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Welcome to the 18th TUESDAY 4TH JUNE 10.15-11.15am (also Tuesdays 11th, 18th, 25th) SUNDAY 9TH JUNE 2.00 – 5.00pm 2013 June 29th - June 1st ALFIE AND FRIENDS – for pre-school children BETJEMAN MILLENNIUM PARK TRUST

Try our fun term-time story and craft sessions in the museum galleries for pre- ‘ART IN THE PARK’ (Sponsored by Dolphin Art, Wantage) WANTAGE school children aged 2.5 - 3 years plus and their parents/carers. Dress for mess! SCULPTURE, PAINTING & DRAWING MASTER CLASSES FUN TALKS•WALKS•FAMILY

Advance booking essential as space is limited. £1.50 per child. Children must be Three popular local artists (Dawn Benson, Lendon Scantlebury and Stuart

SUMMER FESTIVAL accompanied by an adult. Roper), plus two acclaimed artists from the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, will CRAFT • WORKSHOPS VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE provide ‘Master Classes’. Limited places available: 24 (sculpture), 36 (water colour, acrylics and/or drawing). Tickets available on a ‘first come’ basis from DRAMA • MUSIC • ART Last year’s Festival doesn’t seem that long ago, and I’m delighted to see TUESDAY 4TH JUNE 7.00pm from this year’s content that the creativity and enthusiasm is still thriving! the Museum. Wet weather facilities available at KA’s Academy Art Department. WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST THE BETJEMAN MILLENNIUM PARK, WANTAGE The aim of the Festival is to raise the profile of the many diverse activities, Tickets: £5.00 per adult, £3.00 per student. organisations and volunteers which make up our vibrant community. This CIRCULAR GUIDED WALK A circular walk starting and finishing at The Sack House, Wantage Wharf, Mill year’s programme confirms that there is plenty going on in our area. We MONDAY 10TH JUNE 7.30pm (doors and licenced coffee shop open at 7.00pm) Street (map ref 396881). This walk takes in the route of the Wantage branch of have over 50 events, so hopefully there will be something for everyone. the canal and the main line of the canal between Grove and East Challow, and ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL TALK BY HAZEL BROWN & DAVID CASTLE Entertainment and leisure is often very expensive these days, but there’s returns via Naldertown and Betjeman Park. Distance is around 3 miles – allow PUPILS, POTHOLES AND POOR RELIEF plenty of events at a very low cost and some are free! To mention just a 2 hours for guide to wax lyrical! Please wear suitable clothing/shoes/walking The Wantage Town Lands, the charity responsible for some of the Wantage few of a packed, diverse programme: The Wantage Silver Band is giving boots and take care as routes may include stiles and roads for part of the way. almshouses, originally cared for the poor, ran the grammar school and mended a concert on 1st June (first day of Festival) to celebrate their New Band Further information can be obtained from Brian Stovold on 07946524928. the roads. Four hundred years of history, gleaned from the charity’s records, Hall at Tugwell Field. An exciting newcomer to the Festival is the Creative START AT THE SACK HOUSE, WANTAGE WHARF, MILL ST, WANTAGE. throw a fascinating light on some of the people and buildings of old Wantage. Cookshop, who will be giving three demonstration in the art of baking Free, but a donation of £2.00/person for the Trust’s costs gratefully accepted. Space limited, advance booking strongly recommended. and decorating. Once again, the Museum have thrown themselves into VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE THURSDAY 6TH JUNE 1.30-3.00pm the spirit of the Festival and have arranged an excellent programme of Tickets: £3.00 (no concessions) talks, crafts & family-friendly events. The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust have CREATIVE COOKSHOP – THE GREAT WANTAGE BAKE-OFF! TUESDAY 11TH JUNE 2.15-3.15pm arranged their perennially popular canal walks which give a fascinating BAKING AND ICING A BATTENBURG CAKE - DEMO insight into Wantage’s history and heritage. Again, Dolphin Art is A fun hour & half with the girls from the Creative Cookshop demonstrating