Monday 25 June : Jal Khabar: 7.30pm - £16 (£14.50 Friends) 
GM Foods - NIGEL HALFORD of Rothamsted Research
Professor Halford will describe the process of plant genetic modification and compare it with other techniques used in modern plant breeding. He will talk about the GM crops that are currently being grown commercially and the new varieties that are being developed. He will also cover safety testing and legislation, consumer concerns and the highly polarised GM crop debate
Sponsored by 
Tuesday 26 June : St Andrews Church, Long St: 1pm - £8 (£7 Friends) 
Lunchtime concert - Free tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 - 12.50 pm
ELIZABETH SCORAH harp
Elizabeth started learning the harp at the age of six. She studied at the Purcell School of Music for seven years before gaining her Bachelors and Masters Degrees at The Royal Academy of Music. She has performed for Prince Charles in Paris, at investitures at Buckingham Palace and has played with more than fifty different orchestras in the past two years. Her programme will range from Parish-Alvars to Debussy.
sponsored by 
http://www.elizabethscorah.co.uk/
Read more: Classical Lunchtime Concert - ELIZABETH SCORAH | EVENT 17
Tuesday 26 June : Corn Exchange : 8pm £16 (£14.50 Friends) reserved seating
You may well have heard or seen Henning on BBC Radio or TV in programmes such as ‘News Quiz’ and ‘QI’– now’s your chance to see the self-appointed German Comedy Ambassador to the UK in the flesh in his sell-out Edinburgh show, ‘No Surrender’
‘Side-splittingly funny.’ The Scotsman
sponsored by Macqueen Veterinary Centre
Wednesday 27 June : Corn Exchange, Merchant's Suite: 8pm - £12 (£11 Friends)
UK Touring presents PIAF - the songs
Eve Loiseau sings the songs of Edith Piaf
with Fiona Barrow (violin) and Edward Jay (accordion)
Edith Piaf has become synonymous with French Cabaret of the 1940s and 50s and remains France’s most popular singer. Her life was the stuff of legend, from her dramatic rise from Paris street urchin to star of international renown but was far from ‘La vie en rose'.
Thursday 28th June : Town Hall : 8pm £8 (£7 Friends) reserved seating
English watercolourist Eric Ravilious (1903-42) travelled far and wide, but no landscape inspired him more than the chalk downs of southern England. Intrigued by the figures and white horses carved into the hills, he painted a series of pictures intended as the basis for a children's book..
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Friday 29 June : Corn Exchange, Merchant's Suite: 6:30 pm £6 (£5.50 Friends)
Showcase is here again! Sheer Music presents a quality headline act, the cream of local talent and the final of Battle of the Bands. Young artists have been competing in heats to win the coveted prize, £200 of studio time.
Unfortunately Thought Forms (advertised in the programme) have had to pull out, but will be replaced by Slagerij... 
STOMPIN'N'SKANKIN'... Slagerij are a solid, high energy 3 piece stompin ska-punk act from Swindon, UK with an infectious original sound that get the crowd involved throughout their captivating live show. Twists and turns of exciting ska riffs and powerhouse sing-along punk-rock choruses that boom through the soundsystem, will definatly move your feet and get you screaming OI! OI! OI! with a fist in the air
https://www.facebook.com/slagerijuk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kYem-E0oz4&feature=relmfu
http://www.myspace.com/slagerij420
In conjunction with Sheer Music.
Friday 29 June : Wharf Theatre : 8pm - £10 (£9 Friends) reserved seating
AN INSTINCT FOR KINDNESS by Chris Larner
Chris Larner accompanied his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic. This moving, bittersweet show reflects on the circumstances, morality and humanity surrounding the journey.
In a candid, poignant and sometimes comic performance, Chris explores both the profound personal implications and the wider ethical considerations of the contentious issue of assisted dying.
The show premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011, where it won the Scotsman Fringe First Award and was featured on BBC’s Newsnight Review as a highlight of the festival.
sponsored by Trimarc Properties
Friday 29 June : The Bear Cellar Bar: 9pm - Free
Phil King Band
Championed by people such as Bob Harris and Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 2, Phil King has toured all over the UK and has appeared in Paris, Zurich and New York.
His beautiful jazz tinged songs will be performed by his own four piece band.
sponsored by 
HENRY BLOFELD
BLOWERS, SHAKEN NOT STIRRED
After Eton, Blowers went up to Cambridge where he somehow blagged his way into the University cricket team. He left before taking his degree, but not before playing against Denis Compton and Keith Miller and scoring a first-class hundred at Lord's.
Sponsored by 
Sunday 1 July : Beer Garden Hare and Hounds Inn (if wet, indoors) FREE
Radio Banska is an instrumental quintet delivering musical influences from around the globe. From Buenos Aires to the Balkans and Marrakesh to Montmartre, it fuses ethnic references and jazz to create compositions delivered with passion and style. The band continues to expand its vision of intelligent, danceable music with wide-ranging world roots and spicy jazz seasoning.
Sunday 1 July : Town Hall : 8pm - £10 (£9 Friends)
AN AUDIENCE WITH CHARLES DICKENS with Gerald Dickens
In the year we celebrate the bi-centenary of one of our greatest authors what could be more fitting than a performance by his great- great-grandson Gerald Dickens? The British actor and performer is well known in both the UK and the United States for his one man shows based on the novels of Charles Dickens. The performance starts with an introductory talk followed by his acclaimed adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby.
Sponsored by 
Henry Aldridge & Son
Read more: Talk - AN AUDIENCE WITH CHARLES DICKENS | EVENT 24
NIGEL OGDEN the BBC Radio 2 organist
Sunday 24 June 3.00pm St Andrew’s Church
Tickets £8 from Devizes Books or 727130 from beginning of June.
THE BALD PRIMA DONNA by Eugene Ionesco
Wharf Theatre Wednesday 20 June – Saturday 23 June 7.30pm £9
Wharf Youth Theatre presents...
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Anthony Lloyd Webber
Wednesday 18 July – Saturday 21 July 7.30pm £7
DEVIZES FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL
Friday 13 July - Saturday 21 July
www.devizesfoodanddrinkfestival.org.uk
MUSIC FOR TWO QUEENS’ JUBILEES
Saturday 21 July 7.30 pm St Mary’s Church, Bishops Cannings
Devizes Chamber Choir sings music ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to the Beatles.
Spotlight : Week 3
World music - RADIO BANSKA
Sunday 1 July : Beer Garden Hare and Hounds Inn (if wet, indoors) FREE
Radio Banska is an instrumental quintet delivering musical influences from around the globe. From Buenos Aires to the Balkans and Marrakesh to Montmartre, it fuses ethnic references and jazz to create compositions delivered with passion and style. The band continues to expand its vision of intelligent, danceable music with wide-ranging world roots and spicy jazz seasoning.
sponsored by The Hare and Hounds
http://www.myspace.com/radiobanska