Take Art Spring 2022

Restart

A full season of Rural Touring,

bringing live performance to

your communities

Early Years Programmes

Huge investment in our early

years arts education projects

Greener Pastures

Find out how Take Art is

making the arts sustainable

Takeshi Matsumoto by Summer Dean

2022 SPRING SEASON January – June

Photo credit: Spring Forward 2019 © Len Copland

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CONTENTS

Welcome to Take Art's Spring 2022

brochure. Discover What's On

and What's New in your corner of

Somerset.

15 The egg, Holm Theatre Wales/

Somerset: Josephine

16 Hannah Kumari: ENG-ER-LAND

17 Christian Garrick & John Etheridge

18 George Fellows | Fours Hands:

It’s ok

Greener Pastures

EDITION

What's On

4 Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan

Jacket

5 Rainbow Fish Speak Easy

6 Flats and Sharps: Live in

Concert

7 Paddleboat Theatre: Margo & Mr

Whatsit

8 Tango Calor: A Night with Tango

Calor

9 John Hegley: Peace Love and

Potatoes

10 WÖR: Back to the 1780's!

11 Takeshi Matsumoto: Club Origami

12 Multi Story Theatre Company:

Hefted

13 Spring Forward 22

14 BARNfest

19 Wassail Theatre Company:

Whispering Willows

What We Do

20 Greener Pastures

22 Theatre

23 Dance

24 Early Years

25 Music

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Take Art Offices, Flaxdrayton Farm

A Message from

Chief Executive, Ralph Lister

The climate and ecological emergency

has become the defining issue of our time

and will feature as one of our four aims

as we prepare our next 3-year business

plan. We have considerable environmental

expertise on our board and are committed

to operating in a carbon neutral way.

This is reflected in our now-permanent

hybrid home/office working arrangement;

our projects, such as our arts and local

food collaboration 'Cultivate', which

features the environment in a creative

context; and our Rural Touring programme,

which enables the touring of high quality

performing arts companies to community

spaces for a local audience, reducing the

need for travel.

As we enter a different stage of the global

pandemic, we aim to be ambitious in our

activity, while embedding precautionary

working practices. It is likely that we will

once again provide Rural Touring to the

whole county next year. We are delivering

two major early years projects with partners

in the south west, Derby and Surrey. There

are advanced plans to continue with the

Rural Touring Dance Initiative. After the

success of our outdoor Rural Touring circus

summer project we will be developing

a new three year project, subject to

successful funding bids. We are continuing

to collaborate with our European partners

to bring international work to Somerset.

In this brochure, you can find out what we

we are bringing to your area, read about

our projects, and hear how we are making

the arts sustainable.

January - June 2022 | Take Art

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WHAT'S ON

Elvis McGonagall:

Full Tartan Jacket

Stand-up poet, comedian and

broadcaster, armchair revolutionary

and walking shortbread tin

Elvis McGonagall resides at

the Graceland Caravan Park

somewhere in the back of beyond,

where he scribbles poetry while

drinking malt whisky and listening to

Johnny Cash.

Full Tartan Jacket presents the

prime cuts from the work of a comic

poet at the top of his game - all

current and bang on target. Join this

World Poetry Slam Champion and

Radio 4 regular as he bellows into

the void of our diseased, burning

planet and we all trundle along the

primrose path to Beelzebub’s

bottomless pit.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Thurs 20 Jan | 7.30pm | The Black Swan

Langport | £10/£7.50 Students | 07935

352695

Fri 21 Jan | 7.30pm | Hatch Beauchamp

Village Hall | £10 Inc a tot of whisky | 01823

481909

Sat 22 Jan | 8pm| Dulverton Town Hall |

£10 | 07855 928541

Fri 8 April | 8pm | Crooked Swan,

Crewkerne | £11 | 07967 301747

Sat 9 April | 8pm | The David Hall, South

Petherton | £11/£10 Child/Student | 01460

240340

Rainbow Fish

Speak Easy

Rainbow Fish Speak Easy is a

much beloved spoken word poetry

night for Yeovil, with open mic slots

available for anyone with an original

poem to share. The event, hosted

by BBC Somerset poet Liv Torc, is

fun, funny, tender and tremendous;

with tips for successfully navigating

the human condition in all its

luminous, ludicrous and lunatic

dimensions.

