Adroddiad Blynyddol

Annual Report

2015-2016

Summary of key factsCrynodeb o’r ffeithiau allweddol

Programme / RhaglenLive performance 92,239 attendances 377 events

Touring & In-house Professional Productions / Cynyrchiadau Twrio a Mewnol Proffesiynol 1 productions 17 performances 603 attendances

Film / Ffilm37,780 attendances 814 screenings

Visual Arts / Celfyddydau Gweledol 123,538 attendances Gallery 1 & 2 46 exhibitions

Community Arts / Celfyddydau Cymunedol 86,453 attendances 5,102 sessions

Total attendances across artistic programme 340,613 across whole organisation 650,531

People / Pobl:Full time staff 24Part time staff 55Volunteer team 50

Theatre / Theatr Aberystwyth Arts Centre Productions / Cynyrchiadau Canolfan y Celfyddydau AberystwythLegally BlondeSaturday Night Forever

Oh Hello! Torch TheatreThe Wonderful World of Mr EBrief Encounters Lighthouse TheatreDark Vanilla Jungle Company of SirensDrych Cwmni Fran WenCrashtest (three evenings)The Roadless Trip Sarah WoodsGrowing Pains / Glasoed Awaken Productions / Cwmni Ennyn The Thirty Nine Steps Black Rat Productions Wilde Without the Boy Gerard Logan Still Life Mappa Mundi Not About Heroes FrapetsusParallel Lines Dirty Protest A Translation of Shadows Stan’s CaféHI Homo Irrationalis Karol CysewskiRaymondo Annie Siddons Mutt Abandoned TheatreLand of Our Fathers Wales Millennium Centre Casting the Runes Robert Lloyd Parry Difa Theatr Bara Caws Murder She Didn’t Write Degrees of Error Okham’s Razor Confirmation Chris Thorpe Grav Torch TheatreSongs for the Way Home Helen Chadwick Song Theatre The Tailor of Inverness Dogstar Theatre Company An Invitation Jo Fong Dai Versity Jez DanksOpium Magdalena Mazur Dick Tracy La Navet Bete Exposure Jo Bannon Titanic Doppelgangster Fragments Towards a Horizon Ian Rowlands Cysgu’n Brysur Cwmni Arad Goch Safle 2 – Scratch Night Tomorrow’s Parties Forced EntertainmentThe Glass Menagerie Theatr Pena Hogia Ni – Yma o Hyd Bara Caws Mr Bulkely o’r Brynddu Cwmni PendrawThe Birthday Party London Classic Theatre Mrs Reynolds Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru NT Connections Festival Curtain Call 10th Birthday Celebrations Allan o Diwn – Emyr ‘Himyrs’ Roberts Bara Caws Tirongl Miramar

Live Links / Dolenni Byw:NT Live (National Theatre, London)The Beaux StrategemCoriolanus Hamlet

Of Mice and Men Jane EyreLes Liaisons DangereusesAs You Like It A View from the BridgeHamletThe Audience Hangmen

Royal Shakespeare Company LiveHenry VHamletOthello Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Shakespeare’s Globe Live Antony and Cleopatra Julius Caesar Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors

Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Romeo and Juliet Henry V

Almeida Live Richard III

Performing Arts Associate CompaniesAdverse CamberJames BakerRebecca CollinsGwyn EmbertonJoao Garcia MiguelBuddug James JonesSiriol JoynerPendulum TheatreProduction StudioAnna SherrattRebecca Smith WilliamsScriptography ProductionsPeter StevensonAnuyishe Yarnell

Creu Cymru Dance BuddiesEddie LaddSean Tuan John Siriol JoynerGwyn Emberton

Amateur & Community Theatre/ Theatr Amatur a Chymunedol Aberystwyth Arts Centre & Community Musical Theatre: Alice in Theatreland-The MusicalThe Night Before ChristmasA Murder is Announced

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Dance SchoolA Night at the Movies

