[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Happy Hour (Bracknell SHP)

[alan c]

On 02/09/11 10:12, Alan Bell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are kicking of a series of pub meetings around the UK, starting in 
> three weeks in London. The list of venues we have proposed so far is here:
> http://ubuntu-uk.org/happy-hour/
> Along with a nice map that will update with the route as we stagger from 
> city to city. If there isn't a pub on the list near you then get back to 
> me with a pub name and postcode to add to the list. The order is not set 
> in stone, I want to rearrange it so they bounce about all over the place 
> so everyone gets one within reach every few months.
> 
> The first meeting is on the 22nd September, that is three weeks from 
> now, at the Cask in Pimlico turn up any time from 7ish.
> 
> You can optionally put your name down here so we have an idea of numbers 
> (the pub tweeted that they would set some tables aside for us)
> http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1257/detail/
> 
> Alan

May I offer the possibility of a location in Bracknell - South Hill
Park Atrium Bar (formerly 'Terrace' Bar). (It has nominal wifi which
is not good enough yet to advertise).

My thoughts are that although the bar itself is ok, and the outside
terrace is good too, the whole location - South Hill Park Arts Centre
complex (SHP) - is a community resource, at the upper end of the
culture scale.

So future possibilities may include Ogg Camp  or similar events??

The grounds are very pleasant, there is a small cinema (60 seats),
the Wilde theatre,  parking would normally be easy (builders clogging
it up just now) and free. I recently really enjoyed an exceptionally
good open air 'As You Like It' by the Globe company.

SHP has recently used Lottery funding for work around the exterior,
however, local funding past the next three years is in doubt, so there
is much blue sky thinking about the future.

Historically, SHP was a country house at one time owned I think,  by
the Ferranti family, and the BBC, and was part of the informal 'Nabobs
of Berkshire' culture, where wealthy people with associations with
India built grand properties around Berkshire.

www.southhillpark.org.uk

www.southhillpark.org.uk/478/hire-us/private-functions.html
(see 'Gallery' photos)

-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user