Club News
The Club has joined the national 10:10 Campaign, ie we are aiming to cut our carbon footprint by at least 10% in the year 2010 and we urge all our members to take the same
action on an individual basis.
The carbon footprint is measured in terms of gas and electricity usage as well as travel.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR MEMBERS!
Many thanks to everyone for your continued support. The club continues to thrive and is in a healthy financial state. Refurbishment work is continuing on the first and second floors and our new central heating system is proving very successful. The next job will be electrical rewiring and we are fund-raising for that at the moment. All donations gratefully received!
NEW PHONE NUMBER
The club now has a new phone number. It is 07542009554. The old one will shortly be discontinued
HELP NEEDED
As always our greatest difficulty is in finding enough volunteers to run the club on a day-to-day basis without overwhelming the few stalwarts who do it at the moment—something we are perilously close to doing.
If you feel you could help out by staffing the bar, or preparing Saturday lunches, once every four or five weeks, it would be an enormous help. Full training is given and you wouldn’t be thrown in at the deep end to cope on your own. And if it’s any consolation, none of us had ever done it before either! Please think it over.
EVENT DIARY
CLARION CHOIR
All welcome. Meets Saturday afternoons. See notice-board for dates or phone Moira 699673
Fri 9 Jan : THE PLAY GROUP Informal play reading. 8pm
Fri 16 Jan: ‘PALESTINE’. A joint meeting with the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Speakers Brian Iddon MP and Dr Asad Khan 8.00pm
Fri 23 Jan: THE PLAY GROUP: Informal play reading. 8pm
Fri 30 Jan: RED CINEMA . ‘Salt of the Earth’. 1953. Made by blacklisted film-makers and financed by the American mineworkers union, the film deals with a strike in the New Mexico community of Zinc Town, formerly San Marcos. 7.45pm
Fri 6 Feb: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal play reading. 8pm
Fri 13 Feb: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal play reading. 8pm
Fri 20 Feb: ‘SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’. Speaker Steve Harrold who works as a sustainable development officer for Bolton Council. 8pm.
Fri 27 Feb: RED CINEMA. ‘My Beautiful Launderette’. Dir: Stephen Frears. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke and Saeed Jaffrey. Examining British and Asian cultures. 7.45pm
Fri 6 Mar: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal play reading. 8pm
Sunday 8 March 1pm—4pm INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
‘Women changing the world’ Renowned afternoon tea (1-2pm). Followed by musical entertainment. Speaker and discussion .
Fri 13 Mar: ‘NO TO ID CARDS’. Speaker Dave Page from the Manchester NO2ID campaign
Fri 20 Mar: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal play reading. 8pm
Fri 27 Mar: RED CINEMA. ‘Veronica Guerin’. About the investigative journalist, who attempted to discover the facts behind an escalating drugs problem in Dublin during the mid-Nineties.
PEOPLE'S HISTORY GROUP
Sat 31 Jan 2pm WORKTOWN REVISITED Bolton in the 1930’s
Sat 28 Feb 2pm GLASGOW TO BARCELONA. 1938 and 2008
Sat 28 Mar 2pm BADGES MEDALS AND TOKENS - Small treasures from Bolton’s history
CLUB REFURBISHMENT
THE CLUB WILL BE CLOSED FROM 17 AUGUST TO 1 SEPTEMBER.
This is to allow for the installation of a new central heating system throughout the building.
We’ve saved for many years to raise the money needed to do this and it has been achieved without funds or grants from any outside body . Many thanks to everyone who has made donations and particularly to the young (and not so young!) volunteers from the Unemployed Centre who have worked at pop festivals all over the country and raised literally thousands of pounds on the club’s behalf.
