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Tue 9 Feb: CHARLBURY UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE'S MEETING

Charlbury UNA is holding a public meeting with Dawn Barnes, our Lib Dem Prospective Parliamentary Candidate on Tuesday 9th February at 8.00 p.m. at The Cottages, Church Lane, Charlbury on "The United Nations: priorities for the next Government". All welcome. (We are planning meetings with other candidates).

Malcolm Harper(01608.810464)

Posted by malcolm harper | Link

Wed 10 Feb: Charlbury Art Society

"Inspired by Nature - Textile Creations and Botanical Studies", illustrated talk by Charlbury artist Sue Rangeley.

Free to members, visitors welcome, £3.
7.30pm in the Friends' Meeting House, Market Street.

Posted by marion coates | Link

Fri 12 Feb: Charlbury Society

"A Boy from Burford School: Luke Howard and the naming of clouds"
Talk to be given by Tony Graeme
Memorial Hall 7.30 p.m.
All welcome. Non-members £1.50

Posted by Gerald Draper | Link

Sat 13 Feb: 1000 ile highway at fat lil's

Charlbury's favourite Americana band are back at our favourite (and Oxfordshire's finest) music venue for what should be a great night, followed by the now-famous Fat Lil's after-show party till 2. How can you not be there??

It's at Fat Lil's in Witney on 13 February starting at 21.00.
Admission £3.00.

More details on
www.fatlils.co.uk/events.asp?date=27%2F02%2F2010

Posted by G holmberg | Link

Sat 13 Feb: meet your parliamentary Labour candidate

On Saturday morning 13th February between 10 and midday, your Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Joe Goldberg, will be in Charlbury. You can enjoy a cup of coffee and a one-to-one discussion with him at the Bell Hotel.

Malcolm Harper 01608.810464

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Sun 14 Feb: 'Cherry Blossoms': a beautiful film for Valentine's Day

A beautiful and eloquent film specially for Valentine's Day.

In the Memorial Hall at 7.30pm, wine and beer bar from 6.45.

Those who recall 'The Visit' will appreciate this film's meeting of Japanese and German cultures. A tender, sometimes tearful tale, very well acted, bringing out the duality of love and death and a sense that, like blossoms, every moment is worth grabbing.

German filmmaker Doris Dorrie writes and directs this tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of marital love. When an elderly German woman, Trudi (Hannelore Eisner), learns that her husband Rudi (Elmar Wepper) is terminally ill, she chooses not to tell him, and instead suggests that they take a trip to visit their son, who lives in Japan.

When Trudi dies along the way, Rudi learns that his wife had always longed to go to Japan, and heads there during the cherry blossom season to fulfil her wishes and take stock of his life.

This beautiful film culminates in a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings.

"It's a quiet, very beautiful film about the duality of love and death, and makes expressive use of the mysterious modern Japanese dance form called butoh." -- Philip French in The Observer

This is ChOC's film of the month, screened in the Memorial Hall at 7.30pm, wine and beer bar open from 6.45. Tickets £4.50 at the door or in advance from News and Things, Cotswold Frames and Evenlode Books. Cert 15, 127 minutes. In German with English subtitles.

More information, reviews and the trailer -- all at www.chocfilms.info

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Mon 15 Feb: Poems in a Pub

8pm in the Rose and Crown, Charlbury

CAROLINE FRIEND reads a Canterbury Tale
YOU READ YOUR FAVOURITE POEMS
COMPETITION FOR THE BEST NEW POEMS FROM THE AUDIENCE – THEIR CREATIONS
TRANSLATION COMPETITION – BEST VERSION OF Le Plat Pays (JACQUES BREL) IN ENGLISH – THIS IS IT

Le Plat Pays

Avec la mer du Nord pour dernier terrain vague
Et des vagues de dunes pour arrêter les vagues
Et de vagues rochers que les marées dépassent
Et qui ont à jamais le cœur à marée basse
Avec infiniment de brumes à venir
Avec le vent de l'est écoutez-le tenir
Le plat pays qui est le mien

Avec des cathédrales pour uniques montagnes
Et de noirs clochers comme m'ts de cocagne
Où des diables en pierre décrochent les nuages
Avec le fil des jours pour unique voyage
Et des chemins de pluie pour unique bonsoir
Avec le vent d'ouest écoutez-le vouloir
Le plat pays qui est le mien

Jacques Brel

The evening is organised for Cecily’s Fund, for which there will be a collection – any sum welcome. Bring poems to read. Phone Peter Clifton at 01993 891956 for other details. Share your love of poetry and buy and drink great beer or wine!

