A quilting exhibition inspired by the alphabet in its many forms. Quilters from three local groups have risen to the creative challenge of interpreting alphabets and letters using many techniques. These range from depicting a single modern letter, medieval forms on silk to whole alphabets in books and quilts and a tactile version devised for […]
The Second Oxfordshire based artist presenting artworks in the Attic Galley case is Gabrielle Venus, a site-specific multimedia artist working with found objects. A Goldsmiths graduate, Gabrielle has exhibited across London and the south-east, most recently at Ovada in Oxford with ‘Hatched’. She is exhibiting with two shelf-based installations – ‘Exposure’ and ‘The Quality Of […]
The sixteenth annual English Music Festival opens in Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire with a highly anticipated visit by the BBC Concert Orchestra on opening night to perform major works by E. J. Moeran and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as World Premières by William Lloyd Webber, William Alwyn and Paul Lewis. Concerts continue at Dorchester Abbey, […]
“Chess and Coffee with Laury” 10:00 - 12:00 – come and learn how to play chess. 👑 ♟️ All ages and abilities are welcome. #OnePlanetLiving #AbingdonOnThames #ClimateEmergencyCentre #ChessMaster #ChessLessons
Come along to our family-friendly creative art workshop to learn how to make your own colourful paints from a variety of plants and spices. Local artist, Emma Williams, will show you how to make your own bright coloured paints from the natural pigments that can be found in plants and spices. You’ll make your own […]
Ben Bruant and Will Cashel are duo – playing ‘songs you know in ways you probably don’t’ in a style fusing flamenco, pop and classical music. Together the band has recorded five albums and two EPs and performed to audiences including British and European royalty and at Liverpool Philharmonic, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, BBC Good Food […]
Bring the children to our wonderful eco crafting sessions with Shaista. This Sunday, from 1030am. Get your kids away from their screens for a couple of hours to engage mindfully with something creative! This is a FREE event (although donations are always gratefully accepted). See you there! 🦈 🦋 🐅🐸🐷🐝🐠🐾🦔🍄🍁🌿 More info: https://oneplanetabingdon.org/events/ #oneplanetliving #community […]
RAVEL Piano Trio ACE Trio: Andrew Blankfield piano, Emma Chamberlain cello, Claire Parkin violin Abbey Chamber Concerts A series of chamber concerts by top-quality local musicians on one Sunday each month. 3.00 – 4.00pm at St Nicolas church, Market Place, Abingdon OX14 3HF. Tickets £10, accompanied children free. Available from this website, at door, from 07775 904626, from […]
Two movements from Smetana's Ma Vlast - Vyserad and Vlatava Brahms - A German Requiem
Live music @ Abingdon RBL with Skittle Alley, Abingdon's Premier Live Music Collective. Friendly atmosphere and great value. Non-members welcome.
Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all. Starring Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, […]
★★★★★ ‘Witty, filthy and supreme.’ Guardian Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Following a box-office record-breaking run in cinemas in 2019, the one-woman show returns to cinemas to the big screen this summer. Fleabag may seem […]
Come and enjoy some chamber music at St. Helen's Church, Abingdon, OX14 5BS. The programme will include Brahms' clarinet quintet and Vaughan Williams' 'On Wedlock Edge'. Refreshments will be available and all proceeds will be split between the Abingdon Food Bank and St. Helen's Church. Tickets available at the door or from www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/abingdon/st-helens-church/music-at-st-helens/2023-06-17/19:30/t-qjzkgoa
An informative presentation and Q&A from market-leading children’s dyslexia-friendly, reluctant and struggling reader publishing specialists, Barrington Stoke. Parents, guardians, teachers and those with a vested interest in learning more about books that focus on making reading more accessible for children are invited to learn more about these fantastic titles. The presentation includes: How Barrington Stoke […]
Join us for an evening of Northern 60s, 70s & 80s classics. Friendly atmosphere and great value. Free entry and non-members also welcome.
The word ‘monument’ can mean many different things. In this exhibition, we take it to mean major buildings and other structures which served public purposes, and which were deliberately designed to be impressive – to make an impact. All the Abingdon monuments in this exhibition were once very impressive constructions, but have now vanished completely. […]
