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Southend Air Festival
Date: 26th May 2012 - 27th May 2012
Location: Southend Seafront
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Cost: Free
2012 will be the 27th year that Southend-on-Sea has staged one of Europe's largest free Airshows. The two day Southend Air Festival is undoubtedly the most spectacular event in Southend's calendar.
Staged against the backdrop of the Thames Estuary along almost 2 miles of seafront, aircraft displays will be featured from across the ages.
We've also provided a huge range of ground entertainment back on terra firma. There will be the RAF, Army, Navy and Royal Marine Town Shows, trade stands, rides, simulators, giant inflatable's and a packed arena programme of entertainment, to keep all of the family amused all day long.
BBC Essex will again be bringing you Radio Airshow on 1530MW, as well as providing the live commentary along the seafront, and Southend Radio will be providing live entertainment both days with music Roadshows.
For more information please visit the Southend Airshow website.
Happening Today, 25th May 12
Storyrhymes at Leigh Library
Date: 25th May 2012
Location: Leigh Library
Time: 10:30
Cost: Free
Stories and nursery rhymes for children under 5 years old and their parents. Everybody welcome!
Takes place on the second Tuesday and last Friday of each month.
Internet Taster Sessions - Southchurch Library
Date: 25th May 2012
Location: Southchurch Library
Time: 09:30 - 12:55
Cost: Free
Is the Internet a mystery to you? Never sent an e-mail? Southend-on-Sea Borough Libraries are hosting a series of FREE Internet taster sessions at libraries throughout Southend.
These FREE sessions are open to anyone who is a complete novice and aims to offer people the opportunity to use the Internet, search the World Wide Web or send e-mails etc. It's also a chance to find out about the range of free computer facilities now available at all Southend Libraries.
Library staff will be available to provide free advice and support, with individual sessions lasting up to 45 minutes. Sessions must be pre-booked but people do not have to belong to the library.
These sessions are the latest in an on-going series of free sessions being held at libraries across Southend throughout the year.
All libraries have wheelchair access.
Future session dates: 22nd June.
For more details contact Southend Central Library on 01702 215011 ext 4123.
Polish and Roma Communities Advice Service
Date: 3rd Feb 2012 - 1st Feb 2013
Every week
Location: Southend Central Library
Time: 10:00 - 14:00
Cost: Free
Do you need help?
Southend Borough Council Libraries aims to meet the needs of the local Polish and Roma communities.
Jadzia Haughton, a Polish speaker is employed from 10.00am -2.00pm every Friday at the Central Library, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, to provide this free drop-in service.
Her role is to help anyone with Housing, Transport, NHS enquiries, or School Admission forms, debt information and any type of documentation query. For details, call Jadzia on 01702 431003.
Poradnia dla Polaków i Romów
Pomoże Wam polski tłumacz- Jadzia Haughton.
Darmowa poradnia otwarta w każdy piątek od 1000 do 1400 w Bibliotece Centralnej, Victoria Avenue.
Jadzia może pomoc w kwestiach związanych z wypełnianiem formularzy m.in. w sprawach mieszkaniowych, słuzba zdrowia, przyjęciami do szkół, długi. Jesli chcesz dowiedziec się więcej zadzwon na 01702 431003.
Southend Film Festival Photographic Exhibition
Date: 27th Apr 2012 - 2nd Jun 2012
Location: Beecroft Art Gallery, Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea
Cost: Free
Throughout 2012 the Beecroft’s Gallery will show some of the brightest photographic talent within Essex.
To accompany the Southend Film Festival Fringe an exhibition of BFI film stills and iconic film posters.
For further information please visit http://www.beecroft-art-gallery.co.uk/
Dinosaurs Rock
Date: 26th Jan 2012 - 26th May 2012
Location: Central Museum and Planetarium, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea
Cost: Free
Discover the fantastic and terrifying world of the dinosaur.
Get up close and personal with these amazing beasts. Enter the Jurassic Central compound and marvel at some wonderful fossils including monsters of the deep - compare your shoe size to that of a T rex and much more.
For further information visit the Southend Museums website.
Thames Delta
Date: 7th Apr 2012 - 16th Jun 2012
Location: Beecroft Art Gallery, Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea
Cost: Free
Throughout 2012 the Beecroft’s Gallery will show some of the brightest photographic talent within Essex.
An exhibition in collaboration with the town's leading contemporary photographic gallery, Focal Point, the Beecroft presents an exhibition which celebrates the vast array of musical success and talent that has arisen from this small corner of Essex.
The exhibition will bring together a wide range of media from contemporary artworks to archive material, including photographs, album sleeves, posters and paintings.
For further information please visit http://www.beecroft-art-gallery.co.uk/ and http://www.focalpoint.org.uk/home/
Minstrels Gallery - Music for a Queen
Date: 25th May 2012
Location: Southchurch Hall, Southend-on-Sea
Cost: £12.50
As Queen Elizabeth II prepares to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee this special concert will look back to the first Elizabethan era, with readings and music that would have been regularly heard at court.
Doors open 6.30pm - Performance 7.15pm.
For more information please visit http://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/
Hooked on Classics
Date: 25th May 2012
Location: Cliffs Pavilion, Station Road, Southend-on-Sea
Time: 20:00
Cost: £23.50 - £56
With over 13 million units sold worldwide, Louis Clark’s Hooked On Classics is one of the most successful album series of the last 30 years, and now it’s back with a new live production.
The legendary Louis Clark, former arranger for Electric Light Orchestra, will be conducting the English Pops Orchestra featuring a number of players who recorded on the original albums, recreating the magical Hooked On Classics live in concert.
Please note the £56.00 premium front row ticket includes meet and greet with Louis Clark and Orchestra members, signed programme and original recording by Louis Clark.
For further information and to purchase tickets please visit the Cliffs Pavilion website.
Mike Drane 'Waterscape Essex'
Date: 2nd May 2012 - 25th May 2012
Location: Southend Central Library
Cost: Free
Anyone with an appreciation of this county’s natural beauty must pencil in a visit to the Central Gallery’s latest exhibition by Essex photographer Mike Drane.
Mike's inherent and extensive knowledge of Essex, its visual wiles and ways inform and inspire his practice: with a natural eye for the startling image, that transient moment of perfect composition and seemly atmosphere; Mike has assembled a photographic portfolio which will arrest and engage you.
In documenting a landscape known and cherished by the artist, of 'fretted coastlines, estuaries, waterways and gently rolling countryside', Mike acknowledges the similarity of his work to that of Constable's, whose great reverence for the Essex and Suffolk countryside suffused his sensibility and inspired many great works of oil on canvas. Mike's choice of medium and the most up-to-the-minute digital photography techniques he employs could not be more different but the shared objective is evident: to present the landscape with a clarity of vision, capturing its pathos and character.
Prints will be available to purchase.
Southend Fostering Service
Date: 14th May 2012 - 26th May 2012
Location: Southend Central Library
Cost: -
As part of the national campaign to recruit new foster carers a display will be held at Southend central library
The display will be held by the Southend Foster Families Council who will present vital information for anyone considering this hugely rewarding path. Posters and information packs will be available.