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23RD - JULY 29TH Platform Gallery; touring '


exhibition from Hove Museum' and Art Gallery entitled “Pre­ cious”.’ . Brabins Gallery, Chipping,


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FOLLOWING another sue- cessful story-


• telling festival, staff atSt Mary's School,- v’ Chipping, rewarded the children's hard v work with a surprise party. ; ; - chipping


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and Drag- . ans stories • the children ■'' had enacted. [ Audiences


. sang dragon ' songs with the Gornall family ; and enjoyed Lancashire' - poetry from Chipping's own poet Mick ; Neory.' The day


ended in true ;., Shakespearian style with the : children's de-; - lightful mod- .v ern version of: "A Midsum- mer Nights v: Dream". - , ,


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Rock, Proms at the Castle


: A BIG weekend of entertainment is com-


; ing up at Clitheroe Castle bandstand., . ■ ,1 .On Friday August 6 th, from. 7-30 p.m.';; it will host the now-annual rock'concert, ' featuring threp local Bands - Freebird, f


■ Stealer and .Twist and Shout. Admission is free but any donations on the night will


.benefit Help for Heroes, East Lancashire ; Hospice and the Mayor of Clitheroe’s ■ Welfare Fund. ■ • . following night, Saturday August :■


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7th, there will be a change of mood when the bandsatnd hosts the ever-popular.; “Last Night of the Proms” concert, again from 7-30 p.m. This year it features Slaid-


. burn Silver Band and again admission is • free. Prom-goers are invited to take along ' a picnic their Union Jacks to wave as they sing along to the Last night patriotic clas- ': sics.


: Both concerts have been organised by Clitheroe Town Council, which is now . just hoping for favourable weather!


exhibition of work by Joyce Mills. ' Braille It; meets in Clitheroe •


Library each Thursday at 9-30 a.m. to noon. Tel. 01200 426063. Ribbie Valley Visually Im­ paired Group meets every Monday evening in the Catholic Social Club'.Tcl. 01200 426822. Information from: the pen­ sions Service in RVBC of­ fices. Tel. ;01200:.414453. Pendle Club, Lowergatc, se-


I quence dancing for over-55s I each Tuesday at :7-30 p.m. Sawley Village Hail, Bow- land Guild ..dfSSpinners,- Weavers'and Dyers,’ meet first Saturday o f the month 10-30 a.m.: to, 4-30 p.m. Waddlers-carer and tod­ dler group meet Wadding- ton Methodist.Church; Fri­ days from 10 to' 11-30 a.m. The Grand,iCome Danc­ ing Wednesdays 10-15 to 11- 45 a.m. Yoga Mondayand Thursdays 2-30 p.m; Street-


What's on in the


Ribbie Valley Compiled by Marcia Morris ' ;":


A l l entries for inclusion in these columns should be on a listings form, available from :


. Mam Reception, Wbble Valley Borough Council, Church Walk, Clithcroe, (01200 •' 4-5 1 I I ) and handed in by the 10th ofthe month prior to the event.


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feet, Thursdays 4-30 p.m St Mary’s Centre, lower hall;,


, Mondays, Toddler group, badminton. Tuesdays, Jujitsu,


Thursdays, yoga, Latin Ameri­ can dancing, Fridays Tai Chi. • Clitheroe United Reformed - Church, 20-minutc reflective:


services at 12-30 p.m. each Tuesday. 23rd - The Grand, York


Street, presents “Ralpack”. To • book tel. 01200 421599.


. 24th - Clitheroe Ramblers meet Chester Avenue car park at 8-30 a.m. Train from Giggleswick to Clapham. Ben Brown 01254 822851. 24th - Clitheroe Natural­


ists’ Society coach walk at Ei- droth. Leader Frank.Mason. Meet Clitheroe Interchange at 9-30 p.m. To book tel. 01200 428117.


24th - Knowle Green Church, Biker’s breakfast and


brew. Special event to mark 2012 Olympics sponsored by RVBC. Tel. Chris Okpoti on 01254878394.- 24th -tj Edisford Primary


School, Clitheroe Area WI Handicraft and Produce Show. Demonstration, refreshments children’s classes. Presentation of trophies at 2 p.m. New this year home produce stall. Tel. 01200446620. 24th to 25th - Bishop’s


House and Greenacre, 157 : Ribchester Road, Clayton-le- Dale. National Garden Scheme open day 1-5 p.m. Proceeds to charities. Refreshments avail­ able. Tel. 01254 249694. ■ 24th to 25th - Downham


Hall opens its gardens to the public in aid of Downham Vil­ lage Hall and Crossroads Care Ribbie Valley. There will be music from Clitheroe Town Band (Saturday) and Barnolds­


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: .'THIS weekend Lord and Lady Clitheroe are opening the gardens of their beautiful and historical home Downham Hall for the public to enjoy


- On Saturday afteroon Glitheroe Town Band will play while visitors enjoy browing round the garden and purchasing goods from the various stalls. On Sunday afternoon Barnoldswick Brass Band will play while visitors admire the magnificent views of Pendle Hill. Proceeds from the weekend will go towards Downham Village Hall and Crossroads Care. On TTiursday a talented, young musician from Stonyhurst College will


; being give a piano recital at the luncheon concert in Knowle Green Vii- lage Hall. Sixteen-ycar-old Maiy Ann Wootton will play music by Haydn, Prokofiev and Chopin.


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wick Brass Band (Sunday) and various stalls including a 'WI


■ cake stall, plants, books, crafts, tombola, raffles and delicious teas, as well as activities for children. 25th - Clitheroe Castle


Bandstand, concert featuring Clitheroe Town Band from 2- 30to4-30p.m;


. 25th - St Mary’s Centre,


Lower Hall, martial arts semi­ nar.from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Training with Lao Tzu James McNeil. Tel. Chris Holden 07970598851. 26th - The Sanctuary of


Healing, Langho. Ribbie Val­ ley Meditation Group. Leo So­ lar Festival. Tel. Sheila Fish on


: 07975783273 or 01254 825976 or e-mail sheilafish6(®aol.com 27th - Clitheroe Ramblers,


meet Chester Avenue car park at 1 p.m. for Gisburn.’Penny Pitty 01200 427395.


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: biers, meet Chester Av- • enue car park at 9-30


. STORYTELLING FESTIVAL: Children taking part in the storytell- . ing festival at St Mary’s School Chipping.


How wrong I was! REVIEW: “The Importance of


■ Being Earnest”, at the Library Theatre, Manchester.


; Box office: 0161 2367110; Web-: . site: www.librarytheatre.com


. I HAD thought the last Press -Night at Manchester’s iconic Li-, .brary Theatre, in the basement


:.of the Central Library might be . a sad occasion. ■ How wrong I was! Chris Hon-' ’er. Artistic Director for over 20


: snap o f the name of her arch-


, enemy. Prism. The best line . of the evening, unexpectedly,


.: was the comment to Jack Wor; thing, who confessed to being a liberal that “they count as J.That brought gales


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of laughter.’ : Mr Dixon is supported by


:; an excellent cast. There isn’t _


■ a weak link. Alex Felton is an effete, attractive Aigy. Simon Harrison a perplexed, diffi-


■ years,'has directed many fasci- ■ nating productions. His finale here is a triumphant production


; of Wilde’s incomparable jewel o f . ; a comedy, .“Tile Importance of ■ Being Earnest”. . I loved everything and so did the rest of the audience judging; by their cheers. First and fore- • most is the brilliant performance: in the part of Lady Bracknell by.


