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Contents
Welcome to Quarterhouse Spring 2016 Season
Welcome 3 WOW: Women of the World Festival
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Theatre 6 Children & Families
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Music 12 Comedy 14 Film 16 Talks 18 Normal? Preview
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Get Involved
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Booking Tickets
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How to find Quarterhouse 22 What’s On
It’s the start of a new year, and we are looking forward to asking some big questions over the coming months: Do women need equality or liberation? What’s the difference? When it comes to the brain, how much power do we have to change a course of events or reverse damage? Drugs save lives, but they are also a multi-million pound business – where does helping people end and big business begin? Our coastline is changing – should we be more worried about developments on our doorstep or changing icecaps many thousands of miles away? Through festivals we are exploring questions that matter to us as individuals, to our town and to our shared future. Through discussion, creativity and activism we become more aware, informed and empowered to make change happen. This spring sees the fourth WOW festival celebrating International Women’s Day, and we are looking ahead to Normal? Festival of the Brain in the summer. These festivals don’t exist without the input of people from a huge range of backgrounds. Our festivals are:
Co-curated with local partners who are passionate about Folkestone and about the theme of each festival.
Co-created with people from East Kent through a series of open meetings called ‘Think Ins’. If you are interested our festivals, start by coming along to a Think In.
Designed to enable us all to share our expertise and experiences, and inspire us all by bringing the very best of performing arts to Folkestone.
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Alongside the festivals, we continue to run a packed comedy programme and series of shows for children of all ages. We are also particularly excited about The Money (see p.7) coming to Folkestone as part of a national tour. All the box office money is on the table in front of you and you have 90 minutes to decide what to do with it. The only hitch? You have to agree with everyone else in the room… can Folkestone decide?
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If you haven’t made it along to a night out or experienced one of our festivals yet, make 2016 the year you get involved. Allegra Galvin, Quarterhouse Director @allegragalvin 3
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WOW FESTIVAL
Festival Pass
different bites covering everything from faith to financial cuts. Come be refreshed with food and inspired by women’s stories!
5 day Festival Pass £40, grants access to all events from 8 – 12 March, booking essential.
WOW Market
Day Pass £15, grants access to all events on Saturday 12 March, booking essential.
Saturday 12 March from 10am
For more information and booking call Box Office on 01303 760750.
Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 March 2016
WOW Party
The WOW Festival is for everyone. For the fourth year running, we are marking International Women’s Day in Folkestone. Join us for a packed week that celebrates women and girls and explores important topics for women today.
Come celebrate International Women’s Day with us at the WOW 2016 launch. Open to all, there will be short performances, drinks and an introduction to the festival. The launch party will be followed by the riotous Liz Agiss Is the English Channel (see p.6 in theatre section).
WOW is bold and broad-based in its approach, both lively and serious, featuring voices from across the UK and stories from your neighbours. WOW 2016 will look at topics like women in war, the beauty industry, ageing, men’s role in ending sexism and righting the under-representation of women from the school syllabus to government, energising and providing the inspiration and tools to make change. We look forward to panel debates, film, new theatre, workshops, campaigns and live music.
WOW Workshops & Shows
WOW’s Marketplace is the heart and hub of the festival. Our indoor market is home to a diverse group of stalls providing information, raising awareness, showcasing work, offering workshops or selling their wares. It’s a central meeting point where people can gather, get information, network with others, get a feel for the festival and experience a range of products, ideas and activities.
Tuesday 8 March from 6pm
WOW is co-curated with Leah Thorn and Folkestone Fringe and co-created with our community. Want to be involved? Come to a WOW Think In (a ‘think in’ is an open meeting about the festival): 23 January at 11am and 28 January at 5.30pm at Quarterhouse.
If you are interested in a stall in the WOW Market, contact: katieburse@creativefoundation.org.uk
WOW Speed Mentoring
Tuesday 8 March – Saturday 12 March
Saturday 12 March, 10.30am
At the heart of the WOW Folkestone programme are a series of inspirational performances and participatory workshops. These workshops, discussions and performances are linked in themes such as Women in War, Beautification, Ageing and intergenerational work. So you can take a pick and mix approach or pursue particular topics across art forms. Many of the workshops and performances have come to life as a result of the WOW Think Ins: open meetings held in Folkestone in autumn 2015.
