Number 8 Community Arts Centre
High Street, Pershore WR10 1BG
Box office: 01386 555488
Number 8 Community Arts Centre
Events for May 2008
Pershore Heritage Centre - 'Royal Visits'
Thursday 27th March to Wednesday 7th MayIt's known that Aethelflaeda, the daughter of King Alfred, often visited the early monastery at Pershore, whilst relics of his grand-daughter, acquired for the abbey, resulted in the town becoming something of a pilgrimage centre. It's said that King John would pray at St. Andrews en route for Worcester and it's thought that Queen Elizabeth once stayed at ‘The Angel', then an active coaching inn on the road from London to Aberystwyth.
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Mini 8's (5-7 year olds)
Tuesday 8th April to Tuesday 10th JuneA fun, lively introduction to dance through games, movement and imagination. At this age children are introduced to some contemporary technique but the majority of the class is creative.
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Innov-8 (13+ year olds)
Tuesday 8th April to Tuesday 10th JuneA creative contemporary dance classes that will fire the imagination and invigorate the body!
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Activ-8 (8-12 year olds)
Tuesday 8th April to Tuesday 10th JuneA fun, lively and creatively based dance class that introduce young people to dance through games, movement and imagination. This class is lively, creative and structured using a variety of contemporary dance techniques. Event details »
Chance to Dance (55+ year olds)
Thursday 10th April to Thursday 19th JuneChance to Dance (55+ year olds)
Thursday Mornings
If you would like the opportunity to increase flexibility, build strength and learn dance sequences to music from the past and present, look no further. Our Chance to Dance courses are still going from strength to strength and we are now booking for the Summer term.
Mike Bagshaw - 'Characters & Character - A Portrait Exhibition'
Thursday 17th April to Tuesday 6th MayDr Mike Bagshaw has put together an exhibition of his portraits. Mostly they are family and friends from the Evesham and Pershore area. Mike originally comes from Salford near Manchester where for a while as a child he was taught by the internationally acclaimed portrait artist Harold Riley.
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No Country For Old Men (15)
Thursday 1st May 2008‘No Country for Old Men' is a mesmerizing new thriller from Academy Award® winning filmmakers Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac McCarthy.
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The Accidental Husband (12A)
Friday 2nd May to Tuesday 6th MayDr Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) is a popular New York radio DJ whose sensible, practical love advice is listened to and loved by women everywhere. Off-air her own life is equally successful, with wedding plans to dependable fiancé Richard (Colin Firth) running smoothly, until she makes a shocking discovery: she's already married - to someone else!
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Call Me Blondie
Saturday 3rd May 2008Call Me Blondie
Starring Special Guests
Scizzor Sisterz
Supremely authentic live performances, recreating current-day crowd pleasers by the Scissor Sisters and Blondie's brilliant non-stop Eighties hits. . . experience the year's best new concert show.
Like Blondie, The Scissor Sisters have become a musical phenomenon. This note-perfect live show includes number ones I Don't Feel Like Dancin' and top ten hits like Take Your Mama, She's My Man and Filthy/Gorgeous.
Event details »Mark Hancock - 'Delicate & with a Difference'
Thursday 8th May to Wednesday 18th JuneMark specialises in high quality turned decorative and functional bowls and individual vessels using simple designs to bring out the natural beauty and variations in colour, texture and figuring of local timbers. Most of his recent work is more an exploration of line and form rather than an effort at an artistic statement. He turns thin walled vessels and with each piece strives to make a perfect form or at least something a little closer to it than anything he has done before. Then, trying to achieve the purist possible curve, areas are carved away adding life and movement to each piece.
Event details »Jonathan Pitts - 'Beside the Avon'
Thursday 8th May to Tuesday 27th MayFollowing the River Avon from Stratford to Tewkesbury, this exhibition takes the viewer on a journey through the beautiful surroundings and historical landmarks. ‘I make the paintings outside. Plein air paintings allows me to make a direct visual response, I react instinctively to the environment.'
