Autumn 12 - Cultural Quarterly

Cultural Quarterly 

Autumn 2012 

Collective Observations 

Snared 

Coastal Currents

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4 Traditions in Flux 

CQ talks to Simon Costin, 

founder of the Museum of 

British Folklore and curator of 

Towner’s newest exhibition. 

6 Snared by Conservation 

CQ speaks to Snared director 

Tim Marriott about the A level 

project turned play. 

8 Coastal Celebration 

Coastal Currents director Sara 

Yates tells CQ what to expect 

from this year’s festival. 

10 Irreplaceable Legacy 

CQ asks Lucinda Dickens 

Hawksley about the 200th 

anniversary of Dickens’ birth. 

12 From Beachy Head 

OpenArt chair Maureen Honey 

tells CQ about the festival’s 

musical commission. 

14 A Different Story 

Small Wonder carries the torch 

for the short story. 

16 Unconventional 

Thoughts 

CQ speaks to artist Jo Welsh 

about the Hastings Arts 

Forum’s surrealist exhibition. 


Autumn 2012 

Contents 

ISSN 1757-1138 


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18 Warming Up Together 

CQ finds out more about jazz 

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for Chiddingly Festival. 

20 A Big Secret 

CQ asks Duncan Adams about 

St Wilfrid Hospice’s big secret. 

22 In The Right Place 

Alexandra Silocea talks to CQ 

about her appearance with the 

London Philharmonic Orchestra. 

24 Aiming High 

CQ finds out more about the 

Nicholas Yonge Society’s new 

season of chamber music. 

27 Light Space 

CQ talks to artist Christine 

Chester about new teaching 

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28 Eastbourne Presents… 

Information on this season’s 

events in Eastbourne. 

30 Presenting For 

Your Enjoyment… 

A roundup of amateur 

dramatic productions 

in Eastbourne. 

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Traditions in Flux 

CQ talks to Simon Costin about curating an exhibition at Towner 

that documents Britain’s seasonal traditions from photography’s 

infancy to the proliferation of images to be found online. 

Collective Observations: 

Folklore & Photography 

From Benjamin Stone To 

Flickr on October 13–January 

6 at Towner is curated by 

Simon Costin, art director of 

the Museum of British 

Folklore, which is currently 

producing a two year 

exhibition programme in 

conjunction with regional art 

organisations across the UK 

giving audiences a taste of 

what will be on show when 

the museum is established in 

a permanent home. 

Simon founded the Museum 

of British Folklore in 2009 to 

show that our folklore 

traditions are just as alive and 

relevant to people today as they 

were a few hundred years ago. 

He said: “It had always been 

a dream of mine that one day I 

would try to establish a 

museum that explored and 

celebrated the indigenous folk 

culture of the British Isles. It 

would be a fusion of many 

strands of my work, from set 

design, art direction, interior 

design and the conceptualising 

of ideas, to my personal 

passions and interests in the 

British landscape and it’s 

seasonal rites and customs. 

“There are approximately 

730 recorded annual events, 

rites and customs taking place 

in the UK every year. Times 

change and the meanings may 

not be the same, but the music 

and the customs go on with 

new relevance.” 

The museum holds a variety 

of items, ranging from corn 

dollies and fireworks to 

costumes, books and 

photographs. However, it’s not 

always easy to find artefacts 

that represent our folk heritage. 

Simon said: “Costumes are 

worn until they fall apart, 

figures, like the Jack from 

Hastings’ May Day Jack-in-the- 

Green, are destroyed at the end 

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of the festival. Hobbyhorses 

and the like are used and 

repaired. Barrels and effigies 

are burned and cheeses are 

rolled and eaten. One of our 

challenges is how best to 

represent something which is in 

a constant state of flux.” 

Photography has provided 

one of the most enduring records 

of our seasonal customs, and the 

exhibition will include work by 

Sir Benjamin Stone, who 

established the National 

Photographic Record 

Association, Doc Rowe, Matthew 

Cowan and Tom Chick. 

Simon said: “Due to the 

ephemeral nature of our 

seasonal customs, photography 

has provided one of the most 

enduring records we have. 

Stone’s work is immensely 

important and, in some cases, 

very comprehensive. He would 

record an entire day’s events by 

getting everyone to stop what 

they were doing and pose for 

Above) 

The exhibition will include 

two short films by Tom Chick.

Collective Observations: 

Folklore & Photography 

From Benjamin Stone 

To Flickr 

Towner 

October 13–January 6 

www.townereastbourne.org.uk 

(Right) 

Tutti Men in Hungerford. 

the camera before allowing 

them to continue. The images 

carry the same static quality of 

pictures of the time due to the 

length of exposure needed, but 

what makes them so unusual is 

the range of activities being 

undertaken. 

“Children stood eerily hand in 

hand around an unlit bonfire, 

figures carried aloft at the Corby 

Pole Fair, dozens of solemn faced 

children clutching extremely long 

sticks about to beat the bounds at 

the Tower of London – people 

involved in extraordinary acts, 

some of which had been going 

on for hundreds of years. Stone 

ensured that we now have a 

unique legacy from the turn of 

the century, a time when many 

customs were still being practised 

that would later die out. 

