Literature and Science - The Frankenstein Effect Sunday 12 September Tickets £5

As part of our Open Day programme on Sunday 12 September join Angela Day to explore how literature has popularised scientific advance and also issued warnings against it. H G Wells’s The Time Machine and William Morris’s News from Nowhere celebrated the opportunities created by technological progress, whereas Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World show the consequences of allowing science to get out of control.

Tickets £5 if booked before 12 August - call 01386 854100 or book online.

Open Day Presentation 11.00am: Literature and Science - The Frankenstein Effect - OPEN DAY 2010

We've still got £600 in gift vouchers to give away in 2010

Amy Mitchell, Sue Lemmon & Sue Butler are the latest winners in our monthly Referral prize draw - if you know someone that might be interested in events at Farncombe and for your chance to win - visit our website and simply fill in the online form ;

http://www.farncombeestate.co.uk/referafriend.asp

Take a look - featured items 2010

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Chris Rowbury - Woven Chords

Chris Rowbury has been leading the Stamford-based community choir Woven Chords for the last 10 years. To celebrate his 10 years with the choir (and 15 years since they were formed), Woven Chords have just released a brand new live CD. The CD contains 27 tracks from concerts over the last five years ranging across 21 different countries! Singing in unaccompanied harmony, and always in the original language, Woven Chords’ joyful performances swell the spirit and touch the soul. You can buy the CD from their website: http://www.wovenchords.com/ where you can also hear sound clips.

The Big Draw 2010 events go live !

Everyone who registers for the 2010 Big Draw receives a free DVD packed with inspirational films, slide shows and ideas for drawing activities for different audiences. Even if you’re still at the exploratory stage, it’s worth registering as the DVD could help develop your plans.

More information available from The Campaign for Drawing www.campaignfordrawing.org

Calling all artists/Open Submission, New Greenham Arts

Established and emerging artists within the UK are invited to submit works to the New Greenham Arts & Corn Exchange 2010 Open Submission exhibition in October. Works will be considered from all media, traditional and new media. One artist will be selected from the show for a solo exhibition in 2011.

For more information and an application form contact the Visual Arts Manager Sally Childs Tel: 01635 817480 or E: sally@ng-arts.org.uk or visit the Corn Exchange/New Greenham Arts website at www.cornexchangenew.com .

Dealine for applications is 31st August 2010.

City Chorus Commission Competition

City Chorus (London, England) is celebrating its 90th birthday season in 2010-2011: the culmination of our anniversary year will be a concert in July 2011, which will feature a newly commissioned 20-minute work for chorus. Composers from around the world are invited to apply for this GBP2000 commission. City Chorus is an adult mixed choir, open to all without audition, and our 'ideal' composer will be able to write music that is original and exciting, yet within the capability of our amateur singers. Deadline: 3 December 2010.

for full details, please visit:

http://www.citychorus.info/
and click on "competition"

or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
City Chorus Commission Competition
Woodfall House
53 Carpenters Wood Drive
Chorleywood
Hertfordshire
WD3 5RP
England