EVENT DIARY
PEOPLE'S HISTORY GROUP
Last Saturday afternoon of the month. See notice board for details of meetings or contact Wendy Pye 842869
Fri 5 Sept: RIDERS ON THE STORM. Paul Blackburn presents an evening of poetry and songs. Take part or just listen and enjoy. 8pm
Fri 12 Sept: RED FRIDAY. James Murray reports on his attendance at the Global Young Leaders Conference in Washington and New York earlier this year. Promises to be a very interesting evening and what a change to have a young speaker! 8.00pm
Fri 19 Sept: RED CINEMA. ‘A Taste of Honey’. Shelagh Delaney’s outstanding drama directed by Tony Richardson and featuring Rita Tushingham. 7.45pm
Fri 26 Sept: THE PLAY GROUP - ROBIN PEMBERTON-BILLING was the designer, instigator, and first artistic director of Bolton’s famous Octagon Theatre. He’s agreed to come along and talk to The Play Group about the design of the theatre and its early days. A great and important story. All club members and their guests welcome. 8pm
Fri 3 Oct: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 10 Oct: RED FRIDAY Academies? Chris Chilton and George Heyes are teachers in secondary and further education respectively. Tonight they discuss the impact and nature of the government’s drive towards ’academies’. A subject with strong local resonance. 8pm
Fri 17 Oct: RED CINEMA. ‘Into the Arms of Strangers’. Oscar winning documentary about Jewish children who were transported from Germany in the 1930’s to foster homes in Britain. Archival footage and gripping remembrances. 7.45pm
Fri 24 Oct: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 31 Oct: SHEILA ROWBOTHAM. The renowned socialist, feminist, historian, and writer launches her new book ‘Edward Carpenter—A life of Liberty and Love’. Her talk will focus on Edward Carpenter’s links with Bolton. We’re very privileged to have her. Don’t miss it!
Fri 7 Nov: MUSIC NIGHT. Songs by Steve Harrold & friends
Fri 14 Nov: RED FRIDAY. ‘The Matchgirls’ Strike’. John Perry has researched the famous strike of 1888 at Bryant and May which led to the unionisation of women workers and the drive for equal pay. 8pm
Fri 21 Nov: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 28 Nov: RED CINEMA. ‘Michael Clayton'. George Clooney plays a burnt out lawyer involved in events surrounding a corporate cover-up. 7.45pm
Fri 5 Dec: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Bolton Clarion
See Club notice board for details of Clarion events
CLARION CHOIR
All welcome. Meets one Saturday afternoon a month. See club notice-board for dates or phone Moira 699673
WALT WHITMAN WEEK-END Fri/Sat/Sun, 30/31 May, 1 June
This year is the 25th anniversary of the re-establishment of the famous Bolton Whitmanites.
To mark the occasion, there will be a number of events, including the launch of Michael Robertson’s new book ’Wandering with Walt’ and the updating and re-publication of Paul Salveson’s ’Loving Comrades’.
There will be events in the Library on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, the annual walk starting at Barrow Bridge on the Saturday at 2pm, and more events on the Sunday.
Full details will be circulated nearer the time.
10 years, will be increased next year to £10 waged, £3 unwaged. This year’s subs remain at £5 waged, £1.50 unwaged.
EVENTS DIARY
CLARION CHOIR
All welcome. Meets Saturday afternoons. See club notice-board for dates or phone Moira 699673
Fri 4 April: RIDERS ON THE STORM. Paul Blackburn hosts an evening of poetry and songs with guest Rachel Appleton. Take part or just listen and enjoy. 8pm
Fri 11 April: MUSIC NIGHT. Steve Harrold and friends play folk, blues and jazz. From 8.30pm
Sat 12 April 1.30pm Bolton Clarion Meeting
For other info see Club notice board.
