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Greener Pastures

2022 SPRING SEASON www.takeart.org

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Takeshi Matsumoto by Summer Dean

Find out how Take Art is making the arts sustainable

January – June

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CONTENTS Welcome to Take Art's Spring 2022 brochure. Discover What's On and What's New in your corner of Somerset.

Greener Pastures EDITION

What's On 4 Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket

15 The egg, Holm Theatre Wales/ Somerset: Josephine 16 Hannah Kumari: ENG-ER-LAND 17 Christian Garrick & John Etheridge 18 George Fellows | Fours Hands: It’s ok 19 Wassail Theatre Company: Whispering Willows

What We Do

Take Art Offices, Flaxdrayton Farm context; and our Rural Touring programme, which enables the touring of high quality performing arts companies to community spaces for a local audience, reducing the need for travel.

20 Greener Pastures 22 Theatre 23 Dance 24 Early Years 25 Music

5 Rainbow Fish Speak Easy 6 Flats and Sharps: Live in Concert

A Message from Chief Executive, Ralph Lister

7 Paddleboat Theatre: Margo & Mr Whatsit 8 Tango Calor: A Night with Tango Calor 9 John Hegley: Peace Love and Potatoes 10 WÖR: Back to the 1780's!

11 Takeshi Matsumoto: Club Origami 12 Multi Story Theatre Company: Hefted 13 Spring Forward 22 14 BARNfest 2 Contents

Keep up to date with our latest news and events by joining our mailing list. Sign up at www.takeart.org call 01460 249450 email info@takeart.org January - June 2022 | Take Art

The climate and ecological emergency has become the defining issue of our time and will feature as one of our four aims as we prepare our next 3-year business plan. We have considerable environmental expertise on our board and are committed to operating in a carbon neutral way.

This is reflected in our now-permanent hybrid home/office working arrangement; our projects, such as our arts and local food collaboration 'Cultivate', which features the environment in a creative Book online at www.takeart.org Book online at www.takeart.org

As we enter a different stage of the global pandemic, we aim to be ambitious in our activity, while embedding precautionary working practices. It is likely that we will once again provide Rural Touring to the whole county next year. We are delivering two major early years projects with partners in the south west, Derby and Surrey. There are advanced plans to continue with the Rural Touring Dance Initiative. After the success of our outdoor Rural Touring circus summer project we will be developing a new three year project, subject to successful funding bids. We are continuing to collaborate with our European partners to bring international work to Somerset.

In this brochure, you can find out what we we are bringing to your area, read about our projects, and hear how we are making the arts sustainable.

Welcome

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WHAT'S ON

Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket Stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster, armchair revolutionary and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall resides at the Graceland Caravan Park somewhere in the back of beyond, where he scribbles poetry while drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash.

Full Tartan Jacket presents the prime cuts from the work of a comic poet at the top of his game - all current and bang on target. Join this World Poetry Slam Champion and 4 What's On

Radio 4 regular as he bellows into the void of our diseased, burning planet and we all trundle along the primrose path to Beelzebub’s bottomless pit.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Thurs 20 Jan | 7.30pm | The Black Swan Langport | £10/£7.50 Students | 07935 352695 Fri 21 Jan | 7.30pm | Hatch Beauchamp Village Hall | £10 Inc a tot of whisky | 01823 481909 Sat 22 Jan | 8pm| Dulverton Town Hall | £10 | 07855 928541 Fri 8 April | 8pm | Crooked Swan, Crewkerne | £11 | 07967 301747 Sat 9 April | 8pm | The David Hall, South Petherton | £11/£10 Child/Student | 01460 240340 January - June 2022 | Take Art

Rainbow Fish Speak Easy Rainbow Fish Speak Easy is a much beloved spoken word poetry night for Yeovil, with open mic slots available for anyone with an original poem to share. The event, hosted

by BBC Somerset poet Liv Torc, is fun, funny, tender and tremendous; with tips for successfully navigating the human condition in all its luminous, ludicrous and lunatic dimensions.

