ACT is a project to build a new performance and arts venue in Thornbury.It has been set up as an independent (not for profit) organisation solely with the purpose of developing and building a new 'state of the art' performance venue in Thornbury.
It will serve the town and local area, bridging the arts facilities vacuum between Bristol, Cheltenham and Bath.
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Debutots is a unique blend of interactive storytelling and dramatic play for 6 months to 7 years where imaginations soar, communication skills grow and creativity and confidence gently blossom.
For more information and to book your space contact Lucy Smith on 01454 612063 or click below.
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We rehearse every Thursday from 7.30pm - 10pm at King George Memorial Hall, Rangeworthy.
Click below if you would like further information about joining us or hiring us for your event.
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Based at NGM’s purpose-built £3 million arts complex on Bristol Road, we offer fun and accessible arts activities including Popschool and Pop Academy for budding young performers, The Tweak DJ School, and Rockschool musician workshops.
We also work with disadvantaged young people to bring about positive change in their lives through music through one-to-one mentoring and pupil referral, arts workshops in schools, work with youth groups, Social Services, and in young offenders institutions.
Caedmon Complex, Bristol Road, BS35 3JA
Tel: 01454 414880
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Having presented high quality youth productions for 31 years, (a South-West record), gained seven theatrical awards in the last twelve years and launched many professional careers, NYTC's reputation reflects enthusiasm, energy and excellence!
For more information, please contact our Principal, Lyn Bedford on 01454 884154, or by email.
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We perform three shows a year: a pantomime in January, a play in June, and a revue in October - proceeds from the October show go to charity.
We perform our shows in the Christ the King Church Hall, Castle Street, in Thornbury.
Drawing on over 20 years' experience Phil will ensure that the entertainment is exactly what you require through a tailor-made programme including live sets, background music and disco dance.
For more information view his website which includes playlist, audio and video clips or you may request a free CD without obligation.
01454 411450 or 07973 488863
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If you would like to know more about the work we do or are interested in putting on shows in your local community, please ring Janine McCretton on 0117 944 5207 or email below.
Tickets are sold locally for each event by the village or community promoter. Tickets can also be reserved by emailing name of show, venue and date to the address below, along with your name, contact details and number of tickets required. They will be available for payment and collection before the show at the venue.
If you would like to receive our programme by email or post, please send your contact details to the email address below.
TADS is open to anyone over 16 with any level of experience, and set designers and costumiers are as welcome as actors - rehearsals take place at Turnberrie's.
New ideas for venues and types of production are always welcome, as are members from other societies, or from outside Thornbury. Standard membership costs £30 (£5 for associate members and students). Call 01454 416693 for more info.
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For more information, see our Thornbury Arts Festival page, or visit the festival website, below.All enquiries 01454 853947 or look at our website.
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We book accessible seats and regularly visit Theatre Royal Bath, Everyman at Cheltenham, Bristol Old Vic, Hippodrome and Colston Hall.
If you are interested in joining, please visit our website or email for more information.
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Tues 16th and Weds 17th March, and Tues 20th and Weds 21st April – booking required, ngm Academy, Caedmon Complex, Thornbury
Who is it for? Singers, dancers, DJs, musicians, presenters/communicators and engineers
What is it? Performance development, studio recording, biblical studies, understanding culture, live performances, mission opportunities to the poor plus much more!
How long is it for? One year, beginning in October 2010
Who are the tutors? Artists and producers including ngm’s dance crew, Luv Esther cast and DJ Studious. Also masterclasses from Sacred, Wigwam, Andy Hunter, David Reidy (Hillsong) and other music industry artists.
Where is it? ngm’s Caedmon Complex. A £3 million state of the art centre including 2 recording studios, dance studio, performance venue, sound proofed rehearsal rooms and more, all set in amazing grounds.
For more details and an application pack: 01454 414880 or email below.
