Thornbury Arts Festival 2010 Programme

Evening Highlights

BBC's News correspondent George Alagiah opened The Festival on Friday April 23rd with Food for Thought, an investigation into the waste and absurdidity of the global food chain, on the first Saturday the Ian McMillan Orchestra presented an evening of poems, songs, stories and music. On SundayThe Thornbury Orchestra returned six years after their Festival debut and on Monday Bristol University's Dr Alice Roberts of the BBC series The Incredible Human Journey presented the evidence for ancient human migrations.

Tuesday was Film Night; The King of India traced the story of a troupe of Kolkata street performers and on Wednesday the 2009 Edinburgh Festival hit The Sociable Plover with Guy Masterson and Ronnie Toms was a darkly comic thriller set among birders on the Suffolk marshes. On Thursday Prof Gareth Williams retold the epic though very local story of Edward Jenner of Berkeley leading just 30 years ago to the total eradication of Smallpox.

Friday 30th April saw the renowned dance company SRISHTI with Nina Rajarani MBE performing a selection of their popular South Asian dances and on the final Saturday Claire Martin and her Musicians brought the Festival to a rousing climax with some ultra cool jazz.

FESTIVAL COMMITTEE: Chris Coppin (Treasurer), Sandra Doig (Secretary), Sonia Jackson, Diana Jensen (Deputy Artistic Director/Box Office), Peter Minshall, Paul Morrish (Vice Chairperson), Jane Parfitt, Phyllida Parsloe (Chairperson), Ralph Shallcross, Shirley Sharp, Charlotte Tuck, Tony Wilcock, Trish Wilcock, Liz Wilkins (Artistic Director).

EISTEDDFOD COMMITTEE: Daphne Ashton, Karen Blount, Linda Evans, Charmaine George, Sonia Jackson, Gill Page, Kate Phillipson-Masters, Phyllida Parsloe, Barbare Ray.

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Artistic Director Liz Wilkins	01454 418573
Chair Phyllida Parsloe	01454 419988
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* History of the British Seaside - Peter Street * Marianne North - Floral Artist 1830-1890
* Musica Mundi - Baroque style Trio * Life in the Sloe lane - Fruit liqueurs with a tasting
* Your House has History - Research a local house with Averil Kear

Festival Evening Highlights:

* George Alagiah - Food for Thought
* The Ian McMillan Orchestra
* Dr Alice Roberts
* SRISHTI with Nina Rajarani
* Film - The King of India

* Claire Martin
* Prof Gareth Williams
* The Thornbury Orchestra
* The Sociable Plover with Guy Masterson & Ronnie Toms

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* History of the British Seaside - Peter Street * Marianne North - Floral Artist 1830-1890 * Musica Mundi - Baroque style Trio * Life in the Sloe lane - Fruit liqueurs with a tasting * Your House has History - Research a local house with Averil Kear

Festival Evening Highlights: * George Alagiah - Food for Thought * The Ian McMillan Orchestra * Dr Alice Roberts * SRISHTI with Nina Rajarani * Film - The King of India