Fairs & Events
The Paraphernalia Fair is on Thursday, 5th September.
The popular Hampshire Mineral & Fossil Show will be held here on Saturday, 7th from 10am-4.30pm. There are minerals, fossils, gems, jewellery and books for sale and also displays and refreshments. Do come along. Lady Cynthia’s Fleamarket is on Sunday, 22nd September from 10.00am-4.00pm. A Rock and Gem Show will be held on Saturday 28th and Sunday, 29th September from 10.00am to 5.00pm on the Saturday and until 4.30pm on the Sunday.
Saturday 21st September is the New Forest Book Fair.
The RBL Band Concert will be held on Sunday, 8th September at 3.00pm. This is always a wonderful event so make sure you book your tickets which can be bought at the Community Centre.
New Forest History & Archaeology Group—5th September, 7.30pm. Sylvia Crocker, Historian and Group Member will give a talk entitled ‘Squatters and Social Crime: Encroachments in the New Forest in the Eighteenth Century’.
£2.00 members; £4.00 non-members.
New Forest Art Society: September 18th. Lucie Cookson, international artist and teacher will be demonstrating a portrait paining in oil and pastels. Lucie’s work has been in the National Portrait Gallery. Members mini exhibition theme: portraits.
September 28th—Workshop to be held at Emery Down
Film Night—Green Book—Friday, 27th September (12)
Set in America in 1962, Green Book tells the heart-warming true story of Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a working-class Italian-American bouncer who takes on a job as a chauffeur for Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a highly-educated African-American classical pianist.
The film was written by Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie and Vallelonga’s son, Nick Vallelonga, based on interviews with his father and Shirley, as well as letters his father wrote to his mother. The film is named after The Negro Motorist Green Book, a mid-20th century guidebook for African-American travellers written by Victor Hugo Green.
Green Book received numerous accolades and nominations, and at the 91st Academy Awards won Oscars for the Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and for Best Supporting Actor (Ali).
Film Matinees
In anticipation of the darker evenings we have decided to run a series of film matinees from October through to March. The first of these will be Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War to be held on Friday, 11th October at 2.00pm. After the death of her bullying husband, the not-so-aged and downtrodden housewife Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins) is shipped off to the Twilight Years Rest Home by her money grabbing son and manipulative daughter-in-law. Appalled by the conditions, Mrs Caldicot decides to take matters into her own hands……… !
At the Heritage Centre:
David Bailey – Wildlife Photographer – Photographic Exhibition
Award winning wildlife photographer David Bailey will be exhibiting his work at the New Forest Heritage Centre in Lyndhurst from Saturday 14th September.
New Forest Fiction: Past and Present—Friday 20th September 7.30pm at Lyndhurst Community Centre.
A celebration of fiction inspired by the New Forest. Tickets £15 or £12 for Friends of the Heritage Centre.
Community Speed Watch Needs You!
If you can spare a minimum of 1½ hours a month, your local Community Speed Watch Team would love to hear from you. This volunteer work includes recording car registration numbers of speeding vehicles in 30 and 40 mph zones and full training is given. The friendly teams operate from Lyndhurst, Cadnam, Minstead, Ashurst and Brook so there are plenty of teams to choose from. For more information either email cke8163@gmail.com or contact PCSO Richard Williams on 07554 775469/Richard.williams@hampshire.pnn.police.uk