Monday 5 December
Friends’ Magical Christmas Party Introducing Bertie Pearce Bertie Pearce is a Member of The Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star and has performed all over the world in many weird and wonderful places - and is now coming to The Watermill Theatre - to entertain the Friends to make a very special magical evening. Bertie is widely sought after for close up magic and cabarets for private parties and fundraisers and has won many prestigious awards including the Carlton Comedy Award by the Magic Circle and twice won the award for Originality from The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Celebrate 2016 with magic and style and share a very special evening of fun, food and mystery. Please note that spaces are strictly limited, and early booking is advised.
Autumn/ Winter 2016
Tuesday 24 January 2017
SUPPER CLUB
The Boxford Masques The first event in the New Year and the inaugural Supper Club for the Friends in The Watermill’s 50th celebratory year will be with Ade Morris and Geraldine McCaughrean giving us a glimpse of what goes on in the creation of the Boxford Masques. This will be an opportunity to get a glimpse ‘behind the scenes’ of one of the region’s outstanding community/artistic productions.
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The Watermill will celebrate 50 years of producing great theatre in 2017. To acknowledge this significant milestone, we are launching a Name A Seat campaign. If you would like to Name A Seat, please contact the Development Department on 01635 570915.
NB: there will be an exhibition about the Boxford Masques opening at the West Berkshire Museum in Newbury in early October this year which will run until late April 2017. Price: £21 The bar opens at 6.30pm, supper served at 7.30pm, talk at 8.30pm. If you have any special dietary requirements please call the box office. Super clubs are unreserved seating.
Price: £39 Bar opens at 6.30pm and action begins at 7.30pm If you have any special dietary requirements please call the Box Office 01635 46044
Friday 9 September
Wednesday 7 December
After a sell-out workshop last year Alicia Billyeald from Wessex Flowers will run our Christmas Wreath Workshop again for 2016. Join us in the bar for coffee at 9.45am, along with a festive mince pie, before creating a gorgeous homemade wreath. There will be an opportunity to ‘upgrade’ with extras such as cinnamon sticks, orange slices, rosehips or be a little more extravagant with roses, berries and a luxury bow. Places are limited so early booking is advised. Price: £40 to include Christmas foliage, berries, fir cones and herbs, finished off with a raffia bow. (NB: Please bring your own secateurs)
The Watermill Antiques Fair Contact us
10am to 3pm
Friends’ Secretary, Julie Pearson, Tel: 01635 45834 Fax: 01635 523726, Email: admin@watermill.org.uk
The Watermill is holding its first fundraising Antiques Fair, hosting a good selection of antique and collectable stalls.
Booking Information watermill.org.uk BOX OFFICE 01635 46044
Come with a friend and enjoy browsing and buying.
There are a limited number of tickets for Friends’ events so you are advised to book early. The Watermill Theatre is a registered charity no: 261430 and receives core funding from
The Watermill Theatre & Restaurant, Bagnor, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 8AE
The bar will be serving a selection of light lunches, cakes, coffee and teas. Design and print by - kdp 01635 299507
Christmas Wreath Workshop
Entrance: £2 No pre-booking required and everyone is welcome. Prams are restricted to the bar area. Free parking.
Booking opens Tuesday 6 September at 10am
Tuesday 20 September
SUPPER CLUB Sandham Memorial Chapel Talk Alison Paton - Operations Manager (‘Custodian’) of The Sandham Memorial Chapel - and Susan Foster - Director of Fundraising for the National Trust - have generously both agreed to come and speak to the Friends about this extraordinary chapel and its history. This modest red-brick building tucked away in a quiet corner of Hampshire, was built in the 1920s to honour those who were not remembered on any official memorials. It contains an unexpected treasure - an epic series of large-scale murals by the acclaimed war artist Sir Stanley Spencer. Notably 2016 is the 125th anniversary of Stanley Spencer’s birth. Sandham has been referred to as “Britain’s answer to the Sistine Chapel”. A new community-inspired garden by Hampshire designer Daniel Lobb has also been created at the site as part of the project. Price: £21 The bar opens at 6.30pm, supper served at 7.30pm, talk at 8.30pm. If you have any special dietary requirements please call the box office. Super clubs are unreserved seating.