Join our group speed-mentoring session: share your challenges, exchange ideas and stories and potentially identify a new mentor. Speed mentoring is an opportunity for you to be mentored by experts across many fields including theatre makers, journalists, scientists, campaigners, artists and WOW speakers. The mentoring session lasts for one hour and during this time you have four individual 15-minute speed mentoring sessions.
Booking is available now for:
WOW Education
Free booking for Speed Mentoring is available now.
Liz Agiss is The English Channel Tuesday 8 March (see p.6)
For the full programme go to the festivals page of the Quarterhouse website and find us on twitter @WOWFolkestone
Wednesday 9 March – Saturday 12 March
WOW aims to encourage young women to question issues related to their gender, find women who inspire them and empower them to be their generation’s pioneers. We run a number of creative workshops in local schools in the weeks before the festival. Young women will be helping, talking and showing their creativity throughout WOW week and on Wednesday 9 March we will host an event with secondary schools in collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church University to encourage young women to consider pursuing science subjects.
WOW Bites are short talks and inspiring ideas, achievements, obsessions, stories, performances or manifestos. Each lunchtime session has four
If you are interested in our work with young women, or you would like us to visit your school, contact: katieburse@creativefoundation.org.uk
WOW Scratch Night Wednesday 9 March (see p.6) London Feminist Film Festival Thursday 10 March (see p.17)
Supported by
Hair Peace Friday 11 March (see p.6)
WOW Lunchtime Bites
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THEATRE
THEATRE
The English Channel
Fevered Sleep
Men & Girls Dance
Tuesday 8 March, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concessions (free with WOW Festival pass) Ages 15+ / Contains some flashing lights/ images and strong language
Friday 8 April, 7pm Saturday 9 April, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concessions Ages 12+
Batten down the Hatches! ‘An inspiring, irreverant, clever solo performance’ (CultureVulture.com) by the grand dame of anarchic dance. Liz Aggiss is The English Channel: a conduit for wilful women and a cunning connection to the other side.
Men & Girls Dance brings together two very different groups of performers: men who dance professionally and girls from Folkestone who dance for fun. At times playful, at times provocative, Men & Girls Dance celebrates the rights of adults and children to be together, to play together and to dance together. It’s a joyful celebration of tenderness, empathy, and love.
Sheer outrageous confirmation of being alive. Exeunt Magazine
WOW Scratch Night Wednesday 9 March, 7.30pm Tickets £5 (free with WOW Festival pass) Ages 14+ A night of new theatre, WOW Scratch Night is an opportunity for artists from Kent and beyond to get together and share extracts of new work: early ideas, nearly there shows and short performances all played out in a cabaret setting. At the heart of Scratch is the conversation between artists and audiences about what they have seen, helping artists to develop their work. If you are interested in new theatre, in connecting with other artists or just in getting a glimpse into ideas at the early stage, then WOW Scratch Night is for you.
Fevered Sleep has an international reputation for making exquisitely crafted and surprising performances that invite people to view the world in different ways. Produced in association with Fuel Beautiful, funny, touching and completely original. The Telegraph, on Fevered Sleep’s On Ageing, 2010 See p20 for audition dates.
Created and performed by Victoria Melody
Hair Peace Friday 11 March, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concessions (free with WOW Festival pass) Ages 12+ / Contains some bad language
A Kaleider Production / Conceived by Seth Honnor
about how to spend a pot of real cash. If you decide before the clock ticks down then you get to spend it, if not it rolls over to a new group.
When Victoria competed in beauty pageants for a previous show, a hairdresser advised she wear hair extensions. Freaked out by wearing a piece of somebody else’s body she embarked on an extraordinary adventure to find whose hair this was. The outcome is a true story about the search for three unrelated strangers from distant lands connected by DNA.