The show comes out of Take Art's 'performance poetry on prescription' Word/Play project, which helps Book online at www.takeart.org Book online at www.takeart.org

adults with mental health or learning challenges find new ways to talk about their lives. Along with an open mic and a short performance from the latest Word/ Play group, each Rainbow Fish Speak Easy features an exciting poetry headliner.

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Thurs 20 Jan | 7:30pm | online via Zoom | Headliner: Rebecca Tantony | £3 | book via takeart.org Thurs 17 Feb | 7:30pm | The Hub, Yeovil | Headliner: Jonny Fluffypunk | £3 | book via takeart.org Thurs 17 March | 7:30pm | The Hub, Yeovil | Headliner: Chris Redmond | £3 | book via takeart.org What's On 5

Flats and Sharps: Live in Concert Flats and Sharps are a four-piece Bluegrass outfit from Penzance, Cornwall. Delivering energetic, enthusiastic and spirited Bluegrass to audiences all around the world, Virtuosic players with an incredible stage presence, and with years of international touring under their belts.

Their shows include a wide variety of influences, from a fresh and modern outlook on foot-stomping Bluegrass material through to their powerful and well-crafted original 6 What's On

songs, with beautiful moments everywhere in between.

Their music perfectly blends strong harmonies and solos, while their incredible stage presence and energy create an evening that’ll have you dancing, laughing and singing along in no time.

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Fri 28 Jan | 7.30pm | North Cadbury Village Hall | £10 | 01963 440338 Sat 29 Jan |7pm | West Pennard Village Hall | £12 | 07733 308900 Fri 25 Feb | 8pm | Curry Mallet & Beercrocombe Village Hall | £12 | 01823 481364 Sat 26 Feb | 7.30pm | Charlton Horethorne Village Hall | £10 | 01935 814199 January - June 2022 | Take Art

Paddleboat Theatre: Margo & Mr Whatsit Do you have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you can see?

Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr Whatsit. No matter where Sophia finds herself living, he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play.

But when Sophia moves into her new foster home, Mr Whatsit finds himself unimagined! Now Sophia Book online at www.takeart.org

has a new imaginary friend – the glamorous, grown-up Margo.

Can Mr Whatsit’s childish playfulness keep him from being unimagined for good? And with her imaginary friends competing against each other, will Sophia manage to find her forever home?

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Fri 4 Feb | 5pm | Hatch Beauchamp Village Hall | £8/£5 child/£24 family (2+3) | 01823 481909 | Drinks and homemade cakes available

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Tango Calor: A Night with Tango Calor “One of the best tango trios you will hear in the UK” Tango Alchemy Tango Calor will take you on a journey from the backstreets of Buenos Aires to the salons of Paris.

Indira Roman is one of the great stars of Latin music in the UK. She has sung all around Europe, performing the music of her home town Havana, Cuba.

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In this show she gets to explore her other love, the great love songs of Argentine tango. Mirek Salmon is one of only a few bandoneon players in the country. This is a rare experience to hear the true sound of tango played live.

DATES AND DETAILS ..........................................................

Fri 21 Jan | 7:30pm | Holford and District iV llage Hall |£10/£8 concession| 07843 348057 Fri 4 Feb | 7pm | Lamyatt iV llage Hall | £20/£15 Child/Student £60 Family (1+3 or 2+2) | 01749 814 934 | inc tacos and tortillas & tequila Sat 5 Feb | 7.30pm | Porlock iV llage Hall | £10 | 01643 863150 Fri 18 Feb | 7.30pm | Norton Sub Hamdon iV llage Hall | £10/£5 Child | 01935 881227 January - June 2022 | Take Art

John Hegley: Peace Love and Potatoes

Join John for tales relating to growing up in a bungalow in Luton, where his mother would think nothing of peeling a potato in one long, thin winding and unbroken strip.