“In the early 1960s, Doc Rowe 

began what was to grow into a 

lifetime’s work when he started 

to look at the Padstow May Day 

custom. We will include some of 

his images, as well as film 

footage shot recently in Padstow. 

“Another person who has been 

documenting the characters 

involved is Henry Bourne. His 

approach radically differs from 

Doc’s though, as he chooses to 

isolate the individuals against a 

white backdrop, removing them 

from their context. 

“We have then brought 

everything up to date by 

including the work of young 

photographers, such as Sara 

Traditions in Flux 

Hannant, Faye Clariage and 

David Ellison, and the film and 

sculptures of Matthew Cowan. 

We are delighted to be able to 

show two beautiful short films 

by Tom Chick based on British 

folk tales too. 

“And visitors will be able to 

view the proliferation of images 

that get uploaded daily onto the 

Flickr website. I’m sure that, 

had Benjamin Stone been alive 

today, he would be making full 

use of sites such as these.” 

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Snared by Conservation 

CQ speaks to Tim Marriott, director of Snared, which began life 

as an A level drama project and explores the issues around 

animal conservation and poaching in Africa. 

When 17-year-old 

Eastbourne College students 

Alex Mackwood and Oceane 

Slipper were given the task 

of devising an issue based 

drama as an A level drama 

project, they were inspired 

by a visit from 

conservationist Dr Cheryl 

Mvula and her husband 

Manny, a former safari guide 

in Zambia. 

Eastbourne College’s 

director of drama Tim Marriott 

was so impressed by the 

resulting piece that he thought 

it worthy of developing into a 

full length play, and South 

African writer Floyd Toulet, 

who left his country to escape 

apartheid, was asked to develop 

the script. The resulting play 

Snared, at the Under Ground 

Theatre on September 20–22, 

will be presented as live action 

fused with filmed footage and 

authentic testimony. 

Tim, who will direct the play, 

said: “The cast handed over the 

project to Floyd Toulet and 

Manny Mvula, whose personal 

experience of working with 

anti-poaching units in Zambia 

was invaluable and intends to 

play himself in the production.” 

Manny Mvula is both one of 

Africa’s top safari guides and a 

lecturer in animal management 

at Hadlow College. He 

regularly makes trips back to 

Zambia to work on wildlife 

conservation and community 

development projects in the 

Luangwa Valley. 

His wife Cheryl, who works 

for the Aspinall Foundation, 

also runs her own responsible 

tourism consultancy Tribal 

Voice Communications and cofounded 

the High Five Club, a 

poverty alleviation charity, with 

her husband. She spends much 

of her time in Africa working 

with local communities, 

conservation organisations and 

tourism businesses to harness 


the power of tourism for 

wildlife conservation and 

sustainable local development. 

Tim said: “Dr Cheryl Mvula, 

who works on poverty 

alleviation and wildlife projects 

for the Born Free Foundation, 

is very excited about the project 

and has engaged the foundation 

to help authenticate the script 

and source film footage of 

poaching and snaring in Africa. 

Dr Mvula will be following the 

Saturday performance at the 

Under Ground Theatre with a 

talk on the work of Born Free 

and the High Five Club. 

“Matt Derbyshire of 

Smokescreen Visuals has come 

onboard to create filmed 

sequences and source wildlife 

footage to set the stage play in 

context. We’re hoping to tour 

the show nationally in 2013 

with the aim of highlighting 

the tragic pressures that 

economic need and population 

expansion place on wildlife.” 

Snared 

Under Ground Theatre 

September 20–22 

www.highfiveclub.co.uk 

(Above) 

Snared will fuse live action 

with film and testimony.

Coastal Celebration 

CQ talks to Coastal Currents director Sarah Yates about what 

visitors to Hastings can expect from this year’s festival. 

Coastal Currents arts festival in 

Hastings on September 8–23 

aims to showcase local talent 

and inspire more people to 

create and present their work 

to a wider audience. 

Sarah Yates, director of 

Coastal Currents, said: “We’re 

also hoping to enable our 

audiences to look at their 

town and surroundings with a 

new pair of eyes and perhaps to 

fall in love with it again or 

reflect upon the forgotten.” 

Coastal Currents was created 

by Hastings Borough Council 

thirteen years ago and has been 

managed by Creative Coast Ltd 

on behalf of the council since 

2009. The festival covers 

Hastings, St Leonards on sea 

and Rother. 

Sarah said: “This year, 

Hastings has seen the opening 

of the Jerwood Gallery in the 

heart of the old town, and the 

strength of the visual arts scene 

in the area has risen 

considerably over the years. 

Coastal Currents’ ethos has 

tried to reflect local and regional 

artistic talent, creating a diverse 

event that is suitable for the all 

the community to enjoy.” 