Saturday 23 April, 5pm & 8pm Friday 29 April, 1.30pm (schools only, see p.10) & 8pm Saturday 30 April, 5pm & 8pm £10 Benefactor / £12 Silent Witness
It’s a remarkable thing. Incredibly simple. And very clever. It is a masterclass in what theatre can achieve. David Jubb
Victoria Melody must rank as one of the most charming independent performancemakers in Britain – smart, warm, unpretentiously funny and informative... The Times
The Money is a cross between a game and a This deceptively simple piece is definitely on the theatrical performance. You can choose to be money. It turns conversation into urgent, playful either a Silent Witness and watch or a Benefactor theatre. The Guardian and take part in coming to a unanimous decision
Co-commissioned by LIFT, Warwick Arts Centre and Battersea Arts Centre. Produced by Farnham Maltings.Supported by The Marlborough Theatre and Arts Council England. Box Office 01303 760 750
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The Money
The best piece of game-theatre I’ve encountered. Matt Trueman
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CHILDREN & FAMILIES
CHILDREN & FAMILIES Unlimited Theatre presents
Play Dough
Saturday 20 February, 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children) Ages 7+ / 70 mins By Clare Duffy What is money? Did you know you can make it with the power of your imagination? Pied Piper Theatre Company presents
The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse Saturday 16 January, 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children) Ages 3-8 / 50 mins An enchanting and heartwarming telling of Aesop’s classic fable, packed full of fun, music and song. Join two friends as they embark on an amazing journey and discover that sometimes new can be exciting and different can be good, but the most important thing is friendship. There could not be a better way than this to introduce your young child to theatre. Surrey Advertiser, 2014 Aesop adaptation provides enthralling entertainment for young children while introducing them to the magic of theatre. The Stage
Join Unlimited Theatre for ‘Play Dough’ – the game show where you can play with 10,000 real pound coins. Our hosts Queenie and TooMuch will lead your team through a series of high-energy games while telling you their story, and everything they know about how money really works. You can’t take the cash home with you – but if you win, you get to decide the end of the story. Play Dough is a playfully interactive show for young people and their families about the value of money.
Long Nose Puppet presents
Lyngo Theatre presents
Flyaway Katie
The Curious Adventures of Pinocchio
Saturday 30 January, 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children) Ages 2-7 / 40 mins + 15 mins meet the puppets
Sunday 20 March, 2.30pm Monday 21 March, 10am & 1.30pm (schools only, see p.10) Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children) Ages 4+ / 55min
By the makers of Shoe Baby, Penguin and Arthur’s Dream Boat, Long Nose Puppets new Flyaway Katie!
One of the best loved classics for children comes to life, literally. Crickets, cats, foxes and, of course, the world-famous puppet, will spring out of our collection of dusty, old, magic books while Patrick Lynch from CBeebies pulls all the strings and turns all the pages to bring you the true story of Pinocchio, no lie. Who nose? He might even find his father and become a real boy. Come and join him on his incredible journey, you’ll have a whale of a time!
Flyaway Katie is an inspiring flight of fancy about the power of imagination based on the popular children’s book by Polly Dunbar with music by Tom Gray of Gomez. Katie is all alone and feeling grey. The birds in the picture on her wall look so colourful – if only Katie could be as bright as them, who knows what might happen? The show is bursting with colour, movement and surprises, with puppets of varying scales acting the story.
My daughter, Isobel, was lost in the sky and doesn’t seem to have come back to earth yet! Audience Member on Room in the Sky
Magical and beautiful. The Guardian Box Office 01303 760 750
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CHILDREN & FAMILIES
MUSIC
Profound Sound Profound Sound brings sound artists and contemporary musicians from across Kent together in a new two day festival for Folkestone.
Another Brick in the Wall Thursday 17 March 1pm (schools only, see below) & 6pm Friday 18 March 11am (schools only, see below) & 6pm Saturday 19 March, 7pm Tickets £2.50 / Ages 11+
to use the washing machine; through music, movement and real stories Another Brick in the Wall is a funny, engaging and beautifully honest performance about what a group of teenagers are currently learning about themselves and about the world they live in.
Another Brick in the Wall is the culmination of a year-long outreach project led by Folkestone Quarterhouse and Led by award-winning theatre collective The Paper supported by Arts Council England. Birds and devised and performed by a company of 15 students made up from the six schools in Shepway, Another Brick in the Wall is a vibrant, noisy and downright messy exploration into the teenage mind as it expands and grows. From learning algebra, to applying make-up, from writing French verbs, to instructions on how
Schools Every season we have a number of performances specifically for schools. If you would like to make a group booking, call box office on 01303 760750.
