What's on at Woodend Barn
Scottish Youth Theatre - Summer Festival Foundation Course 2010 - Performance
Scottish Youth Theatre has been running theatre arts courses for over 33 years. Summer Festival offers selected participants the opportunity to spend time in the summer taking part in intensive professional training and performances.
The Foundation Course offers young people aged 12 to 15 the chance to work on general drama skills through a series of workshops and rehearsals. Participants work with professional directors and specialist skills tutors over two weeks to devise, rehearse and perform a new and exciting piece of theatre.
£8, £4 conc - Bar
£20 for a family ticket (2 adults and 2 concs)
AIYF presents Hungarian Dance Academy and Zeynep Okçu Ballet School
The Hungarian Dance Academy
Zeynep Okçu Ballet School
Dance Workshop (2-4pm)
The Hungarian Dance Academy will be offering an afternoon workshop for ages 10+ who have some dance experience.
All tickets £5 - Bar
Performance and workshop ticket £8
AIYF presents Dancewave Company and Chameleon Dance
Dancewave Company
Dancewave is a dance troupe of teenagers, aged 13-18, from all over
Chameleon Dance
A modern Ballet company from
All tickets £5 - Bar
AIYF presents Daraadji
Daraadji are an African culture group from Senegal founded in 1975 bringing together the varied talents of percussionists, dancers, acrobats, musicians and actors. They perform together regularly at festivals and gathering, and consider themselves to be a family that has been brought together by a mutual love of the arts.
Dance Workshop (2-4pm)
Daraadji will be offering an afternoon workshop for ages 8+, no dance experience required.
All tickets £5 - Bar
Performance and workshop ticket £8
Workshops for Kids 7 to 12
Thursday 5 & Friday 6 August
Storytelling, Songs and Puppetry
with Fiona Hope 11am - 1pm
Have you got a story to tell? Is it funny, sad, ghostly or mad? Would you like to make up your own songs? Let’s make a puppet show using your own stories and songs.
Bring a packed lunch if you are staying for the afternoon workshops with Mina Rusk!
Having Fun with Clay with Mina Rusk
2 - 3.30pm
Come and create fun clay pots and bowls with your hands, elbows, knees and toes.
£10 per session, £15 per day
£25 for 2 days. Book early, limited numbers!
Callum and Gillian's Great Big Walk: Callum Dewar, guitar and Gillian Maitland, Marimba
After walking 200 miles into their 370 mile charity walk, Callum and Gillian will be performing a concert in aid of Capability Scotland here at the Barn.
Callum Dewar on classical guitar and Gillian Maitland on classical marimba will be world premiering a duo by Gordon McPherson, and play a varied repertoire to include Atom Hearts Club Duo by Yoshimatsu, Tres Danzas Concertantes by Brouwer, A Dog's World by George Crumb, among other exciting duos.
All proceeds from concert and events go straight to Capability Scotland to raise awareness for Newly Disabled, Young and Disabled, people with Hidden Disabilities.
Find out more about Callum and Gillian's trip www.callumandgilliansgreatbigwalk.co.uk
You can also follow them on facebook!
£9, £7 conc, £5 under 16
Pond dipping with Aileen Salway
Come as a family to join Aileen Salway from 2 to 4pm in her search for beasties which lurk in the Wildlife Garden pond.
The dipping will be followed by a chance to make an outdoor exhibit using natural materials for the current sculpture exhibition in the Lang Byre Gallery.
Children must be accompanied by an adult – wellies and gloves recommended!
All tickets £4
Barcelona Swing Serenaders
HOT JAZZ with Oriol Romaní (clarinet), Òscar Font (trombone), Albert Romaní (guitar) and Queralt Camps (doublebass).
Swing and New Orleans jazz, with tunes from the 20’s and 30’s by Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, newly cooked by one of the hottest Catalan/Spanish jazz groups, with the freshness, swing and warmth of the most genuine classical jazz.