John Hegley is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter who we have long wanted to bring to Somerset. This show is about his family friends, working life and everyday goings on which resonates with audiences, who, (when it is safe to do so) are invited join in with the singing. The poems are poignant and funny and although the show is designed for adults the odd 9 year-old has happily joined the journey.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

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Fri 18 Feb | 7.30pm | Penselwood Village Hall | £10 | 01747 840680 Sat 19 Feb | 8pm | Churchinford Village Hall | £12/£8 Child/Student | 01823 601468 Thur 24 Feb | 7.30pm | North Cadbury Village Hall | £10 | 01963 440338 Fri 25 Feb | 7.30pm | Porlock Village Hall | £10 | 01643 863150 Sat 26 Feb | 8pm | The David Hall, South Petherton | £12/£11 Students | 01460 240340 What's On 9

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WÖR: Back to the 1780's!

Bringing new life to forgotten music Almost 300 years ago, musicians from around Antwerp, Brussels, Gent and Leuven decided to write down their favourite music. As time passed the music was left to gather dust, along with the faded manuscripts…

That is, until now! With their finely textured arrangements WÖR injects new energy into 18th Century tunes from the Flanders region of Belgium. Their innovative 10Book onlineOn at www.takeart.org What's

arrangements and superb musicianship shine an inventive spotlight on these long forgotten tunes. Playing saxophone, fiddle, accordion, guitar and bagpipes, five young Belgian musicians will rock your socks off and stir your soul.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Fri 18 Feb | 7.30pm | Holford and District Village Hall | £10/£8 Child/ Student | 07843 348057 Sat 19 Feb | 7.30pm | Caryford Community Hall | £12 | 01963 350980 Sun 20 Feb | 3pm | North Curry Parish Church | £15 (inc wine and nibbles) | 01460 249450

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Takeshi Matsumoto: Club Origami Presented by Little Big Dance Rip, fold and scrumple! Shall we see what we can make with a single square of paper? As you scrunch the paper, see how your imagination begins to dance…

Dive into the magical world of Club Origami, an immersive and interactive dance show inviting family audiences to create, imagine and explore whole new ways of thinking, playing and moving. Dance, fashion and live music meet the magic of origami to sweep Book online at www.takeart.org

us up on a spirited and inspiring adventure in a land made purely of paper and play.

Children aged 0-5 and their families Club Origami is presented by Little Big Dance – a pioneering national initiative creating new dance work for under fives and their families, led by South East Dance in partnership with DanceEast, Take Art and Yorkshire Dance.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Tues 22 Feb | 11am & 2.30pm | The Merlin Theatre | 01373 465949 | www.merlintheatre.co.uk Wed 23 Feb | 11.30am & 3pm | the egg | 01225 823409 | www.theatreroyal.org.uk/ your-visit/the-egg/ Thur 3 March | The McMillan Theatre | 01278 556677 | www.mcmillantheatre.com

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Multi Story Theatre Company: Hefted With a narrative that sweeps across 600 years, starting in 1475 with a supernatural birth and moving through nine different landscapes to an imagined 2075 in which stories from the past are retold to help heal the present.

Some of the stories are fantastical, others dramatise real events but all explore the notion of being ‘hefted’ or ‘leared’ – the deep connection we have with the land.

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‘We’re clay, don’t ever say you ain’t got no responsibility to the land.

You’re the earth itself.’

The stories of those who live in the countryside are rarely heard or heeded; this play opens the door for those stories to be shared DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Fri 4 March | 7.30pm | Dulverton Town Hall | £10 | 0785 5928541 Fri 18 March | 7.30pm | The David Hall, South Pertherton | £12/£11 child/ student | 01460 240340 Sat 19 March | 7.30pm | Chilthorne Domer Village Hall | £10 | 01935 840200 (hot supper available) January - June 2022 | Take Art

Spring Forward '22 Spring Forward is back! With the most exciting and inclusive platform in the Somerset dance calendar, bringing together hundreds of dancers of all ages to perform on one of three professional stages.

Now in its 16th year, the Spring Forward events will be showcasing the best and brightest of Somerset youth dance alongside a striking array of community dance groups, including adult and older dancers.

Enjoy a kaleidoscope of styles and choreography including Jazz, Book online at www.takeart.org

Contemporary, Street Dance and Dance Theatre, along with fantastic, fun and feel-good performances and digital dance offerings from local schools, youth dance companies, adult community dance groups and Somerset dance schools.

