COMING EVENTS
All our art exhibitions are free. Tickets for other events can be booked in advance from the Bridport Tourist Information Centre, South Street, Bridport on 01308 424901.
- Artists of the Jurassic Coast
- A Late Summer Opera Gala with Virginia King and Opera Artists
- ‘An Apple for My Eye’ at Eype With Eclipse
- International Pianist Sophia Lisovskaya in Solo
- Eype Autumn 2011 ‘Book ‘n Author’ Week Literary Festival
- A Celebration of The 400th Anniversary of the St. James Bible with the Milton Consort
- My Darling Clemmie - a Solo Theatrical Performance with Rohan Mccullough
- ART@EYPE4
- Makers Market
ARTISTS OF THE JURASSIC COAST EXHIBITION – THE 6TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD UNTIL SUNDAY OCTOBER 2ND
The ever popular annual September art exhibition at St. Peter’s is again themed with works influenced by the dramatic coastal and seascapes of the Jurassic Coast – www.jurassiccoast.com . Last year’s exhibition attracted over 1000 visitors during the month long showing and we expect similar numbers this year.
Artists taking part include painters Peter Baron, Sharon O’Brien, Richard Pikesley, John Rabbetts, Marnie Shaw and Hugh Woodeson.
Ceramicists are Rosemarie James, Katherine Lloyd and Paul Mack.
The exhibition will be open every day from 10.30am until 4.30pm and entrance is free
A Late Summer Opera Gala with Virginia King and Opera Artists
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD at 6.30pm WITH EXTENDED INTERVAL
Dorset resident Virginia King and the founder Opera Artists (www.vkartists.co.uk) once again bring a gala repertoire of operatic favourites to St. Peter’s. The emphasis this year is changed to include male vocalists Jonathan Pugsley, a baritone living in Dorset and Norwegian-born Thorbjørn Gulbrandsøy as tenor. The inclusion of these two male voices is making possible the inclusion in the programme of Bizet’s famous male duet from The Pearl Fishers.
Virginia says, “How lucky we are to have Jonathan and Thorbjørn and what an exciting prospect to have two young up and coming international soloists singing for us at Eype.”
Other popular works in the programme includes compositions by Donizetti (L’Elisir d’Amore), Giordani (Caro Mio Ben), Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro), Puccini (La Bohème), Gounod (Faust), Bizet (The Pearl Fishers and Carmen) and Verdi (La Traviata).
Virginia King has recently returned from singing Violetta in Somerset Opera’s July production of Verdi’s La Traviata. Her experience in concert and opera work has enabled her to sing in Japan, Sweden, Europe and Eastern Europe working with conductors such as Richard Hickox, Jaques Delacote, Charles Groves and orchestras including the National Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
In June 2009 she performed the role of Countess in scenes from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the ENO Opera Works Showcase at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells.
On completion of his studies in 2005 Jonathan Pugsley toured the Far East with the European Chamber Opera (www.echo-opera.com) and has since performed with a number of touring ensembles including English Touring Opera, Scottish Touring Opera and Bangkok Opera. He is currently singing for A La Carte Opera.
Thorbjørn Gulbrandsøy started his operatic career with the Norwegian National Opera, The Oslo Philharmonic and Bergen Symphony Orchestra. In 2008 Thorbjørn sang in the Glyndebourne Festival production of St. Matthew’s Passion and later that year Pelléas in Independent Opera’s production of Pelléas et Mélisande at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. Operatic highlights of the 2009/2010 season included Schaunard in La Bohème for Opera North and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Térésias at the Grand Teatre del Liceu.
Thorbjørn sang these roles as a high baritone and his last baritone roles were Schaunard and the Messenger in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rec for Den Nye Opera in Bergen, Norway. He has now settled as a tenor.
National and international pianist Arwel Theharne Morgan will be accompanying these singers and performing Bizet’s Carmen Act 3 Entracte in his own right.
TICKETS ARE £13.00 (Friends of the ECA £11.50) children under 14 £8.00. Tickets are available from the BRIDPORT TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE, SOUTH STREET, BRIDPORT ON 01308 424901.
‘An Apple for My Eye’ at Eype With Eclipse
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH AT 7.30PM
The team at Eclipse brings their latest production of baroque music and dance in a colourful and flamboyant performance. We first saw Eclipse in 2006 in their memorable show Spanish Spice and they have gone on to greater things since then.
‘An Apple for my Eye’ is a celebration of rich Celtic traditions alongside English Baroque and music of the British Isles. There is a feast of Irish jigs, Celtic and English folk songs, Baroque grounds, Purcell songs, stories and dance; the whole performed by sisters, sailors and rebellious harpers!
Harps, recorders, viol, tenor, baroque guitar, Early dance
Joy Smith - Harp
Layil Barr - Recorders
Steven Player - Dance and Baroque Guitar
Nicholas Hurndall Smith - Tenor
TICKETS ARE £13.00 (Friends of the ECA £11.50) and available from the BRIDPORT TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE ON 01308 424901.
International Pianist Sophia Lisovskaya in Solo
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH AT 7.30PM
The immensely talented international pianist Sophia Lisovskaya returns to the Eype Centre for the Arts in a solo recital. Russian born Sophia comes from a long family line of Russian musicians.
