WILTSHIRE CREATIVE ANNOUNCES GATES WIDE OPEN
AND SPRING 2022 AT SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE
WILTSHIRE CREATIVE ANNOUNCES GATES WIDE OPEN
AND SPRING 2022 AT SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE
Wiltshire Creative today announces Gates Wide Open, a new exhibition for Spring 2022 at Salisbury Arts Centre, alongsidea season of theatre, workshops and exhibitions. Following the previously announced exhibition Same Sea, Different Boat, Gates Wide Open will showcase work from four selected artists who graduated from university during the pandemic, with each artist receiving £500 to exhibit their work. Gates Wide Open will be on display from 15 March – 8 May 2022, with the open call for submissions closing 2 January 2022.
Alongside Gates Wide Open will be an extensive theatre programme on offer at Salisbury Arts Centre, including touring productions of Sophie Ross’s Swings and Roundabouts, Jennifer Irons comedy cabaret Yukon Ho!, Living Spit’s Elizabeth I: Virgin On The Ridiculous, An Evening with Kate Bush, The Day of the Triffids: Mash Up, Engine Room artist Louise Jordan’s Florence: The Lesser Known Life and Legacy of Florence Nightingale and raucous gig theatre Jeremiah from Jack Dean & Company. There will also be live music from Fay Hield, The Deloreons and local talent in Live and Local, and the popular Comedy Barnstormers nights will continue into 2022.
Alongside the theatre and gallery offering, Wiltshire Creative also continues their extensive workshop programme into Spring 2022 with community workshops including Collagraph on Fabric with Sue Brown for adults and Craft with Wiltshire Scrapstore for ages 4-7.
Juliet Coveney, Salisbury Arts Centre Manager, said today “We are so proud to see the Arts Centre rebuilding back into the cultural hub it was pre-pandemic, and the programme of events we are delivering in Spring 2022 is the next step in this process of community healing. We are delighted to be offering such a rich theatre and diverse programme alongside our main exhibition Same Sea, Different Boat, which will offer such a timely reflection on our recent collective experience.”
Tickets for the Spring 2022 season at Salisbury Arts Centre will go on sale on 23 November. To book please visit: https://www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/whats-on/
Spring 2022 at Salisbury Arts Centre
15 March – 8 May
GATES WIDE OPEN
Visual arts exhibition featuring work from four recent UK based art graduates, who have each received £500 to exhibit their work. Each artist will have graduated from a creative or visual arts course in 2020 or 2021. This exhibition provides the opportunity to display their work to the Covid affected cohort of emerging artists who studied in circumstances which deprived them of face to face teaching and specialist studio experience as well as an exit exhibition.
Our panel of selectors represents contemporary voices of professional arts activists who fight for the exposure and correct treatment of emerging ideas and talents: The White Pube – Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente, @sadgrads2020 – Jody Mulvey
To submit work visit: https://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/gates-wide-open/5858
11 January – 5 March
SAME SEA, DIFFERENT BOAT
by Sue Brown in collaboration with Louise Asher, Liske Johnson and Cath Kingzett
Same Sea, Different Boat is a quilt with a difference instigated by the project founder artist Sue Brown in collaboration with artists Liske Johnson, Louise Asher and Cath Kingzett. This textile artwork is an uplifting artwork, a combination of craftivism and social documentary. The piece consists of hundreds of hand-printed and stitched stories lovingly produced by individual artists from across the UK and abroad. Each participant in this piece is reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sue Brown has been a professional artist for 15 years. Her work is inspired by nature and been driven by exploring intaglio printmaking techniques. In 2009 she embarked on a 3-year part time MA in Multi-disciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England, graduating with a distinction in 2012. It was during this period of study that she explored printmaking with enamel and added 3 dimensional pieces in enamel and metal to her body of work.
Louise Asher is an artist and founder of the Hope and Elvis Studios in Nottinghamshire, showcasing art from around the UK and Europe and running bespoke arts and crafts workshops.
Liske Johnson is an artist and runs Littleheath Barn Studio with Claire Lundy. The studio runs a wide range of fabric printing, dyeing and art textile workshops.
