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Hackney Word
Festival
The first Hackney Word Festival is running until the
end of April at venues acrosss the Borough. Local Stoke Newington events
include An Evening with Maia Press, Hackney's only independent book publisher,
at the Stoke Newington Bookshop on Wednesday 9 March at 5.30 pm (free),
N16 Writers Group also at the Bookshop on the second Monday of each month
(8 pm, £2.50), Putting Hackney Writers on the Map, Centerprise,
Thursday 10 March at 7.30 pm (free), Write to Ignite (spoken word workshops)
on 22 February and 1, 8 and 15 March at Stoke Newington Library (6 pm
- 8 pm, free), Write to Delight (workshop on poetry) at Stamford Hill
Library on Saturday 6 March (2 pm - 4 pm, free), and Tusitala - The teller
of tales (Polynesian storytelling) on Tuesday 29 March at Stoke Newington
Library (10.30 am - 12.30 pm, free).
The performances/workshops are aimed at a variety
of age groups. For information on the above and all other events contact
the Word Festival Office on 020 7249 6572 or visit www.hackney.gov.uk/discoverhackney.
The
Lion's Den – Alternative Live Entertainment Venue
Upstairs
at the LION PUB 132 Church Street, Stoke Newington
For
all enquiries please contact Lisa or Annie on 020 7249 1318 or alternatively
e-mail thelion@massivepub.com
- Every
Wednesday is the Lion's famous Open Mic night
run by Contour Buzz. All acts welcome including music, poetry, acoustic
etc. It's free entrance for all acts and audience starting at 8pm. There
is a great stage, PA system and excellent lighting.
- Every
Thursday is Comedy Candy . Doors open at
8pm with headlines linked to the Comedy Store in Piccadilly Circus.
£5 entrance and pay on the door or for reservations contact Lisa or
Annie at The Lion (see below).
- Starting
at the end of March - The last Friday of every month
we present The Brick Lane Boogie Boys who play diverse,
fun, live 50's rockabilly. This is a well-established
band with a list of fantastic reviews! Doors open at 7pm, £5 on the
door.
- The
1 st and 3rd Friday of the month we present Blow The
Fuse Jazz . This is a live Jazz band who each week headline
different extraordinary talent from the jazz world from Sax to vocalists.
They guarantee that each week has an added something special. For Jazz
lovers these nights are a definite! The Jazz is played in an extremely
relaxed and comfortable environment. Doors open at 8.30 and you can
pay on the door.
Do
you need a venue for your band or party? We hire the room at no charge
including use of our excellent PA system, speakers, stage and lighting.
We have a private bar so the gig/party is neverinterrupted. We are very
adaptable and can cater for all your needs. Please contact Lisa or Annie
on 020 7249 1318 and we can talk simple terms!
Ryan's
Bar
Regular Events :
Every Sunday
DJ Tattoo John plays insurgent country
(6 pm, free)
Throat Comedy Club (doors 8.15, £4, downstairs)
Every Monday
The Acoustic Jukebox (doors 8.30, free,
acoustic open mic – performers welcome!)
3 rd , 4 th , (and 5 th ) Wednesday
of the Month
Flim-Flam Jazz night (9 pm, small cover
charge – varies)
Thursdays Fortnightly
The Corn Rocket Club – party DJ's
Eric Ulcer, Victor Torpedo + guests. Also showcasing local and touring
Punk Rock acts (bar + DJ area free entry, downstairs, £4)
Thursday 10th March;
Monkey Island
+ Armitage Shanks
Corn Rocket Special
Tuesday 22nd March;
Neurotic Swingers + the Ulcers
Thursday 7th April;
the Parkinsons
Thursday 5th May;
Corn Rocket Nasties+Shaking Nasties
Thursday 12th May;
the Magnetix
(France)
Friday + Saturday Nights from 8 pm
Funk, Northern Soul, Rock, Reggae, and
Hip-Hop DJs
Other Upcoming Events:
Friday 11th March
the Griswalds + the Swallows (4 bands, 7 pm, Punk Rock)
Thursday 17th March
St Patrick's
Day + the Beer Garden opens
Tuesday 15th March
Overlord+Speedster(4bands,7pm, PunkRock)
Saturday 26th March
Punk Gig
(touring bands t.b.c.)
