Events - November 10 onwards

Nov 6 2011 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

EVENTS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

CHESTER: Christmas lights switch-on event at The Cross from at 5.45-7pm faturing Matt Baker and a selection of choirs from across Cheshire.

CHESTER: Professorial inaugural lecture on Brian Eno: An Oblique Lecture by Professor David Pattie, Department of Performing Arts, in the Beswick Lecture Theatre CBE017, University of Chester Main Campus, at 7pm. Admission free. Call 01244 511344.

CHESTER: Chester Society of Natural Science Literature and Art meeting with talk on The nobility of wilderness - travels in Algeria by Tom Sheppard, at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre at 7.30pm. Call 01244 335955.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

CHESHIRE OAKS: Christmas lights switch-on event with pop concert featuring chart-topper Alexandra Burke at Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet.

CHESTER: Christmas gift fair featuring arts and crafts retailers with hundreds of festive ideas at Chester Racecourse from 10am-5pm.

CHESTER: Farmers market at the Grosvenor Garden Centre in Wrexham Road from 10am-2pm. Call 01244 625200.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12

CHESTER: Christmas gift fair featuring arts and crafts retailers with hundreds of festive ideas at Chester Racecourse from 10am-5pm.

CHESTER: William Morris Study Day - a day of lectures on the life, work and influence of the 19th century’s greatest designer, at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre from 10.30am-3.30pm. Cost £15 including buffet lunch, tea, coffee and biscuits. Call 01244 976790 to book.

CHESTER: Santa’s Sleigh, towed by real reindeer, will parade in the city centre visiting the Forum Shopping Centre to switch on their lights, from noon.

TARPORLEY: Craft fair from 10am-4.30pm in Tarporley Community Centre. Admission £1. Proceeds in aid of Tarporley Hospital League of Friends.

WREXHAM: Antiques & Collectors Fair at the Memorial Hall from 9.30am-3.30pm. Adults £1, concessions 70p, children free accompanied by an adult. Cafe at the event, pay and display car park adjacent to the hall. Contact M Heath 01492 547868/0778 601 6576 or email wrexhamfair@aol.com.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

CHESTER: Christmas gift fair featuring arts and crafts retailers with hundreds of festive ideas at Chester Racecourse from 10am-5pm.

CHESTER: Treasured Possessions - Open Day - an afternoon of activities to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition in the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery Two and the Newstead Gallery from 1-4pm. Free drop-in session.

CHESTER: Deeside Orienteering Event - two sprint races on extended City of Chester map and University of Chester Campus. Visit www.deeside-orienteering-club.org.uk for details.

KNUTSFORD: Tatton Garden Society lecture by Alan Oatway on Plant Hunting in Bhutan at Tatton Park at 2.30pm. Admission charge. Call 01477 537698 or visit www.tattonpark.org.uk.

NORTHWICH: Coppicing and Creating - use natural materials to make Christmas decorations at Marshall’s Arm Nature Reserve from 10am-2pm. Booking essential on 01606 42667.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen meeting with talk on Studying the Changing Universe: Things that go Bang in the Night by Dr Andrew Newsam, a reader in astronomy education at the Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

CHESTER: Lecture on Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day by Professor Dai Morgan Evans, University of Chester archaeologist, in the Beswick Lecture Theatre CBE017, University of Chester Main Campus, at 7pm. Admission £3. Call 01244 511344.

CHESTER: Chester and District Fuchsia Society will be holding their monthly meeting at The Catholic Social Club, Brook Street, at 7.30pm. The guest speaker is Father Mike Burgess who will give a topical and lighthearted talk about Christmas. Non members welcome. For details contact 01928 714593.

CHESTER: Chester Film Society present a screening of the 2009 Italian movie Vincere (To Win) starring Filippo Timi and directed by Marco Bellnochio, at St Mary’s Centre, St Mary’s Hill, at 7.45pm. Visit www.chesterfilmfans.co.uk for membership details. Guest tickets £3.50 to be booked in advance on 01244 371750.

UPTON: Aglow Evening for all ladies with guest speaker Ros Powell. You do not have to be a member to attend. Free refreshments at 7.15pm for 7.45pm, Cheshire County Sports Club (Sports Entrance). Admission £2, disabled access. Ring 01829 271111 for details or just turn up.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

CHESTER: Nuts and Bols in Cheshire? - a talk on examples of the wide selection of engineering which can be seen in the county, at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre from 2-3pm. Admission free.

CHESTER: Lecture on Edith Cavell by Diana Souhami who will discuss her biography of the nursing pioneer who was killed by the German army in 1915, in the Beswick Lecture Theatre CBE017, University of Chester Main Campus, at 7pm. Admission £3. Call 01244 511344.

CHESTER: Grosvenor Museum Society meeting with talk on The English Kitchen and Kitchen Garden 1500-1700 at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Members free, visitors £4, students £2. Contact: 01244 532199.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

CHESTER: Chester’s Bright Night - an evening full of wonder and ollumination where the annual lantern parade introduces Chester’s first Bright Night to the streets and Cathedral green from 5pm. Walk alongside the parade as it winds its way through the streets until it ends in St Werburgh Street where a specially commissioned light installation will bring the grounds to life through colour and light.

