Your what’s on guide

Friday September 12

New Girlguiding Term commences at St Mary Magdalene Guides, for girls aged 10 to 14, The Octagon, Vicarage Road, Lillington, from 6.30pm to 8.15pm, come along for fun and new challenges.

Keep Up, exhibition of new work by Glasgow-based artist Jacqueline Donachie, Leamington Art Gallery and Museum, until November 16, www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

Guided Apple Walks with the head gardener at Hill Close Gardens, Bread and Meat Close, Warwick, 2.30-3.30pm: see over 60 different varieties of apple tree. Refreshments and sales of plants, produce and gifts. Entry £3.50 child £1. Call 493339 or visit www.hillclosegardens.com

Heritage Open Days: Free Tours of the Warwickshire Museum Collections, Warwickshire County Record Office, Cape Road, Warwick, at 10.30am and 11.45am, booking is required, call 738959, 412132 or 412501, for more information visit www.heritage.
warwickshire.gov.uk

Tango Warwick, classes with Dante Culcuy, St Mary’s Church hall, St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road, Leamington, 7pm to 8pm beginners/improvers, 8.15pm to 9.15pm intermediates, 9.15pm to 10.30pm practica.

The Mercy Seat will be performed by the Criterion Theatre group at the Loft Theatre in Leamington at 7.30pm. For tickets, call 0844 4934938.

Saturday September 13

The Man Who Won the War, talk by expert Tonie Holt about the life and carttons of Bruce Bairnsfather, at the Quaker Meeting House, Warwick Quaker Centre, from 11am, £3 per ticket, call 491653.

A concert to celebrate the music and lives of Rita and John Dawkins including Elgar’s Enigma variations and Mozart’s Piano Concerto K488, featuring players and soloists with whom they played, co-ordinated by Beauchamp Sinfonietta, Guy Nelson Hall, Warwick School, Myton Road, from 7.30pm, tickets £12, £10 for concessions, £2 for children and students at the door or from the Bridge House Theatre Box Office, retiring collection for MIND Leamington.

Dancing to Mr Bojangles and Bingo, Royal Naval Association Club, Adelaide Road, Leamington, from 8pm to 11pm.

Guitar Monkey, live music, Oak House (also known as Leamington Liberal Club), Upper Holly Walk, Leamington, admission free for members, £1 for non-members.

Heritage weekend today and on Sunday September 14 at Hill Close Gardens, Bread and Meat Close, 
Warwick. Free entry 11am-5pm. Refreshments and sales of plants, produce and gifts. Sun 2-4pm performances by Wayfarers Folk Dance Group. Call 493339 or visit www.hillclosegardens.com

Rummage sale in aid of the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance and the Aylesford Unit at Warwick Hospital at Barford Scout Hut, 2pm. For further details call 624733.

Recital by Peter King, director of Music at Bath Abbey, on the newly refurbished organ at St Nicholas church in Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, 8pm. Tickets £10 from Nick on 513168.

Music at Leamington Hastings, Emma Johnson clarinet and Pascal Roge piano playing music by Debussy, Poulenc Ravel and more, All Saints church, Leamington Hastings, for tickets call 07540 689606 or visit www.musicatleamingtonhastings.co.uk

International N Gauge Show, model train exhibition and sale, Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, near Leamington, from 10am to 5pm also on Sunday September 14 from 10am to 4pm, www.ngaugeshow.co.uk

Heritage Open Days: Free Tours of Warwickshire County Record Office, Cape Road, Warwick, at 2pm and 3.15pm, booking is required, call 738959, 412132 or 412501, for more information visit www.heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk

Heritage Open Days: Free Tours of Chesterton Windmill, from 10.30am to 4.30pm, first come first served, small charge for parking. For more information visit www.heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk

Canvas and Clay artists’ collective at the Art Barn, Preston Bagot. On until September 28, 10am to 6pm every day. Free entry.

The Mercy Seat will be performed by the Criterion Theatre group at the Loft Theatre in Leamington at 7.30pm. For tickets, call 0844 4934938.

