BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 3.5.3//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_156876@brightonorpheus.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230701T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230701T213000 SUMMARY:Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen DESCRIPTION:We are excited to have the opportunity to perform Henry Purcell 's The Fairy Queen with The Baroque Collective - a period instrument orche stra based in Lewes\, East Sussex\, directed by conductor and singer John Hancorn and violinist Alison Bury.\nTheir performances include Handel’s Messiah with the East Sussex Bach Choir and Bach’s St John Passion with the Esterházy Chamber Choir in Lewes\;  Purcell’s King Arthur with the Fletching Singers\; ‘The Cares of Lovers’ at the Uckfield Festival an d Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the Montpelier and Powis Festival\, Brigh ton\; and regular performances of major baroque choral works with the East Sussex Bach Choir and the Baroque Collective Singers.\n\nWe are also prou d to welcome to the performance five excellent professional soloists. Alex andra Kidgell - soprano\; Shona Knight - soprano\; Hugh Cutting - countert enor\; Louis Watkins- tenor and Andrew Davies - baritone.\n\nYou will be e nchanted by this semi-opera by Purcell. The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream and was first performed in 1692\,  Purcell composed The Fairy Queen three years before he died at the age of 35. Following his death\, the score was lost and only redisc overed early in the twentieth century.\n\nPurcell composed short masques w hich are related to the original play metaphorically\, rather than literal ly. The Fairy Queen ends with a masque featuring Hymen\, the God of Marria ge\, and is believed to have been composed for the fifteenth wedding anniv ersary of William III and Mary II.\n\nThe concert will take place at St Ma ry's Church Kemp Town\, situated in a vibrant and diverse part of the city . The church has a wonderful acoustic making it particularly good for musi cal performances.\n\nAs a charity ourselves we endeavour to support other charities when we can. For our retiring collection at this concert we will be supporting Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project.\n https:// moulsecoombforestgarden.org/ \nEstablished as a project in 1994\, and as a charity in 2005\, Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project – MFG WP – is a small charity on the outskirts of Brighton located in an area of high deprivation with few community facilities.\n\nThey provide outdoor education and therapeutic support for pupils at Key Stages 3 and 4 in the Brighton and Hove area\, offering eco-therapy and outdoor education to co mplement the school curriculum. They specialise in working with young peop le with learning difficulties such as Autism\, Asperger Syndrome\, Dyslexi a and ADHD.\n\nThey offer horticultural\, carpentry\, woodland management\ , cooking\, educational and social opportunities to everyone.\n\nTheir aim s are to:\n\n\n Reduce anti-social behaviour by involving excluded pupils in the running of the garden.\n Improve community health by producing orga nic and locally grown fruit and vegetables.\n Enhance skills and employabi lity by offering practical based training and volunteering opportunities.\ n Involve children in planting\, growing and eating healthy food and learn ing to respect nature and the environment.\n Create and enhance wildlife h abitats and protect biodiversity including old fashioned vegetable varieti es.\n Promote sustainable lifestyles by encouraging and educating people a bout the benefits of organic gardening\, locally produced food and compost ing.\n\n\n\nFor full event details\, visit: https://www.brightonorpheus.or g/dbpage.php?pg=view&dbase=events&id=156876 LOCATION:St Mary's Church\, Kemptown\, 61 St James's Street\, Brighton\, BN 2 1PR\, United Kingdom URL:https://www.brightonorpheus.org/dbpage.php?pg=view&dbase=events&id=1568 76 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR