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September 2011
What’s On
Music
Wednesday 5 October
Music Scholars Concert preceded
by the Music Society AGM
7 pm: Charles Maude Room
Admission Free
Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 October
Dido and Aeneas
– a joint production of Purcell’s
opera performed by St Helen’s and Abingdon
fifth- and sixth-formers
7 pm: Drama Studio, St Helen’s
Tickets: St Helen’s School Office 01235 520173
Thursday 3 November
Strings Masterclass
7 pm: Charles Maude Room
Admission Free
Saturday 12 November
Evensong sung by the Chapel Choir
6.15 pm: New College, Oxford
Saturday 26 November
Verdi Requiem– Joint Choral Society Concert
7 pm Amey Theatre
Tickets: £6, £4 (concessions), £16 family,
to include wine
Monday 5 December
Christmas Concert Number 1
7 pm Amey Theatre
Tickets: £6, £4 (concessions), £16 family,
to include wine
Wednesday 7 December
Christmas Concert Number 2
7 pm Amey Theatre
Tickets: £6, £4 (concessions), £16 family,
to include wine
Saturday 10 December
Thames Vale Youth Orchestra Concert
7. 30 pm: Silk Hall, Radley
ASPA
Friday 14 October
ASPA invite all Third Year parents to a supper
7.30 pm: Sports Centre Entertainment Suite
www.abingdon.org.uk/aspa
External Events
Monday 24 – Saturday 29 October
‘Hello Dolly’
– Abingdon Operatic Society
7.30 pm Amey Hall
Box Office: 01235 843383
www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk
Check details of all
these events at
www.abingdon.org.uk
Open Days
Saturday 1 October
Abingdon School Open Day
– 9.30 – 12.30 pm
Saturday 15 October
Abingdon Preparatory School Open Morning
9.30 – 12.00 noon
Monday 17 October
Sixth Form Open Evening
– for prospective
parents and sons –
5 – 7 pm
Events
Friday 7 October
Professional Networking Legal Dinner
For everyone in the Abingdon School community
with a professional connection to, or interest in,
law and the legal services industry, hosted by
Sir Vivian Ramsey, OA 1968.
6.30 pm: Sports Centre Entertainment Suite
www.abingdon.org.uk/oa/events
Saturday 12 November
FASBC Curry and Quiz Night
Friends of Abingdon School Boat Club invite
supporters to a curry and quiz night.
7.00 pm: School Dining Hall
www.abingdon.org.uk/oa/events
Sunday 13 November
The CCF will take part in the town’s annual
Service of Remembrance at the war memorial.
10.45 am
Saturday 10 December
Touchliners’ Rugby Club Dinner with guest-of-
honour Michael Owen, former captain of Wales
and British Lions player
7.00 pm – www.abingdon.org.uk/touchliners
Lectures
Tuesday 13 September
Plato on Courage and Heroism
–
Angie Hobbs,
Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick
12.45 pm: Charles Maude Room
Tuesday 20 September
‘Malaria, a fateful scourge?’
–
Dr Kirk Rockett,
MalariaGEN Research Manager of the Wellcome
Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University
of Oxford –
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 23 September
‘Chernobyl’
–
Hal McKend OA 2005 and Charlie
Wilkinson, OA 2005
– 5.30 pm: Amey Theatre
Thursday 29 September
Lewis Carroll in Numberland: his Fantastical
Mathematical and Logical Life
– Robin Wilson,
Professor of Mathematics at the Open University
5.30 pm: Amey Theatre
Tuesday 4 October
‘Surface chemistry, designer materials and spin-
out – a case study of invention, innovation and
commercialisation’
– Dr Mark Maloney, Reader in
Chemistry, University of Oxford
4 pm: Sports Centre Entertainment Suite
Friday 7 October
Sites of Classical Antiquity in Turkey
– Dr John
Penney, Lecturer in Classical Philology at the
University of Oxford
5. 30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 14 October
‘The Plundered Planet’
– Dr Paul Collier,
Professor of Economics at the University of
Oxford on why we must – and how we can –
manage nature for global prosperity
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
‘Medicinal Plants’
– Dr Timothy Walker, OA 1976,
Director of the University of Oxford
Botanic Garden
6.30 pm: Amey Theatre/Dining Hall
Friday 11 November
Nicola Blackwood, MP for Oxford West and
Abingdon
– 5. 30 pm: Amey Theatre
Friday 18 November
‘Using Micro-organisms to Rehabilitate
Environments’
– Professor Chris Howe, Professor
of Plant and Microbial Biochemistry at the
University of Cambridge
6. 30 pm: Amey Theatre/Dining Hall
Tuesday 22 November
‘Chemistry of the Rare Earths’
–
Ian Middleton
4 pm: Room S21
Tuesday 29 November
Conscious Machines
– Lionel Tarassenko,
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Oxford
12.45 pm Charles Maude Room
Friday 9 December
‘Bomb disposal – the human effects’
Lt Colonel Adam McRae
5. 30 pm: Sports Centre
Friday 9 December
‘Constructing New Time(tables)) – a Roman
history of time’
–
Dr Chris Burnand
5. 30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Drama
Wednesday 30 November – Friday 9 December
Abingdon / St Helen’s Drama Festival
Each night up to four short plays will be staged in
a variety of venues around the School.
5. 30 pm: Amey Theatre, Charles Maude Room,
Drama Studio, Ingham Room
Tickets: £5 for each production
01235 849063 - [email protected]
www.abingdon-booking.info
Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 December
Cabaret!
– A Senior Joint Production with
St Helen’s of this memorable musical set in
pre-war Germany
7 & 9 December 7 pm, 8 December 12 noon
Yolande Paterson Hall, St Helen’s School
Tickets: St Helen’s School Office 01235 520173