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Theatre l Music l Dance l Film l Exhibitions l Workshops
April - August 2018
... the creative heart of the community
What’s On Summer at Last
…and welcome to what will be my last season as Artistic Director.
03 Robin Hood & Over the 20 years that I’ve been here there has been a huge
increase in the range of what we offer at the arts centre and in the
the Revolting Peasants
number of people who come to see shows, look at exhibitions or
04 April take part in courses and workshops. I hope you agree that there
08 Hexham Book Festival are some great activities for everyone this season (and indeed all
10 May year round). So, get your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
11 The Queen’s Club Queen’s Hall Arts is in a relatively strong position with future
13 Hexham Gathering agreements from our core funders Arts Council England and
14 June Northumberland County Council. With their support we are
able to bring you the best of local, regional and national artists,
21 July
support the emergence of exciting new talent and make the arts
22 Queen’s Hall Digital accessible to all the community. However, with public funding at
23 August standstill levels we rely on a range of trusts and donors to help
24 Exhibitions us to continue growing and expanding our valuable work. So,
26 Courses and Regular feel free to make a donation when you buy a ticket or when you
Workshops look round our free gallery spaces. Every pound you give makes
a difference (and is doubled by Arts Council England’s Catalyst:
28 Seating Plan
Evolve programme) and helps ensure that we are here for the
29 Booking Your Tickets next 20 years, and beyond.
30 Season’s Diary
Geof Keys
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Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477
Rotary Club
of Hexham
Traditional
Queen’s Hall Film Club Irish & Folk
Film Stars Don’t Die Music
in Liverpool (15) Friday 13 April 7.30pm
Thursday 12 April 8.00pm Introduced by Mike Tickell. Featuring
Directed by Paul McGuigan and based on Special Guests Gerry O’Connor and
the memoir of the same name by Peter Donal O’Hanlon with Martin Matthews,
Turner, it tells his story of falling for aging Roddy Matthews, Kevin & Ros Doonan,
Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame in 1970s The Charawallahs and Voicemale
Liverpool, only to face reality when she is Arranged by The Rotary Club of Hexham in
aid of Shelterbox, and Braille Printers for the
diagnosed with breast cancer.
Al-Quabs School for the Blind, Palestine.
Starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Sponsored by Fentimans.
Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters, this is
Tickets: £12.50 | £6.00 (16 & under)
a modern fairytale romance to break your
heart. (2017)
Running time: 1 hr 45 mins
Tickets: £6.00 | £5.00 (Members)
Luke Daniels: Electrophon
FOLK Thursday 12 April 8.00pm
NIGHT In the White Room
Luke Daniels has worked as a soloist with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra and as a member
of the Riverdance band.
The ‘Electrophon’ combines traditional source
material and new music technology, syncing
step motion from the resonating steel comb
of a c1880 polyphon machine with digital and
midi time code to create new instrumental
music on 20” steel discs, with which Luke
plays along on guitar, melodeon and sings.
Only 45 tickets available. Book early.
Tickets: £10.00
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April
Kitchen Zoo
The Tin Foil
Astronaut
Friday 13 April
11.00am & 2.00pm
Today is the day of the space race! A race to put the first human on the Moon!
But our astronaut isn’t quite like others... she’s different.
Alba has been in training and she has even made her own rocket! But can
she really power a rocket with crisps? What is past Pluto? Are there robots in
Space? And will anyone ever listen to the smallest of space explorers?
With original live music and puppets, this is a story of discovery, individuality
and a celebration of differences for 3-7 year olds and their families.
From the makers of The Owl and the Pussycat, and co-commissioned by ARC,
Queen’s Hall Arts, Hexham and Arts Centre Washington.
Tickets: £8.50 | £7.50 (per person based on a group of 4 or more)
£1.00 (Babe in arms)
Hexham & District Music Society
Aurea String Quartet with Nick Trygstad (cello)
Saturday 14 April 7.30pm
This young String Quartet has been very successful in competitions, leading to a busy year
as Artists in Residence in Scotland. They are currently International Young Artists at the Royal
Northern College where they are studying for a diploma in chamber music performance.
Nick Trygstad, who joins them for the Schubert Quintet, is Principal Cello with the Hallé.
Programme:
Bridge Three Idylls
Beethoven Op. 18 No. 2
Schubert String quintet in C major D956
Tickets: £15.00 | £7.50 (student)
£1.00 (schoolchildren)
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Just an Ordinary Lawyer
Thursday 19 April 7.30pm
A play, with songs, written and
performed by Tayo Aluko, with live piano
accompaniment.
“The British Empire was trying desperately
to hold on to its colonial possessions by
any means … and the foul would often
override the fair.”
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks
through multiple barriers to become
Britain’s first Black judge in 1978. Also a
fine concert singer and keen cricket lover,
he muses on international politics and
history as they affect the Black world from
Africa to the USA and Britain, from the
point of view of one who would rather
watch sports, and spread love and peace
through the medium of song.