Local artists from the region 

present and sell their work in a 

wide range of media in Open 

Studios, traditionally a large 

part of the festival. Other 

events range from outdoor 

performances, live art, 

workshops, installations, film, 

site-specific work and artist and 

professional development talks. 

Sarah said: “Most of the artists 

and organisers come from the 

local area; however, there are also 

artists from different parts of the 

country and international 

accents. This year, our artist in 

residence will be Strange Cargo, a 

Folkestone based group 

specialising in delivering highquality 

participatory arts projects. 

Strange Cargo will be working 

with the local community to 


create a permanent sculpture in 

St Leonards on sea. 

“Brighton’s famous Karavan 

Ensemble will present their sitespecific 

adaptation of Anima, a 

beautiful piece reworked 

especially for the festival in 

collaboration with local artist 

Yumino Seki. Polish artist Marcin 

Dudek will dramatically 

transform Stade Project Space 

with his installation Exico Vol 2, 

and London based Kate Murdoch 

is bringing 10x10, a “comment on 

humanity” exhibition that is also 

an object exchange ritual. Telling 

Stories returns with a touring 

exhibition by artists from 

Hastings and Margate as well. 

“There is also the special 

commission The Seaside Hotel, a 

collaborative project from local 

artists Sharon Hyward and 

Miranda Sharp and Greek artist 

Marina Tsartsara. Just for one day, 

these three artists will transform 

St Mary in the Castle with video 

installations and performance.” 

Coastal Currents 

Hastings 


coastalcurrents.org.uk 

(Above) 

Events range from outdoor 

performances and live art to 

workshops, installations, 

film and talks.

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Irreplaceable Legacy 

CQ talks to Lucinda Dickens Hawksley about the 200th anniversary of her 

great great great grandfather’s birth and the legacy of Charles Dickens. 

As events across the world 

throughout 2012 

commemorate the incredible 

life’s work of Charles Dickens, 

one of the most respected, 

thought provoking and 

insightful authors of any time, 

his great great great 

granddaughter Lucinda 

Dickens Hawksley will talk 

about the Dickens legacy and 

why he is still such an inspiring 

read during her own tribute to 

Dickens on November 1 at the 

Birley Centre. 

Lucinda said: “I remember 

being at primary school and a 

teacher asking the class if 

anyone knew who Dickens 

was. I wanted to ask, ‘how do 

you know who Dickens was?’ I 

was stunned other people knew 

who he was.” 

Lucinda has always loved 

Victorian literature, so reading 

one of the most celebrated 

authors of that time was a 

given, although she admits 

having Dickens as her great 

great great grandfather may 

have persuaded her to start 

earlier than most. 

She said: “I love his writing. 

Dickensian characters so often 

remind us of people we know. 

Michael McIntyre’s observational 

comedy is so reminiscent of what 

Dickens did, creating a caricature 

of real people.” 

As an accomplished author, 

award-winning travel writer and 

public speaker, Lucinda shares 

many skills with Dickens. But 

she is the first to admit that 

following in her ancestor’s 

footsteps can be daunting at 

times and often inevitable. 

She said: “I have always loved 

books and I look at my niece 

and she is the same. Acting was 

another great love of Dickens 

and it surprises me how many 

in the family are actors. It’s 

obviously another family trait. 

“When I first felt the urge to 

write, I was actually inspired by 


Roald Dahl rather than 

Dickens. It was daunting, and 

still can be, as it’s a lot to live up 

to. But it has been helpful as 

well as a hindrance. The family 

connection definitely helps 

with public speaking.” 

In his commemorative year, 

Lucinda has put her interest in 

her family history to good use 

with the launch of her latest 

book Charles Dickens – The 

Definitive Illustrated Guide To 

The Man And His Work, which 

includes facsimiles of letters, 

manuscripts and family 

photographs, as well as an 

intimate look at his personal 

life and his vast legacy. 

In November, Lucinda will 

talk about how Dickens’ career 

as a journalist, a position he 

maintained his entire adult life, 

as well as writing a huge list of 

novels and novellas, publishing 

his autobiography, editing 

weekly periodicals, writing 

travel books, administering 

(Above) 

The Haunting is based on 

Dickens’ ghost stories. 

(Right) 

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley.

The Haunting 


October 1–6 

www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk 

Celebrating 200 Years Of 

Charles Dickens 

Birley Centre 

November 1 

www.friendsofthetowner.org.uk 

What The Dickens 

Eastbourne College Theatre 

November 14 

eastbourne-college.co.uk/TheArts 

charitable organisations and 

speaking in public on social 

matters, including visiting 

America to speak out against 

slavery, displays the man’s 

inexhaustible energy. It also 

highlights why he is still striking 

a chord on so many levels. 

Lucinda said: “Dickens 

remained a journalist until the 

day he died, writing hundreds 

upon hundreds of articles, most 

of which are on raving issues of 

the day. He never forgot his 

radical politics. He was always 

on the side of the workers, 

championing the underdog. 

“He was, and still is, so 

popular across the world. His 

personality based characters 

and their daily struggles are all 

still relevant today.” 

