All About Worcester March 2016

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Contents

welcome

March 2016

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From a recipe provided by Meg at Roots in Rushwick, to aromatherapy advice from Rita at Healing Touch, we welcome contributions on all sorts of topics in this month's magazine.

There's also local music, health and wellbeing advice, articles on local charities, and our usual listings of events and activities going on around the city.

Whatever you're planning to do in March and April, enjoy yourself.

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Business News

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Community News

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CCP: Volunteers Needed

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Maggs Day Centre

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Well Being: Skipping Meals

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When You Can't Sleep

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Recipe: A Warming Soup

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Events at the Hive

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Local Talent

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Notice Board

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What’s On

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Competition & Theatre News

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Classes & Courses

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Enjoy Local 1. wild, wild women A tuneful foot stampin’ and thigh-slappin’ evening is promised by Ombersley Dramatic Society in their new show from 27th to 30th April at Ombersley Memorial Hall. Wild, Wild Women is a light-hearted look at the traditional Western, described as an outrageously funny musical romp. Tickets are £10 or £9 concessions and available by calling 01905 620757. Please note the show is not suitable for children.

2. fundraising walking events St Richard’s Hospice has a busy programme of fund raising events this year, including the 2016 Malvern Hills Walk in May, with routes to suit all ages and abilities.

There’s a 31 mile challenge in June to walk the Worcestershire Way. Although still a few months away, you can sign up today.

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things to enjoy local During March & April 2016

3. world class art exhibition A new exhibition of worldclass art has opened at the City Art Gallery and Museum.

As well as welcoming Worcestershire artist Bridget Macdonald to the Gallery, This Green Earth includes loans of work from the Ashmolean Museum and Manchester Art Gallery by masters of landscape painting Claude Lorrain, Samuel Palmer and Peter Paul Rubens. The exhibition continues until 25th June and entry is free.

The summer show features the work of Britain's best-loved illustrator Nick Sharratt. Pirates, Pants and Wellyphants opens on 9 July with plenty of activities to keep children entertained museumsworcestershire. org.uk

4. this land This Land is a thought-provoking play looking at the impact of fracking on rural areas, with high emotions and the potential for deep divisions in the community. Pentabus Theatre has a forty year history of new theatre about the contemporary rural world, and brings this new production to Worcester Arts Workshop on 19th March at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £10 and £7 concessions, for info & booking call (01905) 25053

5. worcester's social sew & sewers Since it launched two years ago, Worcester’s Social Sew and Sewers have repaired, re-invented and re-fashioned numerous items of clothing.

The monthly event sees talented volunteers share their advice and skills in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Everybody is welcome at the next meetings on Saturday 19th March and Saturday 16th April, between 10am and 1pm at the Pump House Eco Café in Gheluvelt Park. www.pumphouse.org.uk

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Business News PITMAN TRAINING WORCESTER Pitman Training Worcester offers completely flexible training that suits your needs and lifestyle with the centre open five days a week to include two late nights. PDL (Pitman Distance Learning) is offered as an additional learning option.

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Pitman Training Worcester encourages you to learn at your own pace with the added support of experienced and qualified trainers and centre supervision. If it has been a while since you’ve been in learning, we can also provide 1 to 1 support, at no extra cost, to ensure you achieve your goals. Whatever your financial circumstances, Pitman Training Worcester can offer flexible payment terms with no additional interest penalties.

Our experienced staff will support your career aspirations every step of the way and will be able to match your needs to ensure that we give you the skills to help get your ideal job or start you off on your chosen career. So if you are returning to work after a break, looking to switch jobs or apply for that new promotion Pitman Training Worcester can start from wherever you are and develop your skills to help you achieve whatever you want.

We also have valuable links with local employers and recruitment agencies that often attend the centre, scouting for potential employees. We work closely with chosen recruitment agencies and have built up a track record; placing a number of our students with those agencies.

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KAY CAMMACK WEIGHT LOSS COACH Healthy living should be about having fun, but it also needs to be sustainable according to Worcester-based personal trainer Kay Cammack. ‘Some people achieve a weight-loss goal, but feel constantly hungry’ she says, ‘or they get fit through punishing workouts. Any improvement you make in your health must be something you can stick with for life.’

