12:00pm Thursday 11th February 2010
YOGA CLASSES - Enjoy yoga and meditation for all. Adult classes are Wednesdays, 7pm-8.30pm, at Brilley Village Hall, and Fridays, 9.30am- 11am, at Kingswood Village Hall.
Classes for three to six-year-olds are on Monday, 4pm-4.45pm, at Kington Parish Rooms. More on demand in West Herefordshire and borders. For details of other classes such as pregnancy, post-natal, children and adolescents, visit healingspirits.co.uk for schedules or call Georgie on 01544 231304 or 07807 550653.
KINGTON FESTIVAL - Musical Mayhem is the chosen festival theme for 2010, so get ready for a huge musical explosion of lively sounds including rock ‘n’ roll, swing, jazz, garage, hiphop, soul, heavy metal, disco, punk, blues, rap, salsa, indi, R&B, clubland, big band, glam rock, classical and opera, with lots of ideas for fancy dress on wheelbarrow evening and carnival/gala day. So make sure you have the dates for Kington Festival 2010 in your diary, June 11 to 20, and get ready for nine days of fun and entertainment. The committee would like to hear from any musical groups, societies or enthusiasts who can offer events, bands or talks relating to the music theme. Contact Phil Eggerton on 01544 230969 or email info@kingtonfestival.
co.uk.
KINGTON & DISTRICT OPERATIC SOCIETY - Will the Parrot learn his lines? That’s the question that everyone in Kington is talking about as KADOS put the final touches to everyone’s favourite pantomime, Robinson Crusoe. It’s being staged at Lady Hawkins Community Centre during half term so it’s an ideal treat for all the family. This exciting, adventure-packed pantomime traces Crusoe’s voyage to Tobago where he hopes to locate the hidden treasure shown on the map given to him by Old Jim. Blackpatch the pirate stows away on board, and later enlists the help of Jack Boot and his band of bloodthirsty pirates in an attempt to steal the treasure. Shows are at 7.30pm on February 18, 19 and 20, with a 2.30pm matinee on Saturday afternoon. Visit kingtonoperatic.com for details or phone 01544 267253.
Tickets are £6, and £4 for under-16s, available from Tom Bounds Electrical, High Street, Kington.
LITTLE APPLES PARENT AND TODDLER SESSIONS - The activity group for parents and under-threes is every Tuesday, 1.30pm to 3pm. Everyone is welcome for £1.50 per session, additional children 50p. Please call Little Orchard Day Nursery, Gravel Hill, to book a place on 01544 231051.
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN - Herefordshire Environment Partnership (formed by a number of statutory and voluntary organisations) is funding a project called New Leaf. The Bulmer Foundation, Community First and Herefordshire Council amongst others, are working closely together on this.
Parish councils and environment groups in Herefordshire were approached to take part in a pilot scheme to produce an energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) and Kington is one of only three communities selected to take part, working through KLEEN and Kington Town Council. The aim is to produce an initial Sustainability Action Plan for Kington. We need to put our heads together to look at our town as a whole and come up with a plan. We need to find practical ideas for fossil fuel energy reductions all around the town. Then, for this plan to be anything more than a paper exercise, we will need to write aspects of it into the Parish Plan, which could then receive funding from Herefordshire County Council. The initial plan has to be submitted to the various funding groups by March 31. This is far too short a timescale to do anything other than to start a programme but we must begin work immediately if we are to make the best of this opportunity to really get our community involved. Over the next few weeks Richard Fishbourne, sustainable communities development officer for Community First, will be contacting many community groups in Kington about this plan, from the Brownies to the schools, Age Concern to the Lions.
KLEEN is arranging a showing of the film In Transition, with a section on the EDAP, as well as introducing the concept of Transition Towns, for discussion on Friday, February 19, 7.30pm at the Oxford Arms, Duke Street, Kington (as part of Kington Energy week). A public meeting will be held on February 25, from 7.30pm, at the Oxford Arms, for all clubs, community groups and residents of Kington, with a panel including Councillor Jarvis and other invited key players in this project and its implementation. We hope many organisations will send a representative to discuss the implications of this project.
ENERGY WEEK - Kington KLEEN Energy Week, runs from tomorrow (Friday) until February 20. The diary of events is as follows. Tomorrow from 7,30pm at The Oxford Arms, Duke Street: Acoustic Folk Concert to launch Energy Week, with information and displays; free entry. The KLEEN Energy Shop opens from Saturday to February 20, at 2 High Street, Lower Cross, with displays, information and children’s fun activities with pedal-powered Scalextric racing, Lego railway and whizzy painting, green energy supply companies, insulation advice, and much more. Proposals on show for revamping the Kington Market Hall to be a more user friendly community building.
Children’s Energy Quiz . Saturdays 10am-4pm, weekdays 9am-6pm (halfday Wednesday).
Monday, 7.30pm, at St. Mary's Parish House, Church Road, Kington: Film: Gaia & Genesis by Herefordshire filmmaker and churchwarden Joe Jenkins.
Admission free.
Tuesday, 7.30pm at the Oxford Arms, Duke Street: Serbia’s Peasant Economy – slideshow and talk by Robert MacCurrach; discussion to follow, including ideas for an eco-village style project. Free entry.
Wednesday: Afternoon minibus trip to Three Counties Showground: for Energy Now Expo; limited places, please book in advance.
Wednesday, 7.30pm at the Oxford Arms: Bio Night – Jay Abrahams of Leominster Community Anaerobic Digester Project will give a short, illustrated presentation on the project which aims to produce electricity and heat from food and agricultural waste.
February 18, 7.30pm, at the Oxford Arms: Household Energy Surveys – an introductory talk by HES founder and director Dave Green will explain how we can all save money, energy and lessen our impact on the climate by reducing energy use.
February 19, 7.30pm, at the Oxford Arms: Film night and discussion – The Story of Stuff, plus environmental animated shorts by Transition Hereford’s Anita Sancha, February 20,10.30am to 3pm, in and around Kington: Open Houses Exhibition - showing practical low-energy solutions in action, including Lady Hawkins School’s eco classroom, Mount Pleasant Farm and Hergest Road.
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