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Thursday 4 March to Saturday 6 March. Wychwood Players’ Next Production is
'Men of the World' by John Godber.
Saturday 6th March Film Evening in Milton Village Hall DOORS OPEN 7.00.p.m.
“The Reader” starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a teenager in the late 1950s had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Concentration camp in the later years of World War II Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past — a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial. Kate Winslet won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe award for her role in the film. The film will be preceded by a homemade supper, and there will be a bar available. Entry is by ticket only which can be purchased from Milton Post Office or Milton Library. Cost of tickets £12.
Friday 5 March to Saturday 20 March Chipping Norton Music Festival. This traditional, non-competitive Festival has classes for piano, strings, wind, voice, guitar, folk and speech and drama. The George Hummer Award for creative writing is also run alongside the Festival. The Festival offers an opportunity for people of all ages and all standards to perform in public with the benefit of comments from eminent adjudicators.
Details of all activities are given in the syllabus, which is available from the Wychwood Library and Jaffé and Neale in Chipping Norton. See www.cnmf.org.uk or email secretary@cnmf.org.uk
'Men of the World' by John Godber.
Saturday 6th March Film Evening in Milton Village Hall DOORS OPEN 7.00.p.m.
“The Reader” starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a teenager in the late 1950s had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Concentration camp in the later years of World War II Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past — a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial. Kate Winslet won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe award for her role in the film. The film will be preceded by a homemade supper, and there will be a bar available. Entry is by ticket only which can be purchased from Milton Post Office or Milton Library. Cost of tickets £12.
Friday 5 March to Saturday 20 March Chipping Norton Music Festival. This traditional, non-
Sunday March 14, The Time Traveller’s Wife (2009, cert 12A, 107 mins)7.30pm, Memorial Hall, Charlbury (wine and beer bar open from 6.45) This film is based on a bestselling book that is both very funny and a real tearjerker. A Chicago librarian is born with a rare genetic disorder: whenever he gets stresses, he time travels, arriving at his new place with neither clothes nor money. His relationship with his girlfriend... well, you can imagine! As one paper put it, “it is about a woman who loves a man that she can never completely have, even though he loves her too. In this case, it's because he's forever jumping back and forth in time.” Compared with the book, the film places a bit more emphasis on imagination and adventure, so it will appeal to all ages.
Wednesday 24 March MUWAGA. Malcolm Brownsword will talk on Growing Hardy Orchids in your Garden and Cold Greenhouse, Milton Village Hall at 7:30 pm. Everyone is welcome, both members and non-members and this applies to the good people of Shipton just as much as it does to Milton dwellers. Saturday 27 March The PTA Spring Ball, New Beaconsfield Hall, Shipton-under- Wychwood from 7.30pm to midnight. Tickets purchased before March 1 will be £27, (£30 after). Be There! There will be canapés and a bubbly reception, so dress: to impress! Enjoy a three-course meal, raffle and licensed bar. Dance the night away to the one and only Ragged Edge and DJ Rob. Tickets will be sold individually or in tables of 8 to 10, and are available from Wychwood School Office, Milton Library, Milton Post Office, or by post. For enquiries and order forms ring the school office on: 01993 830059 or email ferguswessel@yahoo.co.uk.
Sunday 11 April Bright Star (2009, cert PG, 119 mins) 7.30pm, Memorial Hall, Charlbury (wine and beer bar open from 6.45) This gem of a film directed by Jane Campion has attracted extremely positive reviews. It's about the (unconsummated) love between the poet John Keats (who died of TB at 25), played by Ben Whishaw, and his neighbour Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). “Campion brings to this story an unfashionable, unapologetic reverence for romance and romantic love, and she responds to Keats' life and work with intelligence and grace … This film looks unselfconsciously beautiful … Poets, like musicians, need silence above all, and much of the film is played out in a deeply quiet calm.” (The Guardian) Wonderful!