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7.30pm, Wednesday March 17th – Saturday 20th March, Cossham Hall, Thornbury at
For 80 years England transported convicts to Australia. These brutal, degraded human beings were shipped to a place they could do little harm for the good of their mother country. How then did this scum of England become the foundation of a country which less than 100 years later was considered a paradise on earth, a promised land to which people have flocked ever since?
Set against a background of beatings, hangings, lack of food and general hardship, “Our Country’s Good” is based on real events which took place in the penal colony of Botany Bay. The leader of the colony tries to increase the morale of the convicts by making them present a play, the first ever in Australia. In the course of the rehearsals, both convicts and soldiers discover their common humanity and take the first faltering steps to the creation of a new country.
“Our Country’s Good” is one of the most important plays to emerge from the innovative Royal Court Theatre in the 1980s. Timberlake Wertenbaker casts a clear eye on the birth struggles of her country, both the life affirming as well as their darker aspects.
Tickets are priced £7 for Adults, £6 for concessions for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday. Tickets are available from Thornbury Garden Shop from the beginning of March, by phoning the TADS Box Office on 07985 675 117 or by email below.
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Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, leaving from outside Gillingstool School, Thornbury
Enjoy is set in Alan Bennett’s home town of Leeds where an ageing couple are living in one of the city’s last back-to-back houses. Wilf and Connie are soon to be re-housed in a brand new maisonette with a waste disposal unit and non-slip vinyl flooring. When a sociologist comes to observe them in their daily life, normality takes a decidedly atypical turn……..
A dream cast includes Alison Steadman, one of our best-loved actresses – who will ever forget her as the monstrous Beverley in Abigail’s Party or as Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice? She is also a star of the cult TV hit Gavin and Stacey. David Troughton is a veteran of many landmark RSC and National Theatre productions, always a joy in any part he takes on from Richard III to Bob Buzzard in TV’s A Very Peculiar Practice.
www.thornburytheatregoers.org.uk
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Tuesday 31 March - Saturday 3 April, with evening performances at 7.30 pm [Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday], plus an afternoon performance only on Good Friday at 3pm, Armstrong Hall, Thornbury
Set in the same era as last year's successful version of Fiddler on the Roof, yet demonstrating such a different picture of life on the other side of the world, more than 50 young people, who together make up the Northavon Youth Theatre Company, are proud to display their versatility by staging a brand new version of an old favourite: Half A Sixpence, this Easter.
This is the musical that gave star status to a young Tommy Steele, in the rôle of Arthur Kipps, both on stage and screen and NYTC is delighted to be one of the first groups in the country to bring this exciting revival to audiences.
Seats will once again be at a premium for this celebrated group, which is now in its 34th year of bringing high quality youth productions to Thornbury, and has an impressive list of theatrical awards, plus more than 40 successful productions to its credit.
Half A Sixpence is based on the novel Kipps by HG Wells and tells the story of a young man who meets eccentric actor Harry Chitterlow and suddenly finds himself unexpectedly rich. He is consequently transported from a poor existence and a seemingly everlasting draper's apprenticeship, 'All In The Cause of Economy', to becoming 'A Proper Gentleman'. Arthur has three soul mates and close friends in Sid, Pearce and Buggins, plus their female counterparts: Kate, Victoria and Flo and a childhood sweetheart named Ann, but they are all quickly forgotten when he befriends the Walsingham family, especially the beautiful Helen, although he sings that 'She's Too Far Above Me'. He wins her over, however, and in spite of exchanging a lover's token with Ann ('Half A Sixpence') plans to marry Helen! He comes to his senses and realises Ann is the girl for him and they enjoy a blissful wedding ~ 'Flash, Bang, Wallop! with their friends, but then Artie's big plans cause a rift when Ann tells us: 'I Know What I Am'.