The Curious Adventures of Pinocchio (see p.9) Monday 21 March, 10am & 1.30pm Years 1-4 £5 per child & free tickets for accompanying teachers (1 per 10 children) Box Office 01303 760 750
Another Brick in the Wall (see above) Thursday 17 March, 1pm & Friday 18 March, 11am Years 7-11 Students and teachers go free
The Money (see p.7) Friday 29 April, 1.30pm Years 7-13 £10 per student & free tickets for accompanying teachers (1 per 10 student) 10
Profound Sound Day 1 Profound Sound Day 2 13 February, 1pm Bullet and the Bass Trombone Saturday Festival Pass £25 / £20 concessions by Sleepdogs Quaterhouse, Hot Salvation Records,
Lime Bar Café and other sites around town Full programme to be announced in January
Friday 12 February, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concessions Included in Festival Pass £25 / £20 concessions
Profound Sound presents an eclectic programme of live bands, experimental music, installation sound art, theatre, talks and workshops. We invite you to explore new sounds, new ways of hearing and consider the future of our audio landscape in a series of events show-casing some of Kent’s finest contemporary artists and musicians. Events are taking place in and around the Quarterhouse, in Payers Park, Hot Salvation Records, Lime Bar Café and other satellite sites in Folkestone.
There’s a concert orchestra, trapped in a city during a military coup. As violence erupts, with pitched battles breaking out around them, the orchestra becomes separated – lost – hoping and trying to find their way back to each other. The composer is left to tell the story. With an intricate, fractured narrative and haunting soundtrack, The Bullet and The Bass Trombone is a modern hymn to people and places now lost. The story comes together from the smallest of pieces, like a mosaic: a whistling bird in the jungle; a gunfight on an airport runway; a murder in a forest of music stands. It’s a fugue of voices, memories and sounds, played by a lone performer trying to make sense of the chaos.
Profound Sound is produced by Folkestone Fringe and co-curated by Reid Dudley Peirson and the Folkestone DIY Collective, Hot Salvation Records, Lime Bar Café, Wise Words Festival and the Tom Thumb Theatre.
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MUSIC
MUSIC
Maiuko: Roots’ Harmonia Record Launch
Las Perlitas with Dance Friday 15 April 7.30pm Tickets £8 / £6 concessions / Ages 14+ 6pm Free workshop available with show ticket. Limited capacity, booking recommended
Friday 29 January, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / Ages 14+ Maiuko celebrates her new Album launch Roots’ Harmonia featuring her “Quartet” of acclaimed musicians – pianist Martin Virgo, double bassist Alex Keen, drummer Vince Clarke and violinist Paul Bransigton. Born in Mozambique of royal Swazi ancestry, singer-songwriter Maiuko is blessed with a smoky and powerful voice that defies the limitations of one particular genre. She oozes soul and her vocals range from husky and sensuous to something altogether more ethereal.
Women of the World in Concert
The Singer’s Tale with Carol Grimes, Dorian Ford, Alison Rayner and Arike
Saturday 12 March, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 12+
Friday 6 May, 7.30pm Tickets £15 / Ages 14+
Join us to celebrate the final night of the WOW festival. For the second year running WOW will come to a close with a night of uproarious music, featuring female artists (full line up to be announced) alongside the Quarterhouse Women’s Choir. The WOW concert is a gig, a party and a celebration of female artistry. If you are a fan of big female vocals, this is the night for you. The Quarterhouse Women’s Choir, led by Carol Grimes, started at WOW 2015 and focuses on the work of female song writers.
The Singer’s Tale weaves its stories, sometimes shady, mad and bad with song at its heart, from the streets of London as a Busker to Ronnie Scott’s, from Nashville to Dalston, San Francisco to Eastern Europe and beyond. The Singer’s Tale is a show with a difference, a moving account of a woman’s journey sung with passion and humour. Rob Adams, The Scottish Herald
Bollywood Brass Band Friday 25 March, 7.30pm Tickets £12 / £9 concessions / £5 children (under 12) / Ages 6+ 6pm Free workshop available with show ticket. Limited capacity, booking recommended Funky drummers and hot horns play massive hits from Indian films, all driven by the huge beat of the dhol drum. The Bollywood Brass Band is the UK’s pioneering Indian-style brass band, playing the great tunes and compulsively danceable rhythms. With a repertoire covering classics from the Golden Age of Bollywood up to current hits, the BBB is one of the most colourful, joyful and exhilarating acts around. Box Office 01303 760 750
The duo of women musicians from the London Tango Orchestra unite for a concert exploring select themes of tango; nostalgia, passion, tenderness and conflict. Their repertoire is taken from sweet little known pieces from the 1920s through to tangos written in today’s angry urbanism. An emotional journey is guaranteed! Start your evening with a Tango dance workshop (free with a ticket to the show).