Recalling heroic sporting achievements
alongside epoch-defining political events,
Tayo Aluko follows the multi-award
winning play Call Mr Robeson with
another “brilliantly put together history
lesson delivered as art.”
Running time: 85 mins
Age recommendation 14 years+
Tickets: £14.50
£12.50 (Members / benefit conc)
£7.50 (student)
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April
War on the Floor
Sunday 22 April 6.00pm
Karate at its most exciting with the best of Seiken Ryu
students. War on the Floor celebrates the speed, ferocity
and physicality of competition team karate sparring.
The Seiken Ryu students will also demonstrate team kata and advanced karate skills. Expect
an action packed evening that will leave you breathless and might even encourage you to
take up the sport yourself!
Tickets: £10.00
New Old Friends
Crimes Under the Sun
Tuesday 24 April 7.30pm
Inspired by Agatha Christie,
Hitchcock and film noir, you
are invited on an hilarious but
murderous trip to a classic
English Riviera retreat.
A secluded island hotel just
off the English coast becomes
a crime scene, as a scandal-
inducing femme-fatale is felled.
All the guests on the island are
suspects, but are they alone and
is this the first crime this idyllic
island has witnessed?
Award-winning theatre company
New Old Friends present Crimes
Under the Sun, a comedy
thriller directed by James Farrell
(Associate Director - The 39
Steps, West End). The show
features four actors playing
multiple outrageous characters,
and a plot that romps along
in the company’s trademark
inventive style.
Tickets: £14.50
£12.50 (Members / benefit conc)
£7.50 (student)
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Hexham Book Festival 2018
Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477
Thursday 26 April – Sunday 6 May
Hexham Book Festival is run in partnership with Queen’s Hall Arts
Thursday 26 April 1.45pm Timothy Phillips 5.00pm Helen Thomson
1.00pm - 3.00pm £6.00 £6.00
Sarah Dunnakey Writing 3.00pm Sarah Winman 5.00pm Patrick Bade
Workshop £16.00* £8.00 | £6.00 £8.00 | £6.00
Friday 27 April 3.15pm Mick Herron 6.30pm Evan Davis
10.00am Trine £8.00 | £6.00 SOLD OUT
Hahnemann £8.00 | £6.00 4.30pm Richard Holloway Tuesday 1 May
11.30am Mary Contini £9.00 | £7.00 1.00pm Simon Grennan
£8.00 | £6.00 5.45pm Neil Ansell £6.00 £3.00*
Offer: Buy tickets to 2 Food 6.30pm Judy Murray At Robinson-Gay Gallery
Events (Trine Hahnemann £10.00 | £8.00 6.30pm Alan Taylor
and Mary Contini) with lunch £8.00*
at the Beaumont Hotel for 8.00pm Alastair Campbell
and Paul Fletcher 8.00pm Film: Prime of
£26.00 / £22.00
£10.00 | £8.00 Miss Jean Brodie £5.00*
1.30pm - 3.00pm Film presented in
Cookery Demonstration Sunday 29 April association with
with Trine Hahnemann 10.30am - 12.30pm Queen’s Hall Film Club
£25.00* Bea Davenport Workshop
Buy a ticket to the Alan
At Linnels Farm £20.00*
Taylor event and a ticket for
6.30pm A.C. Grayling 11.00am Darren Harper the film: Prime of Miss Jean
£9.00 | £7.00 £6.00 Brodie for the combined
8.00pm Jeremy Vine 12.30pm Mick Kitson ticket price of £12.00
£10.00 / £8.00 £6.00 Wednesday 2 May
Saturday 28 April 1.30pm Chris Mullin 1.00pm Polly Atkin £3.00*
11.00pm - 12.30pm £9.00 | £7.00 At Robinson-Gay Gallery
Cookery Demonstration 2.00pm Andrew Michael 6.30pm Rachel Joyce
with Mary Contini £30.00* Hurley and Fiona Mozley £8.00 | £6.00
At Linnels Farm £8.00 | £6.00 8.00pm Elizabeth Day
12.00 noon Marie-Elsa 3.00pm David Starkey Book Group event £6.00
Bragg £8.00 | £6.00 £15.00 | £13.00
1.30pm Tim Dowling 3.30pm Joe Dunthorne
£9.00 | £7.00 £8.00 | £6.00
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Hexham Book Festival 2018
For more details pick up a festival programme in the foyer or go to
www.hexhambookfestival.co.uk
All events are at the Queen’s Hall unless specified. Concession tickets are available to
Book Festival Friends, students and those in receipt of benefits.
