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Enjoy Caseys
Cordingley Hall
this Autumn
WITH AUTUMN
night’s drawing
in it’s easy to become
a couch
potato. But to avoid the cold
nights turning into boredom
Caseys Cordingley Hall has
a packed month to celebrate
all things spooky. Launching
with a family cabaret night
where well behaved kids are
welcome to join the cabaret
team for a family meal and
show featuring all the heroes
and villains they know and
love. Think Disney, musicals
and popular characters bad
and good.
Also, they’re pleased to
announce the talented Debs
Musical Theatre Productions
will join in the fun to
take over one of their show
sections. Please do support
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local talent and enjoy a fantastic
meal, too. Next there’s
one not for the kids, their ladies
night. A fun way to raise
money for a good cause and
boasting this year the Cherry
Waiters join the line up, tickets
are flying, so get the girls
together for a fun night.
A lively weekend follows
which couldnt really be
much different Live Motown
band Free Fallin’ and DJ
Clive Jones host a Magic
of Motown followed by Lady
Jayne Von camp with a
Rocky Horror Show tribute.
A great way to start the Halloween
season.
During Half term the Mini
Stars team have a musical
theatre camp running so parents
send your kids there,
they’ll stage a spooky show.
At the weekend there’s a
Halloween family party for all
the family and the return of
Dance of the Dead, strictly
over 18s, a real horror fest.
EVENTS AROUND THE WREKIN
UNTIL 30 OCTOBER Wrekin
Branch of the Embroiders’
Guild Summer Exhibition,
Much Wenlock Guildhall,
small entry fee payable to enter
the Guildhall, details on
01952 727509
FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER 6.00pm,
Wellington Literary Festival,
Children’s Presentation Evening,
Wellington Civic Centre
Main Hall. Invitation only.
SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, Meet
the authors, poets, storytellers
and iullustrators, Wellington
Library, 10.00am to 3.00pm,
meet Catherine Cooper, Natalie
Furnival, Richard Denning,
Elizabeth Leaper, Georgina
Kirk and Ann Scuntlebury.
Arty Party Stall, in Hathaways
Café.
MONDAY 6 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, The
Big Read, Coffee and Cream,
Bell Street, Wellington, 2pm
(The Big Read Groups will be
discussing A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Dog,” by
Dylan Thomas).
SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival, All
Saints Church, Church Street,
Wellington, 7.30pm, Three
Witnesses, a re-telling of the
Gospel of Luke. (Warning:
Contains swearing.)
MONDAY 6 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, Professor
John Goodby, Under
the Spelling Wall, the poetry
of Dylan Thomas, 7.30pm, All
Saints Church Parish Centre,
Church Walk, Wellington
TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, Literary
Walk with Marc Petty,
Outside All Saints Church,
10.30am to 12.30pm, explore
the literary heritage of Wellington,
organised by LA 21.
TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, Crime
in the Great War, Wellington Library,
7.30pm, author Edward
Marston, best-selling author of
the Railway Detective series,
talks about his novels set on
the Home Front during the
Great War.
WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival
Wellington Library, Meet local
author Al James, 7.30pm
SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER,
Wellington Literary Festival,
Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate,
Wrekin Memorial Hall,
Wrekin College, 7.30pm
TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, The
Big Read, Sofia’s Café, New
Street, Wellington, 2.30pm
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
The Big Read, Wellington Leisure
Centre Café, 10.00am.
FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER, Wellington
Literary Festival, Belmont
Hall, New Street, Wellington,
Snailbeach Tails,
myths, magic and more with
local author Julia Dean-Richards
reads from her novel,
7.30pm
MONDAY 13 OCTOBER, Wellington
Literary Festival, Richard
Bifield, All Saints Church
Parish Centre, Church Walk,
Wellington, Thomas Telford:
road, canal, bridge builder,
poet! 7.30pm
TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival, White
House Hotel, Wellington, Mark
Sisson, A Most Rare Vision,
Photographing Shropshire
from the air, 7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
Wellington Library, Wellington
History Group, with Allan
Frost, Wellington 1900 to
1919. 7.30pm
THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
Wellington Library, Finding the
Moon Field, with author Judith
Allnatt, 7.30pm
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Wellington
Literary Festival, The
Old Orleton, Book Group with
Judith Allnatt, an informal discussion
with Judith on her
novel, Finding the Moon Field,
10,00am
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Wellington
Literary Festival,
Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits,
All Saints Church, Church
Street, Wellington, Help actor
Lance Pierson celebrate the
450 birthday of William Shakespeare,
with sonnets and extracts
from his plays. Lance
is accompanied by pianist
Heather Chamberlain and soprano
Belinda Yates, 7.30pm
SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
Meet the authors, poets, storytellers
and illustrators, Wrekin
Writer’s Workshops, 10.00am
‘til 4.00pm, the workshops are
independent of the Wellington
Literary Festival and there is a
charge for these events. For
details check the festival programme
or book with Darren
Bailey on 01952 405178. This
year the workshops are run by
Jeff Phelps. (http://jeffphelps.
co.uk)
SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
Wellington Library, Jan Watts,
former poet laureate of Birmingham,
Wellington Library,
7.30pm
MONDAY 20 OCTOBER, Wellington
Literary Festival, Wellington
Registry Office, Larkin
Way, Wellington, John Milton
Lost and Regained, Roger
Pooley and Jonathon Shears,
lecturers at Keele University,
7.30pm
TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER,
Wellington Literary Festival,
The Big Read, Pheasant Inn,
Market Street, Wellington,
10.00am
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival
Poems and Pints, The Old
Wrekin Tap, Hosted by published
poet Tony Stringfellow,
7.30pm. Read your poems,
read other people’s poems,
listen to poems and sup some
pints, 7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER
AGM and Journey in Stitch,
a slide show and a piece of
hand stitch, with Henrietta
Ellis, Wrekin Branch of the
Embroiders’ Guild, St John’s
Church and Community Centre,
Saltwells Drive, Muxton,
TF2 8RJ, 7.30pm, members
£3, visitors £5.
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival
Wrekin College Centenary
Theatre, The Path to Milk
Wood, with Colin Pinney,
7.30pm
FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER Wellington
Literary Festival,
Wrekin College Memorial Hall,
Life, Death, Love and War, with
Sally Vickers, 7.30pm
SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
Wellington Library, Meet the
authors, poets, storytellers
and illustrators, with Simon
Whaley, Mollie Bolt, Diane
Perry, Phyllis Blakemore, Tom
Bryson, 10.00am to 2.00pm.
SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER
Wellington Literary Festival,
Wellington Library, Simon Jarman
MBE, ‘Letter From the
Front’ from James Speight,
20th Battalion Durham Light
Infantry, 7.30pm.
WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER
(to 1 November) Oakengates
Theatre, Oakengates,
Anything Goes, presented by
TADLOP, 7.30pm Wednesday
to Saturday, Matinee 2.30pm,
Saturday, Adults £14, concessionary
£12, Children £10,
a £2 fee is applicable to all
bookings, 01952 382382,
www.theplacetelford.com,
www.tadlop.com.