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MARCH

Thursday 4 March
Dresden 1945-2010
The resurrection of a ruined city. An illustrated talk on a British view of Dresden by Dr Alan Russell, chairman of the Dresden Trust.
7.30pm. Camden Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Admission £3 (members), £5 (non-members) includes light refreshments. 01892 523013.

Saturday 6 March
Charity Quiz Night
The Rotary Club of Wadhurst's annual test of those 'little grey cells'. All proceeds to various Rotary and local charities.
7.30 for 8.00pm start in the Commemoration Hall, Wadhurst. Ploughman's Supper, Bar, Raffle. £8 per head on tables of 6. Details/entries from Chris Kyle Tel. 01580 201434

Saturday 6 March
West Kent College March Open Day
West Kent College will open its doors once again for potential students and their families to find out more about their local further and higher education choices. The event will enable visitors to talk directly with tutors about their chosen subject areas and to investigate other subjects they may never have considered. Demos on the day include: explore our TV studios, Sports presentations every half hour and staff from Kentchoices4u.co.uk will be on hand to help with the online applications process.
The event opens at 10am until 1pm, with reception at the Brook Street campus in Tonbridge. Free prize draw - Win an itunes voucher! Visitors can gain faster entry on the day by registering online at www.wkc.ac.uk/information-evenings.html, every online registration will be entered into a draw to win an itunes voucher.

Saturday 6 March
Tunbridge Wells Book Fair
Thousands of secondhand books for sale.
At King Charles the Martyr Hall, Warwick Park. 9am and 2.30pm

Saturday 6 March
Wellbeing Fayre
Treatment Tasters, Stalls, Refreshments.
Crystals, Books, Jewellery, Tibetan gifts
Salt Lamps, Beauty Products, Cards & more.
Heathfield Community Centre, Sheepsetting Lane, TN21 OXG. 10.30am – 4.30pm. Admission £2 also raffle for Demelza. Contact: 01892 663895/ 662720.

Saturday 6 to Saturday 13 March
Tonbridge Art Group Spring Exhibition
Paintings and craft work.
Council Chamber, The Castle, Tonbridge. Admission free. 10am-4pm.
monday 8 march
The Group
The organisation for unattached people, aged 40+ (dinners, walks, theatre, sport, travel) meets at a pub near Haywards Heath on the second Monday of every month.
Ring 01444 473852/01825 762294

Monday 8 to Sunday 14 March
Lesley Featherstone
To celebrate International Women's Week commemorating the economic, social, and political achievements of women,
The Town and Country Foundation in association with Trinity Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, are hosting a special exhibition of local artist Lesley Featherstone.
Open daily 10am-3pm and one hour before performances. Call Dawn Grant 01892 501702 or contact Jane Churchill at
gallery@trinitytheatre.net

Thursday 11 March
Horam & Heathfield Flower Club
Presents Pam Fuller with A Floral Demonstration entitled Fun with Flowers.
7.30pm, at Heathfield Community Centre, Sheepsetting Lane, Heathfield. Light refreshments, rafle and sales table. Visitors welcome £3 50. (Competition: A Study in Yellow). Ring tel: 01435 866026 for enquiries.

Friday 12 March
Charlie Rivers band.
Barely one year young and South East England based The Charlie Rivers Band are already creating a buzz…whether it be their stripped down acoustic show, or their full band high production performances!
£5. Grub café & music bar,110-112 London Road, East Grinstead, RH19 1EP
01342 313139, info@grubonline.co.uk,
www.grubonline.co.uk. Tickets available in advanceat www.wegottickets.com

Friday 12 & Saturday 13 March
The Adventures of the Faraway Tree
Presented by The Young Oxted Players. By Ruth Summerfield, based on The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.
12 March at 7pm, 13 March at 2.30pm and 7.pm. Barn Theatre, Oxted. 01883 724852 or www.barntheatreoxted.co.uk. Tickets £7.

Saturday 13 March
Art Auction for Haiti
Auction of Art, donated by artists in aid of Save The Children. Last chance to view, 10am-2pm Sat13 March.
Vestry Hall, Stone Street, Cranbrook

Sunday 14 March
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
Open house, Spring treat for mum and the rest of the family.
10.30am-4pm. £2. Singleton, Chichester, Sussex. 01243 811363.