Cath Kingzett is a textile artist. She studied Soft Furnishings at City & Guilds, graduating in 1996. She was one-time part owner of the shop Two Fat Quarters, in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, which sold patchwork and quilting fabrics. After the shop closed, Kingzett began to explore other forms of stitching and textile art and went on to complete another City and Guilds, this time in Creative Embroidery. In 2009, she opened her sewing workshop in Nailsworth, One Fat Quarter, a place for her to work and share her love of sewing.
12 February
COLLAGRAPH ON FABRIC WITH SUE BROWN
A collagraph workshop inviting participants to take inspiration from the Same Sea, Different Boat quilt, sharing lockdown stories through collagraphing on fabric and experimenting with different styles led by lead artist Sue Brown.
Age guidance: 16+
Tickets: £83
24 February, 13 April
CRAFT WITH WILTSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
A casual craft session with Wiltshire Scrapstore, giving children a chance to develop their creativity in an inspiring and imaginative arts and craft session.
Age guidance: 4-7
Tickets: £2
25 February, 25 March, 29 April
COMEDY BARNSTORMERS
A Barnstormers Comedy MC will introduce three more top acts from the London Comedy Circuit and beyond.
Age guidance: 16+
Tickets: £14.50
26 February
SATURDAY STORYTIME
Lulu Sparre will lead a storytelling session for children to experience the joy of bringing stories alive.
Age guidance: 3-6
Tickets: £2
3 March
FLORENCE: THE LESSER-KNOWN LIFE AND LEGACY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Who was Florence Nightingale?
Louise Jordan explores the legacy of this pioneering statistician who used data to call for government accountability, demanding equal healthcare for all. Through song and storytelling, Jordan disrupts the traditional narrative and invites you to consider the relevance of Florence’s work today.
Louise Jordan is a UK based songwriter and performer with 10 years’ experience touring the UK & Europe. Self-accompanied on guitar and keyboard, Louise has released 7 recordings gaining national radio play on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show & Radio 4. Her credits as a theatre maker include No Petticoats Here (UK tour), The Hard Way (UK tour) and Pop Up Pedestal (South West tour).
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets: £13.50
5 March
SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS
Calling the bum wipers, bedtime boppers and owners of tiny humans.
Grown-ups and their babies are invited to join actor, musician, and mummy, Sophie Ross, for a brand-new comedy musical that unpacks the swings and roundabouts of the first year of parenthood. Come and laugh along as we celebrate the highs, lows and dizzying delights of parenting with original songs, a healthy dose of myth-busting, a heap of laughs and some much-needed solidarity.
Swings and Roundabouts has been generously supported by The Point Theatre Eastleigh, and Arts Council England.
Sophie Ross is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Small Things Productions. Her theatre credits include Big & Small (Barbican Theatre), Blood Wedding, Hamlet, Before/After, Gross und Klein, Money Shots, Leviathan, Comedy of Errors, The Oresteia, Vs Macbeth, Mysteries: Genesis, Romeo & Juliet, Waikiki Hip, Woman in Mind (Sydney Theatre Company), Ladybird (Small Things Productions/B Sharp) and Stoning Mary (Griffin Theatre).
Age guidance: For new parents (new born babies)
Tickets: £9.50
10 March
YUKON HO!
Fascinating, laugh-out-loud funny and at times surprisingly tender, Yukon Ho! is part physical theatre, part stand-up comedy, part cabaret, one-woman show.
Jennifer Irons grew up in Yukon, Canada and now resides in the UK. She is an award-winning choreographer, creating large-scale mass movement for international outdoor festivals, working across commercial music videos, film and TV, and making dynamic new work for theatre.
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets: £14.50
11 March
TRIFFIDS!
METEORS! KILLER PLANTS! B MOVIES!
This remarkable collision of music, text and rich visual imagery takes the audience deep into John Wyndham’s classic cold war novel The Day of the Triffids.
The live soundtrack is created with instruments including moog, double bass, theremin, hammered dulcimer and a cactus.
