"Breaking the Rules" explores the life and music of composer and murderer Carlo Gesualdo. Performed by the Marian Consort with actor Finbar Lynch, Rory McCleery directs them in extracts from Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories and a selection of his madrigals. Due to mild references to sex and murder, the suggested age recommendation for this event is 12+.

For more information about this event visit www.musicatoxford.com

Conducted by Karl Heinz-Steffens the Philharmonia Orchestra performs a programme of Beethoven's Leonore Overture no. 3, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with violinist Arabella Steinbacher and Brahms' Symphony no. 2 in D op.73.

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The National Youth Folk Ensemble will bring together talented young folk musicians from across England to participate in intensive residential courses, create new arrangements of folk music and give public performances, guided by Artistic Director Sam Sweeney and a team of leading folk artists.

NYFE are looking for instrumentalists aged 14-18 who are dedicated to developing as folk artists and excited about collaborating with others who share their passion.

This Sampler Day is the first stage of the audition process and will include creative workshops, individual auditions and an information session.

The National Youth Folk Ensemble is an English Folk Dance and Song Society programme, funded by Arts Council England. To find out more and to apply to attend this Sampler Day at Cornerstone visit www.efdss.org/nationalyouthfolkensemble and follow the links.

Celebrate Father's Day at Cogges with a whole host of motors and machines to interest enthusiasts of all ages!

We'll have the farmyard packed full of wonderful vintage and classic motorbikes, cars, working steam engines, and traditional farm machinery and tractors. From 10-2 we will also be running our popular junkyard farmyard sessions to make your own model tractors to take home.

If it's adventure you're looking for, why not build a den! There are plenty of logs and branches in the woodland by the moat, or borrow one of our Cogges den kits from the welcome desk.

Live music, brought to you by What the Fox Music, will also entertain visitors, who can expect beautiful tunes and craft ales to finish a great day out in style!

Open your senses to the Universe in an evening of exploration of the beauty of the cosmos. Contemplate the most beautiful images, listen to a quartet interpreting the macrocosm, and set sail on a journey with an astrophysicist to understand our place in the Universe.

In association with the Abingdon County Hall Museum
With ATOM

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Join us for a sensational evening of cabaret - an alchemy of acts delivered by Science Oxford’s network of creative science performers. If you love science, stage and stand up, you’ll be in your element with our periodic table-themed cabaret including science presenter and geek songstress Helen Arney and compered by award-winning science communicator Jamie Gallagher. See the everyday elements that make up the world around us in a new light, watch in disbelief as gold is created before your eyes, and learn about their origins and how they behave inside our bodies. Get your tickets now - once they are gone they argon!

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Direct from sell-out performances in Shanghai, New York and at the Edinburgh Fringe, Apphia Campbell embarks on her debut UK tour. Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black Is the Color of My Voice follows a successful jazz singer and civil rights activist seeking redemption after the untimely death of her father. She reflects on the journey that took her from a young piano prodigy destined for a life in the service of the church, to a renowned jazz vocalist at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. Age guide 12+.

OSJ with Wagner Moreira tenor
Mozart concert aria Misero! O sogno ... Aura, che in torno spiri, Grieg songs.
Plus Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the famous Grieg Holberg suite for strings.

OSJ with Francesca Saracino soprano Mahler and Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn Songs without words, Mahler Kindertotenlieder, Mahler 9 fourth movement