There's plenty going on in the Cotswolds this week.

Thursday, September 29
Cirencester

  • CORINIUM Squares is hosting a free opening evening of American square dancing. Try out a fun and sociable activity, no experience required. St Peter’s Hall, St Peter’s Road, 7.45pm. For more information call Eric on 01285 657231, email squaredancing@talktalk.net or visit coriniumsquares.co.uk
  • THE Rhum and Clay Theatre Company presents 64 Squares at the Sundial Theatre. Adapted from Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game, 64 Squares features three actors and one drummer, who tell a story about memory, free will and how the choices of our past define who we are in the present, accompanied by a live jazz percussive score. Begins at 7.30pm, admission £15. For more information and to book tickets visit sundial-theatre.co.uk
  • COAST by Chart at the Corinium Museum presents a collective of visual artists interested in the links between all the arts and sciences, and in structure, time, words, numbers and symbols. Admission free, works for sale. For more information visit chart.uk.com or coriniummuseum.org

Tetbury

  • THE opening concert of the Tetbury Music Festival sees the much-loved Schubert Ensemble perform one of Schumann’s rarely heard gems in a brand new arrangement by composers David Matthews and Orlando Jopling. The performance is at the Church of St Mary’s from 7.30pm. For more information and to buy tickets visit tetburymusicfestival.org

Cheltenham

  • THE Dresser at the Everyman Theatre continues until Saturday, October 1, telling the hilarious yet poignant story of an ageing actor and his long-suffering dresser. Performances at 7.45pm, matinees at 2pm on September 29, and October 1. For more information and to buy tickets, from £21, visit everymantheatre.org.uk

Bourton-on-the-Water

  • COTSWOLD Motoring Museum continues to celebrate the 25th anniversary of children’s TV hero Brum with an exhibition and Brum-related activities for all the family running until October 30. £5.50 adults, £3.95 children, 10am-6pm. For more information visit cotswoldmotor ingmuseum.co.uk

Friday, September 30
Tetbury

  • THE second night of the Tetbury Music Festival will let audiences have the chance to hear the trail-blazing Chiaroscuro Quartet perform the summation of Haydn’s achievement as "father of the string quartet", as well as Mozart’s tribute to Haydn’s genius and Schubert’s most famous quartet. Church of St Mary’s, 7.30pm. For more information and to buy tickets visit tetburymusicfestival.org

Saturday, October 1
Cirencester

  • MAKE More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film is a fascinating compilation of silent film clips including comedy, newsreel and documentary from the British Film Institute, telling the story of women 100 years ago as they struggled to get the vote. All accompanied by Colin Sell from Radio 4 at the piano. Doors open at 7pm, tickets adults £8, under 18s £4, available from Cirencester Visitor Information Centre. For more information contact Ailsa on 07962 124035.
  • THE Big Draw at the Bingham Gallery encourages everyone to get drawing. Part of the nation-wide event, the activity session is free for all ages and runs in conjunction with the gallery’s special exhibition Drawing on Cirencester. Runs from 10am-2pm at Bingham House, Dyer Street.
  • AN ANTIQUES Roadshow-style event will take place at Beecham Lodge retirement village in Somerford Road with guest valuers Piers Crictchlow and Philip Allwood from Bargain Hunt, Flog It and Antiques Road Trip. The experts will offer their advice for a donation of £3 per item to the The Nelson Trust charity. 10am-2pm and is open to all. 

Tetbury

  • THE third day of Tetbury Music Festival sees The Alison Parkhouse Organ Scholars present a free concert in St Mary’s Church, from 11am. Celebrations continue later in the day, as Steven Isserlis CBE returns to Tetbury to perform works by Schumann, Shostakovich and Kabalevsky alongside Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen, also at St Mary’s Church, from 7.30pm. For more information and to buy tickets visit tetbury musicfestival.org

Southrop

  • SOUTHROP School is hosting a jumble sale with raffle, cakes, books, bric-a-brac, clothes and toys from 2-3.30pm at the village hall. Entrance 50p, children free, all proceeds go to the school.

Kemble 

  • FUNDRAISER in aid of Cirencester Baptist Church’s new community building to be held at Evergreen House, Old Vicarage Lane, Kemble, from 10am-4pm. Coffee with cakes (£2) or traditional afternoon tea with all the trimmings (£5). Includes a jewellery sale, homegrown produce sale, bric-a-brac and more.

Stow-on-the-Wold

  • ANNUAL Youth and Music concert organised by the Rotary Club of the North Cotswolds takes place at St Edward’s Church. Tickets cost £10 for adults and £5 for children from The Borzoi Bookshop, in Church Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, from members of North Cotswold Rotary Club or at St Edward’s Church, Stow, on Saturday night.

Stroud

  • THE return of the sorely missed and ever popular Woodpecker band, back to play for just one Ceilidh at the Subscription Rooms. The band’s unique sound is a product of traditional and modern elements fused with a solid electric rhythm section giving the band an easily identifiable contemporary sound. From 8-11pm, tickets £11/10, £12 on the door. For more information visit subscriptionrooms.org.uk or call 01453 760900.

Swindon

  • LOCAL band Binomial bring their synth-pop covers to The Locamotive, 59 Fleet St. Their show, From Bedsit Land to Hiroshima, celebrates the electronic '80s with classic hits from artists including the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Soft Cell and the Human League. It’s a must-see event for all Blitz Kids, New Romantics and lovers of electro/dance music. Begins at 10.30pm, free entry, for more information call 01793 977979.

Prescott

  • PRESCOTT Speed Hill Climb returns this weekend celebrating the biggest, brightest and brashest cars this side of the US. The paddock will be packed with special vehicles from American car and motorcycle clubs including Pontiacs, Cadillacs, Mustangs and Harleys. Advance tickets £15, on the door £20, under 14s free. For more information and to book visit prescott-hillclimb.com

Sunday, October 2
Ampney Crucis

  • JUMBLE sale at the village hall from noon-2pm with designer and second-hand clothes, bric-a-brac, baby items, toys, games, books, CDs/DVDs, homemade cakes and refreshments available. Adults 50p, children free, profits go to Ampney Crucis playground.

Tetbury

  • TETBURY Music Festival will close with the Choir of the Age of Enlightenment’s first ever solo performance at a festival. St Mary’s Church, 5pm. For more information and to buy tickets visit tetburymusicfestival.org

Quenington

  • LAST car boot sale of the year at the Green, sellers £5 per car, buyers free, begins at 11am. 

Tuesday, October 4
Bristol

  • FIDDLER on the Roof at the Hippodrome. One of the most popular and successful shows in musical theatre history, set in early twentieth20th-century Russia, the story centres on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family’s lives. Runs until Saturday, October 8, with performances at 7.30pm, matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm. Tickets from £11.90, for more information visitand to purchase visit atgtickets.com/venues/bristol-hippodrome.

Wednesday, October 5
Cirencester

  • POSTCARD Fair at the Bingham Hall. Postcards, cigarette cards, stamps, ephemera and more, refreshments available. From 10am-3pm, for more information contact Michael Laight on 01453 886193.