CHESTER: The Social Science Lecture Series presents I predict a riot? Young People and the Big Society by Dr Andy Mycock of the University of Huddersfield, in the Best Building CBB115, University of Chester Main Campus, at 6.30pm. Admission free. Call 01244 511344.

CHESTER: Lecture on Forgotten Voices: Desert Victory by Julian Thompson, in association with the Imperial War Museum, in the Beswick Building CBE017, University of Chester Main Campus, at 7.30pm. Admission £3. Call 01244 511344.

CHESTER: Chester Society of Natural Science Literature and Art meeting with talk on Beautiful Northern Buildings by John Grundy, at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre at 7.30pm. Call 01244 335955.

PARKGATE: Neston Civic Society annual meeting and talk by Dr Paul Booth on The Medieval Forest of Wirral at Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church Hall in Moorside Lane. Call 0151 336 5478.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

CHESTER: Casino Night at the Mollington Banastre hotel at 7.30pm. Tickets £25 to include a buffet supper + £5 gambling chips. Tickets online at www.breakthroughbreastcancercheshire.co.uk or from 01925 244459. All funds raised on the tables to go to Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26

WREXHAM: Collectors fair at the Wrexham Memorial Hall. Up 50 stalls selling all kinds of general collectables including postcards, ephemera, vintage fashion, toys and sci-fi, jewellery and much more. Open 9.30am-3.30pm. Adults £1, concessions 70p, accompanied children free. Contact 01492 547868 or email wrexhamfair@aol.com.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

CHESTER: Chester Photographic Society meeting with talk on The Eye of an Artist by Rikki O’Neill at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre at 7.30pm. Visit www.chesterphotographicsociety.org or call 01244 300166.

CHESTER: Chester Film Society present a screening of the 2010 American movie Winter’s Bone starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Debra Granik, at St Mary’s Centre, St Mary’s Hill, at 7.45pm. Visit www.chesterfilmfans.co.uk for membership details. Guest tickets £3.50 to be booked in advance on 01244 371750.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

CHESTER: Light Up A Life event on the River Dee from 4-6pm. Remember your loved one this Christmas and light up a life in their memory. the Hospice of the Good Shepherd’s remembrance service will be set by the river and will take the form of a brief ceremony and the lighting of a candle which can then be floated down the river on a lily flower. Call 01244 851811 or visit www.hospiceofthegoodshepherd.com.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6

CHESTER: Chester Photographic Society meeting with talk on Seeing The Light by Ted Leeming at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre at 7.30pm. Visit www.chesterphotographicsociety.org or call 01244 300166.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8

CHESTER: Grosvenor Museum Society meeting with talk on Mary Queen of Scots - Daughter of Debate by Lizzie Jones at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Members free, visitors £4, students £2. Contact: 01244 532199.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10

WREXHAM: Antiques & Collectors Fair at the Memorial Hall from 9.30am-3.30pm. Adults £1, concessions 70p, children free accompanied by an adult. Cafe at the event, pay and display car park adjacent to the hall. Contact M Heath 01492 547868/0778 601 6576 or email wrexhamfair@aol.com.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen and Royal Geographical Society meeting with talk on Abyssinia - 3,000 Years of Ethiopian Art and History from Solomon and Sheba to Haile Selassie by Chris Bradley, writer and film maker, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.

MONDAY, JANUARY 16

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen meeting with talk on Chocolate, Tea and Coffee in the Augustan Age by Ann Gore, a trained architect who has lectured in the United States, Australia and England and has published three books, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25

CHESTER: Grosvenor Museum Society meeting with talk on English Civil War: Battle of Rowton Moor & The Siege of Chester 1642-46 by David Cummings at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Members free, visitors £4, students £2. Contact: 01244 532199.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen meeting with talk on The English Parish Church – an Architectural and Social History by author and broadcaster Andrew Davies, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

CHESTER: Grosvenor Museum Society meeting with talk on Some Famous Courtesans by Michael Murphy at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Members free, visitors £4, students £2. Contact: 01244 532199.

TUESDAY, MARCH 13

CHESTER: Grosvenor Museum Society meeting with talk on Early Stuart Chester as a Centre for Regional Painting by Professor Robert Tittler at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Members free, visitors £4, students £2. Contact: 01244 532199.

MONDAY, MARCH 19

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen joint meeting with Royal Geographical Society featuring talk on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by David Edwards, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society who recently went on an ocean research trip in the Pacific on a ship that has sailed the world for over 20 years doing cutting edge research on climate change, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.

MONDAY, APRIL 16

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen meeting with talk on Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves;The Representation of the Working Classes in Art by Linda Smith, who lectures at the Tate and Tate Modern, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

CHESTER: Grosvenor Museum Society AGM with talk on Cheshire Agriculture: Mid 19th century to the present by Doug Haynes at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Members free, visitors £4, students £2. Contact: 01244 532199.

MONDAY, MAY 21

CHESTER: Society of Thirteen meeting with talk on Energy Needs for the UK over the next 100 Years by Professor Tim Greenshaw, a member of the physics department at Liverpool University which is involved in energy and climate change studies, at the Grosvenor Museum at 7.30pm. Visitors £6. Call 0151 346 1017.