Fri 18 April: RED CINEMA. ‘The Piano’. Dir. Jane Campion 1993. Set in the 19th century. A woman’s journey to start a new life in New Zealand. 7.45pm
Fri 25 April: RED FRIDAY. ‘Organising the shop floor—yesterday and today’. Speaker Martin Donaghy. Martin is a shop steward at Sainsbury’s in Bolton, a very different challenge from that of his background in the engineering union. He examines the differences and the changing face of trade unionism in modern Britain. 8pm
2pm Sat 26 April PEOPLE'S HISTORY GROUP - BARROW BRIDGE, Mill Village and Beauty Spot
Speaker Cliff Stockton - See notice board for further meetings
Fri 2 May: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 9 May: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 16 May: RED CINEMA. ‘Fear eats the soul’. Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1974. The dramatic portrayal of the racism experienced within an inter-racial marriage. 7.45pm
Fri 23 May: RED FRIDAY. ‘The NHS—where is it going?’ A crucial question for us all, and few better placed to explore the answers than Simon French, a club member and nurse at the Royal Bolton Hospital. 8pm
Fri 6 June: MUSIC NIGHT. Steve Harrold and friends play folk,blues and jazz. Downstairs from 8.30pm. PLUS. RIDERS ON THE STORM. Paul Blackburn hosts an evening of Poetry and songs featuring Kevin Bates - Take part or just listen and enjoy. Upstairs 8pm
Fri 13 June: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 20 June: RED CINEMA. ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’ Dir. The Coen Brothers. 2000. Homer’s Odyssey set in the Deep South during the Depression. Fantastic sound track. 7.45pm
Fri 27 June: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 4 July: RED FRIDAY. Subject and speaker to be announced.
Fri 11 July: MUSIC NIGHT. Steve Harrold and friends play folk, blues and jazz. From 8.30pm
18 –21 July Tolpuddle Martyrs Trip
A number of club members travel to Dorset each year to enjoy the annual festival. Some go by rail, some by mini-bus. All welcome. Details on the notice board.
Happy New Year to all club members!
There will be a few changes in the new year. Gone are the regular fixed monthly dates for Red Fridays and the Play Group. Instead there will be a quarterly calendar of events published in the newsletter and posted on the notice board. Also weekly email reminders sent out. What you can be certain of is that there will be an event of some kind taking place in the club every Friday night.So please come on down as often as you can and make them a success.
Calendar of Friday Events
Fri 4 Jan: RED FRIDAY. ‘Fair Trade in Bolton’. Margaret Johnston explores how support for fair trade promotes trade justice, and the role played by shops like Justicia. Also a fair trade stall. 8pm
Fri 11 Jan: THE PLAY GROUP Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Sat 12th Jan 8pm STOP THE WAR CAMPAIGN
Social Fundraiser
Fri 18 Jan: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Fri 25 Jan: RED CINEMA. ‘Bhaji on the Beach’. Dir. Gurinder Chada. 1992 Gentle comedy about a group of Asian women on a trip to Blackpool. 7.45pm
Sat 26 Jan: Peoples's History Group ‘Sarah Reddish’. Speaker Jean Flinders 2-4pm
Fri 1 Feb: RIDERS ON THE STORM. Paul Blackburn presents an evening of poetry and songs.
Fri 8 Feb: MUSIC NIGHT. Steve Harrold and friends play folk,blues and jazz. From 8.30pm
Fri 15 Feb: RED FRIDAY. ‘The Manchester Martyrs’. 3 Irishmen were hanged in Manchester in 1867 for the killing of a policeman during the rescue of 2 Fenian leaders. The case was internationally famous and has reverberations to this day. Speaker Eileen Murphy. 8.00pm
Fri 22 Feb: RED CINEMA. ‘Letter to Brehznev’. Dir. Chris Bernard 1985. Two Liverpool girls on a night out meet Russian sailors...fun and drama. 7.45pm
Sat 23 Jan: Peoples's History Group ‘Cotton Queens’. Speaker Maureen Gilbertson 2-4pm
Fri 29 Feb: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8pm
Sunday 2 March INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY (No charge)
‘Women still changing the world’ 1pm—4pm
Renowned afternoon tea followed by musical entertainment, speakers and discussion.
Fri 7 Mar: MUSIC NIGHT. Steve Harrold and friends play folk, blues and jazz. From 8.30pm
Fri 14 Mar: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable play reading. 8.00pm
Fri 21 Mar: RED CINEMA. ‘The Piano’. Dir. Jane Campion 1993. Set in the 19th century, a woman’s journey to start a new life in New Zealand. 7.45pm
Fri 28 Mar: THE PLAY GROUP. Informal and enjoyable. 8pm
CLARION CHOIR
All welcome. Meets Saturday afternoons. See club notice-board for dates or phone Moira 699673
HELP NEEDED
The good news—demand for the club is increasing.
