Gloucester BID - Business Improvement District

BRITTEN'S CEREMONY OF CAROLS
2015-02-01 16:00 (Europe/London) | Gloucester Cathedral
CEREMONY OF CAROLS – BRITTEN
Gloucester Cathedral Choristers with Harpist Eluned Pierce will perform Britten’s beautiful work by candlelight in the Quire.
Admission free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music.

Knitters With Attitude
2015-02-03 19:00 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Free group for all who are interested in knitting, crochet and spinning. Whether you’re used to tangling with the wool and needles or are casting on for the first time, come and do it in the company and comfort of the Guildhall’s café-bar. A chat and a drink will help you fingers fly, plus there’ll be advice on hand for those tricky bits. Just turn up with your kit and join in.

‘WW1 Poems from the Trenches and beyond’
2015-02-04 13:10 - 13:50 | City Museum, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HP
Culture Club – ‘WW1 Poems from the Trenches and beyond’, with Ian McKay
Trench warfare and other horrors of WW1 produced some remarkable poetry. Long before video-diaries or i-phones, poets caught up in the conflict captured their feelings and those of their comrades. The speaker will read from Brooke, Owen, Sassoon and others, including Gurney and the Dymock Poets. They give us glimpses of suffering and courage, in words that reach us today, a century later.

Paddington (PG)
2015-02-07 15:00 - 16:45 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
A young English boy befriends a talking bear he finds at a London train station. A live-action feature based on the series of popular children’s books.

Museum Tots
2015-02-10 10:30 - 12:30 | City Museum, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HP
Come along to a Museum Tots session and browse the galleries to find special tot friendly animal themed activities.
Giving you a chance to paint, stick, create, try out some new toys and listen to storytime, as well as meeting with other parents and tots.
The theme will be ‘Communication’.

Love's Labour's Lost
2015-02-11 18:45 - 21:45 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Summer 1914. In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years. No sooner have they made their pledge than the Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting arrive, presenting them with a severe test of resolve.
Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy delights in championing and then unravelling an unrealistic vow, mischievously suggesting that the study of the opposite sex is in fact the highest of all academic endeavours. Only at the end of the play is the merriment curtailed as the lovers agree to submit to a period apart, unaware that the world around them is about to be utterly transformed by the war to end all wars.
Christopher Luscombe directs one acting company in both Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (usually known as Much Ado About Nothing).

Half Term Quayside Activity
2015-02-16 | Gloucester Docks, Gloucester Quays, Southgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 5SH, United Kingdom
Come along to Gloucester Quays for some half term Quayside activity fun. Taking place from the 16th – 20th February 2015. Lots of activities, to keep the little ones busy this half term at Gloucester Quays.

Michael Portillo "Life: A Game of Two Halves"
2015-02-20 19:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
It took Michael Portillo little more than 10 years to get a seat in the Commons and then rise in power and esteem to a point where he was a favoured leader of his party and possible future PM.
A track record like that suggests to many a privileged friend of the rich and famous with little or no understanding of or care for the ordinary citizen. But since leaving the house almost a decade ago Michael has endeared himself to many with his obvious respect for solid workmanship like our great Victorian Railways and his obvious care for the underprivileged (Michael becomes a Single Mum 2003)and the troubled (Death of a school friend 2002) .
Listen to his extraordinary story and then feel free to question him about it.

‘Behind The Lens’
2015-02-28 10:00 - 17:00 | City Museum, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HP
‘Behind The Lens’, with Aleks Gjika
Come along and hear local photographer Aleks Gjika talk us through his current exhibition ‘Visual Impact’, on at the City Museum Touring Gallery until 7 March

The Museum Detectives Club
2015-02-28 10:30 - 12:30 | City Museum, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HP
A brand new Club for children aged 5-11 years.
The Museum Detectives Club meets once a month at the City Museum. Each session is packed full of activities, stories, crafts and trails – tailored to the age of the children. The children also get to see and handle items from the Museum’s own collection, including dinosaur bones, and heaps of fascinating natural history specimens, whilst working towards badges and earning certificates.
The perfect way to spend a Saturday morning!

The Museum Detectives
2015-02-28 13:00 - 14:30 | City Museum, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HP

War Songs 19:14 - 19:18
2015-03-06 19:30 | Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Last year Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a “First World War: then and now” small grant to Gloucester City Council for Gloucester based musician/producer George Moorey and musician/singer Leo Saunders to make two pieces of original music (the first 19 minutes, 14 seconds and the second 19 minutes, 18 seconds in length) inspired by and incorporating selected poems by the Gloucester War poet Ivor Gurney.
George and Leo recruited a team of musicians and carried out research at Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire Archives and the Soldiers of Gloucestershire and Gloucester Folk Museums before visiting Heron Primary and The Crypt Grammar schools to share their research and explore musical ideas and poetry with pupils in school workshop sessions.
Earlier in the day pupils will have worked with professional musicians to complete the music which will lead to the climax of the project: a performance in the Guildhall Theatre in the evening featuring an ambitious and diverse music group composed of pupils from both schools with musicians from the local area playing a dynamic blend of improvised musical styles that include folk, rock, pop, orchestral, choral and hip-hop in a one off exciting live community music experiment.

Let's Talk Bach
2015-03-13 19:30 | Gloucester Cathedral
Come along to the Gloucester Cathedral on Friday 13th March 2015, at 19:30 for Let’s Talk Bach. Taking place at Gloucester Cathedral, The Chapter House. Prepare for a fascinating insight into the St Matthew Passion from one of the world’s leading Bach authorities, John Butt, Gardener Professor of Music at Glasgow University.
Professor Butt is also Music Director of Edinburgh’s Dunedin Consort, an acclaimed writer, organist, harpsichordist and conductor. He has published widely in the field of Bach, 17th – 18th century music, and musical modernity, and his recording of Handel’s Messiah received a Gramophone award in 2007 and two further discs have received nominations. We suspect he knows what he’s talking about.

