There are a number of Abingdon venues open for Oxfordshire Artweeks this week. St Ethelwolds has art from Berlin in an exhibition called ‘For your walls’.
Downstairs the work of Walter Lindner (1936-2007) is being exhibited –
finishing 6pm this Sunday (22nd). Simon, who runs the exhibition, is a fan and wants to make Walter’s work better known.
Upstairs in the Sanctuary are some other Berlin print makers including one by a ‘German Banksy’.
Meanwhile this coming Saturday at Mind, in the Charter, from 10am – 1pm there is a second chance to see their exhibition on Identify, and even create artwork yourself.
Using sculpture, painting/drawing, photography and the written word, the exhibition looks at who we are, what we know about ourselves, how we acquire our identities and what happens when we lose a positive or coherent sense of self.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Two Gambling Shops Close
The Stan James betting shop in Abingdon’s High Street appears to have closed. The Stan James online business was taken over by Unibet, who now own the name. I read that the remaining 80 UK betting shops need to be renamed in the near future.
Another local gambling machine shop is also closed until further notice.
The government has increased the tax on gambling machines. It is now at 20% for machines taking more than 20p bets, 25% for machines that allow bets of £5 and over.
Setting the Church on fire at Pentecost
At Trinity Church this morning Revd. Ian Griffiths had put up a large banner, one he made more than a decade ago. It looked amazing to people coming into the church who had not seen it before.
It was to celebrate Pentecost, the birth of the church.
Museums at Night – Abingdon
Thanks to Malvin for sending this report… Abingdon County Hall Museum was open from 6pm to 9pm for Museums at Night on 14th May 2016. There were lots of exhibits to look round as well as musical performances.
Ben Heaney owns a very rare Fender Violin. It is a model that never went into full production, and so is more rare than a Stradivarius. He started the proceedings by actually playing it for 30 minutes.
The Oxford Horn Quartet followed his performance in the Gallery.
First performer on the roof terrace was Sarah Fell with some folk songs.
The Oxford Waits performed later as the sun began to go down.
Also performing was a young lady, who the Oxford Waits persuaded to sing a song, and then improvised alongside. Malvin said it was ‘brilliant’.
Malvin also took some video clips which I uploaded to Youtube.