Holiday fun and quality music.
With summer holidays just around the corner, children of all ages have a jam-packed jamboree of activities at Artrix to look forward to.
Artrix Summer Family Fun Festival, which runs from 28th July to 15th August, is packed with activities for young people. There are two full week of Stage Schools during which they can devise and rehearse a show for performance in the 300 seat theatre on the Friday evening. Rock School is from July 28th to August 1st and Magic of Musicals is August 11th-15th. If you book the first Stage School, you can get the second one half price. Children aged 6-11 can join Club Creative, a lively and fun holiday club between August 4th-8th. There will be Sweetie Day, Jungle Day, Wonderland Day, Adventure Abroad Day and Time Machine Day and children can come for a day or the full week! Support with fees is available, please contact the venue for more details.
If the grown-ups want to join in, there are Family Fun Fridays on August 1st, 8th and 15th between 10.30am and 3pm. Bring a picnic and drop in for free craft activities, a free bouncy castle, face painting and different free events and performances each week. On Friday 8th August, 2Faced Dance will be performing Two Old Men on the patio.
There are lots of workshops that youngsters can try out, from paper craft to pottery, urban dance and free running to graffiti art, DJ-ing to textiles and junk instrument making. Young performers can show off what they can do in the free Talent Show from 2.30-3.30pm on Friday 15th August, places for this need to be booked in advance.
Families with children have a great choice when it comes to shows and cinema too. On August 1st Story Box Theatre present puppet show The Steadfast Tin Soldier whilst Hugless Douglas, a bear in need of a hug visits with Blunderbus Theatre on August 8th. Films for a younger audience this summer include Maleficent, Legends of Oz, Postman Pat: The Movie and How to Train Your Dragon 2. Certain screenings are specifically accessible to disabled or special needs audiences and wheelchairs can always be accommodated.
Remi Harris is an exciting young guitarist and composer. Originally from Bromyard, he is widely regarded as one of the UK’s Top gypsy jazz guitarists and has toured the UK, Australia and France as well as performing at Buckingham Palace and Live on BBC Radio 2.
He started out as guitarist with the band Mars Bonfire but decided to concentrate on playing jazz. Harris has appeared at some of the country’s leading music festivals, collaborated with guitar legends John Etheridge and Gary Potter and become a regular performer at Le Quecumbar, London’s home of gypsy jazz.
In The Remi Harris Gypsy Jazz Project, which is coming to Artrix on Saturday 2nd August, Remi takes traditional gypsy jazz and swing characteristics and infuses them with influences from bebop to world music. The result is a performance that mesmerises and inspires every time.
The Remi Harris Gypsy Jazz Project is showing at Artrix Studio on Saturday 2nd August at 7.30 pm. Tickets cost £12
With sharp suits and even sharper music, mods took Britain by storm in the 1960s. So when a group of professional session musicians decided to form a band to keep their hands in between tours, it was an easy choice for them to re-create this exciting and vibrant style of rock.
The Mods have toured all over Europe playing to packed crowds & ecstatic audiences at theatres, clubs and festivals Between them, the band’s members have performed with many world-leading artists, including Queen, Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, Elton John and Rod Stewart. Audiences at their Artrix performance can look forward to an evening of outstanding musicianship served up with plenty of good banter.
The Mods are performing at Artrix on Friday 8th August at 8.00 pm. Tickets cost £17.50
Tickets for all shows are available from the box office on 01527 577330 or www.artrix.co.uk