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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS In the table below you will find a list of event highlights that are worth an early mention. This is because they are either weekends away, holidays, require prior booking or are important headline events. If you would like to see the full details of the event, clicking on the individual event titles will take you straight to the main entry on the website.
MAIN DIARY Saturday 25 May 2013 SPICE OVEN WORLD RESTAURANT, CAVERSHAM, READING Location: Spice Oven World Restaurant, 2-4 Church Road, Reading. Time: 20:00 to 22:00 Cost: up to £25 depending on choice of food Meeting: Inside the Foyer of the Spice Oven. Book By: Please ensure you book two days before event Come and enjoy good company and a full range of food including buffet- excellent exotic dishes included! Listed 4/5 in Reading TripAdvisor. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Sunday 26 May 2013 BULLETIN DEADLINE Location: - Time: End of today Let me have your events for the June Bulletin by the end of today please. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Friday 31 May 2013 OPEN AIR FILM SCREENINGS - ARGO! Location: Caversham Court Gardens, Church Road, Caversham, Reading. Time: 19:30 to 23:15 Cost: £12 Deckchair/Film. Refreshments extra Meeting: At the Main Gate Book By: BOOK VERY EARLY VIA ORGANISER-POPULAR VENUE Cult Open Air Screenings ARGO - Winner of so many Oscars I gave up counting! Seats Provided- Argo tells the true story of a covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis. The clock is ticking to see if they will all get out alive… Licensed Premises (no own food allowed) Turn up Early for Good Seat. Film begins at 9.15 p.m. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC
Sunday 2 Jun 2013 WALK IN THE CHILTERNS FROM STOKENCHURCH Location: Mill Road, Stokenchurch. Time: 10:15 to 15:30 TV IVC members are welcome to join Oxfordshire IVC walk. Meet at 10.15 a.m. at Mill Road, Stokenchurch (HP14 3TP) for a 10-mile hilly walk to Christmas Common. Bring packed lunch. Short pub stop (drinks only) at the Fox and Hounds, Christmas Common. Option for tea or drinks after the walk at the Lambert Arms Hotel, Aston Rowant. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Sunday 2 Jun 2013 CHILLED OUT SUMMER CRUISE Location: Cowey Sale by Walton Bridge Time: 12:45 to 17:00 Cost: £30.00 West Surrey IVC have invited us to join them on this event: Come along and join us on Sunday 2nd June 2013 on board the "Walton Lady" for our Chilled Out Summer afternoon Cruise on the Thames including a 2-course sit down carvery lunch with traditional accompaniment. All for the price of £30.00 per person. Boat departs from Cowey Sale by Walton Bridge at 1.00pm prompt and returns at 5.00 p.m. Please be on board by 12.45pm at the latest. There is a large public car park nearby Payment for tickets and menu choice can be made on line at www.wsivc.org.uk/payments or for other enquiries please send to enquiries@wsivc.org.uk or call 0800 1357913. Dress up for the occasion if you dare. The WS IVC leaflet for this event can be downloaded from the link under INDIVIDUAL EVENTS DETAILS. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Wednesday 5 Jun 2013 CAFÉ SCI: THE AGEING BRAIN Location: Henley on Thames Hockey Club, Jubilee Park, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames. Time: 7:30 for 8:00 p.m. Cost: Small donations gratefully received. Book By: Must book, through me or email organisers directly " 'I’ve known her for fifteen years and her name has completely slipped my mind.' Structural changes in our brain probably underlie such experiences. Like any organ or part of our body, the brain ages. This is healthy, normal, ageing and of course, if we use the brain, keep active and eat properly, we can minimise these effects. However, like any organ, there are many disorders of the brain in which the risk factor is age. ... " Come along to hear this talk on the ageing brain by Paul Bolam, Professor of Anatomical Neuropharmacology, Oxford University and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Café Scientifique talks are followed by questions from the audience in the second half. Everyone is welcome to ask a question or make a comment; you don't need to be a scientist to enjoy the evening. The organisers say it is essential to register in advance. Either let me know by the day before or email to them directly at cshenley@talktalk.net. Directions from Reading: As your enter Henley turn right at the roundabout towards Tesco, then first left into the hockey club car park. