2013 Festival4th - 19th May

BOX OFFICE: (from 8th April)The Ibis Bookshop High Street, Bansteador www.bansteadarts.co.uk.or to reserve tickets: 01737 350288

Chairman: Stephen OliverSecretary: Marion HaynsTreasurer: Gerald Baines

Executive Committee: Geoffrey Barham, Eileen Gibbs, Jan Holt, Richard Hughes

Rod McFarlane, Mary Saunders, Anne Smith

The Society is grateful to The Ibis Bookshop for the sale of tickets, Banstead Flower Club for the Community Hall arrangement,

and the staff of Banstead Library for display facilities.

Further information is available from Marion Hayns, 25 Longcroft Avenue,Banstead SM7 3AE 01737 350288 marionh.bafs@hotmail.co.uk

or visit our website: www.bansteadarts.co.uk

TICKETS FOR FESTIVAL EVENTSare on sale from 8th April

By cash or cheque1. From The Ibis Bookshop [please note that The Ibis Bookshop and BAFS are separateentities and their monies are kept separate. The Ibis cannot accept payments by credit ordebit card on BAFS' behalf]2. By advance reservation on 01737 3502883. At the door, if still available.OnlineAt www.bansteadarts.co.uk [not all ticketed events are available online].

Ticket prices for all Festival evening events include light refreshments unless otherwise stated.

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The Society is very grateful to the following for their financial support during the Festival:

The Humphrey Richardson Taylor Charitable Trust

Reigate and Banstead Arts Council, with funds provided by the Borough of Reigate and Banstead

Banstead Coaches Ltd

Investec Wealth & Investment Ltd

The Longcroft Clinic

BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL 2013

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Date Event Venue Page

Saturday 4 May May Queen Procession, The Orchard, 4Crowning and May Fayre High Street

The Yehudi Menuhin Community Hall, 5School Orchestra Park Road

Sunday 5 May Walk: Canons Farm Canons Farmhouse, 17and Banstead Woods Canons Lane, Burgh Heath

Tuesday 7 May Lunchtime Recital - All Saints' 6Louise Alder, soprano Parish ChurchJohn Paul Ekins, piano

Wednesday 8 May Life and Works of Community Hall, 7Helen Allingham - Park RoadBanstead Area U3A

Thursday 9 May Coach Visit – Salisbury Banstead Library, 8Cathedral and Wilton House The Horseshoe[ticket application form p.15]

Friday 10 May Music in the Great Art Community Hall, 9Collections of Europe - Park RoadChipstead Decorative andFine Arts Society

Saturday 11 May Movie Classics from Community Hall, 10Banstead's Past - Park RoadBanstead History Research Group

Sunday 12 May Walk: A Stroll down Car park, 17Memory Lane Banstead Library

BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL 2013DIARY OF EVENTS

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Date Event Venue Page

Monday 13 May Sounds Spectacular - All Saints' Church 11Chris Stanbury InstituteBanstead Organ & Keyboard Club

Tuesday 14 May Lunchtime Concert - All Saints' 12Muse Piano Quintet Parish Church

The Crafts of Gardening - Priory School, 13Banstead Horticultural Society Bolter's Lane

Wednesday 15 May Coach Visit – Salisbury Banstead Library, 8Cathedral and Wilton House The Horseshoe[ticket application form p.15]

Thursday 16 May Victorian Opera - Banstead Library, 13Banstead Recorded Music Society The Horseshoe

Friday 17 May On the South Downs Way - United Reformed Church, 13Banstead Art Group Woodmansterne Lane

The Tim Vine Chat Show Community Hall, Park Road 14

Saturday 18 May Open-Air Exhibition of Paintings - Outside Banstead Library 15Banstead Art Group

School Choirs' Competition Greenacre School, Sutton Lane 15

Sunday 19 May Walk: Banstead Downs Sutton Lane, Banstead 16

Songs of Praise All Saints' Parish Church 16

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Saturday 4th May

Banstead May Queen Procession, Crowning and Fayre

11.30 am Procession starts at United Reformed Church, Woodmansterne Lane, passingalong the High Street and returning to the Orchard in front of All Saints' Parish Church.

12 noon (approx) Crowning of the May Queen, Francesca Warren, in the Orchard.

