Lafrowda is now a two-week(and a bit!) period of events by and for the community. The programme has become more varied and diverse over the years, and 2011 is no different:

Quiz Night
Friday 1st July

> The popular quiz night with all questions (loosely) based on this year’s theme, Look East! Up to 5 players per team. Great prizes and raffle.
Queens Arms, Botallack, 9pm, £1

Community Service
Sunday 3rd July

> Community service for all local congregations. Come together and help celebrate Lafrowda. Everyone welcome. With singing by the St Just Primary School choir. Coffee/tea and cake available after the service.
Methodist Chapel, 10.30am

Lafrowda Days
Tuesday 5th July

>Images, words and music. This year marks the 15th Lafrowda Day. Setting the scene for the future, this evening is packed with people’s favourite moments highlighting the special place this day holds in our hearts and minds.
Contact Mary Ann on 788906 if you have a moment you would like to share. WI Hall, 7.30pm, £2

Street Art
Tuesday 5th July

>Devised and organised by Cape Cornwall School students. Come along and get involved with your festival. Help produce street-art panels that will be displayed throughout the town on Lafrowda Day. All welcome.
Cape Cornwall School, 3.30pm – 5pm, free

Lafrowda Jam
Thursday 7th July

>CANCELLED

Street Art
Thursday 7th July

CANCELLED

Dreckly Come Dancing
Saturday 9th July

>The Lafrowda Show returns to present you with another full-of-fun family evening. There will be “dancing” in all shapes and sizes, along with some of our local talented performers. Bar, raffle and refreshments!
Cape Cornwall School, 7.30pm,
£3.50, £2.50 concession (OAP/child),
£10 for a family of 4

Ceilidh and Barbecue
Sunday 10th July

>Bring family and friends and get ready to dance. Bring a picnic or enjoy the BBQ. A great family outing – the more the merrier!
The Plen (in The Commercial if wet),
5pm – 7pm, collection

CORNISH ARCHIVE FILM SCREENING + LIVE MUSIC
Sunday 10th July at 7.30pm The British Legion St. Just

awen productions cic will screen rare 1930′s footage of West Cornwall (incl. ‘crying the neck’, haymaking, harvest & ‘croust’), specially selected St. Just area material and the Premiere of new films locally made. Plus live music from Seamas Carey’s new solo multimedia project ‘My Granny’s House’ (of The Busketeers & Kneehigh Theatre).
Suitable for all ages. Free entry.
More info: www.awen.org.uk or http://thetreproject.wordpress.com/

Cape Cornwall School Concert
Monday 11th July

>An evening of singing from Cape students and local primary schools with a performance of ‘A Song for Lafrowda’ written in conjunction with professional songwriter David Harris. (singtastic.com).
Cape Cornwall School, 7pm

Line Dancing
Monday 11th July

Strut your stuff with Cynthia and the girls or just come along and support them. All welcome.
The group usually meets at 7.30pm on Mondays at the WI Hall.
British Legion, 7.30pm, £2.50,
raffle and refreshments

Pendeen Silver Band
Monday 11th July

>Festival regulars entertain in Market Square.
Market Square, 7pm, collection

A Bardic Gathering
Monday 11th July

>Meet in the St Just Library for ‘A Bardic Gathering’ with poet Alan Kent and storyteller Ian Stevens.
St Just Library, 7pm, refreshments

Bendigo/Nevada City, St Just Twinning Association
Tuesday 12th July at 7pm
Age Concern

Come and Find out about our twin town in Australia, BENDIGO. Thousands of folk left St Just and Pendeen in the 19th Century when gold was discovered in Victoria, your ancestors could be among them!! An illustrated talk and chat with Margaret Freeman, Chairman of the Twinning Committee who was in BENDIGO in April.

Laff Longer, Laff Taller, Laff Lowda
Tuesday 12th July

>This year… Com-eoke! A fun, friendly and distinctly off-key stand-up night. At least if they’re singing, there’s less time for the comedy… Budding comedians/singers please contact Johnny on 788767, or go in and see him. Not us.
Star Inn, St Just, 8pm.
Raffle and collection

Songs from Eastern Countries
Tuesday 12th July

>An evening of songs from eastern countries from St Just-based theatre group Proper Job. Come along for what promises to be an entertaining evening.
Community Hall (Old Town Hall), 7.30pm

Levow an Bys with special guest Jane Tozer
Wednesday 13th July

>An evening of Songs and Poetry, Levow an Bys (World Voices) is a community choir based in Penzance which sings beautiful songs in harmony from around the world. For Lafrowda 2011 it is teaming up with one of its singers, the award-winning poet Jane Tozer, to offer an evening of songs and poetry.
Jane Tozer is a poet, literary translator and storyteller. Her versions of mediaeval poetry have won several awards, including the 2006 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Jane’s book, Knights of Love (after The Lais of Marie de France) is a lively rendering of stories by the earliest named woman poet in the French language (c1180).
‘This superb new version… is faithful to the world of Marie, representing her tone of wistful admiration and earthy humour… intense, obsessive, sad, fey and movingly sexy,’ said Margaret Reynolds in The Times in November 2007.
For Lafrowda, Jane will be reading two comic poems on the theme of nightingales, translated from mediaeval French and Middle English.
Methodist Church, 7pm – 9.30pm,
collection, refreshments available

Penzance Youth String Orchestra
Thursday 14th July

>Penzance Youth String Orchestra make a return visit with their youthful presentation and unique blend of styles. At the centre of their programme is a new piano concerto by young Truronian Ben Comeau – an attractive and persuasive concerto in jazz style composed earlier this year which was recently performed by Ben and PYSO in Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Be prepared to be uplifted!
Methodist Church, 7.30pm,
collection for the orchestra, refreshments available

Art Exhibition,Memorabilia and Organ Music
Thursday 14th July

> Exhibition running for the rest of
the week, coffee/tea available.
Methodist Chapel, from 10.30am

Free Church Coffee Shop
Saturday 16th July

>Fireplace (at the rear of Free Church),
is new coffee shop/café open for coffee/tea, cake, etc, from Tuesday to Saturday on both weeks. It will be open from 11am – 4.30pm (internet isn’t yet available). Bring your own lunch and eat in comfort with freshly made tea/coffee.
Praise, worship, chat and pray from 7pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and Wednesday from 9am – 3pm. Open both weeks. Chess in Fireplace from 7.30pm on Thursday both weeks. Sunday worship is at 10.30am and 7.30pm

Methodist Church
Saturday 16th July

>Art exhibition, memorabilia and organ music – coffee/tea available. Teas and coffees/homemade cakes, soups, puddings, cream teas
served from 10.30am

Old Cornwall Society
Saturday 16th July

>Look East! exhibition including
a display of work by the children of Pendeen School.
WI Hall, from 10.30am, tea/coffee + biscuit 50p, tea/coffee + cake £1

Age Concern Charity Shop
Saturday 16th July

Bendigo/Nevada City, St Just Twinning Association Exhibition
>Serving cream teas and coffees all day. Everyone welcome.