how FAMOUS BELGIANS: SPEAKER TONY HADLAND sponsoring ‘Art in the Park’ with ‘masterclasses’ by local artists. Richmond to bake and ice a Battenburg cake. An ideal opportunity to have all your baking Tony Hadland has been visiting Belgium since the 1960s. For two years, he Village at Letcombe Regis have put together a very busy weekend, with questions answered. Tea and a slice of Battenburg will be served afterwards. was on Belgian radio and even did a jeans advert in Flemish! Fed up with music, an art exhibition and a day of family fun. Many thanks to the Tel: 01235 770383 if further info is required. ill-informed comments about the lack of famous Belgians, Tony will reveal a Wantage Town Council and Vale of White Horse District Council for their DEMO AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH HALL, MILL STREET surprising array of fabulous Flemings and wondrous Walloons! Space limited, advance booking recommended. grants, to the Festival committee for their support, and last, but by no Tickets: £5.00 (includes refreshments) Booking deadline by Tues 4th June. VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free means least, to all the participants in this Festival. THURSDAY 6TH JUNE 7.30pm (doors & licensed coffee shop open at 7.00pm) HISTORICAL TALK BY THE ICKNIELD WAY MORRIS MEN TUESDAY 11TH JUNE 7.00pm Julia Reynolds – Festival Chairman MORRIS DANCING: Where did it come from? What’s it all about? WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST This lively talk (with dance) will cover the discovery and interpretation of CIRCULAR GUIDED CANAL WALK SATURDAY 1ST JUNE 11.00am rural Morris dancing by the educated classes in the early 20th century; the This walk starts and finishes at Childrey Village Hall (map ref 362875). Distance WANTAGE SUMMER FESTIVAL OPENING introduction of the Morris into England; the influence of the Royal Court and is about 3.5 miles, allow 2 hours as your guide is likely to ramble on a bit The official opening of the 18th Wantage Summer Festival with the Wantage how the dances spread down the Thames Valley into the countryside. Space about the canal history and current restoration progress! Please wear suitable Silver Band, Icknield Way Morris Men, the Mayor of Wantage and Town Crier. limited, advance booking strongly recommended. clothing/shoes/walking boots and take care as routes may include stiles and IN FRONT OF THE BEAR HOTEL, Wantage VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE roads for part of the way. Further information can be obtained from Brian Tickets: £3.00 (no concessions) Stovold on 07946524928. START AT CHILDREY VILLAGE HALL. Free, but a donation of £2.00/person for SATURDAY 1ST JUNE 11.00-1.00pm FRIDAY 7TH JUNE 2.15-3.15 pm FLOWER OF THE QUERN the Trust’s costs gratefully accepted. THE HISTORY OF QUILLING talk & demo by Mary Todd MUSIC IN THE MUSEUM Quilling, or paper filigree, is a centuries-old craft and now a popular 21st TUESDAY 11TH JUNE 7.30pm Join us in the museum cafe for informal, instrumental and international folk century hobby. Mary Todd, an accredited member of the Quilling Guild, traces WANTAGE CAMERA CLUB music. Our music is played on a range of acoustic instruments in a variety of the history of rolling paper from the 17th century onwards. Mary will also AUDIO-VISUAL SPECTACULAR styles. demonstrate techniques and bring along examples of her exquisite work. Space A firm favourite in the Festival calendar, the Audio-Visual group of the Wantage VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free limited, advance booking strongly recommended. Camera Club presents a highly entertaining programme of images set to SATURDAY 1ST JUNE 1.00-3.00pm VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE. Free voice and music. The subject matter is often of local interest and some guest productions will be included. All the AVs will be presented digitally and will MUSIC IN THE MUSEUM WITH THE MAD HATTERS FRIDAY 7TH JUNE 8.00-11.30pm include some award-winning sequences. The Mad Hatters Ceilidh Band are four local musicians playing combinations of FOLK FOR MS/WHITE HORSE CEILIDHS METHODIST CHURCH HALL, NEWBURY