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September 2012
What’s On
Events
Saturday 8 September
Heritage Open Days
Abingdon School Chapel open to the public
10.30 am – 1.30 pm
ASPA
www.abingdon.org.uk/aspa
Friday 5 October
Sixth-form parents’ supper
7.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 12 October
Third-year parents’ supper
7.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 9 November
Race Night
Parents and friends (adults only)
7.30 pm: Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
Friday 23 November
Fourth-year parents’ supper
7.30 pm: a local restaurant tbc
FASBC
Friends of Abingdon School Boat Club
Saturday 10 November
Quiz Night
7.30 pm: Dining Hall
Touchliners
Saturday 1 December
Touchliners’ Dinner
Abingdon’s rugby supporters’ dinner
7 pm: Charles Maude Room
followed by Dining Hall
Check details of all
these events on the
calendar at:
abingdon.org.uk
Music
Wednesday 3 October
Music Society AGM and
Music Scholars’ Concert No. 1
6.45 pm: Charles Maude Room
Thursday 15 November
Strings Masterclass with Levon Chilingirian
7 pm: Charles Maude Room
Thursday 22 November
Joint Choral Society Concert
Lux Aeterna
, Lauridsen,
Chichester Psalms
, Bernstein
7 pm: Yolande Patterson Hall, St Helen’s School
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions, £16 family
Wednesday 5 December
Christmas Concert No. 1
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Tickets: £6, £4 concessions, £16 family
Friday 7 December
Christmas Concert No. 2
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Tickets: £6, £4 (concessions), £16 family
Sunday 9 December
Thames Vale Youth Orchestra Concert
7 pm: St Barnabas Church, Oxford
Drama
Monday 10 September
God of Carnage
, by Yasmina Reza
Upper 6th, student directed,
joint drama production
7 pm: St Helen’s School
Tuesday 11 September
Pillowman
, by Martin McDonagh
Upper 6th, student directed,
joint drama production
7 pm: Abingdon Drama Studio
Friday 28 and Saturday 29 September
The Hound of the Baskervilles
3rd and 4th year drama production
7 pm: Abingdon Drama Studio
Wednesday 28, Thursday 29,
Friday 30 November
Joint Senior Drama Production
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Tuesday 4, Wednesday 5,
Thursday 6 December
Joint Senior Drama Production
7.30 pm: St Helen’s School
Talks
Monday 24 September
Can Machines Think?
Andrew English
Edmund Society
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 28 September
How Strong is the Chinese Economy?
James Kynge, editor China Confidential, a
research service on China at the Financial Times
Economics Society
4 pm: Amey Theatre
Friday 28 September
The Role of Young People in the Arab Spring
Mezna Qato, Palestinian-American human rights
activist, St Anthony’s College, Oxford
Roysse Society
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Thursday 4 October
Greece
Dr John Taylor, Tonbridge School, Kent
Classics Society
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 5 October
Chemistry Lecture
Professor David Phillips CBE, FRSC,
Professor Emeritus Physical Chemistry,
Imperial College, London
4 pm: Amey Theatre (tbc)
Thursday 8 November
The Iliad
Dr Jane Lightfoot, Fellow and Tutor in Classics,
New College, Oxford
Classics Society
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Friday 9 November
The Business of Advertising
Joanna Chin, founder and Chief Operating Officer
of Langland, the healthcare advertising agency
4 pm: Duffield Library, St Helen’s School
Friday 9 November
Professor Gary Sheffield
Professor of War Studies,
University of Birmingham
Middle School Scholars’ Lecture
6.30 pm: Amey Theatre
Friday 16 November
Dr Tim Gunn
Roysse Society
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Monday 10 December
It was not me, it was my …
Deborah Bennison
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
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