Horsham festival 2016

9 - 17 JULY 2016

HORSHAM FESTIVAL 2016

The new Horsham Festival is the first Horsham Town Centre and area focused celebration of the arts for many years.

In its first year, the Horsham Festival will feature a range of events and performances to inspire across the arts spectrum. Local artists and performers will engage audiences right across the arts spectrum from music and dance to theatre and visual arts.

The phrase something for everyone is much over used but is a fair description of what is hoped will become the Festivals greatest appeal over time.

SUSSEX ARTISTS

LESLEY TAYLOR

HDMF: CHARLOTTE ROWAN

WELCOME

At the core of the festival will be some well-known events, groups and venues such as the renowned Shipley Arts Festival, Horsham Artist’s Open Studios, the District Council organised Sparks in the Park and independent charity Horsham Garden Music Festival weekend.

Horsham Music Circle, Horsham Folk Club and HAODs have also organised events, along with many other groups and individuals.

Horsham Festival has been set up as a charitable organisation and already has over 30 local arts and events groups

INTRODUCTION

PAUL BELLRINGER

THANK YOU Thank you to West Sussex County Council Community Initiative Fund, Horsham District Council Community Fund, Horsham Museum and the businesses, organisations, venues and groups supporting this exciting new festival.

This programme has been kindly sponsored by Toovey’s Auctioneers of Washington.

involved. It aims to give a focus to Horsham’s already vibrant scene, creating an Arts Festival that in time will be regionally recognised.

A key objective is to foster local youth development in the arts, seeking to create a powerful relationship between those that aspire to perform or create and those that already do. Youth involvement is being integrated in to the Festival’s management from the start, ensuring that the Festival’s future is shaped by a true cross section of tastes and talents from across the community.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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OPEN STUDIOS 9TH -10TH & 16TH - 17TH JULY VARIOUS VENUES. FOR DETAILS VISIT

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Horsham Artists Open Studios (HAOS) has moved its annual Art Trail from June so it can be involved in the Horsham Festival and be associated with many other local talented people in the arts.

HAOS is an informal group of artists and craftspeople, working in a wide variety of different disciplines and mediums, all living or working in the Horsham District.

There is no selection process to be part of HAOS. Some of the artists are established professionals, others are beginners at the start of an exciting

IAN HADLEY

PAUL BADEN

ALISON INGRAM

ART

HORSHAM ARTISTS

journey, and those of all stages in between.

The group’s monthly meetings offer the opportunity of networking and support, to share information and experience and to provide opportunities to promote and sell Art. HAOS hosts two main events each year; the HAOS Art Trail in the Summer and HAOS Art Fair at the end of Autumn. As we are a self - help, self - funding group, all HAOS artists are required to help with fundraising and/or planning, setting up and running events.

HORSHAM ARTISTS

This year’s Art Trail more than 30 local artists, creators and makers. They include sculptors Irma Westerdijk, Janine Creaye and Paul Baden, ceramicists Jean Holder and Chris Weedon, and jewellery makers Bruce Ringrose and Jill Mills.

Enjoy a stunning range of work by painters including Benjamin Smith, Peter Piper, Sharon Norman, Angela Brittain, Ian Hadley and Alison Ingram.

EXHIBITION OF BIRD PAINTINGS MONDAY 11TH - FRIDAY 15TH JULY: 9AM - 5PM

Roffey Park will host FLOCK, an exhibition of Bird Paintings. FLOCK is an eclectic group of talented local artists coming together.

Curated by Morag MORAG WARRACK Warrack. For further information call 07876 472651.

GEORGE & DRAGON JAZZ

New artists are always welcome; please visit horshamartistsopenstudios.co.uk

Jon, Simon and the staff at The George and Dragon in Dragons Green, Shipley, RH13 8GE, host a special evening. Diners can enjoy a Horsham Festival menu for one night only, with musical interludes by international jazz artist Lee Gold. Tables are limited.

To book call 01403 741320.