£12, £10 conc, £5 U16 & students in advance
£13, £11 conc, £6 U16 & students on door
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Singing Workshop for All
With Margarida Barbal, an experienced community music teacher from Barcelona, this singing workshop (10am - 1pm) is for anyone who would like to explore the use of their voice.
£8, £6 conc
Art as Memory: Alakbar Rzaguliyev's Prints of Azerbaijan
Many of Alakbar Rzaguliyev’s prints depict workers carrying out daily chores – shoeing buffalo, loading hay, making lavash or even slitting the bellies of sturgeon to harvest caviar. During the Stalinist repressions, Rzaguliyev (1903-1974) spent the majority of his adult life in prison and exile for supposedly spreading pan-Turkist ideas. At age 60, he held his first solo exhibition.
Exhibition runs from Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 August.
*Right: Stove by Alakbar Rzaguliyev196
Mind Matters with Ronald Pittendrigh
HYPNOSIS (hypnos- Greek word for sleep) is derived from “neuro hypnosis - nervous sleep” coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid in the mid 1800’s. Nowadays, we regard hypnosis as a reduced state of awareness of surroundings thereby enabling the mind to focus on suggestions or efforts to achieve specific results.
Highly interactive sessions based on learning by doing so think about volunteering to hypnotize or be hypnotized!
Conducted by Ronald Pittendrigh, a veteran of 25 years experience in the fields of hypnotherapy, counselling and other related therapies, this talk is part of a series of discussions examining the potential and boundaries of the human mind.
Wear comfortable clothing and bring notebooks and pens. Handouts will be available.
Starting Tuesday 24 August
For five weeks until 21 September
£10 per session or £35 for all five
Folk Session at Crathes Hall
Come along and join in if you play an instrument or sing or just want to listen, you'll be made very welcome!
£2 on the door
Bring your own refreshments
Patricia Scholey, Nicola Chambury and Hilary Duncan
“Our inspiration is the experience and observation gained through walking our local landscape here in the Dee Valley, and with the stories that spring from it. With our different styles and contrasting mediums we take the patterns, textures, forms and colours around us."
This exhibition will be showing as part of NEOS 2010 and will include paintings by Patricia Scholey and Nicola Chambury as well as ceramics by Hilary Duncan.
All welcome to the preview on Monday 30 August 6-8pm.
Exhibition runs until Wednesday 22 September - Monday to Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 1-4pm and during all public events.
*Right: On the Edge of the Allotment by Patricia Scholey
Singing for Joy with Fiona & Mark Hope
Starting Tuesday 31 August 10 - 11.30am
until 12 October (excl 21 Sept)
Have you always wanted to sing? Come and discover your own voice – no musical experience necessary. Tea and coffee from 9.30am. All welcome!
£20 for six weeks or £4 per session
Mind Matters with Ronald Pittendrigh
HEALING covers a very wide range of meanings, interpretations and definitions, Ronald willl mainly deal with spiritual healing (NOT to be confused with spiritualism!), from the Latin “spiritus” meaning breath of life.
Volunteers can participate in a healing session or just come along and find out if they are a natural healer!
Conducted by Ronald Pittendrigh, a veteran of 25 years experience in the fields of hypnotherapy, counselling and other related therapies, this talk is part of a series of discussions examining the potential and boundaries of the human mind.
Wear comfortable clothing and bring notebooks and pens. Handouts will be available.
Starting Tuesday 24 August
For five weeks until 21 September
£10 per session or £35 for all five
The Moira Monologues present Times when I Bite
New Words Festival Launch
Directed by Sacha Kyle
Written and performed by Alan Bissett
Alan Bissett performs his own one-woman show, a series of stories from Falkirk’s hardest woman, Moira Bell. Whether defending her ‘snookelums pookelums’ from the local rottweiler, attempting to seduce a teacher in the school where she works as a cleaner, or belting out Diana Ross for the Scotia karaoke night, Moira is hilarious and heart-warming company.
A thoroughly entertaining performance from one of Scotland’s most exciting young writers.
