plus live screenings at broadway cinema

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plus live screenings at broadway cinema
JAN-JUN 2014
PLUS LIVE SCREENINGS AT BROADWAY CINEMA
HIGHLIGHTS
DON GIOVANNI
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THE TABLE
10
Alvin
Sputnik
WAR HORSE
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13
MANON
LESCAUT
20
LETCHWORTH
FILM CLUB
26
KING LEAR
14
Great
Expectations
18
MAXIM RYSANOV
& ALEXANDER
Sitkovesky
THE CURIOUS
INCIDENT OF
THE DOG IN THE
NIGHT-TIME
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ARTS &
CULTURE IN
LETCHWORTH
22 & 23
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LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
We are delighted to bring an exciting new programme of world
class arts and cultural events to the town. Letchworth has a thriving
arts scene with a vibrant local arts centre, a much loved art deco
cinema and a rich variety of workshops, exhibitions and cultural
events. With plans afoot this year to convert the Broadway Cinema
into a live theatre and a new arts centre scheduled to open in 2017,
we believe that an even busier arts and cultural programme will
add great value to the world’s first garden city.
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WELCOME
Welcome to what I hope
is a terrifically exciting
programme of high
quality theatre, visual
art and music.
If you’re one of the many people who have tickets to Broadway
Cinema’s screening of War Horse, I recommend our own
production, The Table, on 7th of March at St Francis Theatre,
brought to you by the brilliant Blind Summit, featuring puppetry
every bit as magical as that of War Horse.
Our exciting visual arts exhibition, A Vision of Utopia in
collaboration with Digswell Arts Trust, turns the entire town
into a gallery with 11 new commissions linked to iconic and
historic Letchworth sites.
June sees the arrival of Ukrainian-British violist Maxim Rysanov
who performs in the Spirella Ballroom with the Russian violin
virtuoso Alexander Sitkovetsky, part of a longer term Artist
residency for a musician who has already graced some of the
world’s biggest classical music stages.
Finally, do look out for details of other creative activities taking
place across Letchworth during this period. These highlights are
listed on pages 22 and 23.
I hope there is something in the programme that interests you
and I look forward to seeing you at the events.
We’d like to hear
your views about our arts
and cultural events. Help us plan
future programmes by sharing
your views and ideas. Email us...
your-views@letchworth.com
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Mark Prescott, Creative Producer
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DON GIOVANNI (Opera)
Wednesday 12 February 2014, 18:45
Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12A
Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema
Box Office or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season
Mozart’s sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors,
and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of
Eugene Onegin.
He wants to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni’s sex life into a
darker place, showing Giovanni’s womanising as an attempt to stave
off his own mortality. Each woman he seduces represents a life he
could have had.
Though it is a dark piece, Holten intends to handle it with a light touch
and he is working with a superb cast – Mariusz Kwiecien, one of the
world’s leading Don Giovannis, Alex Esposito, a fresh, vigorous
Leporello and acclaimed French soprano Véronique Gens.
WAR HORSE (Theatre)
Live showThursday 27 February SOLD OUT
Recorded show Sunday 2 March, 13:30
Recorded show Monday 10 March, 19:30
Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: PG Tickets: £10 for recorded shows.
Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema
Box Office or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse
has become an international smash hit.
Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick
Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from
the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.
Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and
imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart
are astonishing life sized puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet
Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling
life on stage.
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Turning
Letchworth Garden
City into an Art Gallery
This exhibition will have
residents and visitors seeing
and experiencing familiar sites
in Letchworth in new and
exciting ways.
Mark Prescott,
Creative Producer
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VISION OF UTOPIA
VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION
FREE
Thursday 6 March to Sunday 27 April 2014
at various locations across Letchworth Garden City
For further information visit
www.letchworth.com/artsandculture
or call Letchworth Tourist Information Centre on 01462 487868
A Vision of Utopia is set to dazzle Letchworth Garden City with a
spectacular display of art installations which will appear across the
town from 6th March to 27th April.
There will
also be a fun series
of events that will run
alongside the exhibition
including a cycling trail
and guided walks. Visit
www.letchworth.com/
artsandculture for
more information.
