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This Month:  'Evolution Rocks' ~ Charity Golf Day ~ May Day Fete ~  Plant Sales ~  ~ Blessing of the Boats ~ Concerts

Daily Diary ~  May 2009

Community & General  Events

 

Talks, Shows, Demos


Sat 2nd 
Pick up an oar to try a Gig.
11am Victoria Pool (Twixt Victoria Pier and The Cobb)

Sun 3rd  Lyme Regis National Waterski Race hosted in association with the Lyme Regis Powerboat Club!  Length of course: approx. 4 miles 

May Day Fete
by Regatta & Carnival Committee  All local organisations and charities are invited to have a stall 01297 442220. email: info@lymeregiscarnival.co.uk 2pm Anning Road Recreation Ground

Rotary Stall at the May Day Fete, Anning Road

Open Garden and Bluebell Wood walk fundraiser at  Ware House, Ware Lane, Lyme Regis (just off the Sidmouth Rd) from 2pm to 4pm. The gardens are spectacular with a stunning walk through the blue bell woods. Please do come along and support, the entrance fee is £2.50 with all funds going to St Michael's Church Organ Appeal.

Mon 4th
Spring Bank Holiday
Duck Race in aid of Lyme Regis Majorettes

Weds 6th TV Switchover to Digital begins see www.digitaluk.co.uk

Lunches for Locals from the Monkton Garden and Kitchens  Informal grounds tour from 12:30, Lunch from 1pm Only £6 *non-locals also very welcome "Enjoy a healthy and delicious meal lovingly prepared with fresh ingredients from our own garden and other local producers. Book now to support local organic farming and network-building (or simply take advantage of the best meal deal in town)."  Monkton Wyld Court, nr Charmouth:  More Info

Fri 8th Parade of Light by members of the Goldwing Owner's Club:  depart Newlands Holiday Park, Charmouth 9.30pm

Sat 9th
Spring Bring and Buy Plant Sale and Coffee Morning,
Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society  10 - 12.30 Uplyme Village Hall

Naming of a new room after Cllr Barbara Austin at St Michaels's School Children's Centre, Kingsway

Fete organised by  members of the Goldwing Owners Club in aid of the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance 2pm - 5pm Newlands Holiday Park, Charmouth

Sun10th National Low Tide Day

Charmouth Bowling Club Open Day
- all welcome - help is at hand for beginners 2.15pm Info Tel 01297 560557

Plant and Craft Fair
10am - 5pm Kingston Maurward, Dorchester £2 includes gardens and animal park

10th - 16th
Christian Aid Week

Tuesday 12th  National Stroke Awareness Day

Weds 13th

Traditional Church Coffee Morning, St. Andrews Monkton Wyld. 10,30 - 12 noon.  Home made produce, coffee, raffle and much more.

Resolutions Meeting and 'Beetle (plant) Drive' Uplyme WI. 2.30pm Uplyme Village Hall

Fri 15th Knot and Stitch new monthly event for local handicrafts Rag Rug demo  Monkton Wyld Court Tel 560342 More Info

Sat 16th Table Top Sale and cake stall for Christian Aid a.m.  outside the Three Cups. Donations Tel 444217 Coffee served in the Baptist Hall

Wild Food Walk become aware of edible plant life in Lyme Regis Holmbush Car Park 10.30 - 12.30 Booking essential Tel 445078

Plant Market: Kilmington Village Produce Association  10.30am - 12.30  Kilmington Village Hall More info Tel 35525

Sun 17th Rogation Sunday

Open Garden Afternoon,
Cream Teas, Bring and Buy plant stall, for Lyme Regis Action Medical Research, £2 2.30 - 5pm Lower Ware, Ware Lane.

Blessing of the Boats:  Rogation Sunday - when traditionally, the Lyme Regis Lifeboat holds a Blessing of the Boats family service outside the boathouse at The Cobb. Wreaths are blessed and taken out to sea by the lifeboat where they are laid to commemorate those lost at sea. The (short) service, with the Lyme Regis Town Band, starts at 15.00 (3.00pm) everyone is more than welcome to attend.