Sunday 14 March
Mothering Sunday event
3-course table d'hôte menu, plus coffee.
Live jazz - great gift for mum!
£19.99 per person. Best Western Donnington Manor Hotel London Road, Dunton Green,Sevenoaks TN13 2TD 01732 468510. Email@donnington manor.comwww.donningtonmanor.com

Monday 15 March
Heathfield & District Horticultural Society
A talk 'Hardy Geraniums' by Jacqueline Aviolet of Rosie's Garden Plants with plants for sale afterwards. Competition: - (optional) a Spring arrangement or a specimen bloom.
Visitors £2 00 to include tea or coffee
Commencing at 7.30pm, at St Richard’s Church Hall, Park Road, Heathfield. Tel: 01435 864875.

Monday 15 March
East Grinstead Natural History Society
Talk: Environmental and Wildlife Management – Emma Goddard from South East Water.
All meetings take place at the Small Parish Hall, De La Warr Road, East Grinstead starting at 19.45. Visitors £2.50 including refreshments. Contact Lesley Berry on 01342 324955 for more details.

Wednesday 17 March
Open Day for Greenfields School
Schedule a family visit and see for yourself what makes the school so successful.
01342 822189.

Wednesday 17 March
Blues Duo
Blues with Bottle Club presents Steve Morrison and Richard Anselm blues duo.
Free at the Anchor, 32 London Road, Sevenoaks TN13 1AS, 8.30 for 9pm.
Friday 19 March
Lindfield Crafts and Market
9.00am - 12.15pm. Contact Beverley on 01444 440274 or allthingsnicecft@aol.com

Saturday 20 March
Haydn’s Creation
Crowborough Choral Society and Fletching Singers join forces to sing this great work at the Roman Catholic Church of St Philip, Newtown, Uckfield.
Tickets cost £12 and are available from Broadway Bookshop in Crowborough (01892 652409) or by ringing 01892 664869 or 01825 712462. The performance starts at 7.30pm and refreshments will be available during the interval.

Saturday 20 March
The Question of World Migration
Tutor: Guy Arnold.
Adult Education Centre, Tunbridge Wells. 2.00 – 5.30pm. One meeting. Fee (includes refreshments) £13 in advance, £15 on the door. Further information: Mrs M. Walker Tel 01892 546057.

Saturday 20 March
Murder Mystery Dinner
An evening of murder and intrigue together with a four course dinner. Chartwell’s ever-popular Murder Mystery Evening returns with a new theme. Guests are encouraged to dress in the style of the period.
7-11pm. £42.95. Booking essential on 01732 863087.

Saturday 20 March
Haydn ‘The Creation’
Cantate chamber choir & Vivace! period instrument chamber orchestra with professional soloists perform the magnificent oratorio ‘The Creation’.
St. Nicholas’ Church, Sevenoaks, 7.30pm. Tickets: £12 including refreshments, available from Sevenoaks bookshop, from the box office: 01732 770570 or on the door. www.cantate-choir.info

Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 March
A charity Old Tyme Music Hall and Spper
Presented by The Pantiles Players and Salomons.
At Salomons Victorian Theatre, Broomhill Road, Southborough, Kent TN3 0TG. In aid of the Pickering Cancer drop-in Centre & Hospice in the Weald. Tickets £21.50 Includes a 2 Course Sausage & Mash Supper (Vegetarian sausages available) Chocolate Brownies or Fresh Fruit Salad & Cream Coffee/Tea & Mints. Tickets & Menu choice in advance by Thursday 11th March. Arrival 7pm. Supper served at 7.30pm followed by the performance. Charity Raffle BOX OFFICE 01892 534341, www.thepantilesplayers.co.uk www.salomons.org.uk

Sunday 21 & Monday 22 March
Open Auditions
Sevenoaks Entertainers are gearing up for their entry into this year's Sevenoaks Summer Festival – a full-scale production of Oklahoma!, to be performed at the Stag Theatre from Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 June.
Director Sheila Hook and Musical Director David Grubb will be hosting 'help-nights' at Otford Methodist Church Hall on Monday & Wednesday 15 and 17 March, at 7.45pm.
Open auditions will be held from 9.30am to 5pm in Sevenoaks School's Aisher Hall on Sunday 21 March and on Monday 22 March from 8.00 to 10.00pm at OMCH.
Full details available on http://beehive.courier.co.uk/sevents - open to all from age 16.