LESLEY TAYLOR

You can also view the glass work of Deborah Timperley and Judith Alford, silversmith Denise Bliss and the textiles of Iris Bishop.

TUESDAY 12TH JULY, 7.30PM

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ASSOCIATION OF SUSSEX ARTISTS SATURDAY 16TH JULY: 10AM - 5PM

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The Association of Sussex Artists (ASA) showcases the best of professional and amateur work by painters, sculptors and potters from across Sussex. In DEREK GOLLEDGE August, the ASA holds its annual exhibition at The Drill Hall. However, on 16th July, the ASA will in residence at Horsham Museum.

HORSHAM FESTIVAL 2016 SHIPLEY ARTS FESTIVAL SATURDAY 9TH,

The Shipley Arts Festival, now in its 16th year, offers an incredible programme of classical music.

As well as featuring acclaimed musicians including The Bernardi Music Group (often featuring Andrew Bernardi with a Stradivarius) and Opera Holloway, Shipley Arts Festival creates pathways for young people through its String Academy.

Festival Events: Saturday 9th July for 7.30pm Durrance Manor, Smithers Hill, Shipley, RH13 8PE A Concert of Friends with Andrew Bernardi, Jonathan Few and Bruce Martin. Enjoy some of the festival's most popular tunes, with canapes and wine. Tickets £35/£40.

THURSDAY 14TH JULY VARIOUS VENUES.

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ANDREW BERNARDI

WILLIAMSON VOICES

MUSIC

SUNDAY 10TH &

Sunday 10th July, from 5.30pm Christ’s Hospital School Chapel Grammy-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices perform with Bernardi Music Group, Andrew Cleary, William Penn School and Greenway Academy. Conducted by James Whitbourn and James Jordan. The programme includes music of Old Blue Sydney Carter, James Whitbourn's own music and favourites including The Lark Ascending. Tickets £14.

Thursday 14th July for 7.30pm Durrance Manor, Shipley, RH13 8PE A Concert of Friends to include Filip Fenrych, leader of Verbier Festival Orchestra, pianist Maria Marchant, violinist Andrew Bernardi and tenor Dr Charles Wood. Virtuoso pieces with canapes and wine. Tickets £35/40 For tickets call the Box Office on 01403 750220 or visit thecapitolhorsham.com

MUSIC EVENTS HORSHAM FOLK CLUB VARIOUS DATES

horshamfolkclub.co.uk Horsham Folk, which meets at The Normandy Centre Denne Road, Horsham hosts a series of musical nights during the Festival.

Saturday 9th July, from 10AM Carfax Amphitheatre As an antidote to all those bands that sometimes take it a little too seriously, Okee Dokee (at 2.30pm) and other bands will be entertaining the crowds.

Sunday 10th July, 8PM Normandy Centre, Denne Road, Horsham, RH12 1JF The Open Floor night includes Desert Island Folk with Dick Streeter, founder member of Broadwood Morris and musician in the Okee Dokee band.

Admission £2.

Monday 11th July, 8PM Market Square, Horsham Town Centre Sun Oak Clog and Chameleon Belly Dancers will be performing.

Wednesday 13th July, 8PM Frog & Nightgown, Faygate, RH12 4SS Appalachian Cloggers and Chameleon Belly Dancers will be appearing.

Thursday 14th July, Evening Outside The Stout House, Carfax Broadwood Morris Men and guests will be putting on a dancing and musical evening near The Stout House pub.

Friday 15th July, 8PM Collyer’s College, Hurst Road BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award

OKEE DOKEE BAND

CHAMELEON

BROADWOOD

SUNJAY

GRANNY’S ATTIC

nominees Granny's Attic perform, as well as Collyers students. Tickets £10 (Students £5) Saturday 16th July, 10AM The Carfax Ampitheatre, Horsham Folk in the Carfax acts include Granny’s Attic, Flossie Malavialle, Dr Bluegrass, The Full Shanty and Sunjay. Between acts Broadwood Morris and Magog Ladies Morris will be dancing.

