Photographic Society
St George's Church is proud to be, once again, part of the Archaeology Festival. This year, we will be displaying photographs depicting churches, including their architecture, archaeology and artefacts, from Saxon times to the C20th.
Photography fulfils an important role in archaeology by providing a detailed record should the originals need reconstruction after damage.
This exhibition by the Archaeology and Heritage Group of the Royal Photographic Society also offers an aesthetic response, capturing the unique atmosphere of our historical heritage.
Dates Saturday14 - Sunday 15 July, Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 July (weekdays by appointment)
Time 11.00am - 4.00pm weekends
FREE
Details 01372 464370/01372 465755 info@stgeorgesesher.org
Exhibitions/Talks
The 2012-13 Royston Pike Lecture Series
The 2011/12 Royston Pike Lecture series has now come to a close. Once again it proved to be a great success with a series of talks on a variety of subjects from the anniversary of the King James Bible to Antarctica and the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.
Already the 2012 series is being prepared and Elmbridge Borough Council are very pleased to welcome back John Pilkington who will present the second part of his 'Stroll Through The Axis of Evil' talk in December as he takes us on a journey from Georgia to Afghanistan.
Keep an eye out for updates on further talks that will make up the 2012 Series.
The Royston Pike Lectures were first introduced by Edgar Royston Pike, formerly Chairman of the Esher Council, as the 'Esher Library Lectures' in the late sixties. In 1974, Elmbridge Borough Council changed the title of these lectures to the 'Royston Pike Lectures' in appreciation of his 20 years work on the Library Committee.
For further details about the Royston Pike Lecture Series or to be included on the mailing list for the 2-12/13 series |click here.
