Celebrate art and support good causes at Leamington’s parish church

Art, music and cinema will entertain crowds at Leamington’s parish church this weekend as the All Saints’ Arts Festival returns for the third year running.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Oct 2013, 07:00 BST
Leamington artist David Lewis at All Saints' church with his paintings of the church and Victoria Terrace.Leamington artist David Lewis at All Saints' church with his paintings of the church and Victoria Terrace.
Leamington artist David Lewis at All Saints' church with his paintings of the church and Victoria Terrace.

The event opens next Friday (November 1) from 7.30pm with a private viewing of an exhibition of abstract and figurative paintings, prints, etchings, ceramics and sculpture by members of the Association of Midlands Artists (AMA). The exhibition will continue throughout the weekend (Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday noon to 6pm and Monday 10am to 4pm). Proceeds from art sales will go the Coventry and Warwickshire Kidney Patient Association and the Myton Hospices.

On the Saturday evening at 8pm, the church is hosting a screening of the 1923 black and white film of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, accompanied by organist Donald MacKenzie on a Viscount organ. Tickets cost £9, proceeds to the church.

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All Saints Day will be celebrated on Sunday November 3 with a Festal Choral Eucharist at 10.30am and a ‘Bring and Sing’ choral workshop, featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria and Joseph Haydn’s Little Organ Mass. Registration is at 3.30pm and the workshop will be followed by a performance at 6.30pm, tickets for which cost £5 (£8 for singers).

For tickets and to find out more, call 429169 or visit www.allsaintschurchleamington.org.uk

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