People want to book it for all sorts of events, both on-going and one-off.
The bad news– we’re having to turn people away because there aren’t enough volunteers to staff them all.
Can you help? Volunteering to staff the bar once a month would be a huge help and would take some
pressure off the few who now do it.
Please think about it.
RED FRIDAYS
8pm Friday 21 September REPORT FROM RAMALLAH — club member Neil McAllister talks about his recent visit to the Palestinian West Bank town.
8pm Friday 19 October Not finalised at the time of printing but there will definitely be something on this date. See club notice board for details. Also an email will be circulated.
8pm Friday 16 November THE CRISIS IN HOUSING. For decades a Cinderella issue, housing
is now a major political talking point. Bernadette Gallagher has worked in the field for many years
and looks at the nature, causes and possible solutions to the current crisis.
Saturday 15 September CND FUNDRAISER
8pm At the Club
CLARION CHOIR
Extra rehearsals for ‘Raise Your Banners Festival ’ in Bradford: Saturday Sept 8, Sept 22, Sept 29. 2pm NB. No rehearsal 25th Sept For October/November dates see club notice board or phone Moira 699673
1st Sept SING FOR WATER Moira Hill is running a voice workshop for Water Aid on
Ring Moira 699673 or email
PEOPLE'S HISTORY GROUP
2pm—4pm on the following dates: Saturday 27 October, Saturday 24 November
No meeting in December
See club notice board for topics and speakers
THE PLAY GROUP
Informal and enjoyable play reading 8pm on the following dates:
Friday 14 Sept (Les Smith talks about his work)
Friday 12 October
Friday 26 October
Friday 9 November
Friday 23 November
RED CINEMA
7.45pm Sat 6 October ‘Days of Glory’ (2006) directed by Rachid Bouchareb. The story of French Algerian soldiers and discrimination during the 2nd World War.
7.45pm Sat 3 November ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ In the week prior to Armistice Sunday, the classic 1930’s film of the first World War from the German soldiers’ perspective.
7.45pm Sat 1 December ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ Multi Oscar winning 1970’s film about attitudes towards the mentally ill within institutions.
PLANT SWOP
Bring cuttings, splits and seeds from autumn gardening. Exchange plants and advice.
All donations to the club funds. Lunchtime Saturday 6 October
RED CINEMA
7.45pm Sat 14 April ‘The wind that shakes the barley’ Ken Loach’s film about the Irish war of independence
against the British and the civil war which followed it.
7.45pm Sat 5 May ‘The Crucible’ Arthur Miller’s classic play transferred to the screen. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Paul Scofield.
7.45pm Sat 2 June ‘Cinema Paradiso’. Guiseppe Tornatore’s Italian gem. When a successful film director learns of the death of a prominent figure from his childhood he reminisces on the highs and lows of growing up in the community he left.
PEOPLE'S HISTORY GROUP
28 April 2-4pm ‘Teddy Ashton & Tum Fowt’ Allen Clark—Bolton poet, humourist and socialist
30 June 2-4pm ‘Researching Joe Shufflebotham’ Cliff Stockton on the early Bolton socialist and a
founder of the club.
THE PLAY GROUP
We read plays out loud, discuss their content and generally enjoy ourselves.
Everyone welcome.
Next meeting 8pm Friday 27 April
Further dates from Eileen 01204 409729
the work his organisation does to support refugees in Bolton.
8pm Friday 18/5/07 200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
Brenda Lynton- Escreet leads the discussion on slavery then and now.
8pm Friday 15/6/07 THE WORK OF NEARIS. Nearis have been a tenant at the club for a number
of years, running a variety of courses for asylum seekers, travellers, and others. Staff and tutors
talk about their work in what promises to be a very interesting and informative evening.
Sat 21 April Clarion Choir. 2.15pm
Sun 6 May. Cycle ride/ramble via Sarah Reddish’s grave to Rivington
Mon 7 May. May Day march with banner. Details on club notice board.
16/17 June Trip to New Lanark. Details on club notice board.
