Aroundtown Magazine Winter 2022 edition

OUT & ABOUT
Penistone
Arts Weeks
returns for 2022
Five Star Swing
Following a two-year hiatus
owing to the coronavirus
pandemic, the volunteers
behind Penistone Arts Weeks
will once again be staging a
wide range of activities with a
festival set to be bigger and
better than ever.
If you enjoy music, drama, art and film,
there will be a series of events hosted by the
volunteers from Wednesday 9th to Sunday 27th
March at venues around Penistone and the
surrounding villages.
Penistone Arts Week was launched in 2017
by a group of volunteers from the community
with support from the Penistone Area Team,
with the aim of bringing local people together
through the arts. For 2022, the arts festival has
been extended to two weeks to showcase the
best of the area’s music, poetry, art, theatre and
film, with new venues taking part with the hope
of attracting more visitors to see the fantastic
places within the Penistone area.
Solely run by volunteers, Penistone Arts
Weeks empowers venues and groups to deliver
one-off activities during the week and take
ownership of their own arrangements such as
promotion, ticket price, event management. This
makes the festival much more sustainable than
many of its counterparts which rely on large
external grant funding.
For the first time, the Penistone Arts Weeks
team is able to celebrate our local artists and
particularly those who have used art to help
their time in lockdown. Many local businesses
have agreed to display artists work in their
shop windows so the High Street will become a
temporary art gallery for all to enjoy.
Susan Wood
36 aroundtownmagazine.co.uk
What’s on at
Penistone Arts Weeks:
Penistone Paramount
Penistone Paramount is the town’s single
screen cinema which also has a stage behind
the screen for hosting live events. It was built
as the Assembly Rooms in 1914 and has been
entertaining audiences ever since.
As part of the festival, The Paramount is
hosting a series of events which will appeal to
everyone.
Book directly with Penistone Paramount
www.penistoneparamount.co.uk or call
01226 767 532
Made in Motor City
Friday 11th March (7.30pm) £20.00
Relive the classic music and sounds of Detroit
during the 1960s and ‘70s with a tribute to
Motown legends such as Martha Reeves, The
Temptations, The Supremes, The Marvelettes,
Marvin Gaye and many more. The band
comprises of high-quality musicians dedicated to
authentically recreating the ‘sounds of the ‘Motor
City’, fronted by three incredibly talented female
vocalists.
That’s The Spirit
Saturday 12th March (7.30pm) £10.00
Written by Barnsley’s Lee Pollard and Paul
Athorne, That’s The Spirit is a tale of love,
loss and faulty wiring based around a fictional
Barnsley spiritualist in a ‘Ghost meets Phoenix
Nights’ comedy.
The Life and Times of John Gregson
Tuesday 15th March (7pm) £8.00
Son of film veteran, John Gregson, hosts a
Q&A session revealing the fascinating insight into
what life was like having such a famous British
institution for his father. This will be followed by a
showing of the film Genevieve from 1953.
Hiding from Wobbly Bob and other
Stories – Wednesday 16th March
(7.30pm) £8.00
Comedian Lee Pollard is back at The
Paramount again but this time with his smash hit,
one man, comedy poetry and spoken word show.
The Black Snow Roadshow
Friday 18th March (7.30pm) £12.00
This short documentary, produced by
Barnsley’s Steve Linstead, depicts the legacy
of England’s biggest ever mining disaster at the
Oaks Colliery in Barnsley in 1866. It involves film,
music and poetry and has won multiple awards
and has been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Millhouse Green MVC Annual
Celebrity Concert
Saturday 19th March (7.15pm) £10.00
Millhouse Green Male Voice Choir, in
partnership with Old Silkstone Band, will be
performing their 41st annual celebrity concert
which was originally schedules for March 2020.
Long Way Home: An Afternoon
with Dan Jarvis
Sunday 20th March (2pm) Free
The current Mayor of South Yorkshire, Dan
Jarvis MP, will be speaking to Yorkshire Post
columnist Jayne Dowle about his recently
published autobiography which tells of how he
coped with tragedy, grief and war. This will be
followed by an audience Q&A.
Greatest Songs from the Movies From
Pinewood to Hollywood!
Sunday 20th March (7pm) £15.00
Get set for an unforgettable mix of themes
and songs from the greatest movies of all time
such as Star Wars, James Bond, and Lawrence
of Arabia. Performed by Five Star Swing who
have famously played for Pinewood Film Studios,
Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Winner, Jeremy Irons,
and Michael Caine.
That’s The Spirit