To find out whether money does bring happiness to this young man, or if he learns a different lesson, join NYTC for a musical comedy that will appeal to all ages, with an eleven-piece orchestra bringing nearly 30 numbers to life, including some great song and dance classics! With special party rates and Family Tickets available on Good Friday, demand for seats will be high, so to avoid disappointment, either ring: 01454 613172, call into our Box Office at Wildings, Thornbury High Street from 15 March, or post your booking to: NYTC, c/o Jarvis Woodhouse Events Ltd, 19 High Street, Thornbury, South Glos BS35 2AE.
www.nytc.org.uk
Friday 9th and Saturday 10th April, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley
The Rococo Players, one of Gloucestershire’s strongest theatre groups, assemble a stellar cast to perform Marlowe’s masterpiece.
Berkeley Castle's Great Hall is an intimate and highly atmospheric setting for what is a controversial play with a devastatingly gruesome climax – and only feet away from the place of Edward's imprisonment and murder in 1327.
Tickets are available from the Rococo Players' website below or by calling 07518 574711, and cost £20 or £17 for students.
www.rococoplayers.co.uk
Saturday April 17th and Sunday April 18th, 10.15am-5pm, Christ The King Club, Castle Street, Thornbury
The Prize is £250 and a place to show off the talent at The Christmas Light Switch On.
To apply click below to visit our website, follow the links and post the form back to J&N’s. We will then contact you by Email or Text Message to confirm your audition time and date.
Please ensure you bring with you any music you may require. We can supply karaoke versions of songs. Please check that we have the song you require before your audition. If you are planning to wear an outfit during your audition the only place to change is in the toilets. Please don’t wear anything that will cause problems with your act. Health and safety is important for everyone during the day. If you are under 16 please bring an adult with you.
We welcome your friends and family to support your audition in the main hall. If your friends and family wish to watch your act, all we ask is that they make a donation per person towards our Charity “The Wallace & Gromit Grand Appeal”. We will also be holding a Raffle during the weekend.
You will need to bring with you a packed lunch - you may be in the holding room for some time depending on the numbers of acts, soft drinks and small snacks are available from the Club Bar during the day.
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Tues 20th and Weds 21st April – booking required, ngm Academy, Caedmon Complex, Thornbury
Who is it for? Singers, dancers, DJs, musicians, presenters/communicators and engineers
What is it? Performance development, studio recording, biblical studies, understanding culture, live performances, mission opportunities to the poor plus much more!
How long is it for? One year, beginning in October 2010
Who are the tutors? Artists and producers including ngm’s dance crew, Luv Esther cast and DJ Studious. Also masterclasses from Sacred, Wigwam, Andy Hunter, David Reidy (Hillsong) and other music industry artists.
Where is it? ngm’s Caedmon Complex. A £3 million state of the art centre including 2 recording studios, dance studio, performance venue, sound proofed rehearsal rooms and more, all set in amazing grounds.
For more details and an application pack: 01454 414880 or email below.
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11am, Thornbury Golf Centre
ACT (Arts and Community in Thornbury) are hosting their Second Charity Golf Day in aid of the community project to build a new arts and performance centre in Thornbury.
There are three perpetual trophies to be won this year. Catherine Johnson, our founder patron, has donated a trophy for the best mixed team performance whilst the best ladies’ team will win The Bond Girls Rosebowl kindly donated by Bonds of Thornbury.
The best men’s team will win a trophy generously donated by Gems of Thornbury and the team with the best overall score will win four tickets to the Welsh Open in June where many players from the Ryder Cup teams will be honing their skills.
There will be a chance to win a car in a hole-in-one competition sponsored by Berkeley Vale Motors and many other prizes and chances for golfing glory.
Tee times will start at 11am from both the 1st and 10th tees and the golf format for the day will be a Stableford Bowmaker. The teams of four can be all men, all ladies or mixed – and the team entry fee of £140 includes coffee on arrival and a two course buffet after the game.
So come on golfers ~ give your support to this extraordinary and ambitious local project ~ swing into ACTion, putt your name down to play and you’ll have a ball!
Anyone interested in participating themselves, sponsoring a team, sponsoring a hole or providing competition prizes or raffle prizes should get in touch with the organisers.
To request an entry form or to offer help with any of the above, please contact Jackie Jackson on 01454 416421.
For more information on ACT and its exciting project, visit our website.
www.mythornbury.co.uk/act.php
Colston Hall, Bristol, leaving from outside Gillingstool School, Thornbury
What with Mendelssohn’s atmospheric seascape and Bruch’s meditation on popular folk melodies, the first half of the programme offers a double Scotch! And more “Northern Lights” illuminate the second half as Sibelius’ majestic fifth symphony fills the air– a breathtaking voyage that culminates in a resplendent brass driven finale.
www.thornburytheatregoers.org.uk
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Various events - see the calendar for more details
www.thornburyartsfestival.com
10am-12noon, 12-2pm, venue TBA
Tickets Free
A Day of Art Activities including Bob Baker, Oscar and Bafta award winning scriptwriter of Wallace and Gromit and Dr Who etc...
Scriptwriting and animation in the morning, limited to 10 participants aged 14 to 18.
Workshops for young people aged from 7 to 14 in the afternoon. There may be a short wait as numbers attending at any one time are limited.
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8pm, Armstrong Hall
Reserved seating, Tickets £12
Words and music complementing each other in a scintillating night of stories, poems, music, comedy and improvisation. Presented in association with UK Touring agency.
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7.30pm (No interval), Armstrong Hall
Tickets £5
A beautifully photographed award-winning documentary film following a family of colourful street performers over a six year period.
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7.30pm (No interval), Blend Cafe Lounge
Tickets £5 available from Blend
Philip Darley & Jerry Dicker storytelling at Blend Cafe Lounge.
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7.30pm, Armstrong Hall
Tickets £10
Tim Whitnall's 2009 Edinburgh Festival hit set in a hide on the Suffolk marshes graduates from tense thriller to black comedy. A must-see treat. Presented in association with Theatre Tours International Ltd.
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8pm, Armstrong Hall
Reserved seating, Tickets £14
Nina Rajarani brings her dance company to perform a selection of their best loved work combining classical Indian forms within contemporary contexts such as high powered businessmen or footballers.
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11am, Armstrong Hall
Tickets £5
Rod Burnett presents with Glove Puppets Grimm's tale of the folly of greed in a 50 min performance which will captivate all ages.
Suitable for 4-11 year-olds (and adults of all ages).
www.thornburyartsfestival.com
Falfield Village Hall
For further details email below or ring 01454 260364.
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An event open to all individuals and organisations in the Thornbury area to participate in. Procession to centre of Thornbury, followed by activities.
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Thornbury Castle
An Oscar Wilde favourite, full of intrigue, romance and razor sharp wit. Ideal entertainment for a Summer’s evening set in the grounds of the Castle.
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Thornbury Castle
One man’s journey through love and romance as depicted through an assortment of the Bard’s great plays.
Colourful observations on the highs and lows of the emotional rollercoaster that is love, interwoven with music and dance. An fun night out for everyone from girls' gathering to corporate entertainment.
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Thornbury Castle, Castle Street, Thornbury
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s poignant tale of a proud and headstrong girl discovering some of life’s lessons as a consequence of stumbling upon her Uncle’s secret garden. A family classic suitable for 6yrs upwards.
www.thornburycastle.co.uk
ngm Academy, Caedmon Complex
A week for singers, dancers, musicians, DJs, mc/rappers and presenters age 13-17. An unmissable week of creativity, friendship, performances, fun and fuel for your faith.
Come and be trained by experienced artists at ngm's state-of-the-art £3 million complex, which includes recording studios, dance studio, performance venue and much more!
We are also taking applications for our bootcamp and ADP courses for 2010-2011 so if you or any young person you know are interested then do email or call 01454 414880.
www.ngm.org.uk
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