What’s On & Tickets

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £12/£10 in advance: £14/£12 on the door

AUTUMN PROGRAMME CURTAIN RAISER!

Presenting the Beatles, Blues and Blue Violin Tour.

Featuring former E.L.O., Electric Light Orchestra Part II members and current members of The Orchestra Phil Bates and Mik Kaminski with special guest from the Eleanor Rigby Experience, Tina McBain.

Mik Kaminski, now dubbed the most famous violin player in rock ‘n’ roll, learnt his trade in Leeds before joining ELO in 1973.

This tour aims to explore new arrangements of Beatles songs, especially where the Beatles and the Blues meet, as well as some new and old material from the group members other projects.

As the first event of our autumn programme featuring some true musical greats, be sure to book early to avoid disappointment.

Read the full Press release here.

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

The first film of the 2010/2011 programme is on Thursday 9 September. For full details of the programme please check the website: www.otleyfilmsociety.org.uk
Licensed bar from 7.00pm. Screening at 7.45pm.
Membership costs £35 for all 18 films. Guest memberships cost £4
For membership details please email info@otleyfilmsociety.org.uk

“Hors de Prix” (Priceless) 2006 France

On the Riviera with her elderly provider to celebrate her birthday, Irene slips down to the hotel bar when he falls asleep on her. She mistakes barman Jean for a well-healed guest and he encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. A year later the same thing happens but this time her lover finds out and disowns her. Now knowing Jean is indeed a barman of little means doesn’t stop her from continuing to live in style until his money is gone. He soon finds himself in Irene’s business with older and worldly-wise Madeleine, and though Irene also takes up with a new paramour the two of them keep in increasingly close touch.

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £9/£7 in advance, £10/£8 on the door.

Europe’s leading tribute to the music of Johnny Cash, booked by 20th Century Fox to promote the film ‘Walk the Line’, have been likened to seeing ‘The Man in Black’ in his full glory days.

From Folsom Prison to the Otley Courthouse, the great man’s music is brought to life by Keep it Cash, famed for their exact soundalike qualities.

Critically acclaimed lead vocalist Dave Burnham, fronts a rhythm section made up of top professional musicians and in the depth of his natural baritone voice, the ghost of Cash lives on in one of his greatest admirers.

www.myspace.com/keepitcash

Time: 10:00am

Tickets: FREE (small chrge for materials)

Guided tours at 11am, 12 noon and 1pm. Dainty and delicious Victorian teas from 2–3.30pm: £3 per person. Make your own Victorian games for 7–12 year olds at 2–3.30pm: £1 per child for materials.

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £4/£3 For adults and young people.

Three top scientists have just 20 slides and a few minutes each to explain their theories. Then you get the chance to ask them anything you want!

Annette Taylor: Acting together: how chemical signals help bacteria, neurons and fireflies dance to the same rhythm.

Mark Selby: The truth behind animal testing.

Jon Pitchford: Motorhead and the evolutionary ecology of fishes.

Tickets: Tickets from Otley Folk Festival

Otley Folk Festival’s events at the Courthouse include:

• a Friday evening event (8.15pm) with singer/songwriter Jez Lowe and Joe Tilston
• and on Saturday, dancing outside throughout the day, a teatime family ceilidh (from 4.15pm) with the Matt Nelson Trio
• we will also be hosting ‘meet the artists’ sessions.

The Courtyard is used by Morris Teams throughout the weekend and our cafe is open every day from 10am to 3pm, During events our bar is open.

For more information about all the events on offer at the Festival (16 – 19 September) and for tickets visit the website:
www.otleyfolkfestival.com email: OtleyFF@hotmail.com
or contact Festival Hotline: 01943 464858

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“Welcome” 2009 France

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can’t swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won’t be as easy as he imagined… The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais is captured with authenticity, from the point of view of people who arrived there knowing nothing about France. This immigrant drama, with wonderful performances by the actors, is a strong story which uses documentary austerity and minimalist style to create a great emotional impact.

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £9/£7.

This dark comedy drama about the lies of modern life challenges the audience to discover the truth. You may recognise people you know! Even yourself! Linked by a chain of sexual and emotional betrayal, the characters – from flirtatious boss to feisty call-girl – drift from office politics to bed-hopping.Will the chain snap or will the characters snap first?

