Christmas Lights 2007
Below are pictures of the Snow Queen taken 25 November 2007 in the Commemoration Hall foyer as part of the Huntingdon Christmas Light Turn-on Celebrations. The hall hosted a Craft Fair, and PaTCH committee members supplied refreshments from the kitchen with all profits going towards putting on future shows and events.
The Gift of Light from Jack Hyde & Huntingdon Drama Club
Pic: (from left to right) Terry Downing, Michael Black, Lydia Eldridge, John Morgan & Collette Nicholls
Huntingdon Drama Club have donated six stage lights to the Commemoration Hall in memory of one of the club's distinguished actors and founder members Jack Hyde, who sadly died in 2003, but generously bequeathed money to the club.
The gift will improve the facilities at the hall for all the users which includes the Huntingdon Drama Club who regularly use the hall and whose next production in November 2007, is Jane Eyre.
PaTCH wish to thank the Club for their kind donation of the lights from Jack's bequest.
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PaTCH Win Award!
Picture courtesy of The Hunts Post
INNOVATION: PaTCH representatives Collette Nichols, centre, with Lydia Eldridge, left and Pamela Nichols
At this years Hunts Volunteering Awards 2007 held at the Priory Centre in St Neots, PaTCH were proud to receive the first of hopefully many future awards for their dedication to promoting performing Arts at the Commemoration Hall, Huntingdon. PaTCH were the group winner in the Innovation category.
The group has brought performing arts to Huntingdon, with the volunteers giving their time freely to provide all the support needed to ensure the district is entertained. They run everything - from the box office to the bar and at each event run a raffle, the proceeds of which go towards booking future entertainment.
Collette Nicholls, who collected the award, told the audience that the arts in Huntingdonshire needed to be supported. 'If you believe that arts can enrich our lives, then please come and see us at the Commemoration Hall' she said. 'We have about a dozen volunteers at the moment but we would want to double that, which means we can have more events and more people to call on to help'.
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?
Pic: PaTCH Committee members with Lydia Eldridge (centre)
THE Commemoration Hall has received £5000 from Awards From All to buy 200 new chairs.
Theatre goers will be able to park their bottoms in style. Shaped to your bottom and back, the new stacking chairs are in the hall ready for all future performances!
The chairs were chosen recently after potential audiences at the Huntingdon hall tested out different designs, picking the new blue-tone chairs as their favourite.
Lydia Eldridge, Artistic Director, said "Uncomfortable seating has been the biggest complaint, so we thought we would address this by using the award to replace the chairs in the hall".
Come along to one of our shows and try them out for yourselves!
