THE latest community news from Llanidloes

Othello

OTHELLO by William Shakespeare will be performed at the Function Room on Saturday, 12 October, at 2.30pm.

Tickets from thepantaloons.co.uk/othello

Coffee, tea and cake

DOLEN Llanbrymair invites you to coffee, tea and cake at Chatwood on Saturday, 5 October, 9am until 12.30pm.

Raffle, cake sale and music.

There will be a display of the work in Uganda.

No charge but all donations will be towards making a Water Catchment Project for the village of Kabakuli.

Refugee support group

HELP us to help at a coffee morning in Chatwood on 12 October, from 10am to noon, in aid of the young refugees of Yemen.

Raffle and refreshments with all proceeds go to help the refugees, hosted by St Idloes Church.

Harvest Thanksgiving

THERE will be a Harvest Service and Thanksgiving on 3 October, at 6.30pm in the church hall, St Idloes Church.

Tickets: £3.

All Age Harvest on 6 October, at 11am and Bring and Share Lunch.

All welcome.

AGM and talk

THERE will be a Powys Family History Society Montgomeryshire Group AGM followed by a talk by Tim Chilton (Welsh Mills Society) on Saturday, 12 October, from 2pm in Hafren Room, Abermule Community Centre, SY15 6ND.

Interested non-members welcome at meetings.

Research afternoon

ON Saturday, 16 November, there will be a research afternoon in Hafren Room, Abermule Community Centre, at 2pm.

Take along your family history queries. If you are able to let them know your query in advance, the librarian will be able to bring relevant sources to the meeting. Contact [email protected]r www.powysfhs. org.uk

Leg Club bingo

BINGO for the Leg Club takes place at the rugby club on Wednesday, 2 October, 7.30pm for eyes down at 8pm, to raise funds for Llanidloes Royal Air Force Association.

Treorchy Male Voice Choir

THE choir will perform for the Llanidloes Community Centre Roof appeal fund on Saturday, 12 October, at 7pm at the community centre.

Tickets are £16 for adults, £10 for children, from Woosnam and Davies newsagents, or on the door.

For more information phone 07535 235464 or email [email protected]

Harvest Service

THERE will be a Harvest Service at Oakley Park on Thursday, 4 October, at 7pm.

The guest preacher will be Daniel Owen. All are welcome.

Wales after Rome

DR David Stephenson’s classes in medieval Welsh history are to resume in the week beginning 7 October.

This term the classes will deal with what at first sight appears to be a very remote era in the story of Wales: the 5th and 6th centuries. This is the period after Britain left the crumbling Roman Empire.

It is sometimes called ‘The Age of Arthur’, and one of the themes of the classes will be to examine whether the story of King Arthur and heroic resistance by the Britons against the incoming Anglo-Saxons is simply a myth, or whether it has some basis in fact.

The story of how Wales, and indeed much of Britain, developed in these centuries remains very mysterious, and one of the objects of the classes is to present a coherent and compelling narrative of how the foundations of the future Wales were laid.

The classes will take place in The Mount Inn on Tuesdays at 7pm to 9pm or Wednesdays at 2pm to 4pm from 8 and 9 October until mid December.

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