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21feb7:00 pmTunde Jegede, Sunara Begum & Yumino Seki present WHO AM I

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Tunde Jegede, Sunara Begum & Yumino Seki present WHO AM I

Friday 21 February 7pm

Bridport Arts Centre

Please note this event has moved venue from The Lyric to Bridport Arts Centre and the time has moved forward to 7pm

Ticket Price: Adult £12.00 / 12-18yrs £5.00

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall. Tel: 01308 424901 or online here

Where do we come from? Where is our home? Where are we going?

Who Am I? is an interdisciplinary performance about identity, notions of home, migration and memory using movement, spoken word, film and music. Through a myriad of ways, the piece confronts the landscape of our physical and metaphysical reality as well as the mythical nuances of our past. Developed in collaboration with sound artist Tunde Jegede and performed by Sunara Begum.
Sunara Begum — spoken word / movement / film www.SunaraBegum.com
Tunde Jegede— kora / cello / voice www.TundeJegede.org
Yumino Seki — Butoh dance www.YuminoSeki.webs.com

Doors and bar open 6:30pm for a prompt 7pm start.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Sunara Begum is a visual-anthro-mythologist and performance artist who uses movement and film to question how cultures inform identities and notions of self. Her layered art-forms are studies for exploring personal cultural histories that stitch together personally relevant imagery. Sunara Begum was born to Bangladeshi parents and was raised in London. Her journey as an artist has been unconventional, trained as a filmmaker her path meandered through disciplines before leading her to her current place of focus and purpose. Begum’s works are at once a personal journey through the discovery of identity, and a journey in redefining the politics of place. At the root of her works she also explores the emotional power of the unconscious and what it means to be a woman.

Tunde Jegede is an internationally renowned kora player, cellist and composer, whose soul-stirring music blends the ebb and flow of traditional kora-playing with his own dynamic contemporary compositions. His unique cultural inheritance has informed his work as a composer and multi-instrumentalist, creating links between European classical music and that of Africa. Tunde Jegede is the founder of several ensembles including the Art Ensemble of Lagos and the African Classical Music Ensemble. He is also the curator of Living Legacies, Gambia’s first traditional music archive, and the director of New Horizons Africa, an annual season of global concerts as well as an educational initiative to develop young musicians in Nigeria. Some of you may recall that Tunde came to us in the wonderful show Emidy a few years ago. He is a wonderful kora musician!

Yumino Seki is a Japanese dance artist and Butoh practitioner based in St Leonards-on-Sea. Collaborating with artists from diverse disciplines has given her a broad approach to her movement practice, Seki’s work crosses the boundaries of dance, performance art and installation. Her interest is in the authenticity of the temporal body and is often site responsive and improvised in nature. Her practice is informed by the cultural depth and diversity of both the UK and Japan. Seki’s development in her movement has been a gradual exploration of both her collective and self-identity.

Time

(Friday) 7:00 pm

Location

Bridport Arts Centre

South Street, Bridport, DT6 3NR

Organizer

Box Office01308 424901 Bridport Tourist Information, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3LF

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21feb7:30 pmDH Lawrence, PoetTalk with readings by Graham Fawcett

21feb8:00 pmGeoff Norcott at the Electric Palace'Taking Liberties' Tour

22feb8:00 pmMark Thomas at the Electric Palace (16+)50 Things About Us

23feb3:00 pmBolshoi Screening at the Electric Palace: Swan Lake (12A)Filled with vibrant emotion, the legendary love story is a must-see.

24feb2:30 pmStorms, Floods & FiresIllustrated talk

24feb7:00 pm9:00 pmOn Self DoubtTherapeutic Writing Workshops

24feb7:00 pm9:00 pmOn Self Doubt - Therapeutic Writing Workshops

24feb7:30 pmKat Lyons presents Dry SeasonScratch & Spit

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Scratch & Spit: Kat Lyons presents Dry Season

Monday 24 February 7:30pm

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street, Bridport DT6 3LX

Advance Ticket Price: £7.50 (£10.00 on the door)

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall. Tel: 01308 424901 or online here

For our first full Scratch & Spit night of 2020 we are thrilled to welcome performer Kat Lyons with her headline show Dry Season.

At 38, Kat thought she was still far too young to think about menopause; her body had other ideas…

Combining original spoken word poetry with excerpts from medical literature and drawing on interviews and fairytale imagery, Kat takes the audience on an autobiographical journey through a year of hormones, mental health issues and unexpected camaraderie. An intimate, funny, and tender spoken word theatre show, Dry Season uses one woman’s experience of premature ovarian failure to explore the process of coming to terms with a shifting identity, and question the way that aging- particularly the role of aging women – is viewed in society.

Dry Season was choreographed by dance artist Laura Dannequin, with later dramaturgical development by writer Amy Mason.