Thursday 3 May Saturday 5 May Sunday 6 May
1.00pm Sarah Reay £3.00* 10.30am Tim Marshall 11.00am Angus Roxburgh
At Robinson-Gay Gallery £9.00 | £7.00 £8.00 | £6.00
6.30pm Charlie English 12 noon Sally Magnusson 12 noon Charlotte Peacock
£8.00 | £6.00 £9.00 | £7.00 £8.00 | £6.00
8.00pm John Crace 12.15pm Nick Hunt £6.00 12.30pm June Sarpong
£9.00 / £7.00 1.45pm Caitlin Davies £8.00 | £6.00
and Dr. Helen Pankhurst 1.30pm Dharshini David
Friday 4 May
£8.00 | £6.00 £8.00 | £6.00
10.00am - 12 noon
Tony Williams Workshop 2.00pm Stephen McGann 2.00pm Poetry and
£20.00* £9.00 | £7.00 Spoken Word
11.00am Rachel Roddy 3.15pm Joe Shute and At The Vault
£8.00 | £6.00 Miriam Darlington £3.00 on the door
£8.00 | £6.00 2.00pm Philip Collins
1.00pm - 3.00pm
3.30pm Jenni Murray £8.00 | £6.00
Fiona Shaw Workshop
£10.00 | £8.00
£20.00* 3.00pm Michael
4.45pm Mimi Anderson Pennington £9.00 | £7.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm Cookery
£6.00
Demonstration with 3.30pm Phyllis Richardson
Rachel Roddy £25.00* 5.00pm Kate Mosse £6.00
At Linnels Farm £9.00 | £7.00
4.30pm John Tusa
6.30pm Simon Mayo
6.30pm Steve Benbow £9.00 | £7.00
£9.00 | £7.00
£8.00 | £6.00 5.00pm Robert Rowland
8.00pm Michael
8.00pm Harriet Harman Smith £8.00 | £6.00
Pennington £9.00 | £7.00
£10.00 | £8.00
Festival Ticket Offer: Buy tickets for 4 different events and get 15% off!
(*excluding workshops, cookery demonstrations, existing offers, lunch at Beaumont Hotel combined tickets
and talks in the Robinson-Gay Gallery. Ticket offer applies to tickets booked in one transaction.)
Book at Queen’s Hall Box Office 01434 652477
or online at www.queenshall.co.uk
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Nordic Voices
Tuesday 8 – Tuesday 22 May
Nordic Voices is a new international multi-arts
festival for Hexham and will include an exciting
programme of music, film, storytelling, drama
and food events.
Events include Strange Lovers, Nordic Fiddlers Bloc,
Kottos, a Combined Community Choirs concert,
Scandinavian food nights and Ingmar Bergman’s
film Wild Strawberries amongst much more.
More details on the Nordic Voices Facebook page,
@nordicvoices2018
Strange Lovers
Thursday 10 May 7.30pm
Nordic Voices brings together Methera, a string
quartet with roots firmly planted in English traditional
music, and Mats Rehnman, an internationally
acclaimed storyteller, to perform Strange Lovers, new
folk music woven with stories of unexpected love.
Strange Lovers is a glorious display of intimacy,
explosion and beauty in a daring marriage between
music and story; a show that explores the body
language and voices of the string quartet and the
rhythm and dance of the narrator.
Tickets: £10.00
£8.00 (Over 60s / Under 25s / unwaged)
Splitz Dance
An Evening of Dance, Song & Fashion
Friday 11 May 7.00pm
This popular annual event features dance, song and
fashion, and is being held in support of the Percy
Hedley Foundation.
Tickets: £9.00 | £7.00 (Under 16s / Over 60s)
10May
Hexham Amateur
Stage Society
Swing ! Swing !
Swing!
Wednesday 16 – Friday 18 May 7.00pm
Saturday 19 May 3.00pm
Hexham Amateur Stage Society invites you to come and join them
at ‘Queenie’s Place’ for a brand new concert, bringing you the best
of swing and big band music from across the ages.
Tickets: £15.00 | £13.50 (conc)
Tickets on sale at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Box Office from Friday 13 April
Join our Friends scheme,
The Queen’s Club, and support
the North East’s most vibrant
Arts Centre.
Everyone wants to get the most from their money and coming to the arts centre
is no exception, which is why The Queen’s Club is the perfect choice for regular
visitors to the Queen’s Hall.
Members get money-saving discounts, a host of exclusive benefits, invitations to
exciting special events, and lots more. At the same time as having fun today you
will be helping us to invest in the future, ensuring there is a next generation of
artists, musicians and performers coming through to entertain us tomorrow!
The Queen’s Club is a new scheme
for individuals and couples.
Individual Membership at £25 per year
Joint Membership at £35 per year
11Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477
Black Theatre Live
Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok
Thursday 24 May & Friday 25 May 7.30pm
Helen has grown up in the UK, but always felt a piece of her story was missing. Visiting her
mother’s birthplace of Hong Kong for the first time, she is determined to find out who she
really is and where she belongs. Amidst the skyscrapers and bustling streets, she meets her
grandmother, Lily Kwok, and steps into her past where she discovers shocking family secrets
that will change her life forever.
Based on Helen Tse’s bestselling family memoir of passion sacrifice and survival across
three generations held together with one lifeline - food - and featuring live cooking on
stage, this stylish and evocative new play by award winning writer In-Sook Chappell tells
the extraordinary story of the women behind the famous Manchester restaurant Sweet
Mandarin.
Sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office, presented by Black Theatre Live with Yellow Earth
Theatre in association with Royal Exchange Theatre and supported by Arts Council England, Esmee
Fairbairn Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation and the Ernest Cook Trust.