Sunday 21 March
Bridal hair and make-up catwalk show
SW1 Hair and Beauty Salon, 17 High Street, Tun Wells, 01892 618388.

Wednesday 24 March
Ladies’ night out
Come and spoil yourself with a range of treatments and therapies - manicures, facials, Indian head massage... Tickets £15, which includes your first luxury treatment and a glass of wine.
Hospice in the Weald, Pembury, 7-10pm – contact Ruth Fahie on 01892 820528.

Wednesday 24 March
Tonbridge Flower Arrangement Club
Spring is in the Air, Jean Allen.
2pm for 2.15pm. Angel Centre, Tonbridge. Refreshments available, raffle, sales table. 01732 832491.

Thursday 25 March
North Tonbridge Flower arrangers
Dream On by Jacqui Arnold.
7.30pm for 7.45pm. Medway Hall, Angel Centre, Tonbridge. Visitors welcome, £4. 01732 350335.

Friday 26 March
Cuckfield Crafts and Market
9.30am - 1.00pm. Contact Beverley on 01444 440274 or allthingsnicecft@aol.co

saturday 27 March
The Royal Tunbridge Wells Art Society
Spring exhibition.
10am-5pm, 61 The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells. 01892 542999.

sunday 28 March
The Wedding Fair
Goodie Bags for the first 10 Couple to Arrive! Exhibitor Space still available, please call for details.
Free Entry.11am - 3:30pm. Best Western Donnington Manor Hotel London Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks TN13 2TD 01732 468510, Email@donnington manor.comwww.donningtonmanor.com

From Monday 29 March
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
When producer/director Bill Kenwright brings his renowned production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat to Crawley, audiences will undoubtedly recognise the leading man...
The Hawth, Crawley. 01293 553636

Now until May 31
The Discontented Seventies
Come and re-live the Winter of Discontent, Abba and John Travolta, fondue
sets, the Silver Jubilee and the opening of the National Theatre, with
displays of objects, costume dummies and film. Quizzes and crafts for
children. Free.
Sevenoaks Museum inside Sevenoaks Library, Buckhurst Lane, Sevenoaks. 01732
453118.

Every Tuesday commencing 5 January
Evolution Dance
Learn to dance the UK’s most popular partner dances to current chart sounds,
as well as classics going back through every era to Motown. Dance for fun,
for fitness, for life – a great night out!
The Stag Community Arts Centre , London Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1ZZ. No
need to book – it’s pay as you go, £7 for the evening. Couples as well as
singles are welcome and class rotation operates. Doors open 7.45pm for an
8pm start. A licensed bar is available. Further information on 0870 803
5503, or at www.evolutiondance.co.uk.

Now until end of March
Bedgebury Pinetum
Bedgebury beats the winter blues with Half Price Wednesday. Following on from last year's success, Bedgebury is again offering a Half Price Wednesday discount till the end of March, with an admission price per car of only £3.50, plus savings on cycle hire and refreshments.
www.forestry.gov.uk/bedgebury or on 01580 879820.

Now until 18 December
Eden Valley Museum
HISTORY OF THE WORLD - a special WW2 display will feature one of the ten objects from Kent Museums chosen for inclusion in the British Museum/BBC History of the World Project.
The museum, in Edenbridge High Street, is open Wednesday and Friday 2 to 4.30pm, Thursday and Saturday 10am to 4.30pm and Sundays during June, July and August from 2 to 4.30pm. Further information from Jane Higgs on 01732 868102.


ODEON CINEMA

Green Zone (15)
12 March
During the US-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.

The Blind Side (12A)
12 March
The Blind Sidedepicts the story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfil his potential. At the same time, Oher’s presence in the Touhys’ lives leads them to some self-discoveries.

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (TBC)
26 March
Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the least, in the next chapter of this hilarious and heart warming fable. In the latest instalment, McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war.

How to Train Your Dragon 3-D (TBC)
31st March 2010
From the studio that brought you Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda. Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers.

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