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Stage SchoolSueussical JR

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Youth Theatre:Dreams of Anne FrankTake Away The Tempest

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Castaway Community Theatre: Twelfth Night Wyrd Sisters

Wardens Dramatic Company Beauty and the Beast

Family Shows/Sioeau i’r Teulu Ysgol Gymraeg Christmas Concert & Summer ConcertYsgol Penweddig EisteddfodThe Wonderful World of Mr EFlying the Nest Handmade TheatreParty Pary! Milkshake! Oddly Norwich Puppet Theatre The Duck on the Truck Blunderbus Melltith y Brenin Lludd Cwmni Mega An Elephant in the Garden Poonamalleee Productions Chris and PuiThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice Diwrnod Hyfyrd Sali Mali Cwmni Arad Goch James and the Giant Peach Selladoor

Performing Arts/Celfyddydau Perfformio

Dance/DawnsMaterial Men & Strange Blooms Shobana Jeyas-ingh DanceAberystwyth Arts Centre Dance School A Night at the Movies Bollywood Evening Haul Milonga evenings Cinderella Ballet Cymru Dawns Ysbrydion Theatr Genedlaethol Little Match Girl Arthur Pita Gwyn EmbertonSmash it Up Mr & Mrs Clark Folk National Dance Company Wales Touch of Class Ian Waite & Natalie Lowe

Bolshoi Ballet LiveBolshoi BabylonGiselle JewelsThe Lady of the Camellias The Nutcracker SpartacusThe Taming of the ShrewDon Quixote

Literature, Storytelling & The Spoken Word /Llenyddiaeth, Adrodd Straeon a’r Gair Llafar Bookshop Events: Poetry readings, Literary Events & Book LaunchesAn Evening of Poetry and Music Words&Words&Words (two evenings)Celebrating 10 Years of Word DistilleryShort Story Network Pavillion Poets Words from the Brink: Word Distillery

Music /Cerddoriaeth ONE BlackhouseBrenigWales Musical Theatre OrchestraThe Blues BandShowaddywaddyAberystwyth Choral Society concertsAberystwyth Music Club Series (6 recitals)BBC National Orchestra of Wales Ceredigion Schools concertsMusicfest International Music Festival & Summer School Jamie Smith’s MabonDarkside performing The Pink Floyd Show Ensemble Cymru (three recitals) Philomusica of Aberystwyth concertsThe University SingersWelsh Sinfonia

Urdd Gobaith Cymru: Eisteddfod y CylchPaul PottsJoe Stilgoe: New Songs for Old Souls Frizzi 2 FulciBuddy Holly and the Cricketers Winter Wilson and BrenigCairns Howarth Upbeat Beatles La Boheme Opera Up Close Rumours of Fleetwood MacThe Devil Inside Music Theatre Wales The Magic of MotownS4C Band Cymru Fool’s GoldTalon – The Best of the EaglesStudent Summer Ball Land of Song WMC MidMad music festival

New York Met Live Links Il TrovatoreOtelloTanhauserThe Magic FluteLulu Les Pêcheurs de PeriesTurandot Manon LescautMadame ButterflyRoberto DevereuxElektra

ENO LiveThe Barber of Seville The Mikado

Glyndebourne Festival The Rape of Lucretia Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Comedy / Comedi Elis James: Gwaith Mewn LlawComedy Club (monthly x 9 events) Jimmy Carr: Funny Business Festival of the Spoken Nerd Josh Widdicombe The Minging Detectives Scottish Falsetto puppet Theatre Ed Aczel David O’DohertyMark Watson

Special Events / Gweithgareddau ArbennigScience Café (8 events)The Aberystwyth Wedding Show (Calon Wedding Planning)Doug Scott’s Everest: The Hard WayAberration LGBT events Chinese New Year concertMalaysian Evening 50 Shades of BurlesqueWales Festival of Architecture 2016