The exhibition created in collaboration with Digswell Arts Trust, sees 11
new exciting commissions from some of the UK’s most innovative artists
who draw their inspiration from Letchworth’s unique heritage. Their
work takes many varied artforms from projections, textile, sculpture,
animation, art, ceramics and performance and will take place in some
of Letchworth’s most iconic sites and buildings including the Railway
Station, Spirella Building, the fountains, International Garden Cities
VISION OF UTOPIA artists:
Exhibition and Broadway Cinema.
Johann Arens
Christina Byrant
Mario Ercol Borza
Miche Follano
Why a Vision of Utopia?
“The original Utopian vision of the town
was as a city of the future, enjoying the
benefits of both town and country. In
pursuing this vision, Letchworth was
endowed with some iconic places and
buildings which are central to the town’s
identity today.
Rob Burton is a
trustee of Digswell Arts
and an art curator
specialising in
contemporary art
and sculpture
Chris Groombridge
Nick Jeeves
Perminder Kaur
Maxine King
Karen Picton
Tina Reid
Samara Scott
The exhibition seeks to connect the utopian vision of the Garden City,
with the town today by reimagining this ideology through a fake
‘archive’ of what could have been and of what might be in the future.”
Rob Burton, Digswell Arts Trustee
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PHOTOGRAPHER: LORNA PALMER
THE TABLE: BLIND SUMMIT (Live Theatre)
Friday 7 March, 19:00
at St Francis Theatre, St Francis College, Broadway, SG6 3PJ
For ages 12+ Tickets: £14 including a glass of wine or
soft drink; £12 concessions, £45 family ticket
(two adults and two children)
Buy tickets online at www.letchworth.com/artsandculture
Letchworth Tourist Information Centre on 01462 487868
House and Blind Summit present The Table
Moses is a cantankerous 3 man operated puppet with a cardboard
head… who lives on a table. Tonight he wants to tell you an epic
story about God and Moses, life and death, and puppetry…
on a table. But he gets easily distracted.
Like a cross between Tommy Cooper and Eddie Izzard
this table-top-puppet-philosopher-cum-stand-upcomedian is the funniest “piece of cardboard” you’ll
ever meet.
Just back from a sellout tour of the USA, the team
behind the 90 feet Voldemort in the London Olympic
Ceremony, brings you a 2 foot high puppet in an
unforgettable show.
WHY IT’S A MUST SEE
Puppet masters Blind Summit
will amaze you with their
wild humour and astounding
puppetry. If you like Tommy
Cooper, Russell Brand or
Eddie Izzard, you’ll
love this!
“Blind Summit are the UK’s
puppet Masters” The Guardian
“Dazzling” THE SCOTSMAN
“Astonishingly accomplished” THE TELEGRAPH
“Beckett meets Tommy Cooper...
Brilliantly Funny” TIME OUT
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (Ballet)
Wednesday 19 March 2014, 19:15 Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12A Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema Box Office
or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season
First staged in St Petersburg in 1890, The Sleeping
Beauty is the pinnacle of classical ballet: a perfect
marriage of Petipa’s choreography and Tchaikovsky’s
music and a glorious challenge for every dancer on
stage. It is also The Royal Ballet’s signature work.
To mark the Company’s 75th birthday in 2006,
Monica Mason and Christopher Newton revitalised
its landmark 1946 production, which re-established
Petipa’s choreography as recorded by Imperial
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Ballet régisseur Nicholas Sergeyev, to a scenario
and staging developed by Ninette de Valois herself,
founder of The Royal Ballet.
With Oliver Messel’s gorgeous original designs
wonderfully re-imagined by Peter Farmer, and
additional choreography by Anthony Dowell,
Christopher Wheeldon and Frederick Ashton, today’s
Sleeping Beauty not only captures the mood of the
original but shows that this is very much a living work
for The Royal Ballet, growing and changing with the
Company while celebrating its past.
ALVIN SPUTNIK (Live Theatre)
Presented in collaboration with Letchworth Arts Centre
Friday 21 March 2014, 16:00 at Letchworth Arts Centre
For ages 8+ Tickets: £8; £5 children; £24 family ticket
(two adults and two children)
Buy tickets online at www.letchworth.com/artsandculture
or call Letchworth Tourist Information Centre
on 01462 487868
A highly acclaimed award-winning show for children that uses
a unique blend of mime, puppetry, live and recorded music, and
animation to present an exploration of the next and oldest frontier:
the deep blue sea.
