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local events

See What's On at Reading Borough Council website
and Entertainment from BBC Berkshire

2008
1-16 March	Woodley Festival of Music & Arts
15-16 March	RESCUE (Rivers and Environmental Spaces Clean Up Event) Annual event for volunteers to clean up our waste
21 March	Lambourn Open Day - stables and yards
29 March	Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
1-4 May	Reading Beer and Cider Festival Kings Meadow 350 Beers, 80 Ciders & Perries and 100 Foreign Beers!
4 May	Abingdon Air & Country Show Annual event with 2½hr flying display and ground attractions for all the family
10 May - 1 June	Reading Children's Festival Fun and entertainment for children of all ages
10-24 May	Newbury Spring Festival of music and arts
20-24 May	Chelsea Flower Show
25-26 May	Highclere Country Fair Highclere Castle
26 May	Reading Community Carnival - Prospect Park
May	Crafty Craft Race From Hungerford to Victoria Park, Newbury
1 June	Tadley Treacle Fair
14 June	Woodley Carnival
14-15 June	Marlow Town Regatta & Festival
20-22 June	Henley Women's Regatta
21-22 June	Marlow Regatta
June	Maidenhead Carnival
June	Pangbourne Fete
June	Reading Amateur Regatta The second largest amateur regatta in the country. Thameside Promedade
June	Reading WaterFest
June	Tilehurst Show Victoria Recreation Ground 11am-4pm
June	Charity Fun Day at Prospect Park from 1pm Reading Lions Club
2-6 July	Henley Royal Regatta
9-13 July	Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
12-13 July	Woodcote Rally Festival of steam, vintage & veteran transport with entertainment for all the family
12-13 July	Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire
14-26 July	Shakespeare in the Ruins - The Abbey Ruins The Taming of the Shrew
17-19 July	Real Ale & Jazz Festival Christchurch Meadows, Reading Over 40 real ales and the very best trad jazz
19 July	Goring and Streatley Regatta Bishop's Meadow above Cleeve Lock
19-20 July	Thames Traditional Boat Rally Henley
July	Swan Upping Six traditional skiffs sail the Thames from Sunbury to Abingdon. Birds are counted, weighed, measured and ringed by The Queen's Swan Warden
8-9 August	Wargrave and Shiplake Regatta
16-17 August	Berkshire 4x4 Motor Show Grazeley
17 August	Reading and Wokingham Country Show Classic cars, livestock, main arena entertainment, heavy horses, dog show, beer tent, food stands, horticulture & craft marquees, bouncy castles. Fun for all the family.
August	Tidmarsh and Sulham Village Fete 2 pm at Sulham House, Sulham
August	Reading Fringe Festival
August	Reading Festival Unofficial sites: - reading-festival.org.uk - readingfestivalonline.co.uk
August	Swallowfield Show White House Farm, Spencers Wood
August	Wallingford Bunkfest - Concerts, dance displays, musicians' sessions, childrens' events
September	Reading O2O 10K road race
September	Heritage Open Days Access to architecturally and historically important buildings which are not normally open to the general public
September	Henley Show
September	Reading Pride Celebrating diversity within the Thames Valley
September	Come Together Henley's Free Community Festival
September	Royal County of Berkshire Show One of the country's top ten agricultural shows - livestock, crafts, food, flowers, 100s of trade stands and entertainment for all
October	Sue Ryder Fireworks & Halloween Night organised by Rotary Clubs of Henley Bridge and Caversham at Sue Ryder Care Nettlebed
November	Rivermead Fireworks Rivermead School, Woodley P rofessionally fired firework display. Friendly atmosphere, hot food and drinks and illuminated novelties for the kids.
November	Firework Fiesta Annual firework display, organised by the Loddon Lions Club and hosted in Wellington Park from 5.30pm
November	Riverside Christmas Spectacular The Oracle
November	The Broad Street Mall Christmas Light Switch-On
December	Corn Exchange Newbury Pantomime:
December	Winter Wonderland Ice Rink The Oracle
December	Civic Carol Concert The Hexagon 3pm and 7.30pm
December	Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke Pantomime:
December	New Victoria Theatre Woking Pantomime:
December	The Hexagon Reading Pantomime:
December	Reading Toy Run Annual charity motorcycle ride bringing gifts of toys to a major children's charity
December	Civic Carol Service Minster Church
December	The Anvil Basingstoke Pantomime:
December	Christmas at Beale Park
December	Progress Theatre Reading
2009
January	Shinfield Players Theatre Pantomime: Jack and The Beanstalk
February	Annual Charity Pancake Race Broad Street
May	Henley Food Festival
March	Reading Half Marathon NB Major road closures will affect Reading throughout the morning
June	Wargrave Village Festival 2009 Community festival held every two years
July	Children's Food Festival 2009 Abingdon airfield

updated: 10 march 08