Friday 23 April .The next Blood Donor session will be held in Milton. For more information you can call: 0300 123 23 23 or look at the website: www.blood.co.uk
Saturday 24 April Elegant Ball! at Millets Farm Centre. This will be the Ball to end all Balls! It will be organised by professional caterers, Elegant Cuisine, with the support of Florey Marquees and many other local suppliers, on behalf of SeeSaw, who are celebrating their 10th Birthday. The ticket price of £100 per person will include everything you need for a perfect evening; an amazing marquee, a delicious meal, fantastic wines, and fabulous entertainment - a unique event with no expense spared. We will take bookings for tables of ten only so call Caroline on: 01865 391888
Friday 23 April .The next Blood Donor session will be held in Milton. For more information you can call: 0300 123 23 23 or look at the website: www.blood.co.uk
Saturday 24 April Elegant Ball! at Millets Farm Centre. This will be the Ball to end all Balls! It will be organised by professional caterers, Elegant Cuisine, with the support of Florey Marquees and many other local suppliers, on behalf of SeeSaw, who are celebrating their 10th Birthday. The ticket price of £100 per person will include everything you need for a perfect evening; an amazing marquee, a delicious meal, fantastic wines, and fabulous entertainment -
Saturday 1st May Jazz at the New Beaconsfield Hall, 7:00 for 7:30 pm
Debbie Arthur’s Rhythm Kings. An evening of entertainment with supper included
In aid of The Wild Garden Appeal. Bar available. Tickets £15:00 available from Gordon Halliday 01993 831134 or Lee (at the Hall) 832216. Further details on notice boards around the villages.
Sunday May 9, An Education (2009, cert 12A, 99 mins) 7.30pm, Memorial Hall, Charlbury (wine and beer bar open from 6.45) A coming-of-age story, set in 1960s Britain, about a 17 year old school student who is faced with deciding whether to try gaining a place at Oxford or take up with the smooth, wealthy older man who is pursuing her. "Nick Hornby has adroitly adapted and given a dramatic shape to the bestselling memoir by Lynn Barber, telling the true story of how, in the early 1960s, she was seduced as a 16-year-old schoolgirl by an older man … It's a sad, painful comedy, and the lovely performance from Carey Mulligan (Bleak House) makes it a very enjoyable film." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)
Saturday 29 May The 2010 Fifield and Idbury Fete and will be in Idbury. Further details n due course.
Debbie Arthur’s Rhythm Kings. An evening of entertainment with supper included
In aid of The Wild Garden Appeal. Bar available. Tickets £15:00 available from Gordon Halliday 01993 831134 or Lee (at the Hall) 832216. Further details on notice boards around the villages.
Sunday May 9, An Education (2009, cert 12A, 99 mins) 7.30pm, Memorial Hall, Charlbury (wine and beer bar open from 6.45) A coming-
Saturday 12 June ASCOTT-U-WYCHWOOD VILLAGE FETE AT THE SPORTS PAVILION, HIGH STREET 12.30 opening. Dog Show (Bring your dog and enter the various classes). Debbie Arthur’s Jazz Band. Performances from the local Schools, stalls, children’s Corner……and much more! Come and treat yourself to lunch at our BBQ, sup a good beer, Pimms or soft drink in the tent, and have afternoon tea later on! All proceeds go to our Village Church
Saturday 19th June St. Mary’s Church in Shipton, Open Day Noon to 3PM. The Church receives no other funding apart from donations and fund raising events such as this. It is a 12th century building which has been the focal point of the village since 100 years after William the Conqueror. We are having a Noah’s Ark theme, come in costume and join in!
Children’s Games, Many Stalls, Pig Roast, drinks and ice cream for sale, church bell tower tours. Raffle. Everyone welcome, put it on your calendar!
Children’s Games, Many Stalls, Pig Roast, drinks and ice cream for sale, church bell tower tours. Raffle. Everyone welcome, put it on your calendar!
Saturday 3rd July Milton-under-Wychwood village fete on the village green.
Saturday 17th July. Woodlands Concert in the New Beaconsfield Hall, Shipton in aid of the Wild Garden. Full details shortly.
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