Free Range 2021

Trio CZW are Paul Cheneour (flutes), Alistair Zaldua (violin) and Maureen Wolloshin (oboe & Cor Anglais). This trio bring together an extraordinarily diverse range of musical experience to explore ways of improvising music. Maureen combines watercolour graphic score making with practices derived from Scottish and Arabic music. Alistair is an award-winning composer and violinist involved […]

Incubate: Lunatraktors present Falling in Love with the Moon

14-10-2021

Ghosts made of lace. Laughing, crying, and overtone singing. Live-looping and percussive dance. Crashing cymbals and mournful flutes. The moaning of a very, very worse-for-wear accordion. Just some things that turn up when two clowns fall in love with the Moon. Drawing on moonstruck mooncalves and lunatic Pierrots, Margate’s ‘broken folk’ duo Lunatraktors have been […]

Incubate: MOONSEED

21-10-2021

Moonseed started life as one of Free Range’s Incubate commissions but it has taken on a life of its own. Thanks to further funding from Odela Arts and Electric Medway, Moonseed has become an installation-style performance involving improvised sound, dance, projections and live visual art focussed on our moon. The initial creative partnership between Anna […]

Extinction Rebellion Canterbury present ‘Infernos'

28-10-2021

Extinction Rebellion Canterbury present a powerful story of climate activism woven together through fragments of music, poetry, dance, videos, briefings, individual stories and spectacle. This event features: The Red Rebels Kent Chapter, The Grim Reapers, Richard Navarro, Nicholas Thurston, Mel Dawkins, Henry Sparkes, Rebel poets Sam and Lewis plus Canterbury and East Kent Rebels. Extinction […]

Incubate: Megan Garrett-Jones & Helga Dorothea

04-11-2021

Helga and Megan present research-in-progress into disappearance and vanishing through film and recorded audio merged with live performance. From their different practices in moving image and performance/spoken word they will use ‘vanishing’ as a jumping off point to explore the formulation of women’s experiences and feminine identity - critiquing the convenient disappearances surrounding subjects marginalised […]

Rocio Bolaños & Panos Ghikas present Classic Escalation of Commitment

11-11-2021

Rocío Bolaños will perform the premiere of "Classic Escalation of Commitment" by Panos Ghikas, a real-time composition for bass clarinet and fixed audio. Rocío will also perform "multicounterspeechless" by Sivan Cohen-Elias (commissioned by Distractfold), followed by an improvised duo with Panos featuring drums and electronics with bass clarinet. Rocío is a member of award-winning contemporary […]

Screening of The Whalebone Box + Q&A with director Andrew Kötting

18-11-2021

The works of Andrew Kötting have a connection with an English tradition of visionary curiosity and hybrid art-practices exemplified in the work of William Blake or Derek Jarman. The eponymous Whalebone Box is found entangled in a fisherman’s net, washed up on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides. This object has the anonymity and moral […]

University of the Creative Arts

25-11-2021

The Visual Communication courses at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury present immersive visual storytelling through short animated films and improvised interventions from all year groups. University of the Creative Arts https://www.uca.ac.uk/

Evan Parker & Henry Dagg

02-12-2021

‘[Saxophonist Evan Parker] is the greatest living exponent of free jazz … if you’ve ever been tempted by free improvisation, Parker is your gateway drug’ (Stewart Lee, The Guardian) From very early on in his musical investigations, Evan Parker has always been interested in electronic music. The music to Forbidden Planet was one of his […]