Tickets: £14.50 | £12.50 (Members / benefit conc) | £7.50 (student)
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Folkworks and Queen’s Hall Arts present
Hexham Gathering 2018
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Saturday 26 May
The Hexham Gathering is a partnership between
Folkworks / Sage Gateshead and Queen’s Hall Arts.
Celebrating Youth Folk Music around the Bandstand in Hexham!
Performances from dance teams, youth folk ensembles, ceilidh bands, soloists, duos and
trios will take place between 12.30pm - 3.30pm including the traditional ceilidh around the
bandstand. It’s going to be a great day out – and we would love to see you there.
FREE EVENT
Hexham Gathering Evening Concert 7.00pm
Pons Aelius Eabhal (trio)
2015 Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Eabhal met and began making music
Award Winners, Pons Aelius (below) together on the Outer Hebrides’ Isle of Uist.
is an ambitious young instrumental Usually a quartet, Eabhal will be performing
sextet exploring the traditional and at Hexham Gathering as a trio with original
contemporary folk musics of Britain and members Hamish (flutes / highland pipes)
beyond. With bold arrangements and an and Nicky (guitar) joined by Stonehaven
arsenal of instruments, the band melds fiddle maestro Ross Hull.
age-old traditions with a fresh and
innovative attitude.
4th Generation
QHA’s very own exciting and energetic
youth folk band led by Sophy Ball.
Tickets £12.50 | £8.50 (student)
13Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477
Jason Cook’s Comedy Club
Friday 1 June 8.00pm
Award-winning comedian, creator and
Reform Theatre writer of BBC2’s Hebburn, Jason Cook
brings the cream of comedy to your
Two
doorstep.
By Jim Cartwright
Gary Delaney is a razor sharp one-liner
Tuesday 29 May 7.30pm
comedian, who is widely regarded as being
From the award-winning writer of Little Voice the most quotable comic on the circuit. The
and Road comes Two, a gritty yet heart- high quantity of stand-out gags leaves the
warming look at northern life filled with audience struggling to remember them all.
pathos and humour. Following a sell-out run alongside Catherine
Set in a Northern Pub, the Landlord and Tate, TV & radio regular, best-selling author
Landlady’s cheery greeting and friendly and headliner at London’s world famous
banter barely disguise their contempt for Comedy Store, Ian Moore was selected
each other. They met outside the pub when to appear at the pinnacle of all comedy
they were kids, had their first drink there, festivals – Montreal’s Just for Laughs.
courted there, had their Twenty Firsts there,
As usual, Glen Roughead will be joining
Wedding Reception there, and now they
Jason in the middle section for some music
own the place.
and chaos.
During the course of the evening assorted
customers pass through including a little Tickets: £16.50
boy left by his father, an event that triggers a
move towards a fragile reconciliation between
the pub couple as their secret tragedy,
swallowed back for seven years, comes to a
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Tickets: £14.50
£12.50 (Members / benefit conc)
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An Evening with Pam Ayres
Sunday 3 June 5.00pm
Pam Ayres has been making the nation
laugh for over 40 years. Funny and warm,
her charming understated manner belies
a rare comic precision. Her hair-trigger
timing, her eye for the absurd details
of everyday life, and unforgettable turn
of phrase, combine to make her a true
national treasure. Recent TV appearances
for BBC TV include Springwatch, Celebrity
Mastermind, Celebrity Antique Road Trip,
and Women at War: 100 Years of Service.
Recent Radio broadcasts include Just A
Minute, and Series 6 of Ayres On The Air
for Radio 4.
Tickets: £22.00
Songs and Poems
from Tyne, Rede and
Allen dales
Saturday 2 June 7.30pm
In the White Room
Join Mike Tickell (songs and poems)
with Alan Lynch (guitar) and young
North Tyne singer, Abbey Tilley, in
this celebration of the songs and
poems from Northumberland’s rich
tradition, including those by Wilfrid
Gibson and Terry Conway.
Tickets: £10.00
“Pam Ayres’ session was one of my
highlights of the Hay Festival this year
because I laughed so hard that my
stomach ached for hours afterwards”
Review from Hay Festival 2015
15Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Edge 2018
Wednesday 6 June 7.30pm
Experience a whirlwind of movement as Edge
Dance Company presents four brand new
pieces by award winning choreographers
with energy and prowess. The programme
by Philippe Blanchard, Tamsin Fitzgerald,
Athina Vahla and Ben Wright ranges
from the poetic to the wild.
Sit back and enjoy the spectacle of
14 dancers on stage as the performance
unfolds before you.
Edge is the postgraduate dance company
of London Contemporary Dance School.
Tickets: £14.50
£12.50 (Members / benefit conc)
£7.50 (student)
Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe
Thursday 7 June 7.30pm
Described by Mike Harding as “two
of our best songwriters and singers,
understanding and enriching each
other’s songs” and by Mark Radcliffe as
a “top-class pair of songwriters”, two
of the UK folk scene’s finest singer-
songwriters join forces for a series of
concerts filled with songs and music.
