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September 2019
Burning Bright: The Scottish Colourists
Woking, Surrey GU214AA United Kingdom
This new exhibition will bring together the significant works of Scottish Colourists S.J. Peploe (1871 - 1935), J.D. Fergusson (1874 - 1961), G.L. Hunter (1877 - 1931) and F.C.B. Cadell (1871 - 1935). The works will include paintings and drawings which represent all of the favoured subjects of the artists such as still-life, interior scenes, landscapes and portraiture.
Find out more »Burning Bright: The Scottish Colourists
Woking, Surrey GU214AA United Kingdom + Google Map
This new exhibition will bring together the significant works of Scottish Colourists S.J. Peploe (1871 - 1935), J.D. Fergusson (1874 - 1961), G.L. Hunter (1877 - 1931) and F.C.B. Cadell (1883 - 1935). The works will include paintings and drawings which represent all of the favoured subjects of the artists such as still-life, interior scenes, landscapes and portraiture. The Scottish Colourists were among the first British artists to get to grips with the radical new trends in painting which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. They loved to travel and this will be reflected in their depiction of bright and beautiful European destinations.
Find out more »GSC SATURDAYS DRAMA CLUB
Every Saturday we ignite the imagination of young actors in small friendly groups. Working with professional actors and stage combat instructors, they play fun games, rehearse plays, strengthen their confidence and learn more about the exciting world of theatre.
Find out more »October 2019
GSC YOUNG COMPANY
Guildford, GU2 8XW United Kingdom + Google Map
Following in the footsteps of our professionals, the GSC Young Company is a weekly course for 12-18 yr olds. Members devise and rehearse a brand new play inspired by our professional season, to be performed as part of Will's Birthday Bash in April.
Find out more »In Print: Capturing Light
Compton, Surrey GU3 1DQ United Kingdom
The next instalment in our distinguished In Print annual exhibition series features over 50 beautiful and atmospheric prints depicting reflections, shadows and changing light on landscapes and interiors. Featured techniques include etching, wood engraving, linocut and screen printing.
Find out more »The Outside and The Inside
Woking, Surrey GU214AA United Kingdom
Bringing together fascinating and diverse works from The Ingram Collection and award-winning charity Outside In, The Outside and The Inside provides a unique opportunity to discover new artists and unseen work, offering fresh perspectives and a chance to question the nature of art itself.
Find out more »The Outside and The Inside
Woking, Surrey GU214AA United Kingdom + Google Map
The Outside and The Inside
Find out more »November 2019
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition 2019
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3AJ United Kingdom + Google Map
On show now until 2nd January at Guildford House Gallery with free entry. The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Now in its 32nd year the comeptition continues to celebrate and reward excellence and originality in the medium of watercolour. It remains the largest and most prestigious showcase of contemporary watercolour painting in the UK.
Find out more »William Orpen
Compton, Surrey GU3 1DQ United Kingdom
Celebrated for his career as an official war artist and commercially successful portraitist, Irish-born painter, Sir William Orpen KBE RA (1878 – 1931), is known for his rapid and expressive painting style.
Find out more »Sinders – The Adult Panto
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3TY United Kingdom
Book your dates below or call 01483 361101.
Find out more »The Ingram Collection: Young Contemporary Talent
Woking, Surrey GU214AA United Kingdom + Google Map
The Ingram Collection: Young Contemporary Talent
Find out more »December 2019
Hiring – Assistant Tutor for Nomes Youth Theatre
The Nomad Theatre Group is looking for a self-employed Assistant Tutor to work with our youth group, Nomes Youth Theatre. We are very keen to hear from talented, creative, inspirational, dynamic people who would like to work collaboratively with the wider group to inspire children and young people in performing arts through storytelling, drama, dance, musical theatre/singing and creative play.
Find out more »Robin Hood
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
Join Robin and Marion as they right wrongs, sing songs and sort out the wicked Sheriff!
Find out more »Sleeping Beauty
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
When evil fairy, Carabosse doesn't receive an invitation to Princess Aurora's christening, she casts a curse on her. Can the Good Fair and Muddles protect Aurora? Will the Prince save the day?
Find out more »Gifted in Guildford – Christmas Craft from the Surrey Guild
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3AJ United Kingdom + Google Map
From the 7th December through to Christmas eve. The Surrey Guild of Craftsmen is pleased to be back at Guildford House Gallery this year showing a brilliant collection of new work in their unique pop up shop for Christmas in The Garden Room. Free Entry
Find out more »Jack And The Beanstalk
- presented by The Nomads. 10-14 December at 7:30. In the village of Ample Bottom, strange things are occurring… there’s a magic cow, magic beans and the villagers keep disappearing!
