An exciting range of participatory
projects, themed events, performances and exhibitions are planned throughout 2012 across the county.
Click on specific events listed below to show you more information or scroll down to browse all that’s
on offer for you this summer.
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May
- Olympic Art: Corsham Primary School Exhibition
- Performance to welcome the Olympic Torch to Bradford on Avon
- Brazil National Exhibition PQ’11
June
- Little Mermaid Aqua show
- Pass the Flame - Small Schools Music Festival
- 'Relay' - Exhibition
- Creative Walks
- White Horses
July
- Marathon Boy
- Bowjangles: Bowlympics
- Burning Ambition
- Parallel
- Olympic Sings – Schools Music Festival
- The Fire Garden
- 2012 Wiltshire Festival of Celebration
- Hansel of Film
- Practice
- Spike Theatre ‘The Games’
- Not The Finishing Line
- Hijack All Dayer
August
September
May
Olympic Art: Corsham Primary School Exhibition
18 to 21 May 2012 at The Pound, Corsham
www.poundarts.org.uk or 01249 701628
Performance to welcome the Olympic Torch to Bradford on Avon
22 May 2012 at 4pm at Westbury Gardens, Bradford on Avon
Performed by; the West Wiltshire Youth Orchestra, the West Wiltshire Percussion Ensemble and the West Wiltshire Concert Band.
Olympic Torch Relay
22 May 2012 - Trowbridge, Southwick and Bradford on Avon
23 May 2012 - Chippenham, Calne, Marlborough, Chiseldon, Wroughton and Royal Wootton Bassett
Brazil National Exhibition PQ’11
25 May to 23 June 2012 - 12pm to 4pm Sundays and Bank Holidays during the festival
The
Gallery,
Salisbury
City Library - free event
Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival presents the UK premiere of this exciting exhibition. The Prague Quadrennial (PQ) aims to explore and present contemporary scenography – including stage, costume, lighting, sound and other elements of performance design. The Brazilian National Exhibition PQ’11 examines movements in Brazilian scenography, considering scenography as a thinking and proactive art, at the forefront of culture and representing sensory shelters of characters and ideas. The installation shows the interaction of theatrical scenography, visual arts and popular culture, revealing Brazilian culture, traditional and modern, urban and every day.
Opening Hours:
- Sundays and Bank Holidays during the festival 12pm-4pm
- Monday 10am-7pm
- Tuesday 9am-7pm
- Wednesday 9am-5pm
- Thursday 9am-5pm
- Friday 9am-7pm
- Saturday 9am-5pm
www.salisburyfestival.co.uk or 08452 419651
June
Little Mermaid Aqua show
Devizes Leisure Centre
- 9 June at 3:30pm and 6pm
- 10 June at 2.30pm
- 23 June at 3:30pm and 6pm
- 24 June at 7:30pm
Marlborough Leisure Centre
- 16 June at 3:30pm and 6pm
- 17 June at 2:30pm
Louise Rennie of Curious Company has brought together creative partners including dancers and theatre makers as well as film and music makers to collaborate on a compelling production of unique and emotive dance theatre combined with athletic and beautifully crafted synchronized swimming to create The Little Mermaid Aquashow!
The story explores the search for love and belonging; it highlights the consuming power of desire beyond reach, of wanting to be something you are not and the consequences of pursuing that desire. It is also a magical, romantic dream full of imaginative descriptions of an underwater world, princes and princesses, witches and mermaids and unrequited love. The narrative, settings and characters are bursting with colour and drama.
This show presents the ideal manifestation of the Cultural Olympiad taking a show combining sport and the arts to towns that might not have a formal theatre space and to audiences who might not want to go to one.
For tickets please visit the little mermaid aquashow facebook page or call the leisure centres directly; Devizes 01380 734880 or Marlborough 01672 513161
Ticket prices £6. All tickets must be paid by cash or cheque (No credit or debit cards)
Disabled access at Devizes leisure centre only.
Pass the Flame - Small Schools Music Festival
22 June 2012 - 29 June 2012
The series of performances in this year’s Summer Music Festival for Small Schools are the result of an ongoing partnership between small rural schools, Wiltshire Music Service and Wiltshire Music Centre.
Through this partnership the pupils in small schools from around the county can experience the joy of singing with pupils from other schools and performing in a large, professional auditorium.
This year the children will have engaged in song-writing workshops with local composers and between them have written an hour long piece of musical theatre. The theme is the history and the stories behind the Olympic Games rather than the sport - it will embrace aspects of cultural diversity and cohesion within communities.
Each song will tell one person’s story – a goal, a dream – which can be sporting, political, community-based or artistic. He/she is watched over by a Greek God. As he/she achieves his/her Olympic goal, the flame is passed on.
