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Reminders for this evening
- Wear a hat (or fascinator) if you wish as part of Wear a Hat Day 2016 on 24 March. We shall be raising money for Brain Tumour Research.
- Buy your tickets for Canary Girls by the Mikron Theatre on 10 June.
- Bring in unwanted bras and new pants for our Smalls for Africa appeal.
- Book your place on the Cocktails evening in May – bring cash or cheque
MHWI needs you – can you help?
Committee meeting in The Roebuck
Would you like to join a friendly team to help MHWI achieve its strap line of ‘bigger and bolder’? Perhaps you like to make things happen or help co-ordinate events, have some good ideas. Undertaking a role on the Committee is just the way to have a go at this and have fun. We even meet in a pub!
Then speak to Clare, our President, or one of the Committee members at this month’s meeting. You can arrange to come along and sit in on a committee meeting to see what we do. We will have several vacancies this September at the Annual Meeting: President, Membership Secretary, Treasurer and Raffle Coordinator.
Bake a cake for Canary Girls
We are looking for volunteers to bake cakes for the night (Friday 10 June at the Evangelical Church, Bath Street). Please speak to Yvonne Conroy (refreshments coordinator) at the meeting next Wednesday.
Will you be wearing a hat this Wednesday?
Support Wear a Hat Day at our meeting on 23 March 2016
At our talk this week, on what happens behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House, we shall be supporting the national Wear a Hat Day. So, if you would like to get into the theatre groove, wear your hat or fascinator (must be something larger than a hairslide). Donations of a £1 minimum will be made to Brain Tumour Research. The first 50 people will receive lapel pins.
This charity is particularly poignant for MHWI member, Jo Brylka, when a brain tumour affected a close family member. Hear more about this on Wednesday. Jo will be leading on forwarding donations to Brain Tumour Research.
Buy tickets now for Canary Girls
Market Harborough WI would love to invite our fellow WI members, friends and family to see a performance of “Canary Girls”, a play written by Mikron Theatre. Mikron Theatre wrote, produced and performed the specially written “Raising Agents” show last year in honour of our centenary celebrations.
Full details are on the attached flyer. Canary Girls Poster If you are interested, please let us know how many tickets you would like by 15th May 2016: ticket requests to mhwimikrontickets@gmail.com (not the usual MHWI email!)
Friday 10th June at 7.30pm. Harborough Evangelical Church, 121 Bath Street, Market Harborough, LE16 9JL
Tickets are £12 full price, £10 concessions (student/retired/unemployed). Hot Drinks and Cakes will be on sale.
Just to tempt you even further, here is a little more on the storyline:
CANARY GIRLS:
Summer 1914.
Sisters Rose and Lizzie work as maids, a world of deference, bed-making and poor pay. When war breaks, adventure-seeking Rose becomes a shell worker, persuading her procedure loving sister Lizzie, to follow her to a world offering more money, exciting work and union activity. It seems like a new start.
But as the sisters discover the dangers of shell work, they realise their dreams are pulling in opposite directions.
As old and new worlds collide on the factory floor, each sister must ultimately decide, which takes more courage – following your dreams, or giving them up for the ones you love?
Funny, heartfelt and tender. Mikron presents a tale of two sisters well and truly at war.
Learn to make cocktails
Enjoy a superb night out on Friday 20 May at Revolution, Leicester learning how to make cocktails. Not only that, relax with other MHWI members and enjoy a 2 course meal. We shall look at sharing transport nearer the time. Cost £35 each. Bring cash or cheque, please, to the March or April monthly meeting.
Apologies – tombola prizes no longer needed!
There’e been a change of plans for the Craft Fair on 16th April. There will not be a tombola staff after all so prizes are no longer needed.
We need your unwanted bras and new pants!
Do you have bras that didn’t fit or you just don’t like? They can be teen bras or nursing bras, too. They can re used by women in Africa (see link below).
Next time you buy some pants, pick up a spare pack, too (donations of these must be new!). These can be for children aged 3 to 15 years or womens’, sizes 8 to 16.
Bring them along to a monthly meeting in March or April. We’re collecting for Smalls for Africa. We’ll be sending off our collection after the April meeting. You can also speak to Vicky Watts at the next monthly meeting or email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
Singing in a choir with Gareth Malone?
Can you sing? Could we form our own MHWI choir? Like to meet Gareth Malone? Be on TV?
Gareth Malone
The BBC are planning a new series of groups singing and this year they are planning to represent the full range of musical styles and genres. They’re happy to be approached by those who have yet to establish or become part of a group of their own. So, if you are interested or think you could lead on forming a MHWI choir, email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com or speak to Clare or a committee member at the March meeting. We have until 15 April to apply. More details: BBAC Flyer
If you are keen, then below is a bit more from the producing company’s email (Twenty Twenty):
‘We’re looking for creative, dynamic and unique groups and people, from across the U.K., of all different shapes and sizes, from all walks of life, who are willing (with Gareth’s help) to push their vocal abilities, meet their full potential, and become the best they can possibly be.
‘Over the course of the series, groups will be allocated contact time with Gareth, who will offer his own expert and enthusiastic guidance, advice and encouragement. To round off the series, the groups will showcase what they’ve learned, in front of a panel of musical experts. Impress this panel and you could see your group rewarded with the honorary title of Britain’s best amateur choir. This is going to be a warm, inspiring series, where the singing groups’ musical talent needs to be matched by their heart and enthusiasm, as well as their ability to be creative, inventive and celebrate their love of music and singing.’
