NAC January-February 2015

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Friday 6 February - Saturday 14 March

Exhibition

Lone Twin Exhibition

A retrospective exhibition of the work of performance artists, Lone Twin, with a live show at NAC on Thursday 26 February.

1pm-5pm Monday-Friday 10am-6pm Saturday : FREE Saturday 10 January

Comedy

Off The Kerb presents Tom Wrigglesworth + Angela

Barnes + Joel Dommett

A brand new comedy club for NAC presents two nights of the best comedy around to lighten up your January.

8pm : £12.50 : £10.00 concessions : £20.00 for Part 1 and 2 : seated Friday 16 January

Performance

Wednesday 21 January

Luke Wright: What I Learned From Johnny Bevan + The Tiger’s Bride “One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation.” Johann Hari, The Independent A double bill of theatre and music, Luke Wright presents a scratch performance of his brand new play What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, with a score by Ian Catskilken from Art Brut. Written and performed in visceral, punchy verse this is a breath-taking spoken story about friendship, class and a really bad idea for a festival. Support from singer and multi instrumentalist The Tiger’s Bride.

8pm : £10.00 : £8.00 concessions : seated Too Much, Too Young 28 Jan

Folk

Addison’s Uncle album launch

+ The BeauBowBelles + Feral Mouth + Pirate Joe Norwich based Addison’s Uncle play hosts to celebrate the release of their debut album. Expect stories, harmonies, guitars, fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, bass, percussion, sing-alongs and lots of stamping!

8pm : £5.00 adv : £7.00 door Saturday 17 January

World

Copacubana

2014 was a great year for Norwich Arts Centre!

We’d like to thank everyone who voted for us and continues to support us!

We are looking forward to another great year with you in 2015.

A fantastic night of Cuban, Brazilian and Latin-inspired music to dispel the gloom of January and get you dancing. Featuring Orchestra Bombo, a juggernaut of Cuban carnival rhythms, re-igniting the ‘conga’ dance craze from the 1930’s and Rabo de Foguete, offering a vibrant show that mixes traditional and contemporary material into a high energy performance, infused with Brazilian grooves.

8pm : £6.00 adv : £7.00 door Monday 19 January

Rock/Pop

Pony Up presents GAPS + Hannah Lou Clark

NAC’s resident new music night presents you with a co-headline bill.

GAPS create beautiful leftfield electronic pop music and are due to release with none other than Maya Jane Coles in 2015! Hannah Lou Clark has been supported heavily by 6music and the NME, definitely one to watch for the new year. Plus your usual dose of good vibes.

8pm : £4.00 adv : £5.00 door Tuesday 20 January

James Veck-Gilodi + support

Rock/Pop

Deaf Havana frontman James Veck-Gilodi has teamed up with bandmate Max Britton to debut their new project.

8pm : £12.00 adv : £tbc door

Stand-up comedy’s foremost creepy-faced ginger man, star of BBC1’s ‘Live at the Apollo’ and a regular on Channel 4’s Stand-Up For The Week. Star of three series of his own acclaimed show on BBC Radio 4.

Yet none of it has brought him any joy. Come and laugh in his stupid face at his disappointing life and some amusing thoughts he’s cobbled together about how awful the world is “Lawrence rips the cynical heart from his chest and wears it defiantly on his sleeve” -The Metro 8pm : £13.00 : £10.00 concessions : seated Tuesday 27 January

Live Lit

Project U: The Unthank Prose Event Norwich Vs New York

An evening of high-octane poetry and prose with writers from Norwich’s Unthank Books and New York’s Great Weather for Media.

Includes the launch of Unthology 6, edited by Ashley Stokes and Robin Jones.

7.30pm : Free : Seated Theatre

Too Much, Too Young

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene, in the café bar.

1pm : FREE

With the kind support of these organisations and our customers Norwich Arts Centre has been stimulating audiences and nurturing creativity for over thirty years.

Comedy

Andrew Lawrence: Reasons to Kill Yourself

Wednesday 28 January

Rock/Pop

Play the Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 17 January

Monday 26 January

Friday 23rd January

Comedy

Jack Bennett was going to be a world-renowned musician, but one wrong turn and look at him… a two-bit actor with an identity crisis.

So he’s decided to ask some pretty big questions; what’s learning for?

Why all the rush? Jack Bennett will tickle your grey matter, probe your beliefs and fill your belly with laughs.

Written and performed by Jack Bennett with creative support from Chris Thorpe and Daniel Bye. In association with ARC Stockton.

8pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concessions : seated

Off The Kerb presents Marlon Davis + Michael

Fabbri + Andrew Ryan

A second night of extraordinary comedy to lighten up your January.