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The Sacconi Chamber Music Festival 2016 20 – 22 May St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone www.sacconi.com/festival The Sacconi Quartet return with their 8th festival in May 2016. The exhilarating programme will include the World Premiere of a new commission from renowned British composer Jonathan Dove, performed by the Sacconis and one of Britain’s foremost tenors, Mark Padmore. Also invited are some of the world’s best-known viola players, including Roger Chase, to perform in a special concert celebrating the instrument and its music. 13
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COMEDY
SOLD OUT
COMEDY Mick Perrin Worldwide presents
Ross Noble: Warm Up
SOLD OUT
Off the Kerb Productions presents
Romesh Ranganathan: Irrational
Friday 22 January, 8pm Tickets £15 / Ages 15+
Saturday 5 March, 8pm Tickets £14 / £12 concessions / Ages 14+
Don’t miss your chance to see Ross Noble in this intimate venue as warm up for his brand new 2016 tour. Noble is back doing what he does best; spinning forth hilarious nonsense for your amusement. Now is your chance to see one of the best live comics working today.
Romesh Ranganathan is back with a brand new show exploring the rationality of his worldview. Irrational will see Romesh examine the issues close to his heart and explain why everybody else is wrong about them. With his two critically acclaimed shows, Rom Wasn’t Built In A Day and Rom Com being nominated for the coveted Edinburgh Festival Awards for Best Show 2014 and Best Newcomer in 2013, this new show promises to be as much of a hit!
The supreme master of spontaneous stand-up and true king of surreal flights of fantasy. Time Out
Lee Hurst: Comedy Show No. 9 Saturday 6 February, 8pm Tickets £16 / £14.50 concessions / Ages 14+ Lee Hurst is back on the road with his next stand up show... Comedy Show No. 9 It’s a show, it’s the 9th one and it’s comedy. What else do you need to know? Come along for a night of laughs with that bald bloke you thought was dead. Live Nation in association with MHA Proudly presents
Stewart Francis: Pun Gent
Avalon Management presents
Richard Herring: Happy Now? Saturday 16 April, 8pm Tickets £15 / Ages 14+ After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors? In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we can ever be truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do we envision the worst possible outcomes even on a day when everything seems fine? Off the Kerb Productions presents
Simon Evans: In the Money
Friday 19 February, 8pm Tickets £18.50 / Ages 14+
Friday 22 April, 8pm Tickets £14 / £12 concessions / Ages 14+
The star of Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow and Live At The Apollo, embarks on a brand new stand up tour with a fantastic and hilarious new show!
Host of BBC Radio 4’s Goes to Market and star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo, Simon Evans has been immersing himself in economics for the last couple of years, like a pig immersing itself in organic cleansing elements. Unpicking why the French don’t want to own their own home (sex, obvs) to why Americans are made of corn, the whole thing usually deteriorates into a rant about his children.
A brilliant comic brain... this stand-up cracks some of the best one liners I’ve ever heard. The Guardian
Avalon Management presents
Jenny Eclair: How To Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane) Thursday 3 March, 8pm Tickets £17.50 / Ages 14+ Professional grumpy old woman, Splash survivor, amateur soup maker, and novice knitter, Jenny Eclair is younger than Madonna but eats crisps and likes wine. Semi-bearded and suffering from outbreaks of gout and hysteria, Eclair puts middle age under the microscope and decides whether to laugh, cry or buy a dachshund! Box Office 01303 760 750
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Enjoy a pre-comedy meal this season with food by Beano’s, a welcoming family run café in the heart of the Creative Quarter, who are taking over the Quarterhouse café offering a delicious selection of veggie, vegan and gluten free meals. Why not skip cooking at home and make the most of your night out with a pre-show meal in our stunning contemporary cafe bar. Our café bar will open at 5.30pm prior to every comedy event with Beano’s serving from 5.30pm – 7.30pm, please arrive with sufficient time to eat before the show start. 15
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FILM
FILM
London Feminist Film Festival Thursday 10 March, 7.30pm, £5 or free with WOW four day pass An evening devoted to film and discussion on feminist activism. A series of short films on inspiring women’s rights activism around the world, followed by a panel discussion with feminist activists. The discussion will focus on forms of activism, current campaigns, how to start your own campaign, with plenty of time for audience participation.