As headteacher Ben (never one to lead by example) says: ‘The human instinct to lie is as ingrained as the instinct to survive’.
www.actoneproductions.weebly.com

Time: 9:30am

Tickets: FREE

Otley Courthouse Craft Fairs take place on the last Sunday of every month to coincide with Otley Farmers’ Market. They are a great opportunity to browse through a variety of locally produced crafts before enjoying a drink and cake in our Community cafe.

9.30am to 1pm

Time: 1:30pm

Tickets: £2.50 (£4 with workshop) / £4 for adults not with school group

An enchanting story with life size puppets, the Cusan Theatre company bring the magic of the rainforest to younger children.

The audience is invited into the magical and inspirational world of the rainforest, a world of sound and colour inhabited by The Princess herself.

Time: 8:00am

Tickets: £9/£7 in advance, £10/£8 on the door.

Exciting, exotic, and dynamic in turn, Trio Gitan (formerly Contraband Gypsy Swing) presents a tribute to the music of the late, great Stephane Grappelli and Django Rheinhardt. This sizzling mix includes a choice of Hot Club Classics, Jazz Standards, both vocal and instrumental, plus Gypsy Tunes and Tangos just to spice up the music a little more!

Check out their website for more information.

Time: 7:00pm

The Courthouse is hosting An Evening of Folk Music as part of the Oxjam festival, featuring some of best local artists in aid of the charity Oxfam.

Headlining this evening will be the Rosie Doonan Band, fronted by their eponymous Wakefield singer-songwriter. As well as a Radio 2 Folk Award nomination, Rosie Doonan comes armed with an array of warm, melodic songs balancing traditional British folk music and Rock ‘n’ Roll to create an emotional and thoroughly engaging sound.

Gary Stewart also bring his band to the stage for a performance of songs from his upcoming debut album ‘Boy Cries Wolf’, which has been featured on BBC 6Music. Combining influences from Paul Simon to Cat Stevens, the Gary Stewart Band produce a modern alternative folk sound that is gaining quite a following in Leeds.

Monkey’s Fist have been playing folk festivals for 10 years and specialise in maritime songs, shanties and ballads. Adding a nautical twist to the bill, Monkey’s Fist come with 10 years experience of entertaining crowds at folk and maritime festivals across the country.

Dr Duncan Hall, one half of local duo the Hall Brothers, writes socially conscious folk songs inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson, yet remains rooted in his Yorkshire heritage.

As well as an evening of great music, Oxjam raises money to help Oxfam fight poverty and provide aid where it is needed across the globe.

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“Morris: A Life with Bells On” 2009 UK

Oh – come on – we live in Otley – we had to have this!

The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

Time: 8:00am

Tickets: £12.50/£11 in advance: £13.50/£12 on the door.

Le Vent du Nord, one of the leading names in the traditional music of French-speaking Quebec, make a welcome return to Otley, en route to European Festivals. The band are true performers – a live act full of energy, skill and joie de vivre and bring a genuine flavour of the lively and invigorating Quebecois music scene wherever they play.
www.leventdunord.com/english/pages/accueil.php

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £8/6

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.

3 Fights, 2 Weddings and a Funeral…

A North Country Theatre collaboration with Harrogate Theatre. Lorca’s famous Spanish tale of feuding families re-set in the farming communities of the Yorkshire Dales by one of the region’s most popular rural touring companies.

Cold Comfort Farm meets Carmen: when Leonard returns from fighting with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War he finds his childhood sweetheart about to marry an old rival…

Between flamenco dancing sheep and hay throwing harvesters, the wedding celebrations soon descend into farce and then tragedy.

Tickets from www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or from Otley Courthouse. Buy early!

Time: 6:45pm

Tickets: FREE

Imaginative prose and poetry exploring ‘the Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins’ from The Courthouse Writers who take no responsibility for any moral damage their performance may cause!

Immediately followed by ‘Blood Wedding’ from ‘North Country Theatre.

Time: 2:00pm

Tickets: £5

Laid back workshop sessions, food (great chocolate cake) and fun
• invent a computer game – experts from Sunderland University
• write song lyrics with Michelle Scally-Clarke
• make your own comic
• try graffiti with Ged Walker
• write a short story
• slam competition – read your own work and win fantastic prizes.
Age 12 – 18 only. (sign up from 1.40pm – session from 2pm to 6pm)

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“An Education”2009 UK

In the early 1960′s, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father’s wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny’s life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age.

