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A huge thank you to everyone who made this year's festival a massive success!
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2009 FESTIVAL LINE UP
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Monday July 6
SUTTON COLDFIELD TOWN HALL
7.30pm: Sutton Coldfield Philharmonic Society: An Evening of Food & Music from South America to Eastern Europe SOLD OUT
THE GATE INN
8pm: Acoustic night
SUTTON COLDFIELD COLLEGE, DESIGN CENTRE, UPPER HOLLAND ROAD
9am-6pm: Students’ end-of-year exhibition: Art & Design, 3D Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Textiles & Fashion
Tuesday July 7
SUTTON COLDFIELD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
7.30pm: Sutton Coldfield Community Choir - An Evening of Song. Tickets £5 on 0121 353 2632 or on the door
MILLER & CARTER, SUTTON PARK (VIA BOLDMERE GATE)
8.30pm: Dave Aller with Mike Burney – contemporary jazz
THE GATE INN
8pm: Open-mic night with Steve Bird, Phil Brittle, Martin Daly and guests
THE STATION
8pm: Open-mic night with Out Of The Blue and guests
SUTTON COLDFIELD COLLEGE, DESIGN CENTRE, UPPER HOLLAND ROAD
9am-8pm: Students’ end-of-year exhibition: Art & Design, 3D Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Textiles & Fashion
Wednesday July 8
HOLY TRINITY PARISH CHURCH
7pm: Sutton Coldfield College students present The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Tickets £3 (£1.50 concessions) via encore_productions@live.co.uk or on the door
PLANTSBROOK SCHOOL
7pm: Summer concert – choirs, orchestras, bands. £2. Free art exhibition from 3.30pm. 0121 362 7310
THE STATION
8.30pm: Jackpike, English Jones, James & Edwards – an evening of alternative rock and pop
THE GATE INN
8pm: Live music from Freefall
SUTTON COLDFIELD COLLEGE, DESIGN CENTRE, UPPER HOLLAND ROAD
9am-6pm: Students’ end-of-year exhibition: Art & Design, 3D Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Textiles & Fashion
Thursday July 9
HOLY TRINITY PARISH CHURCH
7.30pm: The Acoustic Set – jazz featuring leading UK musicians Ian Palmer (drums), Liam Noble (piano) and Michael Janisch (bass), sponsored by Jimmy Spice’s. Tickets £7 on 0121 321 1144 or in person from the Trinity Centre
ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH, FOLEY ROAD EAST, STREETLY
7.30pm: Three Choirs concert – Sutton Coldfield Chamber Choir, Sutton Coldfield Grammar School For Girls Choir, Sutton Coldfield Girls’ School Gospel Choir. In aid of the Cancer Support Centre, Midland Drive. Tickets £6 (£3 children, £15 family) on 0121 308 6454 or via fundraising@suttoncancersupport.co.uk
THE GATE INN
8pm: Jazz and blues night with Phil Andrews and guests
WISHAW GOLF CLUB, BULLS LANE, WISHAW
8pm: Open-mic night with The Travelling Pilburys and guests. 0121 351 7087
THE STATION
9pm: Acoustic music with Tony Skeggs
SUTTON COLDFIELD COLLEGE, DESIGN CENTRE, UPPER HOLLAND ROAD
9am-12 noon: Students’ end-of-year exhibition: Art & Design, 3D Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Textiles & Fashion
Friday July 10
EMPIRE SUTTON COLDFIELD
6pm: screening of the new film Tormented (15), which was shot in Sutton Coldfield. Tickets £2, to be collected in person from the box office in advance.
