... NOMINATIONS are being invited for the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts' Goodman and Garrett Awards and the Reed Elsevier Awards honour ing outstanding achieve ment by volunteers and professionals in support of the arts. FANS of Samuel Beckett can look forward to a bonanza in January with four of the playwright's one act works, Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls, Come and Go and Play ...

... NEW Year brings great news for jazz fans, who can look forward to a major new festival in the capital in 1993. The Lon don Jazz Festival, organ ised by promoters Ser ious Speakout, will be staged in Catnden, Is lington and Hackney from May 14 to 23. THREATENED pit brass band, the Carlton Main Fncklcy Colliery Band, will be playing at York Arts Centre on January 1 o. Funding has been placed in ...

... ?COLIN DAVIS returns to the Royal Opera to conduct Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, a co-pro duction with the Saito Kinen Festival, Japan, which opens at the Royal Opera House on March 8, with Samuel Ramey as Mephistopheles and the Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Marguerite. Jerry Hadley sings the role of Faust in Harry Kupfer's pro duction, originally mounted for Netherlands Opera. ...

... THURS, JAN 7 MR CINDERS, music by Vivian Ellis and Richard Myers, book and lyrics by Clifford Grey and Greatrex Newman, additional lyrics by Leo Robin. King's Head, Islington. Cast: Samuel West, Sally Anne Triplett, Helen Hobson, Christopher Villiers, Charles Edwards, Eileen Page, Ian Lindsay, Fleur Bennett, Russell Richardson, Burnell Tucker, Julie Clare, Ian Ratcliffe, Sophy Aykroyd, Lisa ...

... THE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending December 20 CHANNEL Average weekly viewing Share of Total Per Head (Hours/Minutes) viewing ALL/ANY TV 28:14 100 0 BBC1 (INCLUDING BREAKFAST TIME) 9:15 32 7 BBC2 2:53 10.2 TOTAL/ANY BBC 12:07 429 rtV (INCLUDING TV-AM) 1 1 :42 41 .4 CHANNEL 4/S4C 2 56 104 TOTAL/ANY ITV 14 38 518 OTHERS 1:29 ^3 Individual* viewing MCI (Millions) 1 EASTENDERS (THU/SUN) 19 ...

... |OUT OF TOWN BANGOR Theatr Gwynedd Kokuma Dance Theatre (12-13); The Night Garden (15- 16| BARNET OM Bull Arti Centre Call Blue Jane (15-161 BATH Theatre Royal Cinderella BELFAST Civic Arts Aladdin Grand Opera House Snow White Anc The Seven Dwarfs BILLINGHAM Forum Dick Whittington BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Scrooge The Musical Hippodrome Aladdin Repertory The Wizard Of Oz Repertory Studio East Lynne ...

... THE Nash Ensemble, is presenting six commem orative chamber concerts to celebrate the re-open ing of London's Wigmore Hall. The next, on Jan uary 26, will be a World War II recital first pre sented at the Wigmore by Felix Aprahamian on behalf of the Free French Government featuring the work of Faure, Bizet and Saint-S&ens. TOM Robinson's eighties anthem War Baby 'is being re- released next ...

... THE Independent Telev ision Commission is to back the ITV companies' dem ands for the government to extend the moratorium on takeovers which is due to be lifted in January 1994. ITV contractors fear that they may become the subject of takeover bids from broad casters on the continent where ownership restrictions prevent British television companies from expanding abroad. SIR Sydney Lipworth, ...

... WED, JAN 6 FAME IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BBC1 eight-part doc umentary series (9.30 10.20 pm) Presenter: Clive James. Producer: Beatrice Ballard. THE ANIMALS OF FARTHING WOOD BBC1 animated series for children (4.30 5.00 pm) Voices include: Ron Moody. Writer: Colin Dann. BITSA BBC1 children's series (3.55 -4.10 pm) Presenters: Gaitlin Easterby, Simon Pascoe. THE RETURN OF THE PSAM MEAD BBC1 six ...

... OLASUOW Tramway has announced the win ners of its billboard design competition. They are: Neil Chapman of St Andrews, Jill Henderson, David Shrigley from Leicester and the Big Panda Collective in Glasgow. An overall win ner will then receive prize money of £500 and go on to design a London billboard. IF YOU are unemployed, musi cal and aged 18 to 25 you could have a chance to join a creative ...

... ?ALAN HOWARD, who is cur rently appearing in Pygmalion at the Royal National Theatre, is to play Macbeth in Richard Eyre's production of Macbeth, opening at the Olivier on April 1. Anastasia Hille, who has toured the States in the National's pro duction ot Richard III, plays Lady Macbeth, with Robin Bailey, James Laurenson, Paul Moriarty, Nicola Redmond and Harry Towb in other roles. ?JOSE ...

... THURS, JAN 7 GARDENER'S DIARY Granada horticultural programme, regional only (2.45 pm) Production company: Heart of England. Presenter: John Ravenscroft. Producer: Sarah Merril. Executive producer: John Francis. ANGI.IA TONIGHT Anglia cur rent affairs programme, regional only (10.40 pm) Presenter: Shahnaz Pakravan. SHADOWING Scottish Television series, regional only (6.30 7.00 pm) Presenters: ...