News
10 October 2011
Event Cancellations
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the following festival events have been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
1 -31 October 2011
Arts Alive Photographic Competition, Leatherhead Theatre
Saturday 15 October 2011
Kymaera, Charlwood Parish Hall
Friday 21 October 2011
Dorking U3A Singers present Songs You Love to Hear, Christian Centre, Dorking
Saturday 22 October 2011
Music and the Music, Leatherhead Parish Church, Leatherhead
10 October 2011
Festival of Foreign Photos
Leatherhead Theatre
This exhibition has been extended until the end of October. The Festival of Foreign Photos is running in conjunction with the Theatre's Festival of Foreign Films and features photos of Italy, France and Spain by local photographers Gareth Dancer and Sheila Francis. Come and re-live holiday memories or be inspired by the colours and countryside of these Mediterranean places. For more information visit www.the-theatre.org/exhibitions and www.garethdancerphotography.com
4 October 2011
Street Party Success on Saturday 1 October
Let the Celebrations Commence!
Mole Valley’s Arts Alive Festival 2011 officially opened on Saturday 1 October with street parties in Dorking and Leatherhead town centres from 10.00am until 4.00pm. The event generated a feel-good atmosphere in both town centres, when local musicians, artists, art groups, actors, dancers and festival goers joined together to start the street party with a bang.
Throughout the day there were performances by many local arts groups including Charlwood clog dancers Anocalpyse Now, Bloco Do Sul, Dorking Folk Club, Phœnix Creative Arts, LeRoc, Pandemonium, Mole Valley Silver Band, Loud & Proud Community Choir, the Blue Academy of Performing Arts and many more!
The Making Surrey craft development project and members of Leatherhead Community Garden took over an empty shop on Leatherhead High Street and offered wood carving demonstrations and a display. Dorking Camera Club displayed their photographs in a shop in St Martins Walk.
4 October 2011
Music Workshop at St Johns C or E Community School
The Dorking Concertgoers Society arranged a series of music workshops for year 5 and 6 pupils at St Johns C or E School in Dorking. The workshops were led by Patrick Bailey, Education and Community Director at the London Philharmonic Orchestra and featured the orchestra’s principal harpist Rachel Masters and viola player Laura Vallejo.
Pupils took part in a variety of song-writing and performance workshops based on the 19th Century composer’s Liszt’s Symphonic Poem Prometheus. The pupils are working towards a special performance at Dorking Halls on Saturday 8 October at 6.45pm which precedes a performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. As well as a performance of Prometheus, the orchestra will perform Bruch’s popular Violin Concerto No.1 with soloist Chloë Hanslip and Brahm’s Symphony No. 2.
Tickets range from £12 to £27 and concessions are available. Please contact Dorking Halls Box office on 01306 881 717 or visit www.dorkingconcertgoers.org.uk for further details.
23 September 2011
Mole Valley’s Arts Alive Festival 2011
Street Party on Saturday 1 October
Let the Celebrations Commence!
Mole Valley’s Arts Alive Festival 2011 officially opens on Saturday 1 October with street parties in Dorking and Leatherhead town centres. From 10.00am until 4.00pm both town centres will be filled with an air of excitement when musicians, artists, art groups, actors and festival goers join together to start the street party with a bang.
Throughout the day there will be performances by many local artists and art groups including the Appalachian Clog Dance Group, Bloco Do Sul, Dorking Folk Club, Phoenix Creative Arts, singers from Loud & Proud Community Choir, Pantastic, Mole Valley Silver Band, the Woodfield Entertainers and more!
If that isn’t enough to make you feel artistically inspired, Dorking Group of Artists will be setting up their easels in the streets of Dorking and there will be face painting and street entertainers. The day is guaranteed to leave you eagerly awaiting October’s endless supply of over 100 dance, music, drama, arts and crafts events in Mole Valley.