"This is brilliant stuff, an exhilaratingly fresh take on the whole business of class and culture in Scotland." [The Scotsman****]
£8, £6.50 conc - Bar
WMS presents Amadeus Duo
Amadeus Duo – Margaret Preston on flute and Alina Bzhezhinska on harp present a programme which celebrates Chopin’s 200th Anniversary (1810-1849).
Their arrangements give an interesting slant on Chopin’s music, the evocative and sensuous combination of flute and harp taking a fresh look at some of the most popular piano repertoire. They will also play the works of composers who influenced Chopin on his travels in Scotland, presented with amusing and revealing extracts from letters and commentaries from the last year of his life.
£10, £2 students, under 18 and jobseekers
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Drawing for All with Patricia Scholey
Starting Tuesday 7 September 12 - 2pm
For four weeks until 28 September
Patricia Scholey will lead a series of four classes in drawing, tone and mark making (drawing with a brush, a stick or feathers, dipped in ink, charcoal and pencils) using inspiration from still life and the environment around the Barn. The class is suitable for beginners and anyone who just loves to draw.
£40 for four weeks, £30 for Third Stage
*Right: On the Edge of the Allotment
Mind Matters with Ronald Pittendrigh
COLOUR THERAPY: It is said that colour healing has been in use for thousands of years and references to it have been found in ancient writings throughout the Far East and in ancient Egyptian scrolls. Sometimes it it used to balance our energy centres, or chakras, and for the relief of pain or other discomforts.
Are you influenced by colour? Enough to cause changes in body or mind sensations ? join us and find out more about this amazing subject !
Conducted by Ronald Pittendrigh, a veteran of 25 years experience in the fields of hypnotherapy, counselling and other related therapies, this talk is part of a series of discussions examining the potential and boundaries of the human mind.
Wear comfortable clothing and bring notebooks and pens. Handouts will be available.
Starting Tuesday 24 August
For five weeks until 21 September
£10 per session or £35 for all five
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Citymoves Dance Ability Workshops
Starting Wednesday 8 September 1.30 - 3pm
For five weeks until 6 October
Disability is no barrier to creativity. By breaking down inhibitions and focussing energy, workshop participants will be inspired and motivated to create new dances. Dancers with and without learning disabilities are welcome to come and work with tutors from Citymoves Dance Agency. For age 16+.
£2.50 per session
Northumberland Theatre Company presents The Old Curiosity Shop
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Stewart Howson
Its not about a shop at all. Dickens changed his mind. Its a journey, a flight undertaken by the girl Nell and her gambling-addicted Grandfather. A flight from demons and enemies during which they meet a whole Fun and Horror House set of characters who help and hinder, amuse and bemuse, sucker and succour them.
In this innovative and imaginative adaptation Little Nell and Quilp (one of the bad guys) are played by the same female actor reflecting the struggle between good and evil. True to the inner life of the book this adaptation shows Dickens at his best, funniest and as a master of the grotesque.
£9, £7 conc, £5 under 16 in advance
£10, £8 conc, £6 under 16 on the door - Bar
Pete Stollery and Suk-Jun Kim
This concert is all about spaces and places... how, through technology, you can be taken to places whilst remaining in one particular space and to examine how plastic and elastic this single space can actually be. You’ll be taken to real and imaginary places through the music of these two acclaimed composers.
The programme will include 'Still Voices' and 'scènes, rendez-vous' by Pete Stollery as well as 'Welcome to Hasla' and 'On the Way to Fwarrheu' by Suk-Jun Kim.
in advance
£7, £5 conc, £2 students, U18 & jobseekers
on the door
£8, £6 conc, £3 students, U18 & jobeseekers Bar
Kirsty McGee
Twice nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Kirsty McGee has been recording and touring to critical acclaim since her debut in 2002. Her style continues to defy categorisation and charm audiences around Europe, earning her the tag of 'cult' singer-songwriter in the UK.
With a history of politics, homelessness and wanderlust and combining styles as diverse as folk, jazz, chanson and Americana, her work is held together by her distinctive lyrical style and astonishing voice.
