What's On In Southend-on-Sea

WHAT: Cake Sale & Tombola

WHEN: Friday 30^th September 2011   TIME: 9am-1pm

WHERE: Bonmarche shop in Southend

WHO: Staff from Bonmarche

Staff from Bonmarche, the dedicated value high street retailer for women, in Southend will be holding a cake sale and tombola in a fundraising challenge to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Bonmarche has supported Macmillan for over ten years, raising over £1.8 million and continues to do so with the support of staff members in 380 stores nationally.

Macmillan Cancer Support improvers the lives of people affected by cancer, providing practical, medical, emotional and financial support. Working alongside people affected by cancer, Macmillan works to improve cancer care.

COMEDY Gerry Stratton has organized a small family dinner at his favourite restaurant to celebrate his wife’s birthday. All seems well on the surface but what secrets lie buried in the past?

In Time of My Life Ayckbourn uses a three way journey through time to paint a darkly comic picture of family tensions and the fragility of true happiness.

A new professional production from the team that brought Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings to the Palace last year.

“… funny, very funny, and not at all funny: quintessentially Ayckbourn.”
The Times

www.sanderlingproductions.net

Schedule

September 20th – September 24th
Tues – Sat 7.45pm
Thurs and Sat Mats 3pm

Tickets
Tuesday & Wed – £11.00
Thursday – Saturday £12.50

Fancy a laugh on Sunday May the 22nd 2011?

For an evening of stand-up comedy, pop down to the Royal Hotel, at the top of Pier Hill , where the High Street starts.

The first night of the Cracker Comedy Club stars Steve Best, Raymond & Mr Timkins Review (“Enough silliness to fill a pillow”), and MC Paul Pirie

The Cracker Comedy evening is organised by Lee Tearrell (from Improv Group Scared Scriptless), plus Ross McGrane (Funny Bunnies).

The comedy night starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are 6pm, or £5 to Forces/Police/NHS/Fire Services.

The venue holds around 100, and it’s best to book. More details on the Royal Hotel’s Facebook Page

Under the direction of Emma Turnbull, the energetic and entertaining new choir for adults, Southend Vox, has evolved from the town’s highly successful Southend Girls  Choir. Both choirs are looking forward to their first joint concert to be held this Saturday.

Emma Turnbull, 32, a founder member of Roger Humphrey and Rosemary Pennington’s Southend Girls  Choir, grew up singing with them in major London venues and throughout the world, before completing a music degree at Royal Holloway, University of London.  Whilst pursuing a career in an alternative industry, she has continued to follow her passion of music: In 2009, inspired by her years in the Girls  Choir, Emma started Southend Vox as a community choir  for adults that would fill the gap between the excellent youth choirs and the more traditional adult choirs in the town.

Emma has Crohn’s Disease and recently spent 36 days being treated in the Hockley Ward at Southend Hospital.  This ward also treats patients with bowel cancer, the UK s second biggest cancer killer. The choirs are delighted to have the opportunity to financially assist the ward through some fundraising at this concert.

The concert takes place on Saturday 2nd April at 7.30pm at Crowstone St. Georges URC, Crowstone Road, Westcliff-on-Sea. Tickets are £7.00 (£5.00 concessions) and can be purchased by calling 07725 002859 or e-mailing: info@southendvox.com.

For more information on the choirs please visit:  www.southendvox.com or www.southendchoirs.org.uk

Cinderella
Fun, music and mayhem – a traditional family pantomime
on your doorstep this half-term!

Merlin Productions is delighted to announce its eleventh pantomime, Cinderella, which opens in February 2011 at The Eastwood Studio Theatre, near Southend for a run of seven performances throughout the half-term holiday.

Following last years success of ‘Snow White’, which sold out, and with previous pantomimes, Merlin have donated nearly £42,000 to local charities including Southend Hospital’s Building Blocks, PinPoint, STROKEBUSTERS and Bosom Pals Appeals, Little Havens and the Scout Association – rehearsals are now in full swing for the magical Cinderella.

Since forming in 2000, Merlin’s aim has always been to produce a traditional pantomime, appealing to anyone from aged 3 to 103! Merlin’s pantomimes include music and dance, slapstick, drama, good-versus-evil, colourful costumes, sing-along and much, much more.

The show runs every night at 7.30 pm from 24th to 25th February and 6.00 pm 26th February; with matinee’s at 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 2.00 p.m. Tickets are available from the Box Office on 0845 2412538 and range from £8.00 to £10.00, with reductions for Families and Groups.

Southend’s annual August Carnival officially opened today, Friday 13 August 2010.

The Carnival Fair is open at Chalkwell Park from 2pm to 10pm between the 13th and 21st of August (2pm-8pm on Sunday).

Southend Carnival 2010 includes the Fair at Chalkwell Park, a dog show, and children’s events.

As ever, the Carnival draws to an end with a Torchlight parade. This will take place on the evening of Saturday the 21st of August. The parade least from Western Esplanade at 7.45pm and head east. It should reach the pier at around 8.40pm, wrapping up at the Castle Pub at approximately 10.00pm.

Full agenda: Southend Carnival 2010

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