12-6pm (12-4pm Saturday) SW1 Gallery, London  

The exhibition will feature the winning photographs from the ‘We Are England’ photography competition, which is being run by Commonwealth Games England. The competition is aimed at finding the ultimate photographs that best represent England in all of its glory and to celebrate everything about England and ‘Englishness’ ahead of the Commonwealth Games that take place later this year in Delhi.  

Photographs can be of anything at all that represents England – from a historic English landmark, to a traditional English game taking place in a park, or even photographs taken live at an English sporting event. All it needs to do is encompass the spirit of England to those entering. Winning photographs, chosen by an all-star judging panel, will have their entry included in the exhibition for all to see.  

The competition coincides with St. George’s day, and winners will be invited to attend a champagne breakfast at the launch of the exhibition at the SW1 Gallery on Wednesday, April 21st, where they will be joined by some of the top Commonwealth Games England athletes and representatives as well as members of the media. Entrance will be free of charge to the public.  

For details of how to enter the competition and to have a chance of having your photograph show cased at the SW1 Gallery, London please visit www.weareengland.org 

 

The Botleigh Grange Antiques and Fine Art Fair in Southampton  

Friday 23 - Sunday 25 April  

Legacy Botleigh Grange Hotel & Spa, Grange Road, Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GA  

Set in the rolling Hampshire countryside, the Legacy Botleigh Grange Hotel & Spa provides a glamorous venue for the launch of The Botleigh Grange Antiques and Fine Art Fair, a boutique-style antiques weekend, which takes place in Grange Road, Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GA from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 April 2010. The fair's charity is the RNLI, the organisation that saves lives at sea (www.rnli.org.uk). A charity evening is taking place on the opening night between 6 and 8pm.  

From eye-catching show stoppers in jewellery, silver, oriental rugs and town and country furniture to oil and watercolour paintings, sculpture, original book illustrations, portrait miniatures, glass and objets d’art, around 25 exhibitors (all members of either the British Antique Dealers’ Association or LAPADA) offer a broad range of fine quality and affordable pieces for inspired collectors. The fair is a great day out, both for interior designers, private customers seeking unique and unusual furnishings or simply just to browse and chat to the dealers.  

Tickets are £5, including catalogue (and re-admission)  

T: +44 (0)1797 252030 or E: info@adfl.co.uk  

www.botleighgrangefair.com 

Basepoint, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Rd, Frater Gate, Gosport  

Woodcarver, Landscape & Abstract Art, Silversmith, Pottery and lots more homemade crafts on offer. The Gosport Business Centre is opening its doors to host the first ever Rainbow Centre Art & Craft Day. Go along and browse the arts and crafts on offer and help raise money for The Rainbow Centre whilst enjoying a refreshing cuppa and a homemade cake or two!  

They still have room for one or two more stalls. Speak to Julie on 01329 289500 if interested. 

 

7.30pm, Ferneham Hall, Fareham  

Fareham Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra will be giving a concert to include Schubert’s Mass in A Flat, Mozart Sparrow Mass and Brahms Song of Destiny, with two orchestral pieces Mozart Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture. Tickets £11.00 (adult), £9.50 (conc) and £2 (children under 16), from the Fareham Well 01329-318731, box office 01329-664948, choir members, or on the door on the night. 

 

West Street, Fareham  

You can make sure that you are fully stocked with good local food to feed the family over the weekend.  

Up to 40 local producers will be selling the best of their produce directly to customers - everything from freshly picked organic fruit and vegetables to free range eggs, from fish from local waters to rare breed meats, from home-baked bread and cakes to the honey made from local bees.  

Sample before you buy from the people who actually produce, and taste the difference in quality whilst supporting your local farming and rural community.  

 

Sunday 2 May, 10am, Skinners Field (next to reading rooms)  

Botley Splash is a registered charity set up to raise funds to keep Botley C of E school pool open for the children to learn to swim as part of the cirriculum. HCC no longer fund, so need to find £3,000 a year to keep it open. Unfortunatley the pool was vandalised over the winter, so they also need to find the funds to refurb, so children can learn to swim in 2010.  

Pre-entry £3 , Entry on day £4 (pre entry closing date 28th April 2010)  

Schedules available form Botley School, Kitnocks Farm Feed Merchants, Botley Mills and Longacre feeds.  

Secretary 01489 790730/01489 797537 

2000 Centre, St. John’s Road, Hedge End  

Stalls include: Big Cat Conservation, Borneo Orangutan Survival, Born Free Foundation, W.S.P.A., Animals Asia Foundation, The Donkey Sanctuary, Cat & Kitten Rescue, Second Chance Animal Rescue, Southampton Animal Concern, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Body Shop. Refreshments and entertainment also available. 

 

7.30pm, Parish Rooms, Titchfield  

The Titchfield Bonfire Boys Society presents another chance to don your wartime costumes and celebrate as people did in Trafalgar and Times Squares on 8 May 1945. Join in the fun in ‘The Cookhouse’ (Parish Rooms) and ‘The Mess Tent’ (Marquee, Queen’s Head car park). There will be music, nostalgia and a hog roast. Tickets are £10 which includes hog roast and drink - available from Hallmark Jewellers, South Street, Titchfield. 

 

Attractions include: Matchstick Model Oil Rig now in the Guinness Book of Records plus ‘Fergie’ Tractors and friends, railways, forge, toy steam engines, toy locomotives, steam engine trailer rides and other regular attractions.  

Adults £5, concessions £4, accompanied children £2 and Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) £12. 

 

Ferneham Hall, Fareham  

In a response to audience demand, following the success of the highly acclaimed sitcom stage tour of Dad’s Army – The Lost Episodes - and in homage to 70 years of the Home Guard - Calibre Productions have collaborated once more with series’ creators Jimmy Perry and David Croft in a bid to break into new territory by producing a ‘stage series’ of ‘Dad’s Army’ performances.  

Tickets* - priced £22 for evenings and £21 for the matinee - are available from the box office or by calling the ticket hotline on 01329 231942, you can also book you tickets online through our website www.fernehamhall.co.uk  

Best known for the role of Den Watts in EastEnders, Leslie Grantham will be swapping one shady character for another and putting his best foot forward as Private Walker, the Warmington-on-Sea wide-boy, while Timothy Kightley, having won handsome praise for his performance in The Lost Episodes, will reprise his role as Captain Mainwaring.