It was his socialist views and 

documented social reforms that 

made him such a prolific figure 

in Victorian England. For the 

same reasons, he is striking a 

resounding chord in today’s 

turbulent times. 

Lucinda said: “Dickens is 

very relevant at the moment. 

The gap between the rich and 

the poor is definitely widening. 

We need another Dickens. But 

he is irreplaceable.” 

The Dickens legacy will also 

be celebrated at the Devonshire 

Park Theatre in October when 

The Haunting, a stage adaptation 

of Dickens’ ghost stories by 

Irreplaceable Legacy 

Hugh Janes, will combine 

Dickens’ storytelling with 

another passion, the theatre. 

Dickens’ fascination with the 

supernatural and macabre is well 

documented – friend and 

biographer John Forster 

described Dickens as having “a 

hankering after ghosts”. 

Director Hugh Wooldridge 

said: “The theatre asks you to 

participate, not spectate. When 

you have 500–600 people sitting 

in total silence, holding their 

breath as one, the tension is 

palpable, the theatre is electric. 

The actors are having great fun 

in rehearsals and react 

differently to each audience.” 

Gonzo Moose will also 

contribute to the centenary 

celebrations with What The 

Dickens? at Eastbourne College 

Theatre on November 14. In a 

London peopled by Dickens 

characters, three actors will 

play over 20 surreal roles in a 

fast paced and thrilling comedy. 


From Beachy Head 

CQ spoke to Maureen Honey, chair of OpenArt, to find out 

more about this September’s festival in East Dean and Friston. 

The OpenArt festival in East 

Dean and Friston on 

September 21–23 will begin 

with a conversation with 

artist Harold Mockford, 

whose work is included in 

the Towner Collection. The 

festival will also include 

artists’ Open Houses on 

September 22–23. 

OpenArt chair Maureen 

Honey said: “I knew years ago 

that there was talent in the 

village that just hadn’t been 

tapped. I thought, I’ve seen 

other people do this sort of 

thing and I’m sure we can do it. 

“On the Friday, we will have 

a party for the artists followed 

by Harold Mockford informally 

chatting with Tony Roberts, 

which is open to anyone. 

The festival started in 2008 

and the artists are all local to East 

Dean and Friston. We started 

with 25 artists but we have 37 in 

twenty venues this year.” 

The festival is held every 

other year and has artist 

Grayson Perry as patron. 

Maureen said: “Grayson Perry 

has been a fantastic supporter. 

He has a home in the village and 

last time did a fantastic illustrated 

talk as part of the event and, this 

year, has provided a foreword for 

the brochure.” 

OpenArt has commissioned 

a piece of music for this 

year’s festival. 

Maureen said: “It’s something 

I’ve been wanting to do for years 

but I wasn’t sure how to go about 

it. Simon Rowland Jones and his 

family grew up in Eastbourne 

but he’s an international 

composer and viola player. 

Everything we do has a local 

connection deliberately. It would 

be easy to get much bigger but 

we have decided as a policy to 

keep it for the village.” 

Simon’s inspiration was a 

short passage from Charlotte 

Smith’s poem Beachy Head, 

written in 1806. The 20-minute 

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composition, entitled From 

Beachy Head, will receive its 

world premiere at a concert at 

East Dean’s village hall on 

September 22, played by the 

Wu Quartet. 

Maureen said: “Simon is 

going to talk about the music, 

introduce it. Because it’s a 

modern piece, he’s going to say 

why, how, when, what inspired 

him in that poetry to actually 

write it. I think it will be 

absolutely fascinating. 

“It’s going to be very modern, 

it’s going to be challenging for 

some people, but it’s going to be 

a piece that forever will 

recognise the village and the 

beautiful area in which we live. 

The concert will also include 

pieces by Benjamin Britten, who 

of course has a local connection, 

and Haydn. We’re having CDs 

made and people can buy this 

music by the Wu Quartet. 

They’re a young quartet that is 

now internationally known.” 

OpenArt 

East Dean & Friston 


(Above) 

Wu Quartet

A Different Story 

In this Olympic year, the Small Wonder festival will 

carry the torch for the short story at Charleston. 

Charleston will host its 

alternative to the London 

2012 Olympic & Paralympic 

Games, its annual 

celebration of the short story 

the Small Wonder festival, on 

September 27–30. 

Diana Reich, artistic director 

at Charleston, said: “Small 

Wonder carries the torch for 

the short story – neither the 

sprint of the haiku nor the 

marathon of the novel, but the 

premier 800 metres of 

literature. In the Olympic spirit 

of international excellence and 

good will, we welcome 

champion writers from all over 

the world to our eventful site. 

Our stadium is a traditional 

barn and Arabian tent, our 

podium the lectern. 

“This is a game changing 

year for Small Wonder – an 

international roll call of short 

story writers, victorious, 

award-winning authors, poetry, 

music, art, drama and song 

contributing to the ceremony, 

spectator participation and 

alternative events. For a must 

see literary equivalent to the 

Olympics, look no further.” 

