Free Guided Historical Tours of the Harrow Arts Centre Site

Saturday 20 September: 10am and 2pm

Sunday 21 September: 11am

Meeting Point: Front entrance of the Arts Centre

A rare opportunity to discover the hidden history of the Arts Centre site –

Where was the mysterious underground pool?
Whose memories lurk in Elliott Hall, once the hub of The Royal Commercial Traveller’s School?

Accompany local historian and Facilities & Site Team Manager,
John Rattray, on a captivating walkabout to unravel the secrets of this unique site.

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Free Performing Arts Taster Sessions for Adults and Children

An opportunity to try out a new activity from the range of regular classes and workshops held at the Harrow Arts Centre.

Sessions are open to children and adults.

No booking necessary, just turn up at least five minutes before the start of a session!
Classes are subject to change and to availability.

Select from the following:

Friday 26 September

TABLA – Indian percussion with the PRSSV, join in or just watch!
7pm to 8pm

KATHAK – North Indian classical dance with the TRIVENI DANCE COMPANY, join in or just watch!
6pm to 8pm

Saturday 27 September

Dance and Musical Theatre for children of all ages with BEARFOOT PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL – participation only!

DRAMA:
(age 11+): 9.45am to 10.30am
(age 7-10): 10.30am to 11.15am

STREET JAZZ:
(age 5-7): 11.15am to 12pm
(age 8-12): 12pm to 12.45pm
(age 13+): 1.30PM to 2.15pm

MUSICAL THEATRE:
(age 8-10): 11.15am to 12pm
(age 5- 8): 12pm to 12.45pm
(age 11+): 1.30pm to 2.15pm
(age 8-11): 2.15pm to 3pm


South Indian Dance and Music with SRISHTI DANCE COMPANY- for viewing only!

BHARATANATYAM Dance: 9am to 4pm

YUVA YOUTH CULTURE GROUP: 1.30pm to 4.30pm

KARNATIC VOCAL MUSIC: 12:30pm to 3:30pm

KATHAK – North Indian classical dance with PRSSV participate or just watch!
11.00 am to 12.00pm


North Indian Classical Music with SANGEET VISHWABHARTI
participate or just watch!

VOCAL MUSIC: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
TABLA: 1.30pm to 2.30pm
SITAR: 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Mala CHERGA - Momentum Dance Company-in-Residence at Harrow Arts Centre

Mala CHERGA Theatre invites you to come and see a section of their work-in-progress, a striking piece of contemporary dance. The performance will be followed with a question and answer session

Performance - 3.30pm to 4.20pm
Q & A and opportunity to offer feedback –
4.20pm – 4.50pm/5pm

Sunday 28 September

OPEN REHEARSALS:

BELMONT THEATRE COMPANY
10.30am to 12.30pm

HARROW CONCERT BAND
10 .00 am to 12.00pm
For tickets, please call 020 8416 8989

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El Aire Flamenco
In association with flamencoshow.co.uk

Saturday 27 September
7:30pm
Elliott Hall

Tickets £25.00 (includes a wide selection of tapas food and sangria, freshly prepared and served by La Tasca, Chiswick)
Limited seats, book early!

An evening of modern flamenco fusion music with original compositions from 'El Aire' Flamenco fusion band and passionate flamenco dancing, led by Sam Quy currently performing in 'Carmen' at the Royal Opera House.

Relax at your table as the event unfolds, in the exquisite setting of the Elliott Hall. Enjoy Spanish entertainment and tapas, combined to create a memorable occasion in a feast for the senses!
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Treasure Island
Openwide Theatre

Sunday 28 September 2pm
Ages 6 - 12 Tickets: £7/ £6.00 concessions
65 mins
Travellers Studio

Three children discover a mysterious chest under the bed, in a spooky old holiday cottage. They open it and find a collection of strange and intriguing artefacts. Tossing aside a boring, dusty, old manuscript to get to the good stuff, they excitedly plunder the treasure trove of eye patches, cutlasses, flags and weird old clothes. One child is drawn to the manuscript and ignoring the swashbuckling antics of the others, begins to read:

“This is my story, young Jim Hawkins by name, of survival in the face of bloodthirsty buccaneers and pistol toting pirates, and the whole particulars of our sea bound adventure to Treasure Island…”

As the children are drawn into the story, everything around them in the room begins to change: the bunk beds heave-to; a standard lamp is hoisted aloft as mast and crows nest; sheet sails unfurl and The Hispaniola embarks on a perilous voyage to find and bring back the buried treasure of old Cap’n Flint.
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Inaugural event: Saturday 4 October
6.00pm onwards. Tickets and invite only. Tickets £5.

