Regular street markets are held on Castle Square on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, with additional summer Wednesday markets from April to September.
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What's On in Ludlow in October
TODAYS DATE IS: 09 September 2010
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| 22 September 2010:- Introduction to Welsh, |
| Time: 19.00 - 20.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 06/10/2010 Wednesday 22 & 29 Sept and 6 October. A taster in Welsh, with useful words and phrases to get you started in this beautiful language. For age 16+, Gallery, £15 (£12 concessions) for all 3 sessions, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 01 October 2010:- Academy of St Martin in the Fields, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 01/10/2010 Kenneth Sillito, leader and director, guitar soloist Morgan Szymanski. Programme: Villa Lobos (Bachianas Brasilieras, no. 9), Vivaldi (Concerto for guitar and string orchestra), Grieg (Holberg Suite), Alec Roth (Concerto for guitar and string orchestra), Suk (Serenade for strings). Auditorium, £18 (£15 concs), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2hrs, Programmes available, 6.30 – 7.15pm Pre-show talk by composer Alec Roth. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 01 October 2010:- Exhibition of Photography, |
| Time: 10.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 14/11/2010 Friday 1 October – Sunday 14 November. Exhibition of photographic work by Meg Hawkins, with subjects including families, animals, situations and locations, and fine arts nudes. Gallery and Café Gallery, free www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 02 October 2010:- Ludlow Autumn Craft and Gift Fair, |
| Time: 10.00 - 14.00 Venue: Ludlow College, Ends: 03/10/2010 We will be organising an Autumn Craft and Gift Fair at this venue together with a further two events booked for 2011. Car parking is available both at and in close proximity to the college. Entry is by donation and monies raised will go to the Shropshire Air Ambulance Appeal Fund www.avalonevents.net |
| 02 October 2010:- Motown’s Greatest Hits – How Sweet It Is, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 02/10/2010 The ultimate celebration of the sweet sound of Motown! Over 50 golden years of Motown music are remembered, from legendary artists such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, The Jackson Five, The Isley Brothers and many more. Auditorium, £19.50 (£18.50 concs), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2½ hrs, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 03 October 2010:- Antique & Flea Market, |
| Time: All Day Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 03/10/2010 |
| 03 October 2010:- Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinski (15), |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 05/10/2010 Dir: Jan Kounen, France, 2009, subtitled, 129 mins. This movie takes up Coco's story after the death of her lover Boy, just after WW1. Coco (Anna Mouglalis) attends the notorious first night of Stravinski's Rite of Spring, and is intrigued, but she doesn't meet up with the composer (Mads Mikkelsen) until several years later. When she invites him and his family to stay in her country mansion, they embark on a passionate affair. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 03 October 2010:- Rock, pop and blues guitar workshops, |
| Time: 10.30 and 14.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 03/10/2010 Local guitar expert (Soul Supply, The Kinkstones) and teacher Paul Wrightson will get beginners started, or help those with a few chords to start playing popular songs. Intermediate players will move into advanced chord work and riffs. Lead or bass guitar, bring your own guitar if you have one (loan may be possible – please call in advance). Beginners 10.30am – 1.30pm, Intermediate 2.30 – 5.30pm. For ages 16+, Studio, £15, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 06 October 2010:- Poetry Café, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 06/10/2010 First Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Bring your own or your favourite poems to read and discuss in convivial company. The themes for 6 October – Listening. Gallery, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 06 October 2010:- The Illusionist (cert tbc), |
| Time: see below Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 07/10/2010 Wed 6 Oct, 7.30, Thurs 7, 2pm & 7.30pm. Dir: Sylvain Chomet, UK/France, 2010, some subtitles, 90 mins. This beautifully animated film, by the maker of Belleville Rendez-Vous, is based on an unmade script by Jacques Tati. It features a struggling stage magician (looking a lot like M. Hulot) who sets up in Edinburgh and is befriended by young Alice, who is enchanted by the magic and desperate to believe that it is real. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 07 October 2010:- Craft & Country Market, |
| Time: All Day Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 07/10/2010 |
| 07 October 2010:- Ludlow Art Society, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 07/10/2010 An open invitation is extended to visitors to attend these monthly meetings. 7 October, Janey Jones. The National Gallery Collection - illustrated talk. Tickets £2 members, £3 visitors, Annual membership £15, for more information visit www.ludlowartsociety.org.uk - Studio www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 08 October 2010:- Knight and Day (12A), |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 10/10/2010 Fri 8 & Sun 10 Oct, 7.30pm. Dir: James Mangold, USA, 2010, 109 mins. A wham-bam, all-action romantic comedy. Cameron Diaz bumps into Tom Cruise in an airport – and finds herself in a non-stop blast of ditched planes, car chases, shoot-outs and general mayhem. If things would just calm down for a moment – could this be the man of her dreams? 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 08 October 2010:- Scottish Dinner with guitar entertainment, |
