The Chronicle, Autumn 2018

39 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

© Emma Chichester Clark; courtesy Zuleika Gallery.

They are leaving Kampala. Buying safe passage and silence with all they have, they travel by matatu and the conductor asks no questions. Their companions are those who have suffered eight long years under the rule of Idi Amin. The Dark is a story of the journey taken by a four-year-old boy and his mother to escape a country divided by dictatorship and consumed by conflict. • For ages 14+ • Performance: 8pm • Tickets: £16 (concessions £14)

Voice: How Sweetly You Burn Saturday 23rd February A programme celebrating women in music as composers, poets and performers from Hildegard of Bingen to the fresh wit of young female composers. A cappella trio, Voice, perform Hildegard’s sacred devotional music from the 12th century alongside contemporary pieces and commissions of vibrant secular works by modern female composers. The concert will take place in The Ogston Music School. • Performance: 7.30pm • Tickets: £16 (concessions £14)

Rapunzel by Emma Chichester Clark. ‘In a fit of rage, she seized a pair of scissors and viciously lopped off Rapunzel’s hair.’ Watercolour with pencil and coloured pencil, 30.5 x 44.5cm; signed with initials.

Once Upon a Time This Christmas, The North Wall Gallery presents a bewitching world of fairy tales - from Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin to Peter Pan and The Emperor’s New Clothes - as seen by artists and illustrators. Brought to the North Wall by Blackwell’s Rare Books and Zuleika Gallery, the new exhibition, Once Upon A Time, traces the visual history of fairy tales and magical story-making, through the work of artists and illustrators from the 19th century to the present day. Open at The North Wall until 5th January, the exhibition will be a rich resource for pupils studying Art, Art History, Ceramics, English and Design. Original prints, drawings and paintings by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, William Heath Robinson, Edward Sorel and EH Shepard

are shown alongside work by contemporary artists such as printmaker Rachel Gracey and ceramicist Claudia Clare. Characterful illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark, Michael Foreman and Jonathan Langley include favourites such as Jack and the Beanstalk , Little Red Riding Hood and The Ugly Duckling. The show also features around 50 rare books from Blackwell’s, many from the golden age of illustration. They include JM Barrie’s 1906 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens with drawings by Arthur Rackham and a complete collection of Andrew Lang’s ‘rainbow’ Fairy Books . Newer publications include Diana Oliver’s sleeping doll ‘altered’ book and new editions including anthologies of Hans Christian Andersen and Angela Carter.