Ryan's, 181 Church Street, N16,
020 7275 7807
The Auld Shillelagh
hosts regular, highly entertaining theme evenings, including the classic
Frank Sinatra nights. On
the third Sunday of the month is The Green Room - Music for Resting Actors
& Actresses (‘Luvies, Luvies, Luvies, I Love You All'). On the first
Sunday of the month is Peel Me A Grape (‘Music from a woman's mind at
four in the morning'). Dates to be arranged included The Music Temple
(plays with the funk of love, peace and harmony), Democracy (‘Be your
own DJ - Bring 5 Tracks and share your music with the world') and
The Return
of The Sons of Lee Marvin. Also, The Other Brothers present their
brand of traditional Irish music every second Friday. Don't miss the St
Patrick's Night at the Shillelagh on 17 March. The best gig in town. Contact
the pub for details of these and other forthcoming events. (105 Stoke
Newington Church Street, N16, 0207 249 5951). www.theauldshillelagh.co.uk
The Eye, N16's only major music venue, closed suddenly
on 10 January. Ironically, on the very same day's issue of TNT Magazine
it was selected for the pub review. In what is a positive article, the
magazine said that the fruit machine is a 'bonus in a London pub' and
The Eye is 'a champion of and up-and-coming artists'. And their verdict?
'Go see The Eye'. Owner Ged and licensee Tony told us that the bar was
simply losing too much money and they had no option but to shut down.
All is not lost, however. They are currently discussing various licensing
and regulatory matters with Hackney Council and intend to re-open as a
nightime venue by April, all being well. In the meanwhile, they are looking
for music promoters for when the venue does re-open. Contact Ben, manager
of Ryan's Bar on Church Street, if you are interested. We hope to publish
an update in our forthcoming (March 19) issue.
Cafe Z Bar hosts
live jazz - 'soulful underground grooves' - Friday 1 April, 8.30pm-midnight.
Downstairs at the Z Bar, 58 Stoke Newington High Street, N16.
Bagabon (previously
Bar Lorca) are continuing to host 100% Funki, the weekly jam session for
both musicians and vocalists on Sundays (9pm-12am, free). Free salsa lessons
with Rodolfo on Mondays are probably good preparation for the salsa night
on Fridays (9pm-2am, £2), which promises Nu Latin and Salsa Disco. Origin
Blue on Wednesdays showcases new bands, and Saturday’s popular R&B
night - Pure Talent - continues (9pm-2am, £4) (176 Stoke Newington High
Street, N16 0207 275 8659).
The contemporary cabaret night (La Brasserie de Martyrs) continues in
the cellar bar at Bodrum offering a platform for performers including
poets, dancers, musicians and comedians, who don’t fit the usual mainstream
venues, in an atmosphere of innovation and experimentation (61 Stoke Newington
High Street N16, for details call 0207 241 3743).
Blow the Fuse Club Jazz
is back again in Stoke Newington Church Street London N16
Every other Friday from 18 March at The
Lion
Mar
18 Anita Wardell
‘One of the most exciting and original exponents
of the art of vocal improvisation.' Sheffield Telegraph .
Tristan Mailliot (drums)
Apr 1 Louise Elliott
‘She is hugely impressive on tenor sax, while her
agile flute captures the sheer joy of South African music.' Metro
. Simon Pearson (drums)
Apr 15 Diane McLoughlin
‘McLoughlin's soaring alto solo vibrated with echoes of the late Cannonball
Adderley.' The Guardian .
Andrea Vicari (piano) Kenrick Rowe (drums)
May 6 Renato D'Aiello
‘A beautiful sense of time and pacing and a technique which effortlessly
projects his brilliantly flowing ideas.' Ian Carr. John Blease (drums)
May 20 Bryan Corbett
‘...a warm, lyrical tone, a formidable technique and, in the higher registers
a stridency reminiscent of Freddie Hubbard.' The Independent
Jun 3 Annie Whitehead
‘Powerful mixture of African grooves, blustery free jazz and bursts of
driving blues.' The Guardian .
