Programme of Life Issues Sessions in 2023

Godalming Baptist Church

15 Queens Street, Godalming GU7 1BA

Welcome back!

Topics covered:

Becoming a Grandmother in Your Community (21/1/23) Self-Harm (25/2/23)

Meeting Disaster Head On with Hope (25/3/23)

Having Wise Conversations when Church and Culture Clash (22/4/23)

Managing Anger and Conflict (24/6/23)

Anxiety, Fear and Panic - It All Makes Perfect Sense (23/9/23)

Plus an Ecumenical Women’s Away Day at Ladywell Convent (13/5/23)

To book for any of these events please contact: Sally - 01483 428646 or e-mail pollard3@hotmail.co.uk toasmanypeopleaspossible

A FREE service for people with NHS hearing aids includes: Basic Maintenance, Battery Supply, Cleaning & Re-Tubing, Trouble-Shooting and Advice

Sessions will be held at The Link (St Bartholomew’s Church) on:

10:00am – 11.30am, every 2nd and 4th Thursday

Our NHS volunteers are trained by the audiology department of the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Visiting the Hear Here clinic may save travelling long distances or the difficulties of access to the hospital.

The Hear Here scheme was launched in March 2013 as a partnership between Guildford Diocese and the NHS. There are now over 200 people trained in hearing aid maintenance. Hear Here was successful in winning the Faith Action & Health Award in 2018 for continuing to provide support for those with hearing loss across Surrey and North-East Hampshire.

Enquiries to:

Hearingchampion@halsemereparish.org

QUIZ ANSWERS:

1. 1957. 2. San Serriffe, made of two islands Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. 3. They don’t move in groups. 4. The worst of cinematic failures. 5. An anticlimax. 6. Kazakhstan. 7. Fyodor Dostoevsky. 8. Charles M. Schulz. 9. Queen Victoria. 10. Henry Fonda. 11. The feet, containing 52 bones out of a total of 206. 12. William Shakespeare. 13. Optical illusion artist. 14. Passover. 15. Sir Jony Ive KBE. 16. Rose for England, Thistle for Scotland, Daffodil for Wales, Shamrock for Ireland. 17. The Desert Fox (Johannes Rommel). 18. A bottle.

Haslemere

Festival, 17th to 31st May 2021

Festival Box Office 01428 642161

Haslemere Hall, Bridge Road, Haslemere GU27 2AS

On-line bookings www.haslemerehall.co.uk email: boxoffice@haslemerehall.com

Open weekdays 9 am to 1 pm

Friends of the Festival get a 10% discount if they enter their promotional code

Concerts And Events In Our Churches

Saturday 13th May, Doors 7.30 pm. Fiona Bevan + Adam Beattie - Double Headliner

Adam and Fiona embark on a double headline tour of the UK this spring summer. The two artists complement each other beautifully and will feature some duets and collaborations as part of their live show. St Christopher’s Church. £15

Sunday 14th May, 7pm Haslemere Town Band Concert

The Town Band is the oldest recorded society in the town and probably the oldest brass ensemble in Surrey. This year’s Festival programme is devised and introduced by the band’s Musical Director David Wright. St Christopher’s Church £10

Wednesday 17th May, 7.30pm HHH Concerts presents Saxophonist Jonathan Radford and Pianist Ashley Fripp

“Warmth, character and joy abound.” – Michael Beek, BBC Music Magazine.

Programme:

JS Bach, Eugene Bozza, Paule Maurice, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodney

Bennett, Chopin, Raymond Yiu, Reynaldo Hahn, Alexander Rosenblatt St Christopher’s Church, £20

Thursday 18th May, 7.30pm The Giants of Jazz Piano

Geoff Eales’ personal take on the great jazz pianists and compositions which illustrates the huge variety and depth of the great piano jazz pantheon. St Christopher’s Church, 7.30 £15

Friday 19th May, 7.30 pm. London Mozart Players with Danushka Edirisinghe Danushka, cellist, has just won the Haslemere International Youth String Competition 2023. One of his prizes is the chance to play at Haslemere Festival with the London Mozart Players. St Bartholomew’s Church £30 and £25 (partially unsighted)

Saturday 20th May, 3pm Bell Ringing - Come and Have a Go!

Cost £2, £1 for children (pay on the day) to cover the costs of the cake; the bellringing, as always, is free. At St Bartholomew s Church.

Saturday 20 May at 7.30 pm Ben Goldscheider, horn with pianist Richard Uttley

Nominated by the Barbican as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2021/22 season, Ben Goldscheider has given recitals at major concert halls across Europe. He made his BBC Proms concerto debut in 2022.

