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Vampirates
Friday 13 January, 4.30pm Sackville Theatre
The year is 2505. The oceans have risen. A new era of piracy is dawning. Twins Grace and Connor Tempest are separated and fighting for their lives in a stormy sea. Rescued by a notorious pirate ship, Connor finds new friends and a new life – but does he really want to be a pirate? Grace finds herself on board a mysterious ship whose crew she sees only at night. Locked in her cabin she struggles to discover more about the enigmatic Captain and her own fate.
This engaging and mysterious adventure is told by a cast of three, in a physical style awash with theatrical techniques.
Chiao-Ying Chang Piano Recital
Friday 20 January, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
In the last few years Chiao-Ying has given recitals at major festivals and venues throughout the UK as well as performing as a concerto soloist with leading world orchestras. This performance will include the opus 118 miniatures by Brahms and Chopin’s four Ballades.
Halstead Jazz Club Big Band
Wednesday 1 February, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
Three or four times a year some of the finest jazz musicians in South East England perform together as the Halstead Jazz Club Big Band. A concert by the HJCBB is always entertaining as the band performs some of the most diverse big band music around. There’s bound to be tunes you’ve heard of, there will probably be tunes you find interesting and there will be a lot of tunes that just make you smile!
Holes
Monday 6 February, 2.30pm Sackville Theatre
Tuesday 7 – Thursday 9 February, 7.30pm Sackville Theatre
Adapted by Louis Sachar from his award-winning novel. Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been sent to Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the inmates ‘build character’ by digging holes all day, every day. They are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment – and redemption. A cast of nearly 50 Lower School pupils bring this popular novel imaginatively to life.
The Origin of our Species
Wednesday 8 February, 4.15pm Pamoja Hall
Professor Chris Stringer FRS is Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum. An established author of several books including Homo Britannicus; the incredible story of human life in Britain and The Origin of our Species, Chris will be discussing human evolution and recent discoveries which cause us to re-evaluate what it means to be human. This thought-provoking and engaging lecture is open to all, but due to expected high demand, it will be a ticketed event.
Sevenoaks School Gospel Choir
Wednesday 29 February, Tuesday 26 June, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
Back by popular demand, the Sevenoaks School Gospel Choir is topping the bill in these concerts of popular music. Directed by Emma Pears and featuring Charly Solomou, the choir will present popular gospel music which they are preparing for a performance in the Philharmonie, Berlin, during the 2012 Fest der Kulturen.
Martin S Taylor: Hypnotism without Hypnosis
Friday 2 March, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
Martin S Taylor has been a stage hypnotist for over 15 years. Yet he doesn’t use hypnosis. The show still has all the laughs, the wonder, the excitement of any hypnotist show you’ll see anywhere else and it is 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. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the SKSN School in Rajasthan, India.
The Alan Adler Memorial Concert
Friday 16 March, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
The Sevenoaks School Music department is presenting an all-Vivaldi programme. In the first half, the school’s leading violinists will all feature as soloists in Vivaldi’s ever-popular The Four Seasons. In the middle of this epic performance, the Sennocke Consort will perform the little-known psalm setting Domine ad adjuvandum me festina. In the second half of the programme the Sevenoaks School Choral Society will join forces with the instrumentalists in a performance of Vivaldi’s popular Gloria.
Blood Wedding
Monday 12 – Thursday 15 March, 4.30pm and 7.30pm Sackville Theatre
Two very different versions of Lorca’s greatest poetic play will be presented by separate casts. Using elements of flamenco and physical theatre, BLOOD explores the exploding passion of the play through movement and the manipulation of 16 wooden stools. The WEDDING production works with Japanese bunraku-inspired hand puppets and explores social convention and conformity, contrasting with the repression and tension boiling under the surface. Although two very different conceptual and visual presentations, both productions will feature live music and song, and include some of Lorca’s original words in Spanish.
The Government Inspector
Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 May, 7.30pm Sackville Theatre
This classic Russian comedy of mistaken identity lampoons some of the less appealing aspects of human nature. A large and energetic ensemble of students from Years 9 and 10 will bring to life the parade of vain, self-serving cheats and liars to be found in Gogol's imaginary provincial town.
Backgammon for Beginners
Wednesday 30 May, 8.00pm Sackville Theatre
November 1976. A military jet arrives in London and an Iranian man steps on to the tarmac. He holds a single suitcase and blinks in this new land. Over the next few years his attempts to comprehend the differences between his past and his present will lead to jumping out of hotel windows, introducing backgammon to London bars, facing the terror of the National Front and stopping trains with his bare hands. It will also lead to broken hearts, secret loves and multiple children. Fusing drama, breathtaking acrobatics, live music and puppetry, So & So Circus tell the true story of this extraordinary man and his life lived without a safety net.
Alda Dizdari: In the Footsteps of Bach
Thursday 31 May, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
Returning after her superlative performance with the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, virtuoso violinist Alda Dizdari leads a performance of music based on Bach’s instrumental music for the violin. Including the famous D minor partita, but also music by Bartók, Alda will be the soloist throughout this tour de force for the violin. She is also accompanied by the Sevenoaks School string players in a performance of Bach’s famous Violin Concerto in A minor.
Sevenoaks School Gospel Choir
Tuesday 26 June, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
Back by popular demand, the Sevenoaks School Gospel Choir is topping the bill in these concerts of popular music. Directed by Emma Pears and featuring Charly Solomou, the choir will present popular gospel music which they are preparing for a performance in the Philharmonie, Berlin, during the 2012 Fest der Kulturen.
Community Events
Lydian Orchestra
Easter Concert: Sunday 15 April, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
Summer Concert: Sunday 15 July, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
The Lydian Orchestra brings together talented young musicians aged 14-25 to perform a wide range of challenging orchestral works. Now in its 36th year, the Orchestra has toured to Europe and the Edinburgh Festival whilst giving three concerts locally each year.
The Easter Concert conducted by Ethan Merrick, features solo cellist Alice Purton playing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme.
The Soloist at the Summer Concert will be the winner of the 2012 ‘Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year’ competition. The programme, conducted by Michael Hitchcock will include the Symphony No.3 in F major by Brahms.
Maidstone Wind Symphony and Eynsford Concert Band
Sunday 27 May, 7.30pm Pamoja Hall
This collaboration for the first time in their respective histories will perform major works for concert band, before combining for a spectacular finale.
Maidstone Wind Symphony, under the baton of Jonathan Crowhurst, welcome saxophonist Alastair Penman to perform the virtuosic concerto ‘In League With Extraordinary Gentlemen’ as well as ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, both penned by Peter Graham.
The massed bands will perform Wagner’s majestic Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral and Berlioz’s emphatic ‘March to the Scaffold’ from Symphonie Fantastique, as well as featuring the lighter side of the concert band repertoire, such as Leroy Anderson’s ‘Bugler’s Holiday’.