Festivals / GwyliauAbertoir Wales Horror FestivalChristmas Food FestivalMusicfest International Music Festival & Summer SchoolMidMad Music FestivalWales Festival of Architecture Winter Craft & Gift Fair WOW Wales One World Film Festival

Performing Arts/Celfyddydau Perfformio

Gallery 1Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe (Tate and National Galleries of Scotland)Stranded: Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey The Human Face (The Lightbox Woking) Hollow: Jenny Hall Power in the LandFlora (Oriel Davies)

Gallery 2We are All Born Free (Amnesty International) Abertoir 10th Anniversary International Print Exhibition 158 (Royal Photo-graphic Society) Andrew McNeill – Under the Bridge: Being Home-less in Cardiff Ruth Thomas and Linda Alterwitz – Inside Out: From Vegas to Wales Jeremy Moore: Bird/Land

Café GalleryFirst Contact Patterns, Patches and Portraits The ExperimentalistsThe Road to Peace (Tavistock Peace Group) James Morris: Inhabitation Screenprinted Textiles

Foyer Exhibitions Michèle Provost James Morris: Inhabitation Keith Morris (Musicfest)

Artists in ResidenceJenny HallMichèle Provost (Canada) Joanna Bond Ruth Jen Evans

The Box: Artists Films ProgrammeSeason 19: Lindsay Perth, Consuelo Radclyffe, Bill Viola, Martin Clark & Janice Parker, Anton HechtSeason 20: Depict!, Deep Greem Sea, Christina Read, Framing the Artists, Danilo Balducci Season 21: David Wilson, Christopher M. Smith, Alan Holly, Mark Lyken & Emma Dove, Nathan KasoSeason 22: Robert Mapplethorpe, Bandaloop, Nick Olson & Lilah Horwitz, Philip Stockton, The Mouarf, Musicfest

The Photographer’s Wall / Mur y Ffotograffwyr A rolling programme of work from the Arts Centre’s B&W photography courses and Open Access sessions

Visual Arts / Celfyddydau Gweledol

Bandaloop

Flora

Live Links / Dolenni Byw

NT Live (National Theatre, London)The Beaux StrategemCoriolanus HamletOf Mice and Men Jane EyreLes Liaisons DangereusesAs You Like It A View from the BridgeHamletThe Audience Hangmen

Royal Shakespeare Company LiveHenry VHamletOthello Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Shakespeare’s Globe Live Antony and Cleopatra Julius Caesar Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors

Almeida Live Richard III

Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Romeo and Juliet Henry V

Bolshoi Ballet LiveBolshoi BabylonGiselle JewelsThe Lady of the Camellias The Nutcracker SpartacusThe Taming of the ShrewDon Quixote

New York Met Il TrovatoreOtelloTanhauserThe Magic FluteLulu Les Pêcheurs de PeriesTurandot Manon Lescaut

Madame ButterflyRoberto DevereuxElektra

ENO LiveThe Barber of Seville The Mikado

Glyndebourne Festival The Rape of Lucretia Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Cult Film Club Barbarella (15) Dirty Dancing (12) Plan 9 from Outer Space (PG) The Crow (18) Zabriskie Point (15) Monty Python & the Holy Grail (15

Special EventsThe Rocky Horror Picture Show Live Teatro Alla Scala: the Temple of Wonders Leonardo Da Vinci: The Genius in MilanSt Peter’s and the Papal Basilicas of Rome Eddie the Eagle (PG) Charity Screening for MNDS with Taron EgertonInternational Woman’s Day: Suffragette Screening Battle of Britain at 75 (LIVE) Dance on Screen: Four Collaborative Films Jonas Kaufmann - An Evening with Puccini Julie Taymor’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard III with Ian McKellen Q&A - 1NVRoger Waters The Wall The Importance of Being Earnest LIVE The INCA Project The Life of a Dementia Carer-Talk with Q&A The Winter’s Tale

