Arts Highlights
University of Surrey Chamber Choir and Orchestra
The University of Surrey’s Chamber Choir and Orchestra return to the URC Music Series with a programme of music to nurture the soul. Britten’s setting of Auden’s poem was written at the same time as his Ceremony of Carols, and shares the same wonderful music effects. The Hymn contrasts with the austere beauty of Stravinsky’s Mass and the extreme purity of Bach and Purcell.
This concert is one of the opening events of the 2013 Guildford International Music Festival.
The Weak Force Collaborative Art Installation
'The Weak Force' is an international collaboration between artists Matthew Sansom (UK), Andy Thomson (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Chris Braddock (NZ), Eugene Hansen (NZ), Laresa Ksoloff (Aus), Bruce Barber (Canada), and Kim Morgan (Can). It is part of 'Unified Field Theory', a larger arts research project based at Auckland University of Technology. Visit this multimedia artwork to explore connections between gravitational theory, the 100th anniversary of Luigi Russolo’s manifesto The 'Art of Noises', and questions about how and why artists work together.
For more information: www.uft-gravity.com
The Colour of Justice
This dramatic reconstruction, based on the transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, was originally produced at the Tricycle Theatre in London. Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths in Eltham, South-East London in 1993. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict at the time, and the public inquiry into the investigation caused a national outcry when it found that the police force was guilty of ‘institutionalised racism’.
Weightless
Weightless is a new work celebrating Yael Flexer’s 20th anniversary as a choreographer. Engaging, thoughtful, but with a cheeky wink, this show carries Yael’s trademark witty text and humour combined with fastpaced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical score by Israeli cellist Karni Postel.
It also features an exciting digital element with radio-controlled floating objects drifting through the auditorium and a multiplicity of sound objects; disembodied voices immersing both audience and performers.
Ivy Arts Centre
The latest exciting addition to the University of Surrey campus is now open. Find out more about this new Arts building
The Arts Experience
The University of Surrey has a proud history of involvement in the arts and an exciting future of continued expansion ahead of it. More