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                                                                                         Swindon Wide What’s

                         The Swindon                                     Children & Family          Theatre
                                                                         Events
                                                                                                    Saturday 14th, 7.30pm
                          Rendezvous                                     To Sunday 15th, 10am - 5pm
                                                                         Easter Family Quiz Come and take
                                                                         up the challenge of the Steam family
                             A taste of the Orient                       fun quiz and win a yummy prize.
                          in the heart of Swindon                        Normal admission fees apply.
                                                                         466646 for details. Steam
                                                                         Wednesday 4th, 10.30am -  3.30pm
                                                                         Easter Holiday Activity Day. Spring
                                                                         into action around the farm. Dip below
                                                                         the pond’s surface, follow the Easter
                                                                         egg treasure hunt and bake some
                                                                         biscuits. £15. Lower Shaw Farm
                                                                         Sunday 8th, 12 noon to 4pm
                                                                         Easter Sunday Trail.  Search for  Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act.
                                                                         clues hidden around the park, crack  The world’s greatest fictional
                                                                         the puzzle and claim your egg. Free.  detective confronts the most complex
                                                                         Lydiard Park               case of all ... his own psyche. £10.
                                                                         Thursday 12th, 2pm to 4pm  Arts Centre
                                                                         Celebrate Spring. Craft activity for  Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th,
                                                                         children 5 to 11 years. Card making,  7.30pm
                                                                         models, collages and paper flower  Fools: Phoenix Players. A young
                                                                         baskets.  £2.50. Book on 466556.  school teacher, newly appointed to a
                        In early March the Swindon Rendezvous were delighted  Swindon Museum & Art Gallery  remote village, finds all its inhabitants
                        to entertain children from Belarus visiting the town with  Saturday 14th April, 10am - 4pm  under an ancient curse of stupidity.
                        the Swindon branch of the Chenobyl Children’s Lifeline  Meet the Railway Workers. All £6, tickets from Denis Reynolds:
                                                                         aboard the steam locomotives to see 525616. Arts Centre
                                                                         the real engine drivers in their
                                                                         uniforms and ready for action. Find  Talks
                                                                         out how the engines worked and
                                                                         ‘have a go’ on the controls.  Normal  Wednesday 11th, 10.15am
                                                                         admission fees apply. Steam  Concorde Flight Test Centre.  Doug
                                                                         Saturday 21st, 11.20am & 2.30pm  Newton speaks at the meeting of
                                                                                                    Thamesdown Probus.  Call Dan
                     The ALL YOU                                                                    Dangerfield 763733 for details.
                                                  RESERVE A                                         Blunsdon House Hotel
                     CAN EAT
                                                  TABLE FOR                                         Wednesday 18th, 7.30pm
                     MENU                                                                           Swindon Climate Action Network
                                                YOUR BIRTH                                          monthly meeting. All welcome.
                     has now been                    DATE                                           Friends Meeting House, Eastcott Hill
                     extended to 7 days                                                             For details call 791114
                     a week                      If a table is booked for                           Friday 20th
                                                 6 or more the birthday
                     Sunday - Thursday £15.00    boy or girl eats for free                          World Poverty and Climate Change
                     per person                  (For example 5 pay and                             public meeting organised by Swindon
                                                    1 eats for free                                 Climate Action Network and World
                     Fridays & Saturdays £18.00  Birthday must be on actual
                     per person                      day booked)                                    Development Movement. For details
                                                                                                    see www.swindonclimate.org.uk
                     You can choose             Only valid on all you can eat or                    Wednesday 28th, 10.15am
                     from over 100                   any set dinner                                 Sahara Marathon. Celia Hargrave
                                                  I.D. WILL BE REQUIRED  The King’s Got Donkey Ears. The
                     dishes                                              king goes for a walk in the woods and  speaks to Thamesown Probus. Call
                                                                         comes out cursed with great big furry  Dan Dangerfield 763733 for details.
                                                                         ears. A tale of mythical mayhem  Blunsdon House Hotel
                                                FREE BOTTLE              retold with puppetry, storytelling and
                                                   OF WINE               original music. £6, family £18. Arts  Did you raise a packet?
                                                                         Centre
                                                 Book a table for 4                                    Send us your Red Nose
                                                   and receive a                Irish Dance                pictures and a
                                               FREE BOTTLE OF WINE                                     short description of what
                                                 for every 4 guests          Saturday 28 April, 8pm    you did for Comic Relief.
                                                                           Thistle Hotel, Fleming Way
                                              (Offer only available on all you can  Tickets £10 on the door
                                               eat and set menu, please present
                                                this voucher when ordering.)  Organised by Maloney School of
                                                                         Irish Dancing. Details from 642368
                     20% OFF ALL TAKEAWAYS
                                                                         Archaeological discovery
                         11-12a Theatre Square Swindon
                                                                              Wednesday 25 April,
                            Telephone 01793 523570                       10am - 12.30pm; 1.30pm - 4.30pm
                                                                          Finds Liaison Officer Katie Hinds
                                  See our menu at                         will look at interesting artifacts at
                                                                          Swindon Museum & Art Gallery  Mail them to:
                         www.rendezvous-group.co.uk                            www.finds.org.uk     [email protected]




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