Mon 18th Quiz by the Royal British Legion questions by Marion Bignall 7.30pm Nags Head

Tues 19th Rotary Golf Day, organised by Lyme Regis and Axminster Rotary Clubs, Lyme Regis Golf Club  Click here to download application form

Lyme Regis Town Band Annual General Meeting 7.45pm Woodmead Hall

Weds 20th TV Switchover to Digital see www.digitaluk.co.uk

Thurs 21st Annual Mayor Making Ceremony The Guildhall

 

Fri 22nd
Fossil Walk with Museum geologist Paddy Howe. From the Museum at 9.00am.  Charges are £9 for adults and £5 for children and students. To book, contact the museum direct  tel 01297 443370,  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk or drop into the Museum

Pre-booked activities for school parties
in Lyme Regis Museum, marquee 3 and on the Museum terrace
 

23rd, 24th and 25th
Wildlife babies
One of the busiest times with all sorts of orphans furry and feathery!
Secret World Wildlife Rescue, Highbridge, Somerset
 

Sat 23rd

Fossil Walk with Museum geologist Paddy Howe.  from the Museum at 9.30am

Charges are £9 for adults and £5 for children and students. To book, contact the museum direct tel. 01297 443370, email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk or drop into the Museum
 

A day of drop-in family fun on the theme of fossils and geology by Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Marquee 3

Sun 24th
Meet Lyme Regis's own friendly fossil experts Paddy Howe and Chris Andrew. See how they prepare fossils and find out about their amazing fossil discoveries

in Marquee 3, Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
 

Make your own plaster cast 'fossils' with local artist Phil Anslow on Lyme Regis Museum Terrace

 

Mon 25th - Fri 29th Woodroffe School Half Term
 

Mon 25th
FOOD ROCKS! Lyme Regis Food Festival  Something new for Lyme.  Local producers selling their produce direct to the public.  Freshly cooked and prepared scallops, crab, spit-roast lamb and spicy lamb burgers.

10.15 Micahel Caines

11.15 Mark Hix and Mitch Tonks

12.15 Nathan Outlaw

1.15 Aidan Chapman

2.15 Mark Hix

3.15 John Wright (Edible Seashore) and Pam Corbin (Preserves) of River Cottage.

Cobb Gate Marquee at the bottom of Broad Street

 

Bermuda 400  Somers Day Parade in Lyme Regis

 

Regatta & Carnival Duck Race 12 noon 

 

Wootton Fitzpaine Village Fete in  aid of local charities. If wet in village hall. Tel 561034

 

Colyton Vintage Tractor Run to Chardstock Community Hall where drivers will stop for lunch. This year the main beneficiary of the run will be Help for Heroes, a charity which helps injured service personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The 2008 tractor run saw a grand total of £1,700 raised, which helped not only the parish church, but many other small local organisations. To enter the run, ring 01297 552376 for an entry form.

Weds 27th

Plant Sale and Coffee Morning
Plant stalls, cake stall, raffle, tea, coffee and biscuits (Combpyne-Rousdon Flower & Produce Association).  10.30 am  Peek Hall, Rousdon.

Gig Shed Open Afternoon - see Lyme's latest gig being built.  2 - 4pm Lyme Regis Gig Shed, Monmouth Beach (Opposite Boat Building Academy)

'The Work of the British Legion' Action Forum for Lyme Regis and Uplyme 2.15 Masonic Hall

Fri 29th
Oliver Letwin Advice Surgery 3pm Hotel Alexandra. Appointment: charles@parliament.uk or Tel 01308 456891

Sat 30th
Charmouth Sea Shore - the Geology and Rock Pools
.  Dorset Wildlife Trust walk with the warden of the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre Tel 01297 561536 for info

Sun 31st

Record and CD Fair Marine Theatre


Electric Lyme 100;
An evening of music, drama, history and light at the Town Mill to celebrate the coming of electricity to Lyme Regis 100 years ago on June 1st 1909.  
Electric Lyme 100 will commence at 7.45pm with a procession led by the new Mayor and party from the Guildhall to the Town Mill courtyard. This will be followed by an hour or so of music, drama, speeches and light. The Junior Band will be playing and Lyme Youth Theatre will perform a specially commissioned drama based on the historical theme of the evening.
Electric Light Show. The courtyard will be illuminated and animations projected onto the Malthouse wall during the event.

