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Ways into Workshops
at Folly Farm, Pensford, Bristol BS39 4DW from Friday 10th – Sunday 12th February 2012.
Course Fee: £220 - includes all training, accommodation for 2 nights and food
Ways into Workshops: MusicLeader Workshop Residential to maximise your creative and earning potential!
The popular and successful Ways into Workshops residency is being produced for the first time in the South West by MLSW and MLWM with Community Musicians Hugh Nankivell, Ben Ballard, Steve Lewis, Beccy Owen and Lisa Tregale. This practical and creative residential course will consider a wide range of approaches to help you to develop positive techniques for leading music-making with groups, whether for the first time or as part of your ongoing music leading.
Ways Into Workshops 2012 aims to inspire and energise musicians, teachers, youth workers, composers, health workers, community arts practitioners, community workers and anyone with an enthusiasm for music.
Together we will look at music leadership and group facilitation techniques with the aim of giving you new tools to develop innovative partnership practice, trust and mutual respect in a range of working environments.
You can expect to:
• Develop a palette of ideas, gather new tools
• Find new ways of bringing a group together
• Play games, make new music and have fun
• Explore ways of creating the best environment for imagination to flourish
To book for Ways into Workshops click here or call the box office on 0117 9223686.
Wake - Acrojou Circus Theatre
at Circomedia, St. Paul's Church, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 March 2012. Show starts at 8:00pm. Tickets are £13, £9 concessions (students/OAPs - please select Concession). Family ticket: £35 (4 for £35, at least one person under 18 - select Family in multiples of 4 only). Circomedia students enter your code.
Conceived and devised by Jeni Barnard and Barney White
Directed and co-devised by Flick Ferdinando
Acrojou’s Jeni Barnard and Barney White tell visually-rich, fast-moving and captivating stories using one of the most mesmerizing of all circus disciplines - the acrobatic wheel. With WAKE - the company’s first full-length show - expect to be taken on a poetic joy ride through a sculptural and filmic landscape as the performers use physical skill, acrobatic choreography and giant rings of steel to present a dark, humorous and uplifting study of one man’s relationship with love, laughter, good manners, snow, death, DiY and dancing.
Click here to buy tickets for Wake at Circomedia, or call the box office on 0117 9223686.
The Blake Diptych for children - Fleur Darkin Company
at Circomedia, St. Paul's Church, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 March 2012. Show starts at 2:00pm. Tickets are £8 for adults, £4 for children to a maximum of 3 under 7s per adult.
Fleur Darkin’s ever exciting dance-theatre ensemble makes its Circomedia debut with two distinct and original shows, each inspired by the passion, imagination and wisdom of the poet, artist, printer and “glorious luminary” William Blake.
Unusually, this afternoon production - INNOCENCE (2pm) - is exclusively for under-sevens and their carers. In it, dance, play, live music, theatre and story-telling combine to create an interactive journey into a realm of mystery, beauty, fun and adventure.
Click here to buy tickets for The Blake Diptych at Circomedia, or call the box office on 0117 9223686.
The Blake Diptych - Fleur Darkin Company
at Circomedia, St. Paul's Church, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 March 2012. Show starts at 8:00pm. Tickets are £13, £9 concessions (students/OAPs - please select Concession). Family ticket: £35 (4 for £35, at least one person under 18 - select Family in multiples of 4 only). Circomedia students enter your code.
Fleur Darkin’s ever exciting dance-theatre ensemble makes its Circomedia debut with two distinct and original shows, each inspired by the passion, imagination and wisdom of the poet, artist, printer and “glorious luminary” William Blake.
EXPERIENCE (8pm and for audiences aged 12+) is a blistering dance-theatre master-class in which fearless choreography, eight world-class dancers, exquisite music by Bristol-based Paul Bradley and designs by the Critics Award-winning Alex Lowde conjure the visions of Blake - the boy who believed in angels, and grew up to reshape British art and literature.
Click here to buy tickets for The Blake Diptych at Circomedia, or call the box office on 0117 9223686.
Desert Crossings - State of Emergency
at Circomedia, St. Paul's Church, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 April 2012. Show starts at 8:00pm. Tickets are £13, £9 concessions (students/OAPs - please select Concession). Family ticket: £35 (4 for £35, at least one person under 18 - select Family in multiples of 4 only). Circomedia students enter your code.
Bristol gets its first chance to see a brand new work, choreographed by one of Africa’s best-admired contemporary dance-makers, Gregory Maqoma, and inspired by the interlocking histories of the red rock landscapes of south west England’s Jurassic Coast and the Skeleton Coast, Namibia. In it, five dancers from different cultural backgrounds journey through Earth’s history, sharing memories, timeless stories, universal hopes and dreams. With an original score by Steve Marshall and after-show talk/Q&A.
Click here to buy tickets for Desert Crossings at Circomedia, or call the box office on 0117 9223686.
Crossing Points - Phoenix Dance Theatre
at Circomedia, St. Paul's Church, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 May 2012. Show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are £13, £9 concessions (students/OAPs - please select Concession). Family ticket: £35 (4 for £35, at least one person under 18 - select Family in multiples of 4 only). Circomedia students enter your code.
The internationally renowned Phoenix Dance Theatre makes its first visit to Bristol with a four-part bill offering two brand new works, choreographed by Ana Luján Sánchez and Kwesi Johnson; the return of a thrilling classic by Henri Oguike and a chance to find out how the five dancers, a microphone and beatbox rhythms featured in Aletta Collins’s sassy Maybe Yes Maybe, Maybe No Maybe can set audiences of all ages laughing out loud.
Click here to buy tickets for Crossing Points at Circomedia, or call the box office on 0117 9223686.
Bristol Choral Society - Handel: Israel in Egypt
at Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TJ on Saturday 16 June 2012. Concert starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are £20, £15 (reserved), £12, £8 (unreserved). Under 25s £5 (please select Concession), Senior Citizens, 10% discount (please select OAP).
Corelli Orchestra
Warwick Cole - Harpsichord
Adrian Partington - Conductor
Linda Gerrard - Soprano
Rachel Marsh - Soprano
Richard Scott - Counter Tenor
Gareth Treseder - Tenor
Edwin Hillier - Bass
Christopher Dollins - Bass
In the Bristol Choral Society's second brush with Handel this season, the period instruments of the Corelli Orchestra regroup for an oratorio second only in popularity to Messiah in the 19th century. Accustomed to arias conjuring intimations of the operatic stage, Handel's own contemporaries were slower to be persuaded of the virtues of Israel in Egypt, a work brimming with vivd choruses. But then choruses are what this retelling of the Exodus story is all about - plagues of frogs and hailstones grist to the mill of Part One's almost-exclusively-choral rollercoaster.
Click here to buy tickets for Handel: Israel in Egypt or contact the box office on 0117 9223686.