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Bereavement Café
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Message the Facebook page for a call back Meets the last Thursday of every month
Orpington Village Hall, 311 High St, Orpington BR6 0NN Cost: Free Contact: www.facebook.com/bereavementcafe
If you're struggling with the loss of a loved one, contact The Bereavement Cafe to talk with qualified bereavement counsellors. All are welcome.
Forget-Me-Not Survivors Of Suicide Loss
Meets the first Thursday of every month 7.45pm - 9.45pm
Cost: Free Contact: Sandra - 07519 105354 Email: sosl.orpington@gmail.com www.survivorsofsuicideloss.org.uk Twitter: @ForgetMeNotSoSl
Forget-Me-Not offers support for all those affected by suicide loss. The group is self-led and informal, where you can connect with other survivors.
U3A Orpington
Third Monday of the month at 2pm
Crofton Main Hall Cost: £12 a year Contact: chair@u3aorpington.org.uk or 01689 859045
If retired/working part-time, why not join nearly 1,000 other members for access to over 95 different activities. Refreshments also provided.
Petts Wood May Fayre
Monday 2nd May, 11.15am
The May Fayre parade will start at 11.15am from the car park at the top of Queensway for the crowning by the Mayor at 12 noon on the stage in Bluston Parade. The event will also showcase fairground rides, entertainment and stalls in the Memorial Hall gardens.
HISTORY
Open day: Keston Roman Tombs
Sunday 22nd May, 11am - 4pm
Brambletye, Westerham Road, Keston This is a free event and no booking is needed. Pedestrian access only with parking at Keston Ponds/ Heathfield Road Contact: 01689 860939. Email: crofton.roman.villa@gmail.com
HEALTH, FITNESS & MINDSET
Flin's Online & Live Fitness Classes
See website for class dates & times
Cost: PAYG £5 - £8
Contact Fran: 07976 412027 www.flinsfitness.co.uk
Online streaming plus live offerings - 40+ classes a week, early mornings, mid mornings and evenings, 16 Life in... Orpington May 2022
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including weekend classes. Outdoor Boot Camp, Circuits, Strength, Cardio, Pilates, Zumba, Yoga, Total Body Lite, Box Fit and more: fitness for all! Mornings at Westcombe Park RFC, evenings at Tubbenden School.
Mel Crisp Yoga
Monday at 11.15am and Wednesday at 9.45am
(for 1 hour) Orpington Village Hall
Hatha Yoga classes mixed ability and beginners welcome.
Tuesday evening 6.50pm
Christ Church URC, Petts Wood.
Vinyasa Flow Class mixed ability and beginners welcome.
Cost: PAYG £12, Block Payment Classes £60 for 6 consecutive classes. First PAYG class is half price. Contact: Mel on 07504 855 424. Email melcrisp41@icloud.com www.melcrispyoga.com
libraries
Orpington
Contact: 01689 831551 Email: Orpington.library@gll.org www.bromley.gov.uk/orpingtonlibrary Open Monday & Thursday 9.30am - 7pm, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, Saturday 9.30am - 5pm, Sunday closed
Petts Wood
Contact: 01689 821607 Email: Pettswood.library@gll.org www.bromley.gov.uk/pettswoodlibrary Open Monday, Tuesday & Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, Thursday 9.30am - 7pm, Saturday 9.30am - 5pm, Wednesday & Sunday closed Adult activities: Plant swap
Tuesday 17th May, 2.15-3.15pm
Drop in and meet fellow gardeners, exchange tips, and if you have a surplus of seedlings or plants, give them a good home.
Platinum Jubilee Tea Party
Thursday 26th May, 2-3.30pm
Drop in for some afternoon tea to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Platinum Jubilee Tea Time Talk
Friday 27th May
2.15-3.15pm
Join us for a Kings & Queens quiz and view 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II in pictures
Booking essential Tel: 01689 821607 New Reading Group for Adults
Contact: 020 8467 0355 www.better.org.uk/library/london/bromley/ southborough-library Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 9.30am - 1pm & 2pm - 5.30pm, Saturday 9.30am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm, Monday, Thursday & Sunday closed.
Please check websites for the latest library updates and opening times.
Music/Entertainment
Orpington Keyboard Club Concert
Tuesday 31st May, 2.30pm-5pm
Crofton Halls, York Rise, Orpington, BR6 8PR and every last Tuesday of the month Cost: Entrance fee payable at the door:- Members: £8. Visitors: £10 Contact: Chairman John Parker, 07973 622905 or Secretary, 01689 837044 and Facebook page ‘Orpington Keyboard Club’, email johnparker2a@gmail. com or see www.OrganFax.co.uk/clubs/orpington Contact: 07775 736116 www.myfarmersmarket.co.uk
The Concert will be by the very popular Chris Powell, playing his amazing electronic orchestra, in celebration of her Majesty the Queen’s, Platinum Jubilee. There is free parking, disabled facilities, air-conditioning & a cash bar. The OKC uses a broadcast quality video camera with a large projection screen, in its presentation.
Jazz Evening
Thursday 7th May, 8pm
The Daylight Inn, Station Square, Petts Wood, BR5 1LZ Cost: £5 – (Supporting Bromley Foodbank) See www.TheDaylightInn.co.uk and www.GreenChainQuartet.com
Green Chain Quartet featuring Jimmy Beckley - Ghanaian saxophone legend.
Film, theatre & Performances
Bromley Little Theatre
Bookings: www.bromleylittletheatre.org Shakespeare In Love
6th - 14th May, 7.45pm
Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola de Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will to write ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the greatest love story of all time. Based on Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s Oscarwinning screenplay and adapted by the award-winning playwright Lee Hall (The Pitmen Painters, Billy Elliot).
Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Contact: tickets@churchilltheatre.co.uk
Animal Farm
Cost: From £20
The animals of Manor Farm drive out the farmer and run the farm themselves. A revolution. And then what? Then freedom. Every animal will be free. George Orwell’s world-famous fable tells the story of a revolution and its aftermath. Re-imagined by an award-winning creative team, featuring remarkable puppetry, Animal Farm is a dynamic, daring and contemporary take on a timeless story.
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Wednesday 4th May – Saturday 7th May
Cost: £16
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger! Join the tea-guzzling tiger in the delightful family show The Tiger Who Came To Tea; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos. This will be the perfect day out for the family!
Rock Around With Buddy Holly
Sunday 1st May
Cost: £29.50
The timeless music of Buddy Holly is lovingly re-imagined by The Buddy Symphonic Orchestra, enveloping the enigmatic Spencer Jordan as Buddy along with his band, The Copycat Crickets. Legendary ballads and Rock and Roll hits including Raining In My Heart, It Doesn’t Matter, Anymore, True Love Ways, Peggy Sue, That’ll Be the Day.
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