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Djanogly Theatre

Christmas at Lakeside: The Storm Whale

Sat 14 Dec 2024 – Sun 5 Jan 2025

Join us for this magical Christmas show for kids. Suitable for ages 3+.

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Workshop

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Visual Arts Studio

Gallery Art Group

Saturdays 11 January - 29 March

Let you creative expression flourish in our Gallery Art Group.

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Colourful rowing boats sat at the side of the lake, with the Trent building in the background.

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Grass interspersed with daisies, a winding path and a small tree just coming into lead dominate the foreground. Children playing in Highfields Park, an ice cream van and Lakeside Arts' DH Lawrence Pavilion are in the background. A bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds is overhead.

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Theatre & Dance

DeNada Dance

Mariposa

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Tue 26 Nov 2024

Djanogly Theatre

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A queer tragedy inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly.

Under the flickering neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s queer reimagining of Puccini’s seminal opera, Madame Butterfly.

Mariposa is a passionate exploration of what we are ready to surrender in order to be loved and accepted. With rousing original music by composer Luis Miguel Cobo, inspired by Puccini and Caribbean sounds.

*Followed by a 20 minute Q&A with show choreographer, Carlos Pons Guerra.

Image by Joe Armitage

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Pons Guerra’s Mariposa is full of vivid images, super choreography, and impressive and thoughtful characterisation.”

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