Jennifer Maidman (bass) Kenrick Rowe (drums)
Jun 17 Gilad Atzmon
(tbc) As we went to print the wonderful sax and clarinet player Gilad
Atzmon hopes to be here with us. Asaf Sirkis (drums)
Jul 1 Vortex Foundation Big Band
we squeeze in Annie Whitehead's 12 piece with vocals from Carol Grimes.
Don't miss.
Upstairs at The Lion, 132 Stoke Newington Church Street, London
N16
Doors 8pm Music 9pm
Adm. £8/ £6 conc.
Info 020 7254 8935
info@blowthefuse.com www.blowthefuse.com
Oxford
Stage Company and Dumbfounded Theatre co-produce The Last Waltz
season at the Arcola Theatre
3
plays, 16 actors, one extraordinary era
Musik
by Frank Wedekind,
directed by Deborah Bruce
Rose Bernd by
Gerhart Hauptmann, directed by Gari Jones
Professor Bernhardi by
Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Mark Rosenblatt
Oxford
Stage Company and Dumbfounded Theatre
are presenting The Last Waltz ,
a unique season of German plays at London's ground-breaking Arcola
Theatre from 15 March – 7 May 2005 .
This adventurous repertory season rediscovers three passionate classics
by Wedekind, Hauptmann and Schnitzler, seen for the first time in London
for almost 70 years.
Each play has been freshly translated by young British writers and will
be directed by Deborah Bruce, Gari Jones and Mark Rosenblatt, all emerging
directing talents. Performed by a strong ensemble of 16 actors including
Lucy Briers, John Dougall, Roger Evans, John Lloyd Fillingham, Mariah
Gale, Yvonne Gidden, Christopher Godwin, Jake Harders, Fred Pearson and
John Stahl.
MUSIK
by Frank Wedekind
Translated and adapted by Neil Fleming, directed by Deborah Bruce
design by Jon Bausor, sound by Adrienne Quartly
Munich,
1906. Klara lives with her singing teacher and his wife. But when a backstreet
abortionist is arrested, a secret emerges which threatens to destroy the
household's respectability. Frank Wedekind was
the great rebel of European theatre, best known for Spring Awakening
and the Lulu plays.
In Musik he unleashes
a brilliant, blistering attack on middle-class hypocrisy and double-standards.
This exhilarating adaptation by Neil Fleming, never before seen in London,
opens The Last Waltz Season.
ROSE BERND
by Gerhart Hauptmann
new version by Dennis Kelly, directed by Gari Jones
design by Jon Bausor, sound by Adrienne Quartly
Silesia, 1903. Every man falls for Rose Bernd. But her choices lead
her into danger. In a deeply traditional community how can she avoid disgrace?
Gerhart Hauptmann's compassionate but shocking account of a young woman's
downfall is a European classic by a Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Rose
Bernd receives its British
premiere in a searing new translation by playwright Dennis Kelly, whose
work has been seen at Theatre 503 and the Royal National Theatre.
PROFESSOR BERNHARDI
by Arthur Schnitzler
new version by Samuel Adamson, directed by Mark Rosenblatt
design by Jon Bausor, sound by Adrienne Quartly
Vienna 1900. A Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from absolving
a dying patient. A witchhunt ensues. Arthur Schnitzler's work has come
to define Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. Written in 1912,
Professor Bernhardi exposes
the violent prejudices lurking beneath the city's glittering surface.
Schnitzler's “serious comedy”, in a spiky new version by Time
Out Award-winning playwright Samuel
Adamson, makes its first appearance in London since 1936 and is the Last
Waltz Season's third and final production.
Continuing
to build on its reputation for nurturing young directors and writers,
Oxford Stage Company, whose world premiere of Americans
at the Arcola was an outstanding success, joins forces with Dumbfounded
Theatre to present what promises to be one of the theatrical highlights
of 2005.