| Time: 19.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 08/10/2010 Enjoy the best of Scottish fare to the beautiful sounds of the guitar, played by David Jaggs. The menu includes traditional favourites such as cock’a’leekie soup, haggis if you like it (there’ll be a choice if you don’t!), plenty of neeps and tatties, and a pudding laced with whisky. David will play from his album Spirit of Scotland, and other music. Oscars, £19.95, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 09 October 2010:- Ludlow Music Society: Andrew Booth, guitar, |
| Time: 19:30 Venue: Moor Park, Richards Castle, Ends: 09/10/2010 A concert of solo guitar music, with works by Praetorius, Bach, Albeniz and others. Tickets bookable on-line. Season tickets also available - see website. £15 (students £5) www.ludlowmusicsociety.org.uk |
| 09 October 2010:- More Voulez Vous – the Mamma Mia Concert, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 09/10/2010 Voulez Vous perform a non-stop barrage of ABBA hits including all the songs from the highly successful show and film Mamma Mia, creating a musical atmosphere only surpassed by ABBA themselves. Voulez Vous will have you singing and dancing in the aisles, with a repertoire of pure ABBA music. Auditorium, £15.50 (£14.50 concs), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2hrs 20 mins, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 10 October 2010:- Book & Craft Market, |
| Time: 10.00 - 16.30 Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 10/10/2010 |
| 11 October 2010:- The Secret in their Eyes (18), |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 12/10/2010 Dir: Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina/Spain, 2010, subtitled, 129 mins. Moving backward and forwards in time, this superb movie gradually unravels a 25-year-old mystery, and observes a slow-burn love story that is - maybe - not as impossible as it seems. Filled with vivid characters, the story is absorbing, gripping and often funny. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 12 October 2010:- No Impact Man, |
| Time: 14.00 & 20.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 12/10/2010 Dir: Laura Gabbert/Justin Schein, USA, 2009, 93 mins. A guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one whole year. This means he has to turn off the electricity, stop making garbage, and give up TV, taxis and take outs and become a walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, local food eating citizen – while taking his baby daughter and caffeine-loving, retail obsessed, television addicted wife along with him. This is a DVD screening in Oscars. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 13 October 2010:- Civic Society Lectures, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 13/10/2010 David Burnett, publisher - Jane Austen’s Handkerchief – and other Grub Street memories - Monthly meetings in Oscars, open to all. Tickets available on the door. Lectures cost £2 members or £3 non-members. Become a member for £13 a year and receive the free magazine. Please call Rebecca Buteux on 01584 872 295 for more information www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 14 October 2010:- Ludlow Local Produce Market, |
| Time: 09.00 - 14.00 Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 14/10/2010 www.localtoludlow.org |
| 14 October 2010:- The Girl Who Played with Fire (15), |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 21/10/2010 Thurs 14, Sat 16, Mon 18, Tues 19 & Thurs 21 Oct, 7.30pm Dir: Daniel Alfredson, Sweden/Denmark/Germany, 2010, subtitled, 129 mins. The next instalment of the enthralling Millenium trilogy has computer hacker Lizbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in hiding, wanted by the police for a double murder. With enemies in high places who will stop at nothing to silence her, how on earth is she going to prove her innocence? 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 15 October 2010:- Julian Clary: Lord of the Mince, |
| Time: 20.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 15/10/2010 Julian has graciously agreed to extend his Lord of the Mince tour to bring even more joy to the people of Britain this autumn. “I can't stop now - I’m 50. The shame of it! This will be an intimate evening – a celebration, no less, of my twenty-five years in the camp spotlight: how I got there and why I refuse to leave. Come and see me before they put me in a home for tired old knackers.” For age 14+, Auditorium, £20 (£18 concs), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2hrs, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 16 October 2010:- Get started in Salsa!, |
| Time: 15.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 16/10/2010 This session will teach basic Salsa moves to complete beginners, or people whose technique is perhaps a little rusty. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. Oscars, £4, 1 1/2hrs, Bring a partner if you can, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 17 October 2010:- Antique & Flea Market, |
| Time: All Day Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 17/10/2010 |
| 17 October 2010:- Spiers and Boden, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 17/10/2010 Founding members of the brilliant 11-strong Bellowhead, Spiers and Boden have made the genre of spontaneous, punky English folk very much their own stomping ground, and have twice won the BBC Radio 2 folk award for Best Duo. Auditorium, £14 (£13 concs), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2hrs, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 22 October 2010:- Tamara Drewe (15), |
| Time: 19.30pm & 14.00 22 Oct Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 25/10/2010 Dir: Stephen Frears, UK, 2010, 111 mins. Frears directs this very English romp based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, and delivers a bulls-eye. Tamara is a journalist on a posh daily who returns to her home village after a transformational nose job, and proceeds to create havoc all around her – especially among the men. Gemma Arterton plays Tamara, with marvellous support from Roger Allam, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 22 October 2010:- The Arrival – Film and Classical Music, |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 22/10/2010 Critically acclaimed and mesmerizing, Fordante perform popular film music (The Godfather, Out Of Africa, Dr Zhivago, Pirates of the Caribbean) along with their tantalising blend of passionate, uplifting, worldly, classical music inspired by the sounds of Venice and Arabia, performed in their own evocative style. Suitable for anyone including those new to classical music. Oscars, £10 (£5 for under 16s), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2hrs, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 23 October 2010:- Showing Off, |
