the globe at hay, the premier arts and live music venue in Wales and Hereford. Sign up to our newsletter to find out the latest events guide for the globe at hay. Wednesday 15th February, 8pm, £6 Hay Theatre Club
Run by Janine Sharpe, this workshop is open to everyone regardless of experience and will incorporate elements of improvisation and role-playing. Thursday 16th February, 8pm, FREE Hay Community Choir
Ever wanted to have a go at singing but not quite got round to it? Well, why not kick-start your 2012 by joining Hay's very own, brand new Community Choir! There's no charge everyone is very welcome and, as long as you enjoy a wide variety of music, you'll fit right in! Under the stewardship of the highly experienced singer and instrumentalist Catherine Hughes, Hay Community Choir promises to be the next big thing in town! Tuesday 21st February, 2pm-5pm, FREE “Have-a-Go Shakespeare” WorkshopHave-a-go Shakespeare is, as its name implies, a practical approach to Shakespeare run by professional theatre company Shakespeare Link. Phil Bowen and Sue Best, now artistic directors at the Willow Globe, are both seasoned theatre professionals who've worked around the world with projects ranging from the smallest community or educational project to working with flagship companies such as the English Shakespeare Company, the RSC, the Old Vic in London and the Royal Opera House. Have-a-go sessions typically last three hours with a tea-break in the middle. Phil and Sue allocate scenes to small groups and all read and explore them before putting them on their feet, sharing and showing, without any pressure. Sessions are relaxed, fun, challenging but never threatening, allowing everyone to enjoy and access the plays, having a go at reading and acting out the text, bringing their own views and experience to enrich the mix and collaborating to explore and find fresh insights in familiar, or sometimes unfamiliar, language. The plays seem startlingly relevant and current for today. Would you like to be part of this exciting new group? Please ring Shakespeare Link on 01597 811487 or email info@shakespearelink.co.uk for more details. Wednesday 22nd February, 8pm, £6 Hay Theatre Club
Run by Janine Sharpe, this workshop is open to everyone regardless of experience and will incorporate elements of improvisation and role-playing. Thursday 23rd February, 7.30pm, Earlybird £4, Advanced £5, On the door £6 OnStage at the Globe: Goat Street Runners On February 19th 1941, the Luftwaffe began a concerted three day attack on the town centre of Swansea. It destroyed 41 acres of the old mediaeval centre of the "Jewel of the West", and changed the face and the feel of Swansea for ever. The Three Nights' Blitz, as it was known, claimed over 200 lives, and marked the most traumatic period in the "ugly, lovely town's" chequered history. For 3 nights, as in towns all over Britain, its survival depended on the gallant work of the Air Raid personnel, the Home Guard, and everyday people just doing their bit. Following its successful run in Swansea last year, Goat Street Runners has been developed as a drama which reveals the spirit, bravery and unfailing humour of the people of the Second World War. Using music from the period, both sung live and on an evocative soundtrack, Goat Street Runners is based on the experiences, lives and loves of a fictional family living in a street that was to be removed from the map of Swansea for ever after the 21st of February 1941. 
Wednesday 29th February, 8pm, £6 Hay Theatre Club
Run by Janine Sharpe, this workshop is open to everyone regardless of experience and will incorporate elements of improvisation and role-playing. Past Performances
 Saturday 9th December
A day of Storytelling Performance with Xanthe Gresham. We are very lucky at the globe to be hosting a day of storytelling with Xanthe Gresham ‘...treated to some ancient myths by Xanthe Gresham, an air of contentment fell over the audience - it was the feeling of being taken back to childhood, rediscovering flying carpets, ghosts and wonderful tales of romance....a really magical experience - ‘
The Independent February 2010
‘Speaks like a woman spitting jewels'
Arts Council of England
‘We were enraptured'
The Telegraph ‘Exquisite timing' The Times
‘Gresham is a truly great storyteller who unwraps each story like the petals of a lotus flower'
British Theatre Review Saturday 10th December 11am Childrens Storytelling Workshop £3Workshop on: Tales of Warmth and Wonder from the lands of snow and ice
A samovar of stories bubbling with fire and firelight, snow and starbright. Fly over fairytale lands of snow and ice on the back of a wolf, in the black of a cauldron or on a carpet woven with sunbeams.
'a truly magical experience' The Independent 2010. Price includes admission to the afternoon performance.