An easy walk on the moors where we read poems, drink wine and enjoy convivial company. To celebrate the Bolton connection with America’s greatest poet.
2pm Saturday 26 May (details of starting point to be posted in the club)
CLUB FUND-RAISER
To describe the club’s central heating as antiquated is something of an under-statement. Renewing it will cost around £14,000. We’re about half way there so still a lot of money to raise. Hence the fund-raiser.
Music ….. Food …...Entertainment…...Good company
And following their enormous success at the Christmas Party….
THE EARTHQUAKERS
Please come along and show your support!
8pm Saturday 10 February
TICKETS: £6 WAGED, £3 UNWAGED—FROM BEHIND THE BAR (donations gratefully accepted!)
8pm Friday 19 Jan "CUBA,THE SOCIALIST PHOENIX" Speakers Mark Burton and Richard Aubery, from
the Greater Manchester group of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign. Fifty years ago Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries landed in Cuba. Within three years they had overthrown the Batista dictatorship and established a socialist state on the doorstep of the United States. Cuba was almost immediately subject to a campaign of destabilisation, aggression and economic strangulation which continues to this day. Tonight’s talk will focus on the revolution's investment in the people of Cuba, and examine the options for the development of the Cuban economy and social system in the context of continued US aggression and the current 'left turn' in Latin America.
8pm Friday 2 February - RIDERS ON THE STORM
A relatively new venture in the club—a night of poems and songs.Whether you write, perform, or just like to listen, this is high quality entertainment. Please give it your support.
Tonight's event features fantastic local singer/songwriter: NICK JACKSON
7.45pm Saturday 3 Feb Red Cinema: ANNIE HALL
Woody Allen's early romantic comedy starring Diane Keaton remains his only movie to win a Best Picture
Academy Award - beating Star Wars, no less. A bittersweet, autobiographical romantic comedy, Annie Hall is the quintessential Woody Allen movie, featuring all the themes - love, relationships, neuroses, fame, guilt, pessimism, his love of New York (and dislike of LA), death and life - that we have come to expect from the man whose writing and directing career has spanned more than three decades.
8pm Friday 16 Feb “ VICTOR SERGE 1890-1947” Speaker Les Smith. 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Victor Serge, revolutionary militant, Anarchist, Bolshevik, Left Oppositionist and, an essential witness to the triumphs and tragedies of the workers movement.
He was, above all, a writer, a pamphleteer, historian, novelist, poet, journalist, biographer and memoirist. Victor Serge devoted his life, and his brilliant pen, to the revolution which knew no frontiers. He served a total of seven years in prison in three different countries, fought in workers risings in Barcelona and Petrograd and died, in poverty, in exile in Mexico City. All his life he continued to fight for a vision of socialism which placed human liberty at its centre.
Bolton writer Les Smith was commissioned by Channel 4 in 1989 to write a documentary on the life of Victor
Serge. His researches took him to Moscow, Leningrad (as it was then), Mexico and North America. He spoke to
Serge’s family, and to old comrades, who had survived the Stalinist Gulag. What can socialists today learn fromVictor Serge, his life and ideas?
8pm Mon 19th February CLUB AGM - at the Club
Currently paid up members only will be admitted. The club is open for membership renewal on Friday nights and Saturday dinner times. Deadline for acceptance of resolutions and nominations for Officers and Committee is 2pm Saturday 17th Feb. Nominations open on Monday 5th Feb. There will be a nominations form posted in the club.
7.45pm Saturday 3 March Red Cinema: DISTANT LIVES STILL VOICES
Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in Liverpool in the 40s and 50s. No exercise in airbrushed nostalgia, but a visionary exploration of memory. In a succession of searing vignettes, Davies paints an autobiographical picture of a family dominated by an oppressive patriarch. The women in the family achieve partial escape from his dominance through the popularsongs of the period that punctuate the narrative. Imaginative, intelligent and profoundly moving. A restoration by the BFI National Archive.
Sunday 4 March at the club - INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
DISPLAYS, READINGS, SONGS AND SCRUMPTIOUS TEA!
