The second Abingdon Passion Play will be performed on Sunday 13 March 2016 and there will be two performances at 11am and 3pm on the Market Place. Running time is about 90 minutes. Some of the cast were out and about on Saturday handing out fliers.
As a result there will be a road closure in front of the County Hall Museum.
The first Abingdon Passion Play in 2013 took place in the Abbey Meadows, and the Guildhall. Here is a video made from stills and movies done on this blog at the time:
The Friends of Abingdon Museum have organised a talk on the artist and printmaker John Piper. John Piper was also a master of modern stained glass, and a photographer. An example of his stained glass can be seen in St. Helen’s Church, as well as other churches in this area. Photographs he took of Abingdon can be seen in the Tate Collection.
The talk, by Revd Ian Browne, is to be held at the Amey Theatre at Abingdon School on 3rd March 2016 at 7:30pm. Tickets at £10 include a complimentary drink and are available from boxoffice@abingdon.org.uk, the Newbury Building Society, Mostly Books, and The Bookstore.
It was Valentine’s Day today, and in Abingdon Museum, as part of The Nature of Art Exhibition, there is an exhibit by Diccon Dadey called The ‘Guess How Much I Love You?’ Hare, inspired by the popular Children’s book of the same name.
On Saturday 20th both the artists will be there: Bill Pike, with his large canvasses showing rippling water, and Diccon Dadey, with animals wrought from metal. I had expected be there, but cannot make it now. If anybody can do a report I would be very pleased.
Next to the Local Excellence Market, this morning, campaigners, intent on saving the Oxfordshire Children;s Centres from closure, were asking people to pledge not to vote for ANY County Councillor who votes for the closure of the Childrens Centres in next week’s budget meeting.
At South Abingdon Children’s Centre this afternoon there was a Wassail. It was the second year this event has taken place.
The children;s centre was open for activities and free refreshments. It often acts as a Community Centre as well as a Children’s Centre.
Outside in the grounds of Caldecott School there was dancing by the Vale Islanders and Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.
Mulled apple juice was heating on an open fire in the forest school area.
and down in the orchard area a traditional wassail poem was recited to the apple trees.
Trees were festooned with ribbons and hung with toast for the birds to feed on. Then everybody made a loud noise to awaken new life in the trees.
The loudest noise came from the Vale Islanders who have obtained a couple of muskets.