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Opera . Ballet . Cinema Musicals . Shakespeare . Plays

Live Events and Concerts

Town Hall

SpringMarch - August 2020

Grassington Devonshire Institute Charity Number 1185815

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Workshops . Talks

Summer&

Saturday 22nd Grassington & District Horticultural Society Autumn ShowAugust

Saturday 11th to the 18th Grassington Festival Fringe Events

Saturday 19th to the 27th Grassington Festival

Saturday 18th Town Hall Coffee Morning at Church HouseSaturday 25th UWALS The Very Grimm Brothers

JulySaturday 4th Grassington Community Cinema

Saturday 6th Grassington Community Cinema

Thursday 18th The Royal Opera LIVE - Elektra

June

Saturday 2nd UWALS Presenting the PastSunday 3rd UWALS Presenting the PastThursday 7th Larger than Life with Ron Norman: Antony and CleopatraSaturday 9th Grassington Community Cinema Sunday 10th Edwina Hayes at the OctagonThursday 14th Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Thursday 28th The Royal Ballet LIVE - The Dante Project

May

Thursday 21st to the 30th The Grassington Players

Wednesday 1stApril

Saturday 4th Grassington Community Cinema

Saturday 18th Grassington & District Horticultural Society Spring ShowTuesday 21st The Royal Opera LIVE - Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci

The Royal Ballet LIVE- Swan Lake

Saturday 25th UWALS Presenting the PastSunday 26th UWALS Presenting the Past

Friday 3rd Posting Letters To The Moon

Sunday 5th The Grassington Singers Mozart and Jazz Concert

Thursday 26th Grassington Festival Programme Launch

MarchWednesday 4th Kinky Boots the MusicalSaturday 7th Grassington Community CinemaSaturday 14th Esther Rutter - The Golden Fleece. Presented by the Stripey Badger

Tuesday 17th The Royal Opera LIVE - Fidelio

Saturday 28th Keep the Faith featuring Sarah Collins

You can Book Tickets in person at the Grassington Hub or online atwww.grassingtondevonshireinstitute.org/tickets.html

All dates correct at time of printing

At A GlanceMarch 2020 - August 2020

On behalf of the Town Hall Trustees, may I take this opportunity to thank you for your support for our Autumn/Winter Season programme (which ends in February 2020) and extend an invitation to you to join us in supporting our very exciting Spring/Summer Season programme.

These events, including a number organised by our friends and colleagues from other organisations, include a good mix of live satellite, live recorded, live music per-formances and presentations, which take us seamlessly through to the Grassington Festival (June 2020) and beyond. At the time of writing, over 700 tickets have been sold for our 2019/2020 programme which shows great interest in what we have offered and, fantastic support from you, our friends and customers. I must also congratulate and thank our small team of volunteers and supporters who have given up enormous amounts of their personal time to bring the programme alive………. without them, the show would definitely not go on!

We look forward to seeing you very soon

David WoodChair of Trustees

Welcome To Our Spring and Summer Programme

Would you like to hire the Town Hall?The Town Hall has several rooms for hire and can accommodate everything from large celebrations to small meetings.

Check out the website: grassingtondevonshireinstitute.org and look at Booking and Room Hire to see what’s available. Then fill in the booking form and return to [email protected]. You can also use this email to make enquiries.

Main HallSeating Capacity 280

Dimensions: 60’ (to front of stage)

x 34’ wide.OctagonSeating Capacity 100

Stage MainStage Foyer

Kitchen

Games Room

SnookerRoom

MainEntrance

SeatingCapacity

50

LadiesWC

MensWC

Moor Road Entrance (wheelchair access)

Kinky Boots – The MusicalFilmed live at the Adelphi Theatre in the heart of London’s West End, is strutting onto the big screen! Inspired by true events, this huge-hearted hit tells the story of two people with nothing in common –or so they think. Charlie (Killian Donnelly) is a factory owner struggling to save his family business, and Lola (Matt Henry) is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea.

Tickets priced at £12.50 + Commission when booked online

Grassington Community Cinema presents two films each month. One for children and one for Grown Ups. Bar, popcorn and ice cream for sale.

The Stripey Badger Presents: Esther RutterThe author of This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History.This Golden Fleece is at once a meditation on the craft and history of knitting, and a fascinating exploration of wool’s influence on ourlandscape, history and culture.

