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• Film: Manchester Cornerhouse "My Blueberry Nights"

• Ballet:  Lowry Manchester:  "Swan Lake"

• Play: Bolton Octagon: "Road"

• Play: Bolton Octagon: "Meet the Mukkerjees"

• Film: Manchester Cornerhouse: "Persepolis"

• Film: Manchester Cornerhouse: "Bienvenue aux Ch'tis"

• Concert: Bridgewater Hall, Manchester:  Russian Night

• Concert: Preston Guild Hall: Waltz Kings

• Play:  Blackpool Grand: "Sleuth"

• Opera:  Blackpool Grand:  "Madame Butterfly"

• Concert: Lancashire Sinfonietta, Preston Minster, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Dvorak and Suk.

• Play: The History Boys, Blackpool Grand Theatre

• Film: Manchester Cornerhouse "Once" - Prize winner at the 2007 Sundance festival

• Film: Manchester Cornerhouse "I Do - How to Get Married and Stay Single"

• Guided Walk: "Ghosts and Murderers of Preston"

• Concert: Verdi Requiem, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Hallé Orchestra

• Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly, Hoghton Tower, nr Preston

• Murder Mystery, Preston Playhouse

• Christmas Concert: "Candlelight Baroque", Lancaster Cathedral, Lancaster

• Magic of Gilbert & Sullivan, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

• Hallé Anniversary Concert, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

• Concert: The Gershwins in Hollywood, Preston Guild Hall, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

• Play: The Crucible, Octagon, Bolton

• Film Evening: There will be Blood, Manchester Cornerhouse

• Play: Much Ado about Nothing, Oldham Coliseum

• "Mirandolina" (play) Royal Exchange Manchester - 18thC Italian farce. A beautiful, independent and feisty young woman inherits an inn and is immediately surrounded by fawning men…

• "Return to the Forbidden Planet" (play) Lowry, Manchester - Sci-fi rock musical based on Shakespeare’s Tempest

• "Tom Sawyer" (play) Williamson Park, Lancaster - Dukes Theatre “walk-about” production.

• Cultural Holiday in France: direct flight from Liverpool to Nimes; gite and B&B accommodation; Roman remains, tour of the Camargue, Languedoc culture, boules match, food, wine  ...

• "Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick" (play) Bolton Octagon - new comedy on the making of the “Carry On” films, Pinewood in the 60s.

• Art Fest and French Bistro Meal: Liverpool Biennial  and John Moores 24 Contemporary Art shows; £10 3-course lunch at Bistro Pierre

• "Volver" (film) award-winning Spanish film starring Penelope Cruz, Cornerhouse Manchester

• “The Manfreds - R&B Max” (concert) Preston Guildhall - 60s/70s R&B music. With Paul Jones, Mike D’Abo, Mike Hugg, Tom McGuinness, Marcus Cliff, Simon Curry and Rob Townsend. Plus special Guests Chris Farlowe and Maggie Bell.

• “Romantic Classics” (concert) Preston Guildhall - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic play: Weber Overture to "Euryanthe" , Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.2 , Brahms Symphony No.2 in D major. Conductor Vasily Petrenko, soloist Jonathan Bliss.

• "Pan's Labyrinth" film at Cornerhouse, Manchester

• “The Man with Two Gaffers” (play) Blackpool Grand - Update of classic Italian comedy removed from Venice to the Leeds-Liverpool Canal.  Mistaken identity, love, longing and deception delivered with gusto by the Northern Broadsides company.

• “Flint Street Nativity” (play) Liverpool Playhouse - Comedy by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls, All Quiet on the Preston Front) for anyone who forgot their one line as 3^rd Shepherd or who has ever been an anxious parent (or teacher) at a nativity play.

• “The Sorcerer” (comic opera) Preston Playhouse - Gilbert & Sullivan’s first successful full-length operetta.  Comic confusion when a magic love philtre is used with the best of intentions; all the wrong people fall for each other.

• “The Wedding Dance” (play) Bolton Octagon - Passionate dance drama set in Havana.  “West Side Story” meets “Dangerous Liaisons” in a story of love and betrayal.