On Monday 24th June, the Ljubljana Waldorf Choir will perform in Oxford. They are 40 teachers and parents from the Rudolf Steiner School in Ljubljana who sing arrangements of sacred, traditional and contemporary Slovene songs. The choir has toured extensively on the continent, but this is their first visit to Oxford. There will be two opportunities to hear them :

– a free lunchtime concert at St. Michael at the Northgate church Cornmarket, Central Oxford  1.00 – 1.45 pm. (Collection for charity),  and

– an evening of singing and dancing when the choir, accompanied by several professional Slovene folk musicians, join a local community choir, Joined-Up Singing, at St. Anthony’s Church Hall, Headley way, Oxford OX3 7SS.

7.00 – 9.00 pm, Admission £8 / £5 concessions.

For further information on both these events please contact: Liz Hodgson on 01865 792434, songliz@aol.com

We warmly invite you to join us from 12 noon on Sunday 7th July for the Annual Picnic in the Oxford University Arboretum at Nuneham Courtenay. We will meet again by the kozolec (Slovene hay rack).

Bring your own picnic and drinks, deckchairs, picnic blankets, your kids, grandchildren and friends. As is usual among Slovenes, we encourage you to bring plenty to eat and drink and share it with everyone!

His Excellency the Ambassador of Slovenia, Iztok Jarc, and his wife Helena will again be with us.

This splendid Arboretum is close to Nuneham Courtenay House, where Lewis Carroll would row the young Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland) and her sisters on the River Thames on a summer afternoon.

It is situated just south of the village of Nuneham Courtenay on the A4074 road from Reading, eight miles south of Oxford. The postal code is OX44 9PX. From London it can be reached by the M40, exit 8, A40 to Oxford, then southwards round the Ring Road (A4142) on to the A4074 towards Reading.

If you intend to come to Oxford by train and need transport to the Arboretum, please mail to evelina@ferrar.org.uk or call 07584 199 177 and we will do what we can to help.

The Arboretum has kindly agreed to mow the area around the hayrack. Adults attending the British-Slovene picnic need pay only half the entry fee i.e. £2 instead of £4. Children and Members of Oxford University enter for free.

More information on the Arboretum can be found at https://www.harcourt-arboretum.ox.ac.uk/.

We hope we can welcome many of you as we celebrate and enjoy an afternoon around the kozolec – one of the most traditional symbols of Slovenia and its culture.

Come and join in painting Easter eggs with the Toddler Playgroup on Saturday 30 March. There will be a little Easter feast including potica. This is organised by Mojca Sanjenbam, a member of the British-Slovene Society.

The Toddler Group is meeting every Saturday at Coram Fields Children’s Centre, 93 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1DN from 10:15 to 11:45.

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Children need to be supervised by their parent or carer. If one of the parents or carers is not Slovenian, he/she can take part in a lesson of conversational Slovene, being held from 10.30 to 11.30 in basement rooms of Costa Coffee at the crossroads of Guilford Street and Grays Inn Road. The price for the lesson taught by Andreja Jankov  is £10 per person.

For more information contact: mummy_mox@hotmail.co.uk

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