The show comes out of Take Art's

'performance poetry on prescription'

Word/Play project, which helps

adults with mental health or

learning challenges find new ways

to talk about their lives. Along

with an open mic and a short

performance from the latest Word/

Play group, each Rainbow Fish

Speak Easy features an exciting

poetry headliner.

DATES AND DETAILS

.......................................................

Thurs 20 Jan | 7:30pm | online via

Zoom | Headliner: Rebecca Tantony |

£3 | book via takeart.org

Thurs 17 Feb | 7:30pm | The Hub,

Yeovil | Headliner: Jonny Fluffypunk |

£3 | book via takeart.org

Thurs 17 March | 7:30pm | The Hub,

Yeovil | Headliner: Chris Redmond | £3 |

book via takeart.org

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What's On




What's On

5

Flats and Sharps:

Live in Concert

Flats and Sharps are a four-piece

Bluegrass outfit from Penzance,

Cornwall. Delivering energetic,

enthusiastic and spirited Bluegrass

to audiences all around the world,

Virtuosic players with an incredible

stage presence, and with years of

international touring under their

belts.

Their shows include a wide variety

of influences, from a fresh and

modern outlook on foot-stomping

Bluegrass material through to their

powerful and well-crafted original

songs, with beautiful moments

everywhere in between.

Their music perfectly blends strong

harmonies and solos, while their

incredible stage presence and

energy create an evening that’ll have

you dancing, laughing and singing

along in no time.

DATES AND DETAILS

..........................................................

Fri 28 Jan | 7.30pm | North Cadbury Village

Hall | £10 | 01963 440338

Sat 29 Jan |7pm | West Pennard Village Hall

| £12 | 07733 308900

Fri 25 Feb | 8pm | Curry Mallet &

Beercrocombe Village Hall | £12 | 01823

481364

Sat 26 Feb | 7.30pm | Charlton Horethorne

Village Hall | £10 | 01935 814199

Paddleboat

Theatre: Margo &

Mr Whatsit

Do you have an imaginary friend? A

little piece of mischief only you can

see?

Sophia’s imaginary friend is called

Mr Whatsit. No matter where

Sophia finds herself living, he’s

always there with a new joke to tell

and a new game to play.

But when Sophia moves into her

new foster home, Mr Whatsit finds

himself unimagined! Now Sophia

has a new imaginary friend – the

glamorous, grown-up Margo.

Can Mr Whatsit’s childish

playfulness keep him from being

unimagined for good? And with her

imaginary friends competing against

each other, will Sophia manage to

find her forever home?

DATES AND DETAILS

...........................................................

Fri 4 Feb | 5pm | Hatch Beauchamp

Village Hall | £8/£5 child/£24 family (2+3)

| 01823 481909 | Drinks and homemade

cakes available



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Tango Calor:

A Night with Tango

Calor

“One of the best tango trios you

will hear in the UK” Tango Alchemy

Tango Calor will take you on a

journey from the backstreets of

Buenos Aires to the salons of Paris.

Indira Roman is one of the great

stars of Latin music in the UK.

She has sung all around Europe,

performing the music of her home

town Havana, Cuba.

In this show she gets to explore

her other love, the great love songs

of Argentine tango. Mirek Salmon

is one of only a few bandoneon

players in the country. This is a rare

experience to hear the true sound of

tango played live.

DATES AND DETAILS

..........................................................

Fri 21 Jan | 7:30pm | Holford and

District Village Hall |£10/£8 concession|

07843 348057

Fri 4 Feb | 7pm | Lamyatt Village Hall |

£20/£15 Child/Student £60 Family (1+3

or 2+2) | 01749 814 934 | inc tacos and

tortillas & tequila

Sat 5 Feb | 7.30pm | Porlock Village Hall

| £10 | 01643 863150

Fri 18 Feb | 7.30pm | Norton Sub

Hamdon Village Hall | £10/£5 Child |

01935 881227

John Hegley:

Peace Love and

Potatoes

John Hegley is an English

performance poet, comedian,

musician and songwriter who

we have long wanted to bring to

Somerset. This show is about

his family friends, working life

and everyday goings on which

resonates with audiences, who,

(when it is safe to do so) are

invited join in with the singing. The

poems are poignant and funny

and although the show is designed

for adults the odd 9 year-old has

happily joined the journey.

