Events in Tameside for 25/03/2010

This event is open to parents/carers, family members, friends of autistic children & adults, Professionals looking for more information on autism.

Come & Meet T.A.S.C.A Integrated Services for Children with Additional Needs Direct payments (adult & children) Parent partnership, Portage The National Autistic Society T3SC Communication Language & Autism Spectrum Support Family Information Services The carers centre, The Young carers Aiming High, Adult services, Community Police Tameside Fostering services, ASGMA Connexions, The sunshine group Our Kids Eyes, Camhs, Multi Agency Autism Team & many more.

A family comedy with a decidedly darker side!
By Michael Palin
Directed by Joan Beresford

Faced with a family gathering, world-weary, cantankerous, miserable, misanthropic Stephen Febble does his best to be difficult!
When his daughter, her dreary husband, their precocious daughter and – not least – the dog come to stay for the weekend, it’s enough to make him reach for the whisky bottle, and for the sarcasm.
All Stephen wants to do is to be left alone. Not easy when his patient, long-suffering wife Virginia fills the house with guests and arranges a dinner party for them all. Stephen responds in the only way he knows how – with a monstrous display of rudeness!
Michael Palin’s riot of a comedy not only takes a very funny look at family values, but has an ever-present dark side.

Booking opens Monday 1st March 2010

A new display of Harry Rutherford’s television sketches have gone on display at the Rutherford Gallery in Hyde.

Harry Rutherford began his flourishing television career with the BBC in 1936 as the corporation launched its high fidelity service.

His quick eye for details and ability to rapidly capture a scene succinctly brought him to the attention of the BBC producer Cecil Madden who offered Rutherford his first job sketching the live acts on Madden’s variety show ‘Cabaret Cartoons’.

The display brings together Rutherford’s sketches from ‘Cabaret Cartoons’. Also included are his illustrations of Samuel Laycock’s Lancashire poem ‘Bowton’s Yard’ performed by Violet Carson, who is perhaps better known as Ena Sharples, as well as sketches from his own programme ‘Sketchbook’, broadcast in the 1950s.

These sketches reveal not only Rutherford’s eye for detail but also his sense of comic timing clearly illustrated in his own commentary displayed alongside the sketches.

Rutherford easily fell into conversations with people he met whilst sketching different towns across the UK and the exhibited drawings reflect not only his artistic brilliance but also his sociable character.

Harry Rutherford’s television sketches are on display at the Rutherford Gallery in Hyde until April 2010.

Gallery Open: Tues, Thurs, Fri: 10am-12.30pm, 1-5pm, Wed: 1-7pm, Sat: 9am-12.30pm, 1-4pm, Closed Sunday and Monday.