Seas have risen, billions have died. Alvin Sputnik is our only hope.
He must venture to the bottom of the ocean to find his wife’s lost
soul and save humanity.
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik is a tiny tale set in the deepest dark
blue sea, of a solitary explorer with a heart as big as a whale. Direct
from sellout seasons in New York, Sydney, and Auckland this multi
award-winning piece of heartwarming “theatrical magic” (Sunday Mail)
is a one-man micro-epic about enduring love and the end of the world.
“…akin to a theatrical Wall-E” (New York Times).
WHY IT’S A MUST SEE
A gorgeous, compelling and
magical one man show by Tim Watts
which manages to create this amazing
deep sea world drawing in children
and adults alike. I’m thrilled to bring
this multi-award winning show to
Letchworth Arts Centre!
Maria Iredale Chief Executive,
Letchworth Arts Centre
Winner Best Production Theatre Auckland Fringe Festival
Winner Best Puppetry Adelaide Fringe Festival
Winner Best Solo Show New York Fringe Festival
“If Pixar had a theatrical division… they’d create
something like this show.” NYTheatre.com
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THE WINTER’S TALE (Ballet)
Monday 28 April 2014, 19:15 Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12A Tickets: £15
Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema
Box Office or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Following his delightful full-length ballet Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, Christopher Wheeldon continues his highly successful
collaboration with designer Bob Crowley and composer Joby Talbot to
create his first ballet based on a Shakespeare play, the late romance
The Winter’s Tale.
The story follows the destruction of marriage through consuming
jealousy, the abandonment of a child, and a seemingly hopeless love.
Yet through remorse and regret – and after a statue comes miraculously
to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation.
It is powerful material for ballet, with a story that allows for the portrayal
of intense emotions between and within the characters, and the
opportunity for the Company to create not just new central
characters but the whole world around them.
KING LEAR (Theatre)
Thursday 1 May, 19:00
Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12A Tickets: £15
Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the
Broadway Cinema Box Office or book online at
www.broadway-cinema.com
Academy Award winner Sam Mendes returns to the
National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale in the
title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between
his three daughters, according to which of them is
most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia,
says nothing. Lear’s world descends into chaos.
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HENRY IV Part I (Theatre)
Wednesday 14 May 2014, 18:45 Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12
Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema Box Office
or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Following his production of Richard II in October 2013,
RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran continues his
exploration of Shakespeare’s history plays with Henry
IV Parts I and II, an epic, comic and thrilling vision of
a nation in turmoil.
With his crown under threat from enemies both foreign
and domestic, Henry IV prepares for war. Having
deposed the previous king, he is only too aware of
the tenuousness of his position, and of the price to be
paid if he falters.
RSC Associate Artist Antony Sher returns to the
Company to play the infamous comic knight Falstaff. He
is joined by Jasper Britton as Henry IV and Alex Hassell
as Prince Hal. Jasper returns following his performance
as the Marquis de Sade in Marat/Sade (2011); Alex returns
to the RSC following his recent credits in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Cardenio and The City Madam.
As his father prepares to defend his crown, Prince Hal
is languishing in the taverns and brothels of London,
revelling in the company of his friend, the notorious
Sir John Falstaff. With the onset of the war, Hal and
Falstaff are thrust into the brutal reality of the battlefield,
where Hal must confront his responsibilities to family
and throne.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE
DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Theatre)
Thursday 22 May, 19:00 Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 15
Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema Box Office
or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Following its smash-hit live broadcast in 2012, the National
Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time returns to cinemas.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, adapted
by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has been
hailed by The Times as ‘a phenomenal combination of
storytelling and spectacle’. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards in
2013, including Best New Play.
Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain –
exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday
life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’
dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the
book he is writing to solve the mystery of the murder. But his
detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on
a frightening journey that upturns his world.
