Bath Spa Live Autumn Brochure 2015

AUTUMN SEASON 2015 Arts & Cultural events at Bath Spa University

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Theatre / Dance / Comedy / Poetry / Public Lectures / Exhibitions www.bathspalive.com

ABOUT BATH SPA LIVE Bath Spa Live is the production company for public cultural events at Bath Spa University.

We produce over 100 events each year at the University’s three venues: the Michael Tippett Centre, University Theatre and Burdall’s Yard, as well as venues in Bath and the surrounding area. We also promote creativity and enable innovation by engaging students in the professional arts world.

Bath Spa University Newton St. Loe Bath BA2 9BN Tel: 01225 875875 | email: info@bathspalive.com www.bathspalive.com | @bathspalive

www.bathspalive.com or 01225 463362 Cover Image: No Lander (Riccardo Buscarini)

PRE-SHOW SUPPERS NOW AVAILABLE Hot meals now available Monday - Friday, 5pm - 7pm in The Refectory at Newton Park.

Homemade food that’s locally sourced and great value for money!

Beer and wine available.

Information and bookings via p.avery@bathspa.ac.uk (booking not essential).

www.bathspalive.com FRIDAY 9 OCT 8PM UNIVERSITY riccardoTHEATRE buscarini

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No Lander Riccardo Buscarini Both a tribute to the choreographer’s classical studies and a melancholic and subtle meditation on the themes of Homer’s Odyssey, No Lander is a discourse on longing and belonging.

Five dancers exposed to an unrelenting space; play sailors lost at sea... nothing to hang onto, no roots, no light and no land.

Falling in and out of intricate partner work as they grapple to hold on to something, their flesh emerges from the darkness in waving and sculptural torsions. Stark industrial lighting and live captured sound collide and transform the stage into a deserted wreck.

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £8 | BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com SATURDAY 10 OCT 2PM & 7:30PM BURDALL’S YARD

WordPlay WordPlay is a rehearsed reading event that introduces audiences to new writers and their work. It’s an opportunity to discover new gems of writing and playwright’s stories - a place where you can truly say you saw it here first.

FULL PRICE £6 | CONC £4 | BSU STUDENTS £3

TUESDAY 20 OCT 7:30PM UNIVERSITY THEATRE

Instant Wit Instant Wit is the best in improvised comedy.

Fresh and inventive, each show throws up new nuggets of hilarity crafted by a company of the highest calibre.

It’s a pick-me-up tonic with unexpected twists and a dash of sauce.

There’ll be sketches, songs and general silliness – and all of it based around audience suggestions. And if you’re too shy to shout anything out? Well don’t worry, you’ll have the chance to write things down in the interval.

We’re the ones who’ll look daft, not you!

FULL PRICE £10 | CONC £8 | BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com WEDNESDAY 21 OCT 7:30PM MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

IMPROPERA A Night of Improper Opera Join Impropera for a night of opera, improvised on the spot from the audience’s suggestions.

It makes you the maestro and what you say, goes.

With hugely successful shows in London’s West End, at the Edinburgh Fringe and across Europe, the company have an international reputation for their unique mix of virtuoso musicianship, agile wit and ingenious storytelling. Aardvarks and arias, tragedy and profanity, anything is possible...

“An object lesson in seat-of-your-pants thinking. Such riotously good fun.” The Telegraph “Rising to the audience’s every challenge, the company quickly weave a plot of brilliant ingenuity, embroider it with musical parody and bring wonder and joy to all.” The Times

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £10 | BSU STUDENTS £6

www.bathspalive.com FRIDAY 23 OCT 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

Jazz Night - The Sirkis/ Bialas International Quartet The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet is a fresh new collaboration between Israeli UK-resident drummer/composer Asaf Sirkis, known for his work with the Lighthouse trio (ACT), Gilad Atzmon, Tim Garland, Larry Corryel, John Abercrombie & the Asaf Sirkis Trio, and Polish vocalist/composer extraordinaire Sylwia Bialas. The quartet features Scottish bassist Kevin Glasgow and the acclaimed Frank Harrison on piano and keyboards (UK).

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £3

MONDAY 26 OCT 6:30PM MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

The Night James Brown Saved Boston Special guest: Bath Spa Honorary Gradute Pee Wee Ellis Marking the 40th anniversary of the concert headlined by ‘Godfather of Soul’ James Brown in Boston in 1968, just days after Martin Luther King’s murder and with race riots raging across America. The film documents both the concert itself and the politics that surrounded it. Boston Mayor Kevin White and his colleagues realised almost by accident that by televising the James Brown concert they could keep people indoors and thus prevent widespread rioting in the city.

