Northampton BID

Masterclass: Japanese Whisky
2024-03-16 11:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom

Masterclass: Irish Whisky
2024-03-16 11:00 - 22:00 | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom

Zog and the Flying Doctors
2024-03-16 13:30 - 15:30, 2024-03-16 16:00 - 18:00, 2024-03-17 10:30 - 12:30, 2024-03-17 13:30 - 15:30, 2024-03-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
THE CREW ARE BACK FOR ANOTHER ROAR-SOME ADVENTURE!
Zog, super keen student turned air-ambulance, still lands with a bang-crash-thump. Together with his Flying Doctor crew, Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout, they tend to a sunburnt mermaid, a unicorn with one too many horns and a lion with the flu. However, Pearl’s uncle, the King, has other ideas about whether princesses should be doctors, and she’s soon locked up in the castle back in a crown and a silly frilly dress!
With a bit of help from some friends and half a pound of cheese, can Pearl make her uncle better and prove princesses can be doctors too?
Based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestselling sequel, Freckle Productions (Zog, Stick Man, Tiddler & Other Terrific Tales) are back with music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe (Zog) for this truly modern take on the classic fairy tale.
Most suitable for ages 3+ but all ages welcome.

Vivienne Westwood: A personal collection
2024-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Northampton Museum And Art Gallery, 4-6 Guildhall Rd,, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP, United Kingdom
Saturday, 16 March
2-3pm
£8
Join us for a Q&A with Lee Price former assistant at the iconic Worldâ€™s End shop on the Kings Road, London. His passion for Vivienne Westwood clothing and shoes collected over many years forms the content of this talk and the related exhibition.

Matt Green: That Guy
2024-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Debut national tour from that guy (@mattgreencomedy) you’ve seen on Twitter being funny about politics. A stand up show featuring jokes about politics and jokes not about politics. That probably covers it.
Matt has achieved millions of views for his online satirical comedy videos since he started making them during lockdown. He’s also been performing stand up comedy for nearly 20 years, and this is his first show since the madness of Covid/Johnson/Truss/Lord-knows-what-else began.
Watch him try to make sense of the world as we head into another year of elections, culture wars and who knows what else. Plus discover: exactly who is that guy behind the videos?
May also feature an appearance from a Tory Minister – if Matt can afford his daily rate…
As seen and heard on Late Night Mash, Avoidance, The Witchfinder, Mrs Sidhu Investigates, Times Radio, Oh God What Now? and many more.

Ania Magliano: I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This
2024-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
To the hairdresser at [redacted] Salon: You can take my money. You can take my dignity. You can take too much off the ends. But you cannot take my right to talk about it on stage. This is a show about the worst haircut of Ania Magliano’s life.
Winner of Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2022, Ania sold-out both runs of her critically acclaimed shows at the 2022 and 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her second show I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This was ranked #1 in Time Out’s The 11 best comedy shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 list.
Ania has previously supported Marc Maron, Cat Cohen and Ed Gamble on tour, and writes for Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date.

Empire
2024-03-16 21:00 - 23:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom
Empire performing at The Wig And Pen

The Great Eggscape - Easter Trail
2024-03-17, 2024-03-18, 2024-03-19, 2024-03-20 | town centre
Monday 11th March â€“ Monday 1st April
Head into town and visit the 10 brilliant local businesses to help the doggie detectives solve the mystery of the missing bunnies!
Simply visit one of the host businesses, scan the QR code on the poster displayed in the window and follow the on-screen instructions.
Complete the trail to be in with a chance of winning a £100 voucher!
Have fun!
Full details, www.discovernorthampton.co.uk/the-great-egg-scape/

Northampton Film Festival 2024
2024-03-17, 2024-03-18 | town centre
Northampton Film Festival 2024 8 â€“ 16 March 2024
Check out the Film Guide to see what weâ€™re showing or the Schedule to book a screening.
And if you want to binge on local and British cinema for less, book a festival pass.
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The Festival has been made possible with support from Northampton Town Council and our venues: Cineworld Northampton, Delapre Abbey, Lings Forum, University of Northampton and Northampton Filmhouse.

Men's Wellness Walk
2024-03-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Saints Coffee, 62 St Giles' St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JW, United Kingdom

Life and Art: Elke Pollard Retrospective
2024-03-17 12:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Northampton Museum And Art Gallery, 4-6 Guildhall Rd,, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP, United Kingdom
Well-known amongst the local art community for her gregarious personality, Elke Pollard created a wide body of work in a variety of media and styles predominantly colourful large-scale portraits and floral still lifes. Alongside her art, Pollard worked as a designer and seamstress. This exhibition will showcase art and design highlights from the life of this influential and prominent Northampton artist.

Vivienne Westwood: A Personal Collection
2024-03-17 12:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Northampton Museum And Art Gallery, 4-6 Guildhall Rd,, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP, United Kingdom
Coming soon, an exhibition in The Temporary Exhibition Gallery at Northampton Museums and Art Gallery

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

Saturday 16 March â€“ Sunday 9 June 2024

Vivienne Westwood was seen as the Grand Dame of fashion design for over 50 years. Her work with partner Malcolm McLaren defined the look of punk in the 1970s and subsequent fashion collections shaped the fashion world of the late twentieth century. This exhibition showcases a small part of an extensive personal collection that features her iconic shoes and outfits from her career defining collections such as Seditionairies, favoured by the Sex Pistols and Pirate. The Vivienne Westwood brand was not involved in the curation or organisation of this exhibition.