Saturday 10th December 2pm Family performance £4 adult £2 children over 6 Tales of Warmth and Wonder from the lands of snow and ice A samovar of stories bubbling with fire and firelight, snow and starbright. Fly over fairytale lands of snow and ice on the back of a wolf, in the black of a cauldron or on a carpet woven with sunbeams. 'a truly magical experience' The Independent 2010.
 Saturday 10th December 7.30pm
Adult Performance Storytelling: Xanthe Gresham Baba Yaga and The Virgin Has your pilot light puttered? Your credit crunched? Never fear, help is here to re-ignite the spark. On a road trip through Mexico (via haunted hotel rooms, day of the dead celebrations, visions and peculiar folklore) two deities dangle like dice from the rear view mirror...¨One is Baba Yaga - once a goddess of fire and fertility, now just a witch in Russian folkology. With her iron teeth and cannibalistic tendencies, she scuttles through the forest in a hut balanced on a pair of hairy chicken legs. The other is The Virgin of Guadalupe - Latin America's iconic Mother, who launches Mexican waves of tea towels, plastic bracelets and prayer cards across the country. Famous and beloved she holds us all in the folds of her mantle.
Tuesday 20th 7pm doors open for a 7.30pm start, FREE ‘A Christmas Carol’ productionby Hereford College of Art students In the Chapel
Hereford College of Art students will be here at the globe preforming there end of year production. They have focused on fully embodying their character through research and exploration; to bring to life Charles Dickens vision. At Christmas time the infamous Scrooge is faced with his transgressions; but will he embrace the restoration of
his corroded soul?... ‘I wanted to explore a play in which it can evoke an audience as to how they lead their
life...I wanted the students to explore the wonderful stories, and themes that Dicken raise. This will help them explore classic writers and understand the history behind them, and of our country' Naomi Cook - Director of ‘A Christmas Carol' Hereford College of Arts Refreshments available at the bar throughout the performance. Wednesday 21st 8pm-11pm £3 In the Chapel OnStage: Festive Poetry Live at The Globe
For our First poerty Live Session wewelcome a well-established group of local poets the Sounding Bowl Poetry Group followed by what we hope to become a regular 'open Mic' Night for all local poets and enthusiasts. To book 5 min spots, either approach the host David - John Steer during the intervals on the night, Facebook him and book a spot through his wall, or phone him on 07718 317849. Performers are welcome to read thier own poems or others'.
Friday 23rd Dec, 2.30pm, £4 adults, £2 kids
Family ticket special offer: £10 (2 adults & 2 children). Milly Jackdaw's The Glogglestar Choir and other stories for Christmas including the never before told 'story that nobody knows... Milly the storytelling Tree Fairy is coming into human form for just one day! She is due to miraculously appear only at The Globe at Hay to bring you tales of trees and birds and of course . . . . . . slurping trolls. She is also on the hunt for a holly boy and and ivy girl to look after baby sun and help him on his way as he heads up high into the sky to bring everything back to life! So bring your fairy offerings - songs, poems, pictures, jokes, or funny faces and be ready to have fun. You may receive a special gift from Milly the Tree Fairy. Milly returns once again to bring festive cheer to the Globe. Don't miss out on her wonderful storytelling- bring the whole family!  Friday 23rd December, 8pm, tickets £7 (adults), £3 (kids)
Christmas Live at the Globe: The Village Quire
Imagine a Christmas long before the telly; long before the marketing of Christmas as a gigantic commercial ‘bean feast'. In every farmstead, in every village, dwellers would have celebrated the festive season with music and song; with dancing and feasting. Stories would have been told by candlelight by those gathered around the fire and a draught would have been drunk from the wassail bowl to toast the season. This isn't the usual Christmas story. This is the Christmas of the Country People; the folk of the Welsh Marches. These are the songs that our forebears would have heard and would have sung with such hwyl. A Village Christmas sums up what a cold winter really meant and how Christmas was a time to bring light, life and hope to the working people of the countryside ... and what was truly behind the Christmas traditions. The Village Quire and actor Phil Smith return to The Globe with more songs and stories of mumming, wassailing and the Mari Lwyd, rousing West Gallery anthems and intimate festive miniatures to melt your heart - an older Christmas, more stark, more true; glimpsed in the glimmering light of candle flames.
4th February
Red Kite Theatre presents 'Pictures in the sand'
by Margie Douglas
Professional staged reading of Margie Douglas's prize-winning play with Sue Best and Philip Bowen [Willow Theatre, Shakespeare Link] and Robin Scott Wilson [Romeo, Willow Theatre 2011]. When a stranger arrives at the remote, cliff top studio of artist, Katherine Mann, her world is turned upside down and nothing will be the same again. | 