Jez Lowe received a double nomination
in the 2015 BBC Folk Awards for Best
Singer and Best New Song. He also tours
with his band The Bad Pennies and with
The Pitmen Poets, and is a principal writer
on the award-winning BBC Radio Ballads.
Steve Tilston has been described as “a complete guitarist” and “a singer songwriter of rare
talent”. He’s won a BBC Folk Award for Best Original Song, and is the inspiration for the
Hollywood movie Danny Collins starring Al Pacino!
Tickets: £15.00 | £13.00 (Members)
16March
June
Queen’s Hall Film Club
Dan in Real Life (PG)
Friday 8 June 8.00pm
A widower and father of three who also writes a
parenting advice column for his local newspaper falls
for the girlfriend of his younger brother during a family
vacation in director Peter Hedges’ offbeat love-triangle
comedy. Stars Steve Carrell and Juliette Binoche. (2007)
Running time: 1 hr 38 minutes
Tickets: £6.00 | £5.00 (Members)
Broadway and Beyond
Saturday 9 June 7.30pm
Now in its eleventh successful year touring the UK, Broadway and Beyond is a
thrilling and entertaining mix of musical wit from the most popular musicals of the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries performed by eight West End professionals;
comprising three all-singing, all-dancing actors accompanied by five musicians.
With music from productions that have all appeared, at one time or other, on
or just off Broadway - New York’s legendary theatre district. Featuring songs
from classic productions such as Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate and The Music Man
through to more modern musicals like Miss Saigon, The Producers and
Spamalot, there is something to charm and delight the whole family.
Broadway and Beyond will set
your feet tapping, your heart
singing and leave you
wanting more…
Tickets: £16.00
£14.50
(Members / benefit
conc / students)
17Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Oddsocks Productions
The Tempest
Tuesday 12 – Wednesday 13 June Years later when his enemies’ ship is
7.30pm passing nearby the chance for revenge on
Shakespeare’s tale of illusion and revenge these Space Cowboys is hard to resist and
is brought vividly to life in Oddsocks’ he conjures up the force to bring them to
musical, sci-fi adaptation. him. This Rocket Man will have his day!
From the company who brought you the Prepare for launch, get on your space suits
“bonkers and brilliant” Romeo and Juliet and and take one small step for man, one giant
the “downright funny” Macbeth, experience leap for Shakespeare!
The Tempest that’s out of this world. Tickets: £15.50 | £13.50 (Members)
Space explorer Prospero is marooned in a £12.50 (benefit conc / student / per
galaxy far, far away with his fearless daughter person based on group of 4 or more)
Miranda and a host of madcap aliens.
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Beatlemania
Thursday 14 June 7.30pm
Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading tribute acts, Beatlemania is one of the
longest running and most successful Beatles shows in the world. Performing all the
greatest hits of the band who changed history, this is the ultimate Beatles Experience,
a non-stop Beatles party with over forty songs from ‘Love Me Do’ to ‘Let It Be’.
Using authentic instruments, amps and replica costumes, Beatlemania faithfully
recreates the legendary live performances of the ‘Fab Four’, capturing the sights and
sounds of the greatest band in rock history.
Experience the magic for yourself with the sensational sounds of the swingin’ sixties.
Tickets: £18.00 | £16.00 (Members / benefit conc / students)
Clive Gregson
Wednesday 20 June 8.00pm
FOLK
NIGHT In the White Room
Voted one of the 1000 great guitarists by Guitar
Player, Clive is an accomplished singer, songwriter
and musician, first attracting attention back in
1980, when his now legendary band Any Trouble
burst onto the music scene.
He went on to form the groundbreaking
partnership with Christine Collister, and has
toured with Richard Thompson, Eddi Reader, Boo
Hewerdine, Nanci Griffith and Dennis Locorriere.
Only 45 tickets available. Book early.
Tickets: £10.00
19Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477
Youth Dance Tynedale
Decennium
Friday 29 June 7.30pm
Saturday 30 June
2.00pm* & 7.30pm
Join Youth Dance Tynedale for a
special 10th anniversary performance
as they celebrate a decade of creating
dance opportunities for young people
Queen’s Hall Theatre Club
in Hexham. This exciting programme
Habeas Corpus will include short contemporary
By Alan Bennett dance works choreographed by
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 June professional dance artists, performed
7.30pm by YDT’s talented cast of young
people aged 3-18.
It’s all about getting the right body!
*The matinee show includes
Flat-chested Connie seeks to achieve her performances by YDT’s Creative Dance
dream of bust enhancement, whilst the students and a selection of works
wayward lusts and passions of the play’s from the evening programme.
over-the-top characters career around her. Running time approx. 1 hour
A satirical and gorgeously vulgar merry- Evening Tickets: £9.00
go-round, where Brighton’s plush, silk- £7.00 (OAPs / Members / benefit
stocking district of Hove runs headlong conc) / £4.00 (student)
into the “permissive society” of the 1960s.