Communication Crazy at Gloucester Folk Museum
2015-03-14 11:00 - 15:00 | Folk Museum, 99- 103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG, United Kingdom
Join us in a series of Scientific challenges, experiments and things to make and try all exploring how humans and animals communicate and how we use technology to help us.
Can you learn to speak chimp to work out what they are saying and crack the secrets of the bees’ waggle dance to find the best flowers? Crack our morse code challenges, discover how the brain send information around the body and demonstrate how sound travels.
Lots of scientific fun for all ages.

The Roving Crows
2015-03-14 19:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Award-winning folk-fusion outfit Roving Crows bring their ‘not to be missed’ live show back to the Guildhall.
After a hectic touring schedule which took them all around the UK in 2014 they are returning homeward for this annual show. The band have recently received some top accolades including:
‘Band of the Year’ FATEA Music Awards 2014 ‘Best Live Act’ Spiral Earth Music Awards 2014
Their latest release ‘Deliberate Distractions’ gained 4* reviews in top publications such at the Financial Times and R2. The fiery 5 piece include guitar, drums, bass, trumpet, fiddle and lush harmonies, you will definitely leave wanting more.

Strike A Light Festival - Launch Night
2015-03-19 19:00 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Presented by Strike A Light Festival.
Kick off the festival with a brand new piece of spoken word theatre, I – dentity. This work in progress performed by Rider Shafique has been produced by Strike A Light and is part of our ongoing commitment to supporting exciting work by local artists.

Strike A Light Festival - Glorilla
2015-03-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Presented by Strike a Light Festival
French actress Gloria Delaneuf returns to Gloucester to talk about her life-changing experience with gorillas in the Kungalungalese Jungle. Following on from the award-winning Gloriator, Glorilla is the new show from female comedy double-act Spitz & Co.

Coffee Concert
2015-03-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Gloucester Cathedral
A coffee concert at Gloucester Cathedral with Allegra Giagu – soprano, Nicole Panizza – piano. Tickets £6 available on the door, includes refreshments.
All proceeds go towards the work of Gloucester Cathedral Choir

Hells Belles Vintage Fair at Blackfriars
2015-03-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Blackfriars Priory, Ladybellegate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2HN, United Kingdom

Strike A Light Festival - Touch
2015-03-21 19:30 - 20:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Touch by Boy Blue Entertainment
Presented by Strike a Light Festival
Get up close and personal with street dance phenomenon and Barbican Artistic Associate Boy Blue Entertainment . Artistic Directors Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante lay on an intimate evening of beats and moves at the Guildhall. With the main hall transformed into a cabaret-style stage and bar, this is a rare opportunity to see the boys raw and unplugged.

Strike A Light Festival - Writing Workshop
2015-03-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Would you like to write about theatre but don’t know how to get started? Are you already reviewing and looking for new approaches and ideas? Join critic and blogger Maddy Costa for an informal workshop looking at broadsheet reviews, blogs, and everything in between.
Maddy writes about theatre and music for Exeunt and the Guardian, and is the co-founder of Dialogue, an organisation dedicated to forging new relationships between people who make, watch and write about theatre.

Lunchtime Organ Recital
2015-03-26 12:30 - 13:15 | Gloucester Cathedral
The Cathedral will be hosting a lunchtime organ recitial on Thursday 26 March at 12.30pm.
The recital will be sponsored by the Michael James Trust and Joe Laming – Organ Scholar – will be performing.
Admission is free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music

'Living Stones' at Gloucester Cathedral
2015-03-27 10:30 - 12:30 | Gloucester Cathedral
New for 2015 ‘Living Stones’. A unique behind the scenes opportunity to visit the Masons Workshop and meet the team. Our Master Mason will lead you on a tour of the workshop before guiding you round the Cathedral looking at mason’s work, past and present

THE WAY OF THE CROSS
2015-04-03 10:00 | Gloucester Cathedral
A dramatic presentation through the streets of Gloucester; gather at the Cathedral

ROYAL MARINES ASSOCIATION CONCERT BAND
2015-04-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Gloucester Cathedral
The Royal Marines Association Concert Band will perform at Gloucester Cathedral with support from the Innsworth Military Wives Choir.

ROYAL MARINES ASSOCIATION CONCERT BAND
2015-04-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Gloucester Cathedral
On the 11th of April the Royal Marines Association Concert Band will perform at Gloucester Cathedral with support from the Innsworth Military Wives Choir

Toyah and The Humans
2015-04-14 19:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
In 2015 Toyah Willcox and her band The Humans will not only begin recording their fourth album but embark on a UK tour of five confirmed intimate live dates, Telling Strange Tales .
The Humans are an innovative, contemporary rock band comprising Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong . The group brings together three lifetimes of musical experience, experimentation and craftsmanship.

Shaun of the Dead LIVE
2015-04-16 19:30, 2015-04-17 19:30 | Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Glooucester, GL1 1NS, United Kingdom
Belief from Simon Pegg and Working Title together with Universal Pictures is about to put Almost Legal Productions on the map. They cut their teeth with several of the most difficult to stage productions. This has enabled ALP to work extensively on creating one of the most all out zombie UK comedy favourites on to stage. With audience participation, goody bags with all the kit required to take part, songs and dances, ALP are set to bring you life after death!
