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Forest Forge are currently looking for two new members of staff to join our busy team!
We are currently looking for an
Administrative Assistant to assist the General Manager with the day to day administration of the company.
This is a part time role of 16 hours per week.
Salary: £12,000 pro rata
Our special desert island beach set is back from Hythe and here are the selected discs…
Discs:
I’m Not Okay (I Promise) – My Chemical Romance
Cello Suite No1 – Bach
Beautiful Boy – John Lennon
Suzanne – Leonard Cohen
Thief in the Night – Rolling Stones
Blue Lines – Massive Attack
Jealous Guy – Bryan Ferry
Sweet Dreams – Annie Lennox
What’s That Coming over the Hill – The Automatic
Music of the Night – Andrew Lloyd Webber
Little Girl So Fine – Johnny and The Ashbury Jukes
Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
Don’t Stop Me Know – Queen
Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
Just Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble
Hot n Cold – Katy Perry
Livin La Vie Da Loca – Ricky Martin
I Gotta Feelin – Black Eyed Peas
Feel – Robbie Williams
Are You Lonesome Tonight – Elvis
Stand By Your Man – Tammy Winette
Blue Danube Waltz – Andre Rieu
Aint No Pleasing You – Chas n Dave
Coward of the Country – Kenny Rogers
I’ve Got A Brand New Combine Harvester – Wurzels
Take A Bow – Glee
For the past two weeks our special Desert Island set has been at Gosport Discovery Centre.
Here are Gosport’s choices:
Well Winchester Discovery Centre here are your greatest hits- all chosen as you sat on our Desert Island over the last 2 weeks:
Records:
anything by Leona Lewis
Man with the child in his eyes- Kate Bush
High School Musical
Sound of Music
Mamma Mia- Abba
Down in mexico- The Coasters
Dancing Queen- Abba
Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Orchestra
The Wind Beneath my wings- Bette Midler
These Boots were made for Walking- Nancy Sinatra
Tales from the City, Songs from the Sea- PJ Harvey
Boys, Boys, Boys- Lady Gaga
Well, once again I have been on Forest FM and enjoyed myself immensely! Thank you Di and Stephen- we will put up the latest intervew shortly. The Desert Island is in Winchester Discovery Centre this week and then it goes to Gosport Discovery Centre and then Hythe. The postcards you are filling in have been fascinating- lots of Elvis, Beatles and Abba as expected- but also lots of Pixie Lott and Rhianna as well!
Once the Desert Island has come home we will work out the top 8 records and the most popular luxury and book and let you know on Forest FM, Solent and this website.
But keep the postcards coming in……
Tues 27th July, 10.30-11.30am
Music, rhyme, movement, stories and crafts for under 5’s and parents\carers at Forest Forge, The Theatre Centre, Endeavour Park, Crow Arch Lane, Ringwood, BH24 1SF
£2.00 charge per family
The Desert Island is still out on the road and collecting Hampshire’s Desert Island Disc choices!
From 19 July the island is at Winchester Discovery Centre.
Here are a few of the choices from Fareham:
Well what a fantastic time we had at Ringwood Festival and the sun actually shined!
We were next to Forest FM who kindly played us some of your musical choices including the Mayor’s and Roger Finn’s!
So Festival goers here are some of your musical requests:
Music:
Whispering your name-Alison Moyet
About a girl- Sugerbabes
White Horses
Rock Around The Clock- Bill Haley and the Comets
You Raise Me Up- Westlife
Thriller- Michael Jackson
Fire- Kasabian
The Defamation of Strickland- Banks
High School Musical
Fight for this love- Cheryl Cole
Single Ladies- Beyonce
Eternal Flame- The Bangles
Theme to True Romance
Abba
The Rose
Everything David Bowie did!
So the Desert Island is in Fareham for 2 weeks- please do go along to the Library and fill out your postcards about your discs, luxury and book. Look out for the Island at Ringwood Festival this Saturday as well.
Listen to Kirstie talking about the island and the production of For the Record on Solent Radio on the Jon Cuthill show.
Here are some of the choices from Alton Library:
Music:
Queen/ 80’s
Best of Both Worlds
Trout Mash- Captain Beefheart
1812 Overture
New Boats and Panties
Toto- Africa
When Worlds Collide
Unchained Melody
There’s no Place Like Home
I’ve got a feeling
Books:
Angel
The Antipope
Black Beauty
DaVinci Code
Dragon Book of Verse
Rosie
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
So- our Desert Island has arrived in Alton and will reside there for the next couple of weeks before it then wends its way to Fareham.
We would love you to cast yourself away and write us a postcard that tells us your Desert Island Discs, Luxury and Book. We will tell you Hampshire’s choices via our website and Solent Radio and Forest FM. A big thank you to the Library Service for supporting us to do this!
The Desert Island is then off to:
Fareham Library w/c 5th july
Winchester Discovery Centre w/c 19th july
Gosport Discovery Centre w/c 2nd August
Hythe Library w/c 16th August
From end of June right through the summer you may see our Desert Island in a Library near you. We would love you to fill in the postcard with your 8 Discs, Luxury and Book and post it in the Forest Forge postbox which just happens to be on the island!
Each week we will put on the website and via Forest FM what people’s choices have been.