Propaganda Swing-themed vintage clothing and craft fayre, behind-the-scenes tours and costumes designs exhibition, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 10am to 4pm. Free entry.

Italian weekend at Compton Verney art gallery near Kineton, with Rat Pack-style music by Me and My Shadow and The Mat Hatters dance troupe, Italian cars display, craft activities and Italian Baroque music performances by The Cabinet of Curiosities, 11am to 5pm. www.comptonverney.org.uk

Auditions for young people aged 13 upwards to take part in Scrooge - The Musical, at the Loft Theatre in Leamington, 2.30pm. Those attending need to prepare a song and bring sheet music. For details, call Tim Willis on 07818 032752.

Concert by international organist Peter King, director of music at Bath Abbey, at St Nicholas church, Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, 8pm. Tickets £10. Call 513168.

Sunday September 14

Kenilworth Rambling Club. Tanworth- in-Arden, 7 miles, call 0l789 508525.

Fun Day Fundraiser in aid of The Rest Stop, bouncy castle, DJ, stalls, zorb football, sumo suits, bouncy slide, information, food and much more, Cubbington Sports and Social Club, from noon to 6pm, free admission, www.gofundme.com/the-rest-stop

Music at Leamington Hastings, Rosemary Robinson piano, Huw Gibson cello, Zoe Hogan clarinet playing music by Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and more, for tickets call 07540 689606 or visit www.musicatleamingtonhastings.co.uk

Open Mic Session with Drums and Bass, Oak House (also known as Leamington Liberal Club), Upper Holly Walk, Leamington, from 3pm to 7pm, admission free for members, £1 for non-members.

Auditions for children aged 9 to 16 to be in the junior chorus of Cinderella pantomime, at the Spa Centre in Leamington, 9.30am. For details, call 334418.

Monday September 15

The Circle Singers of Leamington are offering taster recruitment sessions on Mondays at Radford Road church during term time. The sessions start at 7.45pm, for more information call 07702 687503 or visit www.circlesingers.co.uk or email [email protected]

Members of the Leamington and Warwick Musical Society are holding auditions for the two male leads in their forthcoming production of Singin’ in the Rain. For details, email [email protected]

Older People in Action public meeting on ‘Growing Older with Peace of Mind’, held at the Kenilworth Centre in Abbey End, Kenilworth, 2.30pm. For further details, call 477517.

Girlguiding open taster evening for girls aged 14 and over at the new 4th Whitnash Guide unit, The Chapter House, St Margaret’s church, Whitnash, from 6.30pm to 8.15pm and every term-time Monday thereafter.

Circle Singers taster recruitment evening, Radford Road church, Leamington, 7.45pm. No requirement to be able to read music. For details, call Mary Jaffer on 07702 687503.

Tuesday September 16

Singing for the Brain session for people with dementia, their carers and family/friends, at Brunswick Healthy Living Centre, Shrubland Street, Leamington, 10.15am to 11.45am. 
Free entrance, with refreshments provided. For further details, call Sharon Donnelly on 888899.

Wednesday September 17

Leamington Spa Horticultural Society. Peter Preece will be returning to give the second part of his popular nature talk, Every Picture Tells a Story. plus bring-and-buy produce tables, St.Peter’s Church Hall, Dormer Place, at 7.30 pm, everyone welcome, non-members £3 on the door including coffee and biscuits.

Thursday September 18

Royal Leamington Spa Flower Club is meeting for a floral art demonstration by Jonathan Moseley, NAFAS national demonstrator who appeared as a judge on the BBC Allotment Challenge, The Royal Naval Association Club,
 Adelaide Road, Leamington, from 7pm for 7.15pm start, visitors welcome, cost £5.

The King Under the Car Park, The Leamington Society presents a talk by Matthew Morris, the archaeologist in charge of digging under Leicester Social Services car park and discovering King Richard III’s bones, Dormer Place Conference Centre, Leamington, from 7.30pm, admission £2.