16 September 20100
Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival Launch
Let the Celebration’s Commence!
This year’s festival participants, committee members, sponsors and press all joined together to celebrate the launch of the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival 2011.
The evening took place on Wednesday 14 September at The Menuhin Hall in Stoke d’Abernon from 6.30pm until 9.00pm, with over 70 guests arriving to mark the occasion. Entertainment for the evening was provided by pupils from the Yehudi Menuhin School and local guitarist Shane Hill. Festival patron, BBC TV News Presenter and local resident Nicholas Owen was also on hand to say a few inspiring words about the diversity of this year’s programme.
It was a hugely successful evening and all involved departed with an air of excitement and anticipation for the coming festival.
Arts Alive 2011 will officially open to the public on Saturday 1 October with festivities in Dorking and Leatherhead town centres. From 10.00am until 4.00pm artists, art groups and festival goers are invited to gather together to start the celebrations with a bang. The festival continues throughout the month of October with an eclectic mix of over one hundred art, craft and entertainment events at various venues across the district. For full listings and information on how to book visit www.arts-alive.co.uk. Brochures are now available to collect from local libraries, The Leatherhead Helpshop, Dorking Halls and The Leatherhead Theatre or by telephoning 01306 879185.
2 September 2011
Calling all Budding Filmmakers!
Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) is asking budding filmmakers to submit short films for Made in Mole Valley, a project centred around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games which celebrates the district’s culture and heritage.
The project is being launched as part of the 2011 Arts Alive Festival. The films should last 3-5 minutes, have an Olympic-inspired theme and feature Mole Valley. They might highlight local culture, be it history, landmarks, arts events, local artists, nature or sport. The films could be fictional, documentary-style, an animation or a music video. They could have a narrative or be experimental. They can also be filmed in a variety of mediums, such as on mobile phones, digital cameras, webcams, camcorders or professional film equipment.
A panel of judges will select the best films, which will be featured on MVDC’s website www.molevalley.gov.uk and other websites. Films may be submitted from 1 October 2011 to 31 May 2012. For more information and terms and conditions, visit www.molevalley.gov.uk or email arts@molevalley.gov.uk.
10 August 2011
Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival 2011
Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) is delighted to announce the return of Arts Alive for the fifteenth year. Throughout October more than 100 art, craft and entertainment events for all tastes will take place in Mole Valley’s towns and villages.
Arts Alive officially opens on Saturday 1 October with street parties in Dorking and Leatherhead town centres from 10.00am to 4.00pm. Musicians, artists, actors, art groups and festival goers will join together to start the celebrations with a bang.
This year’s festival patron is journalist, BBC TV News presenter and gifted speaker Nicholas Owen. The Surrey resident began his hugely successful career on the Surrey Mirror, before moving to Fleet Street, onwards to ITN and then the BBC.
A variety of fun-filled workshops will take place across the District. You can learn how to design and create a colourful felt bag at The Bungalow in Buckland; or, have a go at spinning, weaving, braiding and beading textiles at Headley Village Hall. Alternatively, stretch your vocal chords at a light-hearted Simply Singing workshop hosted by Leatherhead Choral Society at Leatherhead Methodist Church.
If comedy is your thing, catch Stephen K Amos at Dorking Halls and enjoy his unique brand of melt in the middle, heartfelt humour. He’ll be followed by master of observational comedy and star of Mock the Week Ed Byrne with his new show Crowd Pleaser.
Don’t miss world-class guitarists John Williams and John Etheridge at The Yehudi Menuhin School in Stoke d’Abernon performing their own compositions and joining together for a specially commissioned piece by British composer Paul Hart.
Children aged 7-13 will love the West End Musical Theatre Workshop at The Hut in Wescott, lead by professional tutors from Pheonix Creative Arts. Plus, the always-popular Family Drawing Workshop is returning to Charlwood Parish Hall. Learn how to create 3D coloured drawings that look like they are moving.