This year’s events will 

include Being Human, where a 

trio of actors will chart the 

drama of our lives in narrative 

poetry; Nelson, in which the 

creators of an episodic graphic 

art story illustrate their 

collaborative work; Will 

Gompertz, the BBC’s arts 

editor, presenting his stand-up 

show Modern Art In A 

Nutshell; Jonathan Coe 


composing short stories to 

musical accompaniment, and 

the return of former 

Everything But the Girl lyricist 

Ben Watt’s song writing 

workshop. Actress Hattie 

Morahan, fresh from her 

success in A Doll’s House, will 

read Angela Carter’s The 

Tiger’s Bride and Susannah 

Clapp will discuss her 

friendship with the iconic short 

story writer, and Jackie Kay will 

lead a creative writing 

workshop on short stories and 

the art of ending. 

Budding short story writers 

can also join Shoreditch House 

supremo Damian Barr when he 

hosts heats of the Small 

Wonder Slam, in which 

competitors will vie to be the 

winner with a story entitled 

The Final, and the Screen 

Under The Stars film will be 

Moonrise Kingdom, which can 

be enjoyed with hot chocolate 

and popcorn. 

Small Wonder 

Charleston 


www.charleston.org.uk 

(Above) 

Small Wonder Slam competitors 

will vie to be the winner with a 

story entitled The Final. 

(Left) 

Small Wonder carries the torch 

for the short story.

Unconventional Thoughts 

CQ talks to artist Jo Welsh, curator of a new exhibition of surrealist art 

soon to be on show at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards on sea. 

Surrealism as a declared aim 

of art first made an 

appearance in Paris in 1924 

when psychiatry student 

André Breton gathered his 

artist and literary friends 

and issued the first surrealist 

manifesto. Bound by the 

common thought that 

Western culture had no more 

to offer the world, the 

surrealists – including Max 

Ernst and René Magritte – set 

about looking for new ideas 

by exploring the 

unconventional thoughts of 

the subconscious mind. 

When Jo Welsh was asked to 

curate the surrealism exhibition 

In The Light Of Surrealism at 

Hastings Arts Forum’s AF2 

gallery in St Leonards on sea on 

September14–25, she was 

presented with the daunting 

task of defining what 

surrealism is or could be today. 

Jo said: “Surrealism is a term 

that is overused and misused in 

everyday language to describe 

anything from a weird situation 

or encounter in a supermarket 

to explaining a nonsensical 

video on YouTube. However, as 

a 20th century art movement, it 

has gone on to influence a lot of 

what we see every day in 

advertising and design.” 

Selecting artists for the 

exhibition, Jo had a clear idea of 

what she was looking for. 

She said: “I didn’t want to 

create a pure surrealism 

exhibition so I tried to veer 

away from fantasy art – like the 

works of Dali – and select 

artists that work in a surrealist 

manner. Few artists today 

would describe themselves as a 

pure surrealist, yet many 

acknowledge elements of 

surrealism in their work. 

“All of the exhibits we’ll have 

on show will have the essence 

of being either unnerving or 

unexpected in its juxtapositions 

and thought provoking about 


reality and the irrational. 

Overall, I’m hoping to capture 

a flavour of surrealism in its 

many varied forms from 

photography and film, objects, 

paintings, drawings, 

assemblage and objet trouvé.” 

Fourteen artists, including 

Jo, will be exhibiting their work 

in the exhibition. 

Jo said: “We’ve got work from 

Anthony Penrose, who will be 

bringing his own experience of 

‘living with the surrealist’, as his 

father was Roland Penrose, the 

artist and major promoter of 

the surrealists; the disturbing 

objects of Kathleen Fox inspired 

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Warming Up Together 

CQ speaks to singer Claire Martin, who received an OBE 

for her services to jazz music in December, to find out more 

about her singing workshop during Chiddingly Festival. 

The 34th Chiddingly Festival 

will open on September 27 

with a peal of bells. Festival 

highlights will include 

Hardeep Singh Kohli’s Indian 

Takeaway and its unique mix 

of comedy and cooking, folk 

artists Danny Schmidt and 

Carrie Elkins, brass quintet 

Mardi Brass performing 

musical styles spanning six 

centuries, and Swedish jazz 

artist Cecilia Stalin. 

Jazz singer Claire Martin will 

also be conducting a singing 

workshop on October 7. 

She said: “I’ve done two or 

three workshops for 

Chiddingly Festival now. I’m 

back by popular demand! 

“Basically, it’s a bunch of 

people who have come together 

and I teach them a condensed 

everything I know in three 

hours. I talk about breathing, 

supporting the breath, good, safe 

warm ups, things to look out for. 

I go round each of them and see 

where they’re at with singing – 

some are just there for the fun of 

it, others are perhaps classically 

trained and want to know a bit 

more about jazz. We get quite a 

lot of choir singers coming. 

“Absolutely anyone can come 

along, I don’t mind as long as 

they like a sing. I’ll have a 

keyboard there and I’ll probably 

hand out lyrics, and then we sing 

and whoever’s brave enough 

comes up the front and I can look 

at their performance objectively 

and criticise it or praise it.” 