Arcola Theatre
BOX OFFICE TEL: 020 7503 1646
27 Arcola Street
London
E8 2DJ
www.arcolatheatre.com
Performance
Schedule
Musik
– 15, 16, 17, 18,
19 March at 8pm. 6, 7, 15, 16, 18, 19 April at 8pm. 23 April at 4pm. 29
April at 8pm. 30 April at 12pm. 4, 5 May at 8pm. 7 May at 4pm.
Rose Bernd –
22, 23, 24, 25, 26 March at 8pm. 8, 9, 11, 12, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26 April
at 8pm. 30 April at 4pm. 6 May at 8pm. 7 May at 12pm.
Professor
Bernhardi – 29, 30
31 March at 8pm. 1, 2, 4, 5, 13, 14, 22 April at 8pm. 23 April at 12pm.
27, 28, 30 April at 8pm. 2, 3, 7 May at 8pm.
£12, £8 concessions, book all three shows for £25, Tuesdays ‘Pay What
You Can'
No concessions on Sats, Concs: Disabled, OAPs,unemployed, student, Equity
£8 mats and previews
Comedy
Candy
Hosted by
DANNY HURST
& JANICE PHAYRE
Venue:
The Lion's Den, The Lion, 132 Church Street, Stoke Newington N16 0JX,
Tel.
020 7249 1318
Dates:
Every Thursday
Time:
8.30pm (Doors 8.00pm)
Tickets:
£5 (£3 Cons)
Bookings:
bookings@comedycandy.co.uk
Danny Hurst
and Janice Phayre are joining forces to host Comedy Candy ,
a mouth-watering new comedy night in Stoke Newington. A gob-stopping pick
of headline acts, including Junior Simpson, Phil Nichol, Rob Deering and
Jo Caulfied are mixed with the best up and coming sweeties including Russell
Kane, Josie Long, Chris McCausland and Danielle Ward and are spilling
themselves out for the lucky folk of Stoke Newington.
About
Danny
Former circus
performer Danny Hurst has performed in Edinburgh as a comic, actor, musician,
dancer and street performer. This year, he will cycle there from London
promoting his one man show for 2005. Danny has performed all over the
world and is probably the only sexually dubious, orthodox Jewish, left
handed, vegetarian and currently partially disabled Manchester City fan
in comedy.
About Janice
Janice formed
double act “Susan and Janice” with Susan Earl in 1999. They have taken
four shows to Edinburgh and in 2002 toured Britain with their show “Out
of Our Heads”. “…one of the finest shows from the Edinburgh Festival…magical…dovetails
everything that's best about stand-up comedy and sit down drama… ” The
Guardian. This year Janice was the runner-up in the “Funny Women” competition
and reached the final of the “J20 Last Laugh Talent Hunt”.
“A force
to be reckoned with”, Chortle
About
the Venue
Bar til 12.00.
Food is available.
The nearest
train station is Stoke Newington and the buses to and from Angel are 476
or 73.
Forthcoming
events
March
10: Micky Flanagan, Zoe Lyons, James Branch, Matt Green, MC – Janice
Phayre
March
17: Ava Vidal, Andrew Laurence, Dave Dynamite, Nina the Cleaner, MC –
Danny Hurst
March
24: Gary Le Strange, Russell Kane, Tiernan Douieb, Yariv, MC – Danny
Hurst
March
31: Jo Caulfield, Josie Long, Isy Suttie, Danielle Ward, Anna Crilly MC
Janice Phayre
St
Mary's Church, Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16
Sunday 13 March at 4.30pm
The
Lantana Ensemble, dir Peter Holman. Owen Willetts, Counter-tenor. German
Sacred Music from Schütz to Bach. With Judy Tarling, Ilana Cravitz (violin)
and Ibi Aziz, Vanessa Coode, Andrew Kerr (viols).
Programme:
Heinrich
Schütz (1585-1672): Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott HWV447
Johann
Rosenmüller (c1619-1684): Sonata II in e minor (1682)
Johann
Rosenmüller: O dives omnium
Dietrich
Becker (1623-1679): Suite in D (1668)
David
Pohle (1624-1695): Herr, wenn ich dir dich habe
Dieterich
Buxtehude (1637-1707): Jubilate Domino, omnis terra BuxWV64
Heinrich
Bach (1615-1692): Sonata I in C major, Sonata II in F major
Johann
Christoph Bach (1742-1703): Ach, dass ich Wassers (Lamento)
Johann
Michael Nicolai (1629-1685): Suite in A minor
Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Bekennen will ich seinen Namen (Cantata
no.