Refreshments 1pm
Performances 2pm by The Play Group and Kadenza Women’s Singing Group
8pm Friday 9 March “EDWARD CARPENTER AND WOMEN” Speaker Sheila Rowbotham.
Edward Carpenter was a prominent figure in the late 19th century socialist revival. He was a poet and mystic, a penal reformer, and a homosexual who ardently supported feminist aspirations.
Sheila Rowbotham is a socialist historian, feminist and author of many books and pamphlets including ‘Hidden
from History’ and ‘A New World for Women’. She is Professor of Gender and Labour History Studies at the University of Manchester. She last spoke at the club during our centenary celebrations in 2005 and we are very happy to welcome her back.
7.45pm Saturday 7 April THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
Winner: Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival 2006. Ken Loach’s film about the brutality of the British military (many of them fresh from WWI) in Ireland at a time when the British government was faced with an violent republican movement operating in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916.
Loach’s aim is to turn the political into the personal – to spin national pain into local tragedy. Unmissable.
THE PLAY GROUP
We read plays out loud, discuss their content and generally enjoy ourselves.
Everyone welcome.
Following Fridays at 8pm: 12 Jan, 26 Jan, 9 Feb, 23 Feb, 2 Mar, 23 Mar
PEOPLE'S HISTORY GROUP Last Saturday each month 2pm - 4pm
A new venture - to share experience and interest in working people's history. Members will decide what form the meetings should take, but at the first meeting on 27th January there will be a chance to listen to the ALICE FOLEY TAPES.
Further meetings on 24th February and 31st
CLARION CHOIR
Singers of any age or ability.
Saturday 18 November 2.30—4.30pm.
Saturday 16 December 2.30—4.30pm
RED FRIDAYS
Friday 15 September 8pm THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO Speakers from CND/Stop the War Coalition
A showing of the film followed by discussion.
Friday 20 October 8pm THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION. Speaker Brian Iddon MP
Brian is a long-time supporter of the Palestinian cause. His talk will include slides of his visits to the region,
particularly the Balata refugee camp.
Tonights guest is the Freewheelin' Nat Clare!
Friday 17 November 8pm BRITISH CINEMA AND IMAGES OF THE WORKING CLASS.
Speaker George Heyes. George is a lecturer in film studies and helps organise our monthly Red Cinema nights.
Friday 22 December - MEMBERS’ CHRISTMAS PARTY
The annual Christmas Party for club members and friends
Live music - Food - Good company
Admission by ticket—available free to club members from the bar (the ticket is exchangeable for food on the night)
RED CINEMA
Saturday 7 October 7.45pm A Raisin in the Sun. The film of Lorraine Hansberry’s Broadway
Play about the dreams and realities of a black family living in Southside Chicago in the
1950’s.
Saturday 4 November 7.45pm Motorcycle Diaries. About the young Che Guaevara’s motor cycle tour around the countries of South America.
Saturday 2 December 7.45pm Vera Drake. Mike Leigh’s film about a kindly abortionist in
1950’s London. Starring Imelda Staunton
THE PLAY GROUP
We read plays out loud, discuss their content and generally enjoy ourselves.
Following Fridays at 8pm: 8 Sept, 22 Sept, 13 Oct, 10 Nov, 24 Nov
Trip to Lancaster to see The Hunchback of Notre Dame - We are hoping this will take place on
Friday 27 October Contact Liz Perry for details
CLARION CHOIR
Singers of any age or ability. Next session Saturday 30 September 2-4pm.
Come along and have a good time. No experience or musical skill necessary.
Good songs, good company
LESBIAN DROP IN
The aim is for lesbian and bisexual women to meet new friends in a safe and confidential environment and to organise social events such as nights out, theatre, walks, holidays, etc.
First Sunday in every month.
1pm—4pm in the bar
Saturdays 12.30—2.30 throughout November and December. Help to paint a mural on the first floor wall. No special skills required. All welcome.
We are pleased to announce that there is once again a branch of the Clarion based at the club. As well as cycling it will organise trips, rambles, banner making and there are plans for a choir.