Main festival: Sunday 5 October – Thursday 9 October
10.30am – 11.30pm

Admission FREE - Please note: When venue capacity is reached an entry queueing system will apply.

Experience more than 35 cultural events over this dynamic six-day festival!

Durga Utsav (Utsav means celebration) is one of the oldest and largest festivals in the Indian sub-continent that celebrates the triumph of good over evil. The modern day Durga Utsav is a cultural carnival where people from all backgrounds actively participate together.

Building on the success of last year, 2008’s festival will feature an exciting programme of cultural performances engaging audiences and participants from all age groups and cultural backgrounds.

Festival highlights will include:

A Musical Performance by 'DOHAR – A Journey of Folk Music', an internationally acclaimed Indian Folk Group

Pandit Dinesh (regarded as the Godfather of the British Asian Musical Movement, ex-Ossibisa)

Children's Dance Performance , 'Thakumar Jhuli - NeelKamal LaalKamal'

The Golden Era - A tribute to ‘Uttam Kumar'. Unforgettable Melodies of the Yesteryears and the music of new genre.

‘Flamenco Aire’ - The rhythms and emotions of Flamenco with Flamenco Aire. Spirited and powerful dancers join with sublime musical accompaniment to produce an act that touches and excites the senses.

‘Strings’ - Mohan Veena Recital by Anand Sundaram the disciple of Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Grammy Award Winner) and Tabla by Dr. Bishwa Chakraborty

‘Taraweeh’ – ecstatic Sufi Music with powerful rhythms.

‘Bollywood Dance Finale’ with a selection of the best of Bollywood Groups in Harrow

For tickets, please call 020 8416 8989

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Mek Mi Laugh : Special Black History Month Edition
Da Comedy Room

Saturday 11 October 8pm
£12
Elliott Hall

Another round of the ever-popular comedy brand ‘Mek Mi Laugh’ comes to Harrow. Five top comics from the UK and abroad will be on stage.

Expect audience engagement and merciless ribbing of latecomers, comic observations recognising the absurdities of modernity and pokes fun at a host of stereotypes.

Warning: Adult material not to be taken toooo seriously!
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Watermans in Harrow presents
PARTY, a one act play

Saturday 18 October
7.30pm
Tickets £10.00/£8 concessions

The play is an Indian story performed in English, for a universal audience. It includes theatre, with contemporary Indian poetry and classical music woven into it.

PARTY is a spectacle! It explores the hypocrisies of the cultural and intellectual glitterati.

Leading socialite, Indira Sinha throws a party to honour successful novelist, Dibakar Banerjee. Many well known personalities have been invited. As the evening develops the guest’s mask of sophistication falls away to reveal attitudes and beliefs that are normally left unspoken and events take an unexpected turn.

PARTY is about the so-called elite and their exploitation of power, sex and nepotism.

It explores a changing society, where people who have rejected life’s comforts for a social cause come up against those who cannot break free from traditional social structures and values.

PARTY has received critical acclaim from The Telegraph and the Times of India and is presented by Neev, a visiting theatre company from India.
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Vichitra 2008
Srishti - Nina Rajarani Dance School

Saturday 25 October
7pm
£10.00
Elliott Hall

This is the annual showcase by the Bharatanatyam students of Nina Rajarani. Performed to live music, the main feature of this year's show is the Dashavataram, a mythological theme depicting the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu.

In addition to the main piece, traditional Bharatanatyam repertoire will be performed by students of a variety of ages and levels, starting from age 5 up to those who have been training at the school since it was established over 17 years ago.

Srishti – Nina Rajarani Dance School is based at the Harrow Arts Centre, and provides traditional training in Bharatanatyam Dance and Karnatic Music for children and adults. For more information on classes please contact the Srishti office on 0208 868 7746 or danceschool@srishti.co.uk
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Baba Yaga and Other Witches
Opening Eyes Theatre

Sunday 26 October 2008 2pm
Ages 5 - 9 £7/£6 concessions
50 mins
Travellers Studio

Join us on a journey deep into the woods where witches live.

Will Koshka manage to rescue his magic cow from the terrifying troll witch who lives in the deep ravine?

Will the woodcutter’s daughter win back her true love from the wicked witch who lives East of the Sun and West of the Moon?

And will Vasalissa outwit Baba Yaga, the scariest witch of all, with her warty face, fiery eyes and iron teeth, to bring home fire to her stepmother’s house?

Opening Eyes brings each of these tales to life using their unique blend of dramatic storytelling, music, live action and puppetry.
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For tickets, please call 020 8416 8989

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