Events at Bookmark Theatre (Bookmark Bloxwich) for Winter 2012 are indicated below. Further events will be added as they are finalised, and advance details will be posted separately.
More details on the flyer, see downloads below.
YOUTH OPEN MIC NIGHTS
ADMISSION FREE
27 January, 24 February, 23 March – 6.30pm doors for 7pm show.
Come and play: a place for young singers, songwriters, rappers and musicians to play, jam and try out.
FREE ENTRY – Call Roy on 07793 189452.
OPEN MIC NIGHTS
ADMISSION FREE
10 February, 9 March – 7.30pm for 8pm show.
For singers, songwriters, poets and musicians to play, jam and try out.
LIVE MUSIC
Red Venice, Scarbelly Blues and Beechwood - Saturday 18 February
Doors 7.30pm for 8pm show. ADMISSION £4, under 14s £2.50
An evening of classic rock and blues from great local bands in aid of the Upper U.G.I. Blues cancer charity.
Tickets from Bloxwich Library, Elmore Row, Bloxwich, Walsall, WS3 2HR. Telephone 01922 655900 to reserve.
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW GIGS
Steve Hayes & Lester Hunt – Saturday 4 February
ADMISSION £5
Doors 8pm for 8.30pm show.
Steve Hayes and Lester Hunt, who are lined up to take to the Bookmark stage on Saturday 4 February, are amongst the finest musicians to fight their way out of middle England and become regulars on the international music scene.
Many people will know Steve as the lead singer/guitarist with the highly acclaimed Nearly Dan. Their live show of Steely Dan songs is second to none. Lester Hunt can be heard around the world whipping up a storm as lead guitarist with the famous Climax Blues Band, after nearly 40 years they are still one of the U.K.’s finest.
Both are members of the legendary Barflys, well-known in Stoke and Newcastle-under-Lyme – and now they are set to take the Walsall music scene by storm as part of Bookmark Theatre’s Live Music Review series which is organised by Canadian singer-songwriter Chuck Micallef.
Hayes and Hunt are becoming well known around the UK for their acoustic set which includes songs from many musical genres. Featured writers and artists include Eric Clapton, BB King, Sting, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Free, Hendrix, Bob Seeger, Paul Simon, Santana, John Martin, Gerry Rafferty, John Mayer and many many more. We’re really looking forward to bringing these guys to the Bookmark and hearing them raise the roof!”
Tickets for this show cost just £5 and are available now from Bloxwich Library in Elmore Row, Bloxwich. Telephone 01922 655900 to reserve.
Knoxville Highway – Saturday 3 March
ADMISSION £5
Doors 7.30pm for 8.15pm show.
A journey through the heart and soul of Country Music!
Includes the music of Hank Williams, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson, John Denver, Toby Keith, Johnny Cash, Tracy Byrd, Jim Reeves, The Eagles, Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Alison Krauss – and a few surprises!
Tickets for this show cost just £5 and are available now from Bloxwich Library in Elmore Row, Bloxwich. Telephone 01922 655900 to reserve.
DRAMA
Harvest Home (World Citizen) - Sat 28 Jan
ADMISSION £2
2pm.
All Saints Sea Scouts and Guides will travel from their home territory in Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield to Bloxwich to perform a play based on global climate change, poverty, pollution and endangered species.
The story is told through drama, music, dance, poetry and singing and was written by Walsall’s temporary Poet Laureate, assistant scout leader Ian Henery. All proceeds will go to a charity called Forever Angels (set up by a former All Saints Sea Scout), which is an orphanage in Tanzani, Africa catering for orphans, abandoned children and children who are HIV positive.
All proceeds to Forever Angels. Tickets for this show cost just £2 and are available now from Bloxwich Library in Elmore Row, Bloxwich. Telephone 01922 655900 to reserve.
Holmes Alone – Saturday 24 March
ADMISSION £8, CONCESSIONS £6
Doors 7pm, play starts 7.30pm with a 20-minute interval at 8.30pm. and concludes around 9.20pm.
Holmes Alone is set on the brink of the Great War and sees the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes on the brink of retirement and without Dr Watson (who has had the audacity to get married – again!). However, a spate of mysterious deaths calls Holmes to the Sussex Coast, where Holmes must face one of the deadliest foes he has encountered… Meanwhile, the late Professor Moriarty’s right-hand man, Count Negretto Sylvius, plots to avenge his master’s death by bringing about the downfall of the Baker Street sleuth!
A new and original Sherlock Holmes story with a twist – don’t miss it!
Bloxwich Film Society – Saturday 11 February
Bloxwich Film Society, first formed in 1964, is being relaunched at Bookmark Theatre on the evening of Saturday 11 February 2012 at 7.30pm for 8pm – and you are invited!
The original Bloxwich Film Society was launched in 1964, using 16mm film projection from the dedicated projection box in Bloxwich Library Theatre. The revived society will use the theatre’s High Definition large-screen video projection facilities from Blu-Ray and DVD.
The first film, to be shown on the relaunch night, is the 40th anniversary restored version of ‘The Italian Job’, starring Michael Caine.
NO TICKET REQUIRED - Admission to this launch event is FREE subject to availability of seats!
Membership of Bloxwich Film Society will cost £10 in 2012, and you can sign up on the relaunch night or at the next film performance.
Future performances, which will be every other month, will be for MEMBERS ONLY and will be free of charge to members.
In 2012 films showing will be great classics of the 1960s and 1970s, in celebration of the original society and the theatre.
Please note: The Bloxwich Film Society will only go ahead if there is sufficient response – so come along and join us!
Downloads
Here’s a download version of Bookmark Theatre’s Winter flyer for 2012!
More information on this year’s events to follow.
Bookmark Winter Flier 2012 Side A
Bookmark Winter Flier 2012 Side B
All adult events have a bar!