Platform 4 is an artist-led company that creates playful and unexpected worlds in which performers and participants can explore their creativity and the things that matter to them. The work is highly visual and musical, often intimate in scale and process, connects people and puts human relationships at the heart of the event.
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets: £15
17 March, 28 April
LIVE AND LOCAL
A relaxed evening of local live music at Salisbury Arts Centre, continuing Wiltshire Creative’s support of the live music scene in Salisbury, building on the success of their previous Friday Night events. The perfect evening to enjoy with friends. Full acts to be confirmed at a later date.
Age guidance: 12+
Tickets: Free but must be booked in advance
31 March
AN EVENING WITHOUT KATE BUSH
Enter Strange Phenomena, howl with the The Hounds Of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heights.
Kate’s not there, but you are.
Acclaimed performer Sarah-Louise Young has teamed up with theatre-maker Russell Lucas explore the music and mythology of one of the most influential voices in British music.
Sarah-Louise Young is an actress, writer, director and internationally renowned cabaret performer. She has appeared with Julie Madly Deeply, Fascinating Aïda, La Soirée and Olivier winning improvised musical group, The Showstoppers. Named one of Time Out’s Top 10 Cabaret Acts and voted Best Musical Variety Act in the London Cabaret Awards she has also been nominated for an Offie and won The Stage Award for acting. She has toured extensively, both in the UK and internationally, including three appearances at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. She is one half of writing and performing duo, Roulston & Young with whom she is developing a new musical, Maxa: The Most Assassinated Woman In The World.
Russell Lucas is an artist specialising in producing and directing live performance and original online content. He has directed gallery installation films, theatre and deliver regularly in educational settings. His credits as a theatre maker include The Bobby Kennedy Experience (UK tour)and The American Season, The Understudy, The Fat Man’s Wife (CCTheatre).
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets: £19.50
1 April
FAY HIELD TRIO
Folk singer Fay Hield is back in the performing arena with the launch of a new solo album, Wrackline.
Dr. Fay Hield is a critically acclaimed folk singer and lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Music Management at the University of Sheffield.
Age guidance: 12+
Tickets: £15
5 April
SILVER SOCIAL WITH SALISBURY PLUCKERS
An afternoon of music with local ukulele group the Salisbury Pluckers, with refreshments available from the Arts Centre Café.
Age guidance: 50+
Tickets: £5
26 February, 23 April
SATURDAY STORYTIME
Iona Johnson will lead a storytelling session for children to experience the joy of bringing stories alive.
Age guidance: 3-6
Tickets: £2
23 April
FILM: STORM BOY
Based on the beloved book, Storm Boy is a highly emotional tale of a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
Age guidance: PG
Tickets: £8
5 – 6 May
ELIZABETH I: VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS
Howard and Stu return to Salisbury Arts Centre with more live original music, silly songs, smutty shenanigans, perfunctory props, and hysterically historical horseplay, this promises to be (another) poorly researched lesson in Tudor history that you’ll never forget.
Howard Coggins is co-founder of Living Spit. His theatre credits include Mother Goose (Salisbury Playhouse), Peter Pan, Treasure Island, Short Fuses, Around the World in 80 Days, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Beasts and Beauties, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Up The Feeder Down The ‘Mouth, Babes In the Wood, Jack & The Beanstalk, Aladdin, The Great Big Story Mix Up, Myrtle On The Mainline, (Bristol Old Vic), The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island (Watermill Theatre), The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk (Watford Palace), Cinderella (Roses, Tewkesbury), City of One (Myrtle Theatre Company), The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith), The Wizard Of Oz (Hall For Cornwall), Aladdin (Reading Hexagon), Elsie and Norm’s Macbeth (Tobacco Factory), Still Waters (Theatre Gwent), Aladdin (Cheltenham Everyman), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Watchers Of The Night Sky (Theatre Iolo). For television, his credits include The Lost Honour, Siege in the Sahara, Waking the Dead, Law and Order, Sherlock-The Great Game, Beautiful People, Moses Jones, Being Human, Doc Martin, Doctors, Jam and Jerusalem, Trevor Island, Beau Brummell, Bleak House, Dream Team, Much Ado About Nothing, The Giblets, Walk Away & I Stumble, Worst Week Of My Life, Patrick’s Planet, Every Time You Look At Me, Teachers, Black Books, Dalziel & Pascoe; Mister Charity, Othello, and Undercover Customs.
