For over 10 years, ngm has been running top quality arts and discipleship courses – this is your chance to come along and see what all the fuss is about!

NGM has a history of training artists and seeing them released into all that God has for them. Over the years people who have trained at NGM have gone into television presenting, bands and acts in the music scene around the UK, DJs travelling all round the world playing in clubs and writing music for games, films etc.

More recently one of our artists toured with the musical ‘Fame’, another with ‘Thriller Live’, one has just graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and 3 of those trained through NGM were in the band who played at the Royal wedding!

We also have trained numerous artists and worship leaders who have gone on to work within churches too. With a wealth of experience in developing artists and also mentoring and discipling them to help them prepare for the pressures they will face, if you are a young artist aged 17 to 25 then this is a great place to be!

Come and immerse yourself in the creative atmosphere of ngm for a morning: meet the tutors, explore our state-of-the-art complex, check out some of ngm’s top artists.

If you are a 17-25 year old dancer, singer, dj, technician, musician or communicator there will also be an opportunity to audition in the afternoon.

To attend the open day, book in now by emailing or calling 01454 414880. All welcome!
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This is rather a special panto as it has been written and directed by our very own Lizzie Lindsell.

Evening performances 7pm, Matinees Friday and Saturday 2pm
Tickets £11/£9 raised seating, £10/£8 flat.
Family tickets for four £35 raised, £30 flat.
10% discount on bookings of 10 or more.
Ring Karen on 01454 853947 or click below.
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Thornbury Choral Society are holding a Workshop to study the Vaughan-Williams Mass in G minor conducted by Steven Kings with soloists. At 4pm there will be a free performance to which all are invited with a retiring collection in aid of the Julian Trust for the homeless. The day costs £12.50 with teas, coffees, squash, biscuits and cake included, score hire if required is £2 and fabulous lunches are available at £6.50. For an enrolment form contact Jos Gregson on 01454-411652, email below or download one from Thornbury Choral Society's website below.
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Alan Ayckbourn’s latest comedy comes to the Everyman straight from Scarborough and New York with the original cast. Things are not right on The Bluebell Hill Development. Theft, petty crime, vandalism, all the ills of modern suburban existence are on the increase. Newcomers Martin and his sister Hilda, played brilliantly by Matthew Cottle and Alexandra Mathie, are the crime wave’s latest victims and resolve to take action – after all, the law of the land, all that’s right and even God himself are surely on their side. But what starts off as a well-intentioned neighbourhood watch scheme soon develops into something altogether more sinister. Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious cautionary tale of the dangers of taking the law into your own hands is his seventy fifth play and has had excellent reviews.
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Performed by Peter Bateson. Tickets £7 (£5 Concessions).
Advanced booking advised to reserve seats. Tel: 07920 196901 or email below. Performance time 2 hours including 15 minute interval.

In the same month as Charles Dickens’ 200th anniversary (7th February), a re-creation of humorous and dramatic public readings from his own works given by him in Britain and America 1853-1870. Shiver with dread, be touched to the heart and laugh out loud as some of his most memorable scenes and characters are brought to life.

Dickens was already a famous and applauded novelist when at the age of 41 in 1853 he embarked on a series of reading tours which were to continue at regular intervals until his death in 1870. First imagined as a novelty and also a source of extra income, neither Dickens himself nor anyone else could have predicted the enormous sensation these tours created.

Dickens travelled all over Great Britain, performing in concert halls and public rooms of all types, to rapturous acclaim. He read, or rather enacted, large sections of his works, including for example the scene of Sikes and Nancy from ‘Oliver Twist’ and also the whole of ‘A Christmas Carol’, which was and remains to this day a particular favourite of the reading public. Dickens also conducted reading tours in the United States, which were received with the same enthusiasm as on this side of the Atlantic.

‘A Theatre Under One Hat’ recreates the setting, mood and appearance of these readings, with one significant difference. Instead of just one or two long readings the programme consists of a number of shorter extracts, combining examples of high drama, pathos and stark horror with some pieces of Dickens’ most sublime comedy.

Works of Dickens which are represented in this performance are Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, A Tale of Two Cities, Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit.
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The King and I is loved as one of the greatest musical of all time. Based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam it tells the heart-warming story of the British governess brought to the court of Siam to tutor the King’s many children. The melodic score is ravishing, the production a lavish, grand scale spectacle with sumptuous costumes, a chorus of adorable children and acrobatic dancers. The King is played by Ramon Tikaram whose West End credits include Jesus Christ Superstar and Bombay Dreams.
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In 2003, Francesca Millican-Slater bought a second hand postcard for 50p. The postcard, sent from Lincoln to London was addressed to a Miss L Gibbs of 62 Douglas Buildings, Marshalsea Road, Borough. Sent on July 15th 1910, the message on the back simply read: Be careful tomorrow. C.

