Date for your diary: Horsell Bowling Club’s new season

Horsell Bowling Club’s new season starts on Saturday 14^th April 2012, the ideal time to come along and see whether bowls is the game for you.

The club has invested in training new coaches, who will be happy to show anyone who is interested the rudiments of the game. Novice and experienced players are welcome for a try out, chat and have coffee at our clubhouse in Queen Elizabeth Gardens, next to Horsell Village Hall.

All equipment is provided, just wear flat shoes.

Phone 01483 480131 or email valjo.challiss@sky.com for more details.

Tricia Nigh – Communications Officer, Horsell Bowling Club

Volunteers required for Horsell Village Show: 21st July

Our annual Horsell Village Show will be held on Saturday 21st July 2012 at Horsell CofE Junior School in Meadway Drive.

It’s a great afternoon out for all the family and gates open at 2pm.  For more information contact us at www.horsellvillageshow.co.uk

This year we are particularly looking for volunteers to help for about an hour on Friday 20th July from about 5pm and also from 2pm on the afternoon of Saturday 21st July.

If you can spare an hour, please contact us at www.horsellvillageshow.co.uk or call 01483 762621.

Diane Fagence.

What’s on in Horsell 27th February-4th March 2012

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Mon 27th: Live jazz from Panama Café Orchestra at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Tues 28th: Storytelling for under 5s at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 11-11.40am. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Horsell Village WI are hosting a Spring Fashion Show by Edinburgh Woollen Mill in Horsell Village Hall. Starts at 8pm, £1 for visitors to cover entrance and refreshments. For more information contact 01483 760436.

Pub quiz at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Weds 29th: Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Thurs 1st: Tour of the Ingram Collection at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 11-11.30am. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 to book.

The Horsell Afternoon branch of the Women’s Institute (WI) is meeting at 2pm in Horsell Village Hall for Dylan Thomas: his life and work by Jonathan Jones. Visitors are always welcome. Call 01483 475 341 or email beryl.dunham2@btinternet.com for details.

Evening quilt club: come and make quilts for charity or work on your own projects at Needle and Thread, High Street. A social group – no tuition given. Every Thursday evening 7.30-9.30pm, just turn up. Call 01483 760 059 for details.

Fri 2nd: Free day Friday at RHS Wisley. (I know it’s not in Horsell…)

Live music from NRG at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Sat 3rd: Monthly Horsell conservative councillors’ surgery. Beryl Hunwicks & Tony Branagan are available in the Red Lion, High Street on the first Saturday of the month, 11am-noon to discuss any issues you may have relating to council services.

Collegium Regale Concert

At 8pm on Thursday 12th April, Collegium Regale, a group of seven choral scholars and an organ scholar from the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, will once again be giving a concert in St Andrew’s Church, Goldsworth Park in aid of the Woking Hospice.

The King’s College Choir is world famous for its annual TV and radio broadcasts of “Carols from Kings”. On this occasion Collegium Regale will be performing a varied and highly entertaining programme which includes madrigals, sacred music, folk and pop songs, all unaccompanied, and some pieces of organ music. Refreshments will be served during the interval and the concert will end about 10 pm.

Tickets cost £15 and are available from Mike and Rosie Lipscomb on 01483 760655 or from Gill Bond at the Hospice on 01483 881752.

Mike Lipscomb

Could you be a Horsell Village Hall trustee?

The Horsell Village Hall AGM will take place on Monday 23rd April at 8.00 pm in the Horsell Village Hall.

The Trustees are looking for volunteers who would be interested in filling either of the two vacancies which have arisen for Horsell Village Hall Trustees.

If you are interested and would like further information please contact Roger Chamberlain on 01483 723832 or Dorothy Smith on 01483 836031.

What’s on in Horsell 20-26th February 2012

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Mon 20th: Live jazz from Golden Eagle Jazz Band at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Tues 21st: Tour of the Transmitter/Receiver exhibition at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 12.30-1pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Lovely Music Night at The Crown pub, 104 High Street. Call 01483 771719 for details.

Weds 22nd: Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Thurs 23rd: Informal wine tasting group ‘Martian wine club’ is hosting a tasting of sparkling wines at a member’s house in Horsell. For further details email martianwineclub@fastmail.fm or sign up to the Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/223743157654244/

Evening quilt club: come and make quilts for charity or work on your own projects at Needle and Thread, High Street. A social group – no tuition given. Every Thursday evening 7.30-9.30pm, just turn up. Call 01483 760 059 for details.

Fri 24th: Horsell Neighbourhood Team of Surrey Police is holding their regular daytime surgery at St Mary’s, Churchill, during their coffee morning, between 10.30am and 12pm.

Painting for under 5s at The Lightbox, Chobham Road, 11-11.45am. £3 per child, accompanying adult free. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Sat 25th: Lions International Woking Club presents a concert at St Mary’s, Church Hill, by Weybridge Male Voice Choir, raising money for local causes. £10 including interval drink. Call 01483 755232 for details.

Call for entries for the Surrey Open Art Competition

This spring marks the return of the biennial Surrey Open Art Competition to The Lightbox gallery and museum. If you or anyone you know may be interested in entering the competition this is the right time to start getting creative as submission days are on the 23, 24 and 25 March.

Launched in 2008, the competition aims to showcase the thriving art community of the region, and is open to residents of Surrey as well as those who work or study in the county.