Find out more »Jack and the Beanstalk
Godalming , Surrey GU7 1HR United Kingdom
Book your tickets below or call 01483 361101
Find out more »The Diary of Anne Frank
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom
Performances: Weds 11 Dec 7.30pm Thurs 12 Dec 1.30pm & 7.30pm Fri 13 Dec 7.45pm Sat 14 Dec 2.30pm & 7.30pm Bellairs Theatre Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman By Wendy Kesselman, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett "An extraordinary theatrical adventure! Go and remember." New York Post. " A transcendently powerful new adaptation for a new generation in which, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing…
Find out more »Art inspired by Wine
Guildford, Surrery GU2 7QX United Kingdom + Google Map
In this lively presentation John shares his knowledge and enthusiasm for wine and shows the contribution that ‘wine art’ has made to paintings throughout the ages from renaissance masterpieces to modern hilarious cartoons and striking posters.
Find out more »The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
The Gift of the Magi, one of America's most beloved Christmas stories is brought to life in this new adaptation along with other heart-warming winter stories by the prolific short story writer O. Henry.
Find out more »No Asylum (Film Screening) and Q&A (Eva Schloss and John Wood)
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom
Eva Schloss is a Holocaust survivor… a wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, friend… a teacher and a humanitarian.
Find out more »The Bishop’s Wife
A romantic comedy Christmas classic about an angel, a bishop and the bishop’s wife. The radio play of the best Christmas film you've never seen!
Find out more »Guildford Gag House Comedy Club
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3TY United Kingdom
Lineup includes: Jonny Awsum, Abi Roberts, Catherine Bohart and Dave Green
Find out more »An English Christmas – Concert with Godlaming Choral Society
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Christmas Carols ; Richard Shephard of York Minster - Welcome all Wonders ; David Willcock - Ceremony of Psalms and John Rutter - Gloria. With organist Phil Scriven and a baritone soloist. Conducted by Sam Hayes.
Find out more »Hundred Watt Club – A festive evening of burlesque & vaudeville
Have you been naughty or nice this year? Hundred Watt Club's gift to you is this hot toddy of a show, jam packed full of festive burlesque, vaudeville, circus and drag acts!
Find out more »Oratorios for Christmas
@WaverleySingers present excerpts from favourite oratorios - #Bach #Christmas Oratorio, #Handel Messiah, With Benjamin Reason, baritone, Philip Scriven, organ, Richard Pearce, conductor
Find out more »The Bishop’s Wife
A romantic comedy Christmas classic about an angel, a bishop and the bishop’s wife. The radio play of the best Christmas film you've never seen!
Find out more »A Wreath of Festive Frights
Join resting actor Alfred St John Merrimoon once again, as he regales his audience with more unsettling tales of seasonal spooks, winter wraiths and Christmastime horrors.
Find out more »Ian Shaw
Distinctive and creative, Ian Shaw has been cited, along with Mark Murphy and Kurt Elling, as one of the world’s finest male jazz vocalists. Twice winner of the BBC Jazz Awards, and winner for Jazz Vocalist of the 2018 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Ian has already amassed a number of highly acclaimed internationally released albums. An evening of rollercoaster musical emotion and non-stop entertainment!
Find out more »The Wind in the Willows
This Christmas, The Man In The Moon is delighted to bring a magical new version of The Wind In The Willows to The Electric Theatre, featuring a young cast filled with local talent aged 5 to 16.
Find out more »Peter Gill’s Christmas Comedy Songbook
The ever popular Comedy Songbook with a special Christmas theme.
Find out more »The Lock-In Cabaret
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3TY United Kingdom
After five sell out performances with us and 5 years and 100’s of packed houses at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Lock-in Cabaret are back where it all began, Guildford for a CHRISTMAS Special.
Find out more »The Night Before Christmas
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
On the night before Christmas, Emma stares out of the window, hugs her teddy and waits excitedly for the morning, while in the corner a little mouse called Eddie can’t understand why only humans are allowed to celebrate and get presents. So he sets off in search of Father Christmas to find out for himself.
Find out more »Festive Family Carols
Join us for a festive feast of seasonal music in this afternoon concert which is perfect for all the family.
Find out more »Occam Singers Christmas Concert
With our Christmas Concert this year the Occam Singers hope to re-create a little bit of magic and seasonal glow for you. Come and hear us sing a range of pieces, from traditional carols to a new arrangement of 'Twelve Days of Christmas'.
