Exhibitions, music, theatre and comedy at The Ropewalk

The summer exhibition at Ropewalk Contemporary Art & Craft has opened to critical acclaim.

Artists from this country and beyond have submitted more than 150 pieces of work in the Maltkiln Road gallery’s second biennial printmaking open competition with Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller winning the £400 selectors’ prize.

The prints were selected by Cleethorpes born and educated Melvyn Petterson, one of the top traditional etchers of this century who co-runs the Artichoke Print Workshop in London’s Coldharbour Lane, and Meg Dutton, a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers who studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art.

At Ropery Hall there is a summer lull before the Autumn programme is launched on September 10 by the South Bank Players. Highlights for the months leading up to Christmas include a bumper October which includes An Audience with Sir Jonathan Miller, Gabriella Drake portraying novelist Elizabeth Gaskell in Dear Scheherazade, North Country Theatre performing A Blood Wedding, comedian Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club and those unforgettable Scottish tykes, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Company.

Musical highlights include Chris Difford, The Eduardo Niebla Experience, Esther Miller, Chloe Hall, Nick Harper and a pre-Christmas treat with St Agnes Fountain while Snake Davis and The Suspicions bring 2010 to a rousing close on December 30.

Film highlights for the first six weeks include the film about John Lennon’s early years, Nowhere Boy, and the Oscar and BAFTA nominated An Education.

Full details of the entire 2010 Autumn programme can be viewed on www.roperyhall.co.uk