Stu McLoughlin is co-founder of Living Spit. His theatre credits include London Calling (Salisbury Playhouse), Peter Pan (Bristol Old Vic), The Odyssey (Bristol Old Vic/Lyric Hammersmith), Coram Boy (National Theatre), A Matter of Life And Death (National Theatre/Kneehigh), Brief Encounter (Kneehigh/US tour), Suspension (Bristol Old Vic) and The Wild Bride (Kneehigh/UK tour/Berkeley Rep/New Zealand International Arts Festival). For television, his credits include The Lost Honour, Waking The Dead, Little Dorritt, Trevor Island and Clone; and for film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Deep Blue Sea and Made In Dagenham. He is also the Musical Director and Composer for Shanty Theatre Company, and has composed music for Smugglers, Rebel Harbour, A Rat’s Tale and The Salty Socks of Dunkirk.
Age guidance: 12+
Tickets: £12
12 May
JEREMIAH
On the 9th of June 1817, Jeremiah Brandreth assembles a crew of malcontents in a pub near Nottingham. Their plan is to march on London, overthrow the government, wipe out the National Debt and end poverty forever. What Jeremiah doesn’t know is that there is a spy in his ranks with other ideas…
Jack Dean & Company a non-profit organisation set up to help tell stories of how things could be. We collaborate with inspiring and exceptional artists to create new work across many artforms. Founded by Jack Dean in 2020, we are committed to offering people across the UK the chance to dream of a different world, whatever the current one may hold.
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets: £13
15 May
THE DELOREONS
The Deloreons originally formed in 2005 as a small and lively 3-Piece pub band, since then they have gone on to work at thousands of weddings, events and corporate functions throughout Europe. The band have also held residencies on board P&O and DFDS Ferries and in 2012 and 2013 they headed to the French Alps, playing huge party nights around various venues including the world famous Rond Point in Meribel. The Deloreons now offer 5, 6 and 8 Piece Line Ups, suitable for various different events and budgets.
In 2012, The Deloreons headlined the Queens Jubilee Celebrations in Salisbury with 10,000 people partying, singing and dancing along. The Deloreons then went on to SELL OUT Salisbury City Hall 3 years running with their 80’s Party Nights and in 2017 headlined ‘Live at the Farm’ with 4,000 guests in attendance in aid of Salisbury Live.
Age guidance: Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult
Tickets: £10
LISTINGS
SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE
Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire Creative
Bedwin Street, Salisbury, SP1 3UT
Ticket Sales: 01722 320 333 / www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk
SPRING 2022 AT SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE:
SAME SEA, DIFFERENT BOAT
11 January – 5 March
COLLAGRAPH ON FABRIC WITH SUE BROWN
12 February
CRAFT WITH WILTSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
24 February
COMEDY BARNSTORMERS
25 February
SATURDAY STORYTIME
26 February, 23 April
FLORENCE: THE LESSER-KNOWN LIFE AND LEGACY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
3 March
SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS
5 March
YUKON HO!
10 March
TRIFFIDS!
11 March
GATES WIDE OPEN
15 March – 8 May
LIVE AND LOCAL
17 March
COMEDY BARNSTORMERS
25 March
AN EVENING WITHOUT KATE BUSH
31 March
FAY HIELD TRIO
1 April
SILVER SOCIAL WITH SALISBURY PLUCKERS
5 April
CRAFT WITH WILTSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
13 April
SATURDAY STORYTIME
23 April
STORM BOY
23 April
COMEDY BARNSTORMERS
29 April
LIVE AND LOCAL
28 April
ELIZABETH I: VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS
5 – 6 May
JEREMIAH
12 May
THE DELOREONS
15 May
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