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Sunday 9 Jun 2013 WALK IN THE CHILTERNS FROM MIDDLE ASSENDON Location: Middle Assendon, RG9 6AT. Time: 3:00 p.m. Meeting: Park in the long parking bay outside row of houses, close to Rainbow Inn. TV IVC members are welcome to join Oxfordshire IVC on this 8 miles walk.: Scenic walk starting at 3.00pm in quiet valleys of the Chilterns including a few steepish inclines. Lots of wild flowers in the summer. Visit en-route to the Victorian church of St James at Bix to admire the internal gothic brickwork, then onto the medieval ruins of St James at Bix Bottom. Through Crocker End and Warburg Nature Reserve. Passing the farmhouse where the spy thriller 'Restless' was filmed. Return via Stonor and along the Ridgeway. Drinks at the Rainbow Inn after the walk. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Monday 10 Jun 2013 CAFÉ SCI: WAS THE SEARCH FOR HIGGS-BOSEN WORTH IT Location: Monroe's Rock Café, 61 St. Mary's Butts, Reading. Time: 7:30 p.m. Book By: Booking is optional, but let me know if possible. Was the search for the Higgs-Bosen worth it? Come along to hear this month's talk by Professor David Wark, Director of the Particle Physics Department, Science and Technology Facilities Council, and member of the Senior Science Advisory Panel at CERN Café Scientifique talks are followed by questions from the audience in the second half. Everyone is welcome to ask a question or make a comment; you don't need to be a scientist to enjoy the evening. You don't have to book in advance, but if coming let me know by Sunday if possible please. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC 
Wednesday 12 Jun 2013
SKEPTICS: CREATION: THE ORIGIN & FUTURE OF LIFE Location: Copa 76-78A, Kings Road, Reading Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Voluntary contribution (£2). Meeting: In the room downstairs Book By: Booking is optional, but let me know if possible. Creation: the origin and the future of life "Adam Rutherford, science writer and broadcaster, will take you on a whirlwind tour of the origin of life, and synthetic biology, based on his new book Creation, which was described as being 'so gripping it reads like a thriller: prepare to be astounded'." The talk will be followed by questions from the audience in the second half. Everyone is welcome to ask a question or make a comment. You don't have to book in advance, but if coming let me know by Tuesday if possible please. Reading Skeptics ask for a contribution of around £2 to cover the cost of the evening. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC 
Wednesday 12 Jun 2013
CLUB EVENING / QUIZ NIGHT Location: The Grosvenor PH, 109 Kidmore Rd., Caversham, Reading. Time: 8.30 p.m. for 9.00 Book By: Tuesday 11th Attention all of you budding Masterminds! Please come along to the monthly quiz night at The Grosvenor PH, 109 Kidmore Rd., Caversham, (RG4 7NH) Please arrive at 8.30 for a 9.00pm start. Although there is no set number of people per team please let me know by Tuesday 11th if you are coming so we can look out for you. (I don't think we are allowed to phone a friend!) Quiz entrance fee is £1 per person.. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 15 Jun 2013 LOCH FYNE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Location: Loch Fyne Seafood Restaurant,Bear Wharf,Fobney Street, Reading Time: 7.30pm Cost: £12-16 Meeting: At the Restaurant Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 15 Jun 2013 READING AMATEUR REGATTA AND DRINKS Location: Caversham Amateur Regatta, Thameside Promenade, Reading. Time: 12:00 to 14:00 Cost: Refreshments only Meeting: The Crown on the Bridge Pub, Bridge St , Reading, RG4 8AA Book By: Please book so we know to watch for you Join us for a "swift 'arf" or whatever, before joining the crowds on the bridge or the prom' in Caversham for a couple or hours or so to watch the amateurs create a good day of "messing about on the River" Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Sunday 16 Jun 2013 CAVERSHAM COURT GARDENS SUMMER PARTY! Location: Caversham Court Gardens, Church Road, Caversham, Reading. Time: 14:30 to 17:30 Meeting: IVC Table in the large tent within Caversham Court Gardens. Book By: Please book so we know to watch for you! Join the Summer Party in these beautiful Thameside gardens and bring a picnic!! Live music; childrens activities; cream teas GOOD COMPANY! Raffle Prizes with a Programme. Sponsored by TVIVC Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC
Thursday 20 Jun 2013
SKEPTICS: RISE OF THE LAPTOP LIZARDS Location: Copa 76-78A, Kings Road, Reading Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Voluntary contribution (£2). Meeting: In the room downstairs Book By: Booking is optional, but let me know if possible. "It's been 18 months since the Advertising Standards Authority started to regulate marketing claims made on the Internet. In that time, the Nightingale Collaboration has given the ASA possibly their most serious challenge yet: curbing the misleading claims made on Complementary and Alternative Medicine websites." Come along this evening to hear Alan Henness, Nightingale Collaboration Director, talk about who they are, what they have been up to and what their future plans are. The talk will be followed by questions from the audience in the second half. Everyone is welcome to ask a question or make a comment. You don't have to book in advance, but if coming let me know by Wednesday if possible please. Reading Skeptics ask for a contribution of around £2 to cover the cost of the evening. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 22 Jun 2013 RECORDED MUSIC EVENING Location: Reading Central Time: 8pm Cost: £2 to cover refreshments Meeting: A house in Kendrick Road area The last meeting before the summer of the recorded music group wil be held in central Reading. Details to be announced soon. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 22 Jun 2013 AS YOU LIKE IT! OPEN AIR THEATRE Location: Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Time: 19:15 to 22:00 Cost: £18 plus refreshments Meeting: TBA Book By: Please book early Shakespeare's pastoral comedy which follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncles court, accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, will she find love and safety in the Forest of Arden? This is an outdoor event so dress for the weather. Bring a rug or low chair as seating is not provided and your own refreshments. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Wednesday 26 Jun 2013 ANNUAL GLOW WORM HUNT TBA Location: TBA Time: TBA Cost: Nil Meeting: TBA Annual Glow Worm Hunt TBA Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 29 Jun 2013 THAMES PATH STAGE 6 Location: Vauxhall Station, London. Time: 10:00 a.m. Meeting: In the tunnel underneath the station, near the pasty shop. London IVC have invited us to join them on their walk: Today we walk 8 miles this time along the south bank finishing at Barnes Bridge Station. Meet At: Meet in the tunnel underneath Vauxhall Station 1010 hrs. near the pasty shop. Return will be from Barnes Bridge Station. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Sunday 30 Jun 2013 WALK FROM GORING (10.5 MILES) Location: Station Road, Goring. Time: 10:30 a.m. Meeting: In public car park (NOT station car park), just behind the Catherine Wheel pub TV IVC members are welcome to join Oxfordshire IVC on this walk.: Meet in the public car park (NOT the station car park), Station Road, Goring, just behind the Catherine Wheel pub, RG8 9HB for an all day walk of around 10½ miles (shorter if the weather is bad) largely on the downs and including a stretch of the Thames. Please bring a picnic, which we shall have at around 12.30. We may also stop at a pub for a quick drink further on, and again at the end of the walk. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC
Saturday 6 Jul 2013 HENLEY REGATTA & FIREWORKS Location: Henley-on-Thames Time: TBA Birmingham IVC have invited us to their event described below. Details of TV IVC arrangements to join them will follow. We are planning to go down on Saturday and camp over night so that we can join the evening entertainment and fireworks.Camping is £27.50 per person including entrance to The Barn entertainment venue. During the day we have a picnic on the riverbank.Get in touch for further details if you would like to enjoy this traditional English summer event. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 13 Jul 2013 BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATIONS Location: Forbury gardens, Reading. Time: 11:00 to 23:55 Cost: Refreshments of choice Meeting: Carluccio's Restaurant for coffee - just opposite the Gardens. RG1 3EY Book By: Please book so we can watch out for you Celebrate (actually the day before) Bastille Day with Reading Francophiles and join in their festivities throughout Forbury Gardens! Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 20 Jul 2013 THE MIKADO! OPEN AIR THEATRE Location: Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Time: 19:15 to 22:00 Cost: £20 plus refreshments or bring your own Meeting: TBA Book By: Please book early In the town of Titipu flirting has been made illegal. The penalty is death. Too bad then that the main culprit is the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, who wishes to marry his beautiful young ward Yum-Yum, and who has no intention of executing himself. So when Nanki-Pu arrives in Titipu and declares his love for Yum-Yum, Ko-ko has the perfect candidate for execution. Except that Yum-Yum, by tradition, would have to be executed with Nanki-Pu. And Nanki-Pu turns out to be the Mikado's own son. Bring a picnic while you enjoy this comic opera. This is an open air event so dress for the weather. There is no seating provided so bring picnic rugs or low garden chairs Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Saturday 27 Jul 2013 PROGRESS OPEN AIR THEATRE - MACBETH! Location: Caversham Court Gardens, Church Road, Caversham, Reading. Time: TBA Cost: £10 plus refreshments/hire charges Meeting: At the Main Gate Caversham Court Gardens. Book By: Please book early BE PREPARED TO BE SCARED!! Out of the Dark Ages comes Macbeth, a warrior and champion to King Duncan of Scotland rallying against the armies of Norway and bringing victory home. His successes are followed quickly by a prophesised destiny brought to him by three weird sisters; Macbeth will one day be king. Driven by ambition, Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor, and the Lady Macbeth plot to remove all obstacles to the throne and so begins a bloody spiral into betrayal, paranoia and murder. The blood of kings, friends, women and children soaks the red path to Macbeth’s ascendance, coronation and downfall. Bring rugs/low chairs/picnic (some chairs available for hire) Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC
Friday 2 Aug 2013 MIKRON THEATRE "BEYOND THE VEIL" Location: Caversham Court Gardens, Church Road, Caversham, Reading. Time: TBA Cost: Cheerful Donations! Meeting: At the entrance - Caversham Court Gardens. Book By: Please book early "Beyond the Veil" Mikron Theatre present DCI Mark Starkey who thinks he’s got a quiet patch in sleepy Thistledale, but all that is about to change dramatically when there’s a sudden, unnatural death on the local allotment… The grisly discovery down by the beehives is only the beginning for Detective Starkey. To unmask the murderer he must first uncover an altogether less savoury side of life in Thistledale; the bitter grudges, thwarted passions and murky pasts. And then there are the bees. The life of the honeybee might be described as one of great sweetness and harmony, punctuated by sudden, desperate, acts of violence. The same could be said for Thistledale. Detective Starkey soon realises that the more he knows about bees, the closer he gets to the killer! Bring a picnic, low chair, rug! Come and enjoy this murder mystery performed by Mikron Theatre who journey the waterways of England on barges bringing live theatre to these lovely Thameside gardens. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC
Saturday 7 Sep 2013 ENGLISH CIVIL WAR BATTLE RE-ENACTMENT Location: Mapledurham House, RG4 7TR Time: TBA Cost: Battle & Watermill £7.50 plus refreshments Meeting: TBA Book By: Early Bird discounts available The Civil War Era Battle Re-enactment of military and domestic life in 1700's England by the Fairfax Battalia set in the grounds of historic Mapledurham House. If there is demand, we can travel to the site via a Thames cruiser from Caversham Bridge in Reading. Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC Monday 23 Sep 2013 CIVIL WAR IN READING - CRUISE/TALK/MUSIC/CREAMTEA Location: River Cruise from Thameside Promenade by Caversham Bridge, Reading RG1 8DP Time: 14:00 to 17:45 Cost: £25 Meeting: Thameside Promenade by Caversham Bridge, Reading RG1 8DP Book By: Please book early. Commentary Cruise from Thameside Promenade to historic Mapledurham House. Illustrated Professional Talk with Period Music - READING & THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. Cream Tea Organiser: Private to members of Thames Valley IVC 26 events listed. The content of this bulletin is copyright to Thames Valley IVC and may not be reproduced without the express permission of the copyright owner. 
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