LUNCHTIME TALK Monday 10 October
The Wipers Times Director Caroline Leslie will explain and describe some of the “behind the scenes” activities involved in this production, exclusively to Friends of The Watermill, in the latest of our popular series of Lunchtime Talks. The Wipers Times is a stage adaptation of the award-winning BBC film by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It tells the extraordinary story of the satirical newspaper created in the mud and mayhem of the Somme, interspersed with comic sketches and spoofs from the vivid imagination of those on the front line. The production takes place one hundred years after the Battle of the Somme and publication of The Wipers Times. Price: £17.50 The bar will open at 11.30am and the talk will commence at 12 noon. A one course lunch and coffee will be served at approximately 1pm.
Tuesday 18 October
Tuesday 1 November
A Visit to Salisbury Cathedral
Lunch and Social Bridge
Following on from the most successful visit to Christ Church College, Oxford last year, the Friends of The Watermill have the opportunity to visit the historic Salisbury Cathedral.
The Friends of The Watermill warmly welcomes all bridge players, playing Chicago Bridge Format.
The Cathedral was built in just 38 years in a single architectural style, early Gothic. The spire is Britain’s tallest. It is home to the best preserved, of only four, surviving original Magna Carta (AD1215) which is listed on the UNESCO “Memory of the World” register. Tour commences at 3.30pm (meeting at the main entrance at 3.15pm). Disabled parking, limited paid parking available in The Close. Visit includes a cream tea in the Refectory and the opportunity to stay for Evensong which commences at 5.30pm
Arrive by 12 noon when a simple one course lunch will be served along with a glass of wine - or a soft drink if preferred and bridge will commence at 1pm. Tables will be provided but please bring your own bridge cloths and playing cards. Tea will be served during the afternoon and we shall finish at 4.30pm Prizes will be awarded and there will also be a raffle. Price: Tables of four must be booked and paid for in advance £65 per table for four (only £16.25 per person).
Monday 21 November
Champagne and Diamonds Geoffrey Munn, the jewellery specialist on the BBC Antiques Roadshow and managing director of the Court Jewellers Wartski, is delighted to offer a tour of the Fabergé collection and the historic jewels in the strongroom in Mayfair.
Price: £20
AGM and Quiz Night
This will include the chance to see a number of pieces commissioned by the Imperial Family and in particular the brooch designed by Fabergé as an engagement present from Tsar Nicholas II to Princess Alix of Hesse. Guests will also see the brooch designed by Queen Victoria to commemorate her personal servant and devoted friend John Brown. It is engraved “Dear John” and contains a lock of his hair.
Places are strictly limited so early booking is recommended. It is suggested that the Park & Ride scheme would be preferable and there is alternative paid car parking within the town centre. The Watermill Box Office will provide further details.
The AGM is free and open to all members and starts at 7pm. There will be a curry supper after the AGM followed by a quiz circa 8pm with quiz masters Tony and Ginny Ayers and Tim and Barbara Fell, once more setting some questions to exercise your grey matter!
Wartski has had a long-standing relationship with the British Royal family, the latest expression of which was the manufacture of the Welsh gold wedding ring for the Duchess of Cambridge.
Price: £9.50 which includes supper.
Numbers for this exceptional opportunity will be strictly on a first come first served basis and are limited.
Friday 11 November
The coach will depart from The Watermill car park at 3pm.
Monday 24 October
Visit to the gallery of the sculptor
Johannes von Stumm “It’s the spiritual energy of a piece of art which counts, and nothing else.”
Johannes proved a very popular Supper Club guest speaker at The Watermill in May this year and has very kindly agreed to open his studio in North Fawley for Friends of The Watermill. Numbers will be very limited for this exceptional opportunity and the event will start with coffee at The Watermill at 10am. We will then travel to the studio where we will be able to see an exhibition of many of Johannes’ beautiful sculptures and listen to his description of how they evolve. The event will be completed by lunch at a local pub. Price: £20 to include lunch.
Monday 7 November
The Watermill Christmas Fair 9.30am to 2.30pm The annual Watermill Christmas Fair will offer a winning selection of beautiful gift stalls, unique presents to delight your loved ones along with inspired ideas and decorations to bring that magical sparkle to your home. Join us to browse and relax with your friends in the bar. Coffee, mulled wine and light lunches will be on sale. Entrance: £3.50 No pre-booking required and everyone is welcome. Free parking. Prams are restricted to the bar area.
Price: £45 per person Champagne will be provided by Wartski.