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Kids
Starts 7 January, ends 17 March
Mondays 7.30pm - 9 pm
£55 (£50 concs) for 10 week term
A great way to get fit using traditional ballet exercises and exploring choreographic techniques. Suitable for more experienced dancers.
Starts 8 January, ends 18 March
Tuesdays 7pm-9pm
£65 (£58.50 concs) for 10 week term
A course suitable for both beginners and more experienced writers, looking at the techniques of fiction writing, creating sympathetic characters and writing realistic dialogue. The course is run on an informal basis with opportunities for students to receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment. Enjoyable and inspiring sessions, along with hints and tips to get you writing
Starts 8 January, ends 18 March
Tuesdays 4.15pm - 5.15pm
£30 for ten week term
Enjoy exploring dance and rhythm with our new class for energetic 7 to 10 year olds. Fun, warm ups, musical games, props and routines make this an exciting, high energy class.
Starts 8 January, ends 18 March
Tuesdays 5.30pm - 7pm
£45 for ten week term
Fun dance class where you’ll learn different techniques and styles of dance. Routines and stimulus used to increase understanding of technique and the basics of choreography. A class that encourages confidence, creativity and autonomy.
Starts 9 January, ends 19 March
Wednesdays 7.15pm - 8.15pm
£40 (£36 concs) for ten week term
A new class for beginners and those with little experience of ballet. Come and give it a go!
Stephanie Constantine-Smith Starts 9 January, ends 19 March
Wednesdays 7.15pm-8.15pm
£40 (£36 concs) for ten week term
Be inspired to come and dance yourself fit in a social atmosphere with high energy moves and fun routines.
Art Club for 7 to 10 year olds
Starts 9 January, ends 19 March
Wednesdays 4.30pm - 5.45 pm
£37.50 for 10 week term
Art Club for 11 to 14 year olds
Starts 9 January, ends 19 March
Wednesdays 6pm- 7.30pm
£45 for 10 week term
By looking at who inspires us in the art world and influential artists of the past, and present, we learn lots of useful techniques.
Drama ( 7-8 yr olds)
Jacqueline Goddard
Starts 9 January, ends 19 March
Wednesdays 4.45pm - 6.15 pm
£45 for 10 week term
A great way to grow in confidence and gain an appreciation of drama, movement and voice … while still having lots of fun.
Drama (9-10 yrs)
Jacqueline Goddard
Starts 9 January, ends 19 March
Wednesdays 6.30pm - 8 pm
£45 for 10 week term
Learn about a variety of drama techniques and develop your performance skills, whilst making new friends, and working towards a short new piece to perform.
Forest Youth Theatre (11-13 yrs)
Jacqueline Goddard
Starts 10 January, ends 20 March
Thursdays 4.45pm - 6.15 pm £45 for 10 week term
Forest Youth Theatre (14-16 yrs)
Jacqueline Goddard
Starts 10 January, ends 20 March
Thursdays 6.30pm - 8
pm
£45 for 10 week term Create interesting original performances whilst developing your acting skills. Script work and character building, movement, sound and voice work are all important elements used to prepare a piece to perform to family and friends.
Through a range of exciting improvising and devising exercises, from script work and character building, to movement, sound and voice work, you will learn how to create interesting original performances, whilst developing your acting skills, gain confidence and preparing a piece for performance to family & friends.
Wednesday 12 December 7pm
The young stars of Forest Arts’ after school clubs are coming together in order to show off their talents. Forest Arts Centre will be hosting an evening of dance, theatre and music as well as creating an art exhibition for your perusal. Come and see what’s on offer at Forest and support the budding stars of the future.
Tickets: £6, £4 (concessions and members)
Mondays 14 January, 11 February, 10 March 7pm-9pm
£16.50 (£15 concs) for all three sessions
Forest Arts’ book club is a really friendly group of people who like reading. The aim is to try books you might not think of trying usually - then have a lively, stimulating discussion about them. Meeting once a month at Forest Arts, we concentrate on the books but also make time for a drink in the bar!
