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COMMUNITYl; Music & Movement (slow and easy) FRIDAY
1145am - 115pm
Creche for 2-5 year olds 930am - 1130am
Lacemaking 730pm - 930pm
Pre-School Playgroup
Starbase Swindon (monthly) 730pm - 1030pm
930am - 1130am
GWR Majorettes Course
600pm - 700pm
Getting together in West Swindon... Sequence Dancing
7.00pm - 1000pm
Gardening Club (monthly) 800pm - 1000pm
Tucked away in a cosy corner off the Link Mall,
next to Link Arts, you can find a cluster of rooms SUNDAY
where anything can happen! Especially if it TUESDAY
brings local people together to pursue activities 45+ Tea Dances (monthly) 330pm - 600pm
which they have organised for themselves. Welcome to West Swindon Coffee Morning
If you have a special interest, the Community (for recent arrivals to the area LINK 3-5 PLAYGROUP
1000am - 12.00 noon
Activities Officers based here can offer a wide - children welcome). Meets during school terms, Tuesday - Friday
1000am - 1230pm
range of contacts within West Swindon and across Better Halves 915am - 1145am. Places are limited so please
the Town. Part of their role is putting people in (Single Parent Group) register your child before his/her Third Birthday.
100pm - 300pm
touch with others of similar interests. Asian Women's Group
200pm - 4.00pm
Or... if you like.., we may be able to help you 45+ Club CHARITY MARKET STALLS
(Social Club for over 45's)
get something new happening, especially if it (3rd Saturday in the month in the Link Mall)
National Childbirth Trust 200pm - 400pm
relates to the needs of the growing West Swindon 1000am - 2.00pm.
community. Community Development staff often (monthly) These events provide an opportunity for
800pm - 1000pm
provide support to groups in the early stages of Lighthouse Club community groups and charitable organisations to
organisation, drawing upon their experience with (Mentally Handicapped Adults Social Group) fundraise in a popular location, with back up
established community groups to enable new ones St. John's Waterbourne Division advertising.
to grow in a supportive environment. The 800pm - 1000pm Stalls are available on a limited basis for a fee of
encouragement and support of groups and £2.00. So book early!
activities which link West Swindon people WEDNESDAY Forthcoming dates: 16th September,
together in new ways is the priority here. 21st October, 18th November.
Many groups already meet on a regular basis, Creches for under 2's

930am - 1130am PRIVATE HIRE HERE
run by their own committees. Besides the groups & 2-5 year olds
listed here, there is a separate list of Parent Sequence Dancing 7.00pm - 1000pm Rooms are available for hire for special occasions
& Toddler Groups available. More informa- such as birthday parties, discos and weddings.
tion is available by calling in or phoning Commu- A bar can be arranged upon application for a
nity Suite Reception on 871212 ext. 234. THURSDAY special licence. Conferences benefit from the
well-equipped facilities, which include an amplifi-
12noon
Harmony Lunch Club
MONDAY
Townswomens Guild (monthly) 130pm - 430pm cation system for persons with suitable hearing
aids.
English as a 2nd language 930am - 1130am Diecast Club (monthly)
730pm - 930pm
Creches for under 2's and 2-5 year olds (while Wilts. Trust for Nature Community Development
7.30pm - 1030pm
parents attend activities) BOROUGH OF ,
930am - 1130am
Conservation (monthly)
Welcome to West Swindon Coffee Morning THAMESDOWNlo
(for recent arrivals to the area - adults only please
1000am - 12 noon
JAZZ CHILDRENS FILM CLUB
Swindon Jazz Front presents: Saturdays at 2.30p.m.
Saturday 16 September: 16 September WILLOW (PG)
ZBIGNIEW NAMYSLOWSKI QUARTET 28 October THE MOUSE AND HIS CHILD
Tickets: £5.00/4.50 members/E2 unwaged (PG)
25 November MOONWALKER (PG)
Saturday 22 September: 16 December A SURPRISE FULL LENGTH
21 W SPIKE ROBINSON AND BRIAN DEE TRIO CARTOON FEATURE (U)
Tickets: £4.00/3.00 concessions.
Membership: 25p (valid until 31.3.90) plus
Saturday 30 September: Admission: £1.00 per film. Come along and join
THEATRE PERFORMANCES DAVID CROSS BAND. on the day.
Tickets £3.00 members/E3.50/E1.00 unwaged.
Tuesday 12 September to Wednesday 13
September: FILM SOCIETY
Friday 6 October:
CHANGE. A gratuitious germination of Thursdays at 7.30p.m Membership: £1.00.
generous gratification to the globe and our TREVOR WATTS' DRUM ORCHESTRA Admission £1.75; Concessions £1.25
Tickets: £4.50 members/5.0O/3.30 un-
environment.
700pm. Tickets: £2.50. waged. 14 September HAIRSPRAY (PG)
21 September PASCALFS ISLAND (15)
Friday 27 October:
Saturday 23 September: Featuring a remarkable perform-
THE ORIGINAL BRUCE TURNER BAND.
Trouble and Strife present NEXT TO YOU I ance by Ben Kingsley.
LIE. A bold provocative piece of theatre about Tickets: £4.00/E3.00 concessions. 5 October MAPANTSULA (15)
pornography and the 'glamour' industry and their Filmed in Soweto by a mainly
effects. Saturday 4 November black cast and crew, Mapantsula
MERVYN AFRICA QUARTET
800pm. Tickets: £3.50/2.50 concessions. deals with the black experience
Tickets: £3.00 members/E3.50/F-1.00 unwaged
under apartheid, and is a spirited
Thursday 28 September: and defiant statement against the
Temba Theatre Company present BACK Saturday 11 November oppressive regime.
JOHNNY MARRS BLUES BAND
STREET MAMMY. Dynette has a wonderful 19 October VIRGIN (36 FIT I Fl ft.) (18)
Tickets: £4.50 members/E5.00/E2.00 un-
future ahead of her but her dream is threatened An "excruciatingly realistic"
by an uwanted pregnancy. waged. intelligent and funny observation
730pm. Tickets: £3.50/C2.50 concessions. of a girl's coming of age.
Saturday 25 November: JOE HARRIOTT 2 November RED SORGHUM (15)
Saturday 30 September: MEMORIAL QUINTET. Both a folk-tale and a tribute to
Tickets: £4.00/E3.00 concessions.
Lambeth Children's Theatre Company present Chinese peasant culture, this film
GULLIVER IN LILUPUT. Life size puppets, has been critically acclaimed as a
Friday 1 December:
shadow puppets and both physical and vocal masterpiece and is certainly the
buffoonery help to tell this classic tale which will THE JOHN ETHERIDGE AND DICK HECK- most exciting film to emerge from
delight and amuse all children. STALL-SMITH QUINTET. China's New Wave.
230pm. Tickets: £2.00 Tickets: £3.50 members/E4.00/ 7 December IMAGINE (15)
£1.00 unwaged. T HAM ES DO WN
Saturday 21 October: If YOU would like to COMMUNITY
Women and Theatre present PUTTING IT All jazz performances commence at 800p.m. get more involved or
ABOUT. A vital drama which confronts the issue Licensed bar with real ale at all gigs. simply have a creative
of AIDS and the HIV virus. idea, why not drop in
S.00pm. Tickets: £3.50/E2.50 concessions. APT S
and talk to us?