Cinderella: the nation's favourite panto!
You can just tell the season to be jolly is nearly upon us: the dark nights, hats and scarves and Jack Frost nipping at our fingers and toes. However, as December draws near, so does the magic of Christmas and pantomime — and what a panto Perth Theatre is offering up this year! We've got the nation's favourite: Cinderella, the best ever rags to riches tale. With glitter and glamour, wands and wishes — not to mention wicked stepsisters and desperate dames — you can rest assured you won't be bored or even safe from the clutches of the good, ...
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Electronic graffiti workshops at Threshold artspace
The latest trend to arrive at Perth Concert Hall's Threshold artspace from across the pond comes in the form of electronic graffiti. Developed by resident artists from New York's Eyebeam — a leading organisation for digital culture, the 'LED throwies' are an inexpensive, DIY way to add a touch of sparkle and colour to any magnetic surface. Now, you can get the chance to try it out for yourself at Perth Concert Hall's Glowing Throwies workshops on 18 November and 2 December. Build your own state-of-the-art 'throwie' from a battery, a light-emitting diode and a magnet. Then launch the throwie ...
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Sparkle at Threshold artspace
Sparkle, a trail of new exhibitions will be switched on at the Threshold artspace on Saturday, 2 December. The exhibitions will continue to illuminate the gallery throughout the festive season up to 31st January 2007. Sparkle features 15 works by more than 15 Scottish and international artists — a glowing selection of brand new additions and old favourites from Scotland's only permanent collection of digital art at the Threshold artspace. As a theme Sparkle is an organic fit for the artspace, notes Iliyana Nedkova, creative director of new media at Horsecross. The artspace thrives on moments of sparkles, i.e. the ...
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Get on board!
Horsecross, the organisation that runs Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall, is on the look out for new board members. Chairman Iain M Halliday, Arts & Business Chair of the Year finalist, is excited at the prospect of new blood. Horsecross is the young, dynamic organisation that has grown out of Perth Theatre, said Iain. We have already made a great impact both locally and nationally and need dynamic people to help drive the organisation to continue to create a buzz about our venues and about Perth and Kinross. There are nine directors on the board; three councillors who are ...
Perth Concert Hall wins prestigious regeneration award
Perth Concert Hall has won a prestigious national award in the 'Regeneration' category at the 2006 British Construction Industry Awards, which took place at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on Thursday 26 October. The British Construction Industry Awards receive a huge amount of entries, from hundreds of projects within the UK and abroad. They are also rigorously judged, and although architectural and engineering excellence is a factor, these awards are all embracing and consider many aspects including procurement, performance against prediction, innovation, and benefits to the community to name but a few. The Regeneration Award is given to a project, of ...
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Calling all budding musicians
Perth Concert Hall is offering the chance of a lifetime opportunity for young local bands and musicians in Perthshire and the surrounding areas, aged 16 - 21 to take part in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. This Spring, the community team at Horsecross will be hunting high and low for five young bands/groups to take part in "The Swindle" and grab the chance to arrange and record their own music with some of the best musicians in the UK. All styles of music are welcome, from folk, traditional, rock, indie and world right through to electronic, and the more ...
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Horsecross wins prestigious Tayside Business Award
Horsecross (the organisation that runs Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall) is delighted to announce that we have been named as the winner in the Business in the Community category at the Tayside Business Awards 2006. Organised by Scottish Enterprise Tayside, the Tayside Business Awards is an opportunity to celebrate the success of local businesses of all sizes and sectors. Now in its fourth year, this is a premier event in the business calendar. Horsecross was announced as the winner at the awards ceremony on Friday evening (17 March) for our commitment and contribution to the local community. Horsecross is ...
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More top music acts added to Perth Concert Hall programme
More music events have been added to the music programme at Perth Concert Hall this year. 90s indie pop band Ocean Colour Scene and Scouse five-piece The Zutons, who have smashed the charts with their unique "zombie soul music" will be performing at Perth Concert Hall in May. While eighties pop giants Level 42, return to entertain audiences in November with their catchy and well recognised chart-topping tunes like Running in the Family and Lessons in Love. It's great to be adding more rock music to the huge range of music, comedy, theatre, visual arts and community events that Horsecross ...
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Positive Scottish Arts Council funding news for Horsecross
Horsecross, the organisation that runs Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall, has been adopted as a prestigious Foundation Funding client by the Scottish Arts Council following a major review of the arts in Scotland. These clients represent Scotland's flagship arts organisations with a distinctive and significantly unique role in the arts in Scotland. This is the best possible outcome for us, said Jane Spiers, chief executive, Horsecross. It means that we will receive funding on a long term basis for the theatre and the concert hall. Full details of financial support are to be clarified at a meeting with the ...
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Phedre: A poetic tragedy of forbidden love
Phedre by Jean Baptiste Racine adapted by Ted Hughes will open at Perth Theatre on Thursday 16 March and run until Saturday 1 April. The production will then tour to the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and Warwick Arts Centre. Phedre is the story of a queen and the most forbidden love of all. Phedre wrongly believes that her husband Theseus has been killed in the war. She has waited for word of his fate but no word has come. Meanwhile, she falls lustfully and madly in love with her handsome stepson Hippolytus. Phedre is obsessed, trapped in her own fate, but ...
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Perth Concert Hall closed on 3 and 4 March 2006
Perth Concert Hall will be closed to the public on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 March for the annual Scottish Conservative Party Conference. The Scottish Conservatives' security experts advised that the building should be closed during their two days in Perth this March. Around 600 delegates will descend on the Fair City, along with an array of the country's media including TV, radio and the printed press to broadcast and report the latest news from MSP Annabel Goldie's first Scottish Party Conference as leader. Annabel was last at Perth Concert Hall in November 2005 to attend the Conservative leadership's hustings ...
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