Wednesday 4th March

Saturday 14th March

Saturday 7th March

The Octagon Theatre 7:15pm

Farmageddon (U) Doors open 4pm, film starts at 4:30pm

Judy (12A) Doors open 7pm, film starts at 7:30pm

Tickets available from the Grassington Hub:Adult £5, Child £2.50, Family Ticket £10

Tickets priced at £7 from The Stripey Badger BookshopThe Octagon Theatre 7:00pm

[This event is a Live Recording]

Grassington Community Cinema

This event has a licensed bar available throughout.

Live Events . Ballet . Concerts . Opera . Musicals

March

Keep The Faith Motown & Northern Soul Band Featuring

Sarah CollinsSarah Collins is a firm favourite on today’s Motown and Northern Soul scene with many appearances at UK and European festivals and events. With a line-up of guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, backing vocals and brass section, the band play authentic arrangements of the original songs. Keep The Faith provide a live Northern Soul and Motown experience that is second to none.

Saturday 28th March

Tickets priced at £12.50 in advance+ Commission when booked online

Or £15 on the night

The Main HallDoors open at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:30pm

Fidelio - LIVE from The Royal OperaBeethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, con-ducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him.

Tickets priced at £14 + Commission when booked online

Tuesday 17th March




This is a standing event, but some seating is available.

Thursday 26th MarchGrassington Festival 2020 Programme launch nightThe Main Hall 7:30pm

Plays . Workshops . Talks . Cinema . Shakespeare

The Royal Ballet LIVE - Swan LakeLiam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake returns for its first revival. While remaining faith-ful to the Petipa/Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John Macfarlane’s magnificent designs breathe new life into what is arguably the best-known and most-loved classical ballet.


Wednesday 1st April


A romantic, funny and very touching portrait of life during the early 1940s featuring readings of wartime letters between Oscar-nominated actress Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) and her explorer and writer husband Peter Fleming (brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming) posted to India and the Far East during WW2 working on Military Intelligence.

Posting Letters To The MoonFriday 3rd April

The Octagon Theatre 7:30pmTickets priced at £11.50This event has a licensed bar available throughout.


April


Grassington Community Cinema presents two films each month. Bar, popcorn and ice cream are on sale.

Saturday 4th April

Frozen 2 (U) Doors open 4pm, film starts at 4:30pm

The Good Liar (15) Doors open 7pm, film starts at 7:30pm

Tickets available from the Grassington Hub:Adult £5, Child £2.50, Family Ticket £10

Grassington Community Cinema

Doors open at 1:30pm

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci LIVE from The Royal OperaTwo opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully ob-served re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt.

Tuesday 21st April


The Octagon Theatre 7pm

UWALS “Presenting the Past”Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th April

Thanks to National Lottery players this wide ranging exhibition will feature a number of ambitious elements including photography, oral history, music and film. At it’s centre will be the conservation and documentation of a unique archive of photographs of Upper Wharfedale.

Grassington & District Horticultural Society Spring Show

Saturday 18th April

The Grassington Singers Mozart and Jazz ConcertSunday 5th April

Free Entry 10am to 4pm

The Grassington Singers will be presenting a concert “Mozart and Jazz” including Chilcott’s Little Jazz Mass, excerpts from Mozart’s Requiem and a number of other popular classical pieces. We shall also be premiering a piece specially written for us by Howard Auster to cele-brate our 40th anniversary as a choir.

Tickets priced at £10 and available from the Hub.



Larger than Life:A season of Shakespeare’s biggestcharacters with Ron NormanAntony and Cleopatra. Enhance your understand-ing and enjoyment of next week’s Globe screening in this participatory workshop led by Ron Norman

Thursday 7th May

The Octagon Theatre 7:30pmTickets priced at £2.50 for UWALS Members £3.oo for non members

Edwina Hayes at the OctagonEdwina Hayes numbers Michael Parkinson and Nanci Griffith among her fans. Her beautifully written songs and charming stage presence have won her a reputation as a true natural talent of gentle folk-americana.

Sunday 10th May

The Octagon Theatre 7:30pm (Doors open 6.45pm)

Tickets priced at £9 + Commission if booked online

Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd MayUWALS “Presenting the Past”Thanks to National Lottery players this wide ranging project planned for 2019/2020 will feature a number of ambitious elements including photography, oral history, music and film. At it’s centre will be the conservation and documentation of a unique archive of photographs of Upper Wharfedale - the Inman Roberts collection.