-Russell Db(on. He plays her to ■ perfection; avoiding the hammy ■ - stressing of -- “a Hand-


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.ftempfiiousf;! str es s on: t h e .' name ■


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•v.deht Jack Worthing. Natalie Grady as Gwendolen and Florence Hall as Cecily are both elegant, youthful and ut-


■ terly charming. • Olwen May as Miss Prism


. and Malcolm James as Can­ non Chasuble bring these two,-


,: often overlooked, characters .into the comic foreground with skilful, physically subtle


performances. Leigh Symonds ' gives two clever cameos as the


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. .servants Lane and Merriman. ■ Last but not least, Ju'dith^ : Croft’s design is superb. Her ■


’.use of the screen is clever and"


: impressive.-1 wax lyrical! This' is a production’hot:td:miss.'-


:But the Library Theatre is not


;f. disappearing.- Oh' Septem- .: .ber,23rd their production of


Stoppard’s, memorable'two S time periods classic “Arcadia”: :. ;■ / opens at the Lowry,


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■ REVIEW: “The Memory:';


Drama for| three sisters


..of Water”, at the Coliseum ; Theatre, Oldham. ' - ' Box office: 0162 624 2829. ' Website: www.coliseum.: org.uk


I HAVE always liked thei; work of dramatist Shelagh ' Stephenson, since I saw her play “An Experiment with an Air Pump” at the royal , Exchange in 1997. - Now I find that “T h e '


Memory of Water” was her first play for the stage. I .\ have seen it performed be- fore, I think at the Library


Theatre, and I enjoyed it- then.


• Kevin Shaw’s production. at the Coliseum Theatre


in Oldham is well worth - seeing. It is provocative, poignant and very funny.'--


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The drama centres on three sisters, who have come back - to their childhood home for v the funeral of their mother.:


. . Teresa (Eve Pope) is the ■ . oldest, the dependable one, > jealous of her sister Mary..' 3od irritated by her young­ est sister Catherine.:Mary - (Maeve Larkin) is the bright; one, the one who has had all the advantages, trained ' to be a doctor and moved Catherine (Catherine -.


Kinsella) is needy, unsuc­ cessful in relationships, an­ gry because she feel no-one listens to her. j ■ Toge the r} th e. sisters


laugh and cry'-about their: relationship:with- their motherj (Emma Gregory) who appears to Mary from time Jo time. .The play fo­ cuses on their memories


. and explores just how true or flawed these memories might be. In the time they are together family secrets are revealed and each of the sisters change in some way. :: .Mary’s lover (Paul Barn- hill)ris,married .to some-


- one else. Catherine’s lover ditches her, but Tim Tres- love gives a clever comic’ performance as Frank; Ter- ^ esa’s husband, a true sup- ^


I port. But most important of ^ all, the dialogue is so funny. ^


;This is not a dispiriting play ^ about death, but an uplift- ^ ing play about love in all its W forms.


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; iTlie Coliseum’s next pro­ duction is an adaptation of’ Williani Woodruffs cele-,: a brated memoir of his child- - ™ hood in'Blackburn,:“The ^ Road to Nab End”. •


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I This is a trip down U2's memory lane. It will


:S .have you singing, j . ;;dancing & screaming; Tor more, as you' relive


!}vall those fantastic:" jic-moments in the 1,history of the wdtid's ® greatest rock band.;: -


.: a.m. Slaidburn to New- : ton. Ian Thornton Bryar 01200444829. 31st - Knowle Green


. \ Church, bikers’ breakfast ; ■ and brew. All bikers wel- ' come. Tel. Chris Okpoti on 01254 878394.


' ■31st - Brunge r -


:-,-iey_ Park, sculptures ■ - and f low e r s walk, meet at entrance. Tel. 07841996722. 31st - Council Cham-


■ ibers,: Church Street, coffee morning in aid of Cancer Research for Children in the North


:: ;of England. Tel. 01282 T. 770248 or 07860155922. :31st and August 1st - Open garden at Varley


: :Farm, Anna Lane, For- ■ est Becks, Bolton-by- i Bowland, 1 to 5 p.m. Na­


tional. Gardens Scheme in aid of charities.


AUGUST 1st-Open garden at


Waddow Lodge Garden, Waddington, from 1 to 5 p.m. In aid of “Peren­ nial” Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society. "1st - Stepping Out,


meet Whalley bus sta­ tion at 2 p.m. Tel. 01200 414484. • .


