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Events for 27th May 12 - 2nd Jun 12

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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/

Digby Fairweather & Tony Compton

Date: 27th May 2012

Location: Southend Bandstand, Priory Park, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6NB

Time: 15:00 - 17:00

Cost: Free

Come along to Southend Bandstand this summer and enjoy this fabulous opportunity to hear a great variety of music performed by many talented local performers.

A limited number of seats will be provided, members of the public are welcome to bring their own seating.

Please note limited parking is available in Priory Park.

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. 

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/

Berlin Symphony Orchestra

Date: 27th May 2012

Location: Cliffs Pavilion, Station Road, Southend-on-Sea

Time: 19:30

Cost: £15 -£28.50

19th International Concert Series: Concert 12 of 12.

Conductor: Mario Venzago
Soloist:  Kit Armstrong, piano

Programme:
WEBER Overture to Der Freischütz
MOZART Piano Concerto No.21 in C major K.467
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 in E flat major Op.55 "Eroica"

We are very pleased to end our season on a high note with a visit from one of Europe's most distinguished orchestras, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.  Resident orchestra in Berlin's famous Konzerthaus and a specialist in the Classical repertoire, their programme includes Weber's overture to the opera Der Freischütz and perhaps Mozart's most popular piano concerto, the one known as the Elvira Madigan which on this occasion will be performed by the brilliant young Chinese/American Kit Armstrong.

The evening will end with a performance of Beethoven's pivotal great masterpiece, his Symphony No.3, the Eroica, which stands as the transitional work in the history of classical music as the first great Romantic symphony.

For further information and to purchase tickets please visit the Cliffs Pavilion website.

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