Towcester Area WW1 Commemoration

Towcester Area WW1 Commemoration - current list of events
Date	Event	Where	To be organised by
Jan- May 2014	Biography competition. Closing date for entries 31^st May 2014.		Brian Giggins (and Sue Ingram)
19 Mar10-12	Training and guidance on accessing military and family history resources for researching WW1 lives.	Towcester Library	Phil Hemming
Wed 21 May Thu 22 May	“Killed”, a play by the Looking Glass Theatre directed by James Smith, in conjunction with Sponne School.	St.Lawrence	John Morris, Ben Phillips.
Sat 2 Aug	Blakesley Show (President Mr A.G.Paton) and Blakesley Church (Revd Carolyn Oley) will have events.	Blakesley	Martin MarixEvans liaising.
Sun 3 Aug	Blakesley Church will have a special service.	Blakesley	Martin MarixEvans liaising.
Sun 3 Aug	A remembrance parade at the Sunday Service. There is a potential conflict with an RBL county event.	St.Lawrence	Towcester RBL and Revd. Ben Phillips.
Aug 2014	Exhibition at Towcester Library	Library	Phil Hemmings.
Aug 2014	First panel for the library exhibition. History of the origins of the war, from the military manoeuvres of 1913 to the end of 1914	Library	Margaret Webb, John Sunderland
Fri 12 Sept	Greens Norton Community Choir singing contemporary popular songs.	RBL club at G. Norton	Jonathan Kingsley-Smith
Sat 13 Sept	WW1 themed exhibitions at the RBL clubhouse WW1 food, recreations, costumes, beers.	Greens Norton RBL	Robbie Paice
Sat 13 Sept	“Show and Tell” for WW1 memorabilia, not necessarily from our area. Photograph items, record oral history	Chantry House	John Morris, A.N.Other
Sun 21 Sept Sun 19 Oct Sun 16 Nov	Discussion and/or debate	tba	Revd. Ben Phillips.
Thu 25 Sept	“Life in Towcester during WW1”, a lecture	Library	Brian Giggins
Thur 16 Oct 7.30-9.30	A poetry event covering before and after the war, not just life in the trenches.	Library	Martin Johns.
Fri 24 Oct	Turn Towcester Town Hall into a cinema, showing WW1 related films. Period dresses? Volunteers from Waitrose?	Town Hall, mid week	Martin Johns, Waitrose
Sat 8 Nov	A WW1 concert, with the Studio Band and the Choral Society. Profits to the RBL poppy appeal. Tickets at the door.	St.Lawrence	John Morris. Help from WI. Budget?
before 11 Nov	Lecture “The Death of the 48^th Regiment of Foot ...”	Town Hall	Martin MarixEvans
Date tba	Computer presentation on 1913 for schools, perhaps incorporating the 1916 movies of the Somme (IWM)		Martin MarixEvans (and John Kliene).
1918	Publication on the Towcester Area and the Great War based on the RoH essays and other WW1 research.		whom?
	A re-enactment event at the Museum, similar to that at its official opening.	Towcester Museum.	Feasibility needs investigating.
Last updated on 5^th March 2014. David Wilcock