Your what’s on guide

Here is a list of what’s on in the area

Friday April 11

Free guided tours with head gardener, Hill Close Gardens, Bread and Meat Close, Warwick, from 2.30pm to 3.30pm, garden entry £3.50 child £1, call 493339 or visit www.hillclosegardens.com

Under the Covers, live music, The Wharf Inn, Fenny Compton, from 9pm, free entry,

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Piano Recital with Rob Colley, music by Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Scriabin, Liszt, Unitarian Chapel, High Street, Warwick, from 7.30pm, tickets £9 (concessions £8), from [email protected] or 07769 678363.

Glasshouse by the Cardboard Citizens Forum Theatre Company is on at St Peter’s church in Dormer Place, Leamington, as part of the Left Out In The Cold: Life On The Streets festival of homelessness, with shows at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets £5 (£2.50 students aged 14+). Call 07434 351535.

Snakes and Ladders will be performed by Kineton Amateur Dramatics Society at Kineton village hall at 7.30pm. Tickets £6 (£5 concessions). Call 641313.

Fundraising photography exhibition for breast cancer charities at the Stairwell Gallery at Sew Me Something in the Minories, Courtyard Gate, Stratford, 10am to 5pm. For details, call 01789 330588.

Saturday April 12

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Free music lessons with Presto Music, 100 lessons at the shop in Park Street, Leamington, for more information visit www.prestoclassical.co.uk

Live music by Something Different and bingo, Royal Naval Association Club, Adelaide Road, Leamington, from 8pm to 11pm.

Gareth Lloyd, live music, The Nelson Club, Charles Street, Warwick, members and bona fide guests welcome, 775578

Southam Lions’ ‘race’ night’ at the Graham Adams Centre in Southam to raise funds for Zoe’s Place baby hospice. Entry £2.50. Call 812797.

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Easter Egg Hunt, Leamington Art Gallery and Museum, free, drop-in and join in, runs until Sunday April 27.

Armonico Consort with soloists Sir Willard White and Nathan Vale are performing St Matthew Passion at St Mary’s church in Warwick at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 to £39.50. Call 0844 584 0750.

Beauchamp Sinfonietta concert with cellist Jenny Curtis at St Nicholas church in Warwick, 7.30pm. Tickets £12 (£10 concessions). Call 01608 650682.

Woodland craft day at Oakley Wood in Bishops Tachbrook, with traditional woodland crafts, demonstrations and wildlife activities with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, 10am to 3pm.

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Village and Family History in World War One, with family historian Jennifer Cranfield, Warwickshire County Record Office, Priory Park, off Cape Road, Warwick, from 9.15am to 12.15pm, £12 per person.

Jay-Kay 60s Band, Southam Sports and Social Club, from 9pm, free entry.

Free chess event with Leamington Chess Club for people of all ages and abilities, at Leamington library, 10am to 3pm.

Snakes and Ladders will be performed by Kineton Amateur Dramatics Society at Kineton village hall at 7.30pm. Tickets £6 (£5 concessions). Call 641313.

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Fundraising photography exhibition for breast cancer charities at the Stairwell Gallery at Sew Me Something in the Minories, Courtyard Gate, Stratford, 10am to 5pm. For details, call 01789 330588.

Sunday April 13

Leamington Rambling Club, nine to 11-mile walk, Everdon, leaves Newbold Terrace East at 9.30am, call 881055.

Leamington Rambling Club, four to six-mile walk, Berkswell, leaves Newbold Terrace East at 1.30pm, call 496974.

Beauchamp Sinfonietta concert with cellist Jenny Curtis at Leamington town hall, 3pm. Tickets £12 (£10 concessions). Call 01608 650682.

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Kenilworth Rambling Club, Lapworth, eight miles, call 07801 430049.

Monday April 14

The Cemetery Club is on at the Talisman Theatre in Kenilworth from tonight until Saturday April 19 at 7.30pm each evening. Tickets £7 to £8.50. Call 856548.

