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LONG Crendon PTA – Magnificent Midsummer Fete at Long Crendon Recreation Ground. From 2pm. Free entry.
Including spectacular ?Spitfire Fly Past?, live brass band, fairground and pony rides, pig roast, beer tent, traditional stalls, activities and contests. Fantastic family outing.

THAME Chamber Choir’s summer concert, The Long Day Closes, will include music by Jean Racine (Cantique), Sullivan (The long day closes), Schubert, Rheinberger and Eric Whitacre.
Also madrigals and arrangements of popular songs.

The concert begins at 7.30pm on Saturday, 21st June, at St Mary’s church, Thame, and the tickets are available from Sapphire Moon, High Street, Thame, or by sending a cheque to: Sue Griffiths, 11 Cromwell Avenue, Thame, OX9 3TG

Continuing until June 29th Art Studios. The 16-day Bucks Open Studios event continues and, from Saturday 21st, there will be displays (including 2 new artists and a glass maker from Cuddington, who hasn?t exhibited in Haddenham before) in the Manor Farm tithe barn, Church End, in addition to the venues listed last week (the Methodist Chapel, High St; The Studio, Fort End; 4 Whitecross Rd; Old Barn Cottage, 25 Churchway; and Dragon Barn, Churchway). Entry to the studios is free and a Village Arts Trail map is available at any of the venues. A free directory, giving opening times and details of the artists, is available from the library and some of the village shops.

Fri 20th Ramble. The popular Haddenham Village Society midsummer ramble, led by Peter and Diana Gulland, has been revived this year and takes place on Friday. A coach (

invite you to an evening of Strawberries & Cream
with Sparkling Wine, and to hear Speaker, SARAH de CARVELHO, talk about her experiences with the Street children of Brazil.
The venue is the Thame Barns Centre and the event will begin at 7.30pm.

As well as strawberrries and cream and sparkling wine, shortbread biscuits and a non alcoholic fruit punch will be served.

Sarah is the author of the book ?Street Children of Brazil? and has been a TV presenter before she went out to Brazil to work among street children.

She now works in the UK for ?Happy Child? an organisation that helps street children worldwide.

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THREE Thame artists who all work with paper in different ways, have opened up their studio to visitors as part of Bucks Arts Week.
Go along to 2, Essex Road, Thame, (turn left off Chinnor Road, before the bridge or right just after the bridge if you are coming from Chinnor direction)between now and June 29 and see Heather Hunter, Jackie Nichols and Christine Tacq in action and discuss their work with them.

Open hours are 11am to 6pm (not Tuesdays)

FOLLOWING the amazing Rock festival in Thame’s Upper High Street, last Saturday, June 14, we’ve now uploaded some brilliant photographs taken by Michelle Pether.
Follow this link to Flickr
to see the pictures and feel free to suggest captions for those without one – especially if its YOU in the picture.

WHERE does one look in the search for ones true identity? What drives explorers to risk all in probing the unchartered? And what is Enid Blyton doing at the South Pole?
Thame based company Broken Lace investigates these mysteries in a swift-moving piece of theatre written and directed by their founder, Patrick Collins.

If you missed Thame-based Broken Theatre’s production in Thame last Friday, there are two more opportunities to see Patrick Collins’ latest play.
The splendid theatre of Wadham College, Oxford, on Monday, June 23, will be the setting for his extraordinary play, Polarities and if you can’t make that, it will be performed at the Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury’s Queens Park Arts Centre on Saturday, June 28.

Further details and ticket enquiries are available from Arts Desire in Swan Walk, Thame (01844 215440).

THAME ARTIST, Alan Kidd and friends will be exhibiting their work during the current Bucks Open Studios.
The exhibition is at Obsidian Art Gallery, Layby Farm, Old Risborough Road, Stoke Mandverville, Bucks HP22 5XJ, and will run from Thursday June 12 to Sunday, July 6.

Opening hours are:- Mon – Fri 10 – 6 pm and Sat – Sun 10 – 5 pm.

THE official, Thame Festival radio station will hit the airways from tomorrow morning, May 31.
Broadcasting until Friday, June 20, Thame FM will
bring regular highlights of the festival, information about events taking place throughout the week of the festival and interview the movers and shakers behind those very events.
They will also be playing lots of music from the past five decades and there will be local news every week-day evening at 5.30pm, from ThameNews.Net!

If you are in business locally and want to be heard by truly local people who live and work in Thame and the surrounding villages, call 07967644435 for more information.

If you belong to a local group, charity, school, club or maybe you have a story you think people would love to hear then get in touch. Maybe you?re busy preparing for the festival, why not spare some time to get in touch and tell Thame FM about your plans so that they can tell the rest of the community.

Email: info@thamefm.co.uk

Tune in toThame FM on 87.9 FM from Saturday, May 31.

COSTUMES inspired by the Oxfordshire County Council Museum Service’s collection of wild birds will go on display on Friday, May 24.
The dresses, designed by freelance costume designer, Kate Plumtree, will be on show at the Oxfordshire Museum’s art gallery in Woodstock until September 28.

Kate Plumtree graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 1992 with a BA (Hons) in costume design. She now runs workshops that focus on the many different aspects of costume design and construction.

Her latest collection is inspired by Oxfordshire Museum’s display of wild birds combined with the evolution of period dress.

Each costume represents an individual species of bird and a specific era of fashion, spanning from the 16th century to the present day.

The exhibition also includes the design drawings, large scale photography of the costumes modelled in natural habitats, and step-by-step photographs of how each garment was made – from sculptural constructions and fittings to creative textile techniques for creating surface texture, pattern and embellishment.