Lyme's Electric History. At sunset around 9.15p.m., an electric light show of images of the history of electricity in Lyme will be narrated by Martin Roundell Green, the author of “Electric Lyme - the arrival of electricity in an English seaside town”. The event is open to all - residents and visitors alike,  Entrance to Electric Lyme 100 (and the watermill) is free for the night.

 
Sat 2nd
'Know Your Fossils'
by Paddy Howe  11am Lyme Regis Museum

Lyme Bay Chorale Spring Concert. Lyme Regis. Music includes Handel's Chandos Anthem No. 4 'Oh sing unto the Lord', the Foundling Hospital Anthem. A superb little continuo group is accompanying these Handel pieces. The choir will also perform part songs by Elgar, Morley and the beautiful Stanford "Blue Bird". Rachel Burroughs performs Mozart's Adagio for Violin and Alison Young will play Saxophone solos including Marcellos Oboe concerto on Soprano Sax - A stunning sound in the church with the chamber organ accompanying! Tickets at the door £10/8 there is also a sumptuous buffet/tea - worth coming for itself!!! In aid of the Organ Appeal 7.30pm St Michaels Church Tel. 443824

Emmaus Christian Choir 30 mixed voices followed by a short epilogue.  Light refreshments, no admission charge, no collection 6.30pm Uplyme Village Hall

Sun 3rd
'Know Your Fossils' by Paddy Howe  3pm Lyme Regis Museum

Mon 4th 'Know Your Fossils' by Paddy Howe  11am Lyme Regis Museum

Tues 5th 'The Monmouth Rising' by John Lello 11am Lyme Regis Museum

Thursday 7th  
'All That Jazz' with Woodroffe School Young Musicians
12.30 - 1pm followed by lunch at 1.05pm. The Minster, Axminster. Tel 01404 881332

'MiroirsDaniel Browell piano:-  Beethoven Sonata op7; Mendelssohn Variations Serieuses;  Ravel  Miroirs (complete);  Chopin Scherzo no3. Concerts in the West series  7.30pm  Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis Click here for Daniel's biography

Fri 8th

'Thomas Hardy, Man of Wessex, his life and literature' by Jack Thomas 11am Lyme Regis Museum

‘Music & Wholeness’  An illustrated performance by famed crossover musician Adrian Snell.  Heritage Coast U3A at The Marine Theatre at 7.30pm. More info. right

Sat 10th  Paulo's Circus 6.30pm Charmouth Road Park and Ride ground. Tickets Tel 07021 125454 Info Paulo's Circus Americano

Sun 11th 
'Fiddler on the Roof' first review meeting by Lyme Regis Community Players for their next production due to take place July 28th to August 1st.  All welcome.  7.30 St Michael's School.  Info: 01297 444209

Paulo's Circus
6.30pm Charmouth Road Park and Ride ground. Tickets tel 07021 125454 Info Paulo's Circus Americano

12th - 16th 'The Pirates of Penzance' by Lyme Regis Operatic Society, 7.30pm Marine Theatre. Tickets £8 from Fortnam Smith & Banwell, Broad Street.