- 15 June 2012 - 7pm
- Wiltshire Music Centre
- Performers: Urchfont, Chapmanslade, Horningsham, Lacock and Winsley Primary Schools
- 22 June 2012 - 7pm
- Theatre on the Hill, Marlborough
- Performers: Chirton, Collingbourne, Ogbourne St George, St Katherine’s Savernake and St Michael’s Aldbourne Primary Schools
- 27 June 2012 - 7pm
- Wiltshire Music Centre
- Performers: All Cannings, Christian Malford, Seagry, Somerford Walter Powell and Stanton St Quinton Primary Schools
- 26 June 2012 - 7pm
- City Hall, Salisbury
- Performers: Great Wishford, Morgan’s Vale, New Forest, Newton Tony, St John’s Warminster, St Thomas a Becket and Whiteparish Primary Schools
- 29 June 2012 - 7pm
- Wiltshire Music Centre
- Performers: Churchfields, Holt, Five Lanes, St George’s Semington, St Mary’s Broughton Gifford Primary Schools
'Relay' - Exhibition
Thursday 21 June - Saturday 14 July 2012 at Salisbury Arts Centre
A celebration of local creativity and inventiveness at all levels of experience, from participants in our children’s workshops to professional artists.
As the Olympic Torch passes through Salisbury, the regular artists and workshop participants at Salisbury Arts Centre respond to a different challenge. They are exchanging works and ideas to develop and inspire other artworks in completely different media
Creative Walks
24 to 30 June 2012, across Wiltshire - Free event
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival is working with artist Ali Pretty on a seven-day, 100 mile creative walk across Wiltshire’s glorious landscape that takes in all eight white chalk horses.
- Sunday 24 June 2012 - Westbury to Devizes
- Monday 25 June 2012 - Devizes to Cherhill
- Tuesday 26 June 2012 - Cherhill to Broadtown
- Wedsnesday 27 June 2012 - Broadtown to Marlborough
- Thursday 28 June 2012 - Marlborough to Pewsey
- Friday 29 June 2012 - Pewsey to Alton Barnes
- Saturday 30 June 2012 - Alton Barnes to Devizes
www.salisburyfestival.co.uk or 0845 2419651
White Horses
30 June 2012 at Devizes and Alton Barnes - Free event
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival will deliver an inspiring land art project, celebrating an historic aspect of the Wiltshire landscape, its chalk white horses. The Festival has commissioned a collective of the most exciting pyrotechnic artists in the UK, Pa-Boom, to deliver a special series of illuminated events. This project will engage the communities surrounding the White Horses, working together with artist Dave Chadwick, the results of which will be incorporated into the performances that light up the landscape and animate the White Horses in a series of public events that will attract national and international media coverage.
www.salisburyfestival.co.uk or 0845 2419651
July
Marathon Boy - Film
5 July 2012 - 7.30pm at Salisbury Arts Centre - tickets £7
Scooping fourteen film festival awards worldwide, Marathon Boy is a must-see documentary based on a true story. Plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight, Budhia Singh captured the imagination of his country, running 48 marathons by the age of four. Beginning as a remarkable rag to riches saga, Marathon Boy is an engrossing tale of greed and broken dreams.
www.salisburyfestival.co.uk or 01722 321744
Bowjangles: Bowlympics
6 July 2012 - 7.30pm at The Pound Arts Centre
A hilarious take on this year’s excitement sees Bowjangles attempt fencing, rowing, gymnastics and even boxing, all while playing, singing and dancing.
www.poundarts.org.uk or 01249 701628
Parallel
Salisbury Playhouse - performance times:
- Thursday 12 July – Saturday 14 July 2012 at 7.15pm
- Saturday matinee 14 July 2012 at 2.15pm
Tickets
- Adults £10
- Under 25s £8
On your marks. Get set… As the Olympic torch travels through Wiltshire and arrives in Salisbury this July, Stage ’65 Youth Theatre and Oak Lodge School collaborate with English Touring Opera to create an exciting new piece of music theatre. In this special theatrical event you will be guided on a theatrical promenade journey through the Playhouse before taking your seats in the Main House for a musical spectacular telling the familiar and not so familiar stories of the people, places and events that have made the Olympic and Paralympic games so special. Join us and find out who gets to stand on the winners’ podium.
Parallel has been granted the prestigious London 2012 Inspire mark, the badge of the London 2012 Inspire programme, which recognises exceptional and innovative projects inspired by the 2012 Games.
www.salisburyplayhouse.com or 01722 320333
Burning Ambition
Taking the theme of ‘our future’ a professional artist will work with a consortium of 26 schools in the Salisbury area to help over four thousand young children create vibrant celebratory pennants to welcome the Olympic Flame to Salisbury City Centre. The legacy will be the development of new adult volunteers in the arts and surrounding community, and a resource bank of many thousands of colourful pennants for future community use.
Please contact project artist alex@toozalii.co.uk or 01722 324111, or the lead school head@wyndhampark.wilts.sch.uk
Olympic Sings
- 10 July 2012 - 9.30am and 1pm at the Civic Hall, Trowbridge
- 16 July 2012 - 9.30am and 1pm at the City Hall, Salisbury
In celebration of the 2012 London Olympics the Wiltshire Music Service presents the Olympic Sings Festival. We hope schools will want to join us for an exciting and engaging musical experience focused on pupils in year 4.
