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Sunday 17 January 2021

7 events.

19 November 2020 - 6 April 2021Visual Arts/Film

Landmark Festive Emporium Goes Online!

Sadly the current lockdown means that our Landmark Festive Emporium can't take place as a physical event, but instead it is going online!

The specially created online Festive Emporium opens at 10am Thursday 19th November and will run until December 6th with over 700 products from artists and makers.

The Festive Emporium will go online at www.landmarkartscentre.org and will also feature ‘Meet the Maker’ blogs from participants, as well as special offers around Black Friday from 27-28 November.

Details will be posted on social media over the coming weeks.

Participating makers and artists include:

Anjali B Purkayastha – paintings
Areej Abdi – prints
Carol Wilson – paintings
Charlotte Clowes – paper art
Chrissy – ceramic lights
Cristina Schek – print
Emilia Chubb – paintings
Emoral – urban furniture
Esther Brown – prints & Paintings
Kate Guy Prints – linocut print designs on kitchenware
Kit Mooi – weaving
Kitty Wass – prints & paintings
Liz Whiteman Smith – prints
Madeline Morrow – paintings
Marianne Laker Designs – soft toys & cushions
Nadia Day – prints & paintings
Penny Seume – scarves & lampshades
Sarah Grove Ceramics – porcelain jugs & vases
Sue Ribbans – prints & paintings
Wick’d Wax Botanicals – candles

Every penny of profit goes back into supporting the work and maintenance of our much loved and wonderful arts centre, enabling us to keep the doors open and continue serving the community.

So Shop, Sparkle and be Merry

For more information see the website

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Landmark Arts Centre event
29 December 2020 - 30 January 2021Drama/Dance/Musicals

Unfinished Histories

As a follow up to the earlier Newsletter piece about Optik's history (June 2020) , the company is very pleased to be able to announce that archive footage of its very first production has just been posted on YouTube. One Spectacle, first performed in 1981, launched a hectic programme of five touring productions over the next four years. More details of Optik's early work can be found on the Unfinished Histories web-site (https://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/optik/). To watch One Spectacle enter Barry Edwards Optik One Spectacle in the YouTube search box. It was recorded on a very early piece of VHS equipment so we have done our best to enhance the original and hope that something of its 'provocative lunacy' (Time Out) is still there forty years later! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr7GUrQFGkM&t=3s

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Optik event
2 January 2021 - 28 February 2021Drama/Dance/Musicals

Short Plays for Short Journeys

Podcast subscribers who enjoy listening to drama now have access to a brand new drama series: Short Plays for Short Journeys.

This new podcast, created by Wild Duck Productions of the award-winning Wild Duck Theatre, showcases talented but unheard playwrights. Season one consists of four diverse plays including Brothers, by Matthew Huntington, a witty family drama with a sequel in Season Two due out in early 2021.

The podcasts have been launched as a way to share, on new platforms, the professional work of this company led by Creative Director Susan Conte.

Each episode has a different storyline and style, exploring the nature of the human condition and each runs between eleven and nineteen minutes. Brothers, for example, delicately yet with great humour, explores the pain and shame of infertility.

Conte, whose recent work for Wild Duck includes “Things I know to be True” and sell-out success “King Charles III” commented, “With so many exceptional writers, we searched for ways to bring to life the work of these authors and combine their creativity with our company of talented actors and directors. “

Producer, Fleur de Henrie Pearce, continued, “During these uncertain times it’s a joy to bring some escapism to our patrons who are currently unable to attend stage productions. Podcasts offer an immediate theatre experience and with the varied running times, the option to listen on the move or when you feel like escaping to another time is available to listeners.”

Season one is now live on major podcast platforms and is available to listen to here www.wildducktheatre.com/podcasts

Donations to support the podcast and new writing can be made at www.wildducktheatre.com/donate

For fuller sponsorship partnership opportunities with Wild Duck Productions, please do get in touch info@wildducktheatre.london

If you're a Writer, Director, or Actor looking to showcase and would like to be a part of future Seasons, we'd love to hear from you.

We are also looking to collaborate with creative sound designers for Season 2 and

beyond. For further information please go to www.wildducktheatre.com/who-are-we

---Notes to editors---

Wild Duck Theatre is a London based theatre company established in 2015, with a mission to produce high quality contemporary work, combining the best talent - experienced amateur or polished professional and often a mixture of both. Writers, Actors and Directors often develop their career ambitions by showcasing with us.

