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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.
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Storyrhymes at Southend Central Library
Date: 18th Jan 2012 - 1st Aug 2012
Every week
Location: Southend Central Library
Time: 10:30
Cost: Free
Stories and nursery rhymes for children under 5 years old and their parents. Everybody welcome!
Takes place every Wednesday from 4th January to July 18th with a Seaside Special on 1st August.
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/
Boot Camp
Date: 1st Feb 2012 - 19th Dec 2012
Every week
Location: Eastwood School, Leigh-on-Sea
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Cost: Contact for details
A fun fitness club every Wednesday, for those aged 16 and above.
For more information please contact Dan Osman, dosman@eastwood.southend.co.uk
Wet Wednesdays
Date: 4th Apr 2012 - 27th Mar 2013
Every week
Location: Various Locations
Cost: Free
Over 65-year-olds are being invited to swim free on Wednesdays at pools in Southend.
This offer will be available at any public swimming session initially at Southend Swimming and Diving Centre and at Belfairs Swim Centre.
Later it will also be on offer at Shoeburyness Leisure once refurbishment works have been completed there.
Further details can be acquired by contacting the centre concerned on 01702 215011.
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/
Southend Carnival Archive Project
Date: 23rd May 2012
Location: Southend Central Library
Time: 10:00 - 14:00
Cost: Free
Local residents are invited to bring along anything related to the Southend-on-Sea Carnival and meet the project team in the ground floor meeting rooms of Southend Central Library.
By sharing your photos, memories or film you can help to preserve and share the wonderful world of carnival with the first digital Carnival Archive in the UK.
- Do you have photos, film footage or memories of Southend Carnival?
- Have you been involved in the carnival procession or any of the Carnival activities?
- Have you designed costumes or floats? Or danced/choreographed a piece in the procession?
- Have you Southend Carnival objects the archive could photograph?
- Do you have an interest in becoming a volunteer and helping to create the Carnival archive?
The Carnival Archive Project, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, is all about collecting, capturing, preserving and sharing the heritage of carnival and street celebrations in the Eastern region, including Southend. The project offers everyone a chance to share photos, drawings, film, music, and stories about all things carnival, visit www.carnivalarchive.org.uk for details.
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.