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Your chance to sing with Cleveland Watkiss

Trinity Laban’s World Choir course is offering you the chance to perform alongside the award winning singer, Cleveland Watkiss.

Singers will explore jazz styles and techniques during the six week course with vocal director and internationally recognised performer Nia Lynn.

World Choir rehearsals will begin at the end of this month with the course culminating in a final performance at Blackheath Halls in November.

Cleveland (pictured above), winner of the London Awards ‘Best Vocalist’ 2010, co-founded the Jazz Warriors in 1985 with Courtney Pine and has worked with many musical influencers including Bob Dylan, Wynton Marsalis, The Who, Bjork and Stevie Wonder.

Cleveland said: “Jazz is an incredibly encompassing and influential genre capable of assimilating and absorbing all kinds of music. Trinity Laban’s World Choir is a great opportunity to involve the local community and aspiring jazz vocalists in music making and I look forward to performing with them.”

Vocal director Nia Lynn, a specialist in jazz vocals, has performed extensively at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Ronnie Scott’s and Southbank Centre. She is Principal Study Singing Teacher at Trinity Laban’s Jazz Department, as well as holding several other national teaching posts.

Nia said: “The great thing about this course is that you don’t need to know how to read music. We learn songs by ear so adults of all musical abilities can get involved. Whether you’re an experienced jazz singer, a budding amateur or you just want to try something new, this course is for you.”

The project is part of Greenwich Jazz which is produced by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in partnership with Greenwich Council, Serious and the London Jazz Festival.

The course costs £50 (£15 for Greenwich Card holders) which includes rehearsals over six weeks and the final performance. For further information or to book visit www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/worldchoir, email ed.comm@trinitylaban.ac.uk or telephone 020 8305 4367.

Greenwich Comedy Festival 2011

The Greenwich Comedy Festival returns to Greenwich later this summer.

The Festival, part of the Greenwich Festivals series, will pitch up its Big Top in the grounds of the historic Old Royal Naval College once more as some of the country’s top comedians entertain the crowds.

Greenwich Comedy Festival takes place from September 5th – September 11th and the confirmed comics include Arthur Smith, Sean Lock, Kevin Eldon, Tim Minchin, Phill Jupitus, Adam Buxton, Micky Flanagan and Seann Walsh.

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS OF THE 2012 GREENWICH COMEDY FESTIVAL

Greenwich Dances, part of the Greenwich Festivals series

From 24 June – 3 July Greenwich Dance is presenting a 10-day celebration, Greenwich Dances, as part of The Greenwich Festivals series, with 24 performances and 11 workshops in many unusual locations – from parks to palaces, riverfronts to town centres, museums to street corners

Small Dances

Moving Gallery, Can I dance for you? and Running Dance

Location: around Greenwich Town Centre and the Old Royal Naval College

Date & Time: Throughout the day on Friday 24, Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June

Three performances that will rove through Greenwich Town Centre and the Old Royal Naval College: Ragnhild Olsen’s Moving Gallery devised with students from Lewisham College; Can I Dance For You? by David Waring and Melodie Gonzales – a set of guerrilla-style solos and duets,  where dancers spring ‘out of the blue’ to perform for passers-by; and Running Dance, a duet that moves and challenges the flow of crowds created by  Thomas Goodwin and Petra Söör.

Moving Gallery and Can I Dance For You? are also part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (24 June – 2 July)

Crossroads

by Luca Silvestrini’s Protein

Location: King Charles Courtyard at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Date and Time: Saturday 25 June 6.45pm    Sunday 26 June 1.50 & 3.35pm

Commissioned by Greenwich Dance and created by resident company Luca Silvestrini’s Protein in partnership with Trinity Laban and in collaboration with composer Andy Pink, Crossroads will delight and surprise with its large cast of local people from toddlers to octogenarians. Inspired by ideas and experiences of travelling, migration and cultural identity, this unique performance of dance and live music will inhabit the elegant King Charles Courtyard at the heart of Trinity Laban on the historic Old Royal Naval College site.

Crossroads is also part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival

Tea Revives the World

by Alexandra Baybutt and Ben Gwalchmai

Location: Public garden by the Cutty Sark Pub, the shoreline by Crane Street and between these two sites.

Date & Time: Wednesday 29 June – 2 July, 7.00pm.

Tea Revives the World is a site-specific performance experiment, in four parts, inspired in part by the piers of Greenwich and The Cutty Sark, the tea-clipper that traded tea all over the globe. Set against the riverside and the shifting Thames shoreline, the performance involves movement, sculptural costume, and water. The actions of everyday rituals, tea-picking and voyages of the body and trade are woven together to explore the history of Greenwich.

Tea Revives the World is funded by Greenwich Dance’s Leg-up Bursary for emerging dance artists.

For more information about the other activities around the borough, visit the Greenwich Dance website.

Greenwich Summer Sessions 2011

The Greenwich Summer Sessions return this year with a line up that’s bigger and better than before.

Greenwich legends, Squeeze, will be performing in their hometown and there will also be sets by Status Quo, Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy, the Pogues, Mark Ronson and Status Quo.

The series of concerts will take place in the stunning surroundings of the Old Royal Naval College.

Greenwich Summer Sessions 2011 Tickets

26th July 2011 – Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy featuring Jose Gonzales
27th July 2011 – Mark Ronson & The Business Intl + support
28th July 2011 – Status Quo + Nine Below Zero
29th July 2011 – Squeeze + support
30th July 2011 – The Pogues

The Greenwich Summer Sessions will be staged in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College

Boy George in Temperamental visit to Greenwich

Hold onto your hats, Boy George is coming to Greenwich Theatre. He’ll be attending the off-Broadway hit The Temperamentals on 2 June and will take part in an on-stage discussion after the show.

Also taking part will be former top London policeman Brian Paddick and playwright and screenwriter Patrick Wilde.

The play’s director, local Greenwich boy Joseph C Walsh, will have the job of keeping everything in order, or not.

Set in late 1940s America, The Temperamentals tells the story of two men – communist Harry Hay and Austrian refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich – who together set up the Mattachine Society, the world’s first gay rights organisation.

The story explores this “relatively unknown” chapter in history – a time when being gay was illegal and often dangerous.

It is the second time in a year that Joe has brought an award-winning show back to Greenwich Theatre. He wowed audiences last year with From Laramie With Love, a tale about the murdered US teen Matthew Shepard. We interviewed him back then here.

This time he hopes to do the same. The Temperamentals is coming fresh from Ireland where it scooped an award for its run at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival earlier this month.

In a press release Greenwich Theatre welcomed the play’s arrival, which is showing for two nights only:

“The play marks an important moment for Greenwich Theatre – for the first time we have brought together two of our young supported companies – Wild Oats Productions and City Lights Theatre Company – and pooled the resources of the three companies to create the show.

“We are proud to have carried the name of Greenwich Theatre to Ireland with such success, and delighted that such an eminent panel will join us on 2 June to discuss the play.”

Tickets are £12.50, concessions £7.50, through Greenwich Theatre
http://www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/

Photo: Patrick Wilde, Brian Paddick and Boy George will be on stage on 2 June

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