Adderbury Advent – Call for Volunteers
To help the village celebrate together the weeks leading up to Christmas, St Mary’s Church is once again organising a Living Advent Calendar. The idea is that each evening during Advent there will be a new decorated front window or garden for people to see in the village. So we are looking for at least 24 houses to volunteer to take part! Each house will need to decorate one window or part of their garden, visible from the road during the evening (5.00 pm to 9.00 pm), on a Christmassy theme (eg. a Christmas carol, stars, Santa Claus, etc).
The clothes sale will be in The Institute between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm. To donate good quality clothes for men, women and children please contact:
Adderbury Cine Club will be showing the Ballad of Wallis Island in the Institute. This is a Meals and Reels evening – doors open at 6.45 pm for the meal which starts at 7.00 pm and the film starts at 8.15 pm. The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig. To book tickets for the film go to 
The Kleio Quartet with Helen Clement (Viola) will be performing in St Mary’s Church starting at 6.00 pm. They will be playing Haydn op.33 no.5 ‘How do you do?’, Beethoven op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Quartet, and Mozart String Quintet in G minor K51. Tickets at £20.00 are available at the door. Students and children under the age of 18 are admitted free if accompanied by an adult. (No admission for children under the age of 5.)
Tim Healy will give a talk on ‘A Victorian Christmas’ in the Institute starting at 7.30 pm. Broadcaster and writer Tim returns for another of his very entertaining talks. In this vibrant portrait of seasonal festivities in the reign of Victoria, he tracks the emergence of innovations such as Christmas trees, cards and crackers –while also highlighting the stark disparities between celebrations of the rich and the poor. Visitors are welcome at £5.00.