Kay is an accredited zest4life Nutrition and Weight Loss practitioner, and will help you towards healthier choices. ‘If someone is a smoker they receive help with quitting, but many people are quick to condemn those who struggle with their health. It shouldn’t be like that.’

As a personal trainer, Kay works with clients to change their mindset, making sure that changes to their diet, or taking up exercise, work for the longer term. ‘I make sure you won’t hate exercise but enjoy it. I prefer short sharp workouts rather than ones that take up lots of time. Some people join the gym but then never turn up, if you have an appointment with me, you’ll never want to miss it!’

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TAKE 2 SOCIAL CLUB Judie Gurney from the Take 2 Social Club tells us about what they’re up to in 2016.

Time for a change - welcome a new start this Spring - a new exciting calendar of events awaits you - to get out and meet new people in a safe environment.

ST GEORGE'S DAY IN THE PARK The Friends of Gheluvelt Park are holding an event in the park on Saturday April 23rd to celebrate St. George’s Day, starting at noon and finishing at 5pm. It will be a traditional family event with St. George and the Dragon (also known as Discover History!), children’s games, and Fancy Hat competitions for both children and adults. Live music will be provided by folk group Dampiers Round and the Worcester Ukelele Club. Bring a picnic or buy delicious snacks from the pop-up cafe in the Sons of Rest building, organised by the Pump House Cafe.

Most important of all, be at the main gates at 12.00 noon for the opening procession along with St. George and the Dragon!

We are a small, friendly social club operating in the Malvern and Worcester area. Established some 25 years, we have a new committee; forward thinking with new ideas for the year ahead. The only criteria is: single, divorced, widowed, unattached people 45 years and over. Carers are welcome. We meet every Wednesday evening in a different pub each week for a social get-together; also weekends and weekdays, offering a variety of events; meals, theatre/films, skittles, talks/tours, walks, dancing and days out, even holidays.

We operate a ‘meet and greet’ for new people - just contact a link member who will talk to you and arrange to welcome you. Take Two is not a dating agency.

Our motto is - Single, Mingle, Natter = Friendships. Just make that call!

THE SEVERN SOUNDS FESTIVAL The Severn Sounds Festival returns in June, and hopes to find new sponsors that will make it bigger and better than ever this year. The music and arts festival was started four years ago by friends Ben Russell and Scott Howland. It’s a family friendly mix of local music and art held at The Pavillion in the Park and entry is free. ‘Over the years we’ve raised around £5,000 for charity’ says Di Howland, ‘and this year we’re hoping to bring in more local bands as well as hiring a yurt for a drum workshop. If local businesses can support us, they will receive plenty of publicity but more importantly they get the chance to become involved in a local festival.’

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volunteers needed County Community Projects (CCP) exists to improve the lives of children, young people, families and vulnerable adults by preventing homelessness, strengthening families and supporting independence. Right now they need volunteers to fill several key posts in and around Worcester. Chloe Webb is the charity’s Senior Volunteer Co-ordinator and tells us more.

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CP began in 1989 when a hostel offering accommodation for homeless young people opened in Cheltenham. Over the years our work has grown to include more support for adults and young people at risk of homelessness, and four years ago we expanded our work across Worcestershire.

Our Floating Support Service in Worcestershire helps adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, including those with mental health issues. Experienced Support Workers help people in their own homes or at various drop-in centres to plan a series of actions aimed at identifying and addressing the underlying problems contributing to potential homelessness.

The Worcestershire Floating Support team is based at Pierpoint House in Worcester and locally in various drop-in centres around the county. Volunteers are a vital part of the work we do and we currently have three volunteer roles available.

Floating Support Worker The first is for volunteers to become Floating Support Workers, who provide one to one help to adults who face tenancy related issues. Meetings take place both at the client’s home and at one of our drop-in centres, which are run at The Cube in Malvern, Pierpoint House in Worcester as well as further afield in Evesham, Kidderminster, Droitwich and Redditch.

Realistically a block of at least half a day every week is needed to visit a client and carry out follow up work. We need people with patience, good organisational skills, who are team workers and have a sense of humour.

