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Thornbury Arts Festival
20th April to 29th April 2012

 

                     

                                                                   

 

  

 

 

 

 

 


The 2012 Festival opens on Friday 20th April with Glaswegian Hardeep Singh Kohli mixing comedy with cooking in a hilarious evening's entertainment, on Saturday April 21st we welcome the legendary virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, the first person in musical history to successfully create a career as a solo percussionist, and on Sunday April 22nd a Celebration of Charles Dickens features Robert Powell and Elizabeth Garvie, we hope a Sunday event of this stature will attract a really good audience to enjoy the funny, romantic, grotesque, satirical and macabre side of Dickens’ characters.

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On Monday, Michael Lunts commemorates St Georges' Day with a revue. On Tuesday a Film Night Double Bill marks another anniversary with the original Pygmalion and a docu-drama of the life of Ivor Gurney. On Wednesday Professor Gareth Williams explores a puzzle about the iconic hoax photo of the Loch Ness Monster. Dr Geoff Mead takes us into the intriguing world of storytelling on Thursday and on Friday Wendy Cope the acclaimed poet reads a selection of her work. The final Saturday April 28th sees The Opera Dudes with Swing It! a unique blend of style, swing, slapstick humour and two operatic tenors!

Dame Evelyn Glennie - April 21st

Hardeep Singh Kohli- April 20th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The official 2012 Festival Guide is now available on-line.

View or Download the full colour 12 page Events Guide, or alternatively, the handy 2 page A4 cutdown version (both require pdf reader)

COMPLETE DIARY OF FESTIVAL EVENTS - April 20th to April 29th

Click on the event of interest for full performance and ticketing details.

    Date
    Time
    Location

Performance

Friday 20 April

 7.30pm

Armstrong Hall

An Evening with HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI
Saturday 21 April 11.30am to 1.00pm

St Mary Centre

Circus Skills in St Mary Centre with Circomedia
Saturday 21 April 1.00pm to 3.00pm St Mary Centre Art Workshop with SHIRLEY SHARP

Saturday 21 April

 8.00 pm

Armstrong Hall

An Audience with EVELYN GLENNIE

Sunday 22 April

7.30 pm

Armstrong Hall

A Celebration of Charles Dickens
with ROBERT POWELL and ELIZABETH GARVIE

Clive Conway, flute and Christine Croshaw, piano

Monday 23 April

12.45 - 1.15pm

St Mary's Church

Professor PHILIP WILBY- Organ Concert

Monday 23 April

1.00 pm 

Cossham Hall

Egypt without Crowds - RON POWELL

Monday 23 April

7.30pm

Cossham Hall

By George - MICHAEL LUNTS

Tuesday 24 April

12.45 - 1.15pm

St Mary's Church

Castle School's Panache Steel Band
Tuesday 24 April 1.00 pm 

Cossham Hall

Choc Chic - FRANCES COOLEY

Tuesday 24 April

 7.30 pm

Cossham Hall

Film Double Bill
SEVERN and SOMME & PYGMALION

Wednesday 25 April

12.45 - 1.15pm

St Mary's Church

Marlwood Music Department Concert

Wednesday 25 April

 1.00 pm

Cossham Hall

Television Tales - TIM HOOPER

Wednesday 25 April

7.30 pm

Armstrong Hall

A Monstrous Tale ! - Prof GARETH WILLIAMS

Thursday 26 April

1.00 pm

Cossham Hall

Origami - JUDITH LAING

Thursday 26 April

7.30pm

United Reformed Church

Wonder Tales of Old Europe - Dr GEOFF MEAD

Friday 27April

1.00 pm

Cossham Hall

A Musical Interlude
with ALISON SUTTON (Mezzo Soprano )
and CATHERINE WHITE ( Harp )

Friday 27 April

7.30pm

Cossham Hall

Family Values - WENDY COPE

Saturday 28 April

11.00 am

Armstrong Hall

Two, Four, Six, Eight with Craig Edwards

Saturday 28 April 8.00pm Armstrong Hall Swing it - with the OPERA DUDES
and a 4 piece swing band

Sunday 29 April

2.00pm

Meet in the car park of The Swan.

Tarry a while around Tytherington!

Update 11/04/2012.  Sorry, now sold out.

Various Days Lunchtimes St Mary Centre and St Mary's Church Festival Free events

Various Dates

Usually Daytime
(not weekends)

Various Locations

Festival Associated Exhibitions

 

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Community Arts The Festival encourages the community to be active in the Arts; activities include the annual Eisteddfod; young people devising their own show; workshops from designers and local artists and school visits from writers and musicians. The Festival includes bands, soloists and performance from local school and Eisteddfod performers, concerts for the elderly in their own residential accommodation and exhibitions of work by local artists in their own studios and in shops and cafes around the town.

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Every effort is made to check the accuracy of the information supplied and the details of the Festival programme as published; all Festival bookings are made in good faith, therefore no liability can be accepted for the cancellation or non-appearance of listed programme events or named participants, beyond refund of the price of admission.

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