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £3

www.bathspalive.com WEDNESDAY 28 OCT 6:30PM MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

The Girls in the Band THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 20s to the present day. These incredibly talented women endured sexism, racism and diminished opportunities for decades, yet continue today to persevere, inspire and elevate their talents in a field that seldom welcomed them.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with BSU graduate and jazz vocalist Joan Davis.

FULL PRICE £5 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS £3

THURSDAY 29 OCT 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

The Poetry Hub: Cole Swensen Cole Swensen is an American poet and translator; her fifteen collections include finalists for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, as well as winners of the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she translates French poetry, fiction, and art criticism into English, and is the founding editor of La Presse.

FULL PRICE £5 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

www.bathspalive.com WEDNESDAY 4 NOV 7:30PM MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

Lost Fitkinwall The sound world bridges many musical worlds and LOST is not a straight classical music concert. The mood is carefully created to produce a show with a mesmeric feel appealing to various audiences from new music, jazz and folk through to contemporary dance.

The music has similarities to the following composers and bands - Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Underworld, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Bernard Hermann.

Using two harps, moog voyager and autoharp, FitkinWall weave a magical musical journey from tentative minimalist opening, through delicate melody to a rhythmic pulsing climax.

The music started from reflecting on ideas of loss - geographically, politically and morally - in this bewildering world of ours. Based on music originally written for aerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor, this evening’s performance is an expanded work for concert.

FitkinWall have collaborated closely for years but individually work in various ways. Ruth has performed with musicians such as Goldfrapp, John Lunn, Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, BBC Orchestras, Kathryn Tickell, Nolwenn Leroy whilst featuring on music for films such as Ben Wheatley’s ‘Sightseers’ and BBC’s “The White Queen’. Graham has composed for Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, BBC Proms, ROH, Yo-Yo Ma and many others.

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £10 | BSU STUDENTS £6

www.bathspalive.com WEDNESDAY 11 NOV 7:30PM ST SWITHIN’S CHURCH

St Swithin’s Concert Orchestra, Wind Band and Chamber Choir Students from our Department of Music return to the beautiful St Swithin’s for a programme that includes Gustav Holst’s The Planets.

Undoubtedly Holst’s most popular work, his evocative and powerful Planets suite depicts the characteristics of Earth’s neighbours in the solar system.

The programme will also include performances from Bath Spa Wind band and the chamber choir.

Venue: St Swithin’s, The Paragon, Bath BA1 5LY FULL PRICE £10 | CONC £8 | BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com 12 - 14 NOV UNIVERSITY THEATRE

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Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy

Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Russia 1877. Anna Karenina, a married woman falls passionately in love with the devastatingly handsome Count Vronsky. She deserts her husband and child to live with her lover. But as society shuns her, fear and suspicion of Vronsky’s love and fidelity grow.

As Anna’s world disintegrates, Helen Edmundson’s adaptation interweaves her story with that of Levin, the fervent idealist, and his stormy relationship with the beautiful young Kitty - a story of hope set against that of Anna’s despair.

TIMES: Thurs 12 Nov - 7:30pm Fri 13 Nov - 7:30pm Sat 14 Nov - 2pm & 7:30pm

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £10 | BSU STUDENTS £6

www.bathspalive.com FRIDAY 20 NOV 7:30PM UNIVERSITY THEATRE

...in the middle with you Hagit Yakira Dance

A cast of five dancers lure you in with personal stories, energy and physicality, then seamlessly take you to a muted universe creating an intimate and surprising experience Uplifting and inspiring …in the middle with you makes an emotional poem of the every day life.

FULL PRICE £10 | CONC £8 | BSU STUDENTS £5

FRIDAY 20 NOV 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

Jazz Night: Misha Mullov-Abbado The Misha Mullov-Abbado Quintet comprises of some of the finest, multi-award-winning musicians in London. Under Misha’s direction the group performs his original compositions and arrangements with a broad variety of influences.

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £3

TUESDAY 24 NOV 7:30PM BURDALL’S YARD

Cabaret Night Enjoy a veritable feast of entertainment as students of Bath Spa past and present share their irrefutable and irrepressible talents for your delight and delectation. Probably the best show in the world...

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENTS £3

www.bathspalive.com 25 - 28 NOV MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE (for times see below)

Opera Double Bill Acis and Galatea &

Dido and Aeneas This autumn, Bath Spa Opera presents a double bill featuring tales of lost love from two of England’s greatest baroque composers.

George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, with an English libretto by John Gay, is as popular today as when it was first performed at the beginning of the 18th century.

The 17th century Dido and Aeneas stands out as Henry Purcell’s only fully-sung stage work and is one of the earliest and finest examples of English opera.

Director Garth Bardsley transports these pastoral delights to the 20th century and explores the operas’ enduring themes within the context of the hippie-fest that was the Summer of Love of 1967, alongside the formal and tailored world of 1950’s Monte Carlo.