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: FREE for performers/£3 audience

Young people perform their own work – songs, bands, poetry, rap, stand-up, short stories. A brilliant night!
Email:admin@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk for a performers slot or come to watch.
Age 12 – 18. With juice bar.

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £6

Age restrictions: For 16 ups. Photo ID will be required on the door

Presenting the new club night Courthouse Rocks, a series of gigs bringing the best alternative local talent to the heart of Otley. In the Dock tonight, Club Smith with support band, Black Flowers.

Fresh from playing this summer’s Reading and Leeds Festival, Yorkshire favourites Club Smith arrive in town to play songs brooding with a dark undercurrent and daunting rhythms, rumbling quietly into epic slow-burning anthems.

STANDING ONLY. www.myspace.com/joinclubsmith

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £7/£5 in advance, £8/£6 on the door.

OLT present a double bill of one act plays – The Monkey’s Paw and A Cut in the Rates – apparently meddling with the after life interspersed with “spooky” poetry readings so come along and get in the mood for Hallow’een!!

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: Tickets: £9/£7 in advance, £10/£8 on the door.

Griot kora master Sadio Cissokho’s enchanting Mandinka struggle songs are accompanied by West African bass grooves, locked in with the forceful local drum kit sound. Fierce sabar drum patterns and the national dance style of mballax bring alive music straight from the Casamance region of Senegal.

Sadio has toured Europe extensively, played at Womad and Glastonbury and supported Salif Keita and Youssou N’dour in Senegal this April.

http://eddbateman.com/sadio.html/p>

Time: 9:30am

Tickets: FREE

Otley Courthouse Craft Fairs take place on the last Sunday of every month to coincide with Otley Farmers’ Market. They are a great opportunity to browse through a variety of locally produced crafts before enjoying a drink and cake in our Community cafe.

9.30am to 1pm

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“Broken Embraces” 2009 Spain

In warm saturated colors and touches of French film noir, Almodovar shows one tragic yet optimistic tale of a blind screenwriter/director who falls in love with his leading actress.

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £13/£11 in advance, £14/£12 on the door.

A melodically and rhythmically exciting collaboration by three of the world’s leading musicians sharing their Celtic, Nordic and Appalachian cultures. Aly Bain is Scotland’s supreme traditional style fiddler. With multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller, Aly recently created the album Fully Rigged celebrating their shared Nordic heritage. American fiddler Bruce Molsky has for twenty years explored traditional music from an astonishingly broad range of cultures.
http://bechhoferagency.com/artists/the-artists/aly-bain-ale-mollerbruce-molsky

Time: 5:30pm

Tickets: £10 Tickets from ChezVin

Ever popular WINE FAIR with Tapas and Hog Roast. Your chance to sample up to 80 wines and spirits from around the world.
From 5.30pm to 9.30pm

Tickets: £10. available from ChezVin, 24 New Market, Otley from beginning of October. 01943 466143

Time: 8:00am

Tickets: £10/£8 in advance, £11/£9 on the door.

The London Lasses and Pete Quinn
With support from Des Hurley, Chris O’Malley and friends
A fantastic opportunity to see one of the best bands on the Irish scene today. The London Lasses and Pete Quinn have brought their unique sound to some of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls including the Royal Albert Hall, Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, and Sidmouth International Festival.
Tickets: £10/£8 in advance, £11/£9 on the door.
www.londonlasses.net

Events planned so far include:
The Planet on your Plate: fun family performance with BBC The One Show’s Marty Jopson
If Stones could Speak: town centre geology walk. Find out about the history of the natural world in an exciting geology exploration around the streets of Otley with Dr Sue Bowler.
20 x 20 Science Café: including Bristol University’s Eddie Wilson on Phantom Traffic Jams.

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“Fermat’s Room” 2007 Spain

It’s Otley Science week so we’ve locked 4 mathematicians in a shrinking room and challenged them to solve an enigma. Why? Come and find out.

Tickets: FREE – small charge for some activities

10am – 4pm
Fun family day for all ages from 8 – 108! Stalls, demonstrations, a visit from the amazing Space Bus, great experiments to try – and meet Ada Lovelace who helped pioneer computers over 150 years ago – in person!
FREE Entry: small fee for some activities.

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £12/£10 – book early to avoid disappointment!