Tuesday April 15

Jephson’s Suitcase, find out about Dr Henry Jephson on a handling tour of items from the collection and learn about medicine from the 1800s to the mid-1900s. Leamington Art Gallery and Museum, free, just drop-in, also on Thursday April 24, www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

Sydenham History Group, The Leisure Gardens of Leamington Spa, a tour in words and pictures of Leamingtons’ leisure gardens, past and present by Helen Larner, the Sydni Centre, Cottage Square (off Marloes Walk), Sydenham, from 7.30pm, entrance £2, all welcome, no membership required, call 330711 or visit www.sydni.org

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Macular Support Group, meeting with talk about the Macular Society with support group manager Amanda Read, The Baptist church, Chandos Street, Leamington, from 2pm to 4pm, everyone welcome, call 314841.

Wednesday April 16

Leamington Rambling Club, four to six-mile walk, Shrewley, meet at the car park opposite Newbold Comyn Leisure Centre, from 9.30am, call 496974.

Wellesbourne Flower Club, NAFAS demonstrator Dawn Keitley presents her interpretation of Good Enough to Eat, Wellesbourne, Village Hall, from 7.30pm, visitors very welcome, £6 per person, refreshments available.

Royal Leamington Spa Horticultural Society meeting with speaker David Tideswell on ‘a blue tit raising a family’, at St Peter’s church, Dormer Place, Leamington, 7.30pm. Entry £3 for non-members, including refreshments.

Thursday April 17

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Easter Holiday Art Club, Leamington Art Gallery and Museum, free, drop-in and join in, www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

Federation of Small Businesses meeting, with speakers Torin Spence, apprenticeship hub manager at Warwickshire County Council, and Charley Burrows, regional manager for Career Academies UK, at the Star and Garter in Warwick Street, Leamington, 6.30pm. Attendance £10 members, £12 non-members including refreshments. fsbwarkleamnetwork.eventbrite.co.uk

Friday April 18

Come and sing Haydn’s Passion (Seven Last Words) with the choir of All Saints’ church, All Saint’s church, Victoria Terrace, Leamington, registration for singers from 3.30pm, rehearsal 4pm to 7pm with refreshment break, performance 7.30pm, singers please wear black, scores available for hire, singers£8, audience £5, http://www.allsaintschurchleamington.org.uk

St Michael’s Singers and the ESO Chamber Orchestra St Matthew Passion concert at Coventry Cathedral, 6pm. Tickets £20 (£18 concessions). Call 01676 532436.

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Stonefire are playing at the Wharf Inn in Fenny Compton from 9pm. Free entry.

Saturday April 19

Napton Art Group Easter Exhibition, paintings, cards, photographs and craft exhibits on display and for sale, refreshments, raffle and tombola, Napton village hall, from 10am to 5pm, £1 entry charge, call 812991, also on Sunday April 20.

Dialemma Trio, Southam Sports and Social Club, from 9pm, free entry.

Record Store Day at Head in the Royal Priors, Leamington, from 8am onwards, with limited edition records on sale, competitions, quizzes, live DJs and live music by the Coves. Call 887870.

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Mad Hatters fundraising event for Myton Hospice at Regent Court, Leamington, with entertainment by West End performer David Harrop, chocolate, a tea party, book and cake sale, face painting and balloons.

Victorian Easter event at Hill Close Gardens in Warwick, with displays about the Victorian way of life, plant sales. On until Monday April 21, 11am to 5pm each day. Entry £3.50 (£1 children). Call 493339.

Bonnie are performing at the Nelson Club in Charles Street, Warwick. Members and bona fide guests welcome. For details, call 775578.

Live music by Ron Technics and bingo at the Royal Naval Club in Adelaide Road, Leamington, 8pm to 11pm.

Sunday April 20

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Easter egg trail and bonnet workshop at Hill Close Gardens in Warwick, 1pm to 4pm. Entry £4 per child plus £1 each for two accompanying adults. Call 493339.

Leamington Rambling Club, nine to 11-mile walk at Wenlock Edge. Meet at Newbold Terrace East at 8.30am. Call 496974.

Leamington Rambling Club, four to six-mile walk at Bubbenhall. Meet at Newbold Terrace East at 1.30pm. Call 881055.

Monday April 21

Organ Recital by David Williams,the organist at All Saints’ church, Leamington: includes Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and works by J S Bach, Ceasar Franck et al, 11am, admission free, retiring collection, coffee, teas and cakes available from 10.30am, http://www.allsaintschurchleamington.org.uk

Saturday April 26

Jumble Sale, Church Rooms, Wellesbourne, from 2pm onwards, call 01789 842248.