Fri 15th 'Mary Anning' by Daphne Baker
11am Lyme Regis Museum

Sat 16th 'Know Your Fossils' by Paddy Howe  11am Lyme Regis Museum

Sun 17th 'Know Your Fossils' by Paddy Howe  3pm Lyme Regis Museum

Weds 20th
AGM and 'Plutocrats on Vacation - Holiday Homes of the American Rich 1870 - 1940' by Roger Mitchell. West Dorset Decorative & Fine Arts Society, The Arts Centre, Bridport


Quiz Night TheatreFriends, Marine Theatre

Fri 22nd
Fossil Festival: 'Evolution Rocks' Schools Day

World Heritage Education Conference and Youth Summit organised by the UK National Commission for UNESCO

Sat 23rd RNLI Flag Day

Fossil Festival part of the
Darwin200 celebrations. (see right)

'Darwin and the Fossil Record'  talk by Professor Chris Paul in Lyme Regis Museum Museum at 11am

Rotary Stall at the Fossil Festival, The Shelters, Marine Parade

‘The First Jurassic Park’ A short talk by Tom Sharpe, Curator of Palaeontology and Archives at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. 3pm Lyme Regis Museum

Church Service and Pageant  'Bermuda 400' - a celebration of the founding of Bermuda by Sir George Somers 400 years ago.  Whitchurch Canonicorum.  Info: 442462

Sun 24th  Fossil Festival part of the Darwin200 celebrations. (see right)

‘The First Jurassic Park’ A short talk by Tom Sharpe, Curator of Palaeontology and Archives at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Lyme Regis Museum at 3pm

Mercury  Marine Theatre 7.45pm

Mon 25th
Fairly Tales The Black Sheep, 3pm Marine Theatre

I, Lear  The Black Sheep, 8pm  Marine Theatre

Tues 26th

 'James McNeil Whistler in Lyme' by Sandra Lello 11am Lyme Regis Museum

 

Cheese Masterclass  with Juliet Harbutt - an authority on British Cheese. Evening at Hix Oyster and Fish Restaurant: more details

 

Thursday 28th  
'Know Your Fossils' by Paddy Howe  11am Lyme Regis Museum

Triologue,
baroque trio:  Pawel Siwczak harpsichord, Kinga Gaborjani viola da gamba & Karin Bjork violin.  D Buxtehude Sonata no1 in F major from VII Sonate à doi, Violino & Viola da gamba, con Cembalo, Opera Prima  JS Bach Sonata no3 in G minor BWV1029 for viola da gamba and harpsichord;  F Couperin Deuxième concert from Concerts Royaux;  Marais Sonate à la Maresienne;  D Buxtehude Sonata no3 in a minor from VII Sonate à doi, Violino & Viola da gamba, con Cembalo, Opera Prima.  A selection of Irish Folk Tunes from "A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music Containing a variety of Admired Airs never before Published, and also The Compositions of Conolan and Carolan Collected from Harpers &c. in the different Provinces of / Ireland" (published in 1796) arranged by Triologue Concerts in the West series 7.30pm  Marine Theatre Click for Triologue's biography

Fri 29th 'Birds- Their beauty and Mystery' by David Cox  11am Lyme Regis Museum

 

The Spiral Sax Quartet This professional London based saxophone quartet visit Lyme Regis and will play a wide variety of contemporary and classical music by composers including; George Gershwin, Michael Nyman, Will Gregory (goldfrapp) and Dizzy Gillespie. 7.30pm St Michael's Church.  Proceeds in aid of the organ appeal. Tickets £10/8 children £3 at the door or in advance from the TIC box office on 01297 442138. See spiralsax.co.uk for more details.

Sarah MacDougall Marine Theatre

 

Sat 30th
'Know Your Fossils' by Paddy Howe  11am Lyme Regis Museum

Arts and Crafts Exhibition
 in aid of Kilmington Village Hall 10am - 4pm Kilmington Village Hall

 

Exhibitions

Fri 22nd - Sun23rd

'Evolution Rocks'
Fossil Festival
Town Beach and around the town

 Lyme Regis Art Group Annual Exhibition

10am to 5pm
2
2nd to 26th May Woodmead Hall

 in the Museum all day
Sat 23rd and Sunday 24th May

 

The original watercolour Duria Antiquior, An Earlier Dorsetshire, 
Henry De la Beche's famous imagined vision of ancient Dorset, will be on display, on loan from the National Museum of Wales.