200)
Bookings:
020 8985 3724
Freq
Presents: The Drones Club
The next Drones Club will take place in March 2005. Our home for the first
five Drones Club events, The Eye in Stoke Newington has now closed its
doors. We would like to thank the staff and management at The Eye for
making us welcome there, particularly for the spectacular final gig (the
last ever at the venue) on 8 January 2005 when a storming two hour-plus
set to a packed venue from S/T brought proceedings to a close in fine
ecstatic-psychedelic style, their set only terminated by equipment failure.
We think that S/T's reception was so good that, due to popular demand,
we have invited them back to the Drones Club to support our special guest
artist for the sixth event, Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots.
Drones Club VI is on Friday March 18 at Barden's Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke
Newington Road, London N16 7XJ. Other acts are to be confirmed, but there
will be the usual Kosmische and ResonanceFM plus guest DJs on hand from
8pm until 3am. £6 on the door.
About The Drones Club
' We're pretty broad minded here, and if you stop short of smashing the
piano, there isn't much you can do at the Drones that will cause the raised
eyebrow and the sharp intake of breath.'
PG Wodehouse, Young Men In Spats
The Drones Club is home to harmonic drones and jollity of all stripes,
inviting artists, performers and audience to participate in a world apart
from mundanity. We prefer to think cosmically, and act musically. Or is
it the other way around?
Not all the music played at The Drones Club is necessarily droney (though
it might well be). Sometimes it is danceable, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes
melodic, often harmonic. No-one has yet smashed a piano, at least not
literally, but it might happen one day. Thankfully, the music and crowd
at The Drones Club is rarely dull, and more often than not quite entertaining
- as is only to be expected when the event is subtitled 'an evening of
jollity, romance and harmonic drones'.
Previous performances at The Drones Club have included sets from Al the
Megaphone Poet, Andrew Bailey, Brutality Of Screen, Disinformation vs
SMDO, Mr. Fireman, Moonus (Groop), Morgan & Knight, Naked Goat, Nazarine,
Now, S/T, Zali Krishna and the Stella Maris Drone Orchestra.
Resident and guest DJs are drawn from the Kosmische Club and Resonance
FM, sometimes at the same time. Kosmische also has its own radio show
every Tuesday night on 104.4FM in London, and streamed via the Resonance
website worldwide. DJs can and will include Tango-Mango, Mink Pelican,
Leo Avanti, Barry K and/or Jim Backhaus. There will usually be a venue-transforming
psychedelic light show at The Drones Club courtesy of Lightning Rod.
For more information: dronesclub@freq.org.uk or www.freq.org.uk
Turkish
Artists Exhibition At Abney Hall
Around 40 Turkish artists who are living
and working abroad and from different backgrounds with diverse artistic
milieus are gathering to show their works ranging from oil painting and
water colours, to ceramics and photographs, all measuring 30x30cms, on
6 March 2005 at Abney Hall in the heart of Stoke Newington, London.
The exhibitors who are mainly from Paris,
London and Berlin are professional artists; however, there is a small
number of art students and new young artists among them.
The restricted size of the art works, 30x30,
while being a transportable size and symbolic of the transitory aspect
of living abroad, is also a challenge for the artists to express themselves
in equally restrictive spaces as they may have experienced themselves
at some time or another during their life abroad.
The exhibition will run until 18 March
2005, and can be viewed Mon-Fri, 1-6pm, by appointment. It will also be
open to the public on 12 &13 March (Sat & Sun), 1-6pm.