Part detective noir, part biography, Francesca investigates the message on a postcard sent 100 years ago and finds herself obsessed by the life of the woman that received it. How much can she uncover from just a name on the back of a postcard? What happens when she starts tracing a history that isn't her own? And why did Miss Gibbs have to be careful tomorrow?

Box office: 01454 260364 or email below. Tickets: Adults £8 Children £6 Family £25. Bar available.
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There is an air of mystery surrounding the Company's Easter show, which will be staged at Thornbury's Armstrong Hall from . The youngsters, (all students of the Northavon School of Drama) are very excited to be rehearsing for a very popular Broadway musical, set in the 1950s, which they last performed 25 years ago next year! NYTC was recently nominated in the Rose Bowl Awards for its production of OUR HOUSE ~ the Madness Musical!, but although this accolade went elsewhere, the students were delighted to receive the 2011 President's Award for Outstanding Performance from the National Operatic and Dramatic Society.
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Various events - see the calendar for more details

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A Celebration of Charles Dickens features Robert Powell and Elizabeth Garvie. A Sunday event of this stature we hope
will attract a really good audience to enjoy the funny,
romantic, grotesque, satirical and macabre side of Dickens’
characters.
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Birds of a Feather ran on BBC for nearly ten years throughout the 1990s becoming a massive hit right from the word go and remains not only a classic comedy but also, as a female-centred long running series, a truly rare gem. The three stars are re-united on stage to recreate their original characters, sisters Sharon and Tracy and their sex-mad neighbour, Dorien. This brand new show created especially for the theatre is on a very limited tour so don’t miss the opportunity to see the show onstage for the first time ever.
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The South Cotswold Choral Group are holding a Workshop to study J.S.Bach's B minor Mass conducted by Nigel Perrin, with a free performance at 4pm. The day costs £15 with teas, coffees, squash, biscuits and cake included, and hire of the Novello score costs £2. Bring your own lunch. For an enrolment form contact the South Cotswold Choral Group Secretary Julia O'Connor-Beach on 01454 260877, email below or download a form from the website below.
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Henry is a brilliant and celebrated playwright. With his wife Charlotte in the starring role, his new play examines the complexity of love and fidelity. Henry’s reality and fiction blur when passions ignite and his own marriage becomes entwined with that of Charlotte’s co-star, Max and wife Annie. As Henry struggles to write a new work, the players in this game of deceit and lust are all searching. But can any of them find The Real Thing?
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For one day only you can experience a show in the daytime or under the stars by Thornbury’s very own ‘stars of the stage’. Taking place in the Victorian Walled Garden on the decking area. Songs from musicals from the last 60 years will be sung marking the Queen's Jubilee. Further information on tickets and prices to be announced.
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This meeting is for all site stewards, gate keepers, parade marshals and committee only. Its purpose has changed from that of the two previous years.
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The date of the 2012 Carnival in Thornbury is Saturday 7th July. The Parade will start at 10.30 am and the Field will open at 12 noon.

For more information please click below.
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The play follows the fortunes of Simon Sparrow (Joe Pasquale) starting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin’s Teaching Hospital in London. When Sparrow has to leave his lodgings to get away from his landlady’s amorous daughter, he ends up sharing a flat with three amiable but feckless fellow students. Towering over them all is the short-tempered and demanding chief surgeon, Sir Lancelot Spratt, played by Robert Powell. Both Joe and Robert have delighted audiences with their innumerable roles on the stage, in film as well as on the small screen so this should an evening of just what the doctor ordered!
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Enjoy a gala dinner and dance featuring music from the 60s and 70s until 1am, fantastic price of £24.95.

Accommodation not included. To make a booking or for more information please call 01454 263000 or click below.
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We are delighted to announce that Sky Productions will be performing the play “Calendar Girls”. We are one of many amateur groups throughout the country which has been given performing rights to get the play “Calendar Girls” into the Guinness Book of Records and establish the record for the most productions of any one play in one year. This is going to be one exciting venture for us!

This is to be a charity event in aid of two charities, primarily the Armstrong Hall Dressing Room Appeal and also Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

For more information, please email Sue Smith below.
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