STEET, WANTAGE accordion, melodeon, fiddle, guitar, ‘cello, mandola, mandolin, recorder, spoons Tickets: £3.00 (no concessions) and bones! We play for barn dances, weddings and parties. Our tunes are from WHITE HORSE FfMS CEILIDH �� Ireland, Scotland, America and England (especially tunes from the Thomas GECKOES are in the front rank of bands on the English Ceilidh scene. Evolving WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE 9.30-10.00am and 10.30-11.00am �� Hardy family manuscripts; jigs, reels and waltzes). out of the country dances of the British Isles, Europe and America, this style TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC RHYMETIME �� VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free of dancing is typified by its exuberance. Caller Alan Simpson will guide you �� If you come to the library today, you’re sure of a big surprise ….. for every bear �� through each dance so no experience is needed, just a sense of fun. Bring a �� SATURDAY 1ST JUNE 7.00pm and their child are invited to join us and make lots of noise! smile and some friends for an exhilarating evening. All proceeds to Folk for �

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A SUMMER EVENING SUPPER CONCERT WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE 10.00am – 4.00pm (includes a short break) � � � OLD MILL HALL, SCHOOL LANE, GROVE �� Start the Wantage Summer Festival in style by helping us to celebrate the PAINTERLY PRINT, WITH OPTIONAL HAND-STITCH, ON PAPER AND FABRIC � ��

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�� opening of the long-awaited New Band Hall on Tugwell Field! The Band invites Tickets: £8.00 Adult, £4.00 under 16 � � ART WORKSHOP – TUTOR: AMANDA HISLOP � �� you to a Supper Concert, featuring music by The Twelfth Street Brass Quintet. �� Award-winning textile artist and painter, Amanda Hislop, leads this intensive Bar available. Parking on site. NEW BAND HALL, TUGWELL FIELD, READING SATURDAY 8TH JUNE 10.00am – 2.00pm (also on Sat 22nd & Sat 29th) �� day-long course. Explore abstract mark making; cut, tear and layer printed RD, WANTAGE (near Nelson Pub) Tickets: £12.00 which includes a two course WANTAGE LACEMAKERS – DEMONSTRATION papers to create innovative samples using collage and mixed media techniques � � supper (no concessions) �� Lacemaking is still alive and thriving – come along to the museum and see for to alter and change the surface. Contact the museum if further details are �� SUNDAY 2ND JUNE 11.00am – 6.00pm yourself! Chat to the lace-makers and discover whether this could be a new required (01235 760176/771447). Advance booking essential as places are �� hobby for you. We meet during the term-time at King Alfred’s East Site on limited. Booking deadline is Monday 3rd June. The museum has their own �� RAY COLLINS’ WANTAGE CARNIVAL Thursdays 7-9pm (adults) and 6-7pm (children from 7 years of age). café where you will be able to purchase excellent lunches, snacks & drinks. �� Ray Collins, in conjunction with the Wantage Town Council, is bringing back VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE �� the Wantage Carnival last seen over 25yrs ago. A host of activities for all the Course price is £50.00/person (includes materials) �� family. All proceeds on the day will go to Wantage C of E School, Charlton SATURDAY 8TH JUNE 10.30am – 12 noon Acorns pre-school, Seesaw, Sobell House and Cancer Research plus some smaller WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE 7.00 – 9.00pm (repeated on Wed 19th) FAMILY PRINT WORKSHOP FOR AGES 5 – 11: TUTOR - ANNE GRIFFITHS charities. WANTAGE MARKET PLACE DOLPHIN ART �� GALLOPING GIANTS! TALL HORSES! �� SUNDAY 2ND JUNE 1.00pm Visit the museum’s Horses and Giants exhibition with artist Anne Griffiths PICTURE MOUNT CUTTING AND DECORATION �� Here’s a great opportunity to learn the art of picture mount cutting and �� before designing your own fun print. Make some prints, cut them out and make CTC WANTAGE/BETJEMAN PARK FAMILY BIKE RIDE decoration. Bring along a picture of your choice (max size A4), and take it home �� a fab card to take home. Dress for mess! Children must be accompanied by an �� The