DATES AND DETAILS ..........................................................

Fri 18 March | 7pm | Tacchi Morris Arts Centre | 01823 414141 | www.tacchimorris.com Tue 22 March | 7pm | Octagon Theatre | 01935 422884 | www.octagon-theatre. co.uk Thurs 24 March | 7pm | The McMillan Theatre | 01278 556677 | www.mcmillantheatre.com What's On 13

BARNfest A two-day festival showcasing theatre made in Somerset and the South West. Join us for a thrilling programme of celebration, stimulation, provocation and lively debate around contemporary theatre and how it is made.

As well as performances from emerging individuals and companies, BARNfest will include a Venues South West symposium, open rehearsals, work-in-progress, workshops and pitches. There will also be plenty of opportunity to meet the theatre-makers and discuss the performances with other like-minded people.

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Produced by Take Art and The Brewhouse with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Tue 22 and Wed 23 March | Taunton Brewhouse | The full programme will be announced in the new year. Tickets and further information will be available at www.thebrewhouse.net and www.takeart.org

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the egg Theatre / Holm Theatre:

Josephine

the egg Theatre, Bath has teamed up with Holm Theatre, Wales/ Somerset, to create a new play about the iconic entertainer, spy and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker.

Born in St Louis in 1906, Baker was a famous dancer and the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. She became a French national where she raised her 12 internationally adopted children, dubbed the Rainbow Tribe and Book online at www.takeart.org

aided the French Resistance during WWII, which earned her the Croix de Guerre. She spoke at the March on Washington in 1963 alongside Martin Luther King.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Thurs 24 March | time TBC | Croscombe Village Hall | £10/£6.50 U18, Family (2A+3C) £32 | 01460 249450 Fri 25 March | time TBC | Holyrood Academy, Chard | 01460 260100 Sun 27 March | 8pm | Norton Sub Hamdon Village Hall | £10/£5 child | 01935 881227

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Hannah Kumari: ENG-ER-LAND 1997. Last year England made it to the semi-finals of Euro 96, Gina G came third in Eurovision and 13 year-old Lizzie went to her first inperson football game: Coventry vs.

Manchester City.

Not the Man City of today, oil and superstars, but the old Man City a bit rubbish, but with good fans.

Lizzie fell in love with the beautiful game that day, and she’s been obsessed ever since.

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But then something happens to make her question her place in the stands.

ENG-ER-LAND is an energetic play about who’s really on your ‘team’.

DATES AND DETAILS ....................................................

Fri 25 March | 7.30pm | Penselwood Village Hall | £8 | 01747 840680 Sat 2 April | 8pm | Wellington Arts Centre | £8/£7 child | 01823 667774

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Christian Garrick & John Etheridge This world class duo provides a feast of interplay, improvisation and eclectic repertoire with music ranging from Peter Gabriel to Richard Rogers via Dollar Brand and Alison Goldfrapp.

Both players make extensive use of looping and other effects, creating exotic tapestries of sound, almost orchestral at times, yet they can switch seamlessly to a pure acoustic sound with rolliking renditions of Hot Club swing Book online at www.takeart.org

evoking the spirit of Reinhardt and Grappelli as they do. Atmospheric, hypnotic, humorous and entertaining. They can roar, seduce and whisper.

DATES AND DETAILS ....................................................

Wed 6 April | 7.30pm | All Saints Church, Kingsdon | £12/£6 child | 01935 841402 Thur 7 April | 7pm | Lamyatt Village Hall | £12/£6 child/student £30 family (2+2 or 1+3 ) | 07971 631976 Fri 8 April | 7.30pm | The EMN Hall Monksilver | £12 | 01984 656526 Sat 9 April | 7pm | West Pennard Village Hall | £12 | 07733 308900 Sun 10 April | 7.30pm | Caryford Community Hall | £12 | 01963 350917 What's On 17

George Fellows | Fours Hands: It’s ok

Presented by Little Big Dance Created as part of the Little Big Dance programme, It’s ok is an intimate dance piece performed in a perspex cube, especially for children aged 0-5 years and their families. In a story full of care, comfort and kindness, It’s ok invites us to follow Laura on a journey of discovery as she navigates feelings of uncertainty, fear, excitement, anger and joy whilst being supported and encouraged by Claire every step of the way. Join the performers as they 18 What's On

discover that no feelings are right or wrong; they’re just feelings and it really is ok to feel them.

