London for Christmas

Winter Festival 2011

Christmas Market
10 December 2011, 12.00
Venue: Spitalfields E1
A special Saturday Christmas market with live music, puppetry, fashion and more all to celebrate, promote and raise funds for the work of Crisis.

London Contemporary Orchestra
12 December 2011, 19.00-20.30
Venue: Shoreditch Church
The London Contemporary Orchestra return to Spitalfields this December to showcase three contemporary works

Insight: Mercy & Grand: The Tom Waits Project
13 December 2011, 18.30
Venue: Shoreditch Church
Gavin Bryars discusses the inspiration behind his ‘circus band’ and his arrangements of Tom Waits’s songs.

Mercy & Grand: The Tom Waits Project
13 December 2011, 19.00-21.00
Venue: Shoreditch Church
Gavin Bryars’s extraordinarily versatile ‘circus band’ brings together ten songs by Tom Waits, two by Kurt Weill, a sea shanty, a hymn, a couple of instrumental gypsy tangos and a classic Fellini film score

Open Ears
14 December 2011 11.00-12.15
Venue: Shoreditch Church
Explore the incredible art of composition and making music from scratch.

In the House
14 December 2011, 18.00-20.00
Venue: Spitalfields
Recitals by students from the Royal Academy of Music in the Georgian drawing rooms of Spitalfields

Winter Voices
15 December 2011 12.30–13.30
Venue: Spitalfields E1
Celebrate the sounds of winter in this lunchtime event!

Gallicantus
15 December 2011, 19.00-20.15
Venue: Shoreditch Church
Gabriel Crouch’s new choir make their Spitalfields debut!

Open Mic Night
15 December 2011, 19.00-21.00
Venue: Crisis Skylight Café London
An uplifting and informal open mic night, hosted by Streetwise Opera and Crisis Skylight

Neighbourhood Songs
16 December 2011 12.45–13.30
Venue: Bishopsgate Institute
Lighten up your lunchtime with songs from across the musical spectrum, guaranteed to raise the roof in the newly restored Bishopsgate Institute.

I Fagiolini's 25th Birthday Cocktail
16 December 2011, 19.00-20.50
Venue: Shoreditch Church
To celebrate their quarter-century, I Fagiolini bring together Renaissance masterworks such as Monteverdi’s peerless lament Incenerite spoglie, a new staging of Janequin’s cheeky birdsong story and Benjamin Britten’s theatrical and virtuosic cycle of medieval texts.

Dancing with your Ears
17 December 2011, 13.00-14.15
Venue: Shoreditch Church
Our 50-strong women’s choir, Women sing East, is a must-hear favourite of the Festival!

A Breath of Enlightenment
17 December 2011, 19.00-20.45
Venue: Shoreditch Church
From Locatelli to JS Bach via Pisendel, the European Union Baroque Orchestra travels through 18th-century Europe!

Are you sitting comfortably?
17 December 2011, 20.00-22.00
Venue: The English Restaurant
A selection of seasonal spooky stories, written by local writers, read in the magical English Restaurant with live music and beautiful vintage visuals

A Musical Feast
18 December 2011, 19.00-22.00
Venue: Galvin La Chapelle
Dinner and a series of mini-concerts by members of the Sixteen at the Michelin-starred Galvin La Chapelle.

Musical Rumpus - Blue Butterfly
19 December 2011 10.30-11.30
Venue: Brady Arts and Community Centre
Join Blue Butterfly and friends as they embark on an epic journey to the top of a dark mountain in search of the sun.

Yoolis
19 December 2011, 19.00-20.00
Venue: Shoreditch Church
Joglaresa raise our festive spirits with their strictly medieval programme.

Messiah
20 December 2011, 19.00-21.45
Venue: Christ Church Spitalfields
A special chamber arrangement by La Nuova Musica of Handel's seminal work.

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