Betjeman Bike Ride goes out to Uffington for tea. The ten mile route, along beautifully displayed and ready for framing. Numbers limited, so booking adult. Booking deadline Fri 31st May. �� gentle roads chosen by CTC Wantage to suit all the family, should take about an essential on 01235 763030, or call in to Dolphin Art. VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE �� hour and a half. Tea and cakes are available at St. Mary’s Church in Uffington DOLPHIN ART, 23-24 MARKET PLACE, WANTAGE OX12 8AE �� – participants are encouraged to help raise funds for Betjeman Park. Tickets: £4.00 per child, accompanying adult free. £5 charge to cover materials. �� START FROM THE BETJEMAN PARK, WANTAGE Free SATURDAY 8TH JUNE 8.00-11.30pm (Doors open 7.00pm) THURSDAY 13TH JUNE 1.30-3.00pm � MONDAY 3rd JUNE 1.30–3.30pm (also on Mondays 10th, 17th & 24th) 24TH ANNUAL FOLK FOR M.S. CONCERT CREATIVE COOKSHOP – THE GREAT WANTAGE BAKE-OFF! Ticket sales Tel: 01235 760176/771447 MAKE LACE MONDAY! CRAFT DROP-IN SESSION Grace Notes, Johnny Coppin and Tom Lewis bring top quality, live folk music Have a go a bobbin lace-making at this craft-with-chat session run by Wantage BAKING AND DECORATING CUPCAKES - DEMO to the Old Mill Hall. All proceeds to Multiple Sclerosis charities. Licensed bar, A fun hour & half with the girls from the Creative Cookshop demonstrating Lacemakers in the museum café area. Try-out boards are available so there’s no Vale & Downland Museum raffle, hot & cold food available. Good entertainment, good music, good cause! how to bake and decorate cupcakes. An ideal opportunity to learn new skills to need to have your own equipment. Experienced lace-makers are also welcome Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm Visit www.FolkForMS.org for full details on the artists and the charity. impress your friends. Tea and a cupcake will be served afterwards. – just turn up and bring your project with you! VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, OLD MILL HALL, SCHOOL LANE, GROVE Tel: 01235 770383 if further info is required. CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free £10.00 Adult, £5.00 under 16 DEMO AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH HALL, MILL STREET, WANTAGE Tickets: £5.00 (includes refreshments) Booking deadline by Tues 11th June. THURSDAY 13TH JUNE 6.00pm for 7.30pm WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 4.00-5.00pm FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 7.00pm WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE 2.15pm RAIN OR SHINE THEATRE COMPANY ANIMAL ANTICS STORYTIME ADVENTURE SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE ILLUSTRATED TALK BY BRIAN SOUTHGATE SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN – ‘COMEDY OF ERRORS’ Children aged 5 and over are invited to join us in the library for an hour of fun SWISHING PARTY (clothes swapping event) ROUND & ROUND AGAIN WITH HALLEY’S COMET - As in previous years, this Gloucester-based theatre company will be providing with animal-themed stories and crafts. Swishing is an opportunity to swap your nice, clean, presentable clothes THE PERPETUAL COSMIC INTRUDER delightful entertainment with a production of Shakespeare’s ‘Comedy of Errors’ WANTAGE LIBRARY Free and accessories that have been lurking in your cupboards – maybe shopping Comets have long been viewed as mysterious objects which influence mistakes or unwanted gifts – for something you really fancy, that’s been sitting the lives of man. They have been described as the ‘most spectacular in aid of the Wantage branch of the Children’s Society. Bring a picnic and Wednesday 19th June 7.00-9.00pm unloved in someone else’s wardrobe! It’s cheap and it’s sustainable! All leftovers display of virtually nothing’. Of the many comets observed by man, that enjoy a wonderful evening in this beautiful restored garden. There will be some DOLPHIN ARt chairs, but you may prefer to bring your favourite garden chair. Performance will go to charity. bearing the name of Edmund Halley is the best known, and every time it starts at 7.30pm. In the event of rain, the production will take place in the PICTURE MOUNT