Spring 2015

At last we are beginning to see signs of spring, and an idea of what it could be like this summer if the weather systems allow! Hope your gardens are full of colourful bulbs and blossoms, and that you are ready for a year packed with interesting and exciting Newcomers events.

Here are our offerings for the next few months. If you have a suggestion, please let us know and we will add it to the list.

Theatre Evenings

Simon would like to attend a few events at the theatre in the next fews months. He has made some suggestions and some possible dates (see below). If you would like to go along, please contact him to arrange to meet, and book your tickets directly through the theatre:

• Wed 15/04: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Everyman Theatre
• July TBD: Arthur Miller's Hook - Everyman Theatre

Film Night

We wanted to make this a regular event, so we decided we would set a date to go to the cinema on the first Tue/Wed/Thu of the month, depending on who is going and what they are going to see. Watch our for email invitations, or if you want to see a special film, invite the group the last Wednesday of the previous month. Let everyone know what you plan to see, where, and when - we are sure you will get a lot of film buddies!

Afternoon Tea - Grosvenor Garden Centre - Monday April 20, 2:30pm

Barbara S. has suggested a fancy afternoon tea at the Grosvenor Garden Centre (just south of Chester on the Pulford/Rossett road). They do what sounds like a delicious spread @ £19.95 for two. The venue is a great place for browsing for gifts and food as well as garden stuff. She has booked a table for 6, please let her know if you would like to attend (even just for a quick cuppa!). You can also pop in on the day if you cannot commit in advance. 

Farewell Lunch for Luisa and Tim

As many of  you already know, Luisa and Tim are moving to be closer to their grandchildren. They have been wonderful longstanding members of  Newcomers and we are sorry to see them go. To help them celebrate their new ventures elsewhere, we hope to give them a good sendoff and have a glorious lunch sometime in the Spring. As soon as we have a firm date and location, we will let you know.

September to December

Here are our offerings for September through December. If you have a suggestion, please let us know and we will add it to the list.

September/October/November - Theatre and Film at Theatr Clwyd

Barbara would like to attend a few events at the theatre in the next fews months. She has made some suggestions and some possible dates (see below). If you would like to go along, please contact her to arrange to meet, and book your tickets directly through the theatre.

• 'Ghosts' by Ibsen which is on from 25th September to 18th October:  Barbara S can go on Friday and Saturdays 10th and 11th Oct, and 17th and 18th October.
• Mr Turner' the film about the life of the painter Turner:  Barbara S can go on 21st November at 8 pm and 26th Nov. at 2 pm or 8 pm.

December 17th, 12:30 - Christmas Lunch, West Cheshire College, Ellesmere Port Campus

We have reserved a table for lunch at the West Cheshire College, Ellesmere Port Campus Off Sutton Way, Ellesmere Port CH65 7BF on Wednesday 17 December 2014. Lynda has sent out the lunch menu which is on offer for the day. This lunch will take the place of the December Coffee Morning at the Cheshire Cat. The cost of the three course lunch will be £12.95. The College will require payment by early October and they would like us to give the order for courses upfront nearer to the time.

August Revels

Here are our offerings for August. If you have a suggestion, please let us know and we will add it to the list.

July/August, 7:30pm - Chester Open Air Theatre

This year the open air theatre is performing two Shakespeare plays - "Macbeth" and "Comedy of Errors," and an adaption of "The Secret Garden." There is also Moonlight Flicks in the Roman Garden to enjoy. Simon is going to see several performances, so please  book your tickets for the following dates, then contact Simon to meet at the venue. If you plan to go to any performances other than those listed below, please send the details to Jacqui to add to this list:

• July 25th, Vertigo, Moonlight Flicks
• August 1st, Comedy of Errors

August 20th, 12:30 - Annual Lunch, Royal Oak, Kinnerton 

As you know, we do not have a coffee morning for our August meeting, but instead meet for lunch. This year we have a table for 10 booked at the Royal Oak. Please let Barbara George know by Friday 15th August as to whether you will be joining us.

July Offerings

Here are our offerings for July. If you have a suggestion, please let us know and we will add it to the list.

July 6th, 12:30 - Sunday Lunch at Chester Golf Club

Why not enjoy the summer by spending a lovely few hours with Newcomers over Sunday Lunch? Those who have been before will know that the Golf Club food is excellent and the setting just gorgeous. The booking has been made initially for 10 people, and we will meet at 12-30pm for a 1-00pm meal. Please do bring guests if you have someone visiting you. You can have either 2 or 3 courses with coffee....£10:95 for 2 courses or £11:95 for 3 courses, and can decide when you get there. I hope that we can get a good number able to come as it is always nice to have a good get together and catch-up. Please let Barbara George know by Friday 4th July as to whether you will be joining us.

July 19th, 8:00pm - Chester Cathedral

You are warmly invited to a very special concert, the final act of this year’s Music Festival in Chester Cathedral. This will be one hundred years to the day after Austria took the fateful decision to invade Serbia, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand three weeks earlier. Over the following weeks these fateful happenings led to the outbreak of the First World War, bringing Russia, Germany, France and Britain into a conflict whose momentous events still shape our world.
In one of the most important concerts in the region this year the Chester Festival Chorus will combine with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the rising young conductor, James Burton, and the wonderful soloists Judith Howarth and William Dazeley, to perform pieces of music by two of Britain’s finest composers, Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The programme comprises:

• Elgar – Sospiri 
• Elgar – Spirit of England 
• Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem 

Elgar’s Spirit of England, written in 1915, is a setting of three poems by Laurence Binyon which include ‘For the Fallen’ with its words ‘...at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them’. Ralph Vaughan Williams, who served on the Western Front, wrote ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ in 1936 and it paints a picture of war and a prayer for peace.
The concert will begin with Elgar’s ‘Sospiri’. You’ll find booking details on the website http://chesterfestivalchorus.org.uk/ under ‘This year’ but David Pawson could buy tickets for you at a performers’ discount of 15%.

July 21st, 7:30 - Nantwich Civic Hall

Tim and Lui have tickets to see Sue Townsend's Bazaar and Rummage performed by The Nantwich Players on the 21st. If anyone would like to join them, their seats are G3 and G4. The play is directed by Jo McDonald. In 'Bazaar and Rummage' Sue Townsend takes an hilarious view at the politics of self-help groups.... Tickets are available from Nantwich Civic Hall from 9am or ring 01270 600 727.