Programme:

Widmann, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Simpson, Kirchner, Bowen

At St Christopher’s Church, £20

Tuesday 23rd May, 7.30pm The Harlequin Choir perform Vieni à Volare!

This exciting programme features the unusual but complementary union of choir and horn based around a general theme of growing up and learning to fly! Audiences are in for a treat with this short but thrilling programme. At St Christopher’s Church, £15

Thursday 25th May at 7.30 pm, Janice Watson, soprano accompanied by Clive Osgood

World-renowned soprano Janice Watson studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and rose to prominence as the winner of the 1987 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award. The pianist, Clive Osgood is Director of Music at St Bartholomew’s Church.

Les Nuits D’Ete Berlioz, British art song, Songs from the Shows, Three arias to mark the 100th anniversary of Puccini’s death

At St Bartholomew’s Church, £20

Saturday 27th May, 7.30 pm. Haslemere Fringe presents an Acoustic Evening, St Christopher’s Church, £10

Sunday 28th May, 6 pm. Festival Evensong

Choral Evensong at St Bartholomew’s Church, prayer book version. Anthem specially composed by Clive Osgood, Director of Music, for the occasion. Free entry with retiring collection. All very welcome.

Other Evening Events

Saturday 13th May, 7.30 pm. Music celebrating Haslemere Musical Society's 100 years: Anna Hunt, will be soloist in the Schumann cello concerto, a cornerstone of the cello repertoire. The programme also includes Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, extracts from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, plus chorus master Clive Osgood’s composition Songs from Three Counties. Haslemere Hall, tickets £17.50, £15, £8.

Monday 2nd May, 7.30pm, Gertrude Lawrence: A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening: This show with music tells the story of Gertrude Lawrence: funny, revealing and full of songs from London’s variety theatre and hits written for Gertie by Noel Coward, Gershwin, Kurt Weill and Rodgers & Hammerstein. At Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hall, Tickets £10

Friday 26th at 7.30 pm, A Blast through the Ages – 100 years of the Big Band: We will take you through the last 100 years of Big Band music with our 18-piece ‘Rhythm and Groove Big Band’, featuring our fabulous singer, Katie Crooks. At Haslemere Hall, tickets £20 and £17.50

Friday 26th May, 7.30 pm. Grayshott Folk Club welcomes back John Blek: John Blek is a gentle giant from Cork, Ireland. With his timeless emotive voice (he has a voice similar to that of Roy Orbison) and layered finger-style guitar playing, you will be transported from scene to scene as his expansive songbook unfolds. St. Alban's Church, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6RB. Tickets £15 from Des O’Byrne on 01428 607096

Saturday, 27th May, 4pm and 7.30pm Cox & Box plus Flanders & Swann Comic Songs: Cox & Box is a Comic Opera by Arthur Sullivan which is presented by Imagine That Productions. The Flanders and Swann songs are presented by Philip O’Brien, Daniel Wigmore and James Woodley. At Kilmorey Hall, The Royal Senior School, tickets £15 (U16s £10)

Monday 29th May, 7.30pm An Evening of Cabaret with Mates & Godfree: Michael Mates and William Godfree will be giving their evening of cabaret with songs (some risqué) by Noël Coward, Tom Lehrer, Stilgoe & Skellern, Victoria Wood, Jake Thackray and others. At the Royal Senior School. Tickets £20 include a glass of Fizz

Festival Talks

(all at the Museum with a Zoom option unless stated otherwise)

Monday May 15th at 11 am. Anniversary Talk: Who Wrote Shakespeare? With Lynne Taylor-Gooby. Haslemere Museum, £5

Monday 15th May at 2.30 pm. Talk: The James Webb Space Telescope and deep space, deep time astronomy with John Pearce. Haslemere Museum, £5

Tuesday 16th May, 11 am. Talk: Artists of the Haslemere Area 1859-1914 - a Golden Era with Sarah Bain. Haslemere Museum, £5

Tuesday 16th May, 2.30 pm. Talk: Love and Marriage in the Late Middle Ages with Jane Clayton. Haslemere Museum, £5

Tuesday 16th May, 7.30pm. Finding Hope amidst Hostility. Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hall, Derby Road. Tickets £5 (with half the revenue going to Jesuit Refugee Service)

Wednesday 17th May, 11 am. Talk: Rustic Renaissance - the birth of Peasant Art at Foundry Meadow with Jo Buckrell. Haslemere Museum £5

Wednesday 17th May, 2.30 pm. Britain’s Canal Heritage with Roger Butler. Haslemere Museum, £5

Thursday 18th May, 11 am. Talk: Viscount Montgomery of Alamein of Hindhead with Chris Harrison. Haslemere Museum, £5

Thursday 18 May, 2.30pm. Talk: Petworth - a Ducal Mansion in Sussex with Ian Yonge. Haslemere Museum, £5

Friday 19th May, 11am. Talk: The Challenge of being the Chancellor with The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt, MP. For security reasons we are unable to confirm the location of his talk until nearer the time. But if you book a ticket, we will let you know 24 hours in advance. £5

Friday 19th May, 2.30pm. Anniversary Talk: 100 years of Haslemere Hospital. Haslemere Museum £5.