Come and read your favourite poems.

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Tue 16 Feb: Walk with Cotswold Voluntary Wardens

'Thor's Stone and Rochester's Tomb'
A circuit via Taston, Spelsbury, Dean, Greenhill Copse and the Oxfordshire Way. About 6.5 miles, 3.5 hours
Start from Spendlove car park 10.00am. No Dogs
Leaders Tony Graeme and Neil Wilson.

For details of more walks with the Voluntary Wardens see www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/?page=walkscalendar

Posted by Tony | Link

Wed 17 Feb: Charlbury Art Society

Bonus event - Juliet Heslewood will give an illustrated talk on Van Gogh, in anticipation of our visit to the Royal Academy exhibition on 13th April. (Bring your chequebook to book on the night - coach from Spendlove plus entrance £22 only.)

NB Priority booking for members and their friends.

Lecture free to members, visitors welcome, £3.
7.30pm in the Friends' Meeting House, Market Street.

Posted by marion coates | Link

Fri 19 Feb: Gardeners’ Question Time

On Friday 19 Feb 2010 the Charlbury and District Garden Society will be holding a Gardeners’ Question Time at 8.00 in the Corner House with a panel of experts. Please bring questions or e-mail them in advance to geoff@holmberg.plus.com. Non-members welcome.

Posted by Kate Smith | Link

Fri 19 Feb: 'Recent Archaeology in Oxfordshire'

Finstock Village Hall at 8pm

For further information, see www.finstockhistory.co.uk

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Thu 25 Feb: Art & Faith

Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, will give an illustrated talk on 'Does Art matter for Faith?'. Charlbury Parish Church, 8-9.30 pm. Tickets (free but donations welcome) from Charlbury churches and Evenlode books. Arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury. Contact rosalind.scott@hotmail.co.uk

Posted by Rosalind Scott | Link

Thu 4 Mar: Art & Faith

Juliet Heslewood, Art Historian, author and lecturer, will give an illustrated talk on 'Heaven and Hell in Romanesque sculpture'. Charlbury Parish Church, 8-9.30 pm. Tickets (free but donations welcome) from Charlbury churches and Evenlode Books. Arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury. Contact rosalind.scott@hotmail.co.uk

Posted by Rosalind Scott | Link

Thu 4 Mar: West Oxfordshire UNA Branch meeting with Joe Goldberg

On Thursday evening 4th March, Joe Goldberg, the Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in the Witney Constituency, will speak at a local meeting of the United Nations Association on "The United Nations: priorities for the next Government". We will meet at The Cottages, Church Lane,Charlbury at 8.00 p.m.

This is the second of our series of meetings on foreign affairs with our major candidates.

Malcolm Harper
01608.810464

Posted by malcolm harper | Link

Fri 5 Mar: Ladies Pamper Evening

Ladies Pamper Evening

Finstock Village Hall

All Proceeds to Finstock School

Time: 7.30 - 10.00

Entrance £3: Includes Glass of Wine & Nibbles

Wine and Soft Drinks available to buy

All Treatments will be between £5 - £7.

Come along with friends/family and treat yourself to some Pampering also do Shopping (purchase gifts or vouchers for Mother’s Day)

16+ Please leave the Children & Men at home*

List of stall holders will be available in due course.

If you would like a stall then please contact me asap (lorraine_clarke777@yahoo.co.uk)

Posted by Lorraine | Link

Fri 5 Mar: 'Martin Luther King: A Prince in Captivity'

8pm in the Corner House (Morris Room), Charlbury.

Evenlode Books presents a talk by Godfrey Hodgson, biographer of Martin Luther King. Godfrey writes:

"Only four human beings are celebrated with a public holiday in the United States: Jesus of Nazareth, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln ... and Dr Martin Luther King.

"King, whom I knew personally, grew up in a world where he could not buy a coffee at a drugstore, yet he is commemorated in a thousand American street names. My book tells the story of his personal, religious and political development, and in particular of how he grew from being a leader of Southern black Americans to a leader who inspired all Americans with his eloquent dream of what American society could become."

Tickets £3 from Evenlode Books.
01608 819117 www.evenlodebooks.co.uk

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Wed 10 Mar: Charlbury Art Society

"Capturing the Cotswolds in Pastel", demonstration by Enstone artist Andrea Bates.

Free to members, visitors welcome, £3.
7.30pm in the Friends' Meeting House, Market Street.