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Floating Support Befriender Secondly, we need volunteers to become Floating Support Befrienders. They will provide on-going support to clients who might be at risk of homelessness, providing advice and support in a number of different areas. They will support clients to engage in activities and services where they live and work with them to achieve their goals. Although based at our office in Worcester, the volunteer will spend most of their time at client’s homes across the county – your travel expenses are covered. This role needs at least three hours every week.

Administrator Our third volunteer role is for an administrator who will assist the Floating Support team by making calls, complete applications and forms, carrying out research and completing other tasks at our office in Worcester city centre. Ideally, the volunteer can offer at least half a day every week for this role, within normal office hours during the week. We need somebody with professionalism, IT and organisational skills and a good level of literacy and numeracy.

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maggs day centre Every year, Maggs Day Centre in Worcester offers help to hundreds of homeless people.

The charity has just celebrated 30 years of its work in the city and Mel Kirk the Service Manager tells us more. n a twelve month period last year, we helped 657 people. When people arrive we deal with the basics - if you haven’t washed for a few days you’ll feel much better after a shower.

We help with laundry and offer cheap meals breakfast for fifty pence and lunch for £1.50, or £1 if paid for in advance. As one person said to me, ‘this is a place where I feel normal, I’m not judged, I can sit down for a bit and catch up with the papers.’

If our service users want to make a change to their lives we draw up a support plan and either work with them to achieve their goals or refer them on to other services. Everything is based on individual need as ‘one size’ doesn’t fit all.

We operate across three sites in the city centre. We have a clothing project which accepts donations of clothes and small household items. We distribute these free of charge if people have been referred to us. We also offer starter packs to help when people are newly re-settled.

Recent celebrations for our 30th anniversary were amazing. The best part for me was the party we held – there was plenty of music and party food made by service users. One of our service users who is a phenomenal artist created a picture of Maggs for us. It was such a happy day.

Four years ago we opened our activities centre, where we teach life skills. Our cookery lessons are popular and we offer the chance to work towards achieving a basic hygiene certificate. There are music and art groups as well.

If you want to help us, we always need basic toiletries, coffee, men’s clothes (especially in smaller sizes), sleeping bags and carrier bags.

We also run an alternative giving scheme: instead of handing out money to people begging, pop in and buy some of our £1 vouchers, which can be exchanged for meals in our day centre.

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Many of them had a very negative experience in education and we help change that. One woman started a cookery session and said to me ‘I can’t cook’. ‘I bet you can’ I replied. At the end of the session I reminded her of what she’d achieved!

Dealing with the many issues around homelessness is a long journey for our service users and our volunteer befrienders play a vital role in helping them.

Our Day Centre on Deansway opened 30 years ago, and since then has helped thousands of people. We open at 8am five days a week and also invite vulnerable, socially isolated people to come along from 11am.

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By Tracy Reck, Personal Fitness Coach in Worcester When I used to work at the council, I never used to eat breakfast. To be honest, given that I get hungry every three hours or so now, it's somewhat unfathomable to me that this was ever the case but it's definitely true.

By about 10am I usually wanted to eat my own arm!

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y lunchtime, I could be found queuing up in the panini shop, in order to get my hungry little chops around a HUGE sandwich of the white-bread kind, filled with cheese and other calorie-and-fat-laden niceness.

Plus, a chocolate bar would somehow end up in my hand (how did that get there?!) And crisps. And whatever else took my fancy.

fast for 18 hours and the other not. They were then presented with a buffet, and their choices were studied by the researchers. This is what happened:

Do you skip meals ever? When you're busy? It would seem to make sense from a weight loss point of view, as it should mean eating fewer calories, but it doesn’t. Skipping meals never works as a calorie restriction technique. What actually happens is that, rather than saving yourself a bunch of calories, skipping meals virtually guarantees you'll eat a whole lot more.

• They ate more of those foods than the other foods on their plate.

Going hungry sends your cravings into space. You get cravings that render you capable of selling your own granny to satisfy them. Because of that, we lose the ability to choose our food intelligently and instead get hit by the Sugar Truck or one of its friends, the Fat Truck, the Carb Truck or the Salt Truck. Let's just call them the Nom Nom Trucks. Sometimes they'll come at you in convoy.

