If you need somewhere in Thornbury to hold a meeting or event, the Armstrong Hall complex offers a wide range of facilities.
The original Cossham Hall was presented to Thornbury in 1888 and is suitable for small concerts, cinema screenings and meetings, with a capacity of 140, including 40 in a gallery.
The main Armstrong Hall seats around 350, and is readily adaptable for all types of functions, dances, discos, trade promotions and exibitions.
It has a stage and dressing rooms, lighting and sound equipment, cinema screen and raised seating. There are also kitchen facilities, smaller meeting rooms and a licensed bar.
A refurbished bakery forms an annexe to the main building and is available as an extra meeting or activity room.
Large numbers of local groups and organisations use the complex on a regular basis, including the Women's Institute, Townswomen's Guild, Blood Donors, Horticultural Society, Flower Club, Weight Watchers, Stamp Club, Camera Club, Northavon Youth Theatre, Age Concern, Rosemary Conley Fitness, Eastwood Gardeners Club, Choices Club for The Disabled and Country Music Club.
The complex is also the venue for part of the Thornbury Arts Festival and for productions by the Thornbury Amateur Dramactic Society and the Thornbury Musical Theatre Group.
If you would like to hire any part of the Armstrong Hall complex, see the Town Council's Armstrong Hall web pages for more details or contact office staff at the Town Hall.
Nearby free parking is available at St Mary Street (limited to 2 hours stay before 6pm), and at Rock Street.
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Wednesday 26th November to Saturday 29th November, 7.30pm at the Armstrong Hall, with a matinee on Saturday afternoon.
TADS are proud to present Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn for your delight and to get you in the mood for December's festivities.
Christmas at the Bunker’s house is a traditional friends and family affair, but with so many dysfunctional relationships under one roof, can what ensues end in anything other than disaster… or even murder?
Enter stage left: Great Uncle Harvey, with his array of street weapons; Uncle Bernard, the inept physician, with his Boxing Day puppet show and his alcoholic wife; Pattie and Eddie with their seemingly endless trail of children; Belinda and her emotionally absent husband; and Rachel and her “new novelist friend”. Wait for the fireworks, which are the inevitable result of too much wine and too little space!
“Season’s Greetings”, by Alan Ayckbourn, is an hilarious Christmas romp, guaranteed to leave you wanting to “make it a quiet one this year”!
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7.30pm (doors open at 6.30pm), Armstrong Hall, Thornbury
Open Demonstraation: A Christmas Miscellany with Elizabeth Matheson. Tickets £8.00 to include refreshments. Crafts, Sales Table, Raffle.
For more information or to obtain tickets contact Penny Mackinnon 07733 368987.
7.30pm, Armstrong Hall
Thornbury Picture House aims to bring the best of world cinema to Thornbury at affordable prices while avoiding unnecessary trips to out-of-town venues. The 2008/9 season is designed to provoke, entertain, and surprise.
A delightful feel-good movie about two wildly different boys growing up in the 80's and forming an unlikely alliance. Will is the sheltered son of a Plymouth Bretheren family that rejects such worldly pleasures as music, books and TV. He meets with Lee, the appallingly behaved school terror who makes bizarre home movies. During a long English summer they soon embark on a home-movie version of Sly Stallone's First Blood to enter in the BBC's Screen Test for a young film-makers' competition.
Each film will cost £3 if you become a TPH member for £30. Entrance to individual films will cost £5 if you are not a member.
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Armstrong Hall, Thornbury
You may remember the excellent Thornbury Band which sadly folded in 2003. The band's concerts within Thornbury were always looked forward to and they're back - in part. Many members of that great band - including founder members who still live in Thornbury - now play for the Portishead Town Band who will be reviving the brass band concert at Armstrong Hall this Christmas. To our knowledge the previous Thornbury Band performed this seasonal concert for twenty consecutive years from 1983 to 2003. The evening promises to be full of both quality music making and audience participation with a traditional carol singing element sure to get everyone involved.
For more information, please contact Jeremy Topp by email below.
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7.30pm, Armstrong Hall
Thornbury Picture House aims to bring the best of world cinema to Thornbury at affordable prices while avoiding unnecessary trips to out-of-town venues. The 2008/9 season is designed to provoke, entertain, and surprise.
A teenager coping with pregnancy needs a strong backbone so it no wonder that director Jason Reitman cast Ellen Page as Juno. After her steely turn in Hard Candy, the young actress carries the weight of this film with consummate ease and no small degree of charm. She cuts straight to the bone with scathingly sharp dialogue (scripted by Diablo Cody), but she also brings warmth and vulnerability to soften the edges.
Each film will cost £3 if you become a TPH member for £30. Entrance to individual films will cost £5 if you are not a member.
www.thornburyartsfestival.com/fil...
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7.30pm, Armstrong Hall
Thornbury Picture House aims to bring the best of world cinema to Thornbury at affordable prices while avoiding unnecessary trips to out-of-town venues. The 2008/9 season is designed to provoke, entertain, and surprise.
Jointly financed by record companies, TV stations and charities, this documentary showcases the aceppella singing talents of children from the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, while also aiming to raise awareness about AIDS-afflicted communities. Paul Taylor's small-scale film is a prizewinner in the manner of other world music celebrations such as "The Buena Vista Social Club".
Each film will cost £3 if you become a TPH member for £30. Entrance to individual films will cost £5 if you are not a member.
www.thornburyartsfestival.com/fil...
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7.30pm, Armstrong Hall
Thornbury Picture House aims to bring the best of world cinema to Thornbury at affordable prices while avoiding unnecessary trips to out-of-town venues. The 2008/9 season is designed to provoke, entertain, and surprise.
A brilliant update of the haunted house story produced by Guillermo del Toro of Pan's Labryinth fame. Belen Rueda returns to her childhood house and opens an orphanage, but disaster strikes when her son goes missing - and there's something nasty lurking in the basement. The film uses every cliché in the book, but still manages to turn into one of the most stunning and scary films of the year.
Each film will cost £3 if you become a TPH member for £30. Entrance to individual films will cost £5 if you are not a member.
www.thornburyartsfestival.com/fil...
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7.30pm, Armstrong Hall
Thornbury Picture House aims to bring the best of world cinema to Thornbury at affordable prices while avoiding unnecessary trips to out-of-town venues. The 2008/9 season is designed to provoke, entertain, and surprise.
Persopolis is based on writer and co-director Marjane Satrapi's semi-autobiographical series of graphic novels about a young Iranian girl growing up during the Isalamic revolution. It deservedly shared the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes FIlm Festival. A beautifully animated, thoroughly engaging coming-of-age drama that is, by turns, moving, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny.
Each film will cost £3 if you become a TPH member for £30. Entrance to individual films will cost £5 if you are not a member.
www.thornburyartsfestival.com/fil...
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