10 of the best

Your guide to events you must not miss this week

1 10th birthday celebration The Green Backyard, Oundle Road, Jan 12

From 12pm to 3pm, go along and celebrate with party games, meet friends new and old, and enjoy some food and good old fashioned tea and cake. Everyone is welcome! There will be photos of the site over the years and some of the hundreds and hundreds of people who have made it what it is.

Starts at 12 noon.

2 Adult Panto Stamford Corn Exchange, January 11 and 12

The Market Theatre Company are back with their latest adult panto – Hansel & Gretel Go Down in the Woods. In their own unique style they’ve taken a traditional fairy story and corrupted it beyond belief packing it with corny jokes, raunchy plots and blatant sexual innuendo! Adults only.

Box Office 01780 766455

3 Winter Opening Peckover House, Wisbech, January 12

The garden of Peckover House opens for its winter season(weekends only) on Saturday and until February 17, between 12 midday and last admission 3.30pm. Talks will be held each afternoon at 2pm in the Orangery.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ peckover 4 History talk WI Hall, Sawtry, January 17 Sawtry History Society’s next meeting will feature a presentation by a SHS member entitled Sawtry - All Our Yesterdays. Members free, non-members £2 by donation. Starts at 7.30pm.

Contact 01487 831441 5 The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (live screening) Key Theatre, Jan 15 Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas. This visceral new production about the limits of power will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell at the National Theatre.

Tickets from www.vivacity.org

6 Lecture Peterborough Museum, January 17

The Friends of Peterborough Museum Lunchtime Lecture features a talk by Roger Negus entitled The Golden Age of Hollywood Stars and Films of the 30s and 40s. There will be a buffet lunch at 12.15pm, with the lecture from 1pm to 2pm.

More at www. vivacity.org

7 Talk Peterborough Local History Society, tonight, 7.30pm

Michael Knight will give a talk on Milestones and Turnpike Roads at St. Mark’s Church Hall, 82

Lincoln Road, at 7.30pm. All welcome, entry costs £3.

www.peterborough localhistorysociety.co.uk

8 Future Network Chauffeurs Cottage, St Peter’s Road, tonight

To kick off the New Year there is a new format – award winning poet and spoken word artist Mark Grist will be your very own host for his quiz, GET OFF YOUR ARTS!

Free to attend, 6pm to 9pm

9 The Arts Society Peterborough The Fleet, Fletton, Today

This lecture, by Tim Stimson, will trace the history of cartoonery in British public life, as a means of observing and commenting upon society and the politics of the day.

Starts at 10.45am 10 Nature Tots Ferry Meadows, January 14 A fun monthly outdoor parent and toddler group. Each session has a nature theme with a messy craft activity, time to explore the beautiful outdoors, and story and songtime. Adults may bring up to two paying children. Accompanying siblings below the age of 2yrs may attend at no cost.

Starts 10am