Diary of a Teenage Girl (18) Thursday 24 March, 7.30pm
Film at Quarterhouse Amy (15) Thursday 28 January, 7.30pm From BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia and the team behind Senna, Amy tells the incredible story of six-time Grammywinner Amy Winehouse – in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can. A pure jazz artist in the most authentic sense, Amy wrote and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to analyse her own problems. Her huge success coupled with invasive media attention, troubled relationships and precarious lifestyle saw her life tragically begin to unravel.
Slow West (15) Thursday 11 February, 7.30pm Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee star in this Western from writer/director John Maclean, who makes his feature debut. Set in the late 1800s, the story follows 16-year-old Jay Cavendish as he goes on a journey from Scotland to America, travelling across the Wild West in an attempt to find his sweetheart, who was forced to leave the country with her father John following an accident. Jay meets the mysterious Silas Selleck along the way and the two team up as they face the harsh environment and a band of bounty hunters.
Inside Out (PG) Thursday 25 February, 7.30pm Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Inventive, gorgeously animated and powerfully moving, Inside Out is another Pixar animated classic! Box Office 01303 760 750
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Recording all her secrets in The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Minnie is an aspiring cartoonist living with her mother, and nursing a crush on her mum’s boyfriend. Growing up in San Francisco in 1976, Minnie’s sexual awakening begins as the hippie movement fades and punk rock is on the rise. Yearning to be loved and treated like a grown-up, her rebellious teenage nature clashes with the newfound demands and responsibilities of adulthood. The winner of the Best International Feature award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, ‘The Diary Of A Teenage Girl’ stars Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard.
45 Years (15) Thursday 14 April, 7.30pm Kate Mercer is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff, containing news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories. Anchored by sensational performances from Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, 45 Years is an intimate, moving and beautifully restrained portrait of a marriage shaken to its core by things left unspoken. Winning Best Actor and Best Actress awards at this year’s Berlinale Film Festival, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is British filmmaking at its very best.
Appropriate Behaviour (15) Thursday 28 April, 7.30pm For Shirin, being part of a perfect family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. Following a family announcement of her brother’s betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine. From writer/director/actress Desiree Akhavan (the unfathomable love-child of Woody Allen, Lena Dunham and Tina Fey) comes an ironic, Iranian, hipster date movie. Appropriate Behaviour is an achingly cool, post-feminist comedy about what happens when a girl comes out and discovers that extraordinary is the new ordinary.
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TALKS
NORMAL? FESTIVAL
Entertaining Ideas from Lakin McCarthy
Jay Rayner: My Dining Hell Friday 5 February, 7.30pm Tickets £15 / 90 mins incl interval / Ages 14+
Festival of the Brain 26 – 29 May 2016
Jay Rayner has been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing he’s learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the bush. In My Dining Hell, Jay examines our love affair with lousy reviews, reads from accounts of some of the most excruciating nights out he’s ever had and looks at the worst reviews his own work has ever received. A hugely entertaining show in the company of the man recently voted the best food and drink journalist in Britain. Jay Rayner is an award winning journalist, writer and broadcaster. He has been the Observer newspaper’s restaurant critic for over 12 years, is the resident food expert on The One Show, a regular judge on Masterchef and chair of BBC Radio 4’s Kitchen Cabinet.
The Festival of the Brain brings science and art together over four days to explore the brain. I think the weekend at Quarterhouse may actually have changed my life… this sense of kinship and ‘belonging’. It was full of welcome. 2015 Festival Participant Participate in debates, daily mindfulness sessions and workshops. Wonder at the brain and its complexity through visual art, music and new theatre. Now in its second year, Normal? Festival of the Brain will explore new areas including addiction, the early years development of the brain and artificial intelligence.