"Bewitching" [Q****]
£10, £8 conc, £5 under 16 in advance
£11, £9 conc, £6 under 16 on the door - Bar
Mind Matters with Ronald Pittendrigh
PAIN is an unwanted physical or emotional happening as a result of damage to the body or emotional upsets. It is one of the most common reasons for medical consultations. It can be temporary but in cases such as arthritis it can last a lifetime. Do you or members of your family or friends have pains or aches ?
Bring your aches and pains with you to this session and we’ll work with them for you!
Conducted by Ronald Pittendrigh, a veteran of 25 years experience in the fields of hypnotherapy, counselling and other related therapies, this talk is part of a series of discussions examining the potential and boundaries of the human mind.
Wear comfortable clothing and bring notebooks and pens. Handouts will be available.
Starting Tuesday 24 August
For five weeks until 21 September
£10 per session or £35 for all five
Friday Morning Art Class with Neal MacDonald
Neal returns to run a new series of oil painting workshops for beginners and experienced artists. These workshops are always popular so book early to avoid disappointment!
Starting Friday 17 September
For four weeks until 8 October, 10am - 1pm
£60 for four weeks, £50 for Third Stage
Dean Friedman
Chart topping, recording artist and pop-icon, Dean Friedman will be performing solo, on guitar and keyboards, featuring songs from throughout his 30 year recording career, including familiar radio hits, ‘Lucky Stars’, ‘Lydia’, ‘McDonald’s Girl’, ‘Ariel’ and ‘Woman of Mine’.
He will also play a selection of tunes from his more recent CDs, including the critically acclaimed, ‘Squirrels in the Attic’ – comedy songs for adults, plus new material from his, yet untitled, seventh studio album, currently in production and scheduled for release in July 2010.
“With his mix of jaunty ditties, sentimental ballads and bashful charm, Friedman is the folk & pop troubadour of choice.” [The Scotsman]
£17, £15 conc, £5 under 16 in advance
£18, £16 conc, £6 under 16 on the door - Bar
Mind Matters with Ronald Pittendrigh
MEDITATION: The practice of meditation involves the training of the mind to achieved the desired state, be it relief from stress, achieving greater inner focus, being more relaxed in mind and in body. This experience has also been handed down through the ages over thousands of years. Does it work? What results can be achieved ?
Join us for an introduction to visualization and meditation!
Conducted by Ronald Pittendrigh, a veteran of 25 years experience in the fields of hypnotherapy, counselling and other related therapies, this talk is part of a series of discussions examining the potential and boundaries of the human mind.
Wear comfortable clothing and bring notebooks and pens. Handouts will be available.
Starting Tuesday 24 August
For five weeks until 21 September
£10 per session or £35 for all five
Angel Exit Theatre presents Moonfleet
A stormy tale of shipwrecks and smuggling inspired by J. Meade Falkner’s classic novel.
A straggling gang of mischievous buffoons are washed up amongst the flotsam onto the wild shores of Chesil Beach, and conspire to spin this compelling yarn of a young orphan boy clashing with smugglers and excise men in his quest to find Blackbeard’s cursed diamond and win the hand of his beloved Grace.
Weaving together live music, striking physicality and puppetry, Angel Exit Theatre invite you to enter a thrilling world of dastardly deeds and wicked escapades. Inspired by J.Meade Falkner’s classic novel, Moonfleet is a rip-roaring show for everyone with a sense of adventure aged from 8 to 108.
“Angel Exit are weaving stories with more than a little theatrical magic… There is so much vivid theatricality and inventiveness at work here” [The Guardian]
All tickets £6 in advance, £7 on the door
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Folk Session at Crathes Hall
Come along and join in if you play an instrument or sing or just want to listen, you'll be made very welcome!
£2 on the door
Bring your own refreshments
Dancing on Sundays
Lead by Martin Julich using the 5 Rhythm Dance approach, we will be dancing to a wide range of music from rock and funk, to traditional or chilled out.
Whether you are experienced (or not!), or feel a little shy about dancing, come and have some fun dancing once a month on a Sunday morning.
