What’s on in the Newark Advertiser area July 11 to July 19
A round-up of club meetings, community events and theatre and music shows for the week ahead.
Thursday, July 11
Balderton: Library, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for babies and toddlers, 2.30pm-3pm
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Mini Museum activities for under 5s, term-time only, 10.30am
Newark: Gallery 6, Whispers exhibition by Ann Pollard, to July 27
Newark: Town Hall Spotlight Gallery, exhibition by The Grey Bear Artists’ Collective and Tillbridge Art Group, to July 20
Newark: Town centre, book bench trail, to September
Newark: Market Place, Newark Book Festival literature village, to Sunday; Smoke And Mirrors Swing Dance, noon-1pm
Newark: Parish Church, Little Roars Musical Play, 10am-10,40am
Newark: Palace Theatre, Newark Book Festival, The Missing with Michael Rosen, 1.30pm; An Interview with Mark Billingham and Abir Mukherjee, 7pm
Newark: Chapel Antiques Centre, Newark Book Festival Wine and Words, 4pm
Nottingham: Annie’s Burger Shack, Lachlan Bryan
Southwell: Minster Palace Gardens, 21st Century Abba, 7pm
Friday, July 12
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, Simon And Garfunkel: Through The Years, 7.30pm
Newark: Market Place, Newark Book Festival: Play With Your Food – Ally Pally Arts Story Emporium, 10am-3.30pm
Newark: Town Hall, Newark Book Festival – poetry workshop with Joseph Coelho, 10am; The Lost Paths with Jack Cornish, 1pm; My! My !Abba Through The Ages, 3pm; An Evening With Tom Cox, 7pm
Newark: Beanblock, Newark Book Festival – storytime with Frances Stickley, 10.30am
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Newark Book Festival – Beyond The Blue with Broken Instruments, 10.30am; bookmaking and journalling, 11am; Crime Fiction with Kate Rhodes and Victoria Dowd, 1pm; Folk Games with Ivan Brett, 4pm
Newark: Stray’s, Joshing About, 7.30pm
Southwell: Library, Children’s Lego Club, 3.30pm-4.30pm; and tomorrow, 10am-noon
Southwell: Minster Palace Gardens, An Evening Of Motown, 7pm
Winthorpe: Newark Showground, Unity Fest, to Monday
Saturday, July 13
Caunton: Floral media, open gardens for National Garden Scheme, 10am-4pm
Lincoln: Engine Shed, Embrace
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, From Gold To Rio, 7.30pm
Newark: Stray’s, Dickie Baker Trio, 1pm
Newark: Town Hall, Newark Book Festival – Battle of the Genres, 9.30am; An Interview with Joseph Knox, 11.15am; Spies And Thrillers with Tammy Cohen and Nicci French, 1.30pm; Olympic Moments with John Goodbody, 3.30pm
Newark: Market Place, Newark Book Festival – Shed Of Stories, 10am-4pm
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Newark Book Festival – Brian Clough The Lost Tapes with Marcus Alton, 10am; Teatime At Peggy’s: A Glimpse Of Anglo-Saxon India with Clare Jenkins, 2pm; Orenda Historical Fiction with Essie Fox and A. J. West, 4pm
Newark: Inspire, Buttermarket, Newark Book Festival – Play in an inspiring way drop-in, noon-4pm
Newark: National Civil War Centre, start of Newark Through Time town tour, 1.30pm
Newark: Palace Theatre, Newark Book Festival – Count Magnus Ghost Stories, The M. R. James Project, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Rescue Rooms, Mangata Festival
Rufford: Country Park, Summer superpower trail, to September 3
Southwell: Minster, tour of minster, 10.30am-11.45am; tour of the Archbishop’s Palace and Palace Gardens, 12.15pm-1.15pm; An Evening Of Radiohead, 7.30pm
Sunday, July 14
Bottesford: Off A52, carboot sale, 7am-1pm
Newark: Gannets, Morning News, 10am
Newark: Market Place, Newark Book Festival – UrbanCanvas Word Art, 10am; Beetlejuice Wacky Walkabout, 1pm and 2pm; Daisy The Play, walkabout 11am-noon
Newark: Castle, Newark Book Festival – fun day, 10am-4pm; tower open, 10am-2pm
Newark: Riverside Park, Meet Me At The Benches, storytelling with Emma Oldham, 10.30am
Newark: Inspire Buttermarket, Newark Book Festival – New Uses For A Wand with Five Leaves New Poets, 10am-11am
Newark: Town Hall, Newark Book Festival – Five-a-side: Young Ambassadors Vs Authors and Illustrators, 10.30am; How To Raise A Viking And Live Danishly with Helen Russell, 1pm; Red Side Story with Jasper Fforde, 2.45pm
Newark: Palace Theatre, Newark Book Festival – Confessions Of A Teletubby with Nikky Smedley, 11.30am
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Newark Book Festival – Highway Cello with Kenneth Wilson, 11.30am; Historical Buildings: Mythbusting with Dr James Wright, 2pm; Reggie Houser Has The Power with Helen Rutter, 4.30pm
Newark: Flying Circus, The Whiskey Flowers, 4pm
Nottingham: Theatre Royal,Defying Gravity: West End Women, 7.30pm
Rufford: Country Park, Madmog Classic Car Rally, 10am-4pm
Southwell: Minster, guided tour, 1.30pm-2.30pm
Thoresby: Park, courtyard market
Monday, July 15
Newark: Parish Church, Toddle Together, 9.30am-11am
Southwell: Library, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for babies and toddlers, 9.30am-10am; followed by Stay And Play
Tuesday, July 16
Nottingham: Bodega, Single Mothers – Negative Qualities ten-year anniversary
Southwell: Library, Storyhullaballoo for under 5s, 4pm-4.30pm
Wednesday, July 17
Newark: Newark Service Club, Age Concern summer social with refreshments, bingo and raffle, 1pm-4pm
Nottingham: Theatre Royal, Re-take That, 7.30pm
Southwell: Minster, tour of The Archbishop’s Palace and Palace Gardens, 10.30am-11.30am
Thursday, July 18
Balderton: Library, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for babies and toddlers, 2.30pm-3pm
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Mini Museum activities for under 5s, term-time only, 10.30am
Newark: Palace Theatre, The Drifters, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Royal Concert Hall, Sarah Millican: Late Bloomer, 8pm, to Sunday
Southwell: Minster, Peter Eugene Ball: An Exhibition of Working Drawings, to August 4
Friday, July 19
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, Soul Kinda Wonderful, 7.30pm
Newark: Stray’s Fiona Stein, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Theatre Royal, English Youth Ballet: Giselle, 7.30pm; plus 2.30pm and 7.30pm tomorrow
Nottingham: Playhouse, Women Of The Windrush, 7.30pm
Rufford: Country Park, Vicar Of Dibley comedy dinner show
Southwell: Library, Children’s Lego Club, 3.30pm-4.30pm; and tomorrow, 10am-noon
Southwell: Minster, Music Foundation Summer Concert, 7.30pm
