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Coming up at HOFS

Live music

Battle of the Bands

Bands | Musicians | Soloists | £150 to win!

Friday 14 August

8pm (doors 7.30pm)

An evening to enjoy new music from local musicians! Bands, soloists, and duos are welcome to compete.

Come along to watch, dance, and vote for your winner!

Workshop

Scriptwriting Day

Saturday 15 August

10am - 5pm

Start with the Scriptwriting Workshop run by Anne Odeke. Her credits include Shakespeare's Globe, The RSC, Birmingham Rep, Storyhouse, The Watermill and many others. As a playwright, Anne's latest play, 'Princess Essex' was performed on the main stage of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Theatre

Cheek and Cherries Cabaret

18+

Saturday 15 August

8pm (doors 7.30pm)

A glittering collaboration between Bare Cheek Comedy and Popina Cherry's Powder Room bringing you an evening of cheeky comedy with cherry topped tease, with special cabaret guests. 18+

Workshop

Backstage Theatre Club

Wanna be a set designer?

Sunday 16 August

10am - 12pm

Wanna be a theatre set designer?!

At this workshop, we’ll be covering:

— Reading a script from a set designers perspective

— Finding inspiration outside of the internet

— Designing a set and drawing some concept sketches

— The basics of model making


For ages 16+

Theatre

Vibes and Verses

Spoken Word & Poetry

Sunday 16 August

2pm - 4pm

Hosted by Hollie, Vibes and Verses returns to HOFs!

Enjoy listening and sharing poetry or spoken word.

All voices welcome, whether you’re a first-timer or a pro.

Free! No need to book - just turn up!

Cinema

'Heathers: The Musical'

Kingsway Musical Theatre Screening

Thursday 27 August

7pm (doors 6.30pm)

Veronica Sawyer's dreams of popularity finally start to come true when she's taken under the wings of the three beautiful, yet impossibly cruel Heathers.

Get ready for big fun - experience the smash hit, West End stage show Heathers: the Musical, filmed live at its original London home, The Other Palace!

Exhibition

The Waves Exhibition

‘All is experiment, all is adventure’

Friday 18 - Sunday 20 September

Blending visual art, spoken word with a spirit of ‘all is experiment, all is adventure’, this weekend event celebrates Virginia Woolf’s book The Waves. An exhibition by eight artists will showcase imaginative interpretations and responses to this 20th century classic of literature. Woolf wrote ‘painting and writing have much to tell each other’ This exhibition takes up the conversation that was such an absorbing topic for Woolf.

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