THE Royal Opera House TAKE FIVE Summer School for instrumentalists and singers takes place at Palmer’s College in Grays from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 July. Young musicians from five areas: Barking & Dagenham, Essex, Havering, Southend and Thurrock join professional musicians and singers in the three day Summer School.
A WONDERFUL and spectacular production of Britten’s children’s opera “Noye’s Fludde” involving over 300 young performers as singers, animals, soloists and orchestral players. The opera includes professional opera singers and professional players alongside children from schools in Tilbury and Southend.
ON Friday 12th July the Rotary Club of Corringham Thameside invited six year six pupils from Arthur Bugler Junior School in Stanford le Hope to visit the studios of Gateway 97.8 in the Eastgate Centre in Basildon. The purpose of the visit was for the children to record a public service information advertisement on Fire Safety and Road Safety.
ANNETTE Lewis, community worker for ngage said “Volunteers are being asked to spare just three hours to help with a number of roles including litter picking, meet and greet, road closures etc. Timings will vary over the course of the weekend and can suit all availability. We still have a number of shifts available and are looking for volunteers to help make T Fest 2013 the best ever”.
A GROUP of people interested in the history and heritage of Thurrock (Essex, UK) have started a national campaign that aims to ensure the preservation of the gardens and house built by Alfred Russel Wallace in Grays Thurrock. The campaign has been welcomed by Dr. George Beccaloni of the Natural History Museum who said “The Dell is historically very important because it is the only one of the three homes that Wallace built which still survives.
THURROCK Diversity Network is carrying out a survey as an Independent Community Organisation. They are interested in obtaining, gathering and hearing your views of Police Community Support Officers [PCSOs] in Thurrock and details of The actual real differences that the PCSOs make to you, your friends, neighbours and people you know in Thurrock the positive impact of PCSOs upon communities and people in Thurrock.
OUR REPORTER should know. He has been attending concerts in Thurrock for over thirty years. He has seen some very fine and some that have been a tad "underwhelming" but the "A Common Territory" concert on Friday night at the Civic Hall stunned and amazed. The centre piece of the concert was the blending of the work of the Chris Brubeck jazz quartet and the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne. Any performance that begins with Beethoven's Seventh and ends with jazz classic Take Five has something to enthrall.
THERE have been years in which they have had to cancel the East Tilbury Fun Day but not in 2013, where the temperature topped 90 degrees. Many organisations came out such as the Coalhouse Fort project and the Re-Use project on the Bata estate had stalls and there was a number of musical acts on the stage.
THERE'S an exciting future for Grays, top councillors were told on Wednesday (10 July) evening. Members of Thurrock Council’s cabinet were discussing plans for the town’s regeneration following a major consultation exercise there.
THIS month, several of our members have been enjoying the hospitality of neighbouring WIs, attending parties hosted by Aveley WI (with a 40’s theme), North Stifford WI (very lavish buffet), West Tilbury WI (a floral theme), Millwood WI (a silver theme) and Fobbing & Corringham WI.
THE SUCCESS of the South Ockendon Centre hub is likely to be replicated around the borough in months and years to come. Portfolio holder Cllr Lynn Worrall told Wednesday (10 July) evening’s meeting of Thurrock Council’s cabinet that nine communities had expressed an interest in working towards having a new hub and letters will be going out in the next week to start the work over the summer
AS Treasurer of Bulphan Village Community Forum, I got involved with the QEII Fields Challenge in February 2012 and worked together with Fields in Trust and Thurrock Council to protect Bulphan’s Park in perpetuity as a recreational space for the use of the village. This not only means that we will have a protected green space but that we are able to apply for more funding opportunities - we are currently awaiting the result of our first; which is a SITA Trust fund application for £20,000 to improve the entrance way onto the Park.
CHILDREN from Lansdowne Primary, Herringham Primary and Gateway Free School in Thurrock will play the animals rescued by Noah in a performance of Noye’s Fludde at the London Cruise Terminal on Wednesday 17 July. They will join children from St Mary’s Church of England Primary, St George’s Primary, Temple Sutton Primary and Sacred Heart Catholic Primary and Kingsdown School in Southend-on-Sea. They will all travel on to London for a final performance in the splendour of Southwark Cathedral.