It’s ok is presented by Little Big Dance – a pioneering national initiative creating new dance work for children aged five and under, led by South East Dance in partnership with DanceEast, Take Art and Yorkshire Dance and funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England, co-commissioned by Birmingham Hippodrome, Dance Umbrella, Strikea-light and Spark Arts.

DATES AND DETAILS ........................................................

Tue 19 April | 11:30am, 1:30 & 3:30pm The Brewhouse | 01823 283244 | www.thebrewhouse.net January - June 2022 | Take Art

Wassail Theatre Company: Whispering Willows It’s 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset Willow farm since before he can remember.

Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, harvest, weave. Plant, harvest, weave.

One day he pulls up a particularly large piece of Willow with a girl clinging to the end of it! She eats too much, breaks everything in his workshop and is a complete nuisance.

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But as time moves on, they teach each other the ways of the Willow.

Planting, harvesting, weaving... the cycle continues and all is well in their world until the chaos of WWII and the invention of plastic threaten to destroy the farm and their livelihoods. Can they find a new use for Willow before it’s too late?

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Wed 1 June | 2pm | The David Hall, South Petherton | £8/£5 child | 01460 240340 Fri 3 June | 4pm | Porlock Village Hall | £6/£3 child | 01643 863150 Sat 4 June | Speedwell Hall, Crewkerne | Subject to funding

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Our Rural Touring programme is funded by your local authorities.

Our financial support has ebbed and flowed, but we are now reaching a point where we hope we can once again provide touring activity across the whole county by covering Sedgemoor district for the first time since 2012. Somerset’s new unitary authority provides an opportunity to embed Rural Touring into Somerset’s cultural landscape for years to come.

A Summer Programme

Greener Pastures Take Art is an ambitious organisation. We want to reach people across the county, provide opportunities to those who have limited access to live artistic performance, and to provide a platform for artists of the highest calibre, who are creating work that is challenging, progressive and diverse in its origin and appeal.

We also want to prove that art is sustainable. Here’s how we are doing it.

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Rural Touring Programme Rural Touring is green. By subsidising artist fees, we make it possible for community venues like village halls to host high quality performances for local audiences.

A carbon assessment study carried out by Beaford Arts, our colleagues in North Devon, shows that a Rural Tour has a lower carbon footprint, by one third, than a single show at a town based venue. Our SPARSE European project evaluation shows that nearly 50% of audiences live less than 5km from the venue.

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In 2020 and 2021, we responded to the Coronavirus Pandemic in an inventive way. We created the Totally Local summer programme and worked with London-based producers, Crying Out Loud, on a south west rural touring circus project called Circus Around and About. This worked with circus companies to put on Covid-secure performances outside in community settings. The feedback from these projects was that outdoor settings created a wholly different atmosphere, drawing on Somerset’s beautiful countryside and bringing more families into contact with our shows. We have listened to this and will extend our touring programme to cover the summer months, will ensure our events are safe for audiences, and will bring a more varied range of work, including circus!

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Cultivate Cultivate is working to bring people together through the sharing and enjoyment of local food and highquality arts experience in the market towns of South Petherton, Crewkerne, Ilminster and Chard.

The project works with local producers, farmers, artists and organisations who support local community. This project is a key element of our EU-funded collaboration, RURITAGE. Cultivate is putting on events and workshops that focus on the landscape and our impact on the environment.

The work benefits the rural community, aims to educate on environmental issues, and focuses on activity that leads to better health and well-being.

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Word/Play Word/Play is a social prescribing project for people experiencing mental ill health. It uses performance poetry to empower individuals, giving them the freedom and encouragement to tell their stories and be witnessed.

