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Several workshops arranged for adults and children

  • BCA - 2019.2113
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  • 1973

The WOAA literary pane organised several workshop in June and July 1973. They included:-

A drama workshop June 6th at Weald Manor for adults and older children under the guidance of David Thomas with a performance in the evening.

A Children's newspaper and television workshop week commencing July 26th organised by Brian Winston. Aimed in particular at children from ages 8 to 15.

WEA literature course - 10 lectures by Roy Kennedy on C18th literature. This took place in the autumn.

Susan Phillips was the secretary of the literary panel.

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The formation of WOAA May 1973

  • BCA - 2019.2109
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  • May 1973

This page gives an outline of when and how the West Oxfordshire Arts Association was formed and how it was to be run initially at least.
Saturday May 26th 1973 was the first day of the first exhibition in the Gallery, the upstairs room in the Town Hall

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The beginnings of West Oxfordshire Arts Association WOAA 1973

  • BCA - 2019.2108
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  • 1973

WOAA got underway with its first exhibitions in the spring of 1973.
Music, drama and dance, film and photography, literature and art were all represented by different panels with its centre in the Gallery of the Town Hall. The panels would meet in various villages and organise exhibitions, lectures, films and live performances involving both amateur and professional talent.

Work by Michael Brockway, a skilled watercolourist were on show along with
Claerwen Holland, using a fusion of drawing with water colour
Ann Hinds, landscapes
John Birkhead, landscapes and chairman of WOAA
Margaret Ralston, (John's wife) exotically decorative panels of Eastern subjects
G.K. Horner, architectural studies
Anthony Bayes, richly coloured work

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Lendon Scantlebury & Dawn Benson exhibit in the Gallery February 2007

  • BCA - 2019.2093
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  • February 2007

Lendon Scantlebury and Dawn Benson exhibited in the Gallery in February 2004. Lendon showed work with brilliant colour inspired by Barbados while Dawn used textured pastels to capture the mood of the place.

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Korky Paul, his poster and books. January 2007

  • BCA - 2019.2090
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  • January 2007

"Picture books are multi-track ways of talking, using words, graphics, page design, cartoons and art as a way of telling many things simultaneously" said Michael Rosen. In this exhibition West Ox Arts brought another dimension to Korky Paul's zany posters and his riotous books. She used gouache, ink pens and crayons in her pictures. The illustrations for many books were a delight.

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A group of print makers exhibit their work, September 2006

  • BCA - 2019.2086
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  • September 2006

A group of printmakers came together to put on a really lovely display of their work in September 2006. Artists included

Jane Peart - who has an affinity with animals
Heather Power - etched sculptural winter trees and stitched books
Morna Rhys - watercolours and drawings
Gill Salway - thick card to impress or emboss her plates
Toni Clarke - water with sugar etchings
Esther Hepworth - 100 years of family photographs from a precious family shoebox

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Ten potters exhibit in the Gallery April 2006

  • BCA - 2019.2085
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  • April 2006

A distinctive collection of contemporary pottery was on show in April 2006 under the appropriate titel 'Pots' and included work from ten artists under the watchful eye of Sue Rangeley. Some of the artists included

Mark Dally
Graham Hudson
Jane Hanson
Kevin de Choisy
Gilles Le Corre
John Jelfs

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Pinocchio - puppetry, songs, music and story telling in Bampton Village Hall January 2006

  • BCA - 2019.2084
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  • January 2006

This delightful telling of the story of Pinocchio was done in the Village Hall in January 2006. Really cleaver use of puppetry, songs, music and storytelling thrilled the children, and the accompanying adults.
Neil Canham was the only performer and proved to be an outstanding storyteller.

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Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company with 'Beauty and The Beast' 2005

  • BCA - 2019.2082
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  • 2005

Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company with 'Beauty and The Beast' played in very many villages in Oxfordshire. It was written by Mike Kenny and directed by Lawrence Evans. Olivia Wright and Sean Hammond were two of the cast members.

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