Milton Keynes What's On Guide

A week-long exhibition of fascinating images, documents and objects held within the Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre archive. The title reflects the initial ambition of those planning Milton Keynes in the 1960s, we aim to showcase examples of their inspiration from other continents. The exhibition will showcase architectural models, documents, plans, images and press coverage relating to the creation of Milton Keynes, with a focus on the big projects and concepts that have shaped the city. Family-friendly activity trails will be available throughout.

A special family-friendly day with arts and craft activities inspired by the exhibition will run on Sunday 13th of May, 11am-3pm. Free entry.

An evening of talks will be held on Thursday 17th of May, featuring Derek Walker (the first Chief Architect of Milton Keynes) and Vicky Lamburn, a photographer who has captured many beautiful images of the city. Free entry, booking highly recommended on education@mkcdc.org.uk and 01908 227229.

http://www.mkcdc.org.uk

The spring concert by the OU Orchestra will feature the concert suite from the classic film Genevieve, with the sound track immortalised by Larry Adler. It’s quite unusual to hear a piece for harmonica and orchestra. Chris Shrimpton, the soloist, lives in MK and was twice awarded Chromatic Harmonica Player of the Year at the UK’s annual harmonica festival.

The orchestra will also be playing Tchaikovsky's epic Symphony No. 4 – immortalised on the smaller screen through use of its thrilling opening in the music for TV series Ivanhoe.

Admission to the concert is free. There is plenty of free parking on site, and all are welcome to come along.

www.open.ac.uk/wikis/ouocmc/OU_Orchestra

Art in the Park Weekend. Fun for all the family when Illyria Theatre presents their production of Roald Dahl's humorous tale, The Twits.

www.theparkstrust.com/events

What is BrainOBrain?

BrainoBrain is a whole brain development programme for children between the age of 4 - 15 year olds. It uses the abacus to accelerate mental
arithmetic skills of children while connecting their left and right brain
with the help of NLP and brain gym activities to achieve maximum results
in school and social surroundings.

BrainoBrain also enhances children's
visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles which helps develop
their photographic memory.

What do we cover in the free session?
Basic abacus skills with brain gym activities with a small test at the end.

We will demonstrate to parents how their children could calculate faster
using abacus skills than the traditional method. In the last 30 minutes we will be giving a presentation to parents.

www.brainobrainuk.org/

LLTC present the classic English farce.

Set in the idyllic village of Merton-cum-Middlewick, where the village inhabitants are preparing themselves for the imminent threat of Nazi invasion. Resident nosy-parker and spinster, Miss Skillon, becomes convinced that her beloved vicar’s actress wife is having an affair and attempts to expose her. Add an escaped German prisoner of war, a handsome actor, the visiting Bishop of Lax, a rotund locum priest and some meddling neighbours and you have all the ingredients for a classic British comedy.

Philip King's trusty wartime farce is a classic of it's kind. Tea with the vicar, men without trousers, drunken spinster and a web of improbable coincidences.

www.lltc.co.uk/

Wheatus
MC Lars
Math the Band
Cornmo

£12 in advance

Doors open at 7:30pm

Tickets available from:
www.thecraufurdarms.com

www.wegottickets.com/

www.seetickets.com/Event/WHEATUS/The-Craufurd-Arms/628152


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Wheatus

Wheatus was formed by Brendan B. Brown in 1995, on the lower east side of New York City. Brown began by writing a few songs, and subsequently enlisted the help of his brother Peter Brown on drums, Philip Jimenez on keyboards, samples, percussion instruments and harmonica, and Rich Liegey on bass. The band regularly performed at a local venue entitled the Luna Lounge, until in 1999, they hired New York attorney Ray Maiello to shop their self-produced debut album to major record companies. They soon signed a record deal with Kevin Patrick at Columbia Records, and Maiello was subsequently hired as the band's manager. Their self-titled debut album was released in October 2000. The album spawned the band's first and largest hit, "Teenage Dirtbag", a song which charted at No. 2 in the United Kingdom. Their second single, "A Little Respect", also reached very high chart positions, peaking at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Their third single, a double A-side of "Leroy" and "Wannabe Gangstar", didn't perform as well as expected, only reaching No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart. Another song from the album, "Punk Ass Bitch", was bought by the creators of the Jackie Chan Adventures, remixed and used as the theme for the end credits of the programme.

Do you use a car? Make rubbish? Like fresh air? Maybe it's time you gave something back to the enviroment!

Come along and help out with the tidy up and refurbishment of the Downs Barn woodland located on Byerly Place next to the nursery.

11am-3pm, hope to see you there.

http://www.great-linford.gov.uk

From canine companions to feline and feathered friends, reptiles and rodents – all creatures great and small are invited to a special service of thanksgiving for animals.

The annual animal blessing service will be taken by Reverends Mindy Bell, Andy Jowitt and Allan Jones at the Cathedral of Trees on Sunday 20th May 2012 at 3.00pm.

The service has been arranged to give special thanks for all the pleasure owners get from their pets and assistance animals and to celebrate their animals as a wonderful part of life.

Parking for the Cathedral of Trees is on Livingstone Drive, off the V10 Brickhill Street.

The service is expected to last 30 to 45 minutes and will be undertaken whatever the weather so please come prepared for rain or shine.

All visitors are asked to be responsible pet owners and keep their pets under close control so that the service and the cathedral can be enjoyed by all.

For further information please visit www.theparkstrust.com.

Tea Monkey Milton Keynes is delighted to invite Coeliac UK Members to enjoy a free cup of tea to help celebrate Coeliac Awareness Week. To claim your free cuppa, simply present your Coeliac UK Membership card or a copy of a 2012 Crossed Grain magazine when you get to the till. The offer will run from 14 – 20 May 2012.

www.tea-monkey.com

Art in the Park Weekend - part of Art and Heritage Open Places. Check out the fabulous art within Campbell Park with this ranger led stroll.

Meet in Campbell Park Pavilion car park, Silbury Boulevard.

Cambell Park 10am, £1 per person.

www.theparkstrust.com/events