Join John for tales relating to

growing up in a bungalow in Luton,

where his mother would think

nothing of peeling a potato in one

long, thin winding and unbroken

strip.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Fri 18 Feb | 7.30pm | Penselwood

Village Hall | £10 | 01747 840680

Sat 19 Feb | 8pm | Churchinford

Village Hall | £12/£8 Child/Student |

01823 601468

Thur 24 Feb | 7.30pm | North Cadbury

Village Hall | £10 | 01963 440338

Fri 25 Feb | 7.30pm | Porlock Village

Hall | £10 | 01643 863150

Sat 26 Feb | 8pm | The David Hall,

South Petherton | £12/£11 Students |

01460 240340

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What's On

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Photo by Summer Dean

WÖR:

Back to the 1780's!

Bringing new life to forgotten music

Almost 300 years ago, musicians

from around Antwerp, Brussels,

Gent and Leuven decided to write

down their favourite music. As

time passed the music was left to

gather dust, along with the faded

manuscripts…

That is, until now! With their

finely textured arrangements

WÖR injects new energy into 18 th

Century tunes from the Flanders

region of Belgium. Their innovative

arrangements and superb

musicianship shine an inventive

spotlight on these long forgotten

tunes. Playing saxophone, fiddle,

accordion, guitar and bagpipes,

five young Belgian musicians will

rock your socks off and stir your

soul.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Fri 18 Feb | 7.30pm | Holford and

District Village Hall | £10/£8 Child/

Student | 07843 348057

Sat 19 Feb | 7.30pm | Caryford

Community Hall | £12 | 01963 350980

Sun 20 Feb | 3pm | North Curry Parish

Church | £15 (inc wine and nibbles) |

01460 249450

Takeshi

Matsumoto:

Club Origami

Presented by Little Big Dance

Rip, fold and scrumple! Shall we

see what we can make with a single

square of paper? As you scrunch

the paper, see how your imagination

begins to dance…

Dive into the magical world of Club

Origami, an immersive and interactive

dance show inviting family audiences

to create, imagine and explore whole

new ways of thinking, playing and

moving. Dance, fashion and live music

meet the magic of origami to sweep

us up on a spirited and inspiring

adventure in a land made purely of

paper and play.

Children aged 0-5 and their families

Club Origami is presented by Little

Big Dance – a pioneering national

initiative creating new dance work for

under fives and their families, led by

South East Dance in partnership with

DanceEast, Take Art and Yorkshire

Dance.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Tues 22 Feb | 11am & 2.30pm |

The Merlin Theatre | 01373 465949 |

www.merlintheatre.co.uk

Wed 23 Feb | 11.30am & 3pm | the egg |

01225 823409 | www.theatreroyal.org.uk/

your-visit/the-egg/

Thur 3 March | The McMillan Theatre |

01278 556677 | www.mcmillantheatre.com

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What's On

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Multi Story

Theatre Company:

Hefted

With a narrative that sweeps

across 600 years, starting in 1475

with a supernatural birth and

moving through nine different

landscapes to an imagined 2075

in which stories from the past are

retold to help heal the present.

Some of the stories are fantastical,

others dramatise real events but all

explore the notion of being ‘hefted’

or ‘leared’ – the deep connection

we have with the land.

‘We’re clay, don’t ever say you ain’t

got no responsibility to the land.

You’re the earth itself.’

The stories of those who live in

the countryside are rarely heard or

heeded; this play opens the door

for those stories to be shared

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Fri 4 March | 7.30pm | Dulverton Town

Hall | £10 | 0785 5928541

Fri 18 March | 7.30pm | The David

Hall, South Pertherton | £12/£11 child/

student | 01460 240340

Sat 19 March | 7.30pm | Chilthorne

Domer Village Hall | £10 | 01935

840200 (hot supper available)

Spring Forward '22

Spring Forward is back! With the

most exciting and inclusive platform

in the Somerset dance calendar,

bringing together hundreds of

dancers of all ages to perform on

one of three professional stages.

Now in its 16 th year, the Spring

Forward events will be showcasing

the best and brightest of Somerset

youth dance alongside a striking

array of community dance groups,

including adult and older dancers.

Enjoy a kaleidoscope of styles

and choreography including Jazz,

Contemporary, Street Dance and

Dance Theatre, along with fantastic,

fun and feel-good performances and

digital dance offerings from local

schools, youth dance companies,

adult community dance groups and

Somerset dance schools.

DATES AND DETAILS

..........................................................