, 2nd - Stepping Out,


meet Sawley, roadside parking opposite Spread E a g le . Te l. 01200 414484. 3rd - Trinity Meth­


odist Church, Holiday Club, Rocky’s Plaice, for children age 4-11 years. Craft music, drama and fun. Tel. Mrs Britcliffe on 01200.424328. . 3rd - Stepping Out, meet Longridge Civic


Hall, Calder Avenue. Tel. 01200 414484.; 3rd - Clitheroc Ram­


blers, meet Chester Av­ enue car park at 10 a.m. For Cliviger. Nan Err- ington 01254 814990. 4th - Clitheroe Ram­


blers,-meet Pendleton Village Hall car park at 6-45 p.m. Valerie Groo- by 01200 428766.


; 4th-TheGrand, fam­ ily film matinee “Percy Jackson and the Light­ ning Thie f ’ (PG). Tel; 01200421599.


' 4th - Bowland Tran­


sit Walk, Middle Lees to Hurst Green over Longridge Fell. Meet Interchange for 11-25 a.m. BIO bus. Tel. 01200. 443561. 5th - Stepping Out;


meet West Bradford; Village Hall. Tel. 01200 414484.


5th - Stepping Out,


meet Chipping car park. Club Lane, at 1-30 p.m. Tel. 01200 414484. 5th - Clitheroe Moun­


taineering Club, meet at Clitheroe Cricket Club car park. Tel. Hum­ phrey Johnson on 01200 422300. 5th - Longridge


Sports Centre car park, outdoor adventure day. Opportunity to use The Grand’s mobile skatepark, a mobile climbing wall and go- ride’s cycling activities. :5th - Knowle Green


Village Hall, luncheon concert featuring The Eric Ainsworth Gentle JazzTrio. Concert starts at midday followed by lunch. To book tel. 01254 826948.


, Musical tale of royal rift


sented by Opera North at the. Lowry.


REVIEW: “Mary Stuart”, pre­ ’ , •


Website: www.operanorth. co.uk


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DONIZETTI and his libret­ tist Guiseppe Bardari clearly:: let nothing like a few historical facts get in the way of their in­ terpretation of Schiller’s play : “Maiy Stuart”. Forget all the details of eco-': nomic, religious and political;


difficulties that caused .the enmity between Mary, Queen'


of Scots; and her kinswoman, Elizabeth I. Just boil it all down to a hissy fit of jealousy


; between two women over a shilly-shallying Earl of Leices-


.. ter. ■ But then this is opera! We


: need lots o f powerful du­ ets, quartets, sextets and re-


: ally thrilling choruses. We got those. Donizetti’s music is lyri­ cal and moving. Sarah Connel­ ly sings the role of Mary with


■ passion. David Kempster is a powerful Cecil and Frederic Boureau is an excellent Tal­


bot, the sympathetic arbitrator between Elizabeth and Mary and Mary’s support to the very end. Antonia Cifrone is a quix-.


otic and believable Elizabeth but, sadly, on the night I at­ tended, she was unable to sing , her scene in the last act, a great loss. Bulent Bezduz is the Earl of Leicester, good in many of the duets, but perhaps over­ whelmed in some of the louder : ensemble pieces. I was pleased to see this pro-; duction. The staging, described ;


by some as provided by IKEA, acmally works well. Maty took a long time to die but then, that is opera; I confess my en­


joyment of the fantastic music and singing was marred by my sneaky irritation with the historical inaccuracies. Blame it on the fact that I was born Scottish! • . Opera North return to The Lowry in November with .“Tire Adventures o f Pinocchio” and: “The Merry Widow”. PIPPAMUNRO • HEBDEN


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Tribute to the music of Fats Waller. - - _ _


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• 28th - Clitheroe Ramblers, meet Rimington Bridge at


:;7 p.m. Peter Goodill 01200 446671.


- 28th-Bowland Transit Walk, Four Lane Ends to Barley via Mountain Farm. Meet Inter­ change for 11-35 a.m. P70 bus. Tel. 01200 443561. •


29th-Knowle Green Village


Hall, luncheon concert featur­ ing Mary Ann Wootton, a 16- year-old student at Stonyhurst College, on piano. Concert starts at noon followed by lunch. To book tel. 01254826948.


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