For more information please contact production@wildducktheatre.com or

www.wildducktheatre.com

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Wild Duck Theatre event
13 January 2021 - 30 January 2021Drama/Dance/Musicals

Myths and Adventures from Ancient Greece, a series of four online children’s theatre shows written by Hannah Khalil

Watermans is delighted to present Myths and Adventures from Ancient Greece, a series of four online children’s theatre shows written by Hannah Khalil (15 Heroines, Jermyn Street Theatre; Not The Gingerbread Man and Mrs Scrooge, Fly High Stories; and A Museum in Baghdad, RSC). Created for 3-8 year olds, Myths and Adventures from Ancient Greece will explore the tales of Persephone, Theseus and the Minotaur, King Midas and his Golden Touch and Pandora’s Box. The plays will be available to view online from 13 January 2021.

Children will enter a miniature world full of exciting adventures, with the battered insect Hope as their guide. Hope journeys into the world of Ancient Greece to escape Pandora's Box, warn King Midas of his greed, seek Persephone in the Underworld and help Theseus to defeat the Minotaur. With charming designs from Sam Wilde (Fly High Stories, Hiccup Theatre Company), under the direction of Ian Nicholson (I Want My Hat Back, This is Not My Hat, I Found My Hat with Little Angel Theatre), this project offers an engaging and delightfully imaginative adventure to Ancient Greece. Ian Nicholson and Peyvand Sadeghian (Little Angel Theatre, Goblin Theatre) perform. Full details https://www.watermans.org.uk/

Following successful forays into online events in live gigs and film talks, Watermans has turned its attentions to this commission for children because of its continued commitment to widening access to theatre among young people. It is also clear that many children simply won’t have that opportunity to visit the theatre over the coming months because of coronavirus restrictions and Watermans believes this poses a risk to developing future audiences. This commission helps to bridge that gap, bringing the joy of theatre into the home or classroom in theatre shows designed to be viewed online.

Watermans chose the Greek Myths because of their enduring and timeless appeal and the way they address what it means to be human which can ignite interesting conversations with even the youngest children. The Greek Myths are also on the KS2 curriculum so this series is an additional resource for teachers who are looking to inspire their pupils.

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Watermans Art Centre event
13 January 2021Music/Gigs

Singers and Songs Online Courses

SINGERSANDSONGS.COM ONLINE COURSES

The New Year 2021 Course. Find Your Solo Voice and Song
10 weeks.   13th January 2021    £100. Concessions £95.00.

Accessed on the website singersandsongs.com

Password Protected.
Brochure and Backing Tracks once subscribed.

Each Class will be posted on the Website by 7.25 on each Wednesday.
The Class will be there for 7 days each time. So you can revisit ,and as requested by many, take the Class in the week at a time and on a day that suits you.

I am also offering :
3 x Zoom Sessions, also. 8.30-9.20 .

Week 1 – 13/1

In the Half Way break 17/2

Week 10 – 24/3

The Zoom Invitation will be emailed out to those subscribed.

The Course is £100 , for 10 x 50 minute Classes.

Payment info is here with the email.

There are 2 recorded Course available to do anytime.

I look forward to being back in the room when we can!

Please email me now to confirm your place, and payment is due by 2/1/2021 please.

Best wishes.

Elaine Hallam

singersandsongs.com

email info@singersandsongs.com

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singersandsongs.com event
7 July 2020 - 6 July 2021Choral/Choirs

In Flagrante Choir 2020

In Flagrante choir normally rehearses on Tuesday evenings, 19.30 - 21.30 hrs. Venue : St. Anne's Church hall, Kew Green TW9 3AA. All have been welcome to come along to meet, and sing with, the choir.

Singers have a great time working on a wide range of songs - a love of music and ability to hold a tune is all that's required! No audition.

However, since the "lockdown" we have been having a fun weekly choir session singing with our Musical Director, Eamonn O'Dwyer, on Tuesday nights at 19.30 hrs. You are most welcome to join this as we will be continuing through the summer months of 2020.

For further details on how to link in on Tuesday evenings, contact Cathy Jago on catherine@cjhenergy.co.uk

or our website https://www.inflagrantechoir.com

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In Flagrante Choir event
3 July 2020 - 28 February 2021Choral/Choirs

TCS Virtual performance; Lacrimosa, Mozart Requiem

Unfortunately due to the general situation Teddington Choral Society had to cancel and postpone its Spring and Summer concerts and suspend its weekly rehearsals. But the choir has organized itself to allow the singers to continue practicing their repertoire and to maintain a strong connection.

We have arranged a weekly project which gives the opportunity to the singers to sign up, record themselves and share their recordings so that we can create a virtual choir performance.

We have been extremely fortunate to have the support of our amazing IT specialist (Seamus, son of our Chairperson) who spent hours editing and mixing the final project.

We are also very thankful with the singers who have taken the courage to participate to these projects.

We also had a very good feedback from the singers who did not participate but enjoyed listening and watching the performances.

The Virtual Performance is a new entry in our range of activities and based on the members enthusiasm and the end results we will definitely continue experimenting it.

Find here our virtual performance of Lacrimosa from the Mozart Requiem: https://youtu.be/pUEXxye1y3Q

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Teddington Choral Society event