Fri 18 March | 7pm | Tacchi Morris Arts

Centre | 01823 414141 | www.tacchimorris.com

Tue 22 March | 7pm | Octagon Theatre |

01935 422884 | www.octagon-theatre.

co.uk

Thurs 24 March | 7pm | The McMillan

Theatre | 01278 556677 |

www.mcmillantheatre.com




BARNfest

A two-day festival showcasing

theatre made in Somerset and

the South West. Join us for a

thrilling programme of celebration,

stimulation, provocation and lively

debate around contemporary

theatre and how it is made.

As well as performances from

emerging individuals and

companies, BARNfest will include

a Venues South West symposium,

open rehearsals, work-in-progress,

workshops and pitches. There

will also be plenty of opportunity

to meet the theatre-makers and

discuss the performances with

other like-minded people.

Produced by Take Art and

The Brewhouse with support from

the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Tue 22 and Wed 23 March |

Taunton Brewhouse |

The full programme will be

announced in the new year. Tickets

and further information will be

available at www.thebrewhouse.net

and www.takeart.org

the egg Theatre /

Holm Theatre:

Josephine

the egg Theatre, Bath has teamed

up with Holm Theatre, Wales/

Somerset, to create a new play

about the iconic entertainer, spy

and civil rights activist, Josephine

Baker.

Born in St Louis in 1906, Baker was

a famous dancer and the first black

woman to star in a major motion

picture. She became a French

national where she raised her 12

internationally adopted children,

dubbed the Rainbow Tribe and

aided the French Resistance during

WWII, which earned her the Croix

de Guerre. She spoke at the March

on Washington in 1963 alongside

Martin Luther King.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Thurs 24 March | time TBC |

Croscombe Village Hall | £10/£6.50

U18, Family (2A+3C) £32 | 01460

249450

Fri 25 March | time TBC | Holyrood

Academy, Chard | 01460 260100

Sun 27 March | 8pm | Norton Sub

Hamdon Village Hall | £10/£5 child |

01935 881227




Hannah Kumari:

ENG-ER-LAND

1997. Last year England made it

to the semi-finals of Euro 96, Gina

G came third in Eurovision and 13

year-old Lizzie went to her first inperson

football game: Coventry vs.

Manchester City.

Not the Man City of today, oil and

superstars, but the old Man City -

a bit rubbish, but with good fans.

Lizzie fell in love with the beautiful

game that day, and she’s been

obsessed ever since.

But then something happens to

make her question her place in the

stands.

ENG-ER-LAND is an energetic play

about who’s really on your ‘team’.

DATES AND DETAILS

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Fri 25 March | 7.30pm | Penselwood

Village Hall | £8 | 01747 840680

Sat 2 April | 8pm | Wellington Arts

Centre | £8/£7 child | 01823 667774

Christian Garrick

& John Etheridge

This world class duo provides a

feast of interplay, improvisation

and eclectic repertoire with music

ranging from Peter Gabriel to

Richard Rogers via Dollar Brand

and Alison Goldfrapp.

Both players make extensive

use of looping and other effects,

creating exotic tapestries of sound,

almost orchestral at times, yet

they can switch seamlessly to a

pure acoustic sound with rolliking

renditions of Hot Club swing

evoking the spirit of Reinhardt and

Grappelli as they do. Atmospheric,

hypnotic, humorous and

entertaining. They can roar, seduce

and whisper.

DATES AND DETAILS

....................................................

Wed 6 April | 7.30pm | All Saints

Church, Kingsdon | £12/£6 child |

01935 841402

Thur 7 April | 7pm | Lamyatt Village

Hall | £12/£6 child/student £30 family

(2+2 or 1+3 ) | 07971 631976

Fri 8 April | 7.30pm | The EMN Hall

Monksilver | £12 | 01984 656526

Sat 9 April | 7pm | West Pennard

Village Hall | £12 | 07733 308900

Sun 10 April | 7.30pm | Caryford

Community Hall | £12 | 01963 350917




George Fellows |

Fours Hands:

It’s ok

Presented by Little Big Dance

Created as part of the Little Big Dance

programme, It’s ok is an intimate

dance piece performed in a perspex

cube, especially for children aged 0-5

years and their families. In a story full

of care, comfort and kindness, It’s ok

invites us to follow Laura on a journey

of discovery as she navigates feelings

of uncertainty, fear, excitement, anger

and joy whilst being supported and

encouraged by Claire every step of

the way. Join the performers as they

discover that no feelings are right

or wrong; they’re just feelings and it

really is ok to feel them.