Friday 18 January 10.30am to 1.30pm
£21, £19 conc. (Price includes materials.
Please feel free to bring an apron) Explore the use of mixed media and texture in painting. Helen will encourage you to experiment with traditional and contemporary media including drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, and textiles alongside your own style of work. Explore a variety of subject matter including the inspiration behind Helen's current work on buildings in landscape, architecture and architectural detail.
Felicity Costick & Rosemary Bailey
Saturdays 19 January, 2 & 16 February, 1 & 15 March
Choose either: 10am - 11am OR 11.10am - 12.10pm
£22.50 for each group of 5 sessions
Fun sounds, fun moves, exercise and co-ordination for our budding Rhiannas & Justin Timberlakes. This workshop is specially designed to help youngsters find their natural rhythm and gain confidence through dance and movement. Wear short sleeved T shirts and bare feet and bring a bottle of water.
With Keith Bennett
Mondays 21 January, 25 February, 17 March, 21 April, 8pm onwards
£3 per person, per evening (cash only on the night please)
If you’ve got a poem to share, or just want to listen in our relaxed bar atmosphere, come along and be stimulated.
Shelly Lozano
Saturdays 9 & 16 February, 1, 8 & 15 March
12.30pm - 2.30 pm
£40 (£36 concs) for all 5 sessions
An exotic and fun way to get fit. Suitable for beginners and more experienced dancers.
Including pieces from the series ‘Walking Down Rye Lane’
Wednesday 20 February - Saturday 29 March
Nicholas Cobb studied at St. Martin’s and Wimbledon School of Art and currently teaches art within the schools local to his home in Peckham, the mental health sector, and photography at Putney School of Art.
Nick has lived in Peckham for much of his adult life. It’s a cultural melting pot, a destination for migrants from every corner of the planet. Within it lies Rye Lane and included in this work are images capturing a year in the life of this ordinary south London street. This exhibition seeks to demonstrate the opportunities that present themselves woven into a narrative that depicts the insecurities of living in this neighbourhood.
Reconstructions made from the detritus of urban life - for example various receptacles like two-pint plastic milk bottles crudely shaped into figures- gives this exhibition originality on the depiction of urban culture within our rural environment. The viewer brings their sophisticated visual knowledge to bear upon familiar everyday scenes and gestures while simultaneously recognising the staged nature, the artifice, of the photographs.
(5-7 year olds) with Charlotte Moreton and Felicity Costick
Monday 18 February 10.30am - 3.30pm
£18
In the morning learn how to make beautiful flying insects out of willow and wire with Charlotte; dragonflies, butterflies … in fact anything with wings! Then let Felicity put a spring in your step as you dance the afternoon away. Wear old clothes and bring gardening gloves for the morning but remember to dress for dance in the afternoon.
(8-12 year olds) With Charlotte Moreton
Monday 18 February 1pm-4pm
£12
Make your own flying insect or animal from willow, wire and whatever else you can find. It will get messy so wear old clothes and gardening gloves.
(6 years plus) with Claire Camble-Hutchins
Tuesday 19 February 10.30am-4.15pm
£20
Short performance for family and friends at 3.45pm Come and have some good old fashioned team spirited fun in our High School Musical Dance day. You’ve heard the music, you know the words so here’s your chance to let it all go as Claire takes you through all the moves inspired by the smash hit Disney Channel Original Movie. Show off all you’ve done in a short performance to family and friends at the end of the day.
(7 - 10 year olds) with Laurence Rushby
Wednesday 20 February 10.30am - 3pm
£22
Join the brilliant and dynamic artist Laurence Rushby as she shows you how to make beautiful paper out of found objects, tea leaves, colourful feathers, paints and recycled paper. Bring in your old photos, treasures or interesting objects so that you can incorporate them into your design. You’ll come away with something unique and wonderful.
(8-12 year olds) with Lesley Green
Thursday 21 and Friday 22 February 11am – 4pm both days
£40
Join Lesley as she shows you how to make your very own pinhole camera and master the techniques needed to use it. On day two then learn about subject, composition and developing techniques whilst working with recycled objects so that, with reference to our exhibition, you can become the master photographer as you create, photograph and develop your own pictures.
