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Duo’s haunting score for Halloween event
Two young award-winning musicians will produce a haunting score for a special Halloween evening in Coatbridge.
A cloak of darkness will fall on Summerlee Museum for a special screening of the classic Phantom of the Opera movie.
Music to accompany the showing of the 1925 silent movie will be provided by international award-winning musicians Aaron Hawthorne and Rosie Lavery.
As part of their highly acclaimed UK tour, Aaron will be performing on the museum’s Compton Cinema Organ, with soprano Rosie providing the vocals in what will be a unique evening and a movie night with a real difference.
Aaron is no stranger to the 80-year-old Compton organ at the Coatbridge museum, having given a recital of a variety of music at the opening night for the Lanarkshire Society of Organists. following the instrument’s restoration a couple of years ago.
Aaron has previously scooped a coveted music award in New York, the American Guild of Organists’ prize.
Rosie, a student at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow and budding opera singer, was last year’s winner of Musician’s Company Saloman Seelig Award, which is open to all conservatoires in the UK and comes with a £10,000 prize.
The audience will be able to lose themselves in an unparalleled world of hair-raising live music and the dark twists of a film which had 1920s cinemagoers screaming and running out of auditoriums.
The screening will take place on Saturday, October 30, at 8pm.
Tickets are priced at £8 seated, and £5 for standing.
Meanwhile, Monklands residents have the opportunity to get involved in a free creative project this month which will run three different strands.
North Lanarkshire’s Community Arts have launched the free Postal Arts Project which will allow novices to sign up and take part from home using the postal service and digital channels to share their creations.
Run by North Lanarkshire Council, it is artist-led and has
three artform strands including ceramics and applied art, photography and visual art.
Leading the visual art strand of the project, artist/illustrator Jasmine Holt will follow the theme of “connections”, taking participants through a series of creative activities including drawing, painting, looking, gathering and scribbling.
Photographer Ashley Cochrane, will also inspire those looking to tell their story through
the camera lens, exploring past, present and future. Through imaginative ideas and challenges, participants can create their own images with help from Ashley.
While artist Andrew Mccourt will consider the last 18 months through ceramics and applied art process to explore our different views of the pandemic.
Anyone can take part in the project which is designed to assist those who have felt isolated during the pandemic. Those
who sign up will be gifted art kits containing all the materials required to take part in the project which starts later this month through to the end of the year.
The project is open to North Lanarkshire residents with no previous experience in any of the artforms necessary. All materials are provided free; participants can sign up by visiting culturenl. co.uk/postal-art, calling 01236 632228 or emailing arts@ northlan.gov.uk