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MAXIM RYSANOV
AND ALEXANDER SITKOVESKY
MOZART & BACH (Classical Music)
Tuesday 10 June 2014, 19:15 at
The Spirella Ballroom, The Spirella Building,
Bridge Road, SG6 4ET
Tickets: £14 including a glass of wine or soft drink;
£12 concessions, £45 family ticket (two adults and two children)
Buy tickets online at www.letchworth.com/artsandculture
or call Letchworth Tourist Information Centre on 01462 487868
Known for his dazzling performance at BBC’s Last Night of the Proms,
Maxim Rysanov has quickly established himself as one of the world’s
most vibrant and charismatic classical musicians.
Beginning his studies in Moscow, Maxim’s journey to Letchworth is
not so much ‘From Russia with Love’ rather, from Russia to Letchworth
via some of the world’s greatest musical stages.
This concert, the first of a series, is performed in partnership with
the great Russian violin virtuoso Alexander Sitkovetsky and features
works by Bach and Mozart. Staged in the round in the Spirella
Ballroom, this intimate concert promises to be Hertfordshire’s
musical highlight of the year.
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WHY IT’S A MUST SEE
PHOTOGRAPHER: PAVEL KOZHEVNIKOV
A unique opportunity to
experience two classical music
virtuosos bring Bach and
Mozart’s glorious work to life
in the stunning setting of
the ballroom.
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David Mynne presents
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Live Theatre)
Wednesday 11 June 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
For ages 10+ Tickets: £14 including a glass of wine or soft drink;
£12 concessions, £45 family ticket (two adults and two children)
Call Letchworth Tourist Information Centre on 01462 487868
Pip, a seven year-old orphan boy, visits his mother’s grave. A frightening
encounter with an escaped convict begins a series of events that will
change his life forever.
Written by one of England’s greatest authors, Charles Dickens, Great
Expectations is the profound and complex story of Pip’s journey
through life. Some of his most memorable characters – the terrifying
Magwitch, Joe Gargery the kind and generous blacksmith, the eccentric
Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, – are vividly brought to
life in this anarchic and joyful telling of this glorious tale.
Using Dickens’ original text (well, mostly!), David Mynne takes you on
a journey that brings you a ‘cast of thousands’ in a skilful, one-man
adaptation of this epic story.
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PREPARE
TO BE SCARED,
AMAZED, CRY
AND LAUGH
PHOTOGRAPHER: STEVE TANNER
WHY IT’S A MUST SEE
David Mynne’s incredible
craft of acting, miming, sound
effects and emotion turns this
great novel into a stunning
performance.
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A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (Theatre)
Thursday 12 June 2014, 19.00 Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12
Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema
Box Office or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed by Olivier Award-winning
playwright Alan Ayckbourn (Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval).
A Small Family Business returns to the National Theatre for the first time
since its celebrated premiere in 1987, when it won the Evening Standard
Award for Best New Play.
Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long.
Moments after taking over his father-in-law’s business he’s approached
by a private detective armed with some compromising information.
Jack’s integrity fades away as he discovers his extended family to be
thieves and adulterers, looting the business from their suburban homes.
Rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a
macabre climax.
HENRY IV PART II (Theatre)
Wednesday 18 June 2014, 18:45
Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12
Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema
Box Office or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
King Henry’s health is failing as a second rebellion threatens to surface.
Intent on securing his legacy, he is uncertain that Hal is a worthy heir,
believing him more concerned with earthly pleasures than with the
responsibility of rule.
Meanwhile, Falstaff is sent to the countryside to recruit fresh troops.
Among the unwitting locals, opportunities for embezzlement and
profiteering prove impossible to resist as Falstaff gleefully indulges in
the businessof lining his own pockets.
As the King’s health continues to worsen, Hal must choose between
duty and loyalty to an old friend in Shakespeare’s heartbreaking
conclusion to this pair of plays.
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MANON LESCAUT (Opera)
Tuesday 24 June 2014, 18:45
Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12 Tickets: £15
Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the
Broadway Cinema Box Office or book online at
www.broadway-cinema.com
Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season
This early Puccini masterpiece makes a welcome
return to Covent Garden after an absence of over 20
years, in a new production by Jonathan Kent under
the baton of Music Director Antonio Pappano.
The exciting Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais sings
the title role. A consummate Puccini soprano,
Opolais caused a sensation as Madama Butterfly in
2011, and with Manon Lescaut, the bold but
impressionable heroine, we will see a very different
side of her character. She is matched in star power
by Jonas Kaufmann as her lover, Des Grieux, and
Christopher Maltman as her cynical brother Lescaut.
