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Welcome to our latest edition of our NAAC e-alert.
NAAC is looking for sponsorships/donations inorder to carry on with the running of our Music and Dance classes. If you can or know of any businesses/individuals who can help us, then please get in touch with NAAC.
The wedding of the year is here as Orpheus, a musician of mythical power, marries graceful Eurydice. When the newlyweds’ joy is shattered by the sudden death of Eurydice, our heartbroken hero sets off on a mission to the underworld to rescue his bride, certain that his love will overcome all adversity. Can Orpheus conquer fate, or will his heart be broken for a second time?
This adventurous new production of an ancient tragedy is told through a meeting of the worlds of Indian and western baroque classical music. The bowed strings of the violin and the tar shehnai, the hammered strings of the santoor, the plucked strings of the harpsichord and sitar and the rhythms of the tabla shape a unique and beautiful musical encounter between East and West.
Music Directors Jasdeep Singh Degun and Laurence Cummings weave together their respective traditions of Indian classical and western early music, joined by an exciting cast including Ashnaa Sasikaran and Nicholas Watts.
The Theatre Royal have kindly set up a discount code offering £20 tickets on the Stalls and Upper Circle for NAAC members. Bookers looking to use this discount will need to use the promocode ORPHEUSOFFER, and this will allow them to access the discounted seats: https://tickets.trch.co.uk/overview/148271?promo=ORPHEUSOFFER
Formations: Shivanee Ramlochan on 15 and 16 November
Formations proudly presents two events with Shivanee Ramlochan, organised by Thomas Lockwood-Moran:
BIO: Shivanee Ramlochan is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, critic, and essayist, whose first poetry collection, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (2017), was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize. Ramlochan’s next work, the creative non-fiction Unkillable, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in Autumn 2023. Shivanee is the Book Reviews Editor for Caribbean Beat Magazine and works closely with Bocas Lit Fest, the Caribbean’s largest literary festival.
To correspond with Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary all are warmly invited to Channelling Queer Depths: An Evening with Poet Shivanee Ramlochan. Shivanee will give readings from her ground-breaking collection Everyone Knows I am a Haunting (2017), followed by a conversation with PhD queer literary researcher, Tom Lockwood-Moran. A particular point of interest will be Shivanee’s upcoming work of creative non-fiction, Unkillable (2023) how a writer channels their queer self through dangerous, unorthodox and taboo subjects. This event will explore how and why poetry chisels beneath the world’s surface to expose queer depths, particularly informed by Shivanee’s experience of Trinidadian cultures and subcultures.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Free. Booking required. We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event. This event is partnered with the Formations programme at Bonington Gallery and their free workshop Writing Your Truth with Radical Honesty with Shivanee on Wednesday 16November.
ACCESS
Find information about getting here and our building access and facilities here.
There are no audio descriptions for this event.
If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing [email protected] or phoning 0115 948 9750.
What truths are your poems telling? If not for the reality of your poems, what truths would never be spoken at all? In Poetry as Ferocity Workshop: Writing Your Truth with Radical Honesty, we’ll chart a course for radical honesty in verse, seeking to grow stronger roots for your poems to anchor themselves.
Focusing on work by female Caribbean poets Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné and Safiya Sinclair, we draw on their powerful subversion in writing. Using innovative exercises, we unlock the most potent ways to tell the truth our poems require.
Poets have always been political agitators, defenders of the right to wield uncomfortable truths. What truths do you bring to the table, ready and roaring to be told?
NOTE: This workshop is open to people aged 18 and over. This workshop involves discussion of potentially triggering content and strong language.
Sneak a peek: An opportunity to explore some of the reserve collections of Nottingham City Museums & Galleries
The team at Nottingham City Museums have been working on improving accessibility to collections across the service and we would love to welcome you to see the progress so far, at our off site store in the Bobbers Mill area of the city. Tours will take place on Thursday 15th December at 10.30am or 2.00pm. Exact details of the store location will be issued on booking. Please contact Ann, the Curator of Human History, at [email protected] if you would like to be included. The tours are currently free, whilst they are in the development stage. They are limited to 15 visitors per session and will take between an hour, to an hour and a half to complete. A bus stop and the tram route are conveniently located for those using public transport and there is parking available for those coming by car.
The collections on show will include local history, local industry, archaeology and social history but also, for these tours, a number of objects from the South Asian section of the World Cultures Collections, will additionally be available to look at. Highlights include, items from our Designated lace machinery collections, parts of the Raleigh bicycle collections, an intriguing Tudor doorway from King John’s Palace in Nottingham and a seventeenth century wooden arcade which once stood at 27 Long Row, Nottingham and is now re-erected in the store.
We would love to involve you in future projects around the World Cultures Collections, so do contact us if this is of interest, even if you are unable to attend either of the tours. No prior experience of cultural heritage is required.
We look forward to welcoming you to explore and be inspired by the objects in our care and being inspired by you in return.
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