What's On

Does your partner depress rather than dazzle when it comes to lavishing you with love and luxury? Have they suffered a romance by-pass? Are their attempts at passion poor, their tenderness tacky and their amorous intentions uninspired?

Well fret not; Wolsey Place Shopping Centre and the Woking Informer want to play cupid this Valentine's Day and help restore the romance in your relationship with their competition to find 'Woking's Least Romantic' man, woman or couple.

JACK Copp claims he had hoover-phobia as a child.

Now at 23 the ex-art student has collected over one hundred vintage and modern vacuum cleaners that are currently being displayed as an exhibition.

Jack is showcasing the highlights of his collection, which dates as early as 1923, at The Lightbox art gallery and museum in Woking until January 31.

Wolsey Place Shopping Centre will be welcoming The Snowman™ to Woking on Saturday 19th December to get everybody in the mood for Christmas and to spread some festive joy this winter.

The much-loved character from the classic tale by English author Raymond Briggs will be greeting shoppers and local children between 10am and 4pm with breaks.

Christmas wouldn't be complete without a trip to see a festive family favourite, the pantomime! This year Wolsey Place Shopping Centre and the Woking Informer are giving readers the opportunity to win two adult and two child tickets to see the New Victoria Theatre's production of Cinderella.

Featuring Gavin and Stacey's Joanna Page as Cinderella, former S Club 7 member Jon Lee as her Prince Charming and TV personality Michael Aspel OBE as Baron Hardup, this magical fairytale is jam packed with gorgeous costumes, Panto dames, song and dance routines and features children's favourite Angelina Ballerina™.

Shoppers will need to be brave to venture into Wolsey Place on Halloween as a free face painter will be on hand to transform the little ones into ghosts and ghouls, monsters and mummys or witches and wizards.

Wolsey Place Centre Manager Richard Wheeler commented: "Entertaining the children can be expensive so we wanted to help out during these difficult times. I am sure our free face painter will help get the little ones into a spooky mood whilst the grown ups take to the shops!"

The free ghastly fun will be taking place on Saturday 31st October between 11am and 4pm.

Brookwood residents were disappointed to learn that the village's new hair salon Cut and Blow will be closing after just one week.

But their dismay turned to delight when they discovered that the shop had been transformed into a set for the filming of a new tv comedy of the same name.

Brookwood actors Martin Dickinson and Nathan Lubbock-Smith, helped by local residents and students who acted as runners and crew, filmed the comedy this week at the salon in Connaught Road. Local colleges had also supplied equipment. I went along to the filming to see what all the fuss was about.

Showing once again its support to local as well as global campaigns, The Lightbox is hosting an Environmental Awareness Fair the day after World Environment Day on Sat 6 June.

The specially organized day will be packed full of great activities for all the family and promises to educate us about our surroundings as well as entertain.

Woking's award-winning gallery and registered charity, The Lightbox, is hosting a display for the human rights group, Amnesty International from Tues 19 - Sun 31 May.

The display, composed of a series of panels with images and text about individuals whose human rights are under threat, is open to the public in the lobby gallery on the ground floor.

Woking's new Mayor, Cllr Tina Liddington visited the display in one of her first official duties and met with representatives from the Woking branch of the organization, David Kadzutu and Michele Grieve to hear about the most recent person that they are battling for, Eynulla Fatullajev, who is still in prison.
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There's loads on for kids this half term at The Lightbox in Chobham Road, Woking, for week commencing 22 - 28 May.

Read on for full details of what's on when.

A pubic meeting about the recession is being held in Chertsey Hall on Thursday May 7.

Entry is free to the hall in Heriot Road, and guests will have the chance to question MP for Runnymede and Weybridge and shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Philip Hammond.
The meeting runs from 7.30pm to 9pm and all are welcome.