CUTTING AND DECORATION SHUSH ENTERTAINMENT VENUE, NEWBURY STREET, WANTAGE returns, it tells a story. Space limited, advance booking recommended. Parish Church. See Wed 12th for details There will be a small entrance fee at the door VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free GARDEN OF THE OLD CHURCH HOUSE, 2 PRIORY ROAD, WANTAGE WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 7.30pm) (doors and coffee shop open at 7.00pm) SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 10.00am – 4.00pm WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE 8.30-11.00pm Tickets: £13.50 (£10.50 OAPs, £5.00 children 5-15) POETRY AND MUSIC - GILES WATSON AND KATHRYN WHEELER RICHMOND LETCOMBE REGIS DAVE MOORWOOD’S RASCALS OF RHYTHM THURSDAY 13TH JUNE 7.30pm THE FLIGHT OF THE WHITE HORSE JAZZ AT THE LAMB Giles Watson’s writing is inspired by the landscape in which he lives. Many of OPEN DAY & CRAFT FAIR RICHARD BAKER – ‘MY LIFE IN MUSIC’ Join us for our Summer Open Day and Craft Fair. There will be trades ranging During The Rascals of Rhythm’s 14 year monthly residency at The Lamb, his poems arise from his fascination with the Ridgeway and its environs, and Richard Baker, popular BBC newsreader and presenter of leading music from jewellery and gifts to food and plants. Ice creams and refreshments will many top musicians have made guest appearances. Today, we are very are influenced by rural folklore and traditions. Giles will be accompanied by programmes, recounts his life in music using recordings of the many famous be on sale, and there will be a bar. Raffle tickets will be on sale in support of the excited to announce that one of Britain’s best jazz singers, Val Wiseman, Kathryn Wheeler, a multi-talented folk musician and composer. Space limited, people with whom he has had close connections and experiences. Also included Thames Valley & Chilterns Air Ambulance. Take a look around our beautiful will feature with the band. Val’s great feeling and vocal accomplishment advance booking strongly recommended. are humorous stories about his spell of duty in the Royal Naval Reserve. retirement village, the Letcombe Regis Nature Reserve and Letcombe Brook. put her in a class of her own. Not to be missed! VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE ST. JOHN VIANNEY CHURCH HALL, CHARLTON ROAD, WANTAGE (visit www.richmond-villages.com) THE LAMB INN, MILL STREET, WANTAGE OX12 9AB Tickets: £3.00 (no concessions) Free, although there is a raffle to help with guest expenses. Tickets: £10.00 (no concessions) to include wine and nibbles RICHMOND VILLAGE LETCOMBE REGIS, IN THE MARQUEE. Free entry. THURSDAY 13TH JUNE 7.30pm (doors and coffee shop open at 7.00pm) WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 8.00-10.30pm SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 2.30pm THURSDAY 27TH JUNE 7.30pm (doors & coffee shop open at 7.00pm) ILLUSTRATED TALK BY PROFESSOR GARY SHEFFIELD ZELDA’S JAZZ ROOM – JAZZ CLUB CONCERT A FUN DAY FOR ALL ILLUSTRATED TALK BY AMANDA KING WINSTON’S BEST KEPT SECRET MATT PALMER’S MILLENIUM EAGLE JAZZ BAND To celebrate the opening of the refurbished Sports Pavilion, Letcombe Regis is Winston Churchill has never received the credit he deserved for his contribution The Jazz Club in Wantage, now 22 years old, originally began in Lains Barn and AMAZON ADVENTURE holding a FUN DAY FOR ALL on the Recreation Ground. We are planning a 5k Amanda King recounts her recent journey to the Amazon. Illustrated to victory in the First World War. This lecture by our speaker, Gary Sheffield, a recently moved to the Comrades’ Club. We host traditional jazz bands from FUN RUN, stalls, bric-a-brac, pony rides, games and competitions for all ages. with images and film extracts from her trip, Amanda’s talk covers close leading military historian, sets the record straight. A Professor of War Studies at all over the UK on the third Wednesday each month. Today we have a fine There will also be a beer tent, teas etc. encounters with a crocodile, a vast array of wildlife and a fascinating Birmingham University, he has published many books on the Great War. Space Midlands-based band, led