It’s with great sadness that we say goodbye to Alithea Wardle and Emma Porter this week.  Both have made a fantastic contribution to Horse + Bamboo for more than two years now and have been great team members.  We will miss them hugely: Emma always there in the office keeping on top of everything that keeps us functioning, Ali for her marketing campaigns and her work on our website, on Facebook, twitter, and the podcasts.  Good luck to them both.  We will miss them.

After the huge success of their visit last year The Bogtrotters return to rock the Boo with their own arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish music, a mixture of country and Cajun along with modern material and combined with original songs composed by Tim Flaherty and other band members.

This one is not for the kids and was a sell out last year so get your tickets as soon as possible. The bar will be provided by the Jolly Sailor. Tickets cost £7.50! Call the Boo Box Office on 01706 220241.

Esther Ferry-Kennington, our Producer attended the Introduction to Arts Marketing training course at ITC last Friday. The course was run by Rachel Escott who has over 20 years' experience as a marketing professional, journalist and writer and since 2005 she has been a freelance arts communications consultant. Follow the link to find out more about Rachel and her work. http://www.rachelescott.co.uk/ The course was invaluable in helping Esther start to approach the new part of her role developing the marketing strategy for individual shows and the touring company as a whole.  

STAR MATTER AVAILABLE TO BUY ON FROM H+B ONLINE SHOP!

Star Matter is a fascinating book which offers ideas for developing an awareness and appreciation of where we’ve come from and where we’re going to. It discusses some of the bigger questions and explains concepts such as Deep Time, the planets, the stars and the origin of matter that even we humans are composed of. Star Matter contains interesting facts and ideas, with pointers and suggestions for those wishing to apply these concepts to educating young people.

The book relates to the ideas which inspired H+B’s latest touring production DEEP TIME CABARET. Click here to go to H+B's online store.

Horse + Bamboo have been given the opportunity to re-work an old show with a residency at Wigan Arts Advisory Support Service Performing Arts Centre. Storm in a Teacup was originally designed as a 15 minute show that fitted in our pPod. We always felt it had so much more than 15 minutes to it and even when it was later revised as a 25 minute piece it still felt it should have more. We will now develop it even further to a full piece of 45 minutes for children 4 and upwards which will run for two weeks and been available to primary schools in the Wigan area. It will also give us another opportunity to work with the wonderful Chris Davies on the music. His last project with Horse + Bamboo was the hugely successful In the Shadow of Trees. Storm in a Teacup will also be available for other bookings in March 2010 and beyond and can be accompanied by mask or puppetry workshops.

Horse + Bamboo present the long awaited VEIL soundtrack composed by Loz Kaye. Veil captures the epic sweep of Horse + Bamboo's production - two continents - two generations divided by war, but bound together by fate. Loz Kaye's music spans these worlds exploring the thrilling sound of arabic music, but giving it a powerfully rhythmic contemporary setting. It features Loz on vocals, flutes, trumpet, keyboards, percussion and programming and arabic narration by Faliha Kadhim. Click here to find out how to buy the CD.