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Christ the King, Southport....
It's Your Future...
Photographs by Patrick Trollope
THE NUTCRACKER was in Southport on the 23 November to launch the Christmas Session at the Arts center. The world famous festive ballet was directed by Peter Mallek and preformed by the Vienna Festival Ballet Dance Company. The show was a fantastic performance of dancing skills that told a story two children in a
Russian house hold, Fritz and Clara and the adventure they have with one of the presents they receive on Christmas Eve. The present in question is a Nutcracker in the shape of a man. After all have retired to bed, Clara comes downstairs, discovers the Nutcracker and the other toys have they had just been given have come to life, and are fighting a battle. It is one of the best loved ballets of all times and was composed by
Tchaikovski who based it on a novella by the German fantasy by writer E TA Hoffmann. It was
Tchaikovski's third and last ballet and was composed in 1891-2. You would scarcely guess from the ballet’s frivolous plot and charming music that it was based on one of the most grotesque horror stories in German literature. The ballet has one of the most well known dances in it, that of the Sugar Plum Fairy. What a fantastic start to Christmas in Southport. 
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ON MONDAY 29 March to Friday 2 April 2004 at the Walton Hall campus of The Open University in Milton Keynes the National Astronomy Meeting
(NAM) will be host. This event is supported by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and is not to be missed by any one interested in Astronomy. For more information about the event the
RAS-NAM04 website is now 'live' at http://physics.open.ac.uk/NAM/. People can now register, and submit abstacts for oral and poster presentations to the appropriate sessioin(s).
Information with thanks to Ed Trollope Vice Chairman UKSEDS. If you want to learn more about space visit
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