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Young Producers: Gold Arts A...
Closing date: 5 Jun 2013. Project dates: Sept 2013 - March 2014 Young Producers: Gold Arts Award – Applications Now Open! Interested in a career in theatre? Do you want to produce your own event, deliver workshops or devise a theatre performance? We can offer mentoring, support, budget and a venue to develop your project idea, whilst also improving your o... Read more made In Glos
Dave Stokes Photography
19 Apr- 18 May, Mon-Fri 12-5pm This exhibition, by local photographer Dave Stokes, in collaboration with Mike Drummond, brings to the PAC galleries an interactive exhibition that will question how much of one’s personality is given away purely by appearance. Read more gallery
Major Tom
Sat 25 May, 7.30pm (£10/ £8/ £5) A new show from the brilliant and hilarious Victoria Melody, who brought us 'Northern Soul' last season. Step inside the strange and wonderful world of beauty pageants and dog shows... Victoria discovered her basset hound’s prize-winning potential by accident, but Major Tom’s first show was... Read more theatre And Dance
Our Fathers
Fri 31 May, 7.30pm (£10/ £8/ £5) A moving, unforgiving tribute to fathers everywhere who tried to do their best. What would you do if you were asked to be a father in an email? If your Dad thought it was dance school that turned you gay? If you'd never seen the man behind the mask? A daring leap across oceans and decades, led ... Read more theatre And Dance
Sequins on my Balcony
2 June 7.30pm, £10/ £8 conc Written and performed by Yvette Cowles and directed by Peta Lily, Sequins on My Balcony offers a fresh perspective on breast cancer, body image, belly dance and sisterhood through a blend of dance, drama, clowning - and lots of sequins! The show takes the audience on a funny, touching and somet... Read more made In Glos
Sue Ryder 60th Anniversary E...
21-24 May (12-5pm Mon-Fri) To celebrate their anniversary, the Bath Road Sue Ryder Charity shop is organising this exhibition, displaying a range of work in different mediums which have been donated to the charity. All the works will be for sale to raise funds for the local Leckhampton Court Hospice. “We hope you can c... Read more gallery
Opera on the Big Screen - L ...
Sat 1 June, 3pm & 6:30pm Donizetti’s delightful opera tells of the romantic rivalry between the penniless Nemorino and the bumptious Sergeant Belcore for the love of the beautiful, bookish Adina. Witty, charming and ultimately deeply touching, this is Italian opera at its intoxicating best. No wonder L’elisir d’a... Read more made In Glos
Cheltenham Science Festival
Tue 4 - Sun 9 June The programme promises to be as diverse as ever, exploring everything from DNA and frontier medicine to comets and the humble cup of tea. Plus, get the inside scoop on the Higgs boson from the man who started it all: physicist Peter Higgs. Full programme and online booking available here. Ticke... Read more festival
Sue Flood: “Cold Places”...
Wed 19 Jun, 7.00pm (£10) Sue Flood is a professional and award-winning wildlife and travel photographer, who spent 11 years with the BBC Natural History unit, worked on Planet Earth and was assistant producer on the BBC’s Blue Planet. Join Sue as she showcases her amazing photography and talks about her life as a gl... Read more event
Cheltenham Open Studios
8-15 June (12-5pm, Mon-Sat) PAC becomes one of more than 70 venues on the COS13 art trail, this summer. This exhibition features Rob Goldsmith (watercolour), Nicki Gwynn-Jones (photography), Jo Lucas (abstract painting), and Jane Sasanow (printmaking), along with a ‘taster’ of work by artists featured across the trail... Read more gallery
Albert Einstein: Relativitiv...
Sat 8 June, 2:30pm (£10 / £8 concessions). For venue enquiries only: Einstein possessed one of the greatest minds and the über coolest moustaches of the twentieth century. Combining comedy songs, clowning and gloriously bad puns alongside proper explanations of the science behind his landmark theories, this show is a hilarious and thought-provoking answer to ev... Read more theatre And Dance
Mega Mikado
Sun 16 June, 5:00pm (£15 / Concessions £12 / under 18’s £5) Opera Anywhere presents a ‘Mega Mikado’, by Gilbert & Sullivan featuring the Gurt Lush Choir & the Bristol Schools Philharmonia orchestra. Opera Anywhere have delighted audiences of all ages for 12 years, combining beautiful singing with having fun, and a good dose of audience parti... Read more made In Glos
Try Something New
Fri 21 June, 6.00pm (£8/ £5) Locally based professional artists will be sharing work in progress. Be among the first to see new theatre, music and dance from Gloucestershire's finest. This is a night for artists and audiences alike. We programme work that is in the early stages of development, sometimes this is its first o... Read more made In Glos
Slapdash Galaxy
Sat 22 June, 7:00pm (£10/£8/£5) Buckle-in and tear open your imagination for this year’s new shadow puppet epic about two brothers who battle the bad guys and find strength in each other ...at warp-speed. Using the contents of your cleaning closet, award winning performer Jeff Achtem creates a shadow puppet universe from bi... Read more theatre And Dance
The Beast
Saturday 29 June, 7:30pm Performer Stuart Bowden is armed with a ukulele, loop pedal and an endearing story to tell. Meet Winslow - the beast. Winslow lives on the edge of a town and on special occasions he sneaks into town under cover of the night to watch the humans. Following worldwide acclaim for The World Holds Ev... Read more theatre And Dance
Sam Halmarack & The Miserabl...
Tue 9 July, 7:30pm (£10/£8/£5) Located somewhere between a theatre show and a stadium pop concert, Sam Halmarack & The Miserablites are the bombastic pioneers of interactive pop. Get ready for handclapping anthems and electro music to move and inspire. With songs, stories and a little help from you, we will all come toge... Read more theatre And Dance
Cheltenham Music Festival
Wed 3 - Sun 14 July With over 60 events around Cheltenham and beyond, the Music Festival brings some special events for theatre lovers and families to Parabola. A dramatic sung monologue from a jilted lover in her lonely room; a brand-new radio-play thriller – lighthouse, father, son (with a dark secret) and a s... Read more festival
Summer Holiday Youth Theatre
Weeks beginning 22 and 29 July PAC Youth Theatre are delighted to announce two weeks of summer holiday workshops, inspired by the exciting Propeller Theatre Company, who are coming to PAC this October with their new show Pocket Merchant, a “pocket sized” production of the Merchant of Venice with a contemporary edge. P... Read more made In Glos
Did I Mention the Free Wine?
Saturday 21 Sept, 7pm canapes and drinks, 8pm performance The Did I Mention the Free Wine? tour by poet Felix Dennis will bring fine French wine and poetry to venues across the UK and Europe. In just over ten years, Felix Dennis has established himself as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed poets of recent times and his poetry tours have ... Read more event