Sunday 30 April—RIVINGTON MAY DAY MEET—for cyclists and walkers. Cyclists: 10.30am from Wood St. (easy pace!). 11.00am visit to Sarah Reddish’s grave. 12.30pm all meet at Lower Barn (details from Denis Pye 01204 842869)
Sunday 28 May—YORKSHIRE TRIP—by minibus. 8.00am from Wood St.
BANNER PAINTING—every Saturday dinner time at the club. No special skills needed.
CLARION CHOIR—Moira Hill invites singers of any age or ability to attend—first meeting Saturday 22 April 2-4pm. Come along and have a good time. No experience or musical skill necessary. Good songs, good company.
A new venture at the club. The aim is for lesbian and bisexual women to meet new friends in a safe environment and organise social events such as nights out, theatre, walks, holidays, etc.
First Sunday in every month. 1pm—4pm in the bar
More info from
Friday 21 April 8pm DOWN WITH ALL THAT’S UP
An alternative look at adult education. Speaker DEREK HATTON
Friday 19 May 8pm QUIDS IN—BOLTON’S CREDIT UNION
A non-capitalist way of saving and borrowing. Speaker MARK TURNER.
Friday 16 June 8pm THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT LIBRARY, SALFORD
A film about this unique library and its history—narrated by Christopher Eccleston. Followed by a talk and discussion.
Saturday 1 April 7.45pm Dr Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick’s anti-nuclear classic. Starring Peter
Sellars - Free
wall - Free
We read plays out loud, discuss their content and generally enjoy ourselves.
Following Fridays at 8pm: 7 April, 12 May, 26 May, 9 June, 23 June
Celebrate poetry and the outdoors with the poems of America’s greatest poet. Where else can you go for a walk, read poetry and drink wine out of a Victorian loving cup?
Details of starting point in the club
Friday 20 Jan 8pm THE YORKSHIRE COINERS
In the latter half of the 18th century the tiny village of Crag Vale near Halifax became infamous for the operations of a notorious gang of counterfeiters. So damaging were their activities that they came close to wrecking the British currency. Cliff Stockton tells the fascinating story.
Sunday 29 Jan CLARION CLUB RAMBLE
To Darwin Tower
Meet at the club 8.45amand travel by mini-bus
Friday 17 Feb 8pm BRIDGING THE ENERGY GAP
Renewables? Nuclear? Using less? Some of the most important questions the human race has to answer and
time is running out. What can we do as individuals? Stuart Murray leads the discussion and looks for some sort of on-going and locally-based practical activity that we can all take part in.
8pm Mon 20th February CLUB AGM - at the Club
Currently paid up members only will be admitted - no renewals on the night. The club is open for membership renewal on Friday nights and Saturday dinner times. Deadline for acceptance of resolutions and nominations for Officers and Committee is 2pm Saturday 18th Feb. Nominations open on Monday 6th Feb. There will be a nominations form posted in the club.
Sunday 5 March at the club - INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
DISPLAYS, DRAMA, SONGS AND SCRUMPTIOUS TEA!
Refreshments 1pm Performances 2pm by The Play Group and Kadenza Women’s Singing Group
Friday 17 March 8pm WOMEN’S LIBERATION IN BOLTON 1970’s AND 80’s
The Women’s Liberation Movement challenged and changed the accepted roles of women in fundamental
ways. Members of the Bolton Women’s Group of that time speak about their aims and how far they have been
achieved. Speakers: Liz Perry, Elaine Glover, Eileen Murphy.
RED CINEMA
A new initiative taking place on the first Saturday of every month at the club. Socialist and
alternative films on a big screen followed by discussion.
Saturday 7 January. 7.45pm BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic about an Algerian insurrection against the French in the late
1950’s. Themes of terrorism and counter-terrorism even more relevant today than at the time
the film was made.
Titles of future films will be decided on the 7th. Watch for details on the club notice boards.
Dates of screenings:- Saturday 4 Feb, Saturday 4 March, Saturday 1 April.
Annual subs
Due from the beginning of January, £5 waged, £1.50 unwaged.
New members joining after 1 Oct 2005 are covered until the end of 2006