Posted by marion coates | Link

Thu 11 Mar: Art & Faith

Nicholas Mynheer, religious artist, will give an illustrated talk on 'Can contemporary art help faith?' Charlbury Parish Church, 8-9.30 pm. Tickets from Charlbury churches and Evenlode Books. Arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury. Contact rosalind.scott@hotmail.co.uk

Posted by Rosalind Scott | Link

Sat 13 Mar: Farmers' Market

On the Playing Close, Saturday morning.

Posted by Richard Fairhurst | Link

Sun 14 Mar: Charlbury Society Walk

2.00pm from Spendlove car park
Centenary Wood - Dustfield Farm - Saltway - circuit of Ditchley Park - Hundley Way
About 6 1/4 miles.

Posted by Tony | Link

Sun 14 Mar: 'The Time Traveler's Wife' - Charlbury's film of the month

Romantic fantasy drama based on the bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger. Eric Bana stars as Chicago librarian Henry DeTamble, who is born with a genetic disorder that causes him involuntarily to time travel when he becomes stressed.

Though he often disappears from her life for long periods of time, he tries to build a romantic relationship with Clare Abshire, an artist (Rachel McAdams). Henry, the librarian, meets his future wife Clare when she is only six years old. Chronologically, however, he meets her for the first time when Clare is an adult but Henry is only twenty-eight. At that point Clare has known Henry all of her adult life.

The novel was a bestseller in Charlbury, a tear-jerker with no holds barred, though the film puts more emphasis on imagination and adventure and is probably a bit less weepy!

This is ChOC's film of the month, screened in the Memorial Hall at 7.30pm, our famous wine and beer bar open from 6.45. Tickets £4.50 in advance from News and Things, Cotswold Frames and Evenlode Books, or on the door.

Cert 12A, 107 mins

More information at www.chocfilms.info

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Thu 18 Mar: Art & Faith

Glena Chadwick, Art Historian, will give an illustrated talk on 'Art and Faith in the Northern Renaissance'. Charlbury Parish Church, 8-9.30 pm. Tickets (free but donations welcome) from Charlbury churches and Evenlode Books. Arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury. Contact rosalind.scott@hotmail.co.uk

Posted by Rosalind Scott | Link

Fri 19 Mar: AN EVENING WITH HENRY BLOFELD

Charlbury Cricket Club is proud to present “AN EVENING WITH HENRY BLOFELD” on Friday 19th March 2010 at The Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, Charlbury, starting at 7.30 pm.

Star of BBC Radio’s Test Match Special, wit, raconteur and cricket fanatic Henry Blofeld is bringing his celebrated one-man show to Charlbury for what promises to be an absolutely spiffing night’s entertainment!

Tickets priced at £20 each are on sale now from the following vendors: News & Things, Evenlode Books, Londis Fiveways, The Rose & Crown and Cotswold Frames.

Further information can be obtained from Malcolm Harper, The Cottages, Church Lane, Charlbury OX7 3PX (Tel. 01608 810464).

LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL THERE, MY DEAR OLD THINGS!

Posted by Derek Collett | Link

Thu 25 Mar: Art & Faith

Richard Harries, Lord Harries of Pentregarth and former Bishop of Oxford, will give an illustrated talk on 'Art and the Passion'. Charlbury Parish Church, 8-9.30 pm. Tickets (free but donations welcome) from Charlbury churches and Evenlode Books. Arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury. Contact rosalind.scott@hotmail.co.uk

Posted by Rosalind Scott | Link

Fri 26 Mar: Quiz Night in aid of new Sports Pavilion

Friday 26th March , Memorial Hall, 7.30 start

Quiz by John Grain, Curry by Gary Walsh , Bar and mini Auction

Tickets £10 each and 6 people per team.

Tickets from News and Things or call 01608 811563

All proceeds to the Nine Acres Pavilion Fund and organised by Charlbury Town Football Club

Posted by Clive Brooks | Link

Sat 27 Mar: Spring Feast & Ceilidh in Memorial Hall

To celebrate spring and local food and drink and community...

Saturday 27 March in the Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, Charlbury
Cost: £5/£3 (10-16yrs) and free under 10yrs

Come and bring a dish to share (we can advise on local producers if you need ideas).

Doors open at 7pm. Feast begins 7.30pm and uplifting dancing with the Kismet Ceilidh Band at 8.30pm.

There will be a bar available.

PLEASE DO BOOK as capacity is limited:
Christine Elliott: 01608 811057. email:charlburyfeasts@cwag.org.uk

See website for local food ideas: www.cwag.org.uk

Posted by Christine Elliott | Link

Wed 31 Mar: "Sisters in Words"

The Morris Room, The Corner House at 8pm.

