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With our flagship Festival finished in triumphant fashion, BEV has been on the road in 2011 with events already at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Latitude Festival.

Sound & Silents Tour 2011-12

And from Autumn 2011 through Spring 2012, we'll be touring the UK with highlights from our acclaimed 2011 Sound & Silents commissions of new live scores for classic silent films by female cinematic pioneers.

Full details of all tour dates will be announced hereincluding our headline performance by Grammy Award-winner Imogen Heap with the Holst Singers to accompany Germaine Dulac's seminal surrealist work The Seashell and the Clergyman - so keep checking back for more updates.

Click here for full details of the 2011 Sound & Silents commissions and UK touring 2011-12.

Coming next:
 

  • Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde + Blue Roses

    Arnolfini, Bristol, 18 Feb 2012
    Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds, 9 Mar 2012
    Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, date TBC 2012

    'In each of us, two natures are at war...'

    Following acclaimed performances at BFI Southbank and the Latitude and Green Man Festivals, acclaimed folk act Blue Roses (aka Laura Groves) reprise their haunting score for this canonical work of gothic silent film.

    'The highlight of the festival' - Bearded Magazine at Green Man

    'Gleamingly melodic and impeccably arranged' - Observer on Blue Roses

    Tickets now on sale:
    arnolfini.org.uk
    hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk

  • The Seashell and the Clergyman + Imogen Heap & the Holst Singers

    Roundhouse Reverb Festival, 26 February 2012
    Sage Gateshead, 27 February 2012

    Grammy Award-winning superstar Imogen Heap performs alongside the world-renowned Holst Singers in her first ever a capella choral composition, accompanying this seminal work of surrealist French cinema.

    Premiered at Southbank Centre, this extraordinary new work is reprised alongside music by Ana Silvera, with the promise of a finale of Heap's smash-hit 'Hide and Seek'.

    'Complete and utter gob smacking brilliance... a stunning accomplishment' - Bidisha

    Book now:
    roundhouse.org.uk.
    thesagegateshead.org.

  • The Wind + Lola Perrin

    Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton, 8 April 2012

    Drawing on minimalist jazz textures, celebrated pianist Lola Perrin's spellbinding solo score breathes new life into this psycho-sexual drama of the American midwest, helmed by 'first lady of the silent screen' and Lifetime Achievement Academy Award-winner Lilian Gish

    Originally performed at BFI Southbank before travelling to the Latitude Festival, Perrin's music for this screen classic recently won the award for Silent London's favourite silent film and live music show of 2011

    'Hauntingly compelling' - Guardian on Lola Perrin

    Tickets on sale soon.