Attractions include: Maypole Dancing by pupils of St Anne's Roman Catholic PrimarySchool, Country Dancing by Banstead Infants School, East Surrey Morris Men, Eclipse DanceCentre, O'Donnell School of Irish Dancing, Carshalton Cheerleaders, Redhill Corps ofDrums, Surrey Pipe Band, Cadence Band, Jebb the Jester, Radio Marsden, BBQ, Beer andPimms Tent, fairground rides.Proceeds this year will go to YMCA, Banstead. For the first time ever we will also be using Lady Neville Park for various attractions and'Community Games'. Please see www.communitygames.org.uk for an explanation of whatthey do.Admission free

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Saturday 4th May – 7.30 pm

The Yehudi MenuhinSchool Orchestra

Malcolm Singer, Director of MusicChloe Stowers-Veitch, violin

Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, violin

Mozart: Eine Kleine NachtmusikVasks: Violin Concerto, 'Distant Light'Bach: Violin Concerto in A minorSchoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

Each time these wonderful young musicians pay Banstead a visit they treat us to memorable music making, remarkable for its enthusiasm and technical accomplishment.

Their programme begins and ends with night music, showcases the talents of two outstanding youngviolinists, and presents well-loved masterpieces by Bach and Mozart in contrast to enthralling less familiar works by Vasks and Schoenberg.

Banstead Community Hall, Park RoadTickets £12, Under 18s £3 Available from The Ibis Bookshop, or at the door

or at www.bansteadarts.co.uk

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Tuesday 7th May – 1.00 pm

Lunchtime RecitalLouise Alder John Paul Ekins

soprano piano

Louise Alder graduated with First Class Honours from Edinburgh University in 2010 and nowstudies at the Royal College of Music Opera School as the inaugural Kiri te Kanawa scholar. Shewas awarded First Prize in the Maggie Teyte French Song Competition 2012 at the Royal OperaHouse, the Cuthbert Smith Prize in the Lies Askonas Competition and First Prize in the Lieder andEnglish Song Competitions at RCM in 2011. Future engagements include recitals in WigmoreHall and Cadogan Hall and performances with the Hanover Band and Budapest StringsOrchestra.

John Paul Ekins is a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician who has performedthroughout the UK, and in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Norway, Poland,Romania, Spain and Switzerland. He studied at the Royal College of Music [First Class Honours]and Guildhall School of Music and Drama [Masters in Performance, with Distinction]. Hiscompetition successes include prizes in the Amy Brant, San Sebastian and Oxford InternationalPiano Competitions. In 2010 he worked with Louise Alder on the Britten-Pears Young ArtistsProgramme.

The programme includes songs by Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Quilter, Hahn, Liszt and Richard Strauss, and operatic arias by Massenet and Gounod.

All Saints' Parish Church, High StreetAdmission by programme £6, on sale at the door

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Wednesday 8th May – 8.00 pm

Banstead Area U3A

Annabel Watts presents

The Life and Works of Surrey artist Helen Allingham

Banstead Community Hall, Park RoadTickets £12, available from The Ibis Bookshop, at the door,

or call 01737-812646 or 01737-354841 or at www.bansteadarts.co.ukFree On-Site Parking

Annabel Watts has written numerous articles about Victorian watercolour artistHelen Allingham, who lived for much of her life in Surrey and painted many of itsbuildings. Annabel shows that many of the artist's paintings are of buildings stillrecognisable today. Her lecture will describe Helen Allingham's life andprofessional career: accepted into the Royal Academy School in 1867 where shewas influenced by Sir Frederick Walker, Sir Frederick Leighton and Sir John EverettMillais, she became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Society ofWatercolours. The illustrations will show many of the paintings alongside, forcomparison, photographs of the buildings as they are now.

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Thursday 9th May and Wednesday 15th May

Salisbury Cathedral and Wilton Housewith Banstead Coaches

Experience the visual splendour of two iconic buildings, only six miles apart.

On arrival at Salisbury Cathedral, set in the stunning setting of its 80-acre close, we will be servedmorning coffee/tea and Danish pastry in the spectacular glass-roofed restaurant, with view upwards tothe cathedral spire, the tallest in England. Then we join our guides for a tour of the interior, with its lightand airy Early English nave, its Chapter House with one of only four existing copies of Magna Carta,the oldest working mechanical clock in the world and the flowing 'living water' font.