Address: Abney Hall, 73, Stoke
Newington Church Street, London N16 0AS
Telephone: 020 7923 9332
Selected
Works by Robert Hind
Stoke Newington and Beyond, as
it has never been seen before
Stoke Newington Library Gallery
just off Stoke Newington Church
Street, London N16 0JS
opening night thursday 10 march
2005 6-8 pm
wednesday 9 - saturday 19 march
opening times: monday to
saturday 11-5 pm
Planet Stills photographer Robert Hind is having his first solo
exhibition in Stoke Newington. He has been working as a professional
photographer since 1994 and set up Planet Stills on Church Street
(opposite Fresh and Wild) towards the end of 2004 which specialises in
family portraiture and publicity photography. The title of the
exhibition 'Stoke Newington and Beyond' draws together past and present
Stoke Newington and works in three parts.
Firstly, there are contemporary colour portraits of Stoke Newington
inhabitants who have a connection with particular noted historical
counterparts. The historical figures include Olaudah Equiano (a slave
who bought his freedom), Mary Wollstonecraft (the mother of feminism),
George Leybourne (Champagne Charlie), Anna Sewell (writer of Black
Beauty), and Daniel Defoe (writer of Robinson Crusoe) amongst others.
All of these figures either lived in Stoke Newington or are buried in
Abney Park Cemetery. The portraits highlight the rich cultural
diversity that has always been present in Stoke Newington and emphasise
the uniqueness that makes it an inspiring community to live in.
Secondly, there is a selection of large black and white landscape
photographs printed onto stretched canvas. Many are taken in Stoke
Newington, while others are from over the border, for instance in
Lincolnshire and Scotland. These photographs highlight the Victorian
backdrop against which Stoke Newington residents live: time seems to
stand still in these pictures, and the streets and parks appear virtually
empty much as they might have been some 100 years ago.
The third part of the show highlights Robert Hind as an art
photographer. They deal with issues of being a man in the modern
world. As men we are encouraged to make logical decisions based upon
degrees of probability, we tend to value our thinking and distrust our
feelings. These black and white montage images suggest mythical stories
and inner feelings which offer an insight into the terror and wonder of
being a man. Linked to this part of the exhibition is a beguiling self
portrait as a phantasmagoria (a Victorian steam projection).
Africa
in Focus at
Hackney Museum
Evening
events programme
Africa
in Focus is an exhibition of a selection of photographs from Africa
Remix at the Hayward Gallery
All these
events are free and are aimed at 12 years and older. Places are
limited an must be pre-booked through the Museum
Made in Africa
- tradition and modernity in African art
– Professor John Picton
Thursday 17
th March 6:30 – 8pm
John Picton
, Emeritus Professor of African art at SOAS. He has worked at the Nigerian
Government Department of Antiquities and at the British Museum.
He will examine how art is probably older in Africa than anywhere else,
that the past has not been discarded in all the developments of the 20th
century, and that modernist developments are inevitably linked with resistance
to colonial rule
Africa
in Focus – Gus Casely Hayford
Thursday 14
th April 6:30 – 8pm
Gus
Casely Hayford , Programme Director
of Africa 05, who has created an extraordinary season of events with over
40 partners nationwide will talk about the place of photography in African
society.
Africa 05
is a series of major cultural events taking place in
London which celebrate contemporary and past cultures from across Africa
and the diaspora. One of the major events starting the celebrations in
February i s Africa Remix at the Hayward Gallery,
the largest exhibition of work by contemporary African artists ever to
be shown in Europe. In collaboration with the Hayward Gallery,
Hackney Museum will show the work of 5 photographers from Africa
Remix : Rui Assubuji, Luis Basto
and Sérgio Santimano from Mozambique, Ananias
Leki Dago from Ivory Coast and Ymane Fakhir
from Morocco.
Africa
Remix :
Contemporary Art of a Continent, Hayward Gallery 10 Feb –
17 April 2005
Africa
in Focus – a
selection of photographs from Africa Remix, Hackney
Museum 15 Feb – 16 April 2005
www.africaremix.org.uk
www.hackney.gov.uk/hackneymuseum
www.africa05.co.uk
Hackney
Museum
Hackney
Technology & Learning Centre
1
Reading Lane, Hackney
London
E8
1GQ
Tel.