Professor Robert Winston: What Makes Us Happy? Reading The Human Mind Thursday 19 May, 7.30pm Tickets £16 / 90 mins no interval What led to French philosopher Michel de Montaigne thanking fortune for the pain he suffered? Or why did Mahler apparently stop composing after his meeting in Holland with Sigmund Freud? Why was Alfred J. Prufrock in T.S. Eliot’s poem so chronically depressed and suffering so much lack of self-esteem? Shall we ever really understand what makes us happy?
Normal? is co-curated with Susanna Howard of Living Words and Folkestone Fringe. For a full programme, pick up the festival flyer (available early 2016) and follow the development of the festival on twitter @BrainFest_UK We would love your input! Come to our Normal? Festival of the Brain Think In: December 10th, 5.30pm and further dates in the new year, at Quarterhouse. I have been in the mental health arena for over 25 years, as a service user and running support groups. I have been to it all, and this is the best thing I have been to. Thank you, it gives a voice and it gives me hope. 2015 Festival Participant
To some extent, the ability to be happy is inherited, but social scientists have emphasized that various environmental influences – health, a stable society, economic advantages, play a major role. Professor Winston examines the role of brain imaging, hormone study, sexuality, child development, pharmacology and psychological research in understanding how science may help us be happier. Box Office 01303 760 750
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GET INVOLVED
Quarterhouse Women’s Choir
Quarterhouse Women’s Choir started as a workshop in WOW Festival 2015. Led by Carol Grimes, the choir is now made up of forty local women. Catch their first public performance at the Women in the World in Concert (p.12). The choir is currently full but if you are interested in joining, contact Quarterhouse box office and we will get in touch with you when an opportunity to join arises.
Improv Gym Improv Gym is a warm, friendly group open to all who want to practice being more ‘in the moment’, to laugh more, and to draw out the playful side of themselves. We’ll play ice-breaker and warm-up games, and practice skills at the heart of improvisation, such as listening, making offer and ‘saying yes’. With no audience and no performance on the agenda, the atmosphere is accessible, fun and non-judgemental, with the hope of stretching our creative muscles as we interact with each other. You may have some experience of drama or improve comedy, or you may be a complete beginner. Either way is fine, you are most welcome. Facebook.com/improvgym
Men and Girls Dance
Festivals
We are looking for young enthusiastic girls aged 8 to 11 who love dancing for fun.
All our Festivals start with a Think In. It’s a public meeting, open to anyone interested in the theme of the festival. You don’t need to be an expert or an artist to come to a Think In. You just need to bring your curiosity and a desire to make East Kent a more interesting, vibrant place to live. Even if you start out not knowing how you might get involved, the festivals are built around the interests, expertise and personal experiences of the very diverse people who come along to the Think Ins. Come see for yourself.
No formal experience necessary. This is part of Fevered Sleep’s new performance piece that brings together two different groups of performers - adult professional male dancers reaching the end of their careers and young girls who dance for fun in their spare time. The opportunity will require the girls to work with the company for two weeks from 27 March – 9 April culminating in a series of public performances. Auditions will take place on Auditions will take place on the 5 and 6 February 2016 at Quarterhouse. For more information or to express an interest please contact taniamccormack@ creativefoundation.org.uk
WOW Festival: 23 January at 11am and 28 January at 5.30pm at Quarterhouse. Normal? Festival: 10 December at 5.30pm and dates in early 2016 tbc. For latest updates on Think Ins, follow Quarterhouse on Facebook or on Twitter @Quarterhouse_UK
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How to find Quarterhouse
Parking The nearest car parks are Tram Road (2mins), Payers Park (2mins) and the Harbour car park (5mins). All council car parks charge daily fees starting from £1 per hour. There is limited parking available behind Quarterhouse which requires a parking permit that can be purchased from a pay and display machine located in the Quarterhouse car park. For more information please call Quarterhouse Box Office.
