Welcome to the first showing of the film clubs for 2012.  February's film has kindly been chosen by John and is TRACKER 2010 action/adventure/drama starring Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison and Gareth Reeves.  Rated 12A 102 mins Storyline: An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When f...

Welcome to the first meeting of 2012 for the Wednesday Film Club.  February's film  has been chosen by Marion and is The Concert  2009 comedy/drama/music, rated 15 119 mins and starring Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Dmitri Nazarov Storyline Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris in...

This ten part course explores the skills, knowledge and techniques that are central to the art of Performance Poetry.   It is held on alternate Monday evenings commencing 13th Feb then Feb 27th, March 12th and 26th, April 9th and 23rd, May 21st, June 4th, 18th and 25th,  7.30pm - 10pm.   The themes examined during the course include: the differences between page poetry and performance poetry, evolving a set of performance poetry, the role of humour within perfo...

We are pleased to welcome two Russian  musicians to the Blue Walnut for the first time.  Julia Morozova on violin and Ekaterina (Kate) Kosova on piano will be treating us to a recital of  classical pieces favouring Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Shnitke and Rachmaninov.  Julia and Kate are both from the Russian city of Tula, situated about 200km south of Moscow.  They went to the same school, and then met again at the Dargomizski college of arts in Tula, whe...

Since the well publicised break up of Waking the Witch, Patsy Matheson and Becky Mills have continued to delight audiences throughout the UK - Patsy as half of a duo with the legendary Clive Gregson and Becky singing alongside Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span) and Ashley Hutchins (Fairport Convention).  Now these 2 respected musicians have joined forces resulting in a unique and personal sound drawing on roots in traditional and contemporary folk, acoustic blues , R & B, jazz and rock, with an ...

Writer, poet, enemy of all that’s difficult & upsetting, Matt’s way withwords has taken him from Totnes to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships viaSaturday Live, the Edinburgh Festival & the Work section of the Guardian. Heis host of Wondermentalist – Radio 4’s comedy-infused, musically enhancedinteractive poetry cabaret – & author of The Hole in the Sum of myParts (Poetry Trust) & Where Earwigs Dare(Green Books). www.mattharvey.co.uk Tickets £4.50 - booking is recommended as likel...

Kent DuChaine started in music when his father taught him to play the ukulele at the age of six, at thirteen he got his first electric guitar and formed a band with his buddies in his hometown of Wayzata, Minnesota, playing mainly popular music at private parties and school functions. After reading some liner notes of an Eric Clapton album Kent started researching blues music. He discovered a Robert Johnson album and was astounded and fascinated at the banging sound as the bottle neck knocked ...

 Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne JINSKI are two highly individual guitarists/musicians with strong distinctive voices. JINSKI have a wealth of great original songs that draw upon acoustic roots and country music whilst remaining resolutely modern. JINSKI play songs that tell stories of love, joy, loneliness and longing. Intricate, soulful, beautiful songs, foot stomping, sing-a-long, raucous songs; music for the head and the heart, full of passion and originality. performing on their own or wi...