Saturday 8 May

12.45pm @ Sheffield Crucible Theatres Studio
Ensemble 360: Knocking on the Door of Romanticism
Tickets: £9/£6.50 Disabled & Unemployed/£3 Under 18s & Students
Two completely different pieces by Beethoven; the compact and cheerful Horn Sonata and the famous Archduke, featuring one of the most moving slow movements ever written, evocative of a prayer.

3pm @ Sheffield Crucible Theatres Studio
Family Concert: Bite-size Beethoven
Tickets: £10/£3 Under 18s & Students. Families of four can save 10% by booking in advance.
Bring your child and a percussion instrument – be it bongos, the spoons or a homemade pencil xylophone – and take part in creating a new Festival piece based on Beethoven’s Symphony No.5.

6.15pm @ Sheffield Crucible Theatres Studio
Pre-concert talk: Mozart and the Great Divide
Tickets: £2/Free to friends of MitR
The University of Sheffield’s Music Department’s Professor Simon Keefe talks to Paul Allen about Mozart’s place in the Revolution from Classicism to Romanticism and the ways in which our perceptions of him have gone on changing since his lifetime.

7.45pm @ Sheffield Crucible Theatres Studio
Ludwig String Trio: The Rise of the String Trio
Tickets: £14/£9.50 Disabled & Unemployed/£3 Under 18s & Students
Three great string trios by Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart. Includes The Divertimento, considered to be the greatest work ever written for this combination of strings.

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Friday 7 May

6.15pm
Pre-concert talk: Haydn’s Influence
Tickets: £2/Free to friends of MitR
Peter Cropper is joined by members of Ensemble 360 to discuss the influence that Haydn had on the composers in the festival’s opening concert.

7.45pm
Opening Concert: Ensemble 360 & Peter Cropper
Tickets: £14/£9.50 Disabled & Unemployed/£3 Under 18s & Students
This concert comprises of a moving slow movement for the Obe by Mozart, a cornerstone of the wind repertoire from Beethoven, and an explosive work of passion and drama from Schubert.

9.45pm
Music in the Community – The Sheffield Crucible Upper Bar: A Little Night Music
Entry is free
Enjoy a drink at the Crucible’s Upper Bar whilst listening to music from the University of Sheffield’s Jessop Sinfonia, joined by Peter Cropper and members of Ensemble 360

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A day of musical activities for all the family; hear performances by young Sheffield musicians including Music in the Round’s string group Highly Strung. There will also be a number of open workshops to get involved in, including Singing Sock Puppets and African drumming with Unbeatable Energy.

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Warboys’ practice spans sculpture, painting, film and installation often featuring found objects which are used as a point of departure for visual narratives and documented performances. Materials are often partnered with the elements: the sea in her pigment and large canvas sea paintings and the sun in her object/shadows captured in cyanotypes. When watching her films, where all these disparate elements appear, the viewer can experience an atmosphere of the ‘in-between’: that space where the emotional and psychological dimensions meet.

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Firsts presents nine companies over six nights in the Linbury Studio Theatre from 11 – 20 November 2010 and the following criteria apply:

• The piece must be between 10 and 30 minutes maximum.
• It must have been created in the last 18 months and completed by the application deadline (below).
• Must be UK based.
• Each company will have two performances on consecutive nights along with two or three other performing companies as part of a mixed bill.
• A basic lighting rig is provided, black dance floor and white or black backcloth. Lighting specials can be provided by negotiation in advance. It is recommended that if you require a projector you supply your own, but this can be negotiated.
• The Technical manager will endeavour to meet the requirements of the piece as near as possible, but companies must accept a level of compromise due to the nature of the programming.
• The Royal Opera House provides a minimum of four technical staff to run the shows and operate lights and sound. However, it is strongly recommended that you bring your own lighting designer/technician to relight the show and operate the board particularly if your cues are complicated. The cost for this should be included in your fee.
• Technical time is usually four hours and will be either the day of the first performance or the preceding day. Other than technical time in the theatre, the Royal Opera House cannot provide further rehearsal space.

In order to apply, please forward the following. We must receive all of the information requested.

1. Contact name, address, email address and telephone number of artist/company.
2. The name and length of the piece and the number of performers.
3. Dates and venues of previous and forthcoming performances.
4. A description including a DVD of a performance or rehearsal. Please note: we cannot accept applications without a DVD. If you are proposing an excerpt from a longer piece, please indicate the appropriate sections. All DVDs need to be compatible with European DVD players. Apple Mac formats will not be accepted.
5. A full technical rider including details of set, props, sound and lighting requirements. If this is not possible as full an indication as possible of the above.
6. The fee for two performances inclusive of performer and staff fees, technical costs, travel, transport and accommodation (please state VAT separately if applicable). Please show how this fee is broken down. This may be subject to negotiation.
7. How you heard about Firsts.

All applications must be received by Wednesday 31 March 2010.

By post: Marked Firsts and sent to ROH2, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD.
By email: Email applications Firsts@roh.org.uk. Emails must be no larger than 6Mb. All footage must be sent/delivered as a hard copy.