By Train High speed trains run regularly from London St Pancras International (journey time 57 minutes). The last return train from Folkestone to London is at 22:56. Folkestone Central Station is a short walk from the centre of town and approximately 15 minutes from Quarterhouse. For full details go to our travel partner’s website www.southeasternrailway.co.uk
By Bus or Coach A direct National Express coach service runs from London Victoria Coach Station to the main bus station in Bouverie Square, Folkestone. Stagecoach operates a network of routes linking local towns and villages to Folkestone.
By Car From the M20, turn off at junction 13 and follow signs to the Harbour. (SAT NAV USERS: CT20 1BN) one dst Bra
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Sat 16 Jan 2.30pm The Town Mouse and Children & Familes page 8 The Country Mouse Fri 22 Jan 8pm Ross Noble Comedy page 14 Thu 28 Jan 7.30pm Amy Film page 16 Fri 29 Jan 7.30pm Maiuko: Roots’ Harmonia Music page 12 Record Launch Sat 30 Jan 2.30pm Flyaway Katie Children & Familes page 8 Fri 5 Feb 7.30pm Jay Rayner Talk page 18 Sat 6 Feb 8pm Lee Hurst Comedy page 14 Thu 11 Feb 7.30pm Slow West Film page 16 Fri 12 Feb 7.30pm Profound Sound Day 1 – Music Festival page 11 Bullet and the Bass Trombone Sat 13 Feb 1pm Profound Sound Day 2 Music Festival page 11 Fri 19 Feb 8pm Stewart Francis Comedy page 14 Sat 20 Feb 2.30pm Play Dough Children & Familes page 9 Thu 25 Feb 7.30pm Inside Out Film page 16 Thu 3 Mar 8pm Jenny Eclair Comedy page 14 Sat 5 Mar 8pm Romesh Ranganathan Comedy page 15 Tue 8 Mar 6pm WOW Party WOW Festival Event page 5 9 – 12 Mar WOW Lunchtime WOW Festival Talks page 5 Bites Sat 12 Mar 10am WOW Market WOW Festival Event page 5 Sat 12 Mar 10.30am WOW Speed WOW Festival Event page 5 Mentoring Tue 8 Mar 7.30pm The English Channel WOW Festival Theatre page 6 Wed 9 Mar 7.30pm WOW Scratch Night WOW Festival Theatre page 6 oad Bay RThu 10 Mar 7.30pm London Feminist WOW Festival Film page 17 Wear Film Festival rade n Pa o i t a ron 11 Mar 7.30pm Hair Peace WOW Festival Theatre page 6 CoFri Sat 12 Mar 7.30pm Women of the WOW Festival Music page 12 Sunny World in Concert Sands Thu 17 Mar 1pm (schools only, Another Brick in the Wall Children & Familes page 10 see p.10) & 6pm Fri 18 Mar 11am (schools only, Another Brick in the Wall Children & Familes page 10 see p.10) & 6pm Sat 19 Mar 7pm Another Brick in the Wall Children & Familes page 10 Sun 20 Mar 2.30pm The Curious Adventures of Pinocchio Children & Familes page 9 Mon 21 Mar 10am & 1.30pm The Curious Adventures of Pinocchio Children & Familes page 9 (schools only, see p.10) Thu 24 Mar 7.30pm Diary of a Tennage Girl Film page 17 Fri 25 Mar 7.30pm Bollywood Brass Band Music page 12 Fri 8 April 7pm Men & Girls Dance Theatre page 7 Sat 9 April 2.30pm & 7.30pm Men & Girls Dance Theatre page 7 Thu 14 Apr 7.30pm 45 Years Film page 17 Fri 15 Apr 7.30pm Las Perlitas with Dance Music page 12 Folkestone Sat Harbour 16Pier Apr 8pm Richard Herring Comedy page 15 Fri 22 Apr 8pm Simon Evans Comedy page 15 Sat 23 Apr 5pm & 8pm The Money Theatre page 7 Thu 28 Apr 7.30pm Appropriate Behaviour Film page 17 Fri 29 Apr 1.30pm (schools The Money Theatre page 7 only, see p.10) & 8pm Sat 30 Apr 5pm & 8pm The Money Theatre page 7 Fri 6 May 7.30pm The Singer’s Tale Music page 12 Thu 19 May 7.30pm Professor Normal? Festival Talk page 18 Robert Winston 20 – 22 May The Sacconi Chamber Music Music page 12 Festival 2016 W ea rB ay Cre sce nt
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