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THE free, Big Band concert in aid of Cancer Research UK, held at Thame Snooker Club last Thursday (12/09) raised £277.
Thame-based Sound Force, and The Velvet Tones, provided the music and Sound Force’s very own master of the saxophone, Vic Winslade, said: “It was a terrific night and great to see so many people enjoying the big band sound. We are proud to have contributed to help such a worthwhile cause that effects so many of us.”
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A GROUP of artists from Thame will be exhibiting their latest works on the theme of food, at a Thame cafe, and the town Mayor will be helping them to launch ‘Eating Our Words’ to coincide with the Thame Food Festival.
The Mayor of Thame, Clllr Peter Lambert will open the exhibition by Sparksartists upstairs in Time Out Café, 12 High Street, Thame, at 3pm on September 25, during a private viewing to invited guests.
The exhibition will be open to the public and will run from Saturday, September 21, to Saturday, October 5, during the normal café opening hours (closed Sundays).
Sparksartists formed as a registered charity in 2001 with a common commitment to otheir work as individual visual artists but also with a desire to collaborate and share ideas and experiences. They work in a range of media from Printmakers and Painters to Textile Artists and meet regularly in Thame.
They have been running The Big Draw an international scheme to encourage people to draw, in Thame every year since 2007, for which they won a ‘drawing inspiration’ prize.
Maryl Bird, one of the Sparksartists, explained: “Some of the work exhibited will be for sale, and along with selling work, we hope to raise the profile of Sparksartists within the local community.”
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ALL these coming to The Players Theatre in Thame, throughout September. So support your local theatre and make a date for these great shows.
An Inspector Calls at The Players Theatre, Thame
Tuesday 10th – Saturday 14th September 7.45pm
AN Inspector Calls was written by J.B.Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK. It is one of Priestley’s best known works for the stage and considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre.
The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, “an industrial city in the north Midlands”. The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman’s exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death.
Tickets £9 and £8 concessions
We Will be Free! at The Players Theatre, Thame
Sunday 22nd September 7.45pm
WE WILL BE FREE! written by Neil Gore is set in 1834, and follows the extraordinary story of George and Betsy Loveless. He was a Methodist minister and the leader of the six Dorset farm labourers who were tried, convicted and condemned to harsh transportation by an oppressive Government for having the temerity to swear a secret oath and form a secret union to fight against a succession of wage cuts inflicted by the local landowner.
Tickets £10 and £9 concessions
Airs And Graces
Sunday 29th September 7.45 pm
THE Players Theatre welcomes the return of Farandol, a group of highly accomplished musicians. Their latest performance called Airs and Graces combines music, poetry and visual art. It is an exploration of a sumptuous mediaeval manuscript known to art history as ‘Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry’.
The show features Farandol playing their own brand of medieval music on authentic instruments and David Cooke, who will be narrating and showing slides.
Tickets £9 & £8 (Concessions less £1).
Booking: tickets online from www.thameplayers.co.uk (10% booking fee applies) or Tickets Anywhere, Greyhound Walk, Thame 01844 217228
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THAME French Conversation Classes – New term begins: Time Out cafe, Thame – 2.30pm.
Contact sara.hartman@btconnect.com for more information.
IMAGE: Courtesy of: www.multilanguageexpert.com
FLOWER festival and classical music at St Mary’s Church, Great Milton, from 2 – 5.30pm. Entrance free. Cream teas available. Auction of promises from 6.30pm, entrance £5 to include wine and canapes.
Many promises on offer including cookery course and garden tour at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Q’uat Saisons and a day on the set of the TV drama Endeavour.
Tickets for the auction available from Great Milton Post Office.
PHOTO: ST Mary’s, Great Milton – Courtesy of Nofolkboy1 via Flickr
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FOLLOWING the success of a similar event in Henley, the Oxfordshire Bridge Association (OBA) is planning a Café Bridge tournement in Thame, which will take place across five venues in the town, including the old Thame Courthouse, now a museum.
OBA Social Bridge are inviting enthusiasts to join them for a relaxing day playing friendly duplicate bridge in Thame.
After meeting at the famous Spread Eagle Hotel at 10am for registration and coffee, before the first session, players will be given playing instructions for the rest of the day. Subsequent sessions will take place at Rumsey’s Chocolaterie, The House of Spice, Mia Capri and finally the Thame Museum.
Although participants will need to buy any drinks as and when they need them at the venues, a two-course lunch at the venue just played at will be supplied. The House of Spice will be putting on their Lebanese Menu and those playing their pre lunch session at the Museum will lunch opposite at The Thatch.
When play has finished at around 4pm, all players will return to the Spread Eagle where complimentary drinks will be waiting for them and scoring will be completed and prizes presented.
Cost for the day’s bridge, which includes the coffee at the start, the lunch and the drinks at the end is, £60 per pair, all proceeds to Thame Museum.
To book your place contact Claire MacDonagh
Tel: 07584 047140 email: obasocial@gmail.com
For more information contact : Barbara Jordan, OBA Social Bridge. 01844 212195 Banjo44@btinternet.com
SOUND FORCE Big Band + The Velvet Tones; VENUE: Thame Snooker Club, Wellington Street, Thame – 8-11pm Thurs 12th September 2013.
FREE Concert – supporting donations to Cancer Research UK would be gratefully received.
Local Orchestra featuring the Classic Big Band Sound of the 1940’s using the Big Band Charts + Vocal Ensemble.
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J.B. Priestley – The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, at 7.45pm from Tuesday, September 10m until Saturday, September 14.
Tickets £9 and £8 with £1 off for concessions available from Tickets Anywhere, Greyhound Walk, Thame, telephone 01844 217228 or online from www.thameplayers.co.uk
AN Inspector Calls is a play written by the celebrated English dramatist J. B. Priestley. First performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union, and in 1946 in the UK, it is one of Priestley’s best known works for the stage and considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play’s success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director, Stephen Daldry, for the National Theatre in 1992, and a tour of the UK in 2011-2012.
The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, “an industrial city in the north Midlands”. The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Long considered part of the repertory of classic ‘drawing room’ theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley’s political principles. The play is studied in many schools in the UK as one of the prescribed texts for the English Literature GCSE examination.
EIGHTIES-themed disco night in aid of Thame Youth Memorial starting at 7pm; The Spread Eagle Thame – tickets available from Wallaces Home Boutique, ForeGolf or email tymevents2013@gmail.com
Tickets £17.50 each, 2 course buffet, 80’s fancy dress positively essential!
A GROUP of artists from Thame will be exhibiting their latest works on the theme of food, at a Thame cafe, and the town Mayor will be helping them to launch ‘Eating Our Words’ to coincide with the Thame Food Festival.
The Mayor of Thame, Clllr Peter Lambert will open the exhibition by Sparksartists upstairs in Time Out Café, 12 High Street, Thame, at 3pm on September 25, during a private viewing to invited guests.
The exhibition will be open to the public and will run from Saturday, September 21, to Saturday, October 5, during the normal café opening hours (closed Sundays).
Sparksartists formed as a registered charity in 2001 with a common commitment to otheir work as individual visual artists but also with a desire to collaborate and share ideas and experiences. They work in a range of media from Printmakers and Painters to Textile Artists and meet regularly in Thame.
They have been running The Big Draw an international scheme to encourage people to draw, in Thame every year since 2007, for which they won a ‘drawing inspiration’ prize.
Maryl Bird, one of the Sparksartists, explained: “Some of the work exhibited will be for sale, and along with selling work, we hope to raise the profile of Sparksartists within the local community.”