Remember to bring your packed lunch to all of our half term activities. Please book in advance as places are limited.
Friday 22 February 2.30pm & 7.30pm
117mins
Many lives hang on the word of a child when the son of a servant is accused of a crime he did not commit. From the screenwriter of Dangerous Liaisons, and based on the award winning Ian McEwan bestseller, comes a love story that spans decades, from the privileged gardens of country estates to the horrors of World War 2 battlefields. James McAvoy (Last King Of Scotland) and Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice) star in this sumptuous tale of redemption.
Saturday 23 February 8pm
Tickets : £11. Concessions : £10. Supporters : £9.
Belfast’s finest are back for what promises to be another stunning mix of Irish music and song. A sell-out at their last Forest gig, it’s a pleasure to see and hear these talented musicians play.
Craobh Rua (pronounced Crave Ru-ah) play traditional Irish music from the heart, acoustically driven with their own arrangements. They mix rousing jigs, reels and polkas with tender ballads and airs. Banjo, mandolin, fiddle, flute, ullian pipes and passionate vocals combine for a really uplifting and rich sound.
Friday 29 February 8pm
Tickets : £11. Concessions : £10. Supporters : £9.
One of the greatest musical icons of the twentieth century is Bob Dylan and Barb Jungr is fast becoming the definitive contemporary performer of his work. In 2005 the BBC hosted a Barbican concert to celebrate Bob’s 60th birthday and when introducing Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg described her as ‘possibly the best interpreter of Dylan’s songs’ (apart from Bob of course!)
You don’t have to like Bob (but I wish you would!) to love this show. The interpretations are so fresh and Barb so cleverly rescores the pieces that they invest whole new meaning into the words. Far from detracting from the originals, Barb’s songs are beautiful compositions in their own right.
Barb thrilled Forest with her Elvis songbook back in 2005. Performing now in trio format with keyboards, piano, percussion and accordion this promises to be a spine tingling evening. If you love good music, beautifully performed, that really means something, then do come along.
Saturday 1 March 2pm
** but not just for kids!
Adult without kids love it too! Not suitable for under 6’s This has all the fun of a proper comedy club - three comedians, compered routines and great gags - just without the swearing or rude bits! It’s a different show everytime and so you never know what you’re going to get. Three excellent comedians will wow adults and children over 6 alike with their spot on stand up - how do they do it? Years of practice! ‘The perfect way to keep the whole family
The perfect way to keep the whole family happy’ THREE WEEKS
Tickets: £9, £8 (concessions & supporters) 6-16 year olds £6
Written by Jim Cartwright, Directed by Nick Lane
Friday 7 March 7.30pm
Tickets: £12. Concessions £11. Supporters £10.
One pub, one night, fourteen characters, two actors
Amid the bustle of the busy pub, we see contrasting but all too familiar characters - Landlord and Landlady who are bitter and constantly bickering; slick-talking lothario ‘Moth’, Fred and Alice - who has never been the same since Elvis died, and Mrs Iger who ‘loves big men’! Love, loneliness, crisis and conflict play out as the pints are pulled and the night draws on and the exchanges get more barbed. From the writer of ‘The Rise and Fall of Little Voice’ this play is full of colourful characters juggling public façade and private emotion. Sharp, adult and entertaining theatre from one of the country’s best touring companies.
Saturday 8 March 11am-1pm
Free entry
Ages 14 + only
Calling all jazz lovers! Forest will be holding a one off jazz jam so that you can share your passion, techniques and talent. This is your opportunity to meet and play with fellow musicians in the area. It’s informal and open to everyone, so young and old, players and singers alike, grab your instruments and come on down.
