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Children & Family Exhibitions
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Watch:wait. Syd Pycroft studies Midnight Cowboys
Saturday 1st, 5pm & 8pm Make a special occasion
people in urban landscapes portrayed
Return to the Forbidden Planet. memorable Tuesday: Even Swindon, 7.00
through traditional monochrome
The smash-hit dancing in the aisles photographic prints. Free. Wyvern In fact, any event where fun Community Centre Jennings
sci-fi musical. Board the space-ship. and blissful luxury is required Street (off Rodbourne Road)
Monday 3rd to Sun 30th. Mon - Sat: is the perfect setting for a magni ficent
fasten your seat belts for an inter-
1Oam to 6pm. Sun: 11am to 5pm Chocolate Fondue Fountain Wednesday: Highworth, 7.00
galactic experience. £21. £16 for
matinee. Wyvern. Wedding receptions Thursday: Coleview 7,00
Anniversaries Community Centre, Nythe Road
Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd, 10am
Birthday parties
to 4pm Step by step instruction for
Corporate events
Trains, Planes and Automobiles. School proms absolute beginners. Weekend
Film festival to mark Brunel's 200th Charity fundraisers socials in Highworth and Swindon
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birthday. Big screen films, including ristmas parties % For more details
vintage footage, and children's Ring Lewis Watson on 764732
Call 01793 724275 / 07742 309677
activities. Museum access free. www.adorablel.co.uk Ten years of teaching!
charges for some screenings.
www swindonfifmfestivai co. ukorcall
466454. Science Museum The Works. A photographic tribute
Sunday 2nd, 3pm to 6pm by Roy Nash to the men and women it Flights!
Lower Shaw Farm Open Afternoon employed in Swindon railway works
Visit the farm, learn about sustainable until it closed in March 1986. Free. experience of a lifetime!
li ving, organic and local food, National Trust Heelis reception
gardening, conservation, healthy Friday 7th to 4th September ... Something different
li ving and alternative education.
Free. Lower Shaw Farm for someone special!
Saturday 8th, 2.30pm
Wind in the Willows. Image Musical ights from f60 for 30 minutes
Theatre's popular format means
everyone can take part in the show.
Some children will be plucked from
the audience before the show starts
to learn to play rabbits. ducks and
thieving weasels. Everyone else The Railway Comes to Town. The uk7
learns the chorus of four songs to story of Brunel's transformation of
sing in the main performance. £6, Swindon from sleepy market town to
families £18. Arts Centre dynamic industrial setting told
Sunday 16th, 12pm through photographs. prints and
Children's Fete and Crossing the postcards. Free. Wyvern Studley Grange
Great Divide. The New Mechanics' To Saturday 8th garden & leisure park
Trust is working with local performers, Anna Maria Pacheco. This exhibition ^I ra j s pni Graft VtUage
community groups and Bristol artists focuses on Pacheco's work as a
Cirque Bijou, to take the traditional printmaker and brings together five ^^ ^^l M I'_ ^ U
Children's Fete, dating from 1866, to sets of prints, each concentrating on C' Enjoy truly magical experience as you
new heights. An exciting sound and a historic tradition or social fable. walk amongst hundreds of the world's most
light installation in the GWR Tunnel Free. Arts Centre he^„rilnl I,,irrerlliec 11.r;,,,, Irael„ ^rn,rnA rrnn,r^I
Entrance will take you across the
To Saturday 8th
ti me zone. Free. Faringdon Road
Swindon Curiosities: the art of
Park, The Works, GWR Tunnel
collecting. A dip into the museum's
Entrance, Railway Viffage and
diverse archaeology and social
Community Crossroads.. See page
history collections and look 'behind
21 for Swindon Festival details
the scenes' to explore the history of
collecting. Free. Swindon Museum
Venues
Tuesday 11 July to 29 August
Arts Centre Devizes Road. The Seven Deadly Sins. Work by
Tel: 614837
Tim Carroll and Laura Copping: two
Heelis, National Trust
Churchward. Tel: 817400 artists with contrasting approaches
to the rich tradition of eternal
Lydiard House Tel: 77040
damnation. Free. Arts Centre
Science Museum, Wroughton
Tel: 846200 To 30 September
STEAM - Museum of the Brunel 200: a series of exhibitions to
Great Western Railway include the Battle of the Gauges.
Kemble Drive. Tel: 466655 Visitors will also see Brunel in his 18
Swindon & Cricklade Railway
Duke Street office surrounded by
Tadpole Lane. Tel: 771615
Swindon Information Centre plans. drawings and equipment.
Regent Street. Tel: 466454 Normal admission charges. Steam
Swindon Museum & Art Gallery To 30 December
Bath Road. Tel: 466556 Treasure. What makes a treasure?
Town Gardens Bowl Precious metals, age. rarity? Or all
Quarry Road, Old Town three? Find out more in this exhibition
Wyvern Theatre Tel: 524481
of archaeological treasure from the
Confirm date, time and price Swindon area. Free. Swindon
with the venue
Museum & Art Gallery