It’s ok is presented by Little Big

Dance – a pioneering national initiative

creating new dance work for children

aged five and under, led by South

East Dance in partnership with

DanceEast, Take Art and Yorkshire

Dance and funded by Paul Hamlyn

Foundation and Arts Council England,

co-commissioned by Birmingham

Hippodrome, Dance Umbrella, Strikea-light

and Spark Arts.

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Tue 19 April | 11:30am, 1:30 & 3:30pm

The Brewhouse | 01823 283244 |

www.thebrewhouse.net

Wassail Theatre

Company:

Whispering Willows

It’s 1929. Morris has been planting,

harvesting, basket making and

drinking tea on his Somerset Willow

farm since before he can remember.

Every year the same pattern repeats

itself. Plant, harvest, weave. Plant,

harvest, weave.

One day he pulls up a particularly

large piece of Willow with a girl

clinging to the end of it! She eats

too much, breaks everything in his

workshop and is a complete nuisance.

But as time moves on, they teach

each other the ways of the Willow.

Planting, harvesting, weaving... the

cycle continues and all is well in their

world until the chaos of WWII and the

invention of plastic threaten to destroy

the farm and their livelihoods. Can

they find a new use for Willow before

it’s too late?

DATES AND DETAILS

........................................................

Wed 1 June | 2pm | The David Hall,

South Petherton | £8/£5 child | 01460

240340

Fri 3 June | 4pm | Porlock Village Hall |

£6/£3 child | 01643 863150

Sat 4 June | Speedwell Hall,

Crewkerne | Subject to funding




Greener Pastures

Take Art is an ambitious

organisation. We want to reach

people across the county, provide

opportunities to those who have

limited access to live artistic

performance, and to provide a

platform for artists of the highest

calibre, who are creating work that

is challenging, progressive and

diverse in its origin and appeal.

We also want to prove that art is

sustainable. Here’s how we are

doing it.

Rural Touring Programme

Rural Touring is green. By

subsidising artist fees, we make

it possible for community venues

like village halls to host high quality

performances for local audiences.

A carbon assessment study carried

out by Beaford Arts, our colleagues

in North Devon, shows that a Rural

Tour has a lower carbon footprint,

by one third, than a single show at

a town based venue. Our SPARSE

European project evaluation shows

that nearly 50% of audiences live

less than 5km from the venue.

Our Rural Touring programme is

funded by your local authorities.

Our financial support has ebbed

and flowed, but we are now

reaching a point where we hope

we can once again provide touring

activity across the whole county by

covering Sedgemoor district for the

first time since 2012. Somerset’s

new unitary authority provides an

opportunity to embed Rural Touring

into Somerset’s cultural landscape

for years to come.

A Summer Programme

In 2020 and 2021, we responded

to the Coronavirus Pandemic in

an inventive way. We created the

Totally Local summer programme

and worked with London-based

producers, Crying Out Loud, on

a south west rural touring circus

project called Circus Around and

About. This worked with circus

companies to put on Covid-secure

performances outside in community

settings. The feedback from

these projects was that outdoor

settings created a wholly different

atmosphere, drawing on Somerset’s

beautiful countryside and bringing

more families into contact with our

shows. We have listened to this and

will extend our touring programme

to cover the summer months, will

ensure our events are safe for

audiences, and will bring a more

varied range of work, including

circus!

Cultivate

Cultivate is working to bring people

together through the sharing and

enjoyment of local food and highquality

arts experience in the

market towns of South Petherton,

Crewkerne, Ilminster and Chard.

The project works with local

producers, farmers, artists and

organisations who support local

community. This project is a

key element of our EU-funded

collaboration, RURITAGE. Cultivate

is putting on events and workshops

that focus on the landscape and our

impact on the environment.

The work benefits the rural

community, aims to educate on

environmental issues, and focuses

on activity that leads to better health

and well-being.



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January June 2020 Take Art What We Do 21

Word/Play

THEATRE

Our theatre team work year-round

supporting theatre development

across Somerset. This is one of

our key responsibilities and a

core offer to theatre-makers and

companies that includes advice,

information, brokering relationships

and networking opportunities.

Over the last few years, through

the BARN initiative supported by

the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation,

we’ve been able to offer additional

resources that have really helped

the sector to grow and flourish. This

includes showcases, scratch events,

training, a seed and growth fund

and BARNfest, which you can read

about on page 14.