Claire is happy to pass on 

her wealth of experience in 

singing jazz. 

She said: “When you create 

something that’s jazzy, when you 

stray off the melody that’s 

perhaps written, you need to 

actually know what you’re doing. 

A lot of people just think that you 

make it up as you go along – well, 

you are making it up as you go 

along but it’s within a structure. 

But I might show them a way of 


making them sound more 

breathy, for instance, or I might 

introduce the idea of doing some 

sort of blues lick on things.” 

Claire says she gets as much 

out of the workshops as the 

other singers who attend. 

She said: “I get to hear people 

warming up together – even 

though the church was a bit chilly 

last time, it’s a lovely acoustic, so I 

really enjoy that. I like the fact 

that everyone who comes along is 

really into it, everyone goes for it. 

“It flies by and I like 

supporting the festival. I love all 

the staff there and I think they’re 

doing a sterling job and I’m 

happy to put my name to it.” 

Chiddingly Festival 

Chiddingly, Lewes 

September 27–October 7 

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(Above) 

Claire Martin will host a 

workshop during the 

Chiddingly Festival. 

(Left) 

Claire with the BBC big band.

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CQ caught up with Duncan Adams at St Wilfrid’s Hospice 

to find out more about its big secret at Towner. 

As part of a special 

fundraising event, St Wilfrid’s 

Hospice has teamed up with 

Towner to help increase 

awareness of the charity and 

raise money for its Campaign 

Hospice Reach. 

Duncan Adams, marketing 

director at St Wilfrid’s Hospice, 

said: “The hospice is an 

amazing place. You can’t really 

describe the atmosphere; it’s a 

very happy place. It’s all about 

living the rest of your life as 

comfortably as you can. 

“As a charity, 85 per cent of 

our funding comes from our 

community. We are trying to 

expand our reach, getting more 

people to understand what 

we do.” 

The Big Art Secret will help 

raise money for Campaign 

Hospice Reach and will involve 

an exhibition and auction of 

postcard-sized artwork. 

Anyone can take part, however 

artistic they are. 

St Wilfrid’s Hospice 

ambassador Charles Grimaldi 

said: “It’s fun, it’s free, we are 

not asking anyone for money, 

just to have some fun and help 

the hospice. It’s very exciting.” 

Local people and celebrities 

have joined in the fun, including 

Prime Minister David Cameron, 

David Hockney and David 

Dimbleby, the patron of the 

new campaign. Each entrant 

can design their postcard 

however they wish but must 

sign the back of the artwork. 

Duncan said: “There has been 

a real diverse mix of people, ages 

and talent taking part. We are 

encouraging everybody to have 

a go, as every penny counts.” 

Entry envelopes with 

instructions are available at 

both St Wilfrids Hospice, based 

at Mill Gap Road in 

Eastbourne, and Towner. 

Charles added: “Lucy at 

Eastbourne Framing Centre 

has also offered to frame the 


postcards after the auction.” 

The works will be exhibited 

at Towner for a week from 

October 13 and will then be 

auctioned. The artists will 

remain secret until the 

postcards have been sold. 

Duncan said: “When the 

auction closes, we can identify 

the David Hockney and see if 

anyone got his artwork for very 

little. Towner has been great at 

supporting and helping us with 

this. We couldn’t do this 

without them; their knowledge 

has been invaluable.” 

Charles added: “The exciting 

bit is your artwork could be 

next to David Hockney’s or the 

Prime Minister’s. Ronnie 

Corbett has also done two 

lovely ones with a personalised 

letter explaining what each of 

them are about. We also got 

one from Greg Rusedski.” 

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In the Right Place 

Pianist Alexandra Silocea talks to CQ about her appearance 

with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and how Sussex 

has proved to be the right place at the right time. 

When pianist Alexandra 

Silocea moved to Lewes, little 

did she know the 

opportunities awaiting her in 

music rich Sussex. Last year, 

she performed at the Meads 

Music Festival for the first time 

and, in September, she will 

debut at Alfriston’s new music 

festival. But the icing on the 

cake is her pending debut 

with the London Philharmonic 

Orchestra (LPO). 

Alexandra said: “In 

September, I am playing in 

Alfriston at the new music 

festival organised by the 

wonderful opera singer 

Matthew Rose. It will be my first 

collaboration with members of 

the Sacconi Quartet and Tony 

Hougham for Schubert’s Trout 

Quintet and, two days later, I am 

performing a solo recital.” 

Alexandra moved to Lewes 

when her husband Sébastien 

Chonion took the position of 

recording producer at nearby 

Glyndebourne. Her first CD 

Piano Sonatas 1–5 By S 

Prokofiev, released last year, 

was a risky choice, but 

Alexandra was adamant in her 

selection and the CD was met 

with rave reviews. The 28-yearold 

Romanian’s second album 

is due for release in 2013, again 

with her husband as producer. 

Alexandra said: “We are 

recording again in St Dunstan 

Parish Church in Mayfield. The 

acoustic is wonderful and I 

can’t wait to repeat the 

experience I had two years ago. 