Saturday July 11
MAIN STAGE, THE PARADE
Introduced by TV and radio personality Charlie Neil
10am-10.30am: Shilpa’s Bollywood Dancers
10.50am-11.30am: Richard Lloyd Owen & Martin Bissell
11.50am-12.30pm: The Travelling Pilburys
12.50pm-1.30pm: Matt Tyler
1.50pm-2.30pm: Stuart Jones & Guests
2.50pm-3.20pm: Battle Of The Bands – the best of Sutton’s secondary schools
3.40pm-4.20pm: Gemma Shaw
MALL (BISHOPS COURT) ACOUSTIC STAGE
10am-10.40am: Caramany
11am-12 noon: Highbury Youth Theatre
12.15pm-1pm: Sutton Blues Collective
1.15pm-1.45pm: Claret
2pm-2.30pm: Root (Andy Ross and Emily Clark)
2.45pm-3.15pm: The Distillaires
3.30pm-4pm: James & Edwards
MALL, OUTSIDE COSTA
10.30am-11am and 2pm-2.30pm: organ grinder Danny Brain
11.15am-11.45am: Gary Saunders
12 noon-12.30pm: Baker Street
ART MARQUEE, THE PARADE
10am-12 noon: Jules Mitchell - memory art/modern-day scrapbooking
12 noon-2pm: Bharti Patel - mehndi art
2pm-4pm: Sutton Coldfield Society Of Artists - painting demonstration
DANCE MARQUEE, THE PARADE
10am: The Streetly School – musical medley and 60s moves
11am: Salmacis Belly Dancers - Individual and group performances plus a workshop.
12 noon: Rockafellaz - a selection from Sutton Coldfield College's dance festival in June.
1pm: Body Beat School of Dance - street and breakdancing.
2pm: Bright Stars - 13-18 year-olds performing pieces including Phantom of the Opera, Jazz v Street and Contemporary/Lyrical.
3pm: Silhouette Dance Company - Bollywood and classic Indian Bhangra dance, plus workshop.
WATERSTONE’S
10am -12 noon: Staff and students from Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Reading Dickens, a collection of pieces from the author.
12 noon - 2pm: Christine Colloby, signing her novel The Neanderthal Child plus her Sutton Coldfield book. Kym Cooper will sign copies of her book How To Dump Your Boyfriend
STARBUCKS
10.30am-12 noon: Storytelling with Chris Lowe
12 noon-12.30pm: Comedy with Karen Bayley
1.30pm-3pm: Jimmy Frinton – comedy bingo show Barmy Bingo
SUTTON LIBRARY, MEETING ROOM 1
All day: Exhibition by Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society
11am-11.45am: Carte Blanche Trio
12 noon-12.45pm: Sutton Trombone Choir
1pm-1.45pm: Sutton Acoustic Guitar Club
2pm-2.30pm: Stuart Yeadon
3.30pm-4pm: Adam Walker
SUTTON LIBRARY, MEETING ROOM 2
10am-4pm: Sutton Coldfield Creative Stitchers - Exhibition of textile art and demonstration
SUTTON ARTS THEATRE
10.30am-3.30pm: Open day – display of costumes, props and archives, tours, live monologues and readings, incidental live music
SUTTON COLDFIELD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
7.30pm: The New Streetly Youth Orchestra Gala Concert 2009. Popular classics, film soundtracks and musicals.
Tickets £5 (£3 for children)
THE GATE INN
4pm-late: Chameleon, 4 The Krack, Freefall, Four Star Treatment, Gateway, Grammar School, PROM, Rio and Roger Hill
Sunday July 12
SUTTON COLDFIELD TOWN HALL
7.30pm: Sutton Coldfield Orchestra with the Vaughan Singers and Four Oaks Cluster Choir – Music for a British Summer. Tickets £9 (concessions £6, juniors £3) on 0121 464 8990 or via www.suttoncoldfieldtownhall.co.uk
HOLY TRINITY PARISH CHURCH
5.30pm: Songs of Praise
7pm: Concert with Ensemble 1685, directed by Richard Jeffcoat, celebrating Mendelssohn’s bicentenary year. Opera star Richard Lloyd Owen will perform well-loved songs and arias accompanied by Martin Bissell. Tickets £5 on 0121 321 1144.
