Past Events: April - August 2012 Programme
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Film
Rook Lane Films: In The White City
Like films but fancy breaking away from the mainstream from time to time? On the first Sunday of every month we will be screening a different cinematic rarity from the collection of the British Film Institute.
Sunday 1st April
Refreshments 6:30pm
Film starts 7:30pm
Exhibition
Artists 303
Artists 303 are all based near the A303 and are one of the most active and diverse groups exhibiting in our region today.
Sat 14 April – Mon 23 April
10am-4pm Tuesday - Saturday
Music
Karine Polwart
Frome`s Rook Lane Chapel welcomes Karine Polwart for a rare visit during her 2012 Spring Tour Karine has just released her first DVD ‘Where Tomorrow Starts’ and will be showcasing tracks from her fifth studio album in summer 2012.
Friday 27th April
Doors 7.30 Start 8pm
Music
Phil Beer Cancelled
Phil Beer is the multi-instrumental half of the west countryʼs award winning acoustic duo, Show of Hands. With a professional career of over 36 years, Phil has a great deal of material to draw on for his solo appearances.
Sunday 29th April
Doors 7.30 Start 8pm
Talk
Revealing Nature Talks: Professor Nicholas Humphrey - Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In this talk, Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, returns to the front-line with a startling new theory.
Thursday May 3
7.30 – 9.30pm
Film
Rook Lane Films
Like films but fancy breaking away from the mainstream from time to time? On the first Sunday of every month we will be screening a different cinematic rarity from the collection of the British Film Institute.
This Month: THE ROUND-UP directed by Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1966)
Sunday 6 May
Film starts 7.30pm. Refreshments 6.30pm.
Talk
Festival of the Future and The Interalia Centre present
Generation Next
For eight days some of the brightest minds from the worlds of science, arts, education, religion, media and business will be coming to the Somerset town of Frome to share their vision for the future of our planet.
10 - 18 May
Evenings: 19.00-21.30 Saturday: 10.00-17.00
Exhibition
Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF) exhibition
The WCPF was founded in 1932 and consists of 100 Camera Clubs and Photographic Societies in the West Country. It is affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) which has given its patronage to this Exhibition.
13-26 May
Open daily 10am – 4pm (closed Saturday 12 May)
Music
Teatime Concert: Diane Aidenbaum and Aude Giuliano
Both members of this French/Italian duo have won plaudits and prizes all over Europe. Recent projects include transcribing the Debussy piano pieces they will include in this programme. In addition they will play works by Bruch, Elgar and Granados.
Sunday 13 May
5.30pm
Music
Teatime Concert: Cymbiotic Percussion Duo
A thrilling programme of rhythmic delight and tuned percussion. From Mozart to Piazolla. James Bower has worked regularly with the CBSO under conductors like Dudamel, Litton and Oramo while Ross Garrod has performed with the Halle and the RPO.
Sunday 27 May
5.30pm
Exhibition
Wiltshire College exhibition: Urban Signatures
Second year students studying for a Foundation Degree in Applied Art at Wiltshire College, Trowbridge share their creative interpretations as they consider the dichotomy of the city in all its guises.
Preview 6 – 9pm Tues 29 May
30th-31st May 10am till 4pm
1st June 10 till 3
Film
Rook Lane Films
Like films but fancy breaking away from the mainstream from time to time? On the first Sunday of every month we will be screening a different cinematic rarity from the collection of the British Film Institute.
This Month: CYRANO DE BERGERAC Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France, 1990)
Sunday 3 June
Film starts 7.30pm. Refreshments 6.30pm.
Talk
Revealing Nature Talks: Rob Kesseler: From Petals to Pixels – the art & science of messing around with plants
The plant world is a source of inspiration and celebration throughout Rob Kesseler’s work; he is fascinated both by the plants themselves and the way in which they migrate into every aspect of our lives.
Thursday 7 June
7.30 – 9.30pm
Music
Teatime Concert: Venti Quintet
We conclude the series with a wonderful wind band performing Barber’s Summer Music, Ibert’s Three Short Pieces and wind quintets by Francaix and Nielsen. The seductive sounds of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn - a perfect end to a summer afternoon.
Sunday 10 June
5.30pm
Exhibition
The Embroiderers’ Guild Frome and District Branch 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Forget embroideries of crinoline ladies, come and be amazed at the second exhibition to be held at Rook Lane Arts, by the forty members of the Frome and District Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild.
