Optima Magazine

Organisation: Radlett Centre

Description: Artists Jane Hope and Eryl Waters get their inspiration mainly from nature and living things. Their new exhibition, Colourful Observations, shows Eryl's vibrantly coloured ink paintings, based on zen drawings with a bamboo pen, and Jane’s digital printmaking work.

The exhibition is open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm.

Contact Details: See www.radlettcentre.co.uk for more information.

Organisation: Rickmansworth Historical Society

Description: Rickmansworth Historical Society welcomes Richard Lee to talk on ‘The Green’, following his very successful talk on New Road, Croxley Green, last year.

The meeting takes place at Cloisters Hall, The Cloisters, Rickmansworth. Doors open at 7.30pm.

Ticket Price: Visitors are welcome on payment of a £2 donation.

Contact Details: Telephone 01923 248581

Organisation: Friends of Ickenham Hall

Description: Brunel University Jazzbridge, conducted by Frank Griffith, is playing a ‘Friends of Ickenham Hall’ benefit at the Compass Theatre, Glebe Avenue, Ickenham.

Northwood resident Frank Griffith is an American saxophonist and arranger/composer who also holds the post of Director of Performance at Brunel University. His bands have also appeared at Ronnie Scotts, Queen Elizabeth Hall and locally at Pinner Parish Church and Harrow Arts Centre.

Finally, on 27 February, Frank is appearing with the Brian Knapp Trio at Ruislip Golf Club at 8:30pm. Tickets for this are £6, available from 01895 632294.

Ticket Price: £10

Contact Details: www.ickenhamhall.org.uk

Organisation: St Edmund’s Church, Northwood Hills

Description: St Edmund’s Church, Northwood Hills, is hosting an Antiques Valuation Day on Wednesday 15 February, from 2pm to 5pm, in aid of the church.

Take your treasured possessions along for valuation by the experts, and find out whether you’ve been hoarding a Hepplewhite or disregarding a Degas…

The event takes place in St Edmund’s Hall, Pinner Road, Northwood Hills, and advance booking is advisable.

Ticket Price: Entry including one valuation is £7; each additional valuation is £4, and there is a maximum four valuations. Light refreshments will be available.

Contact Details: 020 8866 7173

Organisation: Pinner Players

Description: ‘Allo ‘Allo, a comedy by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, is the next production by Pinner Players.

Based on the successful television series, set in the Second World War, the play follows the farcical adventures of hapless café owner René and his wife Edith as they struggle to keep for themselves a priceless portrait of The Fallen Madonna by Van Klomp (known as The Madonna with the Big Boobies) originally stolen by the Nazis. All the popular characters make an appearance, including the blow up Hitler dolls.

Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane, Pinner

Ticket Price: £9

Contact Details: Call the box office on 01923 827432.

Organisation: Ruislip Golf Club

Description: Northwood resident Frank Griffith, an American saxophonist and arranger/composer who also holds the post of Director of Performance at Brunel University, is appearing with the Brian Knapp Trio at Ruislip Golf Club. Frank's bands have also appeared at Ronnie Scotts, Queen Elizabeth Hall and locally at Pinner Parish Church and Harrow Arts Centre.

Ticket Price: £6

Contact Details: 01895 632294

Organisation: Watford Museum

Description: Watford Museum’s next Saturday Morning Art Appreciation Lecture, Greenswards and Flowerbeds, shows how painters have depicted landscapes and a variety of garden themes. Devised and presented by local art teacher Martin Smith, these informal lectures appeal equally to artists and art lovers.

Watford Museum, Lower High Street, Watford WD17 2DT

Ticket Price: £8, which includes refreshments.

Contact Details: Booking is recommended; e-mail info@watfordmuseum.org.uk or call 01923 232297 (Thursday to Saturday).

Organisation: Amici Chamber Choir

Description: Amici Chamber Choir, conducted by David Gould, present a 25th Anniversary Year Concert of sacred music of devotion and celebration.

The repertoire includes Mendelssohn (Hear my prayer and O rest in the Lord), How lovely are Thy dwellings (Brahms), and Tudor anthems by Byrd (Ave Verum Corpus) and Tallis (If ye love Me), plus organ solos played by Simon Lloyd. The treble soloist will be James Rich.

The concert takes place at St George’s Church, Headstone, Pinner View, Harrow.

Ticket Price: £12 (£10 concessions, under 19s free)

Contact Details: www.amicichamberchoir.org.uk

Organisation: Watford and Bushey Bridge Club

Description: Following the success of Watford and Bushey Bridge Club’s autumn programme, which raised £576 for the Peace Hospice, a new beginners’ course starts on Thursday afternoons from 19 April.

There are also lessons for improvers on Wednesday mornings, plus supervised play on Wednesday afternoons with top experts.

All lessons are held at Beechen Grove Baptist Church in central Watford.

Contact Details: For more info, email donald.reid1@gmail.com or see www.bridgewebs.com/watford or call 01923 227969.