Whatever food gets you into "nom nom nom, can't stop" mode, that's where we'll find you - right at the bottom of a bucket of whatever food that is.

Because not only do your cravings end up soaring into orbit, your ability to stop before you're horribly over-full gets obliterated.

In a study I read a while back, a group of people was split in two, with one group being asked to

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• The fasting group took more food.

• The foods they chose were higher in calories.

• They chose to eat those high calorie foods first.

Here’s why. Cortisol and Grehlin are both released when we skip meals. These are two hormones that generate hunger and cravings (particularly cravings for salty, sweet, starchy, fatty foods).

A drop in blood sugar (caused by leaving it too long between meals) leads to reward seeking behaviour and an impaired ability to control impulses. Put together, this all means that you'll want to EAT ALL THE FOOD! Don't let this be you. It was me for years and I can vouch for the fact that I did indeed eat all the food.

Not fun. Not healthy. Please don’t skip meals!

Tracy Reck is a fitness and nutrition writer, coach and speaker.

You can read more from her at www.naturallyexuberant.co.uk

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Health

when you can't sleep

by Rita Davies, Healing Touch Insomia can affect us all. This month, Rita tells us how she copes when she can’t get to sleep.

If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to suffer from insomnia, you’ll know how annoying it can be. Well known remedies include warm milk, chamomile tea or taking a warm bath or shower.

If you’ve tried absolutely everything without success, why not try aromatherapy?

It’s best to always ask advice from a qualified Aroma Therapist or a pharmacist. Don’t put any essential oils directly on your skin and use a carrier oil, such as almond or grape seed. Also check there is no contra indication, for example if you are in your first trimester of pregnancy.

Blended oils can be purchased which can be added to a nice warm bath before bedtime.

An electric diffuser will oscillate essential oils and their aromas around your bedroom before bedtime, which can help you fall asleep.

Some of my preferred aromas include Lavender, which is known to promote deeper sleep.

Chamomile oil blends beautifully with Lavender and can make an excellent sleeping solution.

With a soothing and calming aroma, Marjoram is considered even more powerful than lavender and chamomile.

Do get in touch with me if you’d like to find out more.

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Recipe

Jerusalem Artichoke and Carrot soup Father Christmas brought me a new vegetable peeler!

Not one of those cumbersome implements that peels away most of the vegetable (and your fingertips too!), but a beautiful piece of engineering that glides over vegetables skimming the surface, cleverly weighted to take just the thinnest shavings and I love it!

This recipe calls for exactly this piece of equipment gliding over the knobbly roots with ease.

Ingredients

Method

1 onion 3 celery sticks 750g Jerusalem artichoke 750g carrot 3 litres stock (chicken or vegetable)

Knob of butter 1 tbsp olive oil salt and pepper

1. Top, tail and peel the vegetables. Leave the artichoke until last as once peeled they tend to discolour. Roughly chop into 1cm cubes.

2. Melt the butter and olive oil in a large saucepan and add the vegetables. Sautee the vegetables until they start to soften, but not colour.

3. Add the stock and bring the soup to a gentle simmer for 20-30 minutes until the vegetable are really soft.

4. Blend, add salt and pepper to taste and serve with crusty brown bread.

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events at the hive As well as films, performances and exhibitions, The Hive holds many regular classes and meetings for adults and young people. Here’s a selection of ideas for March and April you can enjoy.

Adults Job Club – A drop in session offering help with your job search, writing a CV and covering letter, using the internet, sending emails and preparing for interview. Every Wednesday from 2.30pm to 4pm.

Computer Basics – A free course covering first steps in working online. Course places bookable in advance, Mondays 2.30pm and Thursdays 10am.

Health Walks – from 30 minutes to an hour, all walks take place on the flat and tarmac paths. All ages and abilities are welcome, meeting every Wednesday, 10.30am in the Hive Entrance, no booking necessary.

Adult Reading Group – on the third Monday of each month between 5.30pm and 6.30pm. A friendly readers’ group, no booking required, just drop in. Coming up: 21st March – The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan.

18th April – We are Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler.

and 3pm, Wednesdays during school holidays at 11am and 2.45pm.

Code Club – Learning computer programming by creating games, animations and websites, for 9-11 year olds on Thursdays during term time.

