artsrichmond events
- Swan Awards Nominations Evening - 8 September 2010
- Swan Awards Gala Evening - 10 October 2010
- Photography Exhibition - 21 October 2010
- Douglas Hurd & James Naughtie - 10 November 2010
- Young Writers Festival - 14 November 2010
- A Conversation - Gavin Esler & Anne Sebba - 21 November 2010
- New Writing Competition - 27 March 2011
Swan Awards Nominations Evening
8 September 2010
Nominees will be presented with their Certificates of Nomination at York House, Twickenham .
Presentations at 7.30 pm by the Deputy Mayor of Richmond upon Thames, Councillor Rita Palmer, followed by a light buffet supper. Please note that this evening is by invitation only to the Swan Awards Nominees
Swan Awards Gala Evening
10 October 2010
Winners of the Swan Awards for Drama and Musicals in 2009-10 will be presented with their 'Swans' by Clive Frances and Liz Crowther
Hampton Hill Playhouse, High Street, Hampton Hill, 7.30 pm Tickets £16.50. For details of how to apply for tickets, please contact 020 8892 9446. Tickets are not available from the Playhouse
Photography Exhibition
21 October 2010
artsrichmonds' biennial photography exhibition at Duke Street Church, Richmond from October 21 - 25th. Closing date for entries: September 30th 2010
Entries are invited: Any Subject, Digital or traditional film-based prints; colour or b & w; up to three prints per entry; Two age categories : under 18 and 18+. All levels of experience welcome. Download the entry form. For details call 020 8876 2822
Douglas Hurd & James Naughtie
10 November 2010
Lord Douglas Hurd , former Cabinet minister and Foreign Secretary will be in conversation with James Naughtie at Duke Street Church, Richmond on November 10th
An artsrichmond Books for Our Time event with
the Richmond upon Thames Literature Festival
Tickets £9 (£8 concessions) from artsrichmond - cheque and SAE please or via our website £10/£9 (includes transaction and postage fees of £1.00)
Lord Hurd has been Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. Well known as a writer of such political thrillers as The Shape of Ice (1998) Image in the Water (2001), he has also written his own memoirs, an acclaimed biography of Peel and most recently, with Edward Young, the fascinating and elegant Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary: Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities (2010).
('Douglas Hurd has done the impossible...he has produced a page-turning book about the history of British foreign policy.' -- Denis MacShane The Independent).
James Naughtie is a renowned BBC presenter and author of The Rivals:The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage.
Young Writers Festival
14 November 2010
The culmination of the 2010 Young Writers' Festival
At the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond at 3 pm. Details and invitations to follow in September
A Conversation - Gavin Esler & Anne Sebba
21 November 2010
An artsrichmond book buffet and conversation. Gavin Esler and Anne Sebba speaking at the Orange Tree Theatre , preceded by a buffet lunch at Thai Square Restaurant, Richmond from 12.30 pm
Tickets £25 including lunch, or £12.50 for conversation only. Tickets from the Orange Tree Theatre only - box office tel 020 8940 3633 or visit www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk
Part of the Richmond upon Thames Literature Festival
Gavin Esler, an author and award winning journalist, is currently a presenter on the BBC news and current affairs programme, Newsnight and a former BBC Chief North America correspondent.
Besides his vivid depiction of the U.S.A in The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream he has also written five novels. Power Play, his latest is a spectacular thriller in which the US Vice President goes missing on British soil threatening the “special relationship. (This is politics on both sides of the Atlantic, served up with élan, cynicism and style’ Daily Mail.).
Anne Sebba is a biographer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent. She has written eight books and is currently working on a biography of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.
New Writing Competition
27 March 2011
artsrichmond will be staging a ONE-DAY Drama Festival for New Writing at the Orange Tree Theatre on the last Sunday in March 2011
Groups wanting to take part should return the entry form (at the bottom of this page) indicating their interest as soon as possible.
Groups may perform a play that has been written within their group, or may perform an unpublished play written by an outside playwright; so if your group is interested in performing an unknown play, please indicate this.
The competition rules are:
1. Play to be unpublished
2. Length of play should be MAX. 20 minutes
3. Play must be suitable to be performed “in the round”
4. The play should be designed to need MINIMAL SET requirements
5. The play should be for no more than 12 performers
6. Plays must include spoken dialogue and a written script must be submitted to the adjudicator.
All participating groups will awarded a certificate as a record of their performance at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. The overall winner, as decided by our panel of judges, will be presented with the Roy Purdue Trophy (which can be held for two years and will be inscribed) and the opportunity to participate in a Writing Workshop at the Soho Theatre.
Please return asap to: artsrichmond or email to info@artsrichmond.org.uk
We would like to take part in the artsrichmond New Writing Drama Festival in March 2011.
We have our OWN PLAY / WOULD LIKE TO PERFORM A NEW PLAY (delete as appropriate).
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