Monday 22nd May, 11 am. Anniverary Talk: Finding Puccini with Richard Wigram. Haslemere Museum, £5

Monday 22nd May, 2.30 pm. Talk: Once Around the Planet - Dr Doug Richards Doug decided to go for a one-mile run. Now, some 40 years later, he has run a total mileage exceeding the total length of the equator (24,902 miles). Haslemere Museum, £5

Tuesday 23rd May, 11 am. Anniversary Talk: Crazy for Tulips with Rt Revd Dr Christopher Herbert This talk explores the 17th century Tulip Craze. Haslemere Museum, £5

Tuesday 23rd May at 2.30 pm. Talk: The Nightmare of Running an Opera Company with Wasfi Kani. Grange Park Opera was founded in 1998 by Wasfi Kani, CBE. Haslemere Museum, £5

Wednesday 24th May, 11 am. 3D Printer for Home use with Hamish Donaldson. Haslemere Museum, £5

Wednesday 24th May, 2.30 pm. Talk: Clandon Park - a great house laid bare, with Mike Swaddling A tragic fire reduced Clandon Park to a burnt-out shell in April 2015. It now has a unique future. Haslemere Museum, £5

Thursday 25th May, 11 am. Talk: Marvellous Light42 Cathedrals with David Greenwood. David visited all 42 Anglican Cathedrals during the course of last year and looks forward to sharing his experiences. Haslemere Museum, £5

Thursday 25th May, 2.30 pm. Anniversary Talk: The Real Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang -

Count Louis Zborowski and Motor Racing in the Early Twentieth Century with Jock Gardner. Haslemere Museum, £5

Friday 26th May, 11 am. Talk: General Lord Rawlinson (1864-1925) 'The Dorset soldier who won the first world war’ with Rodney Atwood. Haslemere Museum, £5

Friday 26th May, 2.30 pm. Talk: Wine Production in Haslemere - who knew? With Lucinda Colucci. Haslemere Museum, £5

Weekend And Family Events

Saturday, May 20th at 1.30pm. RSPCA & Haslemere Cub Scouts Fun Dog Show. On Lion Green; entrance £4 per class or £10 for three classes. Pay on the day.

Sunday 21st May, Little Lumpy Cycle Sportive. What goes up must come down! Full details through the website www.littlelumpy.co.uk.

Sunday 21st May, 2.30pm Historic Haslemere Town Walk led by Tim Winter. The walk lasts 90 to 120 minutes and is restricted to a maximum of 25. £5

Sunday 28th May, Classic Car Show, 12 noon to 5pm

The Haslemere Classic Car show has become a popular feature of the local 'season'. Alongside the cars there is much to appeal to the whole family, quality stalls, vintage fun, kids entertainment, food, bar, jazz, in fact you don't even need to like cars to enjoy the day! Visit www.jamesewing.co.uk/hccs for all details of the day.

Monday 29th May, 11 am and 2.30 pm. The Bower Bird and The Gruffalo with Julia Donaldson.

The UK's best-selling author acts out her stories and sings her songs with her guitar-playing husband Malcolm. The show features Julia's latest book The Bower Bird, as well as older favourites such as The Highway Rat, The Smeds and the Smoos and of course The Gruffalo. The Haslemere Bookshop will have a selection of Julia’s books for sale at the venue, and Julia is happy to sign these after the show, accompanied by the Gruffalo. Haslemere Hall, tickets

£7.50

Petworth House

Petworth House and Park Church Street

Petworth GU28 0AE

Chatty Café at Petworth House

If you’re fed up of being on your own or fancy having a chat, come along to our Petworth House Chatty Café and sit at one of our ‘chatter & natter’ tables, to meet local people, including some of our lovely volunteers. Stay for 5 minutes or longer.

The Chatty Café will be on Wednesdays in April and May from 10.30-12.00 and 14.00-15.30 in the Audit Room Café. No admission ticket needed.