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The Red Rag Gallery art exhibition features the work of 8 contemporary Irish artists, whose contributions span a range of visual and emotional experience – from the endearing elaboration of the day-to-day by Anji Allen, through the quirky townscapes of Val Byrne and the evocative Irish landscapes of Cormac O’Leary and Laurence O’Toole to the finely observed and thoughtful images of café and lounge life of Brian Smyth.

Commenting on the latest art show Gallery Manager Carole Teagle says: “Irish art has seen considerable worldwide interest in recent years. As probably the largest gallery for contemporary Irish art outside of London it is a pleasure to showcase some of Ireland’s leading living artists in the Cotswolds.”

Painter Anji Allen has not included a Gold Cup in her artwork but she is well known for her beautiful oil paintings featuring teacups. She says:
“My paintings are an emotional response to memory, reminding me of people and places, of times spent with friends and family, chatting over a cup of tea or coffee.”

A visit to the Irish exhibition at Red Rag Gallery will be a fine counterpoint to the excitement of the Festival offering a sense of treasured, shared experience and a fascinating insight into contemporary Irish Art.

Notes:
The Irish Exhibition will run from 15 March to 28 March 2010.
The Cheltenham Festival runs from 16 – 19 March 2010.

Red Rag Gallery is a leading UK art gallery and specialises in British and Irish contemporary art, sculpture and limited edition prints. Red Rag Gallery represents many leading contemporary artists and sculptors and ships artwork worldwide.
Red Rag has galleries in Stow on the Wold and Bath. The galleries are open every day. Opening hours are: 10am to 5pm Monday to Saturday; 11am to 4pm, Sunday.

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Event-Site: Screenings on The Place of Artists’ Cinema – a one-night event including a talk by Maeve Connolly and screening programme featuring works by Michelle Deignan, desperate optimists, Laura Horelli, Isaac Julien, Bea McMahon and Alexandra Navratil. Supported by Culture Ireland.

Artists’ film and video has been marked by a concern with context and site for many decades. Since the 1990s, it has been possible to identify both a renewed emphasis on the moving image in the spaces and sites of contemporary art and a new focus on the social and architectural history of cinema.

Maeve Connolly’s The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect and University of Chicago Press, 2009) critically examines the relationship between cinema, site and place within contemporary art practice, exploring the production and exhibition of artists’ film and video within a range of contexts, from museums and galleries to public art projects, biennial exhibitions and art fairs. The book features in-depth readings of twenty-four recent works, including projected multi-screen narratives, site-specific projects, feature-length films and sculptural installations evoking the architecture of the movie theatre

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BCMG, Stan’s Cafe and composer Michael Wolters present a bite-sized interactive concert for young people aged 7 and above and their families. The concert will explore one or two pieces of music from their evening performance of I See With My Eyes Closed.

Families@4 is a new BCMG concert series for young people and families which take place on the same day as an evening performance. Families@4 concerts last about an hour and explore the music from the evening’s performance in a relaxed and informal way.

Mon 24th May 2010, 4:00pm @ mac

£4 adults / Free for under 16s
Cannon Hill Park
B12 9QH [map link]
Tel : 0121 446 3232

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On 24th May, and for one night only, two major forces of British contemporary music and theatre come together in this exciting, all-Birmingham collaboration. First conceived 10 years ago, I See With My Eyes Closed is the fulfillment of a long-held dream between BCMG and Stan’s Cafe, of creating a piece that’s not quite theatre and not a straight-forward concert.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, world renowned for performing and commissioning exciting new music, has, in talented composer Michael Wolters, found a match for James Yarker’s Stan’s Cafe, one of the UK’s leading contemporary theatre companies. Full of playful humour, Michael‘s seductive new piece I See With My Eyes Closed is premiered alongside Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale Suite and Richard Causton’s Rituals of Hunting and Blooding.

“Going to a concert is always better than we expect it to be. We don’t go often enough. The music is always better live than on the CD and there’s always so much more going on than the music. The BCMG players are looking beautiful tonight and are under the no-nonsense baton of Richard Baker, so please, don’t be late!”
Stan’s Cafe

Michael Wolters’ piece is commissioned by BCMG through its Sound Investment scheme, which involves individuals in commissioning new pieces of music.

Mon 24th May 2010, 7:30pm @ mac

£14 Full Price / £8 Concessions
Cannon Hill Park
B12 9QH
Tel : 0121 446 3232

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Testing Grounds believes in the importance of both celebrating ongoing and enduring artistic achievements as well as supporting the next generation of creative production.

With the greatest respect for other established and stimulating Live Art organisations who do great work to promote and celebrate pre-existing, polished performances, we encourage artists to pushing the boundaries of their practice.

Boundaries, Fluidity and dislocations are the focus for the programme, the commissioned artists explicitly exploring ideas around liminal access and departures: the Boundaries of the body – and the distance between bodies, the exploration of sound and the confinements of our physicality, the limitations of the gallery space, of the self, of the other, of individual and group migrations in our geography, identities, fluidity and disruption across artistic and non artistic disciplines.

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