TICKETS are now available for this great night out, which promises to be great fun and which will help Thame Choral Society to continue putting on great concerts locally.
The quiz will be held at Haddenham Youth and Community Centre, Woodways, Haddenham, on Saturday, January 30. Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
Tables of 8, bring your own drinks and glasses.
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Tues 26th Give Blood. A Blood Donor session will be held (1-3pm and 3.45-6.30pm) at Haddenham Village Hall. New donors are always welcome but need to arrive at least half-an-hour before the end of a session to give time for registration. To book an appointment please visit www.blood.co.uk
or call 0300 123 23 23.
Wed 27th Haddenham Horticultural Society. Jill Carey, who gave an excellent illustrated talk to the society last year about the adaptability of plants to different habitats, will be talking about ?Our Worldwide Garden? ? where the plants we grow in our gardens originate in the wild ? at the meeting (8pm) in the Walter Rose Room at Haddenham Village Hall. Visitors are welcome and entry is free but you can make a donation towards expenses.
Fri 29th/Sat 30th Panto. Tickets (
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT and MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE – France 2008 113 minutes(part 1) 133 minutes (part 2) 15 certificate – Directed by Jean-Francois Richet, starring Vincent Cassel.
Jacques Mesrine was perhaps little known this side of the channel, but in his native France he was something of a folk hero – bank robber, killer, serial jail breaker, relentless self publicist and media darling. Revelling in his very public notoriety, he spent his time inside in the embellishment of his own mythology, and wrote an autobiography – Death Instinct – the source material for Richet’s thrilling, edge-of-your-seat two-parter.
The films chart Mesrine’s two decades of legendary criminal feats (including numerous, increasingly spectacular, prison breaks), finishing on 2 November, 1979, when he was executed in a hail of police bullets, an extra-judicial operation for which no prosecution was ever made.
Vincent Cassel is mesmerising in the role of his career: Mesrine is a brutal man, a properly nasty character, and his account of his own life is sufficiently warts and all to avoid hagiography. However, he is also ambiguous and compellingly charismatic – quick witted, man of his word, master of disguise – to the extent that we are reluctantly persuaded of his frightening allure.
The two films were inexplicably released in the UK during July and August, meaning that those of us who ignore the summer film schedules missed the opportunity to enjoy one of the year’s most blistering movie experiences. So, as a special treat, we bring you the two of them back to back for an evening of quality gritty gangster cinema – we’re talking more The Long Good Friday than The Untouchables – what the Guardian described as “muscular, forthright storytelling, hard-smoking, hard-drinking action, horribly incorrect attitudes… and bushy moustaches..”
This Saturday 23rd January, 2010
The first film is at the much earlier time of 6pm (doors 5.30) with the second starting a little later than usual at 8.15. i.e.there will be a 20 minute interval between the two films.
Admission to either film is
UK 2009 101 minutes 12A certificate – Morris: A Life with Bells On is a mock documentary that explores a peculiar and arcane English obsession. The film will be preceded by a demonstration by local group, Owlswick Morris!
The plot: Derecq Twist is a Squire of the respected Millsham Morris, with a lifetime ambition to dance the mystical and legendary Threeple Hammer Damson. But he is also possessed of a desire to drag Morris dancing into the 21st century with the introduction of the avant-garde Extreme Morris.
Like Scott in Strictly Ballroom, Derecq faces the hostility and condemnation of the Morris establishment, and is ultimately stripped of his hankies and staffs, forced into artistic exile in California, where he finds enthusiastic support from a flamboyant fringe LA Morris scene.
Charles Thomas Oldham’s delightful film takes the mock out of mockumentary – it is very funny without sneering and ironic without being superior. Instead we are persuaded of the joy of the dance and the satisfactions of quirky obsession.
This genuine heart-warmer has become a cult hit. Don’t miss your chance to see it.
Preceded by a brief Morris dancing exhibition by local group Owlswick Morris.
This Saturday 16th Jan, 2010
Doors open 7.30pm Morris Dancing Exhibition 8pm
Film 8.15pm.Admission
A SKI WEAR sale, selling quality garments at greatly reduced prices, will be held at the Spread Eagle, Hotel, Thame, on Saturday, January 16, and Sunday, January 17, 2010.
From 10am to 4pm on both days; Tel: 07944 543340 for more details.
AN exhibition produced by the Friends of Thame Library at Thame Museum; From January 9, 2010 to January 31, 2010.
Opening times: Tuesday, Wednesday & Saturday – 10am to 4pm; Sunday – 12 – 4pm FREE ADMISSION
THAME Amnesty Group presents A Heap of Stones, a further, further evening of words and music with Bruce Alexander and Adrian Thompson, devised and presented by Patrick Collins.
The Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, on Sunday, January 17th 2010 – 8pm.
Tickets
THE annual charity match between the men and the ladies of the Crown Public House, Chalgrove, will take place at 10.30am on December 26th, 2009 (Boxing Day).
The venue is the school playing field at the top, right side of the village car park. This is the fourth time the event has been held where the men dress as ladies and the ladies as male footballers for the match.
Last year they raised
LOCAL BAND, Bootlegger?s Christmas single in aid of the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity is now available on major download sites: iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and Tesco Entertainment.
This will provide a valuable boost to the proceeds already destined for the Charity from the CD of the single, which has virtually sold out.
You can download one or both tracks of the single by following pasting any of these links into your browser:
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ding-dong/id343090255?i=343090309&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
eMusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/Bootlegger-Ding-Dong-MP3-Download/11736647.html
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=ding+dong+bootlegger
Tesco Entertainment: http://www.tescoentertainment.com/store/mp3/bootlegger–ding-dong/2%3a35575747/
So go on and download the tracks now. They?ll help you get into the festive spirit and you?ll be making a positive contribution to a fantastic organisation at the same time.
Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity
The Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity supports the Hospice, whose aim is to provide a first class specialist palliative care service which is accessible and free of charge to those with a life-limiting illness. http://www.fnhospice.com/.
Bootlegger
Based in Chinnor, Bootlegger got together in June 2009 and have quickly earned a reputation as energetic and charismatic performers, playing classic songs from bands ranging from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones right through to U2 and Green Day. http://bootleggeruk.wordpress.com/.
THAME Youth Theatre?s revival continues with all three groups staging original productions this coming week (from Thursday, 17.12.09)in the newly opened Phoenix Performing Arts Studio.
On Thursday, the Juniors and Middies will perform a double bill, the Juniors presenting an adaptation of a traditional English folk tale, Cape o?Rushes, while the Middies tackled a version of the much-loved classic, A Christmas Carol.
On Friday and Saturday, December 18th and 19th, at 7.30pm, the Seniors will be performing the premiere of an original musical based on the fables of Aesop, with music written by local musician, Steve Bannister.
Chris Walters, who wrote the script, explained: “Its full title is Aesop ? a comic soap opera of betrayal, violence and death? with songs, and that pretty much sums up its approach. It tells all the stories that people know, even if they didn?t know they were by Aesop ? the Tortoise and the Hare, the Lion and the Mouse, etc – but instead of telling them one by one, they mix them up together, like? well, like a soap opera.”
The production is bright and colourful, with hummable songs, bright colourful costumes, and a sense of vitality and humour that makes them suitable for the whole family.
Tickets, at