A fast-flowing, rapid-rafting adventure in which two top funny men reflect upon local stories, legends, rivers and romance. Created by tonight’s audience with help from Yorkshire poet, broadcaster and comedian Ian McMillan and Cartoonist of the Year Tony Husband – a hilarious live-action cartoon of the community starring its friendly folks, fantastic fortunes, dazzling ambition and tenderest moments.

In addition to his celebrated work as a poet and playwright, Ian McMillan is widely known for his appearances on BBC’s Have I Got News For You?, Just a Minute and Newsnight Review, as well as being Barnsley FC’s poet in residence.

Award winning cartoonist Tony Husband will provide live, improvised illustrations to accompany Ian’s verbal exploration of Yorkshire’s past. His award winning cartoon ‘Yobs’ is featured in Private Eye and his work has featured in many publications including The Times and The Sun.

‘A Cartoon History of Here’ promises to be an equally illuminating and amusing journey into local culture and history, for audiences 9 to 109.

But don’t just take our word for it…

‘Tony Husband is even funnier than me’ – Griff Rhys Jones

www.uktouring.org.uk/ian-mcmillan

http://cartoonyhusband.homestead.com

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £9/£7 in advance: £10/£8 on the door.

The Thalia Ensemble was formed in 2000 by three of the North West’s most travelled chamber musicians. John Gough is tutor in piano at The Royal Northern College of Music and has performed as a soloist with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras.

Karen Slack is the former principal clarinet with The Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra while Ian Anstee made his name performing with the Tuba Quartet Tubalate.

The ensemble performs works by Beethoven, Bruch and Kreutzer as a trio interspersed with solo works by Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Chopin.

Time: 9:30am

Tickets: FREE

Otley Courthouse Craft Fairs take place on the last Sunday of every month to coincide with Otley Farmers’ Market. They are a great opportunity to browse through a variety of locally produced crafts before enjoying a drink and cake in our Community cafe.

9.30am to 1pm

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“Frozen River” 2008 USA

Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women – one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances – are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £9/£7 in advance, £10/£8 on the door.

A musical comedy written by Chumbawamba’s Boff Whalley and directed by Rod Dixon
Set in 1960’s Liverpool during a dockworkers’ and seafarers’ strike, the play looks and laughs at the times through the microcosm of one terraced house where the TV does battle with the upright piano. Against a backdrop of picketing, marches and jailings, the McDermotts fight, laugh, lie and sing their way through the challenges, fuelled by home-brewed banana beer and a tea-chest bass.
www.redladder.co.uk

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £5

Age restrictions: 12 – 16 year olds only

Come and celebrate the end of term with young headline band, support act, disco, young comedians, juice bar. Dress up, dance all night.
If you want to perform call 01943 462826 or text 07932 738732.
Tickets: £5. Supported by Otley Town Council and Extended Schools Service

12–16 year olds only! 7.30pm to 10.00pm

Time: 7:45pm

Tickets: £35 Membership / £4 Guest membership

“Departures” 2008 Japan

At Otley Film Society we always try to bring you films that you wouldn’t otherwise have got the chance to see … Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a “Nokanshi” or “encoffineer,” a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life …

Time: 7:00pm

Tickets: £6 adults, £5 for children.

Age restrictions: Group tickets available. Please check at box office.

Terrifying tricks, silly songs, scintillating circus and magic moments in the wildest and funniest family variety show in town. This IS your family Xmas treat.

Time: 8:00pm

Tickets: £10/£8 in advance, £11/£9 on the door.

With special guests Anna Massie and Chris Sherburn
In Bella’s north Derbyshire home, people flock from far and wide to sing the Peak District’s local carols, and in these dark months,

“One of the brightest young talents in the UK; her mesmerising vocals and fiddle playing are exceptional” Fish Records
www.myspace.com/bellahardymusic

Time: 9:30am

The craft fairs are held on the last Sunday of every month to coincide with the ‘Otley Farmers Market’ and are open from 9.30am until 1pm.  Come and browse the stalls in the Courtroom or join us in the community café for hot and cold drinks and snacks. A huge selection of high quality crafts are on sale – perfect for presents or just for yourself – in a friendly environment and without a long trip into Leeds, Bradford or Harrogate.

More information at our Craft Fairs page.

Time: 2:30pm

Tickets: £3.50 and £2 (children).

Disney Pixar animated comedy adventure about a 78 yr old man who ties balloons to his house and flies away with an 8yr old stowaway.
An “exciting, hilarious and heartfelt adventure”