The events will be a celebration of singing and music making. They will create the feeling that the children are part of a wider community of young singers and the excitement of a large scale performance and inspire and motivate them to begin or continue with their music making in whatever form.
Cie Carabosse: Fire Garden
10 to 12 July 2012 at Stonehenge
Salisbury International Arts Festival presents Fire Garden at Stonehenge for the London 2012 Festival. As the sun goes down over one of Britain’s most iconic World Heritage sites, French outdoor alchemists Compagnie Carabosse fan the flames of our imaginations with an elemental Fire Garden. A magical sensory experience awaits you as Stonehenge is transformed into a glowing fairytale environment where fire sculptures dance in the landscape, mysterious fiery engines illuminate the stones and flaming fire pots and cascades of candles line the pathways.
www.salisburyfestival.co.uk or 0845 2419651
2012 Wiltshire Festival of Celebration
11 July 2012 - 1pm to 10pm at Hudson’s Field, Salisbury - free event
As the Olympic torch arrives in Salisbury, Hudson’s field will be filled with music and entertainment from all around Wiltshire featuring the Salisbury Plain Military Wives Choir.
Olympic Torch Relay
11 July 2012 at Ludgershall, Tidworth, Amesbury, the Winterbournes & Salisbury
12 July 2012 at Salisbury, Wilton, Bradford St. Martins, Fovant & Ludwell
Hansel of Film
12 July 2012 at Salisbury Arts Centre. Free but tickets required
Shetland Arts, Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams invite you to join us for a cinematic journey like no other - a relay race of short films made by you, the public, and shown on big screens from Shetland to Southampton as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Information about how to submit films can be found on the Hansel of Film website
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk or 01722 321744
‘Practice’
18 July 2012 - 7pm at Salisbury Arts Centre. Tickets £7 (£5 concessions)
An exciting opportunity to discover new dance and theatre talent, as emerging companies present performances in development, to gain feedback from a real audience.
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk or 01722 321744
Spike Theatre ‘The Games’
19 July 2012 at Salisbury Arts Centre. Tickets £11 (£9 concessions)
An original clown-based comedy inspired by stories of the Ancient Greeks and the original Olympic Games. Three performers play athletes, heroes, gods and goddesses as they sing, dance and fall about against a back-drop of shadows and clever props. With ‘pretend nudity’ and Spike’s trademark visual style, it’ll be a hoot of Olympic proportions! Post-show chat
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk or 01722 321744
Not the finishing line
- Exhibition opening 20 July 2012
- Presentation week commencing 25 July 2012
- ArtCare at Salisbury District Hospital
Celebrating arts in health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on disability arts, 'Not the finishing line' will include an exhibition in the hospital of art by disabled artists about disability. The content will be created in collaboration with patients at The Spinal Injuries Unit at Salisbury District Hospital along with ex-patients who have taken part in past Paralympics. It will also include creative workshops for current spinal patients with an artist residency in the hospital and presentation of poetry, film and performances.
ArtCare have completed many art projects in the hospital with patients – using activities as a distraction for the duration of their stay. This programme looks to go beyond this and help patients in the Spinal Unit, many of whom have gone through a life-changing injury, to consider hope with future goals and activities to enhance lives after hospital care. This can be done through contact with ex-patients whose lives can provide inspiration, some past Paralympians, and help many people to make a new start, find new motivation and direction in life, even when their health or physical ability has been affected.
For further information please contact Lesley Meaker, ArtCare Exhibition Organiser at lesley.meaker@salisbury.nhs.uk
www.artcare.salisbury.nhs.uk or 01722 336262 ext. 4884
Hijack All Dayer
26 July 2012 at Salisbury Arts Centre. Free event
An all day youth arts extravaganza full of top-notch performances and hands-on workshops. Music, theatre, dance, comedy and more. Entry is free! Suitable for ages 13 - 21.
Want to get involved with planning this event? Contact alice@salisburyarts.co.uk
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk or 01722 321744
August
Family Fiesta
25 - 26 August 2012 at Salisbury Arts Centre. Free event
A two day extravaganza that celebrates in Olympian style all the ordinary and extraordinary things you can do.
Help create a spectacular opening ceremony. Make medals before you win them. Join the Chinese Whispers marathon, take part in a pottery relay, paint, draw, sing, dance, knit, read, yodel, pogo, invent, dream.
Join us to transform the Arts Centre into an arena of artistic excellence.
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk or 01722 321744
September
Bandstand Marathon
9 September 2012 - 1pm to 5pm at Trowbridge Town Park. Free event
The 2012 Bandstand Marathon will be one of the largest national closing events of London 2012.
Trowbridge Bandstand will be one of 500 bandstands across the nation that burst into life for an afternoon of music for all the family.
Contact Details (LiveLink)
Multiple Contacts:
eMail: arts development officer
Telephone:
01249 705531
Out of hours:
Fax:
Postal Address: Wiltshire Council Arts Service
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Cocklebury Road
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 3QN
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Last updated: 16 May 2012
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