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KINGSTON SUMMER ART SEASON
Listing all the top Art and Creative Events going on in Kingston during the summer.
Sponsored by John Lewis with a Summer exhibition in store, the events include Kingston University and Kingston College Degree Shows, exhibitions and events at the Museum, Open Studios at FusionARTS and art at The Rose Theatre and much more. Look out for leaflets and posters.
Phone: 07957 882238
From:1st June 2010
To: 31st August 2010
THE BALLAD OF SOLOMON PAVEY
Rose Theatre Main House. 6.30pm. Tickets £4.50 - £15 suitable for all ages.
Jeremy James Taylor, founder of the National Youth Music Theatre, and Dominic Stichbury, Musical Director, have assembled a highly talented company of young actors and singers (aged 10-18) to create a stunning new performance of this original (1976) National Youth Music Theatre production. This award-winning play describes a remarkable period in theatre history. It tells the story of Soloman Pavey, a chorister of the Chapel Royal, and presents a moving account of how children dominated the private theatre of Elizabethan London (circa 1575-1600). Awarded a Fringe First at Edinburgh and later adapted for television this represents youth music theatre at its very best.
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
On:4th July 2010
KINGSTON LIBRARIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL - PAGE TO STAGE
Rose Theatre Studio 10.00am. Suitable for 10+
Would you like to turn your favorite story into a plan and bring it to life? That's what Page to Stage aims to do. Choose an extract from a book and then have fun learning how to dramatise it in a drama workshop, ending with a performance of each piece. This is a free event and suitable for young people aged 10+. Please contact Kate Priestley at Kingston Library for further details and booking on 0208 547 6464 or e-mail kate.priestley@rbk.kingston.gov.uk
THIS IS A CLOSED EVENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE PRE BOOKED.
Phone: 2085476464
On:4th July 2010
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY MA MAKING PLAYS - FIVE TWOSOMES
Rose Theatre Studio. 8.00pm. £4.50. Suitable for 13+.
The next generation of theatre artists. Students from Kingston University's MA, Making Plays, and the undergraduate programme come together to bring you stage plays for the 21st century.
Five short plays about the complexities of modern mating behaviour:
The Corridor by Lou Miller
Bridge Over Troubled Feelings
by Almiro Andrade
Hook Up by Serban Anghene
Untitled by Helen Renny
The Body of David by Michael Rossiter
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
On:4th July 2010
HIGHLY SPRUNG PERFORMANCE COMPANY - CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Act Main House (Arthur Cotterell Theatre). £4.50-8.00. Suitable for 11+.
Sat 3 6.30pm
Sun 4 5.00pm
Highly Sprung is a physical performance company that create work with, for and alongside young people, using a style that expresses narrative through movement that speaks and text that moves.
Highly Sprung , in collaboration with 25 young people, present and adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's 'Caucasian Chalk Circle'. With their signature way of mixing professional performers and young people in a dynamic and powerful way, the company present a modern re-telling of this Brecht classic. Bodies will fall, fly, collide and suspend in a spectacle that will attack all of your senses.
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
From:3rd July 2010
To: 4th July 2010
REBEL REBEL PRODUCTIONS - BROKEN MIRRORS
Act Main House (Arthur Cotterell Theatre). £4.50-8.00. Suitable for 16+.
Sat 3 8.30pm
Sun 4 7.30pm
Rebel Rebel Productions are a team of young actors who want to showcase challenging and motivating , issue based work. This is their first production as a collective.
Broken Mirrors Revolves around Jamey, an 18 year old girl, who is struggling to keep up with appearances, not to mention peer pressure and the fear of having to grow up. Feeling inadequate, Jamey decides it's time to get a boob job, but will she get more than she bargained for? In a time where image seems to be the key to success, how far should we go in order to obtain perfection?
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
From:3rd July 2010
To: 4th July 2010
MEWE THEATRE - I HEART ART
Act Main House (Arthur Cotterell Theatre). £4.50-8.00. Suitable for 15+.
Sun 4 2.00pm
Tues 6 7.30pm
MeWe Theatre uses performing arts to entertain and engage people from all walks of life. Using various disciplines, productions feature everything from drama, music and dance to poetry, film, physical theatre and contemporary art. All styles, all genres. I Heart Art is a hilarious tale of love, hate, desire and beauty. An Abstract story of one woman's search for true love and the battle between those desperate for her attention. This production goes deeper than any bond between two people. It asks us questions, it provokes, it inspires.
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
From:4th July 2010
To: 6th July 2010
CARNIVAL CATWALK
Starting place - Market Place, Kingston Town Centre. Free. 3.00pm. Suitable for all ages.
The Carnival is supported by Global Arts.
An opening procession through the streets of Kingston to celebrate the opening of IYAF. Free workshops will take place on Saturday 3rd to help all of Kingston to prepare for the parade! Make costumes, learn to play instruments or learn a dance to be part of the parade. Participating groups from across the festival - dancers, stilt walkers, theatrical types and musicians will all join in the parade showcasing the week to come.