“It’ll be a completely 

different repertoire, a special 

mixture of composers with a 

twist. I am collaborating for the 

first time with the Norwegian 

composer Martin Romberg, 

who has written a piece for me. 

Both Avie Records and 

Steinway London have been 

very supportive. I feel 

incredibly lucky to be 

surrounded by wonderful 


people who believe in me.” 

In the coming months, 

Alexandra is booked to perform 

in Burgess Hill, France, Italy, 

Lewes and, of course, 

Eastbourne’s Congress 

Theatre, where she will be 

playing Mozart’s Concerto No 

17 with the LPO. 

Alexandra said: “It’s such a 

privilege, joy and incredible 

honour to be invited to perform 

with this world class orchestra, 

and being given the chance to 

perform with LPO’s principal 

conductor Vladimir Jurowski is 

a dream come true. I have been 

listening and admiring Vladimir 

Jurowski and the LPO for so 

many years now and being 

invited to perform Mozart is a 

pure delight.” 

Alexandra says that Lewes’ 

peacefulness is very dear to her 

and gives her energy and 

inspiration. 

“I finally can call it home. I 

am obviously in the right place.” 

London Philharmonic 

Orchestra 


December 9 


(Above) 

Alexandra Silocea.

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Aiming High 

CQ finds out more about the Nicholas Yonge Society’s new season of 

chamber music from its vice president Michael Marwood. 

The Nicholas Yonge Society, 

based in Lewes, will begin its 

new season of chamber music 

with a performance by the 

Aurora Ensemble and the 

Sacconi Quartet, who will join 

forces to perform the 

Beethoven Septet and 

Schubert Octet on October 28. 

The Nicholas Yonge Society 

was formed in Lewes in 1962 

with Sir Yehudi Menuhin as 

president, a position he held 

until his death in 1999. 

Michael Marwood, vice 

president of the society, said: 

“The object of the society is to 

advance the study of music 

and, in particular, to promote 

an annual series of recitals. 

Accordingly, five concerts are 

arranged every year from 

October to March. Amongst 

our aims is the promotion of 

concerts for emerging young 

artists on the threshold of a 

career in music and, to this end, 

one of our concerts is devoted 

to artists selected by the 

Countess of Munster Musical 

Trust Recital Scheme. 

“Performers are chosen by 

the concert secretary and we 

aim high in order to select the 

very best of performers 

available. Only in this way can 

the society attract sufficient 

members to meet the costs.” 

The majority of the society’s 

concerts are devoted to the 

classical and romantic eras, but 

the group also tries to 

introduce its members to more 

contemporary music, and early 

music is not forgotten. At least 

two concerts in each season use 

the society’s grand piano. 

Michael said: “We must bear 

in mind the preferences of our 

members, which we believe to 

be for quartets, trios and small 

ensembles, with or without 

piano, with occasional solo piano 

or voice. We believe that artists 

will perform best if allowed to 

choose the music to be played, 


subject to discussion with us.” 

The concerts are performed 

at the Sussex Downs College 

campus in Lewes. 

Michael said: “We always 

have over 200 members and, 

with tickets sold on the day, we 

need a concert hall for a 

maximum of 300 people. Sadly, 

the choice in Lewes is limited 

and, although the venue at the 

college is a multi-purpose hall, 

it serves our needs well.” 

Other concerts this season 

will include clarinettist Timothy 

Orpen and pianist Alison Farr 

playing Mozart and Brahms on 

November 23, and the Cavaleri 

Quartet, sponsored by the 

Munster Trust, on January 25, 

whose programme will include 

String Quartet No 3 by Jonathan 

Harvey. They are followed on 

February 22 by the Doric 

Quartet, whose programme 

includes quartets by Haydn and 

Schubert, and pianist Alexandra 

Silocea on March 22. 

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Sussex Downs College, Lewes 

October 2012 – March 2013 

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(Above) 

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wet work. 

Light Space 

CQ talks to Christine Chester about Studio Eleven, the teaching 

workspace she is opening with fellow artist Roz Nathan. 

On September 1, Eastbourne’s 

MP Stephen Lloyd will 

officially open Studio Eleven at 

the Old Printworks in Wharf 

Road, a creative workshop 

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flexible space with room for ten 

print tables. 

“Stephen Lloyd owns some 

of Roz’s work. She creates 

botanical and wildlife drawings, 

paintings and illustrations.” 

Christine, a lecturer at Sussex 

Downs College, will teach 

monthly textile classes and use 

the space for her own work. 

She said: “At the college, the 

textile studio is also the fine art 

studio, so you have to clear 

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simple to use the space. We’re 

still in flux at Studio Eleven, but 

I love having everything to 

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bookshelves and find 

something for reference or to 

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“I can also teach different 

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“Being a practicing artist 

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reminds me how much I enjoy 

teaching. Roz and I share the 

space so we can do three days 

each and share Sunday.” 