020 8356 3500
E-mail: hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk
What's
on at the Rio
Please note price reduction to £1 Children/£2
Adults for the Saturday Morning Picture Club and Tuesday Playcentre Matinee
screenings
TUE
8 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 12.45 (Parents & Babies only)
At
4.15: An Angel for May (PG)
Kinsey
(15) 6.00, 8.45
WED
9 MAR
At
2.30: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (U)
Kinsey
(15) 6.00, 8.45
THUR
10 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 12.45 (Parents & Babies only), 3.30, 6.00, 8.45
FRI
11 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 3.30, 6.00, 8.45
SAT
12 MAR
At
11.00am: Sleepover (PG)
The
Centre for Attention Artists' film & video (15) 1.15
Kinsey
(15) 3.30, 6.00, 8.45
SUN
13 MAR
Hukkle
(12A) 2.15 + Aaltra (15) 3.50
Kinsey
(15) 6.00, 8.45
MON
14 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 3.30, 6.00, 8.45
TUE
15 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 12.45 (Parents & Babies only)
At
4.15: Sleepover (PG)
Kinsey
(15) 6.00, 8.45
WED
16 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 3.30, 6.00, 8.45
THUR
17 MAR
Kinsey
(15) 12.45 (Parents & Babies only), 3.30, 6.00, 8.45
FRI
18 MAR
5x2
(15) 2.15, 4.30, 6.45, 9.00
SAT
19 MAR
At
11.00am: National Treasure (PG)
5th
Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival:Dance,
Camera, Action - Programme 1 (PG) 2.30
+
The Freshest Kids - A History of the B-Boy (12A) 4.15
5x2
(15) 6.45, 9.00
SUN
20 MAR
Afterlife
(PG) 1.30 + Nobody Knows (12A) 3.50
5x2
(15) 6.45, 9.00
MON
21 MAR
5x2
(15) 2.15, 4.30, 6.45, 9.00
TUE
22 MAR
5x2
(15) 1.00 (Parents & Babies only)
At
4.15: National Treasure (PG)5x2
(15) 6.45, 9.00
WED
23 MAR
5x2
(15) 2.15, 4.30, 6.45, 9.00
THUR
24 MAR
5x2
(15) 2.00 (Parents & Babies only), 4.30, 6.45, 9.00
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB
Tel: 020 7241 9415 Fax: 020 7923 0566
www.riocinema.org.uk
HACKNEY
EMPIRE FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS
Hackney
Empire, 291 Mare Street, London, E8 1EJ
Telephone
020 8985 2424.
The Box Office is open from 10.00am to 8.00pm
www.hackneyempire.co.uk
Opera and Ballet at the Empire
If you've never tried the Opera or Ballet then the Hackney Empire is inviting
you to give it a go for just £5 a ticket.
The offer applies to the Hackney Empire's programme of the English Touring
Opera's Cosi Fan Tutte and Mary Quee of Scots, and the Chisinau National
Ballet's performance of Swan Lake.
The ticket offer is part of an initiative to encourage more people into
local theatres and venues. The initiative has been operating since December
last year and is supported by the Hackney Strategic Partnership (HSP).
The participating theatres are the Hackney Empire, Arcola Theatre and
Chats Palace.
The ticket offer is targeted at people who live and work in Hackney and
who are first time bookers to participating theatres. Applications are
particularly welcome from the following groups who are underrepresented
in theatre audiences:
- Children between 5 and 15 years (with
a parent/carer)
- Young people between 15 and 21 years
- People on benefits or low income
- Disabled people
- Black or ethnic minority
It is hoped that the ticket offer will see theatres and venues gaining
new audiences and more Hackney residents getting a better understanding
of the cultural heritage within the borough. The participating theatres
will collect monitoring information to assess how well the ticket offer
is meeting its goals.
Since the ticket offer first became available at the beginning of the
year, more than 2,500 people have been to the theatre.
By extending the offer to its opera and ballet seasons the Hackney Empire
hopes many more will take up the offer.
“For many people going to the theatre is something which they don't
even consider, however we want to change this and give people the chance
to come and see what's on offer. Drama, music, comedy and dance
are being including in this scheme, so we hope that there will be something
for everyone and that they will return to the theatre again and again”.