by the excellent clarinet and sax player, Matt Palmer. LETCOMBE REGIS RECREATION GROUND account of the everyday life of an Amazon tribe. Space limited, advance limited, advance booking strongly recommended. THE COMRADES’ CLUB, NEWBURY STREET, WANTAGE OX12 8DJ Entrance: £2.00 per adult, 50p per child booking strongly recommended. VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Tickets: £10.00 on the door (no concessions) VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Tickets: £3.00 (no concessions) SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 7.00pm THURSDAY 20TH JUNE 1.30-3.00pm Tickets: £3.00 (no concessions) FRIDAY 14TH JUNE 2.00 – 3.30pm CREATIVE COOKSHOP – THE GREAT WANTAGE BAKE-OFF! WANTAGE BIG BAND CONCERT AT RICHMOND VILLAGE THURSDAY 27TH JUNE 7.30 pm (also on Fri 28th & Sat 29th 7.30pm) MUSEUM BOOK GROUP – BOOK FOR DISCUSSION Come along for a fun and lively evening with the musical greats. Wantage BAKING & DECORATING COOKIES & BISCUITS-DEMO Big Band (comprising Wantage Silver Band members & friends) is an 18 piece STAGELIGHTS A JOURNEY ON FOOT BY ROBERT MACFARLANE A fun hour & half with the girls from the Creative Cookshop demonstrating ‘THE OLD WAYS’ – swing band, performing instrumental and vocal numbers from legendary artists – a farce by Raymond Hopkins Love books? Why not try the museum’s book group – read the book, turn up how to bake and decorate cookies and biscuits. An ideal opportunity to learn LOVE BEGINS AT FIFTY including Count Basie, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington. Join us for a special Stagelights present an evening of excellent entertainment with this fast and join in our lively discussion. This month’s read is ‘The Old Ways’ by Robert new baking skills. Tea and freshly baked cookies will be served afterwards. Tel: summer evening to remember. Bar available. (visit www.richmond-villages. and furious farce. With Anita hoping to win a Caribbean cruise and her Macfarlane – the work which inspired festival speaker Cathy Dreyer’s blog 01235 770383 if further info is required. com) husband exploring the Lonely Hearts column for a final fling before he which we shall also discuss –http://walkinginacircle.wordpress.com DEMO AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH HALL, MILL STREET, WANTAGE RICHMOND VILLAGE LETCOMBE REGIS, IN THE MARQUEE turns 50, all is set for typical confusions and misunderstandings. A treat VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Tickets: £5.00 (includes refreshments) Booking deadline by Tues 18th June. Tickets: £10.00 (no concessions), (NB: Special price of £33.00 for all three for all. Free – but please support the coffee shop. THURSDAY 20TH JUNE 7.00pm ticketed events – Flanders & Swann, Wantage Big Band Concert, Pirates of OLD MILL HALL, SCHOOL LANE, GROVE OX12 7LB Penzance – a saving of £4.00) SATURDAY 15TH JUNE 12.00-2.00pm EXPERT TALK, ORGANISED BY SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE Tickets £8.00 (£6.00 for over 60s, students, unemployed & disabled) PANDEMONIUM IN THE MUSEUM WOODLANDS, WOOD AND FIRE SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 7.30pm FRIDAY 28TH JUNE 2.15- 3.15pm Come along to the museum, treat yourselves to tea/coffee and cake, and relax Riki Therivel, manager of the Oxfordshire Woodfuel Programme, will explain WANTAGE ORCHESTRA THE LIGHTHOUSE VIOLIN BY DR RUTH HARPER while Pandemonium entertain you with traditional tunes and songs. how Oxfordshire woodlands are managed and will discuss the use of wood as SUMMER CONCERT OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN MUSIC fuel, including drying, storage, stoves and questions to ask suppliers. Following Ruth Harper grew up listening to stories about her great-grandfather’s VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free This concert profiles Polish and Czech late romantic composers, including the talk, there will be a Q and A session and discussion on the sustainable life as a lighthouse keeper in some very remote parts of Scotland. One a concerto and overture not often played in Britain. The programme will SATURDAY 15TH JUNE 2.00pm production of firewood and how