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Banstead Arts Festival 3rd - 18th May 2008
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Saturday 3rd May 2008 |
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| CLAIRE SURMAN, soprano, with ALEXANDER ANDERSON-HALL, tenor, and JAMES McORAN-CAMPBELL, baritone, and BERNIE LaFONTAINE, piano in an evening of magical songs from Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar, Sigmund Romberg and other favourites |
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| 7.30 pm Community Hall, Park Road. £12 (under 18 £2) |
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| LUNCH-TIME RECITAL: VOJTECH SAFARIK, baritone, JOSEPH RAMADAN, piano |
Tuesday 6th May 2008 |
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| Young Czech baritone VOJTECH SAFARIK, studying at the Britten Opera School, sings a selection of arias by Mozart, Puccini, Bellini etc |
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| 1 pm, All Saints' Parish Church, High Street. Admission by programme £6 |
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| PRIZE AWARDS OF THE SCHOOLS' POETRY COMPETITION |
Tuesday 6th May 2008 |
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Sponsored by Banstead Coaches Limited |
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| 7.30 pm, St Anne's RC Primary School, Court Road. Admission free |
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| BANSTEAD AREA U3A |
Wednesday 7th May 2008 |
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present AN EVENING OF CLASSICAL INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE.
Demonstration of North and South Indian Classical Dance from Shyamali Basu and her group of dancers |
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| 7.30 pm Community Hall, Park Road. £8 |
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| BANSTEAD HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP |
Thursday 8th May 2008 |
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| present "BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS". How Banstead and the surrounding district was transformed from countryside to suburbia |
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| 7.30 pm, Community Hall, Park Road, £7 |
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| BANSTEAD BRANCH W.E.A. |
Friday 9th May 2008 |
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| present "Saints, Sinners, Mothers and Beauties " . images of Women in European Art. Lecture fully illustrated with colour slides by Dr Katy Brown. |
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| 8 pm Community Hall, Park Road £5 |
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| CONCERT OF YOUNG CELEBRITIES |
Saturday 10th May 2008 |
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| Outstanding local performers up to the age of 18, presented by MARGARET McFARLANE. |
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| 7.30 pm Community Hall, Park Road, £6, under 18s £2 |
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| SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA PILGRIMAGE |
Sunday 11th May 2008 |
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| Words and pictures by ANDREA CHANCE, musical interludes on the organ by IAN LE GRICE. |
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| 6.30 pm, All Saints' Parish Church, High Street. Admission by programme £6 |
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| LUNCH-TIME RECITAL: STEVEN HUDSON, oboe, PHILIP SHANNON, piano. |
Tuesday 13th May 2008 |
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| Will play Ravel, Nielsen, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns. Steven is a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music where he is sponsored by the HR Taylor Charitable Trust. |
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| 1 pm, All Saints' Parish Church, High Street. Admission by programme £6 |
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| AN EVENING WITH ANDREW MOTION |
Wednesday 14th May 2008 |
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| THE IBIS BOOKSHOP presents ANDREW MOTION, Poet Laureate, to celebrate the shop's 70th anniversary. |
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| 7.30 pm, Community Hall, Park Road. £12, Under 18s £6 |
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| BANSTEAD RECORDED MUSIC SOCIETY |
Thursday 15th May 2008 |
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| presents "HITCHES, HOAXES AND HUSH-UPS". The performing arts - and efforts to record them - have always been fraught with mishaps ..... Adrian Falks with a light-hearted anthology |
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| 7.45 pm, Banstead Library, The Horseshoe. £1 for non-members of BRS |
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| BANSTEAD ART GROUP |
Friday 16th May 2008 |
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| presents BOB MEACHAM with ATMOSPHERIC LANDSCAPES IN WATERCOLOUR AND PASTEL. |
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| 7.45 pm, Community Hall, Park Road. £3 |
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| THE FARRINGTON ENSEMBLE |
Saturday 17th May 2008 |
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| THE FARRINGTON ENSEMBLE - TOM HANKEY, violin, PETER SPARKS, clarinet, GRAHAM WALKER, cello, IAIN FARRINGTON, piano. Programme will include Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, Brahms Piano Trio No 1, Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio and works by Piazzolla, Cole Porter and Gershwin. |
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| 7.30 pm, Community Hall, Park Road. £12, Under 18s £2) |
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| FESTIVAL SERVICE |
Sunday 18th May 2008 |
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| Choral Evensong led by The Reverend David Chance, with a talk about Millais' painting "Christ in the House of his Parents" in the recent Tate Britain exhibition. |
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| 6.30 pm, All Saints' Parish Church, High Street. |
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PLUS ..... MAY FAYRE, SURREY WILDLIFE WALKS, COACH VISITS to BLETCHLEY PARK, home of the World War II Enigma codebreakers.
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BOX OFFICES from Tuesday 25th March:
The Ibis Bookshop, Banstead Music Schop, High Street, Banstead.
Full programme available from BAFS secretary, Little Hilden, Park Road, Banstead SM7 3EL (01737 352098) |
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| For all booking details please see our booking section |
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