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Chippy’s Calendar Girls

January saw the hit film Calendar Girls sell out at the Theatre – with many groups from the local WIs enjoying a fun evening out. The News snapped their own ‘February Girls’ at the theatre – an enthusiastic group from the Chipping Norton WI, with President Prudence Chard ‘in the chair’ as usual.

Groovy movies baby!

Stuck in the house with your baby? Want to see a movie and have some fun? Then Cinema Bambino is for you. The Theatre Chipping Norton has launched a brand new film club exclusively for parents or carers with babies aged 18 months and under – so you can enjoy the latest movies without worrying about their gurgles or crying disturbing the audience. The films are shown at 10.30 in the morning with free tea or coffee, baby changing facilities, baby feeding anywhere in the Theatre and parking for buggies!! Around 20 babies (and their grown-ups) turned up in January for Calendar Girls and all had great fun. Next sessions are 20 February (Standing in the Shadows of Motown with great baby dance music) and 25 March (Romance with George swooney Clooney in Intolerable Cruelty). If you want to come then sign up as a member instantly (£5 for the whole year and film tickets £3 + 50p for the bambino!) by calling 01608 642349.

Churches together

Churches Together in Chipping Norton recently celebrated 40 years of working together to share Christian good news. Our photograph shows a representative of each of the five churches in the town, together with the town mayor, cutting the celebratory cake at the ‘Saints’ Praise’ event held in the Town Hall on 1 November. Peter Williams

 

Oh What a Lovely War

Not at all for children, but presented by older children, is Oh What a Lovely War at the end of the month, a production by students of Chipping Norton School. With a cast of 22, a band of 15, and a production crew of 25, the show is ambitious almost to the point of masochism. Director Steve Bridges is not altering the show as produced by Joan Littlewood, reproducing the pierrot end-of-pier setting and the intercut graphics (digitised this time around) to destabilise audiences so as to undercut heroics and present the reality of the carnage of the First World War. The actors are playing as an ensemble, without leads except for stageside commentators who replace the ‘running titles’ of the original. The complex staging is being assisted by Ruth Staines, Stage Manager of The Theatre. This commentator will be looking for the unique shock of the original, when pleasure and outrage and repugnance sang and danced their way to a heartbreaking message of the waste of war.

Cedric says thanks

On Wednesday 18 January, Sarah Ebanja, the youth fundraising consultant for Oxfordshire NCH visited St Mary’s to thank the children who had taken part in Cedric’s Challenge and raised an amazing £1076.28 for Penhurst School. The children were delighted to receive personal thanks from Cedric himself when he arrived in their assembly.

 

 

Youth Centre

On Friday 5th / Saturday 6th December we took 49 young people midnight ice-skating to London, leaving Chippy at 9pm and returning at 6am. I was really pleased with how the trip went and especially the young people themselves, who were brilliant ambassadors for Chipping Norton and their Youth Centre throughout. Thanks to Rose and John Tomalin and Shaun Butler for helping to staff the trip (voluntarily) and to Owen Griffiths for organising coach hire and driving us.    Matt Smith

 

Local lad heads North

My name is Ben Nolan, I am currently studying for my A-levels at Chipping Norton School and have gained a place on a BSES expedition to Svalbard, an arctic wilderness off the north coast of Norway. Part of the challenge is to raise £3150 towards the costs of the expedition. On Wednesday 18 February I am going to complete a sponsored triathlon which will consist of a 1km swim followed by a 25km cycle and ending with a 6km run. It will start and end at Chipping Norton Leisure Centre. I would be grateful for any sponsorship you could offer. Please contact me on 645669 or e-mail: Ben_250@yahoo.com

 

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