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January 2012
whats on
Thursday 26 January
New Year’s Charity Concert
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Tickets: £6, £4 (concessions), £16 family
Tuesday 31 January
School Organists’ Joint Recital
5 pm: School Chapel
Wednesday 8 February
Chilingirian Quartet Workshops and
Evening Concert
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Tickets: £12, £6 students
Wednesday 22 February
Chamber Music Evening
7 pm: Charles Maude Room
Sunday 4 March
Abbey Chamber Concert for A-level recitalists
6 pm: St Nicolas Church, Abingdon
Thursday 8 March
Music Scholars’ Concert Number 3
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Tuesday 13 March
Abingdon Choral Singers’ Platform
7 pm: Amey Theatre
ASPA
www.abingdon.org.uk/aspa
Friday 20 January
Fourth Year Parents’ Italian Supper
7.30 pm: Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
Friday 3 February
Third-year Parents’ Social Evening
7.15 pm: Parasol Chinese Restaurant, Abingdon
Friday 10 February
Charity Coffee Morning
10 am - 12 noon: Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
Friday 24 February
Lower School Parents’ Supper
7 pm: Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
Friday 2 March
Quiz – Parents and Friends
7 pm: Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
Friday 16 March
Sixth-form Parents’ Social Evening
7 pm at a local restaurant
Check details of all these events on the calendar at
abingdon.org.uk
Lectures
Wednesday 10 January
The Body’s Response to Low Oxygen Levels
Professor Christopher Pugh, Professor of Renal
Medicine, Nuffield Department of
Clinical Medicine
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
Tuesday 17 January
Evolution of Music
Mike Hurst, singer, songwriter and guitarist.
A Joint General Studies Lecture with The School
of St Helen and St Katharine
1.15 pm: Amey Theatre
Friday 20 January
Tony Baldry, Conservative MP for North
Oxfordshire
A meeting of the Edmund Society
5.30 pm: Ingham Room
Tuesday 7 February
Animal Magnetism
Professor Peter Hore, Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
Wednesday 8 February
Addiction and Change
Dr Stephen Blake, a Scholars’ Lecture
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Thursday 23 February
Roman Emperors and Greek Heroes in the
Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
Professor RRR Smith, Lincoln Professor of
Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of
Oxford, Classics Society Lecture and Dinner
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Thursday 1 March
Turing’s Morphogenesis
Dr Jonathan Swinton, a Sixth-form
Mathematics Lecture
5.30 pm: Amey Theatre
Friday 2 March
The Plundered Planet
Professor Paul Collier, Department of Economics,
University of Oxford, Director of the Centre for
the Study of African Economies
4 pm: Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
Tuesday 6 March
Coral Reef Ecology – the Oxford Way
Dr Martin Speight, Tropical Ecology and
Entomology Research Group, Department of
Zoology, University of Oxford
4 pm: Charles Maude Room
Monday 12 March
Rome and Hollywood
Professor Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin
Literature at the University of Oxford. A Roysse
Society lecture followed by dinner.
6.30 pm: Amey Theatre
Friday 16 March
Surviving the Recession
Graham Varney, Chairman and Managing
Director Benfield and Loxley. An Economics
Society talk with St Helen’s
4 pm: Duffield Library, The School of St Helen
and St Katharine
Tuesday 27 March
Oculi Mentis – seeing, looking and watching
with Ovid
Jo-Marie Claassen, formerly of the University of
Stellenbosch
5.30 pm: Charles Maude Room
Drama
Friday 3 February
Lower School Drama Evening
7 pm: Ingham Room, Amey Theatre and Foyer
Events
Friday 23 March
Professional Development Dinner: Medicine
Turning the World Upside Down – what the NHS
can learn from low income countries
Speaker Nigel Crisp, former Chief Executive of
the NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK
Department of Health. Open to pupils, OAs and
parents with a professional interest in medicine
6.45 pm: Amey Theatre
and afterwards in the Dining Hall
Music
Friday 13 January
Piano Masterclass with Giorgos Kontantinou
7 pm: Amey Theatre
Wednesday 18 January
Music Scholars’ Concert Number 2
7 pm: Amey Theatre