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Monday June 26, 2017
What's On Newbury
Under Milk Wood
“To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black….” Set in the fictitious fishing village of...
Corn Exchange Newbury, Market Place
Tue 27 Jun
The Railway Children
A wonderful new musical adaptation of E. Nesbit’s classic story. Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move with their mother from London to ‘The Three...
Corn Exchange Newbury, Market Place
Thu 29 Jun to Sat 1 Jul
Sense of Unity
The gentle giants of light brighten Newbury’s town centre in this night-time outdoor performance. Sense of Unity brings the illuminated large...
Northbrook Street, Newbury
Fri 30 Jun
Bowie Experience
A spectacular celebration of one of the world’s greatest pop icons. Join us on an unforgettable journey of sound and vision through David Bowie’s...
Corn Exchange Newbury, Market Place
Thu 6 Jul
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A stunning balletic version of Shakespeare’s most magical play. This funny and heart-warming adaptation features vibrant classical choreography...
Corn Exchange Newbury, Market Place
Sat 8 Jul
A Celebration of John Denver
A magical journey through the musical career of John Denver. Wayne Denton invites you to pay homage to one of the most prolific artists of the...
Corn Exchange Newbury, Market Place
Sat 15 Jul
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
A stunning stage adaptation of the classic tale of teatime mayhem! The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could...
Corn Exchange Newbury, Market Place
Mon 24 Jul to Wed 26 Jul
Workshop: Preserving Your Family Memorabilia
Discover how to take care of, protect and preserve cherished keepsakes, treasured documents, important family history items, collectibles, artwork...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 30 Jun
Family Activity Day at West Berkshire Museum
Cave art
Do some cave painting on a clay tile using twigs, feathers and other Stone Age-inspired painting equipment. Find out about cave painting...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 28 Jul
Family Activity Day at West Berkshire Museum
Go potty!
Make a Neolithic pot from clay using some replica ones as inspiration. You can then see some local Stone Age artefacts in our...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 4 Aug
Family Activity Day at West Berkshire Museum
Magnificent mummies
Make a mummy out of a clothes peg, modelling clay and other craft materials. Some real Egyptian
artefacts will be available to...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 11 Aug
Family Activity Day at West Berkshire Museum
Face it!
Make a face out of clay using some replica Medieval and Tudor face jugs as inspiration.
Dress for mess! Disposable aprons will be...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 18 Aug
Family Activity Day at West Berkshire Museum
Write stuff!
Make a quill from a variety of craft materials and then ink some pictures or try writing with it.
Dress for mess! Disposable aprons...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 25 Aug
Workshop: Kennet Valley Weavers, Spinners and Dyer
In connection with their forthcoming exhibition at the museum, the Kennet Valley Weavers, Spinners and Dyers are running three workshops which are...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Sat 26 Aug
Family Activity Day at West Berkshire Museum
Mini masterpieces
Paint in the style of Claude Monet and produce your own mini masterpiece to take home.
Dress for mess! Disposable aprons will...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 1 Sep
Talk - Death, Debt and Discrimination: crime in Victorian Newbury
Ros Clow leads the History Group of the Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery. While researching people buried there, through inquest and court reports in...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 20 Sep
Talk - “True Newes from Neubery”: seventeenth-century pamphlets and their tales of radical religion
In 1647 a pamphlet of ‘True Newes from Neubery’ was printed in London. This pamphlet describes the antics of the ‘Newbury Anabaptists’, and...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 20 Sep
Talk - Greenham - 100 Years of War & Peace
This short series of special talks is to tie-in with the Greenham: 100 Years of War & Peace exhibition opening at the museum in September 2017. This...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 4 Oct
Talk - Greenham - Plants and Wildlife on Greenham Common
This short series of special talks is to tie-in with the Greenham: 100 Years of War & Peace exhibition opening at the museum in September 2017. This...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 6 Oct
Talk - Greenham - Flight from Uganda: no sense for what the future held
This short series of special talks is to tie-in with the Greenham: 100 Years of War & Peace exhibition opening at the museum in September 2017. This...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 13 Oct
Talk - Lord Falkland – his life, times, death and memorial
A talk by local historian Dave Stubbs on the story of how a sensitive, educated academic found himself catapulted into politics, and died stripped...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 18 Oct
Talk - Greenham - Living with the Americans
This short series of special talks is to tie-in with the Greenham: 100 Years of War & Peace exhibition opening at the museum in September 2017. This...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Fri 20 Oct
Talk - Wining & Dining in the 17th Century
We are familiar with how filmmakers portray banquets during the English Civil Wars – plenty of clashing goblets and everyone gnawing on a plump...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 15 Nov
Talk - Jane Austen and the Military
In Jane Austen’s 41 years of life, Great Britain was at war or under threat of invasion for all but ten of those years. Although Jane’s...
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 13 Dec
Talk - The Origins of Roman Silchester (Calleva)
Recent and ongoing excavations within and around the Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) have shed important light on its pre-Roman origins....
West Berkshire Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire
Wed 17 Jan 18
Watch for Whales and Dolphins
Sea Watch Foundations’ annual National Whale and Dolphin Watch.
Take part by recording and reporting your sightings, all you need is a pen and some sightings forms.
Saturday 29th July - Sunday August 6th