Sunday 17th July, 8PM Normandy Centre, Denne Road Sunjay, nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and the British Blues Awards, will be performing at Horsham Folk Club. Admission £8.

For details call 01403 268611 or email admin@horshamfolkclub.co.uk

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SLINFOLD BAND

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PIPE AND TABOR

HORSHAM GARDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL 16TH, 17TH, 23RD, 24TH JULY

horshamgardenmusicfestival.co.uk All concerts are Free Entry and will take place between 1pm and 5pm in the Human Nature Garden of Horsham Park.

This outdoor, family friendly festival features a wide spectrum of talented local musicians and singers to wow an appreciative audience and help create a joyful happy atmosphere.

With its Whole Community ethos the Horsham Garden Music Festival has for 2016 integrated a number of young performers into the line-up for each concert. On each afternoon they will be sharing the stage with a range of well-known and popular bands. The festival will showcase a total of 31 acts

performed by musicians and singers from the age of 9 to those in their 80s.

Saturday 16th Acoustic & Folk includes One For The Road and The Logical Hairs; Sunday 17th Musical Medley sees the return of Euphoria Steel Band and the Supernotes.

Saturday 23rd Music From Stage & Screen will be compered by our local Diva, Sarah Esser-Haswell and includes the Slinfold Concert Band; Sunday 24th is the Rock Concert, opening with Rock Dogs before the festival closes with Solice.

See website, social media and publicity for details of the full line-up.

MUSIC EVENTS HORSHAM’S YOUNG TALENT

RHYTHM OF DANCE

SUNDAY 10TH JULY: 12PM - 4PM

www.facebook.com/hackhorsham/ A Visit Horsham and Hack Horsham interactive event that showcases young talent in Horsham.

See a performance from B Sharp Guitar And Ukulele School, based at Tanbridge House School. www.bsharpguitarschool.co.uk Talented young people act their award-winning pieces, which span from Shakespeare to the film, Bridesmaids. www.drama-works.net Find out what happens when you mix a bunch of incredible 6-13 year olds with an opera singer and a composer!

Come and join Little Notes Children's Choir and get a taste of Horsham's ‘Build An Opera’ experience. www.buildanopera.co.uk Have a go at being a DJ, an interactive session with SEDA.org.uk Learn how to make music, games and fun experiments using computer code with Hack Horsham and Castlewood Primary School Code Club.

Learn to paint in watercolours with Art 4 All

FRIDAY 8TH JULY, 6:30PM & SATURDAY 9TH JULY, 1PM & 6.30PM

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Horsham School of Dance returns to The Capitol, opening with a new ballet of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ before showcasing a variety of dance genres including Tap, Modern, Jazz and Musical Theatre.

Tickets £15 from 01403 750220

COLLYER’S TALENT COMPETITION SATURDAY 9TH JULY: 2-4PM

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Duckering Hall, Collyers College.

Students from the college will show their talents in front of a panel of judges.

The audience is open to family, friends and the general public. The winner will perform at Sparks in the Park on Sunday 10th July at 3.30pm. Contact Steve Brundish at seb@collyers.ac.uk

HSO/H20 ORCHESTRAL WORKSHOP SUNDAY 10TH JULY: 2PM

HSO

horshamsymphony.org.uk Join Horsham’s two orchestras: the Horsham Symphony Orchestra and H2O for an orchestral workshop at St Marks Church. All ages and abilities welcome. Please bring a music stand and your instrument!

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PERFORMERS PLATFORM

JN THEATRE: A SLICE OF HAMLET

SUNDAY 17TH JULY: 6PM

SATURDAY 9TH JULY: 1PM & 2PM

The Music Circle will be presenting a showcase concert by selected young musicians from the Horsham Performers Platform on Sunday 17th July at the PERFORMERS PLATFORM Unitarian Church, Worthing Road, Horsham. HPP provides opportunities for amateur musicians and singers of all ages to perform in a friendly environment and to receive feedback and advice from distinguished professional musicians.