Film Festivals / Gwyliau Ffilm

Abertoir Wales Horror FestivalFrancesca Hollow Aaaaaaaah! with live commentaryAttack on Titan Part 1 (15) Attack on Titan Part 2 (15)Bone Tomahawk Danger 5 Season 1 Marathon Danger 5 Season 2: part 1 catchup Danger 5 Season 2: part 2

Deadman Inferno Dr Phibes Rises Again Fatal Frame Gavin Baddeley Johnny Walker Talk Nicko and Joe’s Bad Film ClubProfondo Rosso Rasputin The Mad Monk Robbery Scream and Scream Again Sensoria Short Films Competition Silent Shorts with live accompaniment Tales of Halloween The Abominable Dr Phibes The Art of Arrow The Invitation The Ninja War of Torakage The Witch They Look Like People Vincent the Anglophile

WOW Wales One World ScreeningsArsenal (PG) + Live Musical Accompaniment Court (PG) Gypsy (15) Lamb (PG) Neon Bull (18) Our Little Sister (PG) Paths of the Soul (PG) Rams (15) Sworn Virgin (15) Tanna (12A) Tharlo (PG) The Passing/Yr Ymadawiad (15) The Pearl Button (12A) Thirst (15) This Changes Everything (PG)

General Screenings (2D & 3D) / Dangosiaddau Cyffredinol (2D & 3D)The Third Man (PG)10 Cloverfield Lane (12A) 13 Minutes (15) 45 Years (15) A Bigger Splash (15)A Flickering Truth (12A)A Walk in the Woods (15)Absolutely Anything (12A) Alvin and The Roadchip (U) Amy + Q&A (15) An Irrational Man (12A) Angry Birds (2D) (U)Angry Birds (3D) (U) Anomalisa (15) Ant Man (12A) Ant Man (3D) (12A) Anthem of the Heart (12A) Back to the Future pt I (PG) Back to the Future pt II (PG) Back to the Future pt III Batman vs Superman (2D) (12A) Batman vs Superman (3D) (12A) Bone Tomahawk (18)

Film / Ffilm

Rams

Gypsy

Bridge of Spies (12A) Brooklyn (12A) Captain America: Civil War (2D) (12A) Captain America: Civil War (3D) (12A) Carol (15) Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2D) (PG) Charlie Brown and Snoopy (3D) (PG) Crimson Peak (15) Dad’s Army (PG) Dance of Reality (18) Deadpool (15) Dheepan (15) Diary of a Teenage Girl (18) Doctor Zhivago (PG) Dry (15) Eddie the Eagle (PG) Elvis & Nixon (15)Everest (12A) Everest (3D) (12A) Everybody Wants Some!! (15) Eye in the Sky (15) Far from the Madding Crowd (12A) Fire at Sea (12A) Florence Foster Jenkins (PG) Frozen: Singalong (PG) Gemma Bovary (15) Going Clear: Scientology (15) Green Room (18) Hail Caesar (12A) He Named Me Malala (PG) High-Rise (15) Hitchcock/Trauffaut (12A) How to Change the World Ice and the Sky (12A) Inside Out (U) Inside Out (3D) (U)Joy (12A) - 1JSK2: Siren of the Himalayas Kotatsu: A Letter to Momo (PG) Kotatsu: Short Peace (15) Kotatsu: Tiger and Bunny (12A)Kotatsu: Wings of Honneamise (PG) Kung Fu Panda 3 (2D) (PG) Kung Fu Panda 3 (3D) (PG) Labyrinth Charity Screening (U) Legend (18) Love and Friendship (U) Love and Mercy (12A) MacBeth (15) Marguerite (15) Midnight Special (12A) Miles Ahead (15) Minions (3D) (U) Minions (U) Miss Hokusai (12A) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (12A) Mustang (15) Noriben: A Recipe for Fortune (15) Oddball and the Penguins (U)Once Upon a Time in America (18)Orion (12A) Our Kind Of Traitor (15)Pasolini (18) Patagonia + Q&A with Marc Evans (15)