THEATRE Our theatre team work year-round supporting theatre development across Somerset. This is one of our key responsibilities and a core offer to theatre-makers and companies that includes advice, information, brokering relationships and networking opportunities.

Over the last few years, through the BARN initiative supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we’ve been able to offer additional resources that have really helped the sector to grow and flourish. This includes showcases, scratch events, training, a seed and growth fund and BARNfest, which you can read about on page 14.

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We are partners with Spark Somerset and Somerset Wildlife Trust in Thriving Communities Somerset, a community-based project that aims to boost the range of social prescribing activities offered in Somerset, including creative, nature-based and physical activities. Through this initiative, we are currently planning to deliver a programme of Word/Play workshops in Spring 2022, particularly to support people experiencing the effects on long-Covid on their lives.

The Rainbow Fish Speak Easy, is a spoken word poetry platform that has grown out of Word/Play and become a hugely popular poetry platform in Somerset. Featuring people who have benefitted from the project as well other writers and performers in the area, each event is topped off with a headline act.

Originating as a live event at the Hub, Yeovil, throughout lockdown we’ve taken it successfully online. See the next dates for the speakeasy on page 5.

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DANCE Our dance development programme at Take Art provides high quality dance performance and participation opportunities in Somerset alongside our other specialisms. We are the strategic lead for dance in Somerset and represent the county at both a regional and national level.

We provide a key role in helping to shape, resource and sustain the county’s dance sector offering artistic and business support to professional dance artists and companies as well as providing opportunities for networking, professional development, training and mentoring.

Our participatory projects, festivals, workshops and platform events provide opportunities for dancers of all ages and abilities to be part of an evolving ever-growing county dance community. Further details about these events from projects Little Big Dance, and Spring Forward are on pages 11, 13 and 18.

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Our Turn: Dance Sessions for Dementia Do you have a loved one living with Dementia? Come along to our friendly and inspiring dance sessions every Monday afternoon in Yeovil, Somerset.

Our Turn is a two-year arts intervention using dance and movement to help the health and happiness of vulnerable adults living with dementia or memory loss. The session helps to support participants with falls prevention and includes a meet and greet and social time with refreshments.

The weekly dance sessions are led by specialist dance artists and take place at St Peter's Community Centre, Yeovil on Monday afternoons 1pm - 4pm.

For more information or to join in please get in touch: 01460 249460 or e-mail ourturn@takeart.org What We Do 23

EARLY YEARS

SoundWaves Network SW Our Early Years team have been awarded £100,000 by Youth Music to continue building our early childhood music education programme across the south west from Nov 2021 - 2024. There will be eight early childhood Music Learning Communities centred around Music Education Hubs keen to develop high-quality early childhood music infrastructure.

New music education hub partners include Cornwall, Dorset Music Service, SoundStorm, Devon/ Torbay, Southampton/IOW. A deepening relationship will continue with Bristol Beacon, Sound Foundation Somerset and Plymouth. Other partners include early years settings, University of Plymouth, local advisory teams and Real Ideas – the Arts Council Bridge 24

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Organisation for the south-west.

The partners in the consortium will be working with project manager/ early childhood music specialist Jane Parker, our Take Art Early Years team and a team of early years music practitioners - many of whom are now qualified as Early Childhood Music Educators having completed the Certificate of Music: Early Childhood Trinity college accredited course at the Centre of Research for Early Childhood, Birmingham.

The whole programme is being evaluated by Dr Susan Young.

Making & Believing Making & Believing is taking a rich programme of high quality, small scale performance and participation activities into Early Years settings to develop and strengthen creative practice. Taking place in Somerset, Surrey and Derby this project, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is supporting children, creative practitioners and Early Years staff.

The project will develop during the next few years with learning being captured and shared.

“The children were absolutely mesmerised by the performance!”