Event details »UBU - VAMOS Youth Theatre
Thursday 8th May 2008UBU - Alfred Jarry
Vamos Youth Theatre is passionate about theatre: theatre which allows the imagination to run wild, is full of visual inventiveness, live music and song, incorporating physical theatre, mask and puppetry. Our production of UBU promises to be fast paced and fun!Event details »The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (12A)
Friday 9th May to Saturday 10th May(Le Scaphandre et le Papillion)
On 8th December 1995 aged 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, inventive and charismatic editor in chief of the French magazine Elle suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive, changing his life forever.
Charlie Wilson's War (15)
Monday 12th May to Tuesday 13th MayTom Hanks brings out the big guns, quite literally, as a Texan congressman who covertly funds Afghan resistance against the invading USSR in the true story of Charlie Wilson's War.Event details »
Lust, Caution (18)
Thursday 15th May to Friday 16th MayLust, Caution, winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, is the new film from Ang Lee. A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang.Event details »
The Death & Life of Sherlock Holmes
Saturday 17th May 2008A dramatic end...a thrilling comeback.
Arthur Conan Doyle tires of his famous sleuth and uses the arch villain Moriarty to dispose of him. But just as raising the spirits of the dead becomes an obsession in the author's own life, so his fictional creations return to thrill, intrigue and dazzle us. A wry tale of murder, mystery and the occult.
Event details »Sing The Blues Away
Sunday 18th May 2008Lillian Boutté, the official Music Ambassador for New Orleans (successor to Louis Armstrong) is an internationally renowned jazz, blues and gospel singer and a favourite of Number 8 audiences. She has sung with Humphrey Lyttleton, Spike Robinson, Dr John, Alan Barnes, Alek Dankworth - to name but a few of the great musicians who have had the pleasure of working with her. She performs in prestigious jazz venues across Europe, Australia and the States - including, of course, the major New Orleans festivals.Event details »
Atonement (15)
Monday 19th May 2008Back by Popular Demand
Based on Ian McEwan's bestselling novel and set before and during WWII, Atonement boasts a stellar British cast including Brenda Blethyn, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley and Vanessa Redgrave.
There Will Be Blood (15)
Tuesday 20th May to Friday 23rd MayWith Daniel Day-Lewis (Oscar winner for best actor) in the lead many believe Paul Thomas Anderson looks set to have created a new American ‘epic'.
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More of the Best Musicals Ever!
Saturday 24th May 2008 Performance Sponsor - Vic Haines Transport
A night in London's West End at your local theatre!
More of the Best Musicals Ever is no ordinary tribute show. Featuring top West End singers and the highest quality musicians, they will take you on a unique musical journey with their own special ‘WestEnders' brand of music.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (PG)
Tuesday 27th May to Wednesday 28th MayFrom the beloved best-selling series of books comes "The Spiderwick Chronicles", a fantasy adventure for the child in all of us.Event details »
Alice & the White Rabbit
Wednesday 28th May 20082.30pm
Shadow theatre for ages 4+
Join Alice on her magical adventure as she chases the White Rabbit back in time. A fantastic spiralling journey into Wonderland!
Event details »I'm Not There (15)
Thursday 29th May 2008I'm Not There follows seven characters, each embodying a different aspect of Bob Dylan's life-story and music. Event details »
Open Exhibition - 'Innate Ability IV'
Thursday 29th May to Tuesday 17th JuneBuilding on the success of the last three years Number 8 is running another Open Exhibition. Artists are able to submit up to 2 pictures in any 2D media.
The Good Night (15)
Friday 30th May to Thursday 5th JuneGary (Martin Freeman) works as a jingle-writer for more successful ex-band mate Paul (Simon Pegg) and his relationship with long term partner Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow) is disintegrating. He begins to dream of an alternative life in which glamorous mystery woman ‘Anna' (Penelope Cruz) figures heavily!Event details »
Tenorissimo!
Saturday 31st May 2008Worcester Severn Rotary Club raising funds to help to eradicate Polio worldwide.
Three Tenors in Concert!
Do you like good singing?
Do you like popular classics?
Do you like songs from the shows?
Do you like laughing?
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