Kat Lyons is a Bristol–based writer, poet, storyteller and performer, with a background in live art and troublemaking. She has told stories for adults and children, collaborated with an ecologist to create site–specific explorations of the intersections of myth, folklore and environmental science. As a queer feminist performer, Kat’s creativity is critically engaged with the wider political landscape. She views spoken word performance in all its forms as the original DIY entertainment, and believes it has the power to engage all ages and demographics in creatively interpreting their experiences.

Scratch & Spit takes place at The Lyric on the last Monday of every other month, with the first half featuring around six 5-minute scratch slots (sign up on the night), then two more developed 10-minute scratch slots (to be pre-booked), then a headline show in the second half after the interval.

Time

(Monday) 7:30 pm

Location

The Lyric Theatre

Barrack Street, Bridport

Organizer

Box Office01308 424901 Bridport Tourist Information, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3LF

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25feb2:00 pmJourney

25feb7:00 pmScreening at the Electric Palace: ROH Live Ballet Premiere'The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering'. LIVE from The Royal Opera House, London.

26feb1:00 pm26mar2:00 pmAdd Some Colour

26feb7:00 pmMy Working Life: Managing woodland and the countryside with horsesby Toby Hoad

26feb7:30 pmLittle Women at the Electric Palace (U)Women have minds and souls as well as just hearts

27feb3:00 pmThe Art of the Joke: An illustrated Talk by Susie HarriesArtists' Jokes from Antiquity to Banksy.

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ARTISTS HAVE ALWAYS USED JOKES TO MAKE SERIOUS STATEMENTS – ABOUT THEMSELVES, ABOUT THE WORLD, ABOUT THE NATURE OF ART.

This lecture looks at artists’ jokes through the ages, from medieval monks doodling graffiti in the margins of manuscripts to Banksy turning supermarket walls into social satire.

Caravaggio put his own face on Goliath’s severed head as an apology for a racy lifestyle, Michelangelo hid a self-portrait on the hide of St Bartholomew on the Sistine ceiling to express the agony of creation. When Van Gogh attacked formal art education and Salvador Dali got at Picasso, they did it in paint. Trompe l’oeil, parody, visual puns, the moustache on the Mona Lisa – all in fun, all deadly serious: artists’ jokes tell you a lot once you know where to look.

Tickets £5 from the LSI, or Bridort Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901

All proceeds go towards the development of Bridport LSi. Reg Charity No. 1137231

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Susie Harries is a writer, editor and lecturer, specialising in twentieth-century culture and history.

Her most recent book is a biography of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, which won a Wolfson History Prize and was short-listed for both the Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes in 2012. She lives in London with her husband Meirion, with whom she has published seven books.

She is an accredited Arts Society lecturer and has also spoken at the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Victorian Society, the Betjeman Society, the 20th Century Society, the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, the Jewish Book Festival, and the Cheltenham, Beaminster, Bridport and Port Eliot literary festivals.

Susie read Classics at Cambridge and did research into pre-Socratic philosophy at Oxford, before working for a music agency, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Royal Society of Arts, where she was Head of Ethics.

Time

(Thursday) 3:00 pm

Location

Bridport Literary and Scientific Institute

East Street, Bridport

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27feb3:00 pmThe Art of The JokeAn Illustrated Talk by Susie Harries

27feb7:00 pm9:00 pmFoursquare rum tasting with Peter Holland

27feb8:00 pmBlues at the Electric Palace: CatfishUK and British Blues Award winning band. A must-see.

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UK and British Blues Award winners Catfish have so far played in six European countries, won the UK Blues Award for Blues act of the Year (England) to add to their 2016 British Blues Award, written and released their third album, all original material, and met some amazing people on the way round the UK and Europe.

During 2019, they have already toured Europe and will be back there later in the year for a number of festivals including Switzerland, France and the Czech Republic.

They have two more European tours coming up in September and November.

With their now legendary passionate live performances, this has become one of the must-see bands on the blues rock circuit.

Their previous album Broken Man was voted album of the year by the IBBA and was nominated for a UK Blues Award in 2018.

In May 2019, they released their highly anticipated third full album Burning Bridges which has been receiving excellent reviews like these from UK and European music press.

”A veritable feast of powerful, sensitive, rocky, soulful and lyrically mature songs that are an assault on one’s musical senses in a great way”

‘‘This is an album that says confidently and clearly that Catfish are not just another Blues/Rock outfit joining the party.

They are a band committed to great songs, thoughtful lyrics, first-rate musicianship. This album is, for me, a bold statement about the band’s intention to not compromise when it comes to providing the listener with an album that cuts no corners”.

Date: Thursday 27 February 2020

Time: Starts 8pm

Ticket Price: Advance £12.50 (£12.00+50p bf) / Door £14.00

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk