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October 2017 VOICE No. 14 We’re having a party! On Sunday October 15 th from 2.30pm we’re celebrating the Farnham Flash Festival by having a party. It’s your opportunity to meet your colleagues, to demonstrate your performance art and also to join us in a glass of wine or a cup of coffee and a nibble or two. Sounds Fun? That’s the plan! At the end of June we weren’t able to run a Get Together for all performers as many had gone on holiday by then. So we hope that in mid October there’ll be plenty of people keen to come along and display a short performance of their art. It’ll be a great opportunity to see so many of you in the one place. Bring along some food and maybe a bottle of something you like if you wish. It’s a self-help party where we all contribute. That’s the ethos of Performers Together of course so it should be good! We’ll be at the Daniel Hall in the centre of Farnham. It’s the base of the 3 rd Farnham Scout group and very close to the Waitrose carpark - which is free on a Sunday. Please let us know by email if you are able to join us on this day and if you’d like to perform a piece or two. Please let us know if you are coming along to: https://goo.gl/forms/UCinyjGs8OjlpH2A3 or simply email your reply to this newsletter. Of course any Get Together is also a great place to meet to discuss any issues that you may have and to air any concerns generally about putting on performances. There are still some folk out there who haven’t yet graced us with their company; we’d love to see you. Remember, you don’t have to be a member of Performers Together to come to these Get Togethers although of course we’d like to think that you’ll consider joining us if you like what you see and share our vision and aims. Just a reminder – we will be running our brief AGM, intended to take no more than 10 minutes, ahead of this Get Together. Where is it again? Daniel Hall, Long Garden Walk, Farnham GU9 7HX. October 15 th , 2.30pm. Hope to see you there! ……………………………………………………………. Your publicity – how we can help your company. Improve your company’s public visibility and increase the effect of your posters by ensuring that when we post your performance details in the Events Diary in the Lion and Lamb Yard shop, they carry your company’s logo. Send your company’s logo (jpegs please) to the editor so that it can be built into your Diary entry. It will greatly help it stand out, by reinforcing the message on your posters. And if you have other material such as an event title in a specific font or style then please send that too. Sometimes these can be picked out from a pdf but the best results will come from your sending your logo and any of these publicity devices direct. If you want to increase your audience numbers and build your profile in the town, here’s a very good way to achieve those aims – send that logo to the Editor. Please forward this newsletter with the request to your publicity person if it’s not you. Supporting performing arts companies in the Farnham area Patrons: Simon Russell Beale CBE and David Whelton OBE, former MD Philharmonic Orchestra Celebrate the Flash Festival performances and join us for a fun Get Together. Demonstrate your talents once again! VOICE
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October 2017 VOICE No. 14
We’re having a party! On Sunday October 15th from 2.30pm we’re celebrating the Farnham Flash Festival by having a party. It’s your opportunity to meet your colleagues, to demonstrate your performance art and also to join us in a glass of wine or a cup of coffee and a nibble or two. Sounds Fun? That’s the plan!
At the end of June we weren’t able to run a Get Together for all performers as many had gone on holiday by then. So we hope that in mid October there’ll be plenty of people keen to come along and display a short performance of their art. It’ll be a great opportunity to see so many of you in the one place. Bring along some food and maybe a bottle of something you like if you wish. It’s a self-help party where we all contribute. That’s the ethos of Performers Together of course so it should be good!
We’ll be at the Daniel Hall in the centre of Farnham. It’s the base of the 3rd Farnham Scout group and very close to the Waitrose carpark - which is free on a Sunday. Please let us know by email if you are able to join us on this day and if you’d like to perform a piece or two.
Please let us know if you are coming along to: https://goo.gl/forms/UCinyjGs8OjlpH2A3 or simply email your reply to this newsletter.