Comment by parent following Beeja Dance performance of Choogh Choogh in October 2021

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MUSIC Working with Actiontrack Performance Company Take Art continues to work through music to involve young people who may find mainstream education or society challenging. We do this through our two projects. My Tunes works with 9-16 year olds and Outthere with 16-25 year olds. Young people and adults work in whichever musical style interests them and with the support of the Actiontrack musicians write, record and produce music that often reflects how they feel about themselves and the world. Music is a fantastic medium through which to involve young people in the arts.

involuntary sounds and movements called tics). Jenna had sessions in the studio and once she got used to the sound of herself coming back through the headphones, she recorded two songs. Both songs are original material written by Jenna and she was very involved in steering the sound of the production too – she really is a complete artist.

We are very appreciative of funding from Sound Foundation Somerset, the Music Education Hub for Somerset and also from #Focus5.

As a follow up we made a short film with Jenna about her music experiences and this included a music video of one of her songs, Glass: takeart.org/outthere With further funding support from #Focus5 we are working with Jenna and other young people in 2022.

We recently worked with Jenna who developed Tourette’s in 2016 (Tourette's syndrome is a condition that causes a person to make Book online at www.takeart.org

“This was one of the best days I have had in a really long time.

This is one of the only days I can remember where I wasn’t getting judged for my tics and I wasn’t feeling alienated because I was doing something I couldn’t control”.

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All details correct at time of going to press

LISTINGS

Thur 3 Mar

TBC

Takeshi Matsumoto

Club Origami

The McMillan Theatre | TA6 4PZ | 01278 556677

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Fri 4 Mar

7.30pm

Multi Story Theatre

Hefted

Dulverton Town Hall | TA22 9EX | 0785 5928541

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Fri 18 Mar

7.pm

Take Art

Spring Forward

Tacchi Morris Arts Centre | TA2 8PD | 01823 414141

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Fri 18 Mar

7.30pm

Multi Story Theatre

Hefted

The David Hall, South Petherton | TA13 5AA | 01460 240340

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Sat 19 Mar

7.30pm

Multi Story Theatre

Hefted

Chilthorne Domer Village Hall | BA22 8RD | 01935 840200

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Tue 22 Mar

7pm

Take Art

Spring Forward

The Octagon Theatre | BA20 1UX | 01935 422884

13

Tue 22 & Wed 23 Mar

All day

Take Art

BARNfest

Taunton Brewhouse | TA1 1JL | 01823 283244

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Thur 24 Mar

TBC

the egg & Holm Theatre

Josephine

Croscombe Village Hall | BA5 3RA | 01460 249450

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A Night with Tango Lamyatt Village Hall | BA4 6NJ | 01749 814934 Calor

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Thur 24 Mar

7pm

Take Art

Spring Forward

The McMillan Theatre | TA6 4PZ | 01278 556677

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Tango Calor

A Night with Tango Porlock Village Hall | TA24 8JH | 01643 863150 Calor

8

Fri 25 Mar

TBC

the egg & Holm Theatre

Josephine

Holyrood Academy, Chard | TA20 1JL | 01460 260100

15

7.30pm

Tango Calor

A Night with Tango Norton Sub Hamdon Village Hall | TA14 6SF | 01935 881227 Calor

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Fri 25 Mar

7.30pm

Hannah Kumari

ENG-ER-LAND

Penselwood Village Hall | BA9 8LS | 01747 840680

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Fri 18 Feb

7.30pm

John Hegley

Peace Love and Potatoes

Penselwood Village Hall | BA9 8LS | 01747 840680

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Sun 27 Mar

8pm

the egg & Holm Theatre

Josephine

Norton Sub Hamdon Village Hall | TA14 6SF | 01935 881227

15

Fri 18 Feb

7.30pm

WÖR

Back to the 1780's!

Holford and District Village Hall | TA5 1SD | 07843 348057

10

Sat 2 Apr

8pm

Hannah Kumari

ENG-ER-LAND

Wellington Arts Centre | TA21 8PS | 01823 667774

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Sat 19 Feb

7.30pm

WÖR

Back to the 1780's!