Charlbury poet Patricia Huth Ellis reads from her new collection of poems, 'More Poems from Grace Cottage', and her novelist sister Angela Huth talks about her latest novel and the creative process.

With guitar interludes by Geoffrey Ellis.

Organised by Evenlode Books. Tickets £2.50 from the bookshop.

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Wed 14 Apr: Charlbury Art Society

"Early 20th Century British Artists". An illustrated talk by Alice Foster.

Free to members, visitors welcome, £3.
7.30pm in the Friends' Meeting House, Market Street.

Posted by marion coates | Link

Fri 30 Apr: The Brize Singers at the Memorial Hall

Back by popular demand The Brize Singers will be performing a mix of classic and popular songs in concert at the Memorial Hall. Friday 30th April. 7.30pm.
Tickets £5 in advance or £6 on the door.
Tickets available from Cotswold Frames or call Margaret on 01608 811441 for further details.
All proceeds go to the Memorial Hall and Corner House upkeep.

Posted by Teresa L | Link

Mon 3 May: May Day Fair

Charlbury Scouts and Guides will be holding their annual May Day Fair on the Playing Close from 2pm. At 1.45pm Procession leaves from the Scout Hut led by Pipe Major Duffy. This will be followed by crowning of the May Queen by our celebrity guest at 2pm on the Playing Close. Displays of Maypole Dancing, Morris Dancing and Tugs-of-war. Lots of stalls and wonderful teas at this traditional town event.
Please come and support us.

Posted by alison nicholls | Link

Sun 9 May: 'An Education': ChOC's film of the month

Memorial Hall, 7.30pm. Bar from 6.45.

In this coming-of-age story, set in 1960s Britain, Nick Hornby turns from novels to screenplays with this talent-driven drama.

Carey Mulligan (Bleak House) stars as Jenny, a young woman full of promise and intent to study at Oxford. But meeting a smooth, wealthy older man (Peter Sarsgaard) leads Jenny to believe that she can learn things outside the classroom, casting doubt on her future plans. Directed by 'Italian for Beginners'’ Lone Scherfig, 'An Education' also stars Alfred Molina, Rosamunde Pike, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams and Emma Thompson.

"Nick Hornby has adroitly adapted and given a dramatic shape to the bestselling memoir by Lynn Barber, telling the true story of how, in the early 1960s, she was seduced as a 16-year-old schoolgirl by an older man … It's a sad, painful comedy, and the lovely performance from Mulligan makes it a very enjoyable film." (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)

I suspect that many of us will actually be cheering Jenny on. She’s an ingénue, stepping out from the cosiness of suburbia to a dizzier, be-bopping universe where she gets to smoke foreign cigarettes, dance the night away, and slum it at Walthamstow greyhound stadium. 'I’m going to be French and wear black,' she declares at one point." (Sukhdev Sandhu in the Telegraph)

For more reviews, stills from the film and the trailer, click on www.chocfilms.info

This is ChOC's film of the month, screened in the Memorial Hall at 7.30pm. Our famous wine and beer bar is open from 6.45. Tickets £4.50 in advance from News and Things, Cotswold Frames and Evenlode Books, or on the door.

'An Education' is Cert 12A and lasts 107 mins.

Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link

Wed 12 May: Charlbury Art Society

"Travelling with my Easel", illustrated talk by CAS member and art teacher, Lyn Anderson.

Free to members, visitors welcome, £3.
7.30pm in the Friends' Meeting House, Market Street.

Posted by marion coates | Link

Sun 23 May: Charlbury Town Youth Football Club 6 a side Tournament

Our 6 a side tournament will be returning to NineAcres on Sunday 23rd May. We will be running tournaments for all age groups with teams from all over West Oxfordshire, there will also be various stalls and activities for all.

A great day for all the family with all the proceeds going towards the NEW NINE ACRES SPORTS PAVILION.

More info to come..........

Posted by Sarah Brooks | Link

Sun 6 Jun: Charlbury Open Gardens & Jazz Lunch

Charlbury Open Gardens and Jazz Lunch, which is held as part of Street Fair, will be on Sunday 6th June. Tickets available from the Corner House at 1.30pm on the day. Gardens open from 2pm to 6pm. Scrummy teas and cakes in the Memorial Hall. Do all come along. Any queries, please contact Vic Allison at vic.allison@btinternet.com

Posted by Susie Finch | Link