Number 8 Community Arts Centre
High Street, Pershore WR10 1BG
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Number 8 Community Arts Centre
Events for April 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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The Magic Flute (PG)
Monday 31st March to Tuesday 1st AprilDirected by Kenneth Branagh
Monday 31st March - 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Tuesday 1st April - 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Kenneth Branagh takes Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' off the stage and on to the killing fields of the First World War featuring a newly adapted libretto by Stephen Fry.
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The Other Boleyn Girl (12A)
Friday 4th April to Thursday 10th AprilWhen rumours start that King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) is looking for another wife to give him an heir, Sir Thomas Boleyn devises a plan for his daughter Anne (Natalie Portman) to seduce the king and bear him a son. However Henry takes to Mary (Scarlett Johansson) who though already married obeys the king and provides him with a son whilst reluctantly falling in love with him.
Event details »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.
Into the Wild (15)
Friday 11th April to Tuesday 15th AprilInto the Wild is based on a true story and the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Event details »
Pluck - A Musical Arson!
Saturday 12th April 20087.30pm
Directed by John Fealey and Toby Sedgewick
What happens when great music falls into the hands of talented idiots? You get the world's most musically challenged string trio - PLUCK!
Event details »Penelope (PG)
Monday 14th April 2008A modern and delightful fairy tale about a girl cursed by an old witch to have the nose of a pig. Penelope is locked away in a mansion by a wicked mother and brain-addled dad because they are ashamed of her appearance. They even fake her death in infancy. Now they need to find a way to marry her off in the hope that love will lift the curse.
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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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The Kite Runner (12A)
Friday 18th April to Thursday 24th AprilAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy to the atrocities of the Taliban reign.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (15)
Friday 25th April to Saturday 26th AprilAs the charismatic and unpredictable Jesse James (Brad Pitt) plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money - and the glory - riding on his capture.
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Brick Lane (15)
Monday 28th April to Tuesday 29th AprilBased on the novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane follows the life of a Bangladeshi woman who learns to stand on her own two feet after years of stultifying arranged marriage.
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