Halstead Jazz Club Big Band
Wednesday 16 January, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £12 (£8)
The Space is delighted to welcome Halstead Jazz Club Big Band back to the Pamoja Hall. The Big Band consists of many of the finest jazz musicians in the South East of England. Beginning with the band’s theme tune, the concert will include Glenn Miller classics, TV and film music, with some incredible solos. The Band is directed by Nick Beston and the evening will be hosted once again by Buster Birch.
River Dreaming
Monday 21 January, 7.30pm Sackville Theatre Free Event
River Dreaming: dreams from the past and for the future, all drawing their source from the Swan River. Perth Youth Theatre takes you on a kaleidoscopic journey through the history of the Swan River Colony. Romance, comedy and colour feature as the wonderful characters and events of the past propel you through time – all through the eyes of young people.
Martin S Taylor: Hypnotism without Hypnosis
Thursday 24 January, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £10
The Space is delighted to welcome hypnotist Martin S Taylor back to the Pamoja Hall. The show still has all the laughs, the wonder, the excitement of any hypnotist show you’ll see anywhere else and it’s safe. No hypnosis is involved. Even though his subjects are behaving in bizarre ways, they know what they’re doing, and they can resist if they want to.
In aid of Sevenoaks School PROMO charities.
Greece!
Wednesday 6 to Saturday 9 February, 7.30pm Sackville Theatre Tickets £9 (£7)
Join 50 Year 9 and 10 pupils in a comic exploration of some of the less trodden paths of Greek Mythology. Was Perseus more geek than Greek? What was the secret of Jason’s success with the girls? And did he really buy a ship from Argos? The answers to these questions, and many more even less important ones will be revealed in Greece! Legends or Losers? By Jim Grant.
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Sevenoaks Sings
Sunday 24 February, 6.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £8 (£5)
A celebratory performance of a week's workshops with Sevenoaks Sings. Directed by Emma Pears, the concert will feature Sevenoaks Sings Community Choirs and special guests Dan Clews, Letitia Perry and Jez Harley.
Paul Rose: Polar Explorer
Tuesday 5 March, 6.30pm Pamoja Hall Free Event
A man at the front line of exploration and one of the world's most experienced divers and polar travellers, Paul Rose has been helping scientists unlock global mysteries for the past 30 years in the most remote and challenging regions of the planet.
Part of the Sevenoaks Lectures series.
Carpe Jugulum
Monday 11 to Thursday 14 March, 7.30pm Sackville Theatre Tickets £9 (£7)
The Lower School are proud to present this year's theatrical feast: a funny, fast-moving, fang-tastic play called Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett, adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs.
The de Magpyrs are the sort of vampires that would have Count Dracula spinning in his grave: modern, forward-looking and no longer afraid of holy water, garlic and religious symbols or, indeed, of anything else. This makes them very, very dangerous. Luckily for the Discworld, the three Lancre witches are on hand – and the battle is on! Whoever said that vampires suck?!
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Music at Sevenoaks
Friday 15 March, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £7
The Sevenoaks School Choral Society lead this celebration of choral music with a second half performance of the popular Requiem Mass by Gabriel Fauré. The concert will feature the school’s other choral groups and includes a performance of Beatus Vir by Monteverdi, given by the Sennocke Consort.
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Sevenoaks Swings and Sevenoaks School Gospel Choir
Monday 18 March, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £7
Sevenoaks Swings and Sevenoaks School Gospel Choir will join forces to present an evening of jazz standards and popular gospel music. With musical direction by Emma Pears and Nick Beston, this promises to be another ever popular end-of-term musical extravaganza at Sevenoaks School.
Tonight at the Opera
Wednesday 20 March, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £20 (£5 pupils)
A semi-staged gala concert featuring singers from the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, and Glyndebourne performing alongside student singers from Sevenoaks School. Expect to hear popular favourites, a couple of lesser-known pieces and a few contemporary surprises. The programme will include excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Onegin, Puccini’s La Bohème and Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
This is a fundraising event. All proceeds will go towards a London touring production of Puccini’s La Bohème in Autumn 2013.
Sevenoaks School Jazz Club
Thursday 18 April, 7.30pm Sackville Theatre Tickets £7
Back by popular demand, this atmospheric informal concert – in a ‘Jazz club’ setting allows promising students to experience performing with a professional Jazz band. Nick Beston leads the jazz ensemble.
Alan Adler Memorial Concert
Tuesday 23 April, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall Tickets £7
This year’s Alan Adler Memorial Concert is built around three movements from Mahler’s 1st Symphony, presented by the Symphony Orchestra. Taking as the theme for the year nature and the number one, they will be joined in the first half by the Sevenoaks Strings, who will play selections of Holst’s St Paul’s Suite and Vaughan Williams’s choral prelude Rhosymedre and also by the Sennocke Consort and Sevenoaks School’s award-winning Upper Sixth string quartet.
A C Grayling on Scepticism
Monday 29 April, 6.30pm Pamoja Hall Free Event
There is a healthy kind of scepticism which invokes a critical, enquiring approach that looks for evidence and reasons, and evaluates both. This is scepticism in life. In philosophy sceptical arguments illustrate the work that needs to be done to construct a sound theory of knowledge.
Part of the Sevenoaks Lectures series.