Ponyo (English Version) (U) Ponyo (Japanese Version) (U) Race (PG) Race for Your Life Charlie Brown (U) Robinson Crusoe (2D) (PG) Robinson Crusoe (3D) (PG) Room (15)Salt of the Earth (12A)Slow West (15) Son of Saul (15) Southpaw (15)Spectre (12A) Spotlight (15) Star Wars (2D) (12A) Star Wars (3D) (12A) Steamboat Bill Jr. (U)Steve Jobs (12A) Suffragette (12A) Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev (15)Tarkovsky: Ivan’s Childhood (12A) Tarkovsky: Mirror (U) Tarkovsky: Solaris (12A) The Assassin (Nie Yin Niang) (12A) The BFG (2D) (PG) The BFG (3D) (PG) The Big Gundown (15) The Big Short (15) The Connection (15) The Danish Girl (15) The Good Dinosaur (2D) (PG) The Good Dinosaur (3D) (PG) The Hateful 8 (18) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay pt 2 (12A) The Jungle Book (2D) (PG) The Jungle Book (3D) (PG) The Lady in the Van (12A)The Legend of Barney Thomson (15) The Lighthouse (15) The Man From U.N.C.L.E (12A) The Muppet Christmas Carol (U) The New Girlfriend (15) The Passing/Yr Ymadawiad (15)The Program (15) The Railway Children The Revenant (15) The Walk (3D) (PG) Thomas and Friends (U) Trumbo (15) Uzumasa Limelight (15) WATCH AFRICA: Forgotten Kingdom (12A) WATCH AFRICA: Lamb (PG) When Marnie Was There (U) Where to Invade Next (15) + Live Q&A X-Men Apocalypse (2D) (12A) X-Men Apocalypse (3D) (12A) Youth (15) Zarafa (U) Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars (PG) Zootropolis (2D) (PG) Zootropolis (3D) (PG)

Film / Ffilm Continued

mission Impossible The Passing

Suffragette

The Good Dinosaur

Weekly Courses / Dosbarthiadau WythnosolAberystwyth Arts Centre Dance School – weekly ballet, tap & modern classes for 500 students, ages 3 – 18 Aberystwyth Arts Centre Youth Theatre – weekly classes for 70 students ages 12 - 18Aberystwyth Arts Centre Stage School – weekly classes for 120 students ages 5-11Aberystwyth Arts Centre Castaway Community Theatre for adults

Adult TapAdult Ballet Adult StreetdanceAdult JazzArgentine TangoBeginners Patchwork, Quilting & AppliqueBlack & White photography 16yrs+ (2 Classes)Black & White photography 16yrs+ Clwb 1-2-3 Club (2 sessions a week)Clay Modelling 5-8yrsClay Modelling 9-15yrsClog Dance / Clocsio 14-21 yrsClog Dance / Clocsio AdultsClwb 1-2-3 ClubCreative Family Fun sessions, with the University School of ArtCreative Writing Darkroom Open Access Digilab Open Access Experimentation in Painting and Drawing Forms from Nature (accredited course from the University School of Education and Lifelong Learning)Guitar - beginners 10-16yrsGuitar - intermediate 10-16yrsGuitar - intermediate 16yrs+Heartsong Community ChoirHand Sewn Felt DecorationsHand And Machine Applique Haul Art & Friendship GroupHip Hop & Breakdance 6yrs + ImprovInto Physical Theatre Life Drawing 16yrs+Line Dancing Musical Theatre SingingPhotography for Young PeoplePoetry GroupPottery 16yrs+ (4 classes, including beginners, advance and an Integrated class)Rock’n’Roll Dance 15 yrs+Samba Drumming - Beginners 14yrs+Screen printing (Integrated Class)Sculpture for Everyone (accredited course from the University School of Education and Lifelong Learning)