8pm : £12.50 : £10.00 concessions : £20.00 for Part 1 and 2 : seated Saturday 24 January

Rock/Pop

Caravan + Matt Woosey

Blending psychedelic rock, jazz and classical influences to create a distinctive sound since 1968, Caravan are critically acclaimed with a loyal fan base. This tour will include old favourites as well material from their newly released 2014 album Paradise Filter.

8pm : £15.00 adv : £17.50 door Sunday 25 January

Rock/Pop

These Ghosts + support

Meditative introspective guitar music with intricate arrangements and soaring hooks. Norfolk grown These Ghosts are getting rave reviews following their second release Still The Waves.

8pm : £5.00 adv : £7.00 door

Wooden Arms 30 Jan

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Event diary 6 Feb - 14 Mar

Lone Twin Exhibition

10 Jan

Off The Kerb presents....Part 1

16 Jan

Addison’s Uncle album launch

17 Jan

Play the Music Acoustic Showcase

17 Jan

Copacubana

19 Jan

Pony Up presents GAPS

20 Jan

James Veck-Gilodi + support

21 Jan

Luke Wright + The Tiger’s Bride

23 Jan

Off The Kerb presents....Part 2

24 Jan

Caravan + Matt Woosey

25 Jan

These Ghosts + support

26 Jan

Andrew Lawrence – Reasons to Kill Yourself

27 Jan

Project U: The Unthank Prose Event

28 Jan

Too Much, Too Young

30 Jan

Wooden Arms + Tom Adams + Harry Edwards

31 Jan

Playing with Space

3 Feb

Leddra Chapman + support

4 Feb

Tmesis Theatre: That’s Amore

6 Feb

Slow Club + support

7 Feb

False Lights + support

10 Feb

Peotry by Heart

11 Feb

Ground Up Theatre: Operation Crucible

12 Feb

Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble

13 Feb

Ibibio Sound Machine + support

16 Feb

Rae Morris + Fryars

19 Feb

Escalator Music Showcase: Yila & Friends

20 Feb

Pony Up presents Youth Man tbc

21 Feb

Play the Music Acoustic Showcase

21 Feb

Devising workshop

21 Feb

Dub Colossus + support

25 Feb

Red Bastard

26 Feb

Lone Twin

27 Feb

Spectro presents DJ Food

28 Feb

Tilting Sky presents Jarrod Dickenson

Friday 30 January

Rock/Pop

Independent Venue Week: Wooden Arms + Tom Adams + Harry Edwards

“The band mix delicate piano with luscious strings and trip-hop inspired percussion to create something quite beautiful.” Tom Robinson, BBC6 Alternative chamber folk featuring choral elements and a distinctive yet delicate blend of classical instrumentation meets modern melody.

8pm : £6.00 adv : £8.00 door Saturday 31 January

Live Art

[Live] Art Club presents Playing with Space curated by Lawrence Bradby

Leddra Chapman + support

Rock/Pop

Rock/Pop

This “anti-folk” duo combine sweet harmonious hooks, rockabilly beats and exuberant yelps and yips, all held together by some breath-taking harmonising.

8pm : £12.50 adv : £15.00 door Saturday 7 February

Folk

False Lights + support

Loud, electric, guitar-driven folk for the 21st century with finger-style guitar genius and singer-songwriter Sam Carter and folk revolutionary Jim Moray.

8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door Tuesday 10 February

Poetry

Poetry by Heart

National poetry recitation competition for students.

8pm : FREE Wednesday 11 February

Theatre

“A little gem... this is storytelling at its best, generous and warm hearted, lyrical yet real” Laura Wells, The Good Review Operation Crucible tells the story of four steel workers caught in the chaos on the evening of the Sheffield blitz. In the Marples Hotel in Fitzalan Square, 80 people, rushing and panicking, took shelter in the cellars; 10 compartments, each big enough to house only a few people at a time. At 11.44pm a 500kg bomb reduced the seven storey building to rubble. In the midst of destruction, one compartment withstood the blast. Within it, trapped, were four Sheffield men. This is their story.

8pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concessions : seated

Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble

Rock/Pop

Fronted by British/Nigerian vocalist Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine combine elements of West African highlife, disco, post-punk and psychedelic electro soul. From banging sub-bass to spiritual gospel-tinged notes, the band has a dynamic and beautiful take on modern Afro-soul music.

8pm : £12.50 : £10.50 adv concessions : £15.00 door Monday 16 February

Jazz

“A local jazz giant” - The Guardian.

Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble are renowned for their unique mix of jazz, folk and Arab music. The band has been touring for nearly 15 years, gaining a reputation as one of European jazz’s preeminent bands. You can listen to The Orient House Ensemble’s award-winning albums, but seeing the band live is an experience not to be missed.