| Time: Sat & Sun Venue: Ludlow College, Ends: 24/10/2010 Contemporary Craft Show from 10.00 - 17.00 on Saturday and 10.00 - 16.00 on Sunday. |
| 24 October 2010:- Art Market, |
| Time: All Day Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 24/10/2010 |
| 25 October 2010:- Toy Story (U), |
| Time: see below Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 28/10/2010 Mon 25 Oct, 2pm, Tues 26, 7.30pm, Wed 27 & Thurs 28, 2pm. Dir: Lee Unkrich, USA, 2010, 108 mins. Buzz, Woody and the gang face an uncertain future as Andy gears up for college. When the toys unexpectedly land in a room full of untamed tots who can't wait to get their sticky little fingers on them, it's pandemonium as they try to stay together, ensuring www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 26 October 2010:- Make a film to go on YouTube, |
| Time: 13.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 26/10/2010 Get the skills to put a video up on You Tube. Working as a group you’ll learn the best filming techniques, and how to edit and upload your film. Camcorders provided. Suitable for age 12+, Oscars, £15 (£12 concs), 3 hrs, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 27 October 2010:- Castle Green Games Day, |
| Time: 10.00 - 15.30 Venue: Ludlow Castle, Ends: 27/10/2010 An interesting day full of activities for all the family: guided tours of the Castle, with our interpreter "Lady Caroline" bringing the castle and its history to life - 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Have a Go Archery and History Tent - all day. Birds of Prey - talk to our falconry expert and take the opportunity to get close up to these beautiful wild birds. Flying Displays Adult £6.00, Child (6-16) £3.00, Senior/Student £5.50 www.ludlowcastle.com/Pages/events.aspx |
| 27 October 2010:- Exotic Pets, |
| Time: 15.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 27/10/2010 This event was so popular last year that we’re offering another chance to get up close and personal with a variety of real exotic animals, including cuddly chinchillas, a bull frog, a python – and many more! For age 3+ and families, Studio, £5, 1 1/2hrs, www.cornerexotics.co.uk, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 27 October 2010:- The Big Draw drop-in workshop with Noelle Roberts, |
| Time: 17.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 27/10/2010 If you like drawing, pop in and get expert help and advice from professional artist Noelle Roberts. For all ages, but under 8s must be accompanied by an adult. Family workshop, free but ticketed, 2hrs, Gallery, www.campaignfordrawing.org/bigdraw www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 27 October 2010:- The Runaways (15), |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 28/10/2010 Dir: Floria Sigismondi, USA, 2010, 106mins. The Runaways were the first (very young) all-girl hard rock group from California who in the 70s shot to fame and enjoyed a couple of years of international success before drink, drugs and general excess caused the inevitable crash and burn. The film roars along in an exhilarating fashion powered by their music, and features brilliant performances from Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 28 October 2010:- Ludlow Local Produce Market, |
| Time: 09.00 - 14.00 Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 28/10/2010 www.localtoludlow.org |
| 29 October 2010:- The Elvis Legacy Show, |
| Time: 20.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 29/10/2010 Officially produced by Elvis Presley Productions, this show features Mark Summers. Mark has appeared with many of Elvis’ original band and was recently described as ‘The Closest to Elvis’. The Elvis Legacy takes you through the musical life of The King from the early 50s, all his movie hits, the 1968 Comeback, and finally the Early Vegas years. We will also be joined by The Las Vegas Showgirls and The American Dolls. Auditorium, £15 (£12.50 concs), children 12 and under go free, Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 2½ hrs, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 30 October 2010:- Chinatown (15), |
| Time: 19.30 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 30/10/2010 Classic Dir: Roman Polanski, USA, 1974, 125 mins. If you enjoyed The Ghost, be sure to catch this classic, the director’s earlier masterpiece. It's a film noir set in the 40s with a labyrinthine plot which is exquisitely unravelled over the course of the movie. Jack Nicholson gives a career best performance as private eye Jake Gittes, and Faye Dunaway is superb as Evelyn Mulwray. 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 30 October 2010:- Hallowe’en Party, |
| Time: 18.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 30/10/2010 Make crunchy bone sandwiches, Hallowe’en decorations and play games. For ages 6+, For details and to book contact Tanith Kinton 01584 876532, £3.50, Studio, 1 1/2hrs www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
| 31 October 2010:- Halloween Market, |
| Time: All Day Venue: Castle Square, Ends: 31/10/2010 |
| 31 October 2010:- The Hot Dots, |
| Time: 19.00 Venue: Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ends: 31/10/2010 An acrobatic love story. The beautiful, touching and thrilling story of Frank and Evie, Vaudeville performers who fell in love in the summer of 1932. So & So’s stunningly unique acrobatic performances makes The Hot Dots a show like no other…if you like your entertainment to keep you on the edge of your seat, then this is the show for you! Suitable for age 10+, Auditorium, £8 (£7 concs, £5 for under 16s), Limited number of free tickets are available to young people under 26, 1hr, Post-show talk, 01584 878141 www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk |
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