The Johnson Neilson Theatre Group is a Horsham theatre group, run by professional West End actors Gael Johnson and Michael Neilson.

JN offers classes and JN THEATRE coaching in the performing arts. As part of Horsham Festival, members of the group will be performing a ten minute version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Human Nature Garden in Horsham Park.

ELKIE BROOKS AT THE CAPITOL

SINATRA JUKEBOX

SUNDAY 17TH JULY: 7.30PM

SUNDAY 10TH JULY: 7.30PM

Elkie closes the Horsham Festival.

She is celebrating her 70th birthday with a UK tour, coming to The Capitol, Horsham.

Now in the 5th decade of her ELKIE BROOKS career, she is one of the most powerful and versatile vocal talents of our generation.

Performing some of her classic hits, blues and jazz, an electric evening with Elkie is guaranteed.

Tickets £27 from 01403 750220.

A show full of surprises as star of the West End’s Rat Pack Gary Williams and Harry The Piano perform whatever the audience requests from 100 of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ best SINATRA JUKEBOX loved hits. Only the audience know what’s coming next!

Williams has performed all over the world including Los Angeles, Tokyo, Melbourne and Sinatra’s original Palm Springs home.

Tickets £21 from 01403 750220.

http://horsham-music-circle.org.uk

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jntheatregroup.com

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EVENTS SPARKS IN THE SUNDAY 10TH JULY

12 - 5PM

SPARKS IN THE PARK

EVENTS

PARK, HORSHAM

Horsham Park is the place to be on Sunday 10th July from midday, for this year’s fun-filled Horsham Sparks in the Park will be held there.

Organised by Horsham District Council and many partners, the packed 2016 programme will also include the return of regular favourites including the Community Stage packed with local performers, Community Safety Display, Have a Go Sports Zone, Benson’s Funfair, Stay Safe Young Driving Experience, a Food Court, and Horsham Rotary’s Charity Village.

Horsham Nursery’s children’s activity

marquee will have an arts theme to it in honour of the festival.

The event features many shows and demonstrations for all the family, including Kapow, a professional wrestling promotion that brings colourful, fun and exciting characters back to the world of British wrestling.

Other highlights include a Design a Mini Roof stand in association with Vines MINI, the Boom Tribe Percussion Band, the Chameleon Belly Dancers and a production by Ariel Company Theatre.

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DINOSAURS AT THE MUSEUM MONDAY 11TH - 16TH JULY

horshammuseum.org/events/ Horsham Museum hosts an exhibition of the District’s links to dinosaurs, throughout the week of the Festival.

On Saturday 9th 11am - midday, and on Saturday 16th 2:30 - 3:30pm, Jeremy Knight, Heritage and Museum Manager, will provide a talk on dinosaurs.

176 years ago, there was a keen amateur dinosaur hunter who, looking over lumps of stone waiting to be cut to build a new chapel for Horsham, saw a dark mass amongst greyish brown rock.

Both fascinating stories and resultant art work along with fossils remains are told and featured in this temporary exhibition.

PTERODACTYL FOSSIL

30 years ago, keen amateur fossil hunter Sylvia Standing rescued the material before it was to be made into bricks. Little did she realise that after 30 years of research, the world’s leading dinosaur artist John Sibbick would recreate from those fragments Horshamosaurus Rudgwickensis – a dinosaur named after her home town and that of George Bax Homes.

JEREMY KNIGHT

PTERODACTYL FOSSIL

Little did George Bax Holmes realise that this discovery would catapult him in to the world of The Great Exhibition of 1851 and Central Park, New York.

EVENTS HORSHAM RIVERSIDE WALK As well as displaying remains, the exhibition also showcases the work of Hastings born video artist Toby Tatum, who has produced a short film, Monsters. It features Horsham’s Iguanodon along with the other dinosaur sculptures in the park.

Toby has exhibited the film around the world at various film festivals and now thanks to the support of Toovey’s Fine Art Valuers and Auctioneers the Museum is delighted to be able to show it in Horsham. This event runs from 9th July - 5th September.

