Year 13 A level students who left Ridgeway School last year came back recently for an evening of celebration.
Around 60 guests were welcomed to the A level presentation evening by Principal Lisa Boorman and last year’s Head of Post 16, Jason Ryder. Jason spoke personally about each student as they collected their A level certificates.
Music composed and performed by Plymouth University undergraduate music students
The focus of this year's concert will be neo-classical, film and modern music. It is a reflection on modernity and music styles. The programme will feature new music from Plymouth University BA (Hons) Music students including final year composers.
Simon Ible - conductor, Candida Frankham - soprano
A programme of excerpts from the choral classics including:
Handel: Messiah Vivaldi: Gloria Mozart: Requiem and Vespers Fauré: Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine Purcell : Dido and Aeneas Bach : Jesu, Joy of Man’s desiring
Plus Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in A minor
Come and indulge in the best loved in wonderful solos and choruses – Handel’s Hallelujah!, Fauré’s Sanctus and Mozart’s Lachrymosa and Laudate Dominum.
Kullervo is Sibelius’ first major work. It is a five-movement symphonic poem for orchestra, soloists and male voice choir. It was heard five times from its inception in 1892 until 1893 before the composer inextricably withdrew it. Since the composer’s death in 1957 the world has started to hear performances and it is now recognised as being a stunning if unconventional contribution to the orchestral repertoire. We are going to study four of the movements in this Workshop Day – omitting the third.
Introduction and Q and A by Holly Tarquini, Founder of the F-Rating, producer of Bath Film Festival and life-long feminist.
Holly Tarquini, producer at the Bath Film Festival, is known for establishing a new rating system, the F-Rating, which is applied to films which have a strong female director, actor or writer. Gravity is the perfect film to illustrate the point, failing the Bechdel Test it is nevertheless a heart-pounding thriller, a philosophical meditation on the human condition and a kick-ass feminist cinema manifesto.
This film will be introduced by Kayla Parker, Artist film-maker and Lecturer in Media Arts at Plymouth University.
This is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence...
This film will be introduced by Roberta Mock, Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Creative Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Plymouth University.
Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. In questioning her own paternity she unravels the essence of family: complicated, messy and fiercely loving. Exploring the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families. Polley’s...
In this existential drama of the Japanese New Wave an unnamed school teacher and amateur insect collector misses his bus back to Tokyo. Local villagers invite him to stay with a young widow who lives at the bottom of a sand dune. The next morning, the villagers refuse to drop the ladder down the sand dune and inform him that he must stay. Evoking the myth of Sisyphus, the characters’ eternal battle with the sand keeps them immobile,...