Christine learned textiles at 

her mother’s knee and is 

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art and design at Brighton 

University, and continues her 

personal development as an 

artist through mentoring classes. 

Her textile work has been shown 

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quilt-makers. 

Christine has also exhibited 

at Towner’ East Sussex Open 

exhibition and submitted work 

for this year’s Royal Society of 

Marine Artists’ Open Exhibition 

at the Mall Galleries in London. 

Christine said: “The work is 

about my father, who was a 

fisherman in Eastbourne, and 

about the loss of memory.” 

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Mon 19–Sat 24 November, 7.45pm 


JULIAN CLARY 



CHRISTINE MUNRO 

ART EXHIBITION 


Fri 23 November–Sat 29 

December, Fri & Sat 10.00am 

GLYN BURGESS & 

LISA JACKSON 



THE ALBION BAND 



ROPE 



DUET FOR ONE 


Tue 27 November–Sat 1 

December, 7.45pm 


PRIVATE ROAD 




COMEDY CLUB 

WINTER GARDEN 


BRANCO STOYSIN JAZZ TRIO 



TANGO PASION 



THE BOTTICELLIS 


Sat 1 December, 10.00am 

TRAFALGAR TRIO 


Sun 2 December, 2.45pm 

RICHARD DURRANT 


Sun 2 December, 8.00pm 

To Book Tickets: 

Birley Centre, Eastbourne College Theatre: 

01323 452255 boxoffice@eastbourne-college.co.uk 

Congress Theatre, Devonshire Park Theatre, Winter Garden: 

01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk 

De La Warr Pavilion: 

01424 229111 www.dlwp.co.uk 

Friends of The Towner (FOTT): 

01323 411906 www.friendsofthetowner.org.uk 

*Birley Centre, *Eastbourne College Theatre, Hailsham Pavilion, 

*Under Ground Theatre: 

01323 841414 www.spyboy.co.uk 

Little Theatre: 

01323 744298 www.littletheatre.biz 

Society of Eastbourne Artists: 

01323 737839 www.sea-eastbourne.com 

Towner: 

01323 434670 www.townereastbourne.org.uk 

Under Ground Theatre: 

08456 801926 www.undergroundtheatre.org.uk 

Eastbourne College Theatre/Birley Centre Under Ground Theatre 

Towner

Presenting For 

Your Enjoyment… 

There are several amateur dramatic societies 

in Eastbourne. Here, CQ gives a roundup of 

what some of them have to offer this season. 

Eastbourne Operatic & 

Dramatic Society 

Young EODS will perform a 

Disney double bill of Aladdin Jr 

and the Jungle Book Kids at the 

Devonshire Park Theatre on 

Wednesday October 31 to 

Saturday November 3. 

Dazzling original 

choreography and spectacular 

costumes will appeal to kids of 

all ages, from tots to 

octogenarians, and the highenergy 

production will have 

audiences laughing, crying and 

dancing in the aisles. 

The show will feature songs, 

such as A Whole New World, 

Bare Necessities and I Wanna 

Be Like You. 

Tickets available on 

01323 412000 

www.eastbourneshows.co.uk 

Eastbourne Stagers 

Eastbourne Stagers will present 

Be Our Guest! Again at the 

Devonshire Park Theatre on 

September 11–15. Director 

Luisa Veitch choreographs with 

Fiona Dean and Teresa Smith, 

with musical direction from 

Daniel Goodger and Carl 

Woodward, who take numbers 

from musicals from the fifties 

through to current times. 

The show will include wellknown 

favourites from My Fair 

Lady, The Boyfriend, West Side 

Story, Oliver, Hair, Annie, Jesus 

Christ Superstar, Grease, Les 

Miserable, Starlight Express, 

Footloose, Lion King, Our 

House, Wicked and Hairspray, 

among others. 


01323 412000 


Polegate Drama Group 


The Polegate Drama Group 

will perform The Vicar Of 

Dibley on Wednesday October 

31 to Saturday November 3. 

The stage play is adapted by Ian 

Gower and Paul Carpenter 

from the original television 

series by Richard Curtis and 

Paul Mayhew-Archer. 

Sit in on Dibley parish 

council meetings chaired by 

David Horton and attended by 

his son Hugo, Geraldine the 

vicar, verger Alice, secretary 

Frank Pickle, farmer Owen 

Newitt and Jim Trott (no, no 

,no, yes!). 


01323 483348 

polegatedramagroup.co.uk 

The Rattonians 

The Rattonians Youth Group 

will present Life Is A Cabaret at 

the Eastbourne College 

Theatre on October 

31–November 3. 

The show’s young cast, aged 

7 to 18, will sing and dance 

through some of their favourite 

musical numbers from 

American classics to more 

modern scores, with a variety 

of dance and singing styles. 

The show is directed by Alex 

Adams and choreographed by 

Debbie Hackett, with musical 

direction from Carl 

Greenwood, who has also 

written the musical 

arrangements. Mark and 

Melanie Adams will produce 

the show. 


01323 638368 

www.rattonians.com

Autumn 12 - Cultural Quarterly

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