The programme will be:
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 8 op. 13 Pathétique
Schumann-List Widmung
Chopin Mazurka in E minor, op. 17, no. 2
Chopin Mazurka in A minor, op. 17, no. 4
Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp major, op. 60
INTERVAL
Tchaikovsky The Seasons op 37.
January: At the Fireside
March: Song of the Lark
April: Snowdrop
May: White Nights
June: Barcarolle
August: Harvest
October: Autumn Song
November: Troika
December: Christmas
Kreisler arr. Rachmaninov Libesleid
TICKETS ARE £13.00 (Friends of the ECA £11.50) and available from the BRIDPORT TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE ON 01308 424901.
Eype Autumn 2011 ‘Book ‘n Author’ Week Literary Festival
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13TH TO FRIDAY OCTOBER 20th
Click here for details of the 2011 ‘Book ‘n Author’ Week Literary Festival
the week also encompasses two special musical and theatrical events.
These are:
A Celebration of The 400th Anniversary of the Publication of the St. James Bible with the Milton Consort
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16TH AT 6.30PM
The members of The Milton Consort - www.themiltonconsort.co.uk - all met and regularly perform at Shakespeare's Globe. They bring a programme of John Donne's verse, sermons, sonnets and songs, accompanied by period music on authentic instruments to mark this extraordinary anniversary: the words of one of the individuals most possibly connected with that remarkable translation alongside the pure joy of Jacobean music.
The performance will mark the start of a month long use of the St. James version of the Bible in all the churches of the United Benefice which includes the churches of Askerswell, Loders and Dottery, Powerstock and North Poorton, Symondsbury, Broadoak and Eype.
TICKETS ARE £10.00 (local parishioners £8.00) and available from the BRIDPORT TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE ON 01308 424901.
Click here to see further details on the 2011 ‘Book ‘n Author’ Week Literary Festival
My Darling Clemmie
A SOLO THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE WITH ROHAN McCULLOUGH – written by hugh whitemore and with grateful acknowledgements to
Lady Soames
Directed by Gareth Armstrong
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19TH AT 7.30PM
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me” WINSTON CHURCHILL.
Following the success of Emmy-Award winning The Gathering Storm starring Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Whitemore has written a new play about Clementine Churchill. This is the remarkable story of the woman who married one of the greatest figures of the 20th century, Sir Winston Churchill.
The production has the full support of Churchill’s daughter, Lady Soames, who famously published her parents’ letters in Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill.
Rohan McCullough has been described by the Scotsman as “a fantastically talented and moving actress.
She began her career in the legendary musical Hair and has since worked in theatre, film and television, most notably for Manchester Royal Exchange, the RSC and in films by Derek Jarman and David Hare. She has achieved award-winning success with her one-woman performances, winning The Scotsman Drama Award for The Testament of Youth which she toured nation-wide appearing at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon before transferring to the Fortune Theatre, London.
Her one-woman show about Beatrix Potter, a distant cousin, has toured the UK, America and Japan. She often performs poetry and prose recitals with Sir Derek Jacobi, Robert Powell, Edward Fox and John Julius Norwich. For many years she made regular appearances with the late Sir John Mortimer in Mortimer’s Miscellany.
Rohan has appeared in all three of these performances at the Eype Centre for the Arts in the past few years.
Hugh Whitemore has written for the stage, films and television including 84 Charing Cross Road. The Gathering Storm, about Churchill in the 1930’s won an Emmy, the Writers’ Guild of America Award and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for the best television drama of 2002. His latest film Into The Storm starring Brendan Gleeson and Janet McTeer tells the story of Churchill’s war years.
The performance is sponsored by Sally, the Baroness Ashburton, née Spencer-Churchill, great niece of Sir Winston Churchill.
TICKETS ARE £12.00 (Friends of the ECA £10.50) and available from the BRIDPORT TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE ON 01308 424901.
Click here to see further details on the 2011 ‘Book ‘n Author’ Week Literary Festival
ART@EYPE4
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26TH 10.30am – 5.00pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27TH 10.30am – 4.00pm
In 2010 , a small group of West Dorset artists got together to promote and exhibit the work of both established and lesser known artists in Dorset .
The first exhibition proved to be such a success that now Art@Eype has become firmly established on the West Dorset Exhibition Calendar, a bi-annual event in the months of July and November.
Showing recent work from some of Dorset's finest artists, the exhibition promises a diverse, visual experience embracing a wide range of styles and visitors will see an ever-changing exhibition featuring different artists at each event.
It is a unique opportunity to meet the artists, view their work and enjoy a coffee or light lunch provided by Manna Organics.
Set in the idyllic Dorset countryside, with stunning sea views, Eype Centre for the Arts at St. Peter's Church, Eype is a well known venue for the arts and literature.
Contact details:
art@photoartbysally.co.uk
www.photoartbysally.co.uk
0771 8078 453
Eype Makers' Market
Local makers, bakers, growers, potters, painters, quilters ,beaders, photographers and many many more. Showing and selling their work in time for Christmas
Saturday 3rd December 10am-4pm
Refreshments all day, Raffle for Charity
Free entry and parking
Enquiries 07969 920845 or 01308 420854