Free Entry 10am to 4pm

The Grassington Community CinemaThe film for May has yet to be decided.Please visit grassington.uk.com to find out what is showing.

Tickets available from the Grassington Hub: Adult £5

To reserve your place or book tickets telephone 01756 770051/770350 or email [email protected]

May


Saturday 9th May


The Royal Ballet LIVE: The Dante ProjectDante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned. The Royal Ballet’s trailblazing Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor collaborates with an award-winning team – contemporary composer Thomas Adès, artist Tacita Dean, lighting designer Lucy Carter and dramaturg Uzma Hameed – to bring us closer to Dante and his extraordinary vision.

Thursday 28th May

The Octagon Theatre 7:15pmTickets priced at £14 + Commission if booked online

Shakespeare’s Antony and CleopatraVirtue and vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breathtaking beauty and magnificence.

Thursday 14th May

Tickets priced at £12.50 + Commission if booked online



GRASSINGTON PLAYERS A world premiere in the Yorkshire Dales

Still under wraps at the time of going to press, Grassington Players are planting the seeds for a musical world premiere this Spring, in a production combining local flavour with words and lyrics from a famous artist. Featuring many of our own accomplished singers and actors joined by talented new faces from Ilkley Playhouse, under the watchful eyes of Jay Walker and Ed Williams, this promises to be something special. Grassington Devonshire Institute 21st – 30th May.

Tickets £15, or £20 for the opening Gala NightOnline from www.grassingtonplayers.com/tickets or 01756 752222.



GrassingtonPlayers

ELEKTRA - LIVE FROM THE ROYAL OPERAStrauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to lively debate and both shocked and excited audiences since its 1909 premiere.

Thursday 18th June

The Octagon Theatre 7:00pmTickets priced at £14 + Commission if booked online

Saturday 6th June

The Grassington Community CinemaThe film for June has yet to be decided. Please visit grassington.uk.com to find out what is showing.


June


This event has a licensed bar and refreshments available.

Programmelaunch night

Thursday 26thMarch 7:30pmAll welcome.

Tickets will beon sale in earlyApril. Visit the

Website or Facebook

for updates

Of bringing music and art to the dales.www.grassington-festival.org.ukwww.facebook.com/GrassingtonFestival

40Years

CelebratingFringe Week

11-18 JuneMainProgramme19-27 June

2020

Grassington & DistrictHorticultural SocietyAutumn Show

Saturday 22nd August

Come along to see the fruits of our summer labours.

Doors open at 1:30pm

The Very Grimm BrothersSaturday 25th July

A wonderful, chatty, humorous and wistful evening courtesy of The Very Grimm Brothers AKA Adrian Mealing and John Denton. Adrian (on voice and personality) crafts the best words into the best order, while John (on guitar and long suffer-ing non-personality) sets some of them to music.

Tickets Priced at £10 for UWALS members£12.50 for Non-members



For tickets telephone 01756 770051/770350Or email [email protected]

The Grassington Community CinemaThe film for July has yet to be decided. Please visit grassington.uk.com to find out what is showing.

Saturday 4th July


August


July

Saturday 18th JulyTown Hall Coffee MorningChurch House Grassington 9:00am to 12:00 noon.

HORTICULTURALSOCIETY

TABLETENNISSNOOKERUPPER

WHARFEDALEFIELD SOCIETY

ZUMBA

THE GRASSINGTON ART CLUBMUMS AND TODDLERS

Full Dickensian Christmas Market and Entertainment Programme

Saturday 5th December, Sunday 6th December

Saturday 12th December,Sunday 13th December

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MEDITATIONPILATESDon’t forget some of the Town Hall’s regular events

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If you would be interested in becoming a Trustee, or offering support for events and activities as a volunteer, we would be delighted to hear from you to discuss the experience and skills we feel would

complement the existing team.Please contact David Wood, 01756 751801 or 07515 783177 or email [email protected]

Flypast

Skirmishes

Vintage Market

Re-enactor Camps

Military Displays

Live Music

Dances

Caravan/Campervan Site

18th - 20th September [email protected]

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