This is a much anticipated new production, and Kent’s
vision of a young girl who faces temptation in the big
city will surely resonate with today’s audience.
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Theatre)
Wednesday 3 September 2014, 18:45 Live broadcast at Broadway Cinema
Certificate: 12
Tickets: £15 Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
To buy tickets for cinema screenings visit the Broadway Cinema Box Office
or book online at www.broadway-cinema.com
Valentine and Proteus are best friends, until they fall
in love with the same girl.
confused by mistaken identity and threatened by fierce
outlaws before they find a path to reconciliation.
Having travelled to Milan in search of adventure, they
both fall for the Duke’s daughter Silvia. But Proteus is
already sworn to his sweetheart, Julia, at home in
Verona, and the Duke thinks Valentine is not good
enough for his Silvia.
Simon Godwin makes his RSC debut to direct
Shakespeare’s exuberant romantic comedy. Simon is
Associate Director of the Royal Court. His production
of Strange Interlude recently played to critical acclaim
at the National Theatre.
With friendship forgotten, the rivals’ affections
quickly get out of hand as the four young lovers find
themselves on a wild chase through the woods,
This is the first time in 45 years The Two Gentlemen of
Verona has been performed in full production on the
Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage.
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ARTS & CULTURE IN LETCHWORTH
There’s an exciting and
innovative programme of
arts and cultural events
happening this spring in
Letchworth Garden City;
from art exhibitions to
dance workshops, artist
residencies and drama
performances.
Letchworth Arts Centre
Letchworth Arts Centre runs a varied mix of workshops, art exhibitions,
music comedy and classes. One of this season’s highlights is the Hue Exhibition which takes
place this April. It’s a wonderful exhibition of inspiring work by 10
contemporary textile artists from the Settlement.
The exhibition runs from the 2nd to the 29th of April and is open,
Monday to Friday 10.00 am to 5.00 pm. Saturday 10.00 am to 3.00 pm.
Admission is free to all Galleries.
www.letchwortharts.org
Digswell Arts Trust
In June Digswell Arts Trust artists will be running a series of free
workshops for Letchworth schools and families in the Fenners building,
with the generous support of Letchworth District Council and the
Heritage Foundation. This is a great opportunity for people to engage
with the artists in making new art in a studio environment. There will be
an accompanying art exhibition. Workshops will include: pottery,
printmaking, textiles, drawing and painting, sculpture and illustration.
The artists taking part are: Debbie Bent, Amanda Bloom, Jane Glynn,
Christine Harrison, Abu Jafar, Louise Lahive, Lizzie Lane and Helen
Mason, all fellows of the Digswell Arts Trust.
www.digswellartstrust.com
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The Settlement
The settlement runs a wide variety of courses for adults including arts
and crafts, hobbies, fitness, languages, academic studies and much more.
On Saturday 7th June there will be a multitude of stalls including plants,
cakes, book and crafts, and games for children (but adults can try too).
Refreshments will also be available.
09.00 to 12.30 at The Settlement, Nevells Road,
Letchworth Garden City. Entry £1 (includes a lucky ticket draw for a prize hamper).
Accompanied children FREE
For more information visit www.letchworthsettlement.org.uk
or call The Settlement on 01462 682828
The Settlement Players
On June 12th to 14th the Settlement Players present “Neville’s Island”
by Tim Firth (author of Calendar Girls). Dubbed “a comedy in thick fog”
it tells of the misfortune of 4 out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen
sent off on a team-building exercise in the Lake District. What should
have been a bonding process turns into a muddy, bloody fight for
survival – with laughs.
FOR A FULL
LIST OF WHAT’S
ON IN LETCHWORTH
GARDEN CITY VISIT
www.letchworthgc.com
Performances start at 19.45 at
The Settlement, Nevells Road, Letchworth Garden City. Tickets £7 from David’s Music, Eastcheap, Letchworth garden City
from 17th May.
www.settlement-players.org.uk
Rhapsode
Rhapsode is a social enterprise that works with communities, artists,
organisations and spaces.
