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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

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 present The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan   Designed and directed by Paula Chitty Starring the Gurt Lush Choir and the Bristol Schools Philharmonia Orchestra. Opera Anywhere have delighted audiences of all ages for 12 years now. Opera Anywhere is unique - combining beautiful ... 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

Pocket Merchant of Venice

Fri 4 Oct, 2:30pm & 7:30pm (£12/£10) A pocket-sized version of Shakespeare's Merchant of VeniceDirected by Edward HallDesigned by Michael Pavelka The Merchant of Venice is an uncompromising tale of greed and revenge. When Bassanio falls in love with the wealthy Portia, he becomes imprisoned in a bargain with a ruthless moneylender... Read more theatre And Dance