Tues 22nd June, 10.30-11.30am
Music, rhyme, movement, stories and crafts for under 5’s and parents\carers at Forest Forge, The Theatre Centre, Endeavour Park, Crow Arch Lane, Ringwood, BH24 1SF
£2.00 charge per family
This week a mysterious delivery came to Forest Forge; some very large pieces of polystyrene which took up most of the foyer. They were whisked away into the workshop and soon the sounds of furious sawing and squeaking began. Our associate director, David Haworth began to look more and more like a snowman. Red faced but happy.
On closer inspection it seemed some kind of sculpture was beginning to take shape.
Yes, it is the Forest Forge Library Installation ‘Desert Island’ which will be traveling to many libraries in Hampshire over the coming months.The idea is that people will be invited to sit on our desert island and write a postcard that will list their eight favourite pieces of music, just like on the popular radio programme, and pop it in the island post box to Forest Forge. The info we glean from the people of Hampshire of their musical tastes will help to inform our upcoming tour ‘For The Record’ by Joyce Branagh which tours in the autumn.
WATCH THE ISLAND BEING CREATED BEFORE YOUR EYES IN THE GALLERY…
Young people from Hampshire secondary schools are getting to know us in the next two weeks as they join us for our work experience project Elevate.
The project was first piloted last year and sees Forest Forge working with students from Ringwood and Burgate schools who become the cast, technical team and other members of the theatre company for two weeks.
In the run up to our autumn show For the Record we will be touring a Desert Island into a Library near you! From June to September there will be a touring Island which you can sit on and write a postcard to us about your 8 discs, luxury and book that you would take to the Desert Island and we will then find out and tell you which has been the most popular choices as well as playing the music via Forest FM. The Desert Island will also be in the Ringwood Festival on the 10th July and the Ringwood Carnival on the 18th September.
The library tour is as follows:
Alton Library w/c 28th June
Fareham Library w/c 5th July
Winchester Discovery Centre w/c 19th July
Gosport Discovery Centre w/c 2nd Aug
Hythe Library w/c 16th August
I hope you enjoy the experience!
Read the review of Free Folk in The Stage:click here to read
Listen to the artistic director talk about the show and For the Record:
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Read the review of Free Folk in the Salisbury Journal: click here to read.
Music, rhyme, movement, stories
and crafts for under 5’s and
parents/carers at :
Forest Forge, The Theatre Centre,
Endeavour Park, Crow Arch Lane,
Ringwood, BH24 1SF
Time : 10.30 – 11.30am, Tuesdays
TIM Treslove began his acting career aged 13 with Salisbury Playhouse’s youth theatre, Stage ’65, and has worked with Forest Forge since 1994 – to read the full article click on the link below:
Click to read full interview
Read the review of ‘Ashputtel’ in The Stage: click here to read.
Forest Forge Youth Theatre present Struwwelpeter, a fast-paced show using the cautionary tales by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann. The performances are Wed 9th, Thurs 10th and Fri 11th December at 7.30pm and Sat 12th at 3.30pm and 7.30pm. If you would like to see what our youth theatre gets up to please call 01425 470188 to book tickets, a suggested donation of £4 on the door, and £2 for youth theatre members
Our Christmas show, Ashputtel: The Cinderella Story, is now touring! Check the show page to see when the show is coming to a venue near you, or read the preview in the Salisbury Journal.
If you’ve seen the show, please take a few moments to fill out a brief questionnaire to give us your feedback (download in PDF format or in Word format).
Forest Forge requires from April 2010 a new General Manager. Download the information pack for details.
Artistic Director Kirstie Davis was recently interviewed for the ‘My Gurus’ column in Arts Professional, in which she talks about the people who have inspired her. Read Kirstie’s interview here.
Meanwhile, former Artistic Director Sean Aita has written a feature for The Stage (‘A Changing Landscape’, 15th October) about the work of Forest Forge and similar companies working in rural areas. Read Sean’s article here.
Read the review of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at the Salisbury Journal: click here to read.
If you’ve seen the show, please take a few moments to fill in a brief questionnaire to give us your feedback. Download here in PDF format or in Word format.
If you’ve seen Around the World in 80 Days, please take a few moments to fill in a brief questionnaire to give us your feedback. Download here in PDF format or in Word format.
We use this information to help us understand our audiences better: who you are, where you come from and how often you come to see our shows. This allows us to plan for the future and report to our funders that we are carrying out our mission.
Forest Forge’s Around the World in 80 Days is now touring to village halls, theatres and arts centres across the region.
On the very day that the Bank of England is robbed, Mr Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant Passepartout hurriedly leave London in the middle of the night to circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days! Little do they know Fix of the Yard is on the case and in hot pursuit…
6 months, 90 rehearsals, 125 youth theatre members, 8 workshops, 8 sculpture building sessions, all culminate in Forest Forge’s exciting new summer event – Roots Youth Theatre Festival. Forest Forge performers aged 6 – 21 will perform 4 shows taking inspiration from the area’s cultural past and environmental future and is part funded by the National Park’s Sustainable Development Fund.
The four shows are Forest Friends and the Litterbugs by Simon Chadwick, Forest Mysteries (a new play retelling local stories), Adrift (an exciting new devised piece about climate change) and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bring a picnic and be prepared to see the Forest as you have never seen it. For more information please call 01425 470188 or email info@forestforge.co.uk . Tickets go on sale 6th July – call 01425 470188.
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