TIMES: Wed 25 Nov - 7:30pm Thurs 26 Nov - 7:30pm Fri 27 Nov - 7:30pm Sat 28 Nov - 7:30pm

FULL PRICE £12 | CONC £10 | BSU STUDENTS £6

www.bathspalive.com THURS 26 NOV 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

The Poetry Hub: Forrest Gander Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia.

Among his most recent books are the novel The Trace, the poems Eiko & Koma, and two anthologies - Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century and Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A former Briggs-Copeland poet at Harvard University, he is the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University.

FULL PRICE £5 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

SATURDAY 28 NOV 4PM BURDALL’S YARD

Monologue Knockout Actors go head to head with monologues to win the audience vote. This is a regular event throughout the year with the final taking place during Bath Fringe at Burdall’s Yard in May 2016.

FULL PRICE £3 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

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www.bathspalive.com THURSDAY 3 DEC 8PM BURDALL’S YARD

These Beautiful Things Hear emerging music industry talent perform their favourite music, broken down, remixed and re-imagined for this regular ‘live lounge’ night. Featuring performers from Bath Spa University’s Songwriting and Commercial Music courses. See our website for line-up details.

FULL PRICE £5 | CONC £3 | BSU STUDENTS FREE

SATURDAY 5 DEC 2:30PM & 7:30PM UNIVERSITY THEATRE

Rise Dance students from Bath Spa University join forces with the Impermanence Dance Theatre and local youth dancers to present a performance of physically challenging contemporary dance.

The event will include work created by Year 3 dance students.

FULL PRICE £10 | CONC £8| BSU STUDENTS £5

www.bathspalive.com MONDAY 7 DEC 8PM BATH ABBEY

Bath Spa University Carol Concert Join us in Bath’s beautiful historic Abbey for this celebration of Christmas.

FREE

10 - 12 DEC BURDALL’S YARD (for times see below)

BA Acting Ensemble Project BA Acting third year students form an independent company to create a performance inspired by the theme of ‘aspiration’. In collaboration with the Widening Participation Team at Bath Spa University the production is presented for audiences in December before it goes on a schools tour in the new year.

TIMES: Thurs 10 Dec - 4pm & 7:30pm Fri 11 Dec - 7:30pm Sat 12 Dec - 2pm & 7:30pm

FULL PRICE £7 | CONC £5 | BSU STUDENT £3

www.bathspalive.com

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES ON CAMPUS TUESDAY 20 OCT 6PM - TOM BURNS

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Psychiatry - still relevant in the 21st century?

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Psychiatry has always been controversial. Like the rest of medicine, it is not primarily a science but a profession that draws quite promiscuously on various sciences to consolidate and advance its practice.

Currently, it is squeezed between the glamour of neuroscience and the increasing professionalism of clinical psychology and psychotherapy and a society critical of the paternalism it undoubtedly expresses.

Despite this, it expands world wide. Why is this, and can it seriously survive into the 21st century?

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RADIANT Merilyn Fairskye 19 Oct - 21 Nov

Fairskye engages you through her photographic and video practice which explores notions of time, identity and place. Responding to sites of historical significance, including Chernobyl, Sellafield and Drigg, her work appears both monumental and transient; she gives us pause for reflection on the contemporary challenges faced amid technological advances and globalisation.

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SION HILL GALLERY YEAR 1 Fine Art Summer project An exhibition by Year 1 BA (Hons) Fine Art students presenting work in response to national contemporary art exhibitions. The exhibition represents the work of each individual student and provides an opportunity for them and the audience to share and learn about influences and the diversity of the cohort’s work.

2 - 14 NOV (DAYTIME)

SION HILL GALLERY HUGH SANDERS This work explores ideas of constructed environment through the use of projection and model making.

In a world saturated by images it is increasingly difficult for us to distinguish between that which is real and that which is contrived.

20 NOV - 10 DEC (DAYTIME) SION HILL GALLERY PORTHLEVEN PRIZE Students from Bath Spa University have been working with Oxford Castle’s O3 Gallery to produce an exhibition of contemporary art. The exhibition entitled A Fleeting Voyage: Observing Porthleven, presents the work of five art students who were each awarded a fully-funded artist residency at the Lifeboat Art Studio in Porthleven, Cornwall, which they undertook in May 2015 as part of the Bath Spa Porthleven Prize.

This exhibition showcases a fine example of what exciting results can be created through interdisciplinary collaborative practice. Although all from arts backgrounds, each student introduces their own diverse working processes and media to the group.

The Porthleven Prize is supported by the Osborne Charitable Trust.

