What's On!...
'A selection of events and places to go in and around Cirencester'
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Thursday 9 February:
• Parlour Farm Kitchens, 5- 7pm. Launch Party and Charity Raffle for Cotswold Care Hospice in memory of Nick Grunfeld. GoH: Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, Director General of the National Trust. Nadia Sawalha attending. www.parlourfarm.com
Friday 10 February:
• Latino Party Night. La Attica, Midland Road, Ciren, Gl7 1PZ (by Batten & Allen). Bar & Raffle. Tickets £8 advance, £10 on night (inc 1 x comp drink), from Ciren Primary School. Call in / ring 01285 658550, or contact Gill MacKellar-Still at gillytrek@hotmail.co.uk. Event in aid of the ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Appeal’ for the British Heart Foundation’s ‘Mending Broken Hearts Appeal’.
• Kings of Harmony, Legends of the 60s. Featuring 80s chart toppers THE JETS whose Top Twenty successes included "Yes Tonight Josephine”, "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree" plus 11 other hits. This hit theatre show “Kings of Harmony, Legends of the 60s” includes the sound and hits of The Beach Boys, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, The Drifters, The Coasters, Dion & The Belmonts, The Everly Brothers and many more. Tickets £8.00 plus BF in Adv by calling 01793 495527 or via www.swindontickets.co.uk
Sunday 12 February:
• CIRENCESTER RAMBLERS Starting at Broad Town, the walk goes past the ‘White Horse’ up towards Brincknoll Farm. From here we go on to Broad Hinton along Vize Lane, before returning, via a short climb, up to Broad Town. Two stops along the way. Grade: Moderate. Distance 61⁄2 miles. Travel contr: £4. Leader: Coralie Dustin (01285 860873). Meet Beeches Car Park for 9.30am start. Visitors welcome. No Dogs. Full details www.cirencesterramblers.btik.com
Monday 13 February:
• Hidden Treasures, 10.30am- 12pm. Learn about Civil War coin hoard and design your own coin to take home. Family Drop-in, Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
Tuesday 14 February:
• Stretchy Cavaliers, 10.30am- 12pm. Find out a bit more about the English Civil War and make your own stretchy Cavalier! Family Drop-in, Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
Wednesday 15 February:
• Ancient ideas: the portal, the earth and the cosmos in the Middle Ages. 10am-4pm A day school with Avis Lloyd. Adult day schools: £28 each or £25.50 to season ticket holders. To book: Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
• CIRENCESTER RE- CORDED MUSIC SOCIETY The Society meets to hear Lyndon Jenkins, President of the Federation of Recorded Music Societies, giving a presentation on 50 years in music - Conductors and singers I have known. Contact Secretary 01285 860242
Thursday 16 February:
• Victory Pendants. 10.30am -12pm. Make your own! Family Drop-in, Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
Friday 17 February:
• 7.30 for 8pm. New Brewery Arts, Love Poetry Slam. Tickets are £7 (£6 concessions include Friends, students and people over 60). Book your place www.newbreweryarts.org.uk. Up-and-coming poets who fancy taking part contact Marcus on 01285 640470 or email john.marcus.moore@gmail.com
Saturday 18 February:
• A charity glamour fundraising event. New Brewery Arts host a Sparkling Supper Evening in BA Café. Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, will entertain guests and make them work for their supper by sketching two delectable dancers. Hosted by Ophelia Bitz, queen of cabaret. £30 a ticket and all materials are provided. Book your place www.newbreweryarts.org.uk.
Saturday 18 February:
• Jumble Sale, Preston Village Hall 2pm. Admission 20p. Please call Carol Bartlett 01285 657099, or Barbara King 01285 651401. With donations for the sale in aid of Preston Village Hall.
Sunday 19 February:
• CIRENCESTER RAMBLERS. Commencing at Clapton-on-the-Hill, we go via the Diamond Way to Lower Marsh Farm and the Waterpark to Bourton-on-the-Water. There are a few stiles and it could be muddy in places. Grade: Moderate. Distance: 61⁄2 miles. Travel contr: £3. Leader: Brian Cooper (01285 640569) Meet Beeches Car Park for 9.30am start. Visitors welcome. No Dogs. Full details www.cirencesterramblers.btik.com
Tuesday 21 February:
• To mark National Eating Disorders Awareness Week; a Coffee Morning hosted by BEAT Cirencester. Coffee & Biscuits 10.30-12noon. Entrance £1. Raffle (donations welcome). At Middle House, Marston Meysey, Nr Swindon, SN6 6LQ
Thursday 23 February:
• Aerial Archaeology and the Roman Empire. 7-8.30pm. An evening lecture with Dr Robert Bewley. Cost: £5.50 or £5 to season ticket holders. Booking advisable. Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
Saturday 25 February:
• Barn Dance, Cotswold Hoburn, Broadway Lane South Cerney. 7.30- 11.30pm. Band: Bailey’s Beads. Tickets include Buffet Supper. £12 adults, £5 Under 12s. From 01285 860753/ 861212 / 851515. Proceeds to Grippers, supporting recovery from Psychosis.
• Rural Cinema Corinium Museum. 2.15pm. For film title, see our poster in the window. Cost: £4.50, £3.75 (Concessions and season ticket holders). Booking recommended. Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
Sunday 26 February:
• Rural Cinema Corinium Museum. 2.15pm. For film title, see our poster in the window. Cost: £4.50, £3.75 (Concessions and season ticket holders). Booking recommended. Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
• CIRENCESTER RAMBLERS. A walk around Minchinhampton with, spectacular views of the Golden Valley. Through Bagpath, Besbury National Trust land, Bownham, Burleigh, Littleworth and Hyde common. Grade: Easy, Dis- tance: 81⁄2 miles. Travel contr: £2. Leader: Phil Gearing (01285 851855). Meet Beeches Car Park for 9.30am start. Visitors welcome. No Dogs. Full details www.cirencesterramblers.btik.com
Tuesday 28 February:
• Conservation of Museum Objects. A lunchtime gallery talk with Ben Harridge. 12.30pm. Museum gallery talks take place at 12.30pm, and are included in admission. Free to annual season ticket holders. , Corinium Museum. Park Street. Tel: 01285 655611 Email: museums@cotswold.gov.uk Website: www.coriniummuseum.cotswold.gov.uk
• Meeting, Cirencester Art Society. 7pm in the Parish Centre, Gosditch Street, Cirencester. Demonstration by Sheila Stewart on Painting on China/Porcelain. Visitors welcome £3.
Wednesday 14, 15, 16 to Saturday 17 March:
• South Cerney Players present Noël Coward’s classic ‘Blithe Spirit’ – an evening of glamour, ghosts, cosmic mix-ups, and very, very dry martinis (available at the bar!) Performances in South Cerney Village Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets from South Cerney Post Office. For more details about the production and South Cerney Players please visit our website: www.southcerneyplayers.org.uk
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