Young People Chapter 5 Teen Book Club – Join in with lively discussions about a variety of books. Members also help display, buy and promote books, write reader reviews and recommend reads on Pinterest. On the second Thursday of each month from 7pm, for ages 13 to 17 years.

Act Smart – workshops for different age groups between 5 and 18 years old, mixing drama, learning and technology to create and showcase exciting work.

For details contact paul.sutton@candt.org

Babies, Toddlers and Younger Children Wacky Wednesdays – A fun and free interactive session for parents and children up to age 5, from 1.30pm until 3pm.

Baby Bounce and Rhyme – A half-hour session from 11am every Friday for ages 0-1 year.

There’s a separate Bounce and Rhyme session on Tuesdays from 10am for ages 1-4 years.

Chatterbooks – Book chats, literary games and the opportunity for 8-12 year olds to discover new books and authors. From 4.30pm on the second Monday of each month.

Rat-a-tat Tales – Interactive stories for children aged 6 and under, Saturday and Sunday 11am

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The Hive is open daily from 8.30am until 10pm, for information on the above, pop in between 9am and 5pm (Wednesdays from 9.30am) or call (01905) 822866. You can read more at www.thehiveworcester.org

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Music Feature

Local Talent

By Dave Webber

This month I want to tell you about a local performer who I think has got real talent. Paul J Rose has been on the local music scene for many years and has just started a new project.

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ne of his favourite places to perform is on the streets. While busking in public is a daunting experience for many musicians, Paul can often be found playing on local streets.

‘I love it’ he says, ‘bringing music to people who wouldn’t necessarily come to gigs. Families will walk past and their children will dance around.

Whether they are laughing or crying, it’s great to get a response!’

Paul travels around and busks from Droitwich to Leominster. ‘I tend to stick to smaller towns’ he says, ‘ and I get lots of acts of kindness from people. In Kidderminster a person walked past and smiled. They soon came back to give me a hot chocolate and said how much they enjoyed the music.’

It’s those moments of appreciation that make it worthwhile for Paul, and he thinks he’s improved as a musician as well. ‘It’s toughened me up, most people don’t notice I’m there or are not interested. I have to have confidence in my own songs and there is something of worth there.’

Paul is a prolific writer of music and always has something on the go – he’s even threatened to write a song about me! He started playing guitar in his early twenties, when he was a fan of heavy rock, but as his playing progressed he realised the folk music tradition suited his voice and his playing style much better.

Many of his songs tell stories which catch your attention. His song The Maestro Effect tells the story of a romance which is doomed by his choice of car. Paul’s songs take you on a journey, following the folk tradition but with a contemporary edge.

His first album, called ‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ was produced ten years ago and he was often seen playing guitar with The George Cowley Experience who performed a lot around

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Worcester at that time. Two more albums followed – The Gathering of Threads in 2009 and Ulterior Motives (2013) in which Paul added an electric guitar and drums.

He’s now writing more material for a new group, ‘The Paul Rose Dictatorship’. The title was suggested because Paul is one of the last people who would ever act like a dictator! Together with a couple more local musicians Goose Goldberg and Simon Hislam, their music has a blues-rock feel and it’ll be interesting to see how they go down with local audiences.

After years of performing as a solo artist, Paul is enjoying making music with others and hopefully this new venture will produce many more great songs and live performances.

Read more about the music and upcoming gigs, search for Paul J Rose Music on Facebook and on SoundCloud.

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Notice Board broadwas Croquet club Open Day Come and join us on Tuesday, 5th April between 10.30am and 4pm and try out this wonderful sport. Find the club on the A44 between Broadwas and Bromyard

Royal Engineers meeting Monthly Meeting of the Malvern & District Branch of The Royal Engineers Association on Tuesday, 1st march at 20.00 hours In The Royal British Legion Club, Bosbury Road (B4220), Cradley, WR13 5LT. All Sappers Welcome For further details ring

Any questions? Phone John Guy, Club Captain on 01905 748192 or Stuart Smith, Chairman on 01886 853311

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Concert by Pianist Martin Roscoe

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Pianist Martin Roscoe plays Mozart with The Orchestra of The Swan At Huntingdon Hall 2nd March, 7.30pm Part of a nine concert series fronted by international soloists between February and May 2016 Tickets: (01905) 611427

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Family Fun Time at St John’s Library 10am -12 noon, Saturday 12th March There will be surprises galore at this animal themed free event.