Matinee Tickets: £7.00
A fast-moving pastiche of comic styles –
£5.00 (OAPs / Members / benefit
Noel Coward painted as a cheeky seaside
conc) / £2.50 (student)
postcard - with a good dash of parody
Mills & Boon thrown in. Alan Bennett’s
trademark ear for dialogue goes into
hyperactive mode for this play – don’t
expect naturalism!
This amateur production of “Habeas Corpus” is presented by
special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD.
Tickets: £12.00 | £10.00 (conc)
Staging two productions a year
at the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre,
Queen’s Hall Theatre Club, your
local amateur drama group warmly
welcomes new members – acting,
directing, publicity, sets, costumes –
any aspect of production! For more
information contact 07805 581545
20July
Headway Arts
Theatre Co
Hold Your Peace
Tuesday 10 July
7.30pm
Set in the summer
of 1919 during
preparations for a
‘Peace Tea’ garden party,
Hold Your Peace tells
a thought provoking
tale of the impact of
the Great War (1914-
1918) on the lives and
loves of the residents
of The Orchards and tells the untold stories of the lives of learning disabled people
during the Great War. The horrendous loss of life was unprecedented and brought
devastating changes to those at home and this, of course, included learning
disabled people.
Directed and designed by Allie Walton-Robson. Script Consultant: Dave Napthine.
Headway Arts is a multi award-winning arts company based in Blyth,
Northumberland, who since 1995 have made authentic, inspiring and meaningful
work through their high quality inclusive working methods. This latest piece of
entertaining original theatre puts learning disabled actors centre stage and is
supported by Arts Council England and Queen’s Hall Arts.
Tickets: £8.50 | £7.50 (per person based on a group of 4 or more)
Feet First Dance
Thursday 12 July 7.00pm
Saturday 14 July 11.30am & 2.30pm
Presenting their 15th year anniversary show
‘The Silver Screen’, students from age 21/2
to 18 years old will showcase their work in
the styles of Contemporary, Stage, Musical
Theatre, Ballet and Pop.
Expect a show packed full of fun, and unique,
high energy dance with a great soundtrack.
Tickets: £9.00 | £7.00 (OAPs / Benefit conc / students) | £3.50 (over 6s) | Free for under 7s
21Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 FOLK
NIGHT
Kristina Olsen Queen’s Hall Film Club
Thursday 12 July 8.00pm The Descendants (15)
In the White Room Thursday 19 July 8.00pm
Kristina Olsen is one of the most
Set in Hawaii, this is a sometimes
entertaining and compelling performers
humorous, sometimes tragic journey for
on the international acoustic circuit, a
Matt King, an indifferent husband and
superb multi-instrumentalist (acoustic
father of two girls, who is forced to re-
guitar, steelbody slide guitar, saxophone,
examine his past and embrace his future
concertina, banjo, mandolin and piano) as
when his wife suffers a boating accident
well as an award-winning songwriter.
off of Waikiki. Starring George Clooney
Expect a mix of powerful songs ranging and winner of an Academy Award for Best
from sassy bottleneck blues to lilting ballads Screenplay and two Golden Globes for Best
and swing jazz, as well as her hilarious Picture and Best Actor. (2011)
storytelling.
Running time: 1 hr 55 mins
Only 45 tickets available. Book early.
Tickets: £6.00 | £5.00 (Members)
Tickets: £10.00
Queen’s Hall Digital is an online exhibition
www.queenshalldigital.com
portal for new work and innovative projects.
It focuses on creating opportunities for artists working with digital and
moving image technologies and aims to build and connect an international
community of artists to local and national audiences.
See page 25 for Gallery exhibition of QHD: offline.
The Queen’s Hall Digital platform commissions a number of works via a
mix of selected works and open calls providing an exciting opportunity for
us to get to know what you are making, stimulating interesting discussions
that could lead to further opportunities.
One of the most recent exhibitions, Hexham Weatherline, is by Hexham
artist Jim Lloyd.
22July / August
Make a Play Summer School with Multi Story Theatre
Monday 23 July – Friday 27 July 10.00am – 4.00pm daily
A fun filled week at the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre for 11-16 year olds to
develop their theatre skills, culminating with a live performance in the main
theatre. Professional actors from Multi Story Theatre Company will work
with the group to create a prequel to their performance of Viking Tales.
Tickets: £75 | £55 (benefit conc) for the week,
includes a ticket for the performance of Viking Tales.
Multi Story Theatre
Viking Tales
Friday 27 July 6.30pm
The Vikings told great tales. Tales of adventure, tales of
gods and goddesses and mythical beasts, tales of how
the world began and how the age of the gods came
to an end.
Join us on a great adventure that embraces the broad
comedy of Thor the Thunderer disguised as a bride, the
shape-shifting trickery of Loki the Sly-One and the pathos
of Frigg the All-Seeing and Odin One-Eye doing all they
Tickets: £8.50 can to save the life of their gentle son, Balder the Beautiful.
£7.50 (per person based on a The performance will start with a piece by students of the
group of 4 or more) Make a Play Summer School.
£1.00 (Babe in arms)
Suitable for ages 5 years and above and their families.
