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Arts Events in Guildford Gateway
Guildford Arts (GA) is Guildford’s leading arts charity bringing people together through a shared curiosity for the arts and a desire to support the arts in Guildford and the surrounding area.
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Investec International Music Festival in the Surrey Hills
About the Festival 
To download a copy of the Festival Brochure, click on the image
The Investec International Music Festival brings world-class artists to perform in beautiful venues in the Surrey Hills, in early May each year.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, we were keen to bring our musician friends back home to where we both grew up, to fill the Surrey Hills with the sound of music. In 2010 we founded the Festival with three days of concerts given by artists including Nicola Benedetti and Lucy Crowe. Now in its tenth season, the Festival is going from strength to strength. Past artists have included Dame Sarah Connolly (Festival Patron), Natalie Clein, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Maxim Rysanov, The English Concert, The London Mozart Players and many other eminent international artists and conductors.
Our venues are beautiful and create a wonderful sense of closeness to the performers and to their music. A warm spirit of friendship and enthusiasm exists amongst audience members at concerts and we are very lucky to have such a loyal and supportive community around the festival. In fact, why go to Vienna, Paris, New York or even London when you can see international stars in the Surrey Hills? The Festival weekends offer visitors wonderful walking and many enjoy opportunities for pre-concert dining either at the venue or in country pubs and restaurants.
IIMF is a registered charity and in addition to putting on concerts, the Committee commits to promoting music to children through special pricing for under 21’s and supporting the Royal Grammar School Strings Scheme. The Festival also provides a performance platform for top post-graduate students from the Royal Academy of Music in London, which is a valuable opportunity for those starting a professional musical career.
We would like to thank Investec and all of our sponsors, Friends, volunteers, our Board of Trustees and of course you, the public, for helping us to continue to ensure the Surrey hills are filled with the sound of music.
Tessa Marchington & Wu Qian
Posters at Woking Station!
In partnership with the South Western Railway Station Adoption programme, The LIGHTBOX has installed a series of posters at Woking Station, highlighting the philosophy that art has the power to make you feel good.
Research by the Arts Council has found that making and experiencing arts and culture transforms quality of life for individuals and communities. This new poster campaign promotes this positive effect on wellbeing and encourages people to think about what positively impacts their state of mind whilst travelling.
Projects such as these are invaluable in helping to spread this ‘feel good’ message and to emphasise the Lightbox’s overarching social purpose – to improve the quality of life of our community.
Art and Wellbeing at The Lightbox
The Lightbox has a diverse cultural programme, including exhibitions, local heritage displays, talks and tours, social events and arts and crafts workshops, all of which contribute towards raising funds to support the charity’s community initiative, the Art and Wellbeing programme.
This programme provides opportunities for those that would otherwise not be able to access and enjoy arts and heritage services to take part in creative and therapeutic workshops. The programme includes community workshops for those living with dementia and their carers, those affected by mental health issues, those in local care homes and hospices and clients of the nearby York Road Project homeless shelter.
Join The Lightbox community today.
Illustrations courtesy of Sarah Evans and The Lightbox.
https://www.thelightbox.org.uk/the-lightbox-at-woking-station
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