Category: Clubs and Societies

At our October meeting Karen Atherton talked about her career as ‘One of the First Female Airline Pilots’.

Club members have enjoyed a busy and successful season.

At 5pm on Saturday night, 1 November, everything was ready for our annual bonfire and fireworks. The bonfire had been built with wood from the golf course and numerous pallets collected over the previous weeks. Crowd barriers had been put in place. The Guides, from Kibworth & Fleckney, were organised with their glow sticks, hot dogs and drinks for sale. An array of other hot food and wine & beer were available. Kids fairground rides had also been erected. Bright Spark Firework company had been setting up since late morning. The weather was clear, almost not a cloud in the sky, you could see the stars and the moon was rising, perfect, all we needed was a crowd!

There is just over a week to go until we perform our concert- KLC does Rock, on Saturday 22 November! Rehearsals are going really well, and we just can't wait to open the doors to you for our matinee and evening performances.

A comedy at Christmas with the feel-good factor

The KPA held our first meeting of the year recently. We have lots of exciting events planned for the rest of the school year. Our next event will be our Christmas Raffle which consists of wonderful prizes and hampers all generously donated by our community. If you would like to donate a prize for this year’s raffle please contact us at raffle@kpakibworth.org.uk and thank you for your support. Details on how to purchase tickets will be shared in early December.

Kibworth& District u3a a créé un nouveau groupe de conversation en français. Afin d'améliorer notre apprentissage, nous recherchons un nouveau membre qui a une bonne connaissance de la langue.

We’d like to start by thanking Kibworth Beauchamp Parish Council who have allowed our Scout Group to use the old library building by the village roundabout. Whilst we have loved using the Scouts Land this year, the weather is now making it too much of a challenge to be there every week and the use of the old library building provides our young people with a safe space to meet for weekly meetings.

Professional Leicester artist, Helen Newton, began her presentation at the Kibworth Art Lovers’ October meeting with a talk through the renowned artists who had influenced her work. Among these were Henri Matisse, David Hockney and Gerard Dillon whose strong colours and disregard for conventional perspective appealed to her own artistic leanings. Helen explained how her choice of gouache as a preferred medium provided the strong, vivid colours and flat application which are features of her paintings. Portraits of Leicester houses and gardens, and particularly the grounds of Leicester Cathedral, were fine examples of ‘The Vibrant World of Helen Newton’, one of the titles given to her work.

Our most recent meeting proved to be a truly relaxing – and surprisingly invigorating experience. We were delighted to welcome Duncan from Rutland Tai Chi, who joined us to introduce the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi.