The Elephant and Castle listings
White Hill
Lewes
BN7
t: 01273 473797
w: elephantandcastlelewes.co.uk
May
Friday 25
8pm
The Headstrong Club
Prof Bobbie Farsides - "Organs: for donation or sale?"
Bobbie Farsides is Professor in Clinical and Biomedical Ethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She has been teaching and researching in the field of clinical and biomedical ethics for over twenty years. Her research is primarily focused on ethically-contested fields of health care such as stem cell research, foetal medicine and organ transplantation.
Bobbie has been heavily involved in the application of biomedical ethics to public policy, and has twice served as a Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords. She was a member of the UK Organ Donation Taskforce, and now sits on the UK Donation Ethics Committee. She is also a member of the BMA Ethics Committee, and was founder co-editor of the journal Clinical Ethics.
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The meeting will commence at 8pm, as normal, and admission will be £3 for non-members
Saturday 26
10:45am
JigJaw Song & Dance workshop, Lewes Saturday Folk Club
JIGJAW: SINGING FOR DANCING WORKSHOP
http://jigjaw.co.uk/about.html
JigJaw (Janet Russell, Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher, Frances Watt) combine the percussion & passion of dance traditions with vocal harmonies in a tight, scintillating quartet of singing & dancing talents. They use step-dancing, social dancing, mouth music, nonsense rhyme & songs from Britain & beyond for a highly distinctive performance, rekindling the links between dancers & singers, songs and dances, performers and audiences.
They say: 'We'll be singing & dancing in each part of the workshop. Everyone will be encouraged to sing & dance. There will be an option for step dancers to learn a routine. Concentrate on singing or dancing, or have a go at everything - enjoy!'
IN THE EVENING JIGJAW perform at the ELEPHANT & CASTLE
(£8; tickets from club, website or address at end of this form)
JIGJAW SINGING FOR DANCING WORKSHOP
Saturday 26th. May 2012
Provisional Timetable
10.45 Registration & coffee; please order lunch at the bar (refreshments not included)
11.00 Warm-up, then Central French bourree and if time a mazurka.
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 American Mountain Square Dance: songs, figures & Appalachian stepping.
15.15 Tea/coffee break
15.30 Familiar UK dances, fun with vocables, nonsense rhyme and feet.
16.45 Finish
N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists
will be sent on request.
JIGJAW: SINGING FOR DANCING WORKSHOP
Saturday 26th. May 2012
BOOKING FORM
I enclose a cheque for £30.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included).
Name:
Address:
No. of tickets for evening performance
(£8 each, include SAE for these):
Saturday 26
8pm
JigJaw at Lewes Saturday Folk Club
JigJaw http://jigjaw.co.uk/about.html (Janet Russell, Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher, Frances Watt) combine the percussion & passion of dance traditions with vocal harmonies in a tight, scintillating quartet of singing & dancing talents. They use step-dancing, social dancing, mouth music, nonsense rhyme & songs from Britain & beyond for a highly distinctive performance, rekindling the links between dancers & singers, songs and dances, performers and audiences.
give us two forty-five minute sets and the rest of the evening is filled by members of the audience doing a song or tune if they wish. Entrance is £8 tonight and everyone is welcome, especially if you'd like to sing or play. We mostly sing and play traditional music from the British Isles, but we enjoy other styles as well. We always start off with some English dance tunes for anyone with an instrument to join in.
We now have a loyalty card. Six visits earn you £5 off an evening when admission is £5 or more
Sunday 27
June
Wednesday 6
8pm
Lewes Skeptics in the Pub - Mark Stevenson
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us – and came back believing we still have everything to play for. His voyage of discovery took him to Boston to visit a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback’s smartest farmer, had his genome profiled, and glimpsed the next stage of human evolution … then he tried to make sense of what’s in store.
The result was An Optimist’s Tour of the Future, which is finding fans from schoolchildren through to Nobel Peace Prize winners. Mark will talk of the future of humanity and how technology will help remedy some of these problems.
Mark combines two careers – one as a successful writer and comedian and as co-founder and director of the cultural learning agency Flow Associates and the science communication agency ReAgency, Roving Learner at The Age of Smart, a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Nibmaster General for the Ministry of Stories.
http://anoptimiststourofthefuture.com/
Saturday 30
10:45am
All-Day Ballad workshop, Lewes Saturday Folk Club
Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 159
ANNE NEILSON & GORDEANNA McCULLOCH
BALLAD WORKSHOP
Places £25
Saturday 30th. June 2012
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m.
Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/
Traditional ballads are the great songs which tell stories, often tragic and heroic, with much mystery and magic.
Gordeanna McCulloch & Anne Neilson were introduced to ballads by Norman Buchan's Ballads Club in the 1960s & have performed & researched them ever since. Both are tutors on the Traditional Music course at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire. Gordeanna sang with the ground-breaking Scottish band The Clutha & currently sings with the Eurydice Choir in Glasgow. Anne is a member of Stramash. Together they run regular superb ballad workshops in Glasgow with source singers from Scotland & beyond. (see http://www.lauriesacousticmusicbar.co.uk/ballad_workshop.htm).
Anne & Gordeanna will introduce us to a less familiar ballad in the morning. You are also invited to bring along at least one traditional ballad of your choice to sing & talk about in the afternoon.
IN THE EVENING ANNE NEILSON & GORDEANNA McCULLOCH
SING AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
(£7: tickets from club, website or address at end of form)
ANNE NEILSON & GORDEANNA McCULLOCH
BALLAD WORKSHOP
Saturday 30th. June 2012
Provisional Timetable
10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch
(Refreshments are not included.)
11.00 Anne & Gordeanna introduce a less familiar ballad for us all to work on:
The Bonny Hind (Child 50).
12.30 Lunch
13.30-16.45 Participants will each be invited to sing a traditional ballad & the group will discuss interesting aspects of it. To avoid clashes, please choose your ballad in advance; if it's already been chosen, we'll let you know & ask you to choose another. If in doubt about whether your song is a true ballad, do ask in advance.
There will be a tea/coffee break at 15.00.
N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists
will be sent on request.
ANNE NEILSON & GORDEANNA McCULLOCH
BALLAD WORKSHOP
Saturday 30th. June 2012
BOOKING FORM
I enclose a cheque for £25.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included).
Name:
Address:
BALLAD CHOSEN:
Telephone:
E-mail address:
No. of tickets for evening performance:
(£7 each, include SAE for these)
Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list:
Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to:
Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2DL
Tel. (01273) 476757
valmaigoodyear@aol.com
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/
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