Abingdon & District Musical Society (ADMS) will hold a choral & orchestral concert at 7:30pm on Saturday 18th November 2023 in St Helen’s Church, West St Helen St., Abingdon OX14 5BS.

The programme of the concert will be as follows:
Brahms – Song of Destiny
Bruckner – Te Deum
Dvorak – Symphony no. 8, in G major

The annual Christmas Fair at St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Park Road, Abingdon is on Saturday 11th November 2023 from 10am – 2pm. This is their biggest fundraising event of the year with proceeds to St Michael’s Church and the Archway Foundation.

Other events include:

Friday 17 & Saturday 18 November, Art & Crafts Exhibition & Sale, St Nicolas Church, 10am-5pm daily.

Saturday 18 November, Church Twinning Event: French Bourrée Dance Workshop & Bourrée Dancing with Argentan Ceilidh Band Natalan, followed by Barn Dance. From 5.30pm at Trinity Church Hall. Tickets £10, children free includes a Buffet Supper.

The 2nd Abingdon Scouts put on a spectacular fireworks display this evening behind Long Furlong Community Centre. It was a chance to enjoy some loud bangs, see some bright flashes and support a local Scout group. The 2nd Abingdon Scouts have over 100 young people in their activity programmes.

The ground was wet after the previous rain, but the weather was fine this evening. There was a good view of Orion overhead, with its nebula, before the fireworks created their own nebulas.

Most of the audience were young families, but there were a few of us trying to recapture the wonder of the fireworks of youth. The smell of gunpowder is even more evocative than the bangs and flashes.

The audience seemed to thoroughly enjoy the fireworks display. There were cheers and gasps during the display and, at the end of the show, an ovation.

The long-standing ‘material containing asbestos’ notices outside the former Chemist shop have been joined by jokey notices outside a lot of other shops in town. Caution tape says, “Enter If You Dare”, and cobwebby strands and orange pumpkins and spiders and skeletons and ghosts are there to give you a scare.

But beware, brave trick-or-treaters, for the greatest danger of all lurks near Abingdon Lock, among the leaves.

The Abingdon Passion Play is holding auditions on Saturday, September 23rd from 2:30pm at Peachcroft Christian Centre. All actors and singers are welcome to audition.

The play will be performed on June 22nd, 2024. It is a retelling of the Passion of Jesus Christ, and will feature a cast of over 100 people. This will be the 4th Abingdon Passion Play. Previous performances were in 2013, 2016 and 2019.

To register for an audition, please visit the Abingdon Passion Play website at www.abingdonpassionplay.co.uk..

The other event relating to the Passion Play is a fundraising concert. You can pay to attend, and the money will help fund the play.