The Lightbox imposes no restrictions on theme requesting only that the work submitted reflects a contemporary feel. Entrants from a diverse range of disciplines are welcome, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and textiles.

Successful works will be showcased in the Surrey Open Art Exhibition, 3 April–13 May, in the stunning double height gallery at The Lightbox. As well as the opportunity to have work on display at a multi-award winning gallery and museum, there is also a chance to win the Judges’ Prize of £500, the Peoples’ Prize of £250 and The Ingram Sculpture Prize of £250.

Application forms can be downloaded from www.thelightbox.org.uk or are available on request from The Lightbox Reception.

From The Lightbox press office.

Local choir to perform “Haydn’s greatest composition”

Joseph Haydn’s acclaimed “Nelson Mass” is the main work in our Spring Concert to be held in the H G Wells Hall on Saturday 31st March 2012. It has long been one of the composer’s most popular works and is considered by his chief biographer H.C. Robbins Landon to be “arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition”.

Written for Haydn’s patrons the Esterházy family of Austria, at a time of great turmoil within Europe, when Napoleon’s armies were in the ascendency, having won four major battles in Austria and even threatening Vienna itself, Haydn gave the composition its title Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times). While Haydn was at work on his Mass, the British fleet, under Nelson, was triumphant over the French at Abukir in the “Battle of the Nile”. Haydn would not have been aware of the battle, as news of the decisive victory was not to reach Vienna for several weeks. It was only when Nelson and Lady Hamilton passed through Austria in September 1800 and stayed at Eisenstadt Castle as guests of Prince Esterházy that the work was given its new title “Nelson Mass”. It was performed in his honour and so became generally known by this title.

By contrast, another Mass is also being performed, this time written during the peace and calm that followed the second world war. It is the Requiem op.9 by the French composer Maurice Duruflé, written in 1947 and considered to be his crowning achievement.

We will be accompanied by the Bartholdy Chamber Orchestra, augmented by an Organ and conducted by our Musical Director Ben Palmer.

Tickets will be £15 full (£14 for parties of ten or more) or £8 for students. They can be booked online at www.wokingchoral.org.uk or obtained from H G Wells Centre Box Office or the Lightbox, Chobham Road or Christ Church Shop, Town Square, Woking or Brittens Music, 13 The Broadway, Woodham.

Avril Blagbrough – Press Officer, Woking Choral Society

Horsell Jubilation! Can you help?

Have you heard that Horsell is organising its own celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee? 

The main event will be the largest street party that Horsell has ever seen with the whole village coming together for a big lunch, games and fun.

Younger residents are interviewing older residents about their memories of the village over the decades and plans to build a commemorative website are underway.

We want to ensure that as many people as possible get involved to make this an event to remember…

…and that is where we need your help!

Would you help spread the word to your neighbours? 

We’re very lucky to be able to communicate through our local schools, churches and community groups. But we need to reach beyond those channels to ensure that everyone in Horsell receives their invitation for Sunday 3rd June. That’s where you come in! 

What would you do as a ‘Road Rep’?

Simply…

• Make sure your neighbours know about the event by delivering the leaflets with event details. There will be one update like this every month so watch out for news.
• Act as a contact for your road, receiving and returning information such as how many people are coming
• Help to ensure that everyone can get involved on the day

How do you volunteer?

Simply follow this link or go to www.horselljubilation.net to add your name as the ‘Road Rep’ for your Street, Close, Avenue or block of flats! Then help us get the party started! Once you’ve signed-up you can also join the ‘Road Rep’ Facebook group.

Please print out and pin this message up at your local community groups and forward it by email to all your Horsell friends. 

It’s a VILLAGE celebration, organised BY the village, FOR the village!

Save the date: Sunday 3rd June 2012

Tony Kremer – Horsell Residents’ Association

What’s on in Horsell 13-19th February 2012

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Mon 13th: Live jazz from Otis B Driftwood Showband at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, from 8.30pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Tues 14th: Collage cards family workshop at The Lightbox, Chobham Road. Suitable or children age 4+. Drop in 1.30-4pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Quiz night at The Cricketers pub, Horsell Birch, from 8pm. Call 01483 762363 for details.

Weds 15th: Art journal workshop at The Lightbox, Chobham Road. Suitable for 8 to 16 year olds. £6.50. 1-2.30pm and 3-4.30pm. Call 01483 737837 to book.

Horsell Runners regular run, starts at 7.45pm from outside the Beijing Restaurant, High Street. Just come along or contact info@horsellrunners.org.

Thurs 16th: Geometric patterns family workshop at The Lightbox, Chobham Road. Suitable or children age 4+. Drop in 1.30-4pm. Free entry, donations welcome. Call 01483 737837 for details.

Farmers’ market (Woking town centre), 9am-2.30pm.

Evening quilt club: come and make quilts for charity or work on your own projects at Needle and Thread, High Street. A social group – no tuition given. Every Thursday evening 7.30-9.30pm, just turn up. Call 01483 760 059 for details.

Sun 19th: Guided heritage walk around Horsell, 2-4pm, starts from opposite the Crown, High Street. Free. “A gentle stroll taking in the history of Horsell Moor, the canal and the Church Hill and High Street Conservation Area of Horsell village.”