ENTERTAINMENT
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EVENTS
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LOCAL CALENDAR OF EVENTS
July 2008
1st - Lingen Gardening Club. Garden visit to Westonbury Mill Water Gardens, Pembridge 7.30pm
2nd - Cameo meeting, 2.30 pm, St Andrew's Church Hall, Presteigne. An informal social group. This month Anne Cummings, Handwriting Analysis. All welcome. For general information phone 01544 267245.For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
4th - Mid Border Arts. 'Sing Out'. Hereford singer song writer Lou Richardson Assembly Rooms 8pm. £7/£5 on the door or tel: 01568 770177
5th - St. Andrew's summer Fair 2pm.
5th - Presteigne Market, Memorial Hall 9am-1pm.
6th - St.Michael's Discoed. 'A Summer Serenade for Sunday'. Classical melodies from Peter Hewitt, piano and Hannah Lang, flute. Further information 01547 560437
6th - Classics of Yesteryear Annual Show, Arkwright Hall, Kinsham 2-6pm.
7th - East Radnor Ramblers short walk starting at Knighton Community Centre 10am.
9th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Demonstration: What am I to do with that? by Lucretia Good
11th - Mid Border Arts - 'The Missing Links' with author and film maker Nick Clements. Assembly Rooms 7.30pm. £7 on the door.
12th -Tea @ Greendale 3-5pm. Donations to the Scleroderma Society. RSVP or further information tel:01544 267471/267988
12th - Afternoon tea at 'Dairylea', Lingen 2.30pm £1 entry in aid of Parkinson Society and Lingen Church.
13th - National Archaeology Week 2008. Tour of Stapleton Castle. 2.30pm Tickets £4 (£2.50 under 16s), tea and coffee included. Limited tickets purchase in advance from The Judge's Lodging, Broad St., Presteigne or call 01544 260650
15th - Cameo outing. Titley Junction Station, and a cream tea. All welcome. Booking essential, ring 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
16th - Stanzas in the Sticks. Poet Roz Goddard reads from her latest collection. royal George, Lingen 7.30pm.
18th - Picnic and entertainment by Little Rumba in the woods of Lower Rowley. Further information 01547 560246.
19th - Friends of St.Michael's, Lingen. Table sale. Table bookings £5 tel:01544 267586
23rd - Wednesday Windows - 'The Language of Light'. Talk by Dr.Peter Cox, St.Andrew's Hall 7.30pm.
23rd - Presteigne W.I. Brian Pollard talks about cartoons. St.Andrew's Hall 2.30pm.
29th - Mid Border Arts. Django a La Creole. Assembly rooms 8pm. £10 booking essential, The Judge's Lodging 01544 260650
31st - BISYOC. Music for a Summers Evening, St.Andrew's Church 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (under 14s free) Information tel:01544 260551
August 2008
6th - Cameo meeting, 2.30 pm, St Andrew's Church Hall, Presteigne. An informal social group. This month Owl Rescue (with owls!) All welcome. For general information phone 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
19th - Cameo outing. Coach to Aberystwyth (optional visit to the National library). All welcome. Booking essential, ring 01547 550296. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
21st- 26th - Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts. The twenty-sixth Presteigne Festival will mark two important British anniversaries: the sixtieth birthday of the festival's president, Michael Berkeley, and the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The exciting young English composer Joe Duddell is to be composer-in-residence, and will be represented by orchestral, choral and chamber works, including a new work for piano trio. Other commissions include a work for clarinet and string orchestra from James Francis Brown, a fifth string quartet from Matthew Taylor, an orchestral work from Adrian Williams and instrumental pieces from Cheryl Frances Hoad and David Bruce. For full programme details visit www.presteignefestival.com
September 2008
3rd - Cameo meeting, 2.30 pm, St Andrew's Church Hall, Presteigne. An informal social group. This month A talk and film, 'History of the Kington Railway'. All welcome. For general information phone 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
10th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Demonstration: Autumn Glory by Gay Bream. Visitors welcome
16th - Cameo outing. Coach to St Fagans Museum of Welsh life. All welcome. Booking essential, ring 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
October 2008
1st - Cameo meeting, 2.30 pm, St Andrew's Church Hall, Presteigne. An informal social group. This month Jenny Burgess, 'Seeing Things Differently'. All welcome. For general information phone 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
15th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Demonstration: What Did We Do Before? by Catherine Scales. Visitors welcome
21st - Cameo outing.Coach to Bodenham Arboretum. All welcome. Booking essential, ring 01547 550296. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
November 2008
5th - Cameo meeting, 2.30 pm, St Andrew's Church Hall, Presteigne. An informal social group. This month AGM / planning 2009. All welcome. For general information phone 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
12th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Demonstration: Deck the Halls by Nigel Wyles
18th - Cameo outing. Coach to Gloucester for Christmas shopping. All welcome. Booking essentail, ring 01547 550296. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
December 2008
3rd - Cameo meeting, 2.30 pm, St Andrew's Church Hall, Presteigne. An informal social group. This month A Social Afternoon. All welcome. For general information phone 01544 267245. For more info visit www.nortoncameo.org.uk
10th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society. Demonstration & lunch at Margaret Thomas' Studio, Bodenham.
January 2009
14th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Demonstration: A Backward Glance by Sarah Fenton. Visitors welcome.
February
11th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Practical and Social Evening: 'Ready, Steady Flower Arrange!'
March
11th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. 8th AGM
April
8th - Presteigne & Borders Floral Art Society 7.30pm Memorial Hall, Presteigne. Demonstration: The X-Factor by Eleanor Griffiths. Visitors welcome.