Of course any Get Together is also a great place to meet to discuss any issues that you may have and to air any concerns generally about putting on performances. There are still some folk out there who haven’t yet graced us with their company; we’d love to see you. Remember, you don’t have to be a member of Performers Together to come to these Get Togethers although of course we’d like to think that you’ll consider
joining us if you like what you see and share our vision and aims.
Just a reminder – we will be running our brief AGM, intended to take no more than 10 minutes, ahead of this Get Together.
Where is it again?Daniel Hall, Long Garden Walk, Farnham GU9 7HX. October 15th, 2.30pm. Hope to see you there!
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Your publicity – how we can help your company.
Improve your company’s public visibility and increase the effect of your posters by ensuring that when we post your performance details in the Events Diary in the Lion and Lamb Yard shop, they carry your company’s logo.
Send your company’s logo (jpegs please) to the editor so that it can be built into your Diary entry. It will greatly help it stand out, by reinforcing the message on your posters. And if you have other material such as an event title in a specific font or style then please send that too. Sometimes these can be picked out from a pdf but the best results will come from your sending your logo and any of these publicity devices direct.
If you want to increase your audience numbers and build your profile in the town, here’s a very good way to achieve those aims – send that logo to the Editor.
Please forward this newsletter with the request to your publicity person if it’s not you.
Supporting performing arts companies in the Farnham area
Patrons: Simon Russell Beale CBE and David Whelton OBE, former MD Philharmonic Orchestra
Celebrate the Flash Festival performances and join us for a fun Get Together. Demonstrate your talents once again!
VOICE
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Hart Male Voice Choir picked a real winner and she stole she show.
In 2014, Milly Forrest was the winner of Hart Male VoIce Choir’s young singer competition; lucky audience members at that concert heard her remarkable voice. Now she has won national acclaim for her ‘stand-in’ performance at London’s Wigmore Hall. Working as an usher she hardly expected to be called upon to step in for a professional soprano who was taken ill and became unable to perform.
Milly, a 23-year-old music student who regularly worked evenings at Britain’s leading chamber music venue is now being seen as a future star after she
successfully took to the stage at the last minute. Performing ensemble works by Franz Schubert and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Milly enthralled the audience with her “exquisite performance” and received rave reviews in the media. One national newspaper described her performance as “breathtaking” with a voice that “floated heavenwards”.
Milly Is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and says that her lifetime ambition has always been “to sing at one of the big opera house stages”. Having by chance caught her singing performance on TV we can attest to her outstanding vocal quality. What a pleasure it was to hear her! We wish her every success.
Hart MVC are now on the lookout for new prospective stars for their 2019 Young Singer Competition. See their website for fuller details including the age range within each group. Or, contact Peter Newman on 01252 614151 for more information.
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Shows you have just missed!
Gritty and dynamic, full of colour, dance and brilliant singing, this drama leapt off the stage to entrance the audience. ……………………
Rotten Perfect by Claire Parker
At the Watts Gallery, Compton, ran from 29th September to 1st October.
Presented by Artifice and directed by Kate Napier
There’s a brilliant show that ran in late September from Cody Musical Theatre Company. Made in Dagenham told the story of women who changed UK law back in the 1960's. Their story held the giant Ford motor company to ransom. This funny, touching and timeless story showed how ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things when they stand together.
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Artifice’s new production was a play about the partnership between two giants of the Victorian Stage: Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
It’s securely based in factual research and also features Alice Comyns Carr – wardrobe mistress and costume guru. There’s a fictional ambitious young actor, too and the revolutionary voice of George Bernard Shaw.
It’s a fascinating insight into the dynamics and difficulties of making theatre work at the highest level of the day. Conflict and humour abound.
This clever play was staged in the Watts Gallery, housing much of GF Watts‘ work and was an intriguing touch as he was married at one time to the very young Ellen Terry. This production was part of the year-long celebration of G.F. Watts 200th birthday.