A quick fifteen minutes in the coach will take us to the equally glorious Wilton House, designed byInigo Jones and James Wyatt. After a sandwich platter lunch, our guided tour will take us through thestate rooms, Gothic at first, and then voluptuously decorated in white and gold, Italianate style.Paintings by masters such as Claude, Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Holbein and Van Dyck hang on thewalls, and a climax is reached - Simon Jenkins calls it 'the explosion' ! - with the astonishing DoubleCube Room. Outside, there will be time to stroll in the grounds, with lake and Palladian bridge.

The full cost will be £36.50 per person. Reduced rates are available for members of the HistoricHouses Association: £27.80, or for members of the Royal Horticultural Society: £31.50. YOU MUST BRING YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD WITH YOU ON THE DAY.

Prices include coach travel and all admissions, tour guides' services, morning coffee/tea and Danishpastry on arrival at Salisbury, sandwich platter lunch and drink at Wilton, and coach driver's gratuity

The application form is on page 15. Please apply as soon as possible with a stamped addressed envelope for your tickets.

Meet at 8.25 am outside Banstead Library in the Horseshoe, returning about 6.30 pm

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Friday 10th May – 7.30 pm

Chipstead Decorative and Fine Arts Society'Music in the Great Art Collections of Europe'

Lecturer, Peter Medhurst

Peter Medhurst is a singer, pianist and lecturer-recitalistwhose work takes him all over the world. He did his musicaltraining at the Royal College of Music and in Salzburg. Inaddition to performances at home and abroad he hasdirected presentations at the Wallace Collection, theNational Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and theVictoria and Albert Museum, linking the visual arts with theworld of 17th and 18th century music-making. He is well-known to British music societies, regional theatres andfestivals as well as arts-based organisations, performs onradio, and has made a number of recordings of 16th and17th century keyboard music. A recording of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin on which hesings and accompanies himself is due for release in spring 2013.

Banstead Community Hall, Park RoadTickets £9 - Available from The Ibis Bookshop, the Society, at the door,

or at www.bansteadarts.co.uk

Saturday 11th May - 7.45 pm

Banstead History Research Group and Banstead History Centre present

Movie Classics from Banstead's PastCome, see and share the history of Banstead broughtto life through a unique collection of movies from the1930s, 40s and 50s. We will share with you newresearch into the events shown on the screen.Could you know someone on the screen? Could you be one of the children shown?Our history, brought alive by members of the BansteadHistory Centre and Banstead History Research Group.

There will be displays of historical material, a bookstall and a raffle.

Banstead Community Hall, Park RoadTickets £10 [includes tea/coffee/soft drinks and biscuits]

from The Ibis Bookshop, or at the door

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Monday 13th May – Doors open 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm

Banstead Organ and Keyboard Club presents'Sounds Spectacular' starring Chris Stanbury

Chris Stanbury was born and brought up in Banstead andstarted playing keyboards in public at a young age. He wasa pupil at Beacon School and later obtained a MastersDegree at the London College of Music. He now teachesmusic at his studio in Banstead and the piano at Sutton HighSchool.Chris, our Vice-President, is one of the UK's leading electronickeyboard players. Having played to a sell-out audience at the2009 Festival, he makes a welcome return this year. He willplay an exciting variety of music, including jazz, show tunes,big band, popular music and light classics – something foreverybody to enjoy.

All Saints' Church Institute, High StreetTickets £7, available from The Ibis Bookshop, or at the door or at www.bansteadarts.co.uk

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Tuesday 14th May – 1.00 pm

Lunchtime ConcertMuse Piano Quintet

Yulia Vorontsova pianoIlya Movchan and Ksenia Berezina violinsIlona Bondar viola Jordan Gregoris cello

The lunchtime concert the Muse Piano Quintet gave in 2011 was such a success that we simply hadto ask them to return. Three of their members hail from Russia, one from Poland and one from

France; each achieved artistic success in their home country, then came on a full scholarship to theRoyal College of Music, where they met in 2009 as graduate students. In 2010 they were awarded

Second Prize at the 18e Concurs Josep Mirabent I Migrans in Barcelona. They have held aprestigious Richard Carne Fellowship at the RCM since 2011, and are building a considerable

reputation through their performances in the UK and abroad.