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 30 June
10 - 4pm daily
Exhibition
Break 3: Crop Circle
Over the last year more than a thousand children, families and teachers, from Frome and surrounding villages, have been part of the Break 3 project.We've played games, sung songs, followed trails, worked with artists, and made numbers into art and back again. All of our maths has improved along the way. Come and see what we did and join in the fun too.
Wednesday 4 – Sunday 15 July
10 - 4pm daily
Exhibition
Association of Photographers exhibition
One of the most prestigious and highly respected competitions for professional photographers worldwide, the AOP Photographers Award – in its 28th year – will come to Somerset for the first time ever.
Exhibition: Friday 6 July – Friday 31 August
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 4pm
Talk
Revealing Nature Talks: Peter Randall Page: 30 years - an illustrated talk about my work
My work has always been inspired and informed by the study of natural phenomena and it's subjective effect on our emotions. The universe seems to exhibit a ubiquitous tendency for spontaneous pattern formation balanced by an equally strong tendency for random variation.
Thursday 5 July
Music
Castalian String Quartet
The award-winning Castalian Quartet, already noted for their 'phenomenal impact on audiences', open the Festival with a powerful programme spanning 120 years, ranging from Haydn, via Beethoven to contemporaries Puccini and Dvorak.
Friday 6 July
Time TBC
Music
Barry Cooper and John Law: SpaceTime
John Law, international jazz pianist/composer, plays freely improvised music alongside conceptual artist/sculptor Barry Cooper’s spontaneously created painting. Art and music created before your very eyes (and ears!)
Sunday 8 July
3pm
Music
John Law, piano
Alongside John Law’s haunting compositions the trio will also play a few arrangements of classical works including, to commemorate the 1685 Monmouth Uprising, an arrangement of Purcell’s famous Dido’s Lament.
Sunday 8 July
8pm
Music
Hank Wangford and Andy Roberts: No Hall Too Small
Hank has joined up with his musical buddy and saddlepal Brad Breath to bring songs of love and loss, pain and despair to the smaller halls and venues around the country - and now the trail leads way out West, to Frome.
Tuesday 10 July
7.30 doors, 8.00 start
Music
The Josh Arcoleo Quartet
Josh has worked with many established musicians/bands, including Kit Downes, Jason Rebello and Fred Wesley, and appears back in his home town on an extensive tour with his own quartet featuring Ivo Neame, Calum Gourlay and James Maddren.
Wednesday 11 July
7.30pm
Music
Ian Mcmillan and Luke Carver
Ian McMillan, Poet in Residence for ENO and Barnsley FC, presents his verse autobiography and other hilarious and brilliant songs and poems, along with fellow member of the Ian McMillan Orchestra, Luke Carver Goss.
Thursday 12 May
20.00 – 21.30
Music
North Sea Radio Orchestra
The North Sea Radio Orchestra bring their inimitably beautiful 'chamber pop' to the Rook Lane Chapel. Like a cross between Vaughan Williams and Kate Bush their music has a transcendent beauty which genuinely has the power to transport.
Friday 13 July
7.30pm
Music
Opus
Opus Anglicanum weave narrated gems from Shakespeare’s masque-like ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ entwined with music from Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan London, Elgar, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, and Purcell, and a fresh work from Gordon Crosse.
Saturday 14 July
7:30pm
Music
Flap!
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, this riot of colour and sound features the superb trumpet of Eamon McNellis and the honeyed vocals of Jess Guille. Having wowed festival goers and party animals back home in Oz they bring their special blend of jazz, honk and skiffle.
7.30pm
Sunday 15 July
Talk
Jeremy Hooker and Lindsay Clarke: In the Household of Words
Jeremy Hooker, a former Director in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and resident of Frome , is currently Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan. He will read a selection of his poems and will discuss the place of a contemporary 'nature' poet in relation to poetic tradition and the challenge to reveal an ecological vision.
7.00pm
Thursday 19th July
Exhibition
Association of Photographers Exhibition Launch Party
The Association of Photographers 28th Awards exhibition will be making an exclusive visit to Frome during July and August. To celebrate this unique opportunity, Rook Lane Arts is holding a launch party for members of the community.
7.00pm
Friday 20th July
Workshops
Association of Photographers Workshops
The Association of Photographers 28th Awards exhibition will be making an exclusive visit to Frome during July and August. To celebrate this unique opportunity, Rook Lane Arts is holding a launch party for members of the community.
11am – 3pm
Saturday 21st July
Music
Harpeth Rising
Another chance to hear Americana sensation Harpeth Rising who enchanted Rook Lane audiences last July after their ground-breaking festival debut with the Bath Philharmonic in 2010. Remember you heard them here first!
Thursday 23 August
7.30pm
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