There's plenty going on in the Cotswolds this week

Thursday, October 13
Cirencester

  • COAST by Chart continues at the Corinium Museum presenting a collective of visual artists interested in the links between all the arts and sciences and in structure, time, words, numbers and symbols. Admission free, works for sale. For more information, visit chart.uk.com or coriniummuseum.org.

Cricklade

  • SONGWRITER and performer Boo Hewerdine will be the headline act at The Old Stables acoustic club in. Support comes from talented songwriter and storyteller, a modern day troubadour, Dan Whitehouse. Begins at 7.30pm, admission £8, for tickets and more information please see facebook.com/theoldstablesclub or twitter.com/theoldstablesWH.

Stroud

  • THE Cotswold Players continue their performances of The Female of the Species with performances at 7.30pm until October 15. This hugely comic play is a satire about celebrity feminists. Showing at the Cotswold Playhouse, Parliament Street, Stroud, tickets cost £13 and are available online at cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk/tickets or by calling the box office on 03336 663366.

Cheltenham

  • FRENCH Without Tears continues at the Everyman Theatre. A group of young men arrive at Professor Maingot’s French school to cram for the diplomatic exam but have their concentration disrupted by a beautiful visitor. Runs until October 15 with performances at 7.45pm, Thursday and Saturday matinees at 2pm. Tickets from £14, for more information and to book visit everymantheatre.org.uk

Gloucester

  • STRIKE-A-Light festival continues with special events and performances taking place throughout the city until October 18. For a full line-up and details of everything happening visit strikealightfestival.org.uk

Bristol

  • WELSH National Opera finish their stay at the Bristol Hippodrome as they present Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate. Performance starts at 7.30pm, runs until October 15. For more information and to book tickets, from £12.90, visit wno.org.uk or atgtickets.com/venues/Bristol-hippodrome

Friday, October 14
Cirencester

  • BREWERY Blues at the Kings Head Hotel. Featuring two country/rock gems from the Emerald Isle, Ben Reel and Tony McLoughlin with support from indie/folk singer-songwriter Emi Lou McDade, who has performed at BBC Introducing, and 16-year-old Brewery Blues debutant Joe Rees. Tickets in advance from reception at the Kings Head or call 01285 700900, £10 adults/£8 concessions or £11/£9 on the night.

Saturday, October 15
Cirencester

  • SWINDON choral society will be performing music by Haydn and Schubert in the Cirencester Parish Church at 7.30pm. The choral society consists of around 110 amateur singers and this year’s concert features a chamber orchestra and soloists Rebecca Lea, Diana Moore, Jorge Navarro Colorado and Alex Jones. Doors open from 7pm, begins at 7.30pm. Tickets are £15, one under 18 free with paying adult, available on the door, from swindonchoral.org or from Cirencester visitor information centre on 01285 654180.
  • MURDER mystery at Cirencester Ashcroft Church from 7pm. Follow the clues and unmask the culprit, make your own teams or join one on the day. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets £5 are available from Ros Burnip on 01285 239054 or on the door. Proceeds go to Help Madina, a charity working with those in need in Sierra Leone.
  • NCT nearly new sale from 9am-10.45am at the Bingham Hall. Opens at 8.45am for members, admission suggested donation £1.

Coates

  • COATES Quiz returns to the village hall from 7.30pm. Join your friends and neighbours for the chance to win a bottle of bubbly. £1 aper person, teams of up to six, reserve your table by emailing simon.johnson@tiscali.co.uk or by calling 07821 903758.

Siddington

  • HARVEST supper at the village hall. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start, tickets are £9 aper person which includes supper and entertainment, available from Ann on 01285 651915 or Jill on 01285 654633.

Kemble

  • KEMBLE and District poppy launch event will take place in the village hall with a return visit of Andy Hughes. Enjoy a selection of music and singing from the 1950s until the present day. Tickets are £7.50 and include supper, to purchase call Pat on 01285 770385.

Meysey Hampton

  • COME and enjoy afternoon tea with homemade cakes, tea/coffee, a glass of Prosecco, a raffle and auction to raise money for charity from 2-5pm in Meysey Hampton village hall, hosted by Liz Coe of Face Beauty Company, Fairford. Tickets cost £20, to buy your tickets e-mail Liz on info@facebeautycompany.co.uk or call 07830 108638.

Tetbury

  • A HARVEST barn dance takes place at St Mary’s primary school. There will be a well-known local band and a fish and chip supper. Tickets cost £10 aper adult, family tickets £25, available from St Mary’s Church office or by calling 01666 500088.

Sherston

  • SHERSTON 1016 is holding a book sale from 9am-noon12pm in the village hall, free entry. Books, videos, DVDs, CDs, details from 01666 840611.

Minchinhampton

  • CHARITY fair at Beaudesert Park school, GL6 9AF. More than 30 stalls selling gifts, toys, art, fashion, food and more in aid of Scrubditch Care Farm and Children’s Hospice South West. 9am-4pm, £3 entrance, under-16s free.

Swindon

  • COMEDIAN Jason Byrne will be bringing his unique prop-based Irish sense of humour to the Wyvern Theatre. Begins at 8pm, tickets cost £20.25, for more information and to book visit swindontheatres.co.uk

Sunday, October 16
Down Ampney

  • GLOUCESTER Cathedral choir will sing evensong with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams at 6pm in All Saint’s Church. Tickets are available from Rev John Swanton, john@swanton.plus.com

Tetbury

  • FREE public concert by Marianne Lihannah (mezzo soprano) and Stephen Kings (piano) at St Mary’s Church from 3pm. This will be a classical recital of Night and Twilight songs.

Monday, October 17
Cirencester

  • CIRENCESTER civic society presents a talk by John Chantler about Victorian Cirencester as portrayed by Richard Jefferies. Starts at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Hall, Thomas St, GL7 2AX, visitors welcome, £3. For more information visit ccsoc.org.uk

Kemble

  • COFFEE Stop at the village hall from 10-11.30am. Hot drinks, cake and biscuits, £1 aper person, all welcome.

Tuesday, October 18
Cirencester

  • CIRENCESTER Operatic Society are bringing The Mikado back, ten10 years after they last produced Gilbert and Sullivan’s best-loved musical. Set in a “timeless Japan of the imagination” at the new look Barn Theatre, it has been greeted with excitement by recent audiences, with its improved facilities and sightlines as well as a larger stage and comfier seating. COS hope that their new Mikado will find favour with traditionalists as well as those who have never seen a G&S musical. Runs until Saturday, October 22, performances at 7.30pm. Tickets from £11, for more information and to book visit cirencesteroperaticsociety.co.uk

Wednesday, October 19
Bristol

  • LEVEL 42 at the Colston Hall. One of the best loved bands of the 1980s, they will be playing some of their classic hits such as Lessons in Love, Something About You, Leaving Me Now, Running in the Family, and Hot Water, as well as new material from their latest EP Sirens II. Begins at 7.30pm, for more information and to book tickets, from £30.10, visit colstonhall.org