8th December - Luckley House School Choirs at Wokingham Library

Yesterday evening we were hosted by a warm and cosy Wokingham Library where snacks of Lebkuchen were on hand to enjoy.

We were treated to a triple header from the students at Luckley House school. Performances were given by the senior choir, the chamber choir and lastly the junior choir. Songs included "love shone down" "O Holy Night" and the evening was rounded off with a fabulous Encore of "count on me"  by Bruno Mars.





Many thanks to a busy and hugely supportive audience and to Wokingham Library for hosting us. Wokingham Library provides services to support learning and leisure activities for all in the local community. It’s free to join the library and members can borrow from a wide range of resources and also have access to free wi-fi and the Internet. For more information go to www. wokingham.gov.uk/libraries

Tonight’s Wokingham living advent Calendar performance is at Grape Escape on Denmark street with a Platform Young Professional of many years Lydia Rose.

15th December - Hands on Company at Wokingham Library

Monday evening saw us at Wokingham Library in the Café area enjoying a Christmas tale by the Hands-On Company.

Welcome to The Hands-On Company’s Christmas Show - “The X-Mas Factor”.

Christmas is around the corner and everyone in the enchanted ice kingdom is bursting with the spirit of the season. On this special living advent calendar day, The Hands-On Company invite you to all enjoy an adventure with Mrs Clause and her happy helpers.

A pair of elves go on a mission to locate Sammy the Snowman who has gone missing but is soon to appear on Santa’s Xmas Factor live show. Do they find him in time and solve the mystery of why he went missing in the first place?

Please enjoy the clip below.

Many thanks to Wokingham Library for their hospitality. The local libraries offer a wide range of book, resources and other services:

·         A wide range of books to borrow

·         Free internet, computer access and wi-fi

·         DVDs,CDs and audio books to hire

·         Photocopy facilities

·         Reference facilities

·         Newspapers and magazines

·         Local and family history resources

·         Council and community information

·         Regular events, book groups, talks, author visits

·         FreeBooks, eAudio and eMagazines

·         Activities for children and young people

Tonight you will find the Living Advent Calendar at Rococo for another fun performance. And if you liked this performance don’t forget on Sunday is the Live Nativity at Howard Palmer Gardens. A must for the whole family.

2nd December 2013 - Victoria Pugh with Poetry for Wokingham at Wokingham Library

We were more than happy to welcome back Victoria Pugh to Wokingham Living Advent Calendar. After her fantastical and funny performance last year, who could forget Mr Wickham!, Victoria was back reading poems including a number from her new book Mrs Marvellous. Including; some funny poems, some sad poems, some poems to join in, some poems to listen to, some poems for Christmas, and poems about food. There was also a poem about the “Mad Stad”, Madjeski Stadium to the uninitiated.

To finish Gillie Tunley joined Victoria at the microphone to encourage a little sing-a-long and the audience responded with a rousing and heartfelt rendition of “We Wish you a Merry Christmas”.

Wokingham Library hosted, with the café staying open later and offering a free mince pie for every hot drink purchased and the sofas and chairs were full with about a 70 strong crowd in rapt enjoyment of the poetry.

Please enjoy the photos below from the evening, maybe you will even see yourself in one of them.



Wokingham Library provides resources and services to inspire and support learning and knowledge for all. Residents can join the library free of charge, borrow books and other media and gain free access to the Internet. The library runs numerous clubs, events and activities for adults and children-for more information go to www.wokingham.gov.uk/libraries

For last years performance by Victoria check out this entry on the blog for the 10th December .

We hope you will join us tonight at Wokingham Railway Station for the 3rd performance.