Entertainment, Sports and Recreation
Arts and Entertainment (Music, Dance, Cinema, Theatre, Museums, Galleries)
Also local workshops plus online museums and galleries.
Helmdon Parish Council cannot accept any responsibility for the information or web links provided by external websites.
Headings on this page include:
Brackley Music and Dance
Local Cinemas
Local Theatres
Local Museums, Galleries and Workshops
Online Museums and Galleries
More venues
Brackley Music and Dance
Brackley Folk and Acoustic Club
Brackley Male Voice Choir (Facebook page)
Brackley & District Traditional Dancing (U3A)
Local Cinemas
Banbury – The Light
Castle Quay Shopping Centre, Spiceball Park Rd, Banbury OX16 2PA
Bicester – Vue Cinema
Pioneer Centre, Bure Place, Bicester OX26 6FA
0345 308 4620
Helmdon Film & Music – Community group providing regular film screenings in the Reading Room, 20 Church Street, Helmdon, Brackley NN13 5QJ
Northampton – Cineworld
Sixfields Leisure, Weedon Road, Northampton NN5 5QJ
0871 200 2000
Northampton Filmhouse (a two-screen cinema, previously known as Errol Flynn Filmhouse)
“Elegant, modern cedar-wood venue housing a stylish 90-seat cinema for arthouse and mainstream films”.
Derngate, Northampton NN1 1TU
01604 624811
Local Theatres
The Bridge Players are Helmdon’s Amateur Theatre Group, providing a range of productions in the Reading Room or Helmdon School.
Royal & Derngate is a theatre complex in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton consisting of the Royal Theatre and the Derngate Theatre.
Ambassador Theatre Group (www.atgtickets.com) – This group includes Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Milton Keynes Theatre, Oxford New Theatre.
The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury offers a live events programme including theatre, dance, music, comedy, film, workshops and classes. Alongside this, they run a number of community projects and initiatives with partner organisations.
Following are links to external websites containing lists of local theatres. Note that these may contain advertisements and might not cover all theatres:
- Milton Keynes (www.theatresonline.com)
- Northamptonshire (www.visitnorthamptonshire.co.uk)
- Oxfordshire (www.ExperienceOxfordshire.org includes adverts)
- Oxfordshire Cotswolds (www.oxfordshirecotswolds.org – e.g. Under ‘Search What’s On’, select ‘Performing Arts & Film’)
Local Museums, Galleries and Workshops
Museums and Art Galleries – West Northamptonshire listings.
Northamptonshire Surprise – for information about other museums
Compton Verney art gallery and park – Warwickshire.
The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury offers a live events programme including theatre, dance, music, comedy, film, workshops and classes. Alongside this, we run a number of community projects and initiatives with partner organisations.
Syresham Village Hall – What’s-On events calendar.
Upton House – A National Trust house in Warwickshire that is home to an extensive art collection.
See also: Education for Adult Education Courses.
Online Museums and Galleries
Many Museums and Galleries offer online access to their collections which can be fascinating (use a search engine to find out more). See also section above for websites of local galleries
English Heritage, together with Google, has released articles to illustrate more about the properties that they maintain. (Some pages/pictures require you to ‘scroll down’ to see the text or find more pictures, etc.)
From an article on the BBC News website (www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61147097) April 2022:
The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) is a private museum founded by art collector Abhishek Poddar. They have launched the Encyclopaedia of Indian Art, an open-source repository that allows anyone to view and read about an enormous collection of Indian paintings, photographs, living traditions, architecture and textiles.
More Venues
- Culturefix provides a wide range of UK entertainment listings and interviews, etc.
- What’s On (on this website)