Newsletter January 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Coming up  

 

 

THE SECRET BOOK OF CAIONI (8+)

Family show

 

Imagine: you inherit a map that can help you find a treasure that has been hidden for centuries in a monastery in Transylvania, now Romania. Then of course you don't think twice, but go out together with the musicians of Black Pencil to investigate this mystery. Their instruments from recorder and panflutes to percussion, viola and accordion will show you the way. But be warned, the Caioni codex is not easy to reveal: musical riddles have to be solved and codes have to be cracked. 

 

 

Kunstlinie, Almere - NL

21 January 2024, 2:30 PM

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Kindervoorstelling

 

 

 

BENEFIT CONCERT 

The Fire In Their Eyes

 

Immerse yourself in a cultural trip to Afghanistan during the benefit evening of the Almere foundation Rescue Mother and Child Afghanistan. Funds collected from tickets sales will go to support the establishment of emergency care for parturitions in eastern Afghanistan.

 

Every two hours a mother dies in Afghanistan from preventable complications during pregnancy or childbirth. According to a recent study by the World Health Organization, another 50,000 mothers will die in the next 2 years.


During this concert, Black Pencil will perform a beautifully varied program, some items with the Afghan singer Najia and tabla!

 

 

Kunstlinie, Almere - NL

25 January 2024, 8:30 PM

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Benefiet avond

 

 

BLACK PENCIL & AJSO 

Black Pencil meets symphony orchestra! 

 

The brand new composition "CITYSCAPE SERENADE" by Rembrandt Frerichs for Black Pencil and AJSO (Almere Youth Symphony Orchestra).
The premiere will take place in the main hall of Kunstlinie Almere on February 4, 2024.

 

Kunstlinie, Almere - NL

4 February 2024, 2:30 PM

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Cityscape Serenade

 

 

BLACK PENCIL & CHILDREN FROM ALMERE

Exhibition and music 

 

Over the past six months, 1,000 students from 40 groups at a total of 20 different schools have worked on writing poems.
They made works of art in 2D and 3D based on those written poems.
The proceeds from the poems and artworks have been combined into powerful and beautiful posters, which can be seen in '10 years of Collage'.

We are happy to make the music for this large exhibition!
 

Reserve February 6 at 3:30 PM in your diary and don't miss the festive opening!

 

 

De Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere - NL

6 February 2024, 3:30 PM

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Expositie & muziek

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS

2024: Amazing Projects Ahead

 

 

Lady+Lord MacBeth

 

National tour with Theater Group Suburbia.

A new adaptation of Shakespeare's most infamous tragedy: MacBeth.
Text by the famous writer
 Tom Lanoye and direction by Olivier Diepenhorst

 

Schokgolf (6+) 

 

An imaginative children's show about homesickness, the climate and a touch of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Annechien Koerselman.

 

 

Volca series

 

Composer Aart Strootman writes a series of compositions with Volca synthesizers and the instruments of Black Pencil, as a follow-up to his piece Popular Archeology: Volca #1"for percussion and synth.

 

France here we come!

 

We are happy to announce that we have received structural support from the Fonds Podiumkunsten to intensify our activities in France in 2024 and 2025. This allows us to bring our music to new audiences and explore new partnerships and projects in the region.

 

Series of composition commissions 

 

Black Pencil is an innovative ensemble that creates new music for exciting new projects. We are proud to announce that we have received structural support from the Fonds Podiumkunsten for commissioning composers in 2024 and 2025. 

 

PERFORMANCES IN 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video tip

 

 

*** WRAITH II ***

 

 

WRAITH II composed by Ruud Roelofsen in 2023 for Ensemble Black Pencil and winner of the Black Pencil Prize 2023. Enjoy!

Live recording at Orgelpark Amsterdam during the Prix Annelie de Man,  November 30, 2023.

 

 

Wraith II by Ruud Roelofsen
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