Stage School - LowerStage School - PreludeStage School – UpperStudent BalletSolo Dance Sound Studio PoetsYouth Theatre 1 (12 - 14yrs)Youth Theatre 2 (14 - 21yrs)Yarn Storytelling groupVoice Coaching Watercolour for Everyone (accredited course from the University School of Education and Lifelong Learning)Word Distillery poetry groupWriting for Performance

Short Courses/Cyrsiau ByrionSummer Holiday Workshops: Breakin’ TasterZu Aerial Dance Taster Day Drama and Movement Project for Young ChildrenPerforming Shakespeare TasterTheatre Skills week for young people Acrobatic Arts Bring on that Book! Creative Writing BootcampChildren’s Clay modelling sessionsPottery Creative CeramicsScreen Printing Handbuilding with ClayCreative Family Fun workshopsCreative Workshops with Hollow exhibitionElephant in the Garden creative workshopsFace to Face: Creative Workshop in Portrait On your Toes – Ballet Summer SchoolPhotography with Keith MorrisFree Taster Sessions – After School Ceramics The Language of Colour: Compsing with Contrast, Light and Dark with Mary Lloyd Jones Patchwork Bag Workshop Slip decorating techniques

Honno Writing Workshops:Symbols for WritersWriting Memorable Dialogue in ProseMyth and Fairy Tales for WritersFinding a market

Work with Schools & the Community/Gwaith Artist in Residence Talks (with each residency)Artists Rooms Young People’s Art Group Activity Group Drama and Rock School with Cere-digion County CouncilArtists in Schools – set text GCSE & A Level workshopsArt Day for SchoolsBackstage toursBallet Cymru workshopCeramics sessions in conjunction with the Univer-sity Ceramics Collection Creative Workshops for Primary SchoolsDirty Protest – Plays in Bag Flora Outreach projectGwanwyn Festival Gallery visits for SchoolsInto Film Festival 2015Laura Ashley Foundation for Ceramics Sessions for 6th Formers One Day Community Creative Writing Project Raising the BarRoald Dahl ‘Gwlad y Gan / Land of Song’ projectTeachers Packs and downloadable resourcesTheatr Genedlaethol workshop

Professional Development / Datblygiad ProffesiynolFform - associates, performance nights, scratch nights and residencies Post show talks seriesGallery events and talksArtists in Residence received independent mentor-ing Theatre for Change Symposium – Lost In Transi-tion: Perspectives on Migration and Displacement Strata – Arts and Science Collaborations in the Anthropocene Symposium

Community Arts & Education/ Celfyddydau Cymunedol ac Addysg

The Good Dinosaur

Artists in Residence Studios (x 2)

International Artists in Residence

Honno Welsh Women’s Publishers

Becky Knight – textile artist

Catrin Webster – artist

Cleftec, music services

HAUL – Arts in Health

Green Weeds – web design

Trioni Architects

Musicfest International Music Festival

& Summer School

Tim Walley – designer/maker

Wardens Dramatic Company

Creative Units Residents/ Preswylwyr yr Unedau Creadigol

Figures and graphs/Ffigyrau a graffau

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Income & Expenditure AccountYear Ending 31st July 2016

Arts Programme Trading Sales Grants Arts Council of Wales Aberystwyth University Ceredigion County Council Film Agency Other grant income Other Income

Arts Programme Trading Administration, Services and Marketing Other Central Expenditure Deficit /Surplus for the Year

2015~16Actual

1,121

1,254

549222482710

74

3,305

2,021

1,124

502

125

3,772

-£467

2014~15Actual

1,326

1,519

5872225934

68

3,815

1,940

1,464

672

145

4,380

-£197

Income

Expenditure

£’000

Notes to the Income and Expenditure Account.

1 Arts Programme: reduced income across board, in line with reduction in footfall, and a difficult summer season return. 2 Stock write offs from previous years totalling £23k.3 Trading sales – reducing footfall and stock write offs worsened year-end position.4 Reduction in grant income of £46k from previous year.

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