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
On:4th July 2010
BOUNCE THEATRE - THEATRE IN UNUSUAL SPACES
Free. Suitable for all ages.
Sat 3 Sat 10
Sun 4 Sun 11
A multi-site performancepiece that is inspired, influenced and shaped by the architecture of Kingston. Taking place in museums, alley ways, along the river and in a teepee, the pieceis an oppurtunity to felect on the spaces, stories and history that have shaped who we are today.
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
From:3rd July 2010
To: 11th July 2010
STANLEY PICKER GALLERY
Avant Gardening's Suburban Treasure Trail Kingston Summer Art Season.
Avant Gardening works with local communities to develop creative responses to environmental issues like global warming, recycling and bio-diversity, through encouraging participants to creatively reconsider their relationship with their local environment.
For Kingston Summer Art Season 2010 we have invited Avant Gardening to work with our own local community on a range of participatory activities involving art, gardening and food that will map-out the suburban location of the gallery for all our visitors. An extended programme of activities will culminate in a week of special events and workshops for local residents of all ages and interests to discover the Gallery and enjoy what it has to offer.
Kingston Summer Art Season is an annual celebration of the Visual Arts taking place throughout June and July at key sites around the town, including John Lewis Kingston, Kingston Museum, Stanley Picker Gallery, Fusion Arts, Penny School Gallery and other selected venues
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
From:3rd July 2010
To: 10th July 2010
KINGSTON MUSEUM
Will be hosting the theatre in Unusual spaces project over the weekend of 3rd & 4th July.
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.seetickets.com
From:3rd July 2010
To: 4th July 2010
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW - POSTGRADUATE OPEN DAYS FOR KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
Saturday 24th April 10.30am - 2pm
Saturday 3rd July 10.30am-2pm
Saturday 4th September 10.30am-2pm
Postgraduate Open Days give you an idea of our suite of postgraduate/post-experience programmes. As well as representation from all the courses below, there will also be separate areas for those interested in an MBA or Human Resource Management:
-Accounting & Finance
-Banking
-Business IT
-General Management
-Human Resources Management
-Leadership and Management in Health
-Law
-Marketing
-Doctoral Programmes
-Foundation degree/BA(Hons) top-up
Venue: Room 6234, Frank Lampl Building, Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston University
Phone: 8712301552
Link: www.rosetheatrekingston.org
From:24th April 2010
To: 4th September 2010
WATCH ALL THE WORLD CUP MATCHES AT YOUR LOCAL TENPIN FANZONE
Love bowling? Love football even more!
Why not watch the World Cup at your local Tenpin Fanzone? Tenpin Kingston will be screening all the matches live in their specially designed Fanzone with the burgers, beer and the atmosphere on tap.
With large viewing screens, comfy seating and beer from around the world you can support your country in style. Whether you are coming with your mates, work colleagues or family why not enjoy a game of bowling after the match with great bowling deals to be had.
Phone: 0844 445 7007
Link: www.therotundakingston.co.uk
From:11th June 2010
To: 10th July 2010
STRATA - CARL GENT & HELEN PRADAS-PAGE
Strata brings together two artists who innestigate notions of accululation and the various languages these processes can create.
Carl Gent works directly with very specific rock dusts to discuss notions of Armageddon and Deep Space. Through geological research and correspondence with astronomical texts, the ages of various rocks are linked explicitly interact with these irrevocable distant bodies in a futile effort to leave the human position.
This frustration is echoed in the new work A List of Thinks I Don't Understand, a site-specific drawing/text-work that isolates the impossibility of understanding or even visualising many of the more exotic aspects present within contemporary scientific pursuit. The tools of paint, chalk, clay and language seem woefully inept at describing particles of spin 1/2, quantum chromodynamics or the uncertainty principle. The distance between human and quantum grows.
The work of Helen Pradas-Page is a series of sculptures and surface reliefs evolving from the accruing of 3-dimension units of bent, folded and twisted paper tubes to explore form and topologies, the kind that are constructed through a growing systems of physical rules and complexities.
Pradas-Page's work can be seen as a metaphorical exploration of accumulation and fossilisation. The slow gradual build up of sediment over millennia creates the varied structure that makes up our global habitat. It is this incremental licence and the formal possibilities that lie within this rulebook that Pradas-Page is exploring.
Wednesday - Friday 1pm - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 12am - 6pm
The Toilet Gallery
Nipper Alley
Link: wwwcopernicium.org.uk
From:23rd June 2010
To: 7th July 2010
MUSIC IN THE PARK
Music in the Park - Canbury Gardens
Kingston Music and Arts Service have once again organised an exciting programme of FREE music concerts at the Canbury Bandstand throughout the summer.
A host of bands will appear every Sunday afternoon from 3-5pm from 13th June - 5th September.
The concerts are a lovely opportunity to enjoy some of the talented music groups from around the area in the relaxing surroundings of Canbury park. Why not bring a picnic and enjoy the sounds of summer with the whole family?
For details call 020 8547 5050 or visit www.kingston.gov.uk/musicandarts
Phone: 020 8547 5050
Link: http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/education/musicandarts/kmas_diary_dates_and_events.htm
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