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Festival 2000 events

Information and tickets (except Wednesday 13th June) for all events can be obtained from Pauline Collet, Parish Secretary.

Sunday, 11th June
10.30amSt. Mary's ChurchThe opening service
Procession and Festal Eucharist. Preacher will be Right Reverend John Dennis, former Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Music will include Mozart's Spatzenmesse, with orchestra and Parry's anthem I was Glad.
10am to 5pmPrimrose Hill Library
Sharpleshall St.
NW1
Art exhibition
Pictures and works of art by local artists.
Admission free.
6pmSt. Mary's ChurchSongs of Praise
Parishes from our North Camden Deanery will join us for this special hour of hymn singing, featuring some of the hymns specially connected with St. Mary's. Led by St. Mary's choir.
Monday, 12th June
8pmSt. Mary's ChurchSing-along-Anita
A convivial sing-song with Anita Probert and friends. Also includes a wine tasting.
Admission £2.50.
Sponsored by Bibendum.
Tuesday, 13th June
3pm to 5pmSt. Mary's Church
Parish Room
Festival Tuesday Tea
Mary Cooper invites you to come in and enjoy a cup of tea, delicious home-made cakes and friendly conversation
Entertainment by St. Paul's School Choir and Gill Hallifax and Michael Paine.
Admission free.
8pmSt. Mary's ChurchYoung Prinny and Little Vic
Airs and Graces give stage presentation charting, in words and music, the lives of the ill-fated Princess Caroline, daughter of the Price Regent, and the young Princess Victoria, before she became Queen.Clare Norburn - Soprano, Leah Stuttard - Fortepiano, Patience Tominson - Actress, David Timson - Actor/Baritone.
Admission £10 (concessions £6).
Wednesday, 14th June
7.30pmSt. Mary's ChurchEngland's Thousand Best Churches
A talk by Simon Jenkins (award winning journalist, former editor of The Times and London Evening Standard) on the title of his new book. Organ recital of English Music by Michael Willford precedes talk. Tickets on sale at Primrose Hill Books, 134 Regents Park Road.
Admission £7 (concessions £5)
Thursday, 15th June
7.30pmSt. Mary's ChurchLindy Hop Workshop
Simon Selmon is a champion Lindy-hopper. Tonight he will show you how to take to the floor. It's easy, it's great fun and anyone can do it.
Admission £5 (concessions £3)
Friday, 16th June
7.30pmSt. Mary's ChurchJames Bowman sings Purcell and Vivaldi with Canzona
James Bowman, the internationally acclaimed counter-tenor, joins Canzona in a varied programme of vocal and instrumental music by two great Baroque composers. The programme ends with Vivaldi's Stabat Mater .
Admission £20, £10 (concessions £7)
Saturday, 17th June
2.30pm to 4.30pmSt. Paul's School,
Elsworthy Road
Children's Party
The headmistress invites all children between the ages of 4 and 11 to a grand party. Entertainment by The Zoo Man. Games, competitions, prizes, raffles and lots to eat and drink.
Admission free
6.30pm to noonSt. Mary's ChurchInternational Community Party
Neil Mullarkey, the well-known television comedian, hosts an evening of entertainment, food and drink from around the globe to celebrate the exciting ethnic diversity of our community around St. Mary's. Raffles and prizes. Come and go at any time.
Admission £2 (Children free)
Sponsored by Victoria Wine and with financial assistance by the London Borough of Camden
Sunday, 18th June
10.30amSt. Mary's ChurchThe final Eucharist of the festival
Join us in celebration for the whole community and the chance to join together in praise and worship. Sermon will by given by the vicar, Rev. Robert Atwell. Music will include Missa Brevis by Kodály and the first performance of a new anthem by Philip Godfrey, The Earth is full of the Goodness of the Lord, commissioned by St. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill.

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