Jeremy Knight will also give a talk called ‘Horsham Culture, Pre-history to 2000' during the Festival week.

Jeremy’s knowledge of the town is second to none, and his History of Horsham Volumes are available exclusively at Horsham Museum.

SATURDAY 16TH JULY, 11AM

http://horshamtowncommunity partnership.btck.co.uk/ The Horsham Town Community Partnership will be hosting its annual 13-mile Riverside Walk. A photography competition will be run on the day, with details on the HTCP website. Walkers having lunch at Warnham Nature Reserve will be entertained by The Toons jazz band.

HORSHAM TOWN GUIDED TOUR WEDNESDAY 13TH & SATURDAY 16TH JULY, 11AM

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The Horsham Society is organising a free guided historic walking tour around Horsham Town. The walk starts from the museum and will last for about 90 minutes. For details call Horsham Visitor Information Centre on 01403 211661.

STRICTLY VINTAGE DANCE SATURDAY 16TH JULY, 2-5PM

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HORSHAM’S OLD TOWN HALL

Horsham District Age UK hosts Strictly Vintage, a 1940’s and 1950’s tea dance, at Drill Hall, Denne Road. All are welcome for tea, live music and games.

Tickets £12.50 from 01403 751304.

HORSHAM FESTIVAL 2016 LITERATURE EVENTS AT HORSHAM LIBRARY 9TH, 12TH & 14TH JULY

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JULIET WEST

A Children’s Literary Event will be held at the library on Saturday 9th July, from 9am.

helpful feedback. For details visit http://horshamwriters.co.uk

Then on Tuesday 12th July, at 1.30 3pm, Horsham Writer’s Circle presents Billingshurst author Juliet West. Juliet worked as a journalist before taking an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University.

Local author Umi Sinha will be discussing her novel 'Belongings' at the library on Thursday 14th July, at 7pm. ‘Belongings’ tells the interwoven story of three generations from the darkest days of the British Raj to the aftermath of the First World War.

Before the Fall, her debut novel, is inspired by a devastating true tale of love and betrayal, set in London’s East End during the First World War.

Partly set in Sussex, the novel explores their secrets as they struggle to understand and free themselves from a troubled history.

Horsham Writer’s Circle gives writers in the Horsham area a chance to share their work and benefit from friendly,

Tickets to the event costs £4 (available from Horsham Library) www.westsussex.gov.uk/libraries/

EVENTS

LIGHTS AND BUSHELS

LIGHTS AND BUSHELS THEATRE COMPANY FRIDAY 15TH & SATURDAY 16TH JULY: 8PM

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Lights and Bushels presents My Second Best Bed at The Park Barn, North Street, Horsham.

This One Act play explores the possible reasons behind the Bard’s bequest to his wife, Anne Hathaway. Tickets £6.

SOUTHWATER JUNIOR ACADEMY

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

THURSDAY 14TH

SATURDAY 16TH JULY: 6PM

& FRIDAY 15TH JULY, 7PM

HUMAN NATURE GARDEN,

CAPITOL THEATRE, HORSHAM

HORSHAM PARK

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THURSDAY MORNING ART GROUP THURSDAY 14TH JULY, 930AM - 5PM UNITARIAN CHURCH HALL, WORTHING ROAD, HORSHAM

The Thursday Morning Art Group hosts its annual Art exhibition with a Strawberry Tea/Fizz in aid of Breast Cancer Care.

HAODS

Southwater Junior Academy (Learning For Life) present their stunning musical production, The Southwater Academy Show. Booking via The Capitol Box Office on 01403 750220 or www.thecapitolhorsham.com

Join NODA award-winning local society HAODS for a preview of their August production of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in the Human Nature Garden of Horsham Park. Enter a magical world of fairies, lovers and mischief! The full play will feature original music, bespoke set and costumes as well as a full cast of adults and juniors. HAODS’ first Shakespeare performance promises a little midsummer magic for all. HAODS will be performing the full play at The Capitol on 10th - 13th August.

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