The programme will consist of Brahms' great Piano Quintet in F minor, together with movements from the Shostakovich Piano Quintet.

All Saints' Parish Church, High StreetAdmission by programme £6, on sale at the door

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Tuesday 14th May – 8.00 - 10.00 pm

Banstead Horticultural Society celebrates

'The Crafts of Gardening'In this special event, experienced Society members will be 'at home' for a friendly, informalevening sharing a wide range of horticultural and allied craft skills: information anddemonstrations on plant growing, hanging baskets and containers, foliage plants for flowerarranging, craft exhibits and more. A small plant stall, question-and-answer table and teas will be available.

[Annual membership of £3 gives free entry to all the Society's shows and a regularnewsletter. Contact the Secretary, Diana Beck, on 01737 271243 for further details]

The Priory School, Bolter's Lane, Banstead Free entry

Thursday 16th May – 7.45 for 8.00 pm

Banstead Recorded Music Society

'Victorian Opera'An illustrated talk by Dr Andrew Lamb

Opera was never the way of life in Victorian Britain that it was in Italy, and numerousimpresarios went bankrupt for the cause. However, Balfe's The Bohemian Girl, Wallace'sMaritana and Benedict's The Lily of Killarney enjoyed lasting popularity.

Andrew Lamb has written and broadcast on music for over forty years and has made aspecial study of Victorian opera.

Banstead Library, The Horseshoe Admission £3 for non-members of the BRMS

Friday 17th May – 7.45 pm

Banstead Art Group

'On the South Downs Way'A demonstration by Nick Englefield

Nick Englefield lives in Eastbourne and is a member of anumber of local art groups. The son of artist parents, he haspainted professionally since 1975 and for many years sold allhis work to American galleries. The disaster of 9/11 put an endto that market, but he continues to work in the East Sussex area.

United Reformed Church, Woodmansterne Lane Admission £3, payable at the door. Members free.

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Friday 17th May - 7.30 pm

The Tim Vine Chat Show

Banstead's very own Tim Vinemakes his second eagerly-awaited appearance at the Festival.

This is the show that was an Edinburgh Festival sell-out in 2011 and 2012. It's an eveningpacked with Tim's silly jokes and anecdotes that seem to finish before you expect them to.

Watch him spin comedy gold from stories like 'I sold my roller-skates to a murderer' or 'A batgot into my handbag.'

'The man's a marvel' - The Scotsman. 'Vine is superb' - The Guardian

'Master of the punny one-liner. Boy, is it funny' - Evening Standard'The Man with the Golden Pun' - The Independent

Seriously funny' - The Times

Banstead Community Hall, Park RoadTickets £12, Under 18s £6

Available from The Ibis Bookshop, at the door, or at www.bansteadarts.co.uk

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Saturday 18th May – 10.00am - 4.00 pm

Banstead Art Group

Open-Air Exhibition of PaintingsRemember us? The painters on the Library railings?

We are back with our outdoor exhibition outside Banstead Library. Don't miss us.Please come and visit our exhibition of a wide variety of paintings, in many styles

and mediums.

Outside Banstead Library

Saturday 18th May – 7.30 - 9.30 pm

School Choirs' CompetitionAdjudicators

Graeme Lodge, Rowena Cox and Margaret McFarlane Sponsored by Banstead Coaches Limited

Six choirs from local schools – in total some 180 young singers – will be competing in the 8-13 age category, with each choir singing two contrasting own-choice pieces.

We are extremely fortunate that the competition will be in the hands of three highlyexperienced adjudicators from the immediate area: Graeme Lodge [Chairman] is Director of

Music at Epsom College, an experienced choir trainer and opera conductor and a ChiefExaminer for A Level; Rowena Cox, a professional singer and Chairman of BAFS for sixteenyears, is closely associated with the HR Taylor Trust, which brings her into close contact withschool music in Surrey; Margaret McFarlane taught the flute for many years, also trained in

singing and began her career in the classroom as a music teacher.

Admission: because of the number of performers and the size of the venue,public seating is limited and participating schools will be allocated a number

of free tickets to distribute as they wish.

BAFS and the participating schools are very grateful to Banstead CoachesLimited for its generous donation of the prizes, and to the Headmistress ofGreenacre School, Mrs Lindsay Redding and her staff for their kind hosting

of the competition.