Word/Play is a social prescribing

project for people experiencing

mental ill health. It uses

performance poetry to empower

individuals, giving them the freedom

and encouragement to tell their

stories and be witnessed.

We are partners with Spark

Somerset and Somerset Wildlife

Trust in Thriving Communities

Somerset, a community-based

project that aims to boost the range

of social prescribing activities

offered in Somerset, including

creative, nature-based and physical

activities. Through this initiative, we

are currently planning to deliver a

programme of Word/Play workshops

in Spring 2022, particularly to

support people experiencing the

effects on long-Covid on their lives.

The Rainbow Fish Speak Easy, is

a spoken word poetry platform that

has grown out of Word/Play and

become a hugely popular poetry

platform in Somerset. Featuring

people who have benefitted from

the project as well other writers and

performers in the area, each event

is topped off with a headline act.

Originating as a live event at the

Hub, Yeovil, throughout lockdown

we’ve taken it successfully

online. See the next dates for the

speakeasy on page 5.

DANCE

Our dance development

programme at Take Art provides

high quality dance performance

and participation opportunities

in Somerset alongside our other

specialisms. We are the strategic

lead for dance in Somerset and

represent the county at both a

regional and national level.

We provide a key role in helping

to shape, resource and sustain

the county’s dance sector offering

artistic and business support to

professional dance artists and

companies as well as providing

opportunities for networking,

professional development, training

and mentoring.

Our participatory projects, festivals,

workshops and platform events

provide opportunities for dancers of

all ages and abilities to be part of an

evolving ever-growing county dance

community. Further details about

these events from projects Little Big

Dance, and Spring Forward are on

pages 11, 13 and 18.

Our Turn:

Dance Sessions

for Dementia

Do you have a loved one living

with Dementia? Come along to

our friendly and inspiring dance

sessions every Monday afternoon

in Yeovil, Somerset.

Our Turn is a two-year arts

intervention using dance and

movement to help the health and

happiness of vulnerable adults

living with dementia or memory

loss. The session helps to support

participants with falls prevention

and includes a meet and greet and

social time with refreshments.

The weekly dance sessions are led

by specialist dance artists and take

place at St Peter's Community

Centre, Yeovil on Monday

afternoons 1pm - 4pm.

For more information or to join in

please get in touch: 01460 249460

or e-mail ourturn@takeart.org



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EARLY YEARS

SoundWaves

Network SW

Our Early Years team have been

awarded £100,000 by Youth

Music to continue building our

early childhood music education

programme across the south west

from Nov 2021 - 2024. There will

be eight early childhood Music

Learning Communities centred

around Music Education Hubs

keen to develop high-quality early

childhood music infrastructure.

New music education hub partners

include Cornwall, Dorset Music

Service, SoundStorm, Devon/

Torbay, Southampton/IOW.

A deepening relationship will

continue with Bristol Beacon,

Sound Foundation Somerset and

Plymouth. Other partners include

early years settings, University of

Plymouth, local advisory teams and

Real Ideas – the Arts Council Bridge

Organisation for the south-west.

The partners in the consortium will

be working with project manager/

early childhood music specialist

Jane Parker, our Take Art Early Years

team and a team of early years

music practitioners - many of whom

are now qualified as Early Childhood

Music Educators having completed

the Certificate of Music: Early

Childhood Trinity college accredited

course at the Centre of Research

for Early Childhood, Birmingham.

The whole programme is being

evaluated by Dr Susan Young.

Making & Believing

Making & Believing is taking a rich

programme of high quality, small

scale performance and participation

activities into Early Years settings

to develop and strengthen creative

practice. Taking place in Somerset,

Surrey and Derby this project,

funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation,

is supporting children, creative

practitioners and Early Years staff.

The project will develop during the

next few years with learning being

captured and shared.

“The children were absolutely

mesmerised by the performance!”

Comment by parent following

Beeja Dance performance of

Choogh Choogh in October 2021

MUSIC

Working with Actiontrack

Performance Company Take Art

continues to work through music to

involve young people who may find

mainstream education or society

challenging. We do this through

our two projects. My Tunes works

with 9-16 year olds and Outthere

with 16-25 year olds. Young people

and adults work in whichever

musical style interests them and

with the support of the Actiontrack

musicians write, record and produce

music that often reflects how they

feel about themselves and the

world. Music is a fantastic medium

through which to involve young

people in the arts.