Workshops with Exhibiting Artists
Friday 14 March 2.30pm & 7.30pm
102mins
When Wall Street reporter Daniel Pearl is abducted in Karachi, his pregnant wife Mariane is determined to find him but has to endure a harrowing wait as the Pakistani police force investigate the disappearance, and the media frenzy grows. Director Michael Winterbottom’s (Welcome to Sarajevo/The Road to Guantanamo) adaptation of the memoirs of Mariane Pearl features a strong emotional lead performance by Angelina Jolie.
Saturday 15 March 8pm
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)
Alun Cochrane is regularly seen and heard on 'Have I Got News For You', ' 8 out of 10 Cats', 'Mock the Week', 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks', and 'Just a Minute'. His warm and intelligent comedy and laid back manner make him a winner.
He tells a great yarn with killer punchlines and his time in cafes is obviously well spent as this show is full of hilarious anecdotes, overheard conversations and musings on life.
Thursday 20 March 8pm
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)
Paul Lamb has long been considered Britain’s best blues harmonica player. He started off as a lad in Newcastle representing the country in the World harmonica championships! He has since sold record breaking numbers of albums, toured the world, played with the likes of Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Mark Knopfler and The Who and composed for countless film and TV scores. Lamb was recently inducted into the British Blues Awards hall of Fame alongside the likes of Peter Green, John Mayall and Alexis Korner. Paul Jones is a big fan, often playing the Kingsnakes on his Radio 2 show.
The Kingsnakes are Lamb’s longstanding musical compatriots. They now comprise Sonny Bellow on drums, Raul de Pedro Marinero on guitar, Rod Demmick on double bass and vocals, Chad Strentz on lead vocals and Lamb himself on harp and vocals. This is blues of a serious quality, subtle yet strong, with immense musicianship and clarity.
Friday 28 March 7pm
Tickets: £9, £8 (concessions), £7 (supporters), £6 (7 - 16 year olds)
Be prepared for a totally unique voyage of the imagination!
This is a dynamic re telling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, told with the visual flair of Tim Burton. The story is the original one of a little boy and his evil stepmother but with a positive twist at the end.
Featuring live music, storytelling, magic, a lot of humour as well as some shudder inducing moments, this show will take you on an unforgettable theatrical adventure. The actors will lead the audience in the show so that there’s the opportunity to get stuck in to the show itself if you want to, or just sit back and watch the show. Either way, it’s theatre for everyone and a unique experience!
Great for families and ages over 7 years
Friday 4 April 8pm
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)
We’re really delighted to have The Martin Harley band coming to Forest this year as part of a six week nationwide tour to promote their new album ‘Grow Your Own’ - on general release 2nd April 2008.
The band play an amazing blend of Americana, blues and jazz, magically coaxing out a kaleidoscope of styles. Songs about living in cars, worn out shoes, girls lost in the carnival lights, satellite hunting in car parks. Martin’s amazing slide guitar (played across his lap!) and whiskey soaked northern breeze vocals. The band now also comprise legendary double bass player Graeme Ross and Pete Swatton on percussion.
Friday 4 April 8pm
Tickets: £6, £5 (concessions and supporters)
Suitable for children from 4 years and upwards. Great for 7-11 year olds but parents will love it as much as the children!
If you go down to the woods today you are sure for a BIG surprise…
On the edge of the forest lives Billy Mario the international video gaming champion. When an abandoned baby Jackdaw is left on his doorstep Billy’s life is transformed in a way that never seemed possible. With his grandmother Betty Beetroot, Billy sets out on a journey of ancient traditions and spells.
Puppetry, live music, projected animation and a riveting narrative (based on a true story) all combine in a show that will charm the whole family young and old. This is spellbinding family theatre from the company that brought us the delightful ‘Bird in the Hand’ and ‘Puck’s Bottom’.
(5-7 year olds) with Jill O’Sullivan and Claire Camble-Hutchins
Monday 7 April 10.30am - 3.30pm
£18
(Please bring a basic sewing kit if you have one and any extra bits of fabric you may want to use.)
We welcome Jill to Forest Arts to show you how to make your own full of beans creature out of colourful fabrics. Whether you make a lizard, frog, bat or bug you’ll learn all the techniques needed; drawing templates, cutting out, sewing and gluing, and adding decoration with beads and pens. In the afternoon Claire will be back to lead more dancing fun with music from the Ugly Bug Ball and Lion King!