HIGHBURY THEATRE, SHEFFIELD ROAD, BOLDMERE
4pm: Backdrop Productions presents Little Frankie: A Monster Of A Musical. Tickets £10 on 0121 373 2761 or via www.littlefrankie.co.uk
EMMANUEL CHURCH, LITTLE GREEN LANES, WYLDE GREEN
3pm: Choral Pops – French-themed concert by the Boys, Girls & Men of Emmanuel Choir with instrumental soloists. Tickets £5 on 0121 355 2917
NEW HALL MILL, OFF WYLDE GREEN ROAD, WALMLEY
10am-4pm: Open day, with music at 12 noon by Delta Clarinet Quartet playing Gershwin, Fats Waller and others. Visit www.newhallmill.org.uk; 0121 378 4002
============================================== Sutton Coldfield Festival of Arts is now in its second year the 2009 festival runs from the 6th - 12th July. The festival showcases local talent and arts activities within Sutton Coldfield.
The Festival primarily focuses on:
-Schools, college and community group involvement.
-Local business support – hosting events e.g. theatre, poetry readings, art, music & dance etc.
-The promotion of Sutton Coldfield talent.
-Promotion of Sutton Coldfield as an arts supporting community.
ARTISTS PERFORMING
Meet our patrons and supporters!
Some of Sutton Coldfield’s most famous artistic alumni have lent their support to this year’s event.
Joining Festival patron and ambassador Charlie Neil in celebrating Sutton's talent are former Arthur Terry pupils James and Oliver Phelps - known to many as Fred and George Weasley of Harry Potter fame - as well as acclaimed Sutton screenwriter Steven Wright, whose recent work includes Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things.
Charlie Neil
Popular TV and radio personality Charlie, who lives near Mere Green, kindly agreed to be the patron of the inaugural Festival of Arts and said she thought the event ‘did Sutton proud’.
“It was a great atmosphere and looked like a real community in the town centre,” she said. “I think a lot of places are losing their identity, but things like this make people slow down and congregate.”
This year Charlie, who has worked for Central News, BRMB and the BBC, is keen to continue supporting the Festival in the role of ambassador and will open the Main Stage's activities on July 11.
James and Oliver Phelps
While publicity commitments for the hugely-anticipated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will keep the twins from attending the Festival, James and Oliver have lent their full support to the event.
They said: “Performing Arts have always been popular and well supported in Sutton Coldfield and an Arts Festival to celebrate the talent of the town, both amateur and professional, is a great idea. The chance to try out something new at one of the workshops or just relax listening to the great variety of music means that there is something for everyone. We will be watching the reports of the Festival on Twitter (Suttonart) so hope you will keep us updated.”
Born thirteen minutes apart, the 23-year-old Phelps brothers were interested in acting from an early age and regularly performed in school productions before being chosen to play the mischievous Weasley twins during an open audition in 2000.
Steven Knight
A former student at The Streetly School, Steven Knight’s work has since earned him the London Film Critics Circle award for 2008 British Screenwriter of the Year.
Dirty Pretty Things (2003), a drama about two illegal immigrants living in London, received Oscar and BAFTA nominations in the original screenplay categories.
Meanwhile crime drama Eastern Promises, whose star-studded cast included Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, won the Audience Prize for best film at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
More recently Steven penned the screenplay for upcoming Scorsese film Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
He said he was happy to back this year's Festival, stating: “It’s great to see such an event in my home area and I wish it every success.”
Thanks to our sponsors:
This year's Festival is lining up to be a fantastic event, and we'd like to take a moment to thank the organisations that have made it possible.
Generous donations and support have been received from:
- Sutton Coldfield Constituency
- Lloyds TSB Commercial
- Trinity ward
- Four Oaks ward
- JLP events
- Jimmy Spice's
- Professional Music Technology
- The Mall Sutton Coldfield
- EventMen
- Birmingham City Council
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