Find out more »Claire Martin & Liane Carroll’s Cool Yule
At the Electric Theatre on Monday 23rd December @ 7.30pm. Join jazz superstars Claire Martin and Liane Carroll on Christmas Eve Eve, as they frolic their way through some festive favourites. Claire Martin, OBE Linn recording artist Claire Martin has to worldwide critical acclaim established herself as a tour de force on the UK jazz scene gaining many awards, including winning the British Jazz Awards eight times during her career which spans over three decades. In 2018 she was the…
Find out more »January 2020
Ai Weiwei : “Everything is art. Everything is politics”
Guildford, Surrery GU2 7QX United Kingdom + Google Map
Examine the provocative and often beautiful work of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in the context of dissident art in modern China. Having collaborated successfully in the design of the Bird’s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he was arrested by police for fighting ‘the system’. He remains a committed artist despite the odds.
Find out more »Sir Ranulph Fiennes – Living Dangerously
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
Named by the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’, Sir Ranulph’s many ambitious endeavours have pushed his endurance levels to the very limits, inspiring generations and making him a pioneer of exploration with an unparalleled story to tell.
Find out more »Songs from the Shows
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
Musical highlights from stage and screen.
Find out more »Choral Workshop – Mass in B minor
@waverleysingers Choral workshop - #Bach Mass in B minor - Farnham, Sat 11 Jan with @waverleysingers 10.30 - 4.30 (registration 10.00) @singingworkshop
Find out more »One Winter’s Night
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom
An eclectic collection of acoustic performances from the very best of our local singers and songwriters.
Find out more »Grayshott Folk Club presents: Alden, Patteron & Dashwood with The Shackleton Trio
Tonight we feature six of East Anglia's finest young Folk musicians. First, they play as trios, then they come together as a six-piece supergroup!
Find out more »February 2020
Macbeth
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3RR United Kingdom + Google Map
This February Shakespeare’s supernatural thriller opens the award-winning Guildford Shakespeare Company’s (GSC) 14th year of locally made, locally played professional theatre.
Find out more »Artemisia Gentileschi
Guildford, Surrery GU2 7QX United Kingdom + Google Map
Artemisia Gentileschi, (1593 -1656), the Italian Baroque artist, is now considered to be one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. In an era when female painters were not easily accepted find out how she became the first woman member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.
Find out more »The Testament of Mary
Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX United Kingdom + Google Map
Mary is the main character in The Testament of Mary by Irish writer Colm Toibin.
She is the mother of Jesus, a man who is killed by crucifixion because he claimed to be the Son of God.
March 2020
Family Classics
@southernpromus will return to @GLive with #FamilyClassics on Sun 1 Mar. There’ll be free hands-on workshops & an exciting family orchestral concert to follow.
Find out more »Cloudbusting: The Music of Kate Bush
At the Electric Theatre on Sunday 8th March 2020 @ 7.30pm. Cloudbusting have been championed by BBC ONE as one of the most authentic tributes in the world. Their passion for Kate’s music has won over sceptical fans everywhere, challenging perceptions of what a tribute band can be and resulting in sell-out performances across the UK. ‘There can only be one Kate Bush’ says vocalist Mandy Watson, who never attempts to mimic Kate on stage. ‘When you sing her music…
Find out more »Packing Up the Nation
Guildford, Surrery GU2 7QX United Kingdom + Google Map
This is the gripping and sometimes hilarious story of how heroic curators and eccentric custodians saved Britain’s national heritage during our Darkest Hour. As Hitler’s forces gathered on the other side of the Channel, men and women from London’s museums, galleries and archives forged extraordinary plans to evacuate their collections.
Find out more »Guildford Jazzfest 20
Guildford JazzFest will run from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd March at the Electric Theatre in Guildford. The Festival will feature leading UK jazz artists including Iain Ballamy, Dennis Rollins , Nicolas Meier, Alan Barnes, Dave Newton, Mark Nightingale, Steve Waterman, Gareth Williams. It will include a wide spectrum of jazz, funk and Latin grooves alongside free and community events including a concert celebrating Surrey Young Jazz Musicians of the Year and a jazz vocal workshop and performance
Find out more »April 2020
Tapestry: The Ultimate Wall Decoration
Guildford, Surrery GU2 7QX United Kingdom + Google Map
Tapestries were once the most expensive of all wall decorations. Often taking years to produce, they graced some of the most significant courts of Europe. This lecture will explore the making of some of the landmark sets by the weavers of Flanders and the Gobelin factory.
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