Starting Sunday 26 September
10.30am - 1pm (then 10 Oct, 14 Nov, 12 Dec)
£40 for four Sundays or £12.50 per session
Concessions available
Diane Tulloch & William Reid 'Field of View'
An exhibition of paintings by Diane Tulloch and William Reid, two artists who develop works from the observation of elements and forms found in the natural environment. Their paintings explore surface and form through the use of materials to produce contemplative works which are influenced by natural patterns, systems and process.
All welcome to the preview on Sunday 26 September, 5 - 7pm.
Exhibition continues until Sunday 7 November - Monday to Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 1-4pm and during all public events.
*Right: Field Work by Diane Tulloch followed by Field Study by William Reid
Dogstar presents Jacobite Country
A new comedy by Henry Adam
Directed by Matthew Zajac
Haggis McSporran left the Highlands to become the king of comedy. Now he’s coming home for an interview on Jacobite Radio with his old pal Craitur Face Macleod, a proper celebrity interview with a proper celebrity and a chance to catch up with the man he first met all those years ago, when Uncle Angus was invading England, when together they escaped Craig Dunain mental hospital, met the Loch Ness Monster and tried to cure cancer with Granny and her Shetland ponies. Should be a good crack. Craitur Face can’t wait.
Wick-born Henry Adam is one of Scotland’s outstanding playwrights. His successes include the international hit comedy The People Next Door and Dogstar’s 2007 production ‘e Polish Quine. The show will be directed by Matthew Zajac, writer and performer of Dogstar’s multi-award-winning sell-out show The Tailor of Inverness.
£9, £7 conc, £5 under 16 in advance
£10, £8 conc, £6 under 16 on the door - Bar
Session A9
Session A9 are Adam Sutherland, Brian McAlpine, Charlie Mckerron, David Robertson, Gordon Gunn, Kevin Henderson and Marc Clement and have been nominated as
In the true spirit of traditional Scottish music, this band was formed during a session on the famous A9 - the road between Glasgow and the Highlands. They bring together the true spirit of the Scottish session and offers audiences a chance to hear the vibrancy of talent that make up this truly exciting super-group!
"Resulting in brilliantly sophisticated arrangements of tunes new and old, brimming with brio and simply oozing class" [The Sunday Herald]
£16, £14 conc, £5 under 16 in advance
£17, £15 conc, £6 under 16 on the door - Bar
Drever, McCusker & Woomble
As the old adage goes, if you want something done, ask someone busy. And if you want to hear some of the freshest, savviest, sweetest and most original songwriting around, look no further than three of the busiest musicians in Scotland, now in cahoots as a trio: Kris Drever, John McCusker and Roddy Woomble.
Highly-acclaimed solo artist and member of explosive anarchic-folk trio Lau, Kris Drever on guitar shares vocal duties with Roddy Woomble. John McCusker, a successful artist, producer and arranger, has appeared on records by the likes of Kate Rusby, Eddi Reader and many more. And, of course, Roddy Woomble is already known worldwide as the lead singer in Idlewild for over a decade now...
An unmissable line up for all aficionados of contemporary Scottish folk!
£16, £14 conc, £5 under 16 in advance
£17, £15 conc, £6 under 16 on the door - Bar
Ed Byrne 'Warming Up In The Cold'
As an observational stand up Ed Byrne is unrivalled. He has played in major comedy venues across the UK and Ireland, including the Vaudeville, Riverside, and New Ambassadors theatres in London, and the Gaiety, Olympia, Ambassador, and Vicar St. theatres in Dublin. His UK tours are always hugely popular and well received by the critics.
Ed often appears as a guest on television panel shows including the BBCs Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You, and he has been a presenter on such shows as RTEs Ed Byrnes Just for Laughs.
"His wit won deafening cheers and feet stomping" [The Guardian]
"Delightful lead performance from Ed Byrne" [The Scotsman]
All tickets £15
To book, call Woodend Barn on 01330 825431 or online on www.seetickets.com
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