8pm : £12.50 : £10.00 concessions : seated

Rock/Pop

Wednesday 25 February

Comedy

Red Bastard

“A once-in-a-lifetime experience…” The Skinny A dangerous, seductive comedy monster! America’s number one bouffon unleashes a pompous theatrical master class in this critically acclaimed show. Red Bastard engages the audience in a masterclass of raw conversation, provocations, traps, rewards, and catch 22 encouraging risk and personal discovery.

8pm : £15.00 : £12.50 concessions : seated : 18+

Goldenvoice presents Rae Morris + Fryars “Rae Morris is becoming the countries most beloved singer songwriter” Zane Lowe, Radio 1 “She is genuinely brilliant” Greg James, Radio 1 The incomparable and supremely talented Rae Morris comes to NAC with her hugely anticipated forthcoming debut album, Unguarded.

This is a debut that is set to have critics falling over themselves in 2015.

8pm : £11.00 adv : £tbc door Thursday 19 February

Rock/Pop

Yila has been a performer/producer, most notably for Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s debut album, Angles. This work in progress will combine poetry, storytelling and music to create an exciting new form of music theatre.

8pm : £5.00 : £3.00 concessions

Saturday 21 February

Rock/Pop

Play the Music Acoustic Showcase

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene, in the café bar.

1pm : FREE Saturday 21st February

Workshop

Devising: Exploring methods and techniques to create experimental theatre and performance

A workshop for people who are passionate about performing and have an interest in creating new theatre and performance work. This workshop will explore current methods and techniques for devising and collaboration. Led by Katherine Vince, Director of The Sun Apparatus Theatre Company.

10.30am-4pm : £25.00 : 18+ Saturday 21 February

Dub Colossus + support

Red Bastard 25 Feb

Rock/Pop

Pony Up presents Youth Man tbc

Dub

Promoting their highly acclaimed fourth album ‘Addis To Omega’, Dub Colossus will appear here in their five piece ‘Soundsystem’ line up featuring the vocal talents of PJ Higgins and Mykaell S Riley.

8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door

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Escalator Music showcase: Yila & Friends

Friday 20 February

Ground Up Theatre Company: Operation Crucible

Thursday 12 February

Friday 13 February

Ibibio Sound Machine + support

“Rarefied, intriguing…beautiful” The Guardian A hilarious, fast-paced, passionate and poignant piece of physical theatre that explores the vast world and culture of romantic love: from chance encounters to hidden desires, and emotional extremes to the science of romance, the piece discovers the flesh and philosophy behind what makes our hearts beat faster.

8pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concessions : seated

Slow Club + support

“Pitch-perfect acoustic pop” The Independent A quintessentially English voice that is both pure and unique, Leddra picked up a guitar and wrote her first song before she became a teenager; what followed has been the growth, development and evolution of a exceptional young singer-songwriter.

8pm : £7.50 adv : £9.00 door False Lights 7 Feb

Theatre

Tmesis Theatre: That’s Amore

Friday 6 February

Playing With Space is a one-day festival of film and performance.

It celebrates artists’ interventions into urban space, showing ways by which the presence of the human body can critique architecture.

Two specially commissioned performances, by artists Nic Green and Dyad Creative, will take place in outdoor spaces close to Norwich Arts Centre at the end of the afternoon and evening screenings. The film programme includes work by artists Riccardo Iacono, Paul R Jones, Noemi Lakmaier, Manu Luksch, Mitra Saboury, Aaron Williamson, Liberate Tate, Destino Dance and Ballet Boyz.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by Norfolk County Council, Norwich Arts Centre, firstsite and Live Art Development Agency.

2.30pm-5.30pm & 6-9pm : £3.00 for one screening/performance set or £5.00 for a day ticket Tuesday 3 February

Wednesday 4 February

Thursday 26 February

January February 2015

Live Art

[Live] Art Club presents Lone Twin: True West

“A wonderful body of work” The Guardian The infamous Lone Twin duo return from an eight-year hiatus, with a raucous re-imagining of Sam Shepard’s True West. The original play is set in a kitchen, in a house, in a suburb, some 40 miles out of Los Angeles in the late 1970s. It tells the tale of a family storm with two brothers at its eye. A classic study of social, cultural and political conflict and reconciliation. Hold onto your hats, it’s going to be quite a night.

8pm : £10.00 : £8.00 concessions : seated Friday 27 February

Electro

Spectro presents DJ Food + support

The legendary Ninja Tune artist plays an AV set.

8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door Saturday 28 February

Rock/Pop

Tilting Sky presents Jarrod Dickenson + Jess Morgan + Rory Hill and The Honeymoon “Brilliant songs” Cerys Matthews, BBC6 Road-worn melodies and lyrics invoke mid-Western post-war America.

8pm : £9.00 adv : £11.00 door

Ibibio Sound Machine 13 Feb

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