Shows coming up this next quarter
ScripTease 6 October 8pm at Café Mila, Godalming
a premiere rehearsed reading of ESCAPING MR WOOLF by Daniel Smith
With Oliver Church, Laura Dymock, Andrew Hodson, Cath Humphrys, Ray Murphy and Jaymes Sygrove
Directed by Jack Lynch
The Cafe Mila will be open for supper from 6:30. Have a bite to eat and something to drink before the show. And preorder your drinks to be ready for the interval.
Farnham Rep
Farnham Rep member David Gooderson (Frost, Dr. Who) will be performing in
A Day By The Sea by N C Hunter at the Southwark Playhouse 4 - 28th October
For more details and how to book, see www.farnhamrep.co.uk.
And, on Tuesday, October 24th at 7.30pm, Farnham Rep present:
Not About Heroes by Stephen Macdonald. Based on the friendship of WW1 poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, 100 years on.This will be a rehearsed reading at the Brasserie Blanc, Farnham.
NOVEMBER12 Hale War Memorial, Hale Recreation Ground27 Phyllis Tuckwell, Light up a Life
DECEMBER9 Christmas Concert with Sandhurst Military Wives Choir, St Mary’s Church, Frensham10 Farnham Christmas Market, Castle Street16 Morrisons, Aldershot17 Farnham Winter in Bloom, Gostrey Meadow18 Rowledge23 Lion & Lamb, Farnham
Farnham Youth ChoirsThe Lions Club of Farnham, 50th Anniversary Concert: An evening with Farnham Youth ChoirSaturday, October 14, 7:30pm - 9:00pmSt Andrew's Church, FarnhamGU9 7PW Farnham Youth Choir launches its 2017/18 season with an exciting and eclectic programme of sacred and secular works, including new repertoire and some old favourites.
Junior Christmas CelebrationSaturday, December 2, 5:00 - 6:00pmUnited Reformed Church GU9 7QU A traditional Christmas concert featuring all the FYC junior choirs.
CHRISTMAS WORDS & MUSICSunday, December 10, 6.30pmUnited Reformed Church, FarnhamGU9 7QU
CIVIC CAROL SERVICEThursday, December 14, 7.30pm St Andrews Church. GU9 7PW A traditional service of lessons and carols.
Christmas Gala ConcertSaturday, December 16, 6.30pmFarnham Maltings, Farnham GU9 7QR
FAOS Musical Theatre Group present:
Spamalot which will be full of fun and performed in June 2018.
More details coming soon on their website: www.faos.org.uk
Farnham Brass Band offer many performances in and around the town:
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Farnham Youth Choir is joined by the FYC Boys, FYC Girls and FYC Alumni Choirs to perform a selection of songs from their Christmas repertoire, including carols for the audience, all in a festive atmosphere of fun and celebration.
Hart Male Voice ChoirOn Friday 13 October, Hart Male Voice Choir will be in concert with Salesian College Schola Choir and Farnborough Hill Senior Choir at the Salesian College,119 Reading Road, Farnborough GU14 6PA
Fundraising for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
Churt Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS)
CADS are presenting the wonderfully funny and inventive The 39 Steps on November 9,10 & 11 at 7.30pm, at Churt Village Hall.
Esmond Clements Trio – this trio play every Tuesday at Farnham Maltings, from 1pm to 2pm. Enjoy Lunchtime Piano Bar Jazz in an informal cabaret style setting, playing the great English and American song books, jazz standards and the wonderful bossa novas f Brazil. Bring your own lunch and enjoy cool, intimate, classic jazz.
Rushmoor Male Voice Choir
St Mary’s Church Concert,
7 October, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm St Mary's Church, Park Road, Camberley GU15 2SR
Church Crookham Concert
28 October, 7:30 pm Christ Church, 14 Gally Hill Road Church Crookham, Fleet GU52 6LH
Rock Choir
For all Rock Choir events and concerts nationwide see their website:
Rockchoir.com
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And finally, we welcome Cody Musical Theatre Company
to our ranks as our newest Group Member.
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