We are very appreciative of funding

from Sound Foundation Somerset,

the Music Education Hub for

Somerset and also from #Focus5.

We recently worked with Jenna

who developed Tourette’s in 2016

(Tourette's syndrome is a condition

that causes a person to make

involuntary sounds and movements

called tics). Jenna had sessions in

the studio and once she got used

to the sound of herself coming

back through the headphones, she

recorded two songs. Both songs

are original material written by

Jenna and she was very involved in

steering the sound of the production

too – she really is a complete artist.

“This was one of the best days

I have had in a really long time.

This is one of the only days I can

remember where I wasn’t getting

judged for my tics and I wasn’t

feeling alienated because I was

doing something I couldn’t control”.

As a follow up we made a short

film with Jenna about her music

experiences and this included a

music video of one of her songs,

Glass: takeart.org/outthere

With further funding support from

#Focus5 we are working with Jenna

and other young people in 2022.



24 What We Do September - December 2017 Take Art

What We Do 25

LISTINGS

Date Time Company Event Venue, Sat Nav Postcode & Tel Page

Thurs 20 Jan 7.30pm Elvis McGonagall Full Tartan Jacket

Fri 21 Jan 7.30pm Elvis McGonagall Full Tartan Jacket

Fri 21 Jan 7.30pm Tango Calor

A Night with Tango

Calor

Sat 22 Jan 8pm Elvis McGonagall Full Tartan Jacket

Fri 28 Jan 7.30pm Flats & Sharps Live in Concert

Sat 29 Jan 7pm Flats & Sharps Live in Concert

Fri 4 Feb 5pm Paddleboat

Margo & Mr

Whatsit

The Black Swan Langport | TA10 9RQ |

07935 352695

Hatch Beauchamp Village Hall | TA3

6SG | 01823 481909

Holford and District Village Hall | TA5

1SD | 07843 348057

Dulverton Town Hall | TA22 9EX | 07855

928541

North Cadbury Village Hall | BA22 7QX |

01963 440338

West Pennard Village Hall | BA6 8RT |

07733 308900

Hatch Beachamp Village Hall | TA3 6SG

| 01823 481909

4

4

8

4

6

6

7

All details correct at time of going to press

Thur 3 Mar

Fri 4 Mar

TBC

7.30pm

Takeshi

Matsumoto

Multi Story

Theatre

Club Origami

Hefted

Fri 18 Mar 7.pm Take Art Spring Forward

Fri 18 Mar

Sat 19 Mar

7.30pm

7.30pm

Multi Story

Theatre

Multi Story

Theatre

Hefted

Hefted

Tue 22 Mar 7pm Take Art Spring Forward

Tue 22 &

Wed 23 Mar

Thur 24 Mar

All day Take Art BARNfest

TBC

the egg &

Holm Theatre

Josephine

The McMillan Theatre | TA6 4PZ |

01278 556677

Dulverton Town Hall | TA22 9EX |

0785 5928541

Tacchi Morris Arts Centre | TA2 8PD |

01823 414141

The David Hall, South Petherton |

TA13 5AA | 01460 240340

Chilthorne Domer Village Hall | BA22

8RD | 01935 840200

The Octagon Theatre | BA20 1UX |

01935 422884

Taunton Brewhouse | TA1 1JL | 01823

283244

Croscombe Village Hall | BA5 3RA |

01460 249450

11

12

13

12

12

13

14

15

Fri 4 Feb 7pm Tango Calor

A Night with Tango

Calor

Lamyatt Village Hall | BA4 6NJ | 01749

814934

8

Thur 24 Mar 7pm Take Art Spring Forward

The McMillan Theatre | TA6 4PZ |

01278 556677

13

Sat 5 Feb 7.30pm Tango Calor

A Night with Tango

Calor

Porlock Village Hall | TA24 8JH | 01643

863150

8

Fri 25 Mar

TBC

the egg &

Holm Theatre

Josephine

Holyrood Academy, Chard | TA20 1JL

| 01460 260100

15

Fri 18 Feb 7.30pm Tango Calor

A Night with Tango

Calor

Norton Sub Hamdon Village Hall | TA14

6SF | 01935 881227

8

Fri 25 Mar 7.30pm Hannah Kumari ENG-ER-LAND

Penselwood Village Hall | BA9 8LS |

01747 840680

16

Fri 18 Feb 7.30pm John Hegley

Peace Love and

Potatoes

Penselwood Village Hall | BA9 8LS |

01747 840680

9

Sun 27 Mar

8pm

the egg &

Holm Theatre

Josephine

Norton Sub Hamdon Village Hall |

TA14 6SF | 01935 881227

15

Fri 18 Feb 7.30pm WÖR Back to the 1780's!