OCT - NOV NATIONAL TOURING EXHIBITION JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE 2015 Founded in 1994, the Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. The Bath School of Art and Design is proud to host the organisation of this annual exhibition, which is a joint initiative supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and presented as part of Jerwood Visual Arts. A fully illustrated catalogue is available.

jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2015 Jerwood Space, London 16 September – 25 October 2015 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Cheltenham Art Gallery - The Wilson 21 November 2015 - 31 January 2016 www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk Soheila Sokhanvari, Two serious ladies, Egg tempera on vellum Courtesy of the artist and Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015

INFORMATION www.bathspalive.com (no booking fees) Bath Box Office: 01225 463362

Some of our shows are also available for telephone and counter booking through Bath Box Office, located in The Tourist Information Centre in Abbey Church Yard.

The following groups are eligible for concession tickets: BSU Students & Staff, Full Time Students, Under 16s, Benefit Recipients, Over 65s, Registered Disabled, (Carers and assistants to disabled patrons entitled to free tickets). Proof required.

Bath Spa Live’s bar opens at our venues from 30 minutes before each performance starts. We serve a range of soft and alcoholic drinks, all at student-friendly prices.

TRAVELLING TO OUR VENUES Commons, Michael Tippet Centre and University Theatre: ADDRESS: Bath Spa University, Newton Park Campus, Bath BA2 9BN Buses from Bath Service 15 runs every 10 minutes between Bath city centre and Newton Park via Oldfield Park, Windsor Bridge and Newbridge Road. Buses from Bristol 37, 38, 39, 39X from Bristol Temple Meads with stops at Brislington, Keynsham and Saltford. The 15 bus to Newton Park departs from the bus station next door.

Train: Exit Bath Spa train station via the main ticket office and turn left. The 15 bus to Newton Park departs from the bus station next door.

The car park is at the far end of campus, about an 8-minute walk from the venues. Charges may apply. All tickets purchased through www.bathspalive.com will be issued with a parking permit if applicable.

Burdall’s Yard: ADDRESS: Burdall’s Yard, 7A Anglo Terrace, London Road, Bath BA1 5NH Buses 6, 7, 13, 231, 271, 272 bus services stop at Snow Hill (3 minutes’ walk from Burdall’s Yard).

See www.firstgroup.com for further bus information.

Parking: The nearest free parking is available in the streets off Snow Hill. Free parking is also available after 8pm in the Cattle Market car park on Walcot Street (6 minutes’ walk from Burdall’s Yard). Passengers can be dropped off in the loading parking area opposite Burdall’s Yard.

Train: Burdall’s Yard is about 20 minutes’ walk from Bath Spa Train Station. Bus services 231 and 271 run from the bus station next to the train station.

Access: All our venues are accessible to wheelchair users. Please inform the ticket office if you would like to book a wheelchair space. Guide dogs and assistance dogs are welcome at all our venues. If you have any questions regarding access please contact us on 01225 875508 or email s.harris1@bathspa.ac.uk

DIARY FOR OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2015

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UT - University Theatre / MTC - Michael Tippett Centre / BY - Burdall’s Yard / SHG - Sion Hill Gallery

OCTOBER Exhibition: Year 1 Fine Art SHG 5 - 9 Oct Daytime No Lander UT Fri 9 Oct 8pm WordPlay BY Sat 10 Oct 2 & 7:30pm Instant Wit UT Tues 20 Oct 7:30pm Exhibition: Radiant MediaWall 19Oct-21Nov 10am-8pm Lecture: Tom Burns Commons Tues 20 Oct 6pm Impropera MTC Wed 21 Oct 7:30pm Jazz - Asaf Sirkis BY Fri 23 Oct 8pm The Night James Brown...

MTC Mon 26 Oct 6:30pm The Girls in the Band MTC Wed 28 Oct 6:30pm Poetry: Cole Swensen BY Thur 29 Oct 8pm NOVEMBER Exhibition: Hugh Sanders SHG 2 - 14 Nov Daytime Lecture: Douglas Board Commons Wed 4 Nov 6pm Lost MTC Wed 4 Nov 7:30pm St Swithin’s Concert St Swithin’s Wed 11 Nov 7:30pm Anna Karenina UT 12 - 14 Nov Times vary Exhibition: Porthleven SHG 20Nov -10Dec Daytime ...in the middle with you UT Fri 20 Nov 7:30pm Jazz - Misha Mullov-Abbado BY Fri 20 Nov 8pm Cabaret Night BY Tues 24 Nov 7:30pm Opera - Double Bill MTC 25 - 28 Nov 7:30pm Poetry - Forrest Gander BY Thur 26 Nov 8pm Monologue Knockout BY Sat 28 Nov 4pm DECEMBER These Beautiful Things BY Thur 3 Dec 8pm Rise UT Sat 5 Dec 2:30 & 7:30pm Carol Concert Bath Abbey Mon 7 Dec 8pm BA Acting Ensemble Project BY 10 - 12 Dec Times vary

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