Henry VIII heads up fund-raising event for West Marina Day

Any questions for Henry VIII? Tony Harris will reprise a well practised role as England’s most famous, or notorious, king as part of a fund-raising event for West Marina Day. Nick Terdre reports.

On Friday 30 May the WSL Community Team is hosting a performance by Tony Harris in his alter ego as Henry VIII as part of a community fund-raising event.

Tony’s background is stand-up comedy so he knows how to hold the audience’s attention, and his attention to detail is great! It’s your chance to find out what it’s like to marry a succession of unsatisfactory wives, for example.

The event will help the team towards its aim of amassing enough funds to hold an inaugural West Marina Day, date as yet to be decided.

West Marina Day is intended as an occasion to bring together the local community which has already shown its desire to get involved in matters which affect it by backing the proposal for a Neighbourhood Forum.

“The aim for the first year is to hold a smaller event, rather like a fete for the West St Leonards community,” Bryan Fisher of the WSL Community Team told HOT.

“We hope it would have displays by the police/fire/ambulance services; cadets; Friends of Edith; perhaps children’s sports; and a live band. Plus some food outlets.”

If the council is amenable, West Marina Gardens would make an ideal site.

For those who have not experienced Tony Harris’s Henry VIII already, come along and support the fund-raising event for  West Marina Day.

Tony will be entertaining right royally at Crown House, 57 Marina, TN38 0BE, on Friday 30 May. Admission £10 (plus booking fee), doors – and the bar – open at 7pm, performance starts at 8. Tickets can be purchased online and, if still available, on the door.

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