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Upcoming Events
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06/30/2009
- Beating of the Retreat
- The Beating of the Retreat Ceremony is a musical display which takes it existence from old military traditions of marching through the city streets warning soldiers to return to their billets for the night.
The Beating of the Retreat Ceremonies, sponsored by the Departments of Community Affairs and Public Safety, take place throughout the island and are staged in the summer months from May through October. The Band and Corps of Drum of the Bermuda Regiment and the Bermuda Islands Pipe Band begin the display at 9:00 pm sharply before the general public and an invited Guest of Honour.
1st July - St. George's
22nd July - Hamilton
07/1/2009
- LAUNCH OF STAMP FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE THEATRE BOYCOTT
- July 2009
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07/2/2009
- Encore Screening of Lucinda Spurling’s film, The Lion and the Mouse
- If you missed the premier showing, you don't want to miss the encore screening of The Lion and the Mouse, the story of Bermuda and America showing at BUEI on Thursday July 2nd - 6pm -8.30pm.
The Lion and the Mouse was the Bermuda International Film Festival 2009 (BIFF) Audience Award Winner. This is a new version of the film with narration by renowned Actor/Producer, Michael Douglas. Tickets are available from http://www.premiertickets.bm; $25 each. All proceeds will help fund the educational outreach of the film.
07/2/2009
- “50th Anniversary – Theatre Boycott” by Imagine
- A multi-cultural, multi-media presentation involving dance, drama and music, in a celebration of the story that became the Theatre Boycott. The presentation will begin the story in the 1940’s with the chapter in the Gordon era; and run through the early 1950’s and climax with the events of June 1959 which reached a watershed in the Bermuda story, on July 2nd, 1959.
July 2, 2009 7-9.30pm
07/4/2009
- 07/6/2009
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- 07/6/2009
07/6/2009
- 07/11/2009
- Signature Event: WRECKED ON THE ROCK, play produced by BMDS
- Bringing history to life, this production, written and directed by Barbara Jones, will be a stylized, character-based reenactment illustrating the first 10 months of survival of those who were ‘wrecked on the rock’ when the Sea Venture ran ashore in 1609 at Fort St. Catherine. July 6-11, 7pm
07/11/2009
- SUMMER SUNDAYS IN THE PARK by The Corporation of Hamilton
- The Theme for Sunday July 12th is Voices that Praise.
This monthly event will take place from May to September 2009 in Victoria Park from 3 - 8pm. Each month there will be a featured "Bermuda's History" Tent including information that varies from month to month regarding Bermuda and Her People over the last 400 years. Each event will include a kids play area, live Bermudian entertainment with monthly themes, occasional international entertainment and food vendors representing Bermudian culture as well as others. This event is hosted by the Corporation of Hamilton and will be free to the general public.
07/23/2009
07/25/2009
- 2009 Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships
- The event will be the 4th annual Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships and is the regional championship for male and female cyclists aged 15 to 18 years of age. It is anticipated that the event will attract 50-70 participants plus support personnel (coaches and managers) for two days of competition. Competitions consist of a time trial (each rider departs at individual start times and the fastest individual time is the winner) which will be held on the 25th of July and and a road race (group start with first across the line as winner) on the morning of the 26th.
07/25/2009
07/27/2009
- 07/30/2009
- HMS Manchester Visit
- The HMS Manchester will be visiting Bermuda from July 27-30th and will be berthed in Hamilton. It will be open to visitors on Wednesday July 29th from 1000 to 1500.
The crew will be participating in the re-enactment which will take place on the Anniversary of the wreck of the Sea Venture - Somers Day - Tuesday July 28th
07/28/2009
- Signature Event: SOMERS DAY CELEBRATIONS
- TODAY IS SOMERS DAY - THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP, SEA VENTURE, ON BERMUDA REEFS IN 1609. COME JOIN US FOR THE FESTIVITIES!
2.30 pm - The day will start with a Time Capsule ceremony in the Town of St.George’s
3.15 - The Bermuda Sloop, Spirit of Bermuda will lead a flotilla of boats out to the Sea Venture wreck site for a commemorative ceremony.
5.00pm - World Heritage Centre’s Official Opening. by the St. George's Foundation (by invitation only)
6.30pm - Travel to St.Catherine’s Beach (historically known as Gates' Bay) for a Re-enactment of the landing of the survivors. Actors will row to shore in Longboats manned by Sea Cadets in period costume. A service will be held on the beach followed by the unveiling of a Cross memorial symbolizing the cross that was left by the survivors before they left for Jamestown, Virginia. There will be a parade into the Town of St. George’s for an evening of festivities.
7.30pm - Celebration festivities in the Town Square of St.George’s will include greetings from our Dignitaries. Meet Descendants of the Sea Venture survivors and visiting Dignitaries from Lyme Regis (home of Sir George Somers) and from Virginia; music by the Bermuda Regiment Band and the Tony Bari Trio, featuring Gene Steede; dances from Bermuda’s numerous cultural groups (St.David’s Native Community, Bermuda African Dance Co., Philipino dancers, Portuguese dancers, Gombeys), a Parade of Fashion through the ages. There will be food vendors and crafts.
9.30pm - Fireworks
10pm Gombey Troupes
10.15-10.45 Music by the Tony Bari Trio
07/30/2009
- 07/30/2009
- Cup Match
- The 2-day Cricket match is a favourite Bermuda event, which is steeped in tradition and history reaching back to 1902 and originally organised by the Somerset and St. George’s lodges as their annual picnic to coincide with 1st August, Emancipation Day. As the event grew in popularity, it was transferred to the respective sporting clubs and became the centrepiece of the dual holiday we call Cup Match, which is always held on the Thursday and Friday closest to 1st August. This year it will be held on Thursday July 30th and Friday July 31st at the St.George's Cricket Club.
You will find delectable food, pulsating music, eyeboggling, fashions and good-natured revelry. Combine with copious amounts of liquid refreshment, plenty of nail-biting, tension and cheering masses of partisanspectators. Add liberal sprinklings of Bermudian hospitality and a dash of Crown and Anchor (optional). Bring this exotic mixture to a slow boil under a scorching mid-summer sun. That’s Cup Match.Two teams -Somerset and St. George’s - vie for the spoils in a game some describe as a gentleman’s sport. Today, with its carnival atmosphere and twenty-two of Bermuda’s best cricketers on
show, the perennial rivalry between Somerset and St. George’s cricket clubs has grown into an event not to be missed by residents and visitors alike.
Visit the following website of the Department of Tourism for a fuller account of Cup Match - http://www.bermudatourism.com/pdf/2006CupMatchBrochure.pdf
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