 

Darwin's and Henry De la Beche's papers,
on loan from the National Museum of Wales
 

Bronze bust of geologist William Buckland,
on loan from the National Portrait Gallery

Also
 

The exhibition The Bird Man from Lyme Regis - John Gould and Charles Darwin 
is the Museum's contribution to the Darwin 200 celebrations. Mostly an art exhibition featuring the work of Lyme-born John Gould who became the leading taxonomist of his day. He classified Darwin's specimens and, with his wife Elizabeth and artists including Joseph Wolf and Edward Lear, published works illustrating and describing the birds of the world. This exhibition runs until 21 June 2009.

 

Get to grips with the amazing Jurassic Coast Discovery Box


Farming in East Devon

Award winning Historic Farming Project: Farming in East Devon Exhibition by
Lyme Regis Museum exhibition
at
Thomas Witty House, Silver Street, Axminster

This exhibition is part of an on-going research project, at Lyme Regis Museum, into the history of farming of the local area. Its aim is to document the farming heritage before vital records and buildings are lost forever.

Beginning in 2007, the project has expanded, from its early researches in the Lim Valley, to now cover 14 parishes in East Devon. In 2009 the Lim Valley Projected was Highly Commended in the Dorset Archaeological Awards. 

30th May – 28th June 2009.
Daily 11-4, except Mondays (closed).

Admission Free (Donations welcome!)

 


Arts and Crafts Exhibition

 
in aid of Kilmington Village Hall
Sat 30th 10am - 4pm 
Kilmington Village Hall
 


'7 Artists -  translation'
 

An Exhibition by a group of
Painters and Printmakers well known in the Wessex region and beyond

11:00am - 4:00pm
Lyme Regis Town Mill:
Open Tuesday - Sunday
(and Bank Holiday Monday)

Admission Free

23 May - 5 July 2009

 

May 2010

'Golden Revenge' by Lyme Regis Operatic Society, Marine Theatre


 

Note:    Dogs now banned

from the town's main beaches.  Permitted on Back beach, Church Cliff & Monmouth beaches
 

For up-to-date information don't forget to 'reload' or 'refresh' these pages each time you look

 

Walkers

Do take advice about safe tide times before setting off for more than fifteen minutes hike along our beautiful beaches - what appears to be an easy bit of ground to scramble over is more likely to be a treacherous mud slide - don't take a chance!
 

Digital Television Switchover

Television in Lyme Regis will be going digital in May 2009.  To ensure that you are ready for the switchover, visit:

www.digitaluk.co.uk

If you are aged 75 or over, registered blind or partially sighted, or received certain benefits you may be eligible for help in switching to digital, for more information visit:

www.helpscheme.co.uk

 

Adrian Snell at the Marine Theatre 

On Friday, May 8th U3A Members and guests are promised a rich, musically-illustrated, varied, relaxed and thought-provoking yet fun evening, with something to appeal to anyone and everyone who enjoys music.

Adrian's varied musical career, combining both popular and classical styles, spans thirty years. During this time he has produced six major concept works and thirteen solo albums, selling over half a million copies. Music has been his 'first love' since the age of six. He is an accomplished pianist and guitarist, and has carried his songs in concert to tens of thousands over the years.

Last November, to critical acclaim, London's St Paul's Cathedral premiered, with full orchestra and choir, Adrian's composition The Cry: A Requiem For The Lost Child in aid of Save The Children, concerning children who've lost their lives or childhood through warfare, armed conflict or ethnic cleansing.

Based in Bath as a Bristol Medical School-qualified music therapist, Adrian uses some of his considerable musical skills to help variously disabled children, lifting their spirits and bringing happiness to their lives through music.

