Stony Words returns: Whats happening, where and when

Traditionally, January is a pretty bleak month - you've overspent during the Christmas thing, so you have to go steady on the finances, the rubbish is bleak and we have this extra pressure to stick to; New Year Resolutions.

But there is a chink of light for the taking - a chance to swap the bleak for the wordy brilliant, thanks to the return of the annual Stony Words celebrations.

Stony Words is a fortnight of poetry, drama, film, music and literature which explores how we can communicate using different media, and there's another cracking line-up ready for you this time around, with something on the menu of plenty to suit everyone.

As the organisers themselves say, 'Be enlightened, informed and entertained in the dark days of Winter.'

Here's what's happening, and when...

Friday January 18

Annual Bardic Trials

8pm York House

Tuesday January 22

Andrew Fox: Men Not Names

7pm Library

Wednesday January 23

John Reardon Life & Poetry of John Clare

12.30pm Library

Why is there an Erotic Poem in the Bible?

7.30pm Evangelical Free Church

Terrie Howey: Storytelling in Milton Keynes

7pm Library

Thursday January 24

An Evening with the Mummers

7.30pm The Crown

Friday January 25

Burns Supper 7pm for 7.30pm Cock Hotel

Robin in StonyLand Pantomime

7pm York House

Saturday January 26

WEA Spy Fiction Day School

10.30am York House

Jerusalem Unwrapped

10.30am Parish Hall, SMSG

Suitscase Tales with Bob Kellam

11am Library

Robin in Stonyland Pantomime 

2pm & 7pm York House

Margaret Willes (pictured) on John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys

3pm Library

Mr Simpson’s Little Consort Concert Ayres and Graces - an afternoon with Samuel Pepys

4.30pm Library

Sunday January 27

Robin in StonyLand Pantomime

2pm York House

Stony Scala Film Club The Guardians

6.30pm Cock Hotel

Monday January 28

Helena Kelly: in conversation about Jane Austen - the secret radical

7pm Library

Delia Gleave: Sand, Planes & Submarines – Leighton Buzzard in WW1

7pm York House

Tuesday January 29

Pirates Workshop for Children

2pm SMSG Church

M R Carey on writing The Girl with the Gifts and Fellside

7pm Library

Wednesday January 30

John Reardon: Life & Poetry of Edward Thomas

12:30 Library

Chris Renwick: Bread for All – the founding of the Welfare State

7pm Library

Thursday January 31

Stony Stratford Theatre Society – Murder at the Chateau

Play Reading

7pm, Parish Hall, SMSG

Friday February 1

Dramatised Reading: Is She His Wife

By Charles Dickens

7.30pm Library

Saturday February 2

The Tale of Granny Dumpling: Theatre of Widdershins

11am Library

Sweet Treat Coffee Morning

10am-Midday, Parish Hall, SMSG

A Voice for Richard III

2.30pm York House

Is She His Wife?

By Charles Dickens

5pm Library

A Couple of Down and Outs

The original War Horse

5pm, SMSG Church

Storytelling for Adults

Tales Tattled and Told

7pm Library

Sunday February 3

Taize Service

6pm, St Mary and St Giles Church

For more details on any of the events, and to book tickets click here

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