Life Begins 50+ Magazine Spring 2014 | Page 27

Show Guide_Life Begins 17/03/2014 17:15 Page 27 patterns and colours, the Bonmarché David Emanuel collection is one not to be missed. Bonmarche have a mission to make mature women feel fabulous about themselves in stylish quality clothing at affordable prices. It is one of the UK's largest women's value retailers with its own store portfolio, website, mail order catalogues and regular shows on Ideal World TV shopping channel. Boscombe store manager Adrienne will be giving discount vouchers out during the fashion shows, so don’t miss out. Hair by Helen Wood Hairdressing and make up by Becki Swan from Arbonne International. “Do you live most of your life on autopilot?” If so our inspirational Life Coach, Fiona Sutherland will be available to answer any questions and give you a free selfassessment! www.Great-transformations.co.uk transforming unusually challenging situations, quickly easily - profoundly through Coaching and Thought Pattern Management™ Includes: divorce, conflict at work or home, lost motivation, confused, repeating negative pattern, reduced self-belief, feeling overwhelmed. Make yourself a beautiful piece of thread beaded jewellery with Frangipani beads designer, Fran Griffith. Fran will be at the show helping you create a unique piece of jewellery for you to enjoy forever. Fran Griffith has been an avid and prolific Beaded Jewellery Designer and Teacher for 12 years, teaching throughout the UK and internationally. She also sells beads online and at her bead shop, Frangipani beads in Lytchett Matravers. (www.frangipanibeads.co.uk) Fran runs regular leisure evening classes at Kinson Community Centre and at Crumpets Farm, Lytchett Matravers in both needle and thread beaded jewellery and wire manipulated jewellery. this year’s performers... awarded Silver medal status by the UK Vineyards Association. Enthusiastically adopted into the wine lists of prestige hotels and restaurants across Dorset and into the New Forest, English Oak’s wine is faithfully prepared using classic Méthode Champenoise. Ever fancied riding the waves Tom Selleck style? You could experience the thrill (well some of it at least!) of surfing without your own surf board or wet suit. In fact there’s no chnace of getting wet on our real-life surf simulator. How long can you stay on? Perhaps you’re a pro without even knowing it! Or maybe Rock-climbing is more your thing? Check out our rock-climbing wall with fully trained instructors who’ll be on hand to quite literally show you the ropes. Who knows after today, you could be scaling Mount Everest by the time the next Life Begins Show comes around! Both these fun experiences have been provided courtesy of Vertigo (see their advert at the back of this show guide) Pop along to the Learning Zone hosted by Bournemouth University where you’ll find friendly Tutors on hand to show you some of the latest learning opportunities available for the knowleedge hungry. There’ll also be sneak previews of what’s coming up in the much anticipated Festival of Learnnig coming up in June 2014 which promises something for everyone. Have you ever fancied having a go at singing? The stunning sound of a barbershop chorus Southern Union Chorus singing in unaccompanied close harmony is guaranteed to grab you from the start. Southern Union Chorus regularly runs Learn to Sing Open Events to enable men to appreciate whether they feel a capability to enjoy Barbershop Singing and would like to learn more. The Southern Union Chorus has made a major contribution to the growing popularity of this art form. Their extensive repertoire contains many well-known songs, ballads and popular standards from the turn of the last century to the present day. Making wine tasting personal! Enjoy Discovering Wine wants to help people get the most out of pairing food and wine. We all experience tastes differently and our preferences can hugely affect our enjoyment of a food and wine pairing. In this session, you will find out what kind of taster you are by taking our ‘taste test’ before learning about the friends and enemies of wine and learn some useful rules for avoiding a mismatch. http://www.enjoydiscoveringwine.com/events/ English Oak’s rise to prominence as a “personal favourite” boutique vineyard is remarkable. The first vintage (2009) was released in early 2012, immediately www.lifebeginsshow.com Life Begins 2014 Show Guide