Caryford Community Hall | BA7 7JJ | 01963 350 980

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Wed 6 Apr

7.30pm

Garrick & Etheridge

Live in Concert

All Saints Church, Kingsdon | TA11 7JU | 01935 841402

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Sat 19 Feb

8pm

John Hegley

Peace Love and Potatoes

Churchinford Village Hall | TA3 7QY | 01823 601468

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Thur 7 Apr

7pm

Garrick & Etheridge

Live in Concert

Lamyatt Village Hall | BA4 6NJ | 07971 631976

17

Sun 20 Feb

3pm

WÖR

Back to the 1780's!

North Curry Parish Church | TA3 6LJ | 01460 249450

10

Fri 8 Apr

8pm

Elvis McGonagall

Full Tartan Jacket

The Crooked Swan,Crewkerne | TA18 7HR | 07967 301747

5

Tue 22 Feb

11am & 2.30pm

Takeshi Matsumoto

Club Origami

The Merlin Theatre | BA11 2HG | 01373 465949

11

Fri 8 Apr

7.30pm

Garrick & Etheridge

Live in Concert

The EMN Hall Monksilver | TA4 4JE | 01984 656526

17

Wed 23 Feb

11.30am Takeshi & 3pm Matsumoto

Club Origami

The egg Theatre | BA1 1ET | 01225 448844

11

Sat 9 Apr

8pm

Elvis McGonagall

Full Tartan Jacket

The David Hall, South Petherton | TA13 5AA | 01460 240340

5

Thu 24 Feb

7.30pm

John Hegley

Peace Love and Potatoes

North Cadbury Village Hall | BA22 7QX | 01963 440338

9

Sat 9 Apr

7pm

Garrick & Etheridge

Live in Concert

West Pennard Village Hall | BA6 8RT | 07733 308900

17

Fri 25 Feb

8pm

Flats & Sharps

Live in Concert

Curry Mallet & Beercrocombe Village Hall | TA3 6SY | 01823 481364

6

Sun 10 Apr

7.30pm

Garrick & Etheridge

Live in Concert

Caryford Community Hall | BA7 7JJ | 01963 350 980

17

Fri 25 Feb

7.30pm

John Hegley

Peace Love and Potatoes

Porlock Village Hall | TA24 8JH | 01643 863150

9

Tue 19 Apr

11.30am

George Fellows | Fours Hands

It's Ok

The Brewhouse Theatre | TA1 1JL | 01823 283244

18

Sat 26 Feb

8pm

John Hegley

Peace Love and Potatoes

The David Hall, South Petherton | TA13

9

Wed 1 Jun

2pm

Wassail Theatre

Whispering Willows

The David Hall, South Petherton | TA13 5AA | 01460 240340

19

Sat 26 Feb

7.30pm

Flats & Sharps

Live in Concert

6

Fri 3 Jun

4pm

Wassail Theatre

Whispering Willows

Porlock Village Hall | TA24 8JH | 01643 863150

19

Date

Time

Company

Thurs 20 Jan

7.30pm

Elvis McGonagall Full Tartan Jacket

The Black Swan Langport | TA10 9RQ | 07935 352695

4

Fri 21 Jan

7.30pm

Elvis McGonagall Full Tartan Jacket

Hatch Beauchamp Village Hall | TA3 6SG | 01823 481909

4

Fri 21 Jan

7.30pm

Tango Calor

Sat 22 Jan

8pm

Elvis McGonagall Full Tartan Jacket

Dulverton Town Hall | TA22 9EX | 07855 928541

4

Fri 28 Jan

7.30pm

Flats & Sharps

Live in Concert

North Cadbury Village Hall | BA22 7QX | 01963 440338

6

Sat 29 Jan

7pm

Flats & Sharps

Live in Concert

West Pennard Village Hall | BA6 8RT | 07733 308900

6

Fri 4 Feb

5pm

Paddleboat

Margo & Mr Whatsit

Hatch Beachamp Village Hall | TA3 6SG | 01823 481909

Fri 4 Feb

7pm

Tango Calor

Sat 5 Feb

7.30pm

Fri 18 Feb

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Event

Venue, Sat Nav Postcode & Tel

A Night with Tango Holford and District Village Hall | TA5 1SD | 07843 348057 Calor

5AA | 01460 240340 Charlton Horethorne Village Hall | DT9 4PB | 01935 814199

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