(8-12 year olds) with Rachelle Carswell
Tuesday 8 April 11am - 3.30pm
£25 (Price includes all materials and use of tools)
With artist Rachelle experience the art of metalwork by learning how to make decorative marks, engraving, embossing, letter stamping, patination and various experimental techniques. During the day you’ll create your own personal narrative on three beautiful copper panels. You’ll come away with something unique and wonderful.
(7-11 year olds) with Jacqueline Goddard
Wednesday 9 April 11am - 4pm
£18
Devise, improvise, mix words and music. Jackie is back to help you to create your own stories, characters and situations in order to create a whole play that you can perform for your family and friends! Who knows where your imagination will take you this time
(8-12 year olds)with Jill O’Sullivan
Thursday 10 April 11am - 3.30pm
£22
(Please bring a basic sewing kit if you have one and any extra bits of fabric you may want to use.)
Design and craft your own curious cat from a wonderful selection of colourful fabrics and textile accessories. Learn all the techniques needed from cutting templates to sewing, gluing to stitching and stuffing to fabric painting. Add your own personal touch to create a furry friend that can be given as a gift or taken home to keep.
Saturday 12 April 8pm
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)
Once the notorious host of Canada's legendary Ed's Night Party, Craig recently supported Rich Hall on his national tour and is more and more in demand for TV and radio. Craig's unique ability to find humour in the mundane, coupled with his own natural eccentricity makes for truly inventive storytelling.
Craig appears alongside Tony Law and Dan Antopolski as part of comedy trio The Dinks. Their debut Edinburgh show in 2003 was both a critical and box office success, leading to an invitation to perform in the Best Of Edinburgh programme in New York.
Come and spend an evening with Craig and he assures you you will realise you've made a splendid decision in coming to his show!
Saturday 19 April 8pm
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)
Tipitina is a three piece tour de force of swing boogie-woogie and jive in the great New Orleans tradition. Justin Randall is a classically trained blues and boogie pianist but you’d think he’d honed his craft in low dives and honky-tonks! Debbie Jones has a wonderfully soul drenched voice and is a natural at mixing ‘sanctified’ and ‘sinful’ music. Gary Barber on drums pitches the different rhythms perfectly.
From Fats Waller, and Nat King Cole to Tom Wait’s ‘I wish I was in New Orleans’ ,Tipitina effortlessly mix jazz, blues and pop in the great traditions of Fats Domino, Dr John, The Neville Brothers and Jools Holland.
Friday 25 April 2.30pm & 7.30pm
113mins
George Clooney plays divorced gambler Michael Clayton who works as ‘fixer’ for a powerful New York law firm, resolving the ‘problems’ of rich corporate clients. When friend and colleague Arthur Edens has a breakdown and threatens to tell all about corrupt chemical company and top clients UNorth, Clayton is sent in to persuade him to tow the line. Directed by Tony Gilroy (screenwriter for the Bourne films) this gripping film has stand out performances from Tom Wilkinson as Edens and Tilda Swinton as ruthless UNorth chief legal counsel Karen Crowder.
Saturday 26 April 7.30 pm
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)
The World’s Greatest Detective refuses to leave the stage! In this captivating one man show of murder, mystery and the occult Roger Llewellyn uncannily brings Sherlock Holmes to life.
In fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle tires of his famous sleuth and uses the arch villain Moriarty to dispose of him. But just as raising the spirits of the dead becomes an obsession in the Conan Doyle’s own life, so his fictional creations return to thrill, intrigue and dazzle us. A dramatic end…but a thrilling comeback!
Roger Llewellyn had major international success in ‘Sherlock Holmes – the Last Act’ and this is a great opportunity to see a master performer up close in a play written by David Stuart Davies, directed by Gareth Armstrong. There’s also an original score by Simon Slater.
Tickets: £11, £10 (concessions), £9 (supporters)