Children between the ages of 3 and 9 years will be able to make crafts featuring wild animals, funny bunnies and chicks.

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Mondays, 10am -12 noon at Cafe Mix, St Paul’s Street, Worcester Suitable for adults, £10 per session

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A new service offers an in depth home assessment from a fully trained member of staff.

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What’s On

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Saturday 5 March Explore Maps one of the Explore the Past Workshops at the Hive, 10am - 3pm, £15 See www.thehiveworcester.org Saturday 12 March Family Fun Time at St John’s Library – Animal Surprises: craft activities for children aged 3 and above from 10am until Noon Free entry Monday 14 March Alan Barnes and David Newton at Severn Jazz door open 7pm at The Portobello on Bromyard Road (WR2 4EZ), Entry £10 www.severnjazz.org.uk

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Thursday 17 March Bizet’s Carmen presented by Great Witley Operatic Society at The Swan Theatre, tickets £15, continues until Saturday Tickets (01905) 611427 www.gwos.net Saturday 19 March A 10 mile walk with Worcester Ramblers through some less well-known Cotswold villages.

For details see www.worcesterramblers.org.uk Sunday 20 March Violinist Roberto Ruisi and Jo Seeley on piano at Worcester Concert Club, 3pm at Huntingdon Hall See www.worcserenade.co.uk

Friday 1 April The Firebird a magical telling of the traditional Russian adventure by Multistory Theatre Company at The Hive, 2pm. Tickets £5, children £3, babes in arms free See www.thehiveworcester.org

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April Wednesday 6 April Emma Johnson plays Finzi with Orchestra of the Swan, 8pm at Huntingdon Hall, tickets £22.50/£19.50 Call (01905) 611427 Saturday 9 April Worcester Parkrun a FREE weekly 5km event for runners of all standards, which takes place every Saturday, 9am at The Countryside Centre.

See www.parkrun.org.uk/worcester for details and registration Saturday 23 April St George's Day in the Park 12 noon - 5pm in Gheluvelt Park, organised by the Friends of Gheluvelt Park Wednesday 27 April Wild, Wild Women a light-hearted look at the traditional Western, presented by Ombersley Dramatic Society at the Memorial Hall. Tickets are £10 or £9 concessions and available by calling 01905 620757.

Please note: not suitable for children, continues until Saturday Friday 29 April Open Mic Nights: If you’re 12-18 years old and want to share poetry, music, dance or anything else, come to the Hive on the last Friday of each month (6-8pm) book your act via WoLib@worcestershire.gov.uk

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Theatre News WILLIAM NICHOLSON’S

shadowlands THE LOVE STORY OF C.S. LEWIS AND JOY DAVIDMAN SHADOWLANDS, by William Nicholson, tells the love story of C.S. Lewis, Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, and American poet Joy Davidman.

What begins as a formal meeting of two very different minds slowly develops into a feeling of connection and love. Lewis finds his quiet life with his brother Warnie disrupted by the outspoken, feisty Davidman, whose uninhibited behaviour offers a sharp contrast to the rigid sensibilities of the male-dominated university. Each provides the other with new ways of viewing the world, but Lewis’s Christian faith is tested when Joy is diagnosed with cancer.

The cast of SHADOWLANDS will be led by Stephen Boxer (Humans, The Iron Lady, Doctors) as C.S. Lewis, Tony Slattery (Peter’s Friends, The Crying Game, Whose Line is it Anyway?) as Major W.H. Lewis 'Warnie' and Amanda Ryan (The Forsyte Saga, Shameless) as Joy Davidman.

SHADOWLANDS won the Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Play in 1990 and Nicholson was nominated for a Tony Award when it transferred to Broadway. The film version, which starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, won Best British Film at the 1994 BAFTAs and Nicholson was nominated for a Best Screenplay nomination.

Shadowlands can be seen at Malvern Theatres from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th April.

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Please answer the following question: In the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis, what is the name of the talking lion?

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