Dance Summer School
Monday 6 – Friday 10 August
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ages 8-13 years, led by choreographer,
dancer and teacher, Nadia Iftkhar (Artistic
Director from Company of Others). Each day will involve a contemporary technique
class and group work to choreograph a challenging, new piece of work to share with
friends and family on the Queen’s Hall stage at 3.00pm on Friday 10 August.
Whether you have lots of experience or are a beginner we promise you’ll have fun!
Tickets: £75 | £55 (benefit conc)
23Exhibitions
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ENTRY TO ALL EXHIBITIONS IS FREE
The Biscuit
Factory
Saturday 21 April – Saturday 19 May
GALLERY TWO
Bob This spring, The Biscuit Factory, the
Dylan: UK’s largest art, craft and design gallery
his art located in Newcastle, will be supporting
Hexham Book Festival, and working with
Saturday 21 April – Saturday 19 May Queen’s Hall Arts, with a special pop-up
exhibition. This mixed show features
GALLERY ONE over 10 artists with contemporary
Bob Dylan is well known as a cultural figurative works alongside classical
icon, singer, songwriter, musician and painterly styles, sculptural work, glass
poet. Art was initially a way to pass and ceramics.
time between concerts; he took it
more seriously when recovering from
a motorbike accident in the 1970s.
His first public exhibition was in 2007.
SyndicArt is pleased to present a
carefully curated selection of limited
edition prints from three of his best
collections – the Drawn Blank Series,
the Brazil Series and the Beaten Path.
Queen Elizabeth
High School
On Reflection
Friday 25 May - Saturday 16 June
GALLERY ONE & TWO
Showcasing the eclectic work from Art, Graphics, Photography and Media students,
past and present, from the renowned Queen Elizabeth High School Art Department,
On Reflection shows works in a variety of media from paintings in oil, creative collages,
sculptures, projections of photography and a selection of work in film.
24Exhibitions
OPEN: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 10.00AM - 5.00PM, SATURDAY 10.00AM - 4.00PM
QHD: offline
Saturday 23 June –
Saturday 28 July
GALLERY ONE & TWO
The Queen’s Hall Digital platform
www.queenshalldigital.com
has an ongoing commission
programme via a mix of selected
works and open calls providing
an exciting opportunity for us
to get to know what artists are
making and stimulating interesting discussions and new opportunities.
This exhibition is an offline selection of what has been shown on the platform to date
and includes a mix of work by regional and national artists. The online platform has
been a great way to share this work and the work of the Queens Hall Digital programme
across the more rural parts of Northumberland (and the rest of the world). But, we are
taking this opportunity to celebrate these works in the gallery space to create a shared
viewing experience.
Tynedale Sounds
Society
Saturday 4 August –
Saturday 8 September
GALLERY ONE
Tynedale Sounds Society will be
a creative, participatory, public
programme and exhibition
designed as a sonic celebration
and experiential interpretation of
Tynedale’s contemporary aural environment and sound heritage.
The programme and exhibition will be a mix of public and community engagement
activity that involves collecting, listening, skill sharing, distribution and promotion
of creative sonic practices and experiences of the Tynedale area of South West
Northumberland.
Tynedale Sounds Society will be led by producer, record label owner (Signals),
broadcaster and DJ Michael McHugh.
25sing dance create play
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Tynedale Community Choir Queen’s Hall Youth Theatre
Mondays 8.00pm At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
At St Aidan’s Church, Hexham Our ever popular Youth Theatre is expanding
Sing, relax and unwind with folk songs, and offering more opportunities for young
shanties, rounds, gospel, contemporary people. Develop your creativity through this
songs and more led by musical director, popular skills based theatre programme.
Kathryn Davidson. Suitable for beginners Your ideas, your words, your actions, create
and experienced singers alike, all voices, your own drama!
ages and abilities welcome. Stage Note:
£15 per half term (concessions available) Performance group for ages 12 to 15yrs
For more information contact Wednesdays 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Mark 07879 263848 Creatives:
Devising / writing performance
group for ages 15 to 19yrs
The Mark Jon Bolderson Wednesday 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Percussion Foundation Down Stage:
Skills-based group for ages 8 to 11yrs
Auditions Thursdays 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Sunday 8 July
All groups £45 per 10 week term
At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
Book through Box Office 01434 652477
The Mark Jon Bolderson Percussion
Foundation’s aim is to financially support
young percussion students to pay for 4th Generation (12-16yrs)
tuition, sheet music and / or instruments.
Mondays 5.45pm - 7.15pm
QHA will be hosting the first scholarship
At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
auditions. For more information
An exciting and energetic youth folk band
www.markjonboldersonpercussion.
foundation led by Sophy Ball. All skill levels welcome
but not suitable for absolute beginners.
No prior experience of folk music needed.
