Day Nine - Saturday May 17
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Suffolk Kite Festival
- 10.00am at Rougham Airfield, Rougham
- Advance booking discounts available
- Gate prices £6, £4. Under 12s free
- Weekend and camping tickets available
Organised by the Suffolk Kite Flyers Association, this spectacular weekend of kite flying includes teams from the UK and Europe, both amateur and professional, world champion display flying and National Championships.
There will be a special runway for the thrilling sport of power kiting with boards and buggies. Visit the kite workshops and enter the schools' kite design and flying competition on the Saturday with fabulous prizes by Flexifoil. An opportunity for every one to become involved with this exciting and increasingly popular pastime.
Hanging Basket Workshop
- 11.00am at Ickworth House, Horringer
- £40 (includes admission to the park)
- Ends 4.00pm
Join Head Gardener Sean Reid as he demonstrates how to prepare and arrange a summer hanging basket. In the afternoon, create your own basket to take home and display. All materials provided. Please bring your own gloves. Morning coffee and pastries, lunch and afternoon tea included.
Ian Billings – Talking Pants!
- 12.00pm at the Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds
- £5 £3 (accompanying adult)
- Ends 1pm
- www.ianbillings.co.uk
"Chucklevision" writer and children's author, Ian Billings, erupts with a riotous explosion of top-notch, toe-tapping, mind-bending kids comedy. A jam-stuffed giggle-fest with bags of gags and tons of puns. Plus lots of standing-up! Suitable for children aged 6-11.
Ballet Ireland Extravaganza
- 7.30pm at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
- £7 - £22.50
A ground-breaking programme of four brand-new ballets, including three based on the work of Oscar Wilde, from the much-loved Ballet Ireland. The biblical Salomé, featuring the legendary Dance of the Seven Veils, was refused a licence for 30 years after Wilde's death.
It is followed by The Picture of Dorian Gray, the extraordinary account of the narcissist who retains his youthful beauty, and Wilde's great fable of inner beauty and harsh cynicism, The Birthday of the Infanta. The quartet is completed by an original composition from internationally renowned guest choreographer Michael Corder.
A Theatre Royal promotion
Booking for this event opens on Monday 10 March (Theatre Royal priority bookers). General booking opens on Monday 17 March.
Verdi Requiem
- 8.00pm at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds
- £23, £18 and £12
- Ends 9.30pm
- www.burybachchoir.co.uk
Valerie Reid - Mezzo-soprano
John Hudson - Tenor
Graeme Danby - Bass
Rita Cullis - Soprano
Philip Reed - Conductor
Bury St Edmunds Bach Choir and Orchestra
Verdi's much loved Messa da Requiem is unique among requiems, owing its flamboyant style to the lyric operas that Verdi composed with such passion. Overflowing with memorable melodies and penetrating emotion, the Requiem is acknowledged as one of the enduring 19th century choral masterpieces.
For this concert the Bury Bach Choir will be joined by invited members of several other choirs to create a performance that is certain to raise the roof.
A Bury Bach Choir promotion
A talk by Peter Aston about Verdi's Requiem will take place on Friday 9 May at 7.30pm at the United Reformed Church
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