GENerate student show
NOW in its third year, the varied and colourful GENerate exhibition at The Base at Greenham is a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their work in a professional environment. Curated by The Base exhibitions team, students from 16 state, independent and SEN schools and colleges in West Berkshire, North Hampshire and South Oxfordshire are showing work in a wide range of media and with differing aesthetic approaches. The students’ age range varies from 11 to 21.
Simon Booker
Wildlife photography talk
SPEND a relaxed evening in the company of local wildlife photographer Simon Booker of Stokerpix at The Swan at Streatley on Tuesday (January 21,7pm). Fascinated by the bountiful wildlife in the countryside around his home near Streatley, self-taught Simon will share his stories of Berkshire’s bountiful wildlife in Behind the Lens with Simon Booker. Book at www.coppaclub.co.uk/whatson/wildlifephotography/
Peder Severin Krøyer: Painter of Northern Light arts lecture
The Arts Society Newbury’s next lecture at Arlington Arts on Tuesday (January 21) is Peder Severin Krøyer: Painter of Northern Light given by Kathy McLauchlan. Looking back on his work towards the end of his life, Peder Severin Krøyer recalled his work at Skagen, the Danish artists’ colony at the northernmost tip of Denmark, and expressed his particular love for that time “when the sun is going down, when the moon is rising over the sea, hanging there, crystalclear, and the water, smooth as glass, reflects its light….” Krøyer was referring to the ‘blue hour’ of northern Scandinavian summer nights, when sea and sky appear to merge into a single luminous whole. This lecture explores Krøyer’s life and work in Skagen, and evaluates the paintings that made him into one of Europe’s most celebrated artists by the end of the 19th century. A lecturer specialising in 19th-century art history, Kathy is currently a course director at the Victoria & Albert Museum, organising courses and study days on the history of art and design. She teaches at several institutions, including Art Pursuits. Kathy is a graduate of Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute, with a PhD on French 19th-century painters in Rome. Book through the Arts Society: info@theartssocietynewbury.org.uk
The Resurrection Players
Why Newbury needed a new cemetery
Resurrection Players next production In The Beginning… opens on Wednesday. They will re-enact sections of the 1847 Inquiry that determined whether an Act of Parliament would set up a company to create a municipal cemetery. It will be performed in the Chamber of the Town Hall where it originally took place. It was first presented to packed houses in 2011, and seven of this month’s cast were in the original production. They are covering up the newly displayed portrait of King Charles III with an 1847 portrait of the young Queen Victoria, painted by Winterhalter, copied for the Queen by William Corden the Elder, whose son is buried in Newtown Road Cemetery. The performance illustrates the desperate public health situation and the local politics surrounding surveyor George Hammond Whalley’s decisions that were presented to Parliament, resulting in the Act of July 1847 which established the Newbury Cemetery Company, which we now know as Newtown Road Cemetery. Performances take place at 7.30pm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and at 4pm on Saturday. Tickets £7 can be reserved to pay in cash on the door. Telephone (01635) 48070.
DANCE & Opera Varna International Ballet Nutcracker
Two nights of classical ballet:
The Nutcracker
DANCE & Opera Varna International Ballet accompanied by Varna International Ballet Orchestra present The Nutcracker at The Anvil, Basingstoke on Tuesday 21 Jan , 7.30pm. This most famous of fantasy ballets for all the family begins as night falls on Christmas Eve. As snowflakes fall outside, the warm glow of the open fire sends flickering shadows across the boughs of the Christmas tree and all the presents beneath. When midnight strikes, we are swept away to a fairytale world where nothing is quite as it seems, toy dolls spring to life, the Mouse King and his mouse army battle with the Nutcracker Prince, and we travel through the Land of Snow to an enchanted place where the magic really begins. https://www.anvilarts.org.uk/
Swan Lake
AND on Wednesday they dance Swan Lake, the greatest romantic ballet of all time, brought to life by Tchaikovsky’s haunting score. See the impressive splendour of the Palace ballroom and the moonlit lake, where swans glide in perfect formation. This compelling tale of tragic romance has it all. The dual role of Odette/Odile is one of ballet’s most technical challenges.