£45 | £35 (conc) for the term
26 Book through Box Office 01434 652477Courses & Regular Workshops
New Youth Folk Band Projectors Youth Theatre
Mondays from 4.30pm - 5.40pm Mondays 6.00pm – 8.00pm
At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
QHA’s new youth folk group for young Projectors Youth Theatre is a new drama-
people aged 11 years and above. based initiative for young people aged
15 to 21 with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
£45 | £35 (conc) for the term
(ASD) and/or communication difficulties
Book through Box Office 01434 652477
who, due to their very specific needs,
are unable to access our existing Youth
Theatre sessions. Participants explore
Tyne Valley Jazz Ensemble drama practice and personal creativity
(9 -13yrs) within small group work with specialist
Tyne Valley Youth Big Band creative producers.
(12-19yrs) For further information please contact
At The Phoenix, Hexham susan.priestley@queenshall.co.uk
Led by the jazz trumpeter and leader of
Tyne Valley Big Band Dave Hignett, these
two bands are a great opportunity for
aspiring young musicians.
For more information contact
david.hignett@virgin.net
Artsmark for schools
Artsmark is the creative quality
standard for schools and education
settings, awarded by Arts Council
England, recognising their
commitment to high quality arts and
cultural education. Queen’s Hall Arts
is proud to be working in partnership
with schools in West Northumberland
Discover Arts Award for on their Artsmark Award journey. By
Groups and Schools supporting Artsmark schools, we’re
Queen’s Hall Arts is offering helping put the arts at the heart of
opportunities for children to gain a education, inspiring young people to
Discover Arts Award. When attending create, experience and participate in
performances and workshops at high quality arts and culture.
Queen’s Hall children will be asked to Find out more about Artsmark at
review what they saw, and did, and www.artsmark.org.uk
be encouraged to try new art forms To find out how Queen’s Hall
and learn new skills. Arts can support your Artsmark
For more information please contact journey, contact
amanda.gould@queenshall.co.uk amanda.gould@queenshall.co.uk
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U 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 U
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Auditorium R 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 R
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M 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 M
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H 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 H
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C 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 C A hearing loop is
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April Page
Thurs 12 Apr Queen’s Hall Film Club: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (15) 4
Thurs 12 Apr Luke Daniels: Electrophon 4
Fri 13 Apr Rotary Club of Hexham: Traditional Irish & Folk Music 4
Fri 13 Apr Kitchen Zoo: The Tin Foil Astronaut 5
Sat 14 Apr Hexham & District Music Society: Aurea String Quartet
with Nick Trygstad 5
Thurs 19 Apr Just an Ordinary Lawyer 6
Sat 21 Apr – Sat 19 May Exhibition: Bob Dylan: his art 24
Sat 21 Apr – Sat 19 May Exhibition: The Biscuit Factory 24
Sun 22 Apr War on the Floor 7
Tues 24 Apr New Old Friends: Crimes Under the Sun 7
Thu 26 Apr – Sun 6 May Hexham Book Festival 2018 8
May
Tues 8 – Tues 22 May Nordic Voices 10
Thurs 10 May Strange Lovers 10
Fri 11 May Splitz Dance: An Evening of Dance, Song & Fashion 10
Wed 16 – Sat 19 May Hexham Amateur Stage Society: Swing! Swing! Swing! 11
Thurs 24 & Fri 25 May Black Theatre Live: Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok 12
Fri 25 May – Sat 16 Jun Exhibition: Queen Elizabeth High School: On Reflection 24
Sat 26 May Hexham Gathering: Pons Aelius / Eabhal (trio) / 4th Generation 13
Tues 29 May Reform Theatre: Two 14
June
Fri 1 Jun Jason Cook’s Comedy Club 14
Sat 2 Jun Songs and Poems from Tyne, Rede and Allen dales 15
Sun 3 Jun An Evening with Pam Ayres 15
Wed 6 Jun Edge 2018 16
Thurs 7 Jun Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe 16
Fri 8 Jun Queen’s Hall Film Club: Dan in Real Life (PG) 17
Sat 9 Jun Broadway and Beyond 17
Tues 12 – Wed 13 Jun Oddsocks Productions: The Tempest 18
Thurs 14 Jun Beatlemania 19
30June
Season’s Diary
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Wed 20 Jun Clive Gregson 19
Thurs 21 – Sat 23 Jun Queen’s Hall Theatre Club: Habeas Corpus 20
Sat 23 Jun – Sat 28 July Exhibition: QHD: offline 25
Fri 29 Jun – Sat 30 Jun Youth Dance Tynedale: Decennium 20
July
Sun 8 July The Mark Jon Bolderson Percussion Foundation Auditions 26
Tues 10 July Headway Arts Theatre Co: Hold Your Peace 21
Thurs 12 July Feet First Dance 21
Sat 14 July Feet First Dance 21
Thurs 12 July Kristina Olsen 22
Thurs 19 July Queen’s Hall Film Club: The Descendants (15) 22
Mon 23 – Fri 27 July Make a Play Summer School with Multi Story Theatre 23
Fri 27 July Multistory Theatre: Viking Tales 23
August
Sat 4 Aug – Sat 8 Sept Exhibition: Tynedale Sounds Society 25
Mon 6 Aug – Fri 10 Aug August Dance Summer School 23
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