Wantage residents could increase usage. of the best tales was about his home-made violin. It was only later that comprise of: Marinella Overture by Fucík, violin concerto in A major by WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Ruth realised it provided a fascinating insight into a way of life gone Karlowicz and Symphony no. 8 by Dvorák. Our leader, Piotr Jordan will be the Tickets: £2.00 (no concessions) forever. Space limited, advance booking recommended. GUIDED CANAL WALK soloist in the violin concerto. VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE. Free. This year’s longer walk starts and finishes at Ardington Church (map ref THURSDAY 20TH JUNE 7.45-10.00pm WANTAGE PARISH CHURCH Tickets: £8.00 (adults), £7.00 (OAPs) in advance, 432883). From the village we will head north and eventually meet the canal WANTAGE FOLK DANCE CLUB (£9.00/£8.00 on the door). Accompanied school children are free. FRIDAY 28TH AND SATURDAY 29TH JUNE 7.30pm north of the railway line and return by a different route. This walk crosses the STAGELIGHTS canal rather than using it as a footpath, but we should get close to Ardington JANE AUSTEN DANCE EVENING WITH LIVE MUSIC SUNDAY 23RD JUNE 4.00pm (see Thurs 27th for details) Marsh Lock. Distance will be around 6 miles; allow 3+ hours. Please wear We are repeating our popular evening of dances that Jane Austen would have OPERA ANYWHERE at Richmond Village ‘LOVE BEGINS AT FIFTY’ known. If you are a budding Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy, then come along for an suitable clothing/shoes/walking boots and take care as routes may include stiles BY GILBERT & SULLIVAN SATURDAY 29TH JUNE 11.00am-1.00pm evening of fun. Instruction in the art of dance and flirtation will be given by ‘THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE’ and roads for part of the way. Further information can be obtained from Brian After our 2012 sell-out Mikado, Opera Anywhere makes a welcome return to Diana Triplow and Malcolm Bright. Previous experience not required. Music by MUSIC IN THE MARKET PLACE WITH MELOBO Stovold on 07946524928. Richmond Village Letcombe Regis with Gilbert & Sullivan’s nautical comic Connect 2. Melobo is a Wantage-based three-piece band. Between them, they START AT ARDINGTON VILLAGE CHURCH. operetta, ‘The Pirates of Penzance’. Enjoy a special Sunday afternoon “in the CHARLTON CENTRE, HARCOURT ROAD, WANTAGE play melodeon, oboe, bass, fiddle, recorder and tenor guitar, and will Free, but a donation of £2.00/person for Trust’s cost gratefully accepted. round” with wonderful music, witty lyrics, timeless humour and a cream tea! £2.00 on the door (no concessions) entertain you with traditional and contemporary English acoustic folk MONDAY 17TH JUNE 2.15-3.15pm For cast details and further information visit www.OperaAnywhere.com Bar music. WANTAGE MARKET PLACE Free available. ILLUSTRATED TALK: SPEAKER CATHY DREYER FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 11.00am – 5.00pm RICHMOND VILLAGE LETCOMBE REGIS, IN THE MARQUEE WALK, TALK, BLOG EXHIBITION OF ART BY RICHMOND VILLAGE RESIDENTS Tickets: £17.00 which includes a cream tea (no concessions). Writer Cathy Dreyer longs to walk around the world, but finds she can only To celebrate National Care Home Open Day, when care homes across the (NB: Special price of £33.00 for all three ticketed events – Flanders & Swann, EXHIBITIONS country take centre stage, we are holding an exhibition of artwork and other manage a daily half-hour plod round a field. How can it be enough? Cathy Wantage Big Band Concert, Pirates of Penzance – a saving of £4.00) muses on the challenges of doing the same short walk 365 times and blogging items produced by residents living in the care home and throughout the TUES 4TH JUNE – FRIDAY 3RD AUGUST 10.00am – 4.00pm about it at http://walkinginacircle.wordpress.com/ Space limited, advance Retirement Village. Refreshments available in the café. Works on display will TUESDAY 25TH JUNE 7.00pm HISTORICAL AND ART EXHIBITION – ‘HORSES AND GIANTS’ booking recommended. include paintings, photographs and textiles. For more information visit: www. WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST A CELEBRATION OF THE CHALK HILL FIGURES OF VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free nationalcarehomeopenday.org.uk RICMOND VILLAGE LETCOMBE REGIS, IN THE MARQUEE. Free entry CANAL WALK AND EXPLORATION SOUTHERN ENGLAND TUESDAY 18TH JUNE 7.30pm Join us in this very popular exploration of the Grove Lock flight, east of Grove, History and art combine in this fascinating evocation of the striking WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 1.30-3.30pm starting and finishing at the layby (part of old road) between Oxford Lane and hill figures dotted across the chalk downlands of Southern England. Grove Bridge (map ref 407902). The walk follows the much-improved footpath Artefacts sit side by side with aerial photographs and art and crafts by GUIDED TOUR OF THE WILTS & BERKS CANAL KNIT, KNOT AND NATTER – DROP-IN CRAFT SESSION with plenty to see, and goes out as far as the remains of the Neville’s Farm Lift Do you have free time on Friday afternoons? Keen on craft? Then join our local artists. This was a new event for 2012 and went so well that they’re doing it again! Join Bridge. Distance will be around 2.5 miles - allow 2.5 hours as your guide will friendly monthly drop-in sessions. Beginners and experts both welcome. Bring VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM IN THE UPPER GALLERY & THE them for an exploration of the industrial archaeology in the centre of Wantage, linger in various places of historical interest and again wax lyrical about the your own knitting, crochet or hand sewing projects with you (or you may end which, although canal-related, includes the tanneries and other industries. This history of the canal! Please wear suitable clothing/shoes/walking boots and SQUIRES ROOM up knitting fossils!) tour will last around 1.5 hours. Further information can be obtained from Brian take care as routes may include stiles and roads for part of the way. Further THURS 6TH – WED 12TH JUNE - CIVIC HALL RECEPTION AREA VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Stovold on 07946524928. START AT THE SACK HOUSE, WANTAGE WHARF, information can be obtained from Brian Stovold on 07946524928. THURS 13TH – WED 19th JUNE - THE FIRST DROP GYMN, GROVE MILL STREET, (map ref 396881) Donations for running costs of Sack House Free entry, but please support the coffee shop. START AT THE LAYBY BETWEEN OXFORD LANE AND GROVE BRIDGE THURS 20TH – WED 26TH JUNE - THE BEAR HOTEL RECEPTION AREA gratefully accepted. FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 7.00pm Free, but a donation of £2.00/person for Trust’s cost gratefully accepted. WANTAGE FLOWER CLUB – REST AND RELAXATION WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 2.15-3.15pm FLANDERS AND SWANN RECAPTURED If you love flowers and enjoy seeing them in beautiful arrangements, the ILLUSTRATED TALK Two Blokes and a Piano return to Richmond Village for an evening of nostalgia Wantage Flower Club are showcasing their talents at three venues. If COFFEE AND A BLOG! BY SYLWIA PRESLEY and hilarity. The 1950s and 60s are revisited with songs of Flanders and Swann, you feel inspired by what you see, and would like to join us, you will be Coffee is more than a drink – it’s a world-wide obsession. The author of Stilgoe and Skellern plus Kit and the Widow. This evening is a ‘must’ for most welcome. We aim to give members and visitors an evening of rest MyLittleCoffeeBlog.com, Sylwia Presley, discusses her on-line journal, the anyone over 50! Bar available. (visit www.richmond-villages.com) and relaxation in a friendly and sociable atmosphere. We meet on the history of coffee and coffee drinking rituals. Sylwia will also outline best RICHMOND VILLAGE, LETCOMBE REGIS, IN THE MARQUEE first Thursday of each month at the Civic Hall, 7.00 for 7.30pm. practice when blogging about your passions! Space limited, advance booking Tickets: £10.00 (no concesssions) (NB: Special price of £33.00 for all three recommended. ticketed events – Flanders & Swann, Wantage Big Band Concert, Pirates of VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, CHURCH STREET, WANTAGE Free Penzance – a saving of £4.00)