Holford and District Village Hall | TA5

1SD | 07843 348057

10

Sat 2 Apr 8pm Hannah Kumari ENG-ER-LAND

Wellington Arts Centre | TA21 8PS |

01823 667774

16

Sat 19 Feb 7.30pm WÖR Back to the 1780's!

Caryford Community Hall | BA7 7JJ |

01963 350 980

10

Wed 6 Apr

7.30pm

Garrick &

Etheridge

Live in Concert

All Saints Church, Kingsdon | TA11

7JU | 01935 841402

17

Sat 19 Feb 8pm John Hegley

Peace Love and

Potatoes

Churchinford Village Hall | TA3 7QY |

01823 601468

9

Thur 7 Apr

7pm

Garrick &

Etheridge

Live in Concert

Lamyatt Village Hall | BA4 6NJ |

07971 631976

17

Sun 20 Feb 3pm WÖR Back to the 1780's!

North Curry Parish Church | TA3 6LJ |

01460 249450

10

Fri 8 Apr

8pm

Elvis

McGonagall

Full Tartan Jacket

The Crooked Swan,Crewkerne | TA18

7HR | 07967 301747

5

Tue 22 Feb

11am &

2.30pm

Takeshi

Matsumoto

Club Origami

The Merlin Theatre | BA11 2HG | 01373

465949

11

Fri 8 Apr

7.30pm

Garrick &

Etheridge

Live in Concert

The EMN Hall Monksilver | TA4 4JE |

01984 656526

17

Wed 23 Feb

11.30am

& 3pm

Takeshi

Matsumoto

Club Origami

The egg Theatre | BA1 1ET | 01225

448844

11

Sat 9 Apr

8pm

Elvis

McGonagall

Full Tartan Jacket


TA13 5AA | 01460 240340

5

Thu 24 Feb 7.30pm John Hegley

Peace Love and

Potatoes

North Cadbury Village Hall | BA22 7QX |

01963 440338

9

Sat 9 Apr

7pm

Garrick &

Etheridge

Live in Concert

West Pennard Village Hall | BA6 8RT |

07733 308900

17

Fri 25 Feb 8pm Flats & Sharps Live in Concert

Curry Mallet & Beercrocombe Village

Hall | TA3 6SY | 01823 481364

6

Sun 10 Apr

7.30pm

Garrick &

Etheridge

Live in Concert

Caryford Community Hall | BA7 7JJ |

01963 350 980

17

Fri 25 Feb 7.30pm John Hegley

Peace Love and

Potatoes

Porlock Village Hall | TA24 8JH | 01643

863150

9

Tue 19 Apr

11.30am

George Fellows

| Fours Hands

It's Ok

The Brewhouse Theatre | TA1 1JL |

01823 283244

18

Sat 26 Feb 8pm John Hegley

Peace Love and

Potatoes

The David Hall, South Petherton | TA13

5AA | 01460 240340

9

Wed 1 Jun 2pm Wassail Theatre Whispering Willows


TA13 5AA | 01460 240340

19

Sat 26 Feb 7.30pm Flats & Sharps Live in Concert

Charlton Horethorne Village Hall | DT9

4PB | 01935 814199

6

Fri 3 Jun 4pm Wassail Theatre Whispering Willows

Porlock Village Hall | TA24 8JH |

01643 863150

19

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Take Art events this season are in:

1 Bridgwater

2 Castle Cary

3 Charlton Horethorne

4 Chilthorne Domer

5 Chard

6 Churchinford

7 Crewkerne

8 Croscombe

9 Curry Mallet

10 Dulverton

11 Frome

12 Hatch Beauchamp

13 Holford

14 Kingsdon

15 Lamyatt

16 Langport

17 Monksilver

18 North Cadbury

19 North Curry

20 Norton Sub Hamdon

21 Penselwood

22 Porlock

23 Roadwater

24 South Petherton

25 Taunton

26 Wellington

27 West Pennard

28 Yeovil

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