Rhapsode has its own gallery and community hub called Dot to Dot
which is found on The Wynd in Letchworth. The gallery’s community
artist residency programme brings a different artist into the town centre
every month to put together a programme of fun, engaging events.
These happen within the gallery but also in empty shops and in open
spaces. Visit the gallery or their website for more information:
www.rhapsode.org.uk
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THE INTERNATIONAL
GARDEN CITIES EXHIBITION
Saturdays 10.00 to 17.00; Sundays 11.00 to 16.00;
Group visits by appointment throughout the week
at 296 Norton Way South, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 1SU
Admission FREE
To arrange a tour or to book your place contact
www.garden-cities-exhibition.com
or call 01462 476070
Your opportunity to explore
the history of the Garden City
movement from Ebenezer
Howard’s early vision to the
growth of Garden Cities across
the world.
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SPRING PROGRAMME OF ILLUSTRATED TALKS
19.30 start, open from 18.30pm
at the International Garden Cities Exhibition
Strictly limited to 25 places. Book early to avoid disappointment
LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY DURING WORLD WAR II
Tuesday 11 March 2014
Exploring life on the home front and some of the town’s incredible
contributions towards the war effort.
THE PIONEER YEARS
Tuesday 8 April 2014
A look at the very earliest days of Letchworth Garden City and
some of the unique people that made their home here.
GARDENS IN LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY
Tuesday 6 May 2014
A green-fingered look at the history of Letchworth’s gardens
and open spaces.
FATHER ADRIAN FORTESCUE AND
THE CHURCH OF ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN
Tuesday 17 June 2014
A look back at this fascinating man and the history of
the town’s church he founded.
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FILM CLUB LISTINGS
Letchworth FilmClub is run
by local volunteers who enjoy
quality movies in the friendly
and informal atmosphere of
Broadway Cinema. The club
operates independently of the
cinema – with the support of
the Letchworth Garden City
Heritage Foundation.
The FilmClub puts on an
annual season of twelve films
between September and June.
The programme is financed
by membership subscriptions,
ticket sales and a grant from
the Arts Council for North
Hertfordshire, which is gratefully
acknowledged.
Letchworth FilmClub membership
entitles you to entry to all the
club’s films plus:
• 10% discount on all items at
David’s two shops (excludes
special offers, £5 minimum
spend).
The right to vote for titles for
next season.
Sunday 2 February 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
Dir: Haneke. France/Germany/Austria, 2012. 127 mins.
George and Anne are in their 80’s. One day Anne has an attack.
Another extroadinary film from the director of White Ribbon and Caché.
KOSMOS (12A)
Sunday 2 March 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
Dir: Erden. Turkey/Bulgaria, 2009. 122 mins
Arriving in a small Turkish town, a stranger called Kosmos strikes up a
strange relationship with a local single mother..
THIS IS NOT A FILM (U)
Sunday 16 March 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
Dir: Panahi. Iran, 2011. 74 mins.
The director is under house arrest pending appeal on a six-year prison
sentence and faces a 20-year ban on making films. This is not a film, but a
message in a bottle.
LORE (15)
Sunday 6 April 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
•
Dir: Shortland. Germany/Austria/UK, 2012. 109 mins.
Films are shown at 19:45 on
Sunday evenings (usually the first
Sunday of the month).
Germany 1945. Allied forces are sweeping the country looking for war
criminals. Panic in a bourgeois household of a senior Nazi officer;
papers are burnt, arrests are made. Lore is left
to care for her four siblings.
Membership from just £33 per
season/£28 Concession
Guests: £5 on the door/£4
Concession
BROKEN (15)
To sign up to the FilmClub
mailing list email us at:
info@letchworthfilmclub.com
London, the present. 11-year old Skunk lives with her lawyer father,
Archie, and au pair. Events turn comfortable suburbia into chaos
as she makes her way in life.
Proud to be affiliated to
the British Federation
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AMOUR (12A)
Sunday 11 May 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
Dir: Norris. UK, 2012. 91 mins.
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (X)
Sunday 1 June 2014, 19:30 at Broadway Cinema
Dir: Bertolucci. Italy, 1964. 112 mins.
A middle-class youth, living in Parma, considers his own life and
attitudes before opting for conformity.
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