Saturday 27th August 
Mitra Alice Tham
Lunchtime Piano Recital
2 – 4 pm in the gallery
Tickets £8, available from the George cafe. Seating limited to 30 seats.
Brilliant young pianist Mitra Alice Tham will play an inspiring and varied programme including pieces by Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Scarlatti, Bartok, Debussy and Beethoven. The recital coincides with the end of the exhibition ‘Eye Music’, paintings by Stephen Webster and the last show upstairs at the George.
Mitra has been a prizewinner at many international competitions. She is a diverse musician. A skilled composer and arranger whose recent commissions have included a transcription of ‘The Entertainer’ and other famous works for piano quintet and choir and other various ensembles. www.mitraalicetham.com
Programme: Bach Toccata C Minor BWV 911 Mozart Sonata in E-flat K282 Prokofiev Young Juliet from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75 Prokofiev Montagues and Capulets as above Interval Scarlatti Sonata in D Major K480 Bartok Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csik Debussy Etude No. 6 Beethoven ‘Waldstein’ Sonata in C Major Op. 53Previous Events
Saturday 9th July Lola Perrin Lunch time Piano Concert
12.30 pm in the gallery
This concert is part of the Coleford Festival of Words. Tickets £8 or £6 concessions, available in the George Cafe 01594 510740 or the Forest Bookshop, Coleford 01594 833334
Composer pianist Lola Perrin returns to Coleford Festival of Words with a programme of her original compositions to complement Joan Gabie’s exhibition in the gallery. The centre piece of the concert is Startpiece: a collaboration for piano and pre-recorded spoken word with composer Alexis Kirke, featuring the voices of John Humphrys in conversation with Princeton geologist Adam Maloof about his remarkable fossil find from snowball earth and what this means for our origins.
www.lolaperrin.com www.lolaperrinsheetmusic.com www.forestbookshop.com
Saturday 18th June 2011 Joan and Neville Gabie
Exploring Solitude: a drawn response to emails from Antarctica
The gallery will extend opening hours from 5pm for a preview and a talk about their experiences by Joan and Neville at 6.30 pm.
Thursday 12th May 2011 7.30 – 9.30pm
Gilbert Biberian a guitar recital for Spring
Tickets £10.00 available from The George Cafe 01594 510740
featuring the music of
Francesco da Milano
Joan Abrosio Dalza
Simone Molinaro
Reginald Smith Brindle
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Armenian songs and dances
Gilbert Biberian
Manuel de Falla
Mario Castelnuovo Tadesco
Photo: Ingolfur Margeirsson www.gilbertbiberian.com
Drawing as Performance
David Behar-Perahia will give an illustrated talk about his work on Tueday 26th April 2011 7pm at the gallery. This event complements the exhibition Drawing as Performance which continues to 30th April.
Off the Wall
Affordable Art Bazaar Call to Artists from the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley to submit wall-mounted artworks for an exhibition in the gallery,upstairs at the GEORGE, from 3rd December to 22nd January. The art will be sold ‘Off the Wall’ during the exhibition and replaced from the reserve. Bring up to 3 works to the gallery on Saturday 20th November, 10am-5pm. Any medium, any size, framed (if appropriate) and ready to hang, priced no higher than £250. A label must be fixed to each work with name, address, email and telephone number, title and price. Works will be selected and hung by the upstairs team. Entrance free, 30% commission on sales. Enquire or register your interest at the email address on our contact page
EDITIONS
Martyn Grimmer will give a talk on his work and collaborations with other artists on Friday 29th October at 8pm
Friday 3rd September 2010 Walk from Newnham to coincide with the start and finish of the Walking the Land ‘River Art Walk’ on the opposite bank. Meet at the bottom of Severn Street 1.15 pm. A steep climb affording views of the Horseshoe, dropping to Bullo Pill, then along the Severn bank to Newnham, arriving to greet walkers on the other side. No dogs, please.
Friday 10th September 2010 7pm Andrew Darke will talk on ‘Wildness and the Severn Bore’ and at 7.50pm Ian Beetlestone will play jazz on the George’s grand piano. The Severn Bore is expected at 9.19pm at Newnham. Entrance free, donations welcome.
11th/12th September The artists will have a presence at the Magnificent Severn Festival, a celebration of the river at various venues.
Friday 24th September 8pm We are very fortunate to be hosting a reading by Philip Gross from The Water Table, winner of the TS Eliot Poetry Prize 2009. Entrance free, donations to the Pakistan Flood Disaster Relief Fund. (£80 was raised by an audience of 15 people and the cheque sent to DEC)
Friday 1st October 8pm Stuart Ballard, surfer and Magnificent Severn Festival organizer, chats about ‘The River that flows Backwards’. Entrance free, donations welcome.
PETER REDDICK CUTTING THE LIGHT
23rd July 2010 Screening of Peter Reddick’s photographic sequence ‘A Dissolving World’ (35 mins)
Sadly, Peter passed away on 28th September 2010. The upstairs team are very grateful to have been able to exhibit the work of such a fine artist, printmaker and illustrator. He will be sorely missed.
SCREENINGS OF PARADJANOV’S FILMS
24th May 2010 8pm The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) followed by the documentary, Paradjanov’s Code (2005) Levon Grigoryan at The Palace Cinema, Cinderford, GL14 2AA
The following screenings to be held in the gallery, upstairs at the GEORGE:
28th May 2010 8pm Illustrated talk by Yuri Mechitov followed by The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984)
4th June 2010 8pm Ashik Kerib (1988) followed by the documentary Paradjanov: A Requiem (1994) Ron Holloway
11th June 2010 8pm Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