The Sports Hall, Greenacre School, Sutton Lane, Banstead

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Sunday 19th May – 6.30 pm

Songs of Praise at All Saints'An opportunity to sing some well-loved hymns and hear well-known readings,

suggested in advance. At the service, members of the congregation will have the opportunityto explain their choices. The choir, led by Ian le Grice, will sing an anthem and the

service will be taken by the Rev. Maria Pallis

All Saints' Parish Church, High Street Cheese and wine will be provided afterwards.

All welcome

Coach Visit Ticket ApplicationTo Gerald Baines, 26 Buckles Way, Banstead, SM7 1HD 01737 356153

Please reserve___places for Thursday 9th May/Wednesday 15th May [delete as necessary]

I enclose cheque for £____________ made up as follows:_______ persons at full price: £36.50 each_______ members of the HHA: £27.80 _______ members of the RHS: £31.50

(MEMBERSHIP CARDS MUST BE BROUGHT ON THE DAY)

Please make cheques payable to 'BAFS'and enclose a stamped addressed envelope for tickets

Names of those coming __________________________________________________________

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Banstead Arts Festival Society MembershipNew members are always welcome. Please support our activities and receive advance notice of events by

becoming a member – this costs just £5 a year, corporate membership £7.50.Full details from the Membership Secretary,

Eileen Gibbs, 19 Stagbury Avenue, Chipstead CR5 3PA. Tel: 01737 555731

Can you help? Offers of assistance in the many aspects of running this flourishing Society are muchappreciated. If you are able to offer even a small amount of time, please contact the Secretary,

Marion Hayns, at 25 Longcroft Avenue, Banstead SM7 3AE Tel: 01737 350288

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Festival WalksOur informative and enjoyable guided walks are led this year by experienced volunteers from three different organisations.

Sunday 5th May Birdwatching at Canons Farm and Banstead Woods

Leader: David CampbellMeet at Canons Farmhouse, Canons Lane, Burgh Heath KT20 6DD [grid ref TQ247576]

[park on lane outside the farmhouse, or on Ballards Green, off Canons Lane]

Early May is an excellent time for seeing migrant birds as they stop off at sites such asCanons Farm on their way from Africa to their British and Northern European breeding

sites. Much of the excitement of birdwatching at this time of year is the inability to predictaccurately which species will be encountered. However, you can expect to see freshly-

arrived birds such as Wheatear, Hobby, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail and warblers, with achance of Red Kite, Ring Ouzel and Cuckoo.

Time: 10.00 am Duration: 3 hoursA donation of £2 per person to the Canons Farm and Banstead Woods Bird Group

would be appreciated

Sunday 12th May A Stroll Down Memory Lane

Leader: Stuart SweetmanMeet at Library car park, The Horseshoe, Banstead

Join a guided history walk through Banstead, to find out what was here before, fromguides provided by the Banstead History Centre and Banstead History Research Group.

Time: 11.00 am Duration: 2 hoursA donation of £2 per person to Banstead History Research Group would be appreciated

Sunday 19th May Flora and Fauna of Banstead Downs

Leader: David GradidgeMeet at grid ref TQ 258609 adjacent to closed car park in Sutton Lane, Banstead.

Park in either Grange Gardens or Grange Meadow.

Time: 11.00 am Duration: 2 hours.A donation of £2 per person to Surrey Wildlife Trust would be appreciated

1 Banstead Station (no taxis)2 Greenacre School3 St Anne’s RC Primary School4 Library5 All Saints’ Parish Church

6 The Orchard and Church Institute7 The Ibis Bookshop8 The Woolpack PH9 Banstead Community Hall (ample parking)10 United Reformed Church

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St Cecilia ChorusMusic Director: Jonathan Rennert

Handel MessiahSaturday 20 April, 7.30 pm St. Andrew's Church, Northey Avenue, Cheam SM2 7HF

A One-Hour Tour of Sacred Music through the AgesSaturday 15 June, 4.00 pm Arundel Cathedral, London Rd, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9AY[Coach travel available: please enquire from 020 8393 3054 or dixon.family@btinternet.com]

New members welcomeEnquiries to the Secretary, 020 8669 3472, secretary@stceciliachorus.org.uk

or visit website www.stceciliachorus.org.uk