Roland Muldoon Artistic Director, Hackney Empire
Details of all the shows available are below.
Mary, Queen of Scots – Tickets
£5
Donizetti's opera about the struggle of
two queens locked in a deadly struggle. Experience a moment in history
that never happened.
Date: Friday 11th March
Time: 7:30pm
Cosi Fan Tutte – Tickets £5
A
comedy of shifting sexual dynamics, which gains depth and poignancy through
some of Mozart's most exquisite vocal writing. Date: Saturday
12th March
Time: 7:30pm
Swan Lake – Tickets £5
One of Tchaikovsky's greatest
works is brought to the UK by the Chisnau National Ballet from the former
Soviet Union, a country famed for its ballet.
Date: Sunday 13th March – Monday 14th March
Time: 13 Mar 7:30pm, 14 Mar 2:30pm & 7:30pm
HACKNEY PROMS
The Hackney Proms are relaxed and informal Sunday morning concerts, in
its inaugural season, The Hackney Proms and Battuta will present 3 concerts
at the Hackney Empire. Battuta is the exciting new London Baroque ensemble
of fresh and dynamic young international musicians with impressive reputations,
playing in leading orchestras throughout Europe. Join them for a musical
journey through Europe and beyond; enjoy great performances of Baroque
favorites and wonderful unexpected pieces. Children are welcome!The first
concert held on the 30th of January had an extremely unexpected success
(for concert reviews and photos www.hackneyproms.co.uk); the next concerts
will be on the 3rd of April and the musical pieces will be:
Sunday, April 3, 11.30am
Bach Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 (soloists Steven Devine , Katy Bircher
, George Crawford )
Telemann Overture/Suite "Völker" in B flat Fasch Concerto
for Bassoon in C (soloist Peter Whelan )
Pachelbel Kanon and Gigue
Biber Battalia
Tickets price: £10, conc. £7.
See www.hackneyproms.co.uk and www.hackneyempire.co.uk for special price
tickets.
Livia, Public Relations Coordinator, Hackney Proms, 10b Alvington Crescent,
London E8 2NW
liviarao@hackneyproms.co.uk
020 7503 3139, 0797 151 4966
Mary, Queen of Scots: English Touring Opera
English Touring Opera's new production of Mary, Queen of Scots opens
at Hackney Empire on 11 March. Directed by ETO general director James
Conway, whose A Midsummer Night's Dream was rapturously received last
year, the opera culminates in a dramatic confrontation between the two
women that is historicallyinaccurate but theatrical dynamite. It will
be the first time the opera has been performed at many of the venues ETO
is touring to, as the showy vocal writing requires two exceptional female
leads. Anne Mason and Jennifer Rhys Davis are ably equipped to take up
the challenge, conducted by Noel Davies, whose experience includes performances
at the Royal Opera House and the New York Metropolitan.
7.30 pm, 11 March, Hackney Empire, £10 - £27.50. Box office
020 8985 2424.
For more information, contact Andrew Higgins, ETO Marketing Manager,
on andrew.higgins@englishtouringopera.org.uk or phone 020 7833 2555. ETO,
52-54 Roseberry Avenue, EC1R 4R
Doctor Carnival
Music from South America, Africa, India and the Carribean – together
with the cream of local musical talent.
Date: Thursday 17th March – Saturday 19th March
Time: 7:30pm
Price: From £5
Raspberry Ripple All Star Comedy Benefit.
In aid of the disability equality in education. Comedians such as Johnny
Vegas, Stewart Lee, Paul Chowdry, Jenny Éclair and Lee Mack all
perform.
Date: Sunday 20th March
Time: 7:30pm
Price: £15
Abbott and Benn take over the Empire
Rt Hon Diana Abbott MP and Tony Benn MP talk about there life in the world
of Politics.
Date: Monday 21st March
Time: 7:30pm
Price: £8 - £10 (concessions available)
Dick Whittington and his Cat
This much loved classic comes alive in this colourful panto- style production.
Featuring lots of songs, music, comedy and joining in, there’s something
for the whole family .
Date: Tuesday 31st March
Time: 1pm
Price: £7 adults Children £6
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