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Our first newsletter for schools is now online, download a copy or view it right here online.
Some of our headlines…
We’ve tagged this post with education on Wednesday 4 March 2009.
1 year ago
From Meurig Bowen
Music Festival Director
After Goan polyphony in West Kensington one night, it has been mad dashes to Cardiff and London again the next two nights (with rather frazzled office-based days in between).
Lyndon Jones, for many years the BBC producer in Cardiff responsible for the Music Festival’s Radio 3 broadcasts and a member of our advisory committee, invited me and Donna Renney to the first night of Welsh National Opera’s Salome. Rather to my shame, especially as a 50% Welshman, this was my first trip to the Millennium Centre; very glad to have seen and experienced it, and with productions coming up in the 09/10 WNO season such as their acclaimed Wozzeck and Meistersinger with Bryn Terfel, I’m sure I’ll be back soon. Robert Hayward was more than an adequate replacement for a throat-infected Matthew Best as Jokanaan. And given that he apparently stepped in at pretty short notice, I wondered whether the props department had had time to do a personalised head-on-the-silver-platter. Or was it a decapitated Matthew Best we were looking at being cradled at the end by the erotically-demented — and splendidly sung — Salome (Erika Sunnegardh)?
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We’ve tagged this post with Meurig Bowen, music on Wednesday 4 March 2009.
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We are excited to announce that after three hugely successful competitions in 2005, 2006 & 2007 NESTA FameLab is back for 2009! The competition opens today with the launching of our new website — famelab.org.
FameLab is a competition to find the country’s best communicators actively working in science. We are looking for scientists, mathematicians and engineers with a passion for their subject and the talent to communicate it to the public.
FameLab is offering a huge prize pool of £10,000 for the winner and £5,000 for the runner up! Finalists also receive professional training in communication and opportunities to launch their science communication careers. Full details on how to enter the competition and entry criteria are on our website.
If you want to see the FameLab contestants in action and sample the best in new science communication then visit our website to find out where your nearest Regional Final is and make sure that you don’t miss the UK and International FameLab Finals at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
We’ve tagged this post with competition, Famelab, science on Tuesday 3 March 2009.
1 year ago
The Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2009, our 14th Jazz Festival is now on sale.
You can see what’s on or view the brochure, book online or call our box office on 0844 576 8970.
The Jazz Festival runs from 28 April to 4 May 2009.
We’ll see you there!
We’ve tagged this post with jazz on Monday 2 March 2009.
1 year ago
From Meurig Bowen
Music Festival Director
I am not a great devourer of blogs. In fact, the only one I’ve ever got into, the anonymously-penned Belle de Jour, was once it came out as a book — which probably isn’t quite the idea.
Now, charged with generating some of my own blog copy, I can assure any potential readers that it will have nothing of Belle de Jour’s voyeuristic raunch; though if it did, any resulting notoriety would surely cause a welcome torrent of interest in an otherwise obscure classical music communiqué.
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We’ve tagged this post with Meurig Bowen, music on Friday 27 February 2009.
1 year ago
We’re gearing up this week for a couple of Jazz Festival launches.
In Cheltenham on Wednesday we launch our new cross festival membership scheme to an invited audience of regular festival attendees. Our Chief Executive, Donna will outline the scheme which allows those that purchase membership to get a 20% discount on five gigs of their choice.
My role will be to follow Donna with my own selection of artistic picks. This is not that easy as I have ridiculously eclectic tastes. I am undoubtedly the only person attending the event who will be worrying that the Radio 2 Friday Night is Music Night production that focuses on Duke Ellington’s composer collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, will run over and cause me to miss any of that night’s blistering set from the kings of turntable manipulation, the Scratch Perverts.
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We’ve tagged this post with jazz, launch on Wednesday 25 February 2009.
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Tickets for Madeleine Peyroux, appearing at the Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival are now on sale. Visit our event page for full details and an exclusive first listen to ‘Instead’ from Madeleine’s forthcoming album, Bare Bones.
Buy online or call our box office on 0844 576 8970.
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, Madeleine Peyroux on Thursday 19 February 2009.
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Our hugely popular science for schools programme (June 3–5) is on sale from March 11. From pyrotechnics to electrics, from solar power to supersonic cars here are three fantastic days packed with top-quality science events and workshops for Key stage one through to Key stage four.
Events start at only £3.00 per child, and the amazing Discover Zone is free! Last year almost 6,000 pupils and their teachers took part in Science for Schools so why not take a look at our schools programme and start planning your visit now.
We’ve tagged this post with education, schools events, science on Wednesday 18 February 2009.
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Each year the Cheltenham Music Festival offers a limited number of work experience places to highly-motivated and enthusiastic students before, during and after the Festival.
In 2009, this will run from Friday 3 — Saturday 18 July, and volunteer ‘runners’ are required to be with us for two days before and after as well.
The work involved can be demanding — but the long days (and evenings) involve a lot of variety and hugely enjoyable teamwork along the way.
For more information, download the full volunteer placement details or contact robin.purser@cheltenhamfestivals.com.
Application is by covering letter and CV and the deadline for applications is Monday 27 March. Successful applicants will invited to interview which will take place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April, either at Cheltenham Festivals office or by telephone.
We’ve tagged this post with jobs, music, volunteer on Friday 6 February 2009.
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After another record-breaking Literature Festival in 2008, with over 450 authors participating in more than 350 events, attracting an audience of 100,000, we are now looking forward to celebrate The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival’s 60th anniversary with you!
The world’s oldest Literature Festival was founded in 1949 and witnessed many political and cultural changes. We would like to take the opportunity in 2009 not only to talk about the past, but also to look at the future ahead of us. Literature, history, politics, medicine — what got people talking, what events changed the course of history and people’s lives in the past six decades? And what does the future hold?
Join us for another celebration of great literature and poetry, spell-binding storytelling, fascinating talks and discussions and much more — from 9 to 18 October 2009!
We’ve tagged this post with 60th anniversary, literature on Friday 6 February 2009.
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