Winter 2010 - Shipshape Magazine Bristol

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richard ii
Shakespeare at the Tobacco
Factory celebrates its 12th
season with a brace of
plays – ‘Richard II’ and ‘The
Comedy of Errors’. Running
from Thursday 10 February until
Saturday 19 March, ‘Richard
II’ is Shakespeare’s theatrical
account of the eponymous
king’s last days after he takes
the disastrous decision to exile
his cousin Henry Bullingbrook
and seize his Lancastrian
estates. Bullingbrook returns to
England, overthrows Richard
and takes the throne for himself
as Henry IV, setting the stage
for the bloody Wars of the
Roses. We’ll be previewing
‘The Comedy of Errors’ in the
spring issue.
More: sattf.org.uk
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all about us
Launching in March, All
About Us is At-Bristol’s new
£1.5million permanent
exhibition. As the name
suggests, it’s a veritable
celebration of the human body
and how it works. There’ll
be more than 50 new or
siginifantly improved hands-on
science exhibits – including real
body parts, for your little CSI in
the making. Hear music through
the vibrations of the bones in
your jaw, look at your veins
under infrared lights, watch
food run through a skeleton’s
body, see your own blood cells
move through the capillaries of
your eye, and much more!
More: at-bristol.org.uk
visit
Breuer in Bristol
You’ve only got until Christmas Eve to see the
Architecture Centre’s fascinating exhibition about
one of Bristol’s most unlikely friendships. Breuer
in Bristol is the story of the partnership between
Bauhaus master Marcel Breuer and Crofton Gane,
Bristol furniture manufacturer, which resulted in one
of the most important examples of early Modernist
architecture: The Gane Pavilion 1936 (pictured).
The exhibition will reveal the reasons behind
laugh
Bristol’s Slapstick
Silent Comedy Gala
Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd: all the
greats are present and correct at the seventh annual Slapstick Silent Comedy
Gala, taking place on Friday 28 January at Colston Hall (£16-£20). Special
guest hosts Barry Cryer, Ian Lavender and Bill Oddie will be introducing
four classic short films, including Buster Keaton’s ‘Neighbors’ (1920)
and Charlie Chaplin’s ‘One A.M.’ (1916), and each of the shorts will be
accompanied live by either the European Silent Screen Virtuosi or 25-piece
youth big band Jazz Train. There’ll also be special guest vocal performances
from Neil Innes (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) and Paul McGann (pictured).
The night forms part of Bristol’s Slapstick Festival.
More: colstonhall.org
Bristol’s dalliance with Modernism at a time
when the Arts and Crafts movement was the
driving force in design. Find rare archive images,
artefacts, Breuer-designed and Gane-manufactured
furniture, and a specially made model of the Gane
Pavilion. You can also hear what Bristol’s residents
thought about this key moment in the city’s history.
More: Architecture Centre, until 24 Dec, architecturecentre.co.uk
Impress your peers with your new-found knowledge of
art – What Is… Contemporary Art? A Beginners Guide,
Arnolfini, Sat 26-Sun 27 Feb, 2-5pm (£20/£15)
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Gane’s Pavilion, Bristol , England , ca. 1936 / Courtesy of the
Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986, AAA, Smithsonian Institution