Theatre seating will be arranged in “Cabaret Style” with tables and chairs, and refreshments will be available from 7pm. The performance starts at 7.30pm. You can hear some of Adrian’s music via his website www.adrian-snell.com

“MUSIC AND WHOLENESS” gives a unique opportunity to spend an evening with an internationally renowned professional singer-composer.

 

All local organisations and charities

are invited to have a stall at the
May Day Fete
Playing Field, Anning Road

Tel  01297 442220.
email: info@lymeregiscarnival.co.uk

 

Lyme Regis Jazz Festival

Tickets now on Sale

Friday Stroller £15
Saturday pass £30
Sunday pass £17
3day stroller £50
Marine Theatre events
£7 per session

from Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre
Tel 442138

Fri 3rd - Sun 5th July

 

Soft toys/unwanted Birthday/Christmas gifts

RNLI- pristine condition please - wanted for the Lifeboat Guild's Lifeboat Week Tombola Stall

Please take them to the Lifeboat Shop or Tel 442244

 

Lifeboat Week 

Help wanted
Tel 442448 or
click here

 

Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
at the Marine Theatre

MARINE THEATRE - DAYTIME events

 BRONTOSAURUS: FORKBEARD FANTASY
www.forkbeardfantasy.co.uk

MRS DELANEY’S SCIENCE CLASS: LIZZIE HOPLEY

STRANGE STONES AND WRITING BONES - THE TALE OF MARY ANNING: ONE MOMENT IN TIME THEATRE www.onemomentintimetheatre.com

 EVOLUTION v CREATION - THE GREAT DEBATE TIME TRAVELLERS  www.timetravellers.org.uk

WOODROFFE SCHOOL:  FILM PREMIERE - GROWING UP ON THE JURASSIC COAST
Students have been working with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth and White Lantern Film on this project linked to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The films are receiving their premiere at the Fossil Festival.  www.woodroffe.dorset.sch.uk

MARINE THEATRE - EVENING EVENTS

BARBICAN YOUNG POETS
www.jsamlarose.com

EVOLUTION ROCKS: B SHARP
www.bsharp.uk.com

NEANDERTHAL:  SIMON THORNE
www.simonthornemusic.co.uk

 HANGING HOOKE: TAKE THE SPACE THEATRE COMPANY   A new play by Siobhán Nicholas
www.takethespace.co.uk

 MARINE THEATRE OPEN AIR EVENTS

DARWIN AND THE DODO: a really dead good show. Innovative theatre company Desperate Men bring Darwin to life in their new piece ‘Darwin and the Dodo’. www.desperatemen.com

THE FOSSIL HUNTERS: dotCOMEDY
www.dotcomedy.co.uk

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT – walk through  the ‘Duria Antiquior’ (most ancient Dorset) HERBIE TREEHEAD  Once again, Herbie will be putting on one of his amazing shows – this year, the recreation of ‘Duria Antiquior’ with an underwater theme. Our intrepid frogman Herbie will be wrestling with full-size Plesiosaurs and getting tangled up in giant seaweed. In this project bringing together local schools, Herbie Treehead and Darrell Wakelam have created a three dimensional, animated street performance simulating life below the Jurassic Seas.   www.dinosaurshow.co.uk

For more Information see www.evolutionrocks.net or in the Evolution Rocks! brochure on sale at Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre and other retailers.

 

Wanted -
Sheds with history and Character

for the next Lyme Regis Museum winter exhibition - about 'Sheds'
If you know of a shed or beach hut with history please e-mail the museum 

 

Tapestry Demonstration

Every Wednesday in the Guildhall
 

Grants to Local Organisations

The Town Council has a budget of £16,000 available to meet requests from local community groups and organisations for financial assistance towards projects which are deemed by the authority to be of benefit to the community.

Such groups are therefore invited to submit full details of their proposals for which financial assistance is requested.

Grant Guidelines 2009

Grant Application Form 2009  Forms must be returned by no later than 4:30pm on Friday 5th June 2009.

 

Bus Passes

If you have not received yours yet (and are eligible) contact West Dorset District Council
01305 2524
 
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