The new season at the Salisbury Arts Centre promises one of the most varied programmes yet with live events and film, groundbreaking drama, classical, tango and rock music and a double bill of dance where Afro-European and Hip Hop influences meet.

A dramatic highlight is The Convent where divine harmony is about to reach rock bottom. A distinctive mix of dance and theatre where the nuns have their own nonsense language.

One of the music and dance sensations will be Tiris. Formed out of a series of talent competitions in the Algerian refugee camps their songs tell the long forgotten and invisible struggle to regain Western Sahara. In contrast for those who revered Jimi Hendrix, John Campbell performs Are You Experienced. Note perfect guitar work, and the voice is stunningly convincing.

From debutantes to doodlebugs and ration books to revenge, C-Scape Dance presents Guilty Fingers, Women at War reflecting the camaraderie, dedication and role women have played in wartime. REel Film will show rarely seen information films on Britain during the last war, called Bombs at Teatime. There will also be an Indian films double bill, The Namesake and Water. One of the film highlights however will be Black Sun, the extraordinary story of visual artist Hughes de Montalembert's struggle to rebuild his life after an assault by muggers left him blind.

Tango Siempre present a new music and dance show, Tango: Nuevo featuring specially commissioned pieces by award winning composers. Among the theatrical unmissables will be Hysteria. Bursting with irreverent humour and vivid physicality it draws its audience into an arresting world where the main course is a fight for survival.

Salisbury Arts Centre (01722) 343020