From The Collection: Abstract Art
2024-03-17 12:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Northampton Museum And Art Gallery, 4-6 Guildhall Rd,, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP, United Kingdom
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

Saturday 2 March â€“ Sunday 1 September

A celebration of the 20th century paintings, prints and sculptures in our collection that all share an abstraction of form, from large oil on canvas paintings to angular metal sculptures. This exhibition is a presentation of this central stream of modern art production, investigating abstract art’s unique voice, freedom of expression and artistic origins.

Morgan & West’s Massive Magic Show for Kids!
2024-03-17 14:30 - 16:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Roll up, roll up! Morgan & West are back with a massive magic show for kids (and their childish grown-ups)!
Expect gawps, gasps, and guffaws in this relentlessly funny and fantastical magic filled extravaganza, guaranteed to delight those aged five and 105, and indeed everyone inbetween! Morgan & West have shown their scientific skills in Unbelievable Science(national tour), brought good will to all with their Great Big Christmas Magic Show(national tour), attempted to escape The Slammer (CBBC), and even fooled Penn & Teller (ITV/CW Network). This season their hitting the road with their brand new magic show full of their trademark wit, whimsy, and wall-to-wall silliness. Conjuring capers, mysterious magic tricks, larger than life laughs, and fantastic facial furniture all crammed into one hour of non-stop fun for all the family.

Thats what she said
2024-03-17 16:00 - 18:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom
Thatâ€™s What She Said Performing at The Wig And Pen

TAYLORMANIA
2024-03-17 18:00 - 20:00 | The Old Savoy â€“ The home of The Deco Theatre, Abington Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 4AE
An award winning extravaganza that plays tribute to one of the leading contemporary recording artists of our time. Katy Ellis a self obsessed ‘Swiftie’ with an incredible live band and dancers promises to deliver the most authentic recreation of a Taylor Swift show you will ever see.

The show has already taken ‘Swiftie’ fans across the world by storm and features all of Taylor’s much loved hits including ; Shake It Off, Blank Space, Love Story, You Belong With Me, Look What You Made Me Do, I Knew You Were Trouble and many, many more.

Justin Hayward’s Blue World Tour
2024-03-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Live Nation / Kennedy Street are delighted to announce that legendary singer-songwriter Justin Hayward, The Voice of the Moody Blues, will undertake ‘The Harmony Tour’ taking in 12 venues in March 2024.
Justin Hayward OBE has enjoyed a career which is now in its fifth decade. He is best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and composer for the iconic Moody Blues, whose hits include the masterful ‘Nights in White Satin’, ‘Tuesday Afternoon’, ‘Question’, ‘The Voice’ and the US top 40 hits ‘I Know You’re Out there Somewhere’ and In Your Wildest Dreams’: plus other classic, era and genre-defining hits. These laid the foundation for the incredible success story of the Moody Blues – as well as Hayward’s solo work – which continues to this day.
Already established as a songwriter, he joined the Moody Blues in 1966. Hitting his stride immediately with “Fly Me High,” he followed it with ‘Nights in White Satin’ and ‘Tuesday Afternoon’ from the seminal album Days of Future Past. The Moody Blues sold 70 million albums worldwide, which includes 18 platinum and gold LPs. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Hayward created several solo albums such as Songwriter, Night Flight, Moving Mountains and ‘Classic Blue’ with long time friend Mike Batt, and The View From the Hill. He hit the Top Ten globally in 1978 with ‘Forever Autumn’ – created for Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds album. Hayward took to the stage and starred in its spectacular live production. His Spirits Of The Western Sky (2013) was followed by DVD ‘Spirits…Live’, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Video chart. All The Way followed – a compilation of solo work and live performances. In 2020, Justin took to YouTube for the ‘Tuesday Afternoon Video Series’ where he performed and discussed many of his key tracks: this led to the digital album ‘Tuesday Afternoons: The Audio Files’. Justin continues to record new music; in 2021 releasing ‘One Summer Day’ and ‘My Juliette’, and ‘Living For Love’ in 2022.

Cracking
2024-03-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Presented by SDJ Productions, originally developed forBBC Radio 4, co-produced by Theatre Royal, Plymouth
A new dark comedy by Shôn Dale-Jones

A completely made-up true story
When the world goes mad, do we inevitably go mad too?
Shôn’s 83-year old mother is waiting for some test results from the hospital. Shôn goes back home to the Isle of Anglesey to visit her. To relieve some pressure, she asks him to crack an egg on her head. All hell is let loose. Internet trolls appear in real life demanding Shôn stops abusing his mother and gets off the island…
This story about love and hatred celebrates how searching for connection beats disconnecting. Cracking is a heart-warming and uplifting comic story about loving in the face of hatred.
Part stand-up, part theatre Cracking is a funny, touching and thought-provoking solo performance
that sews together fact and fiction into one seamless whole making us wonder
what’s real, what’s not and what’s gone wrong.

A Beautiful Noise: Orchestral Edition
2024-03-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Experience the 2024 Orchestral Edition of It’s A Beautiful Noise, the definitive Neil Diamond tribute!
Celebrating a decade of musical brilliance – this year, this lavish production commemorates ten years of touring – selected dates on its nationwide tour, including this eagerly-awaited Northampton spectacular, will be “even bigger and even better”. The Royal & Derngate performance will feature the addition of an orchestra to a production that stars pitch-perfect vocals by Fisher Stevens as he performs all of Neil Diamond’s greatest hits.
Immerse yourself in the iconic music of Neil Diamond, featuring an exceptional orchestra, as new life is breathed into classics such as Sweet Caroline, Cracklin’ Rosie, Love On The Rocks, I’m A Believer and Hello Again.
More than just a show, this enchanting production captivates your senses and leaves you yearning for more! Embark on a musical journey like no other and join us for It’s a Beautiful Noise: Orchestral Edition in 2024, where the magic of Neil Diamond comes to life!
