Friday 20th

Children’s Painting Session – Drop-in
Time : 10am – 12.30pm
at the Library, Enterprise House, Station Street
Drop in to paint your own masterpiece, suitable for ages 2-11+
Also throughout the festival the library will have (during opening hours) a crafts table for children to come and colour, glue and create.
Admission Free – Donations to Festival Funds invited

Castle Artists Spring Exhibition
Time : 10am – 5pm
Venue – The Stars Shop, 70 Church St, Bishops Castle, SY9 5AE
Around 15 local artists come together to show ‘Affordable Art’, which can include paintings, linocuts, watercolours, sculpture, photographs, textiles, jewellery, ceramics and cards. See http://www.castleartists.co.uk/
Admission Free – Donations to Festival Funds invited

Wild Horses Art workshop with Catherine Jones
at Border Lights Gallery, High Street.
Time 10.30am to 12 noon
Suitable for everyone  age 14 +
maximum 8 people  –  Already fully booked

Inspired by Der Blaue Reite movement and Kandinsky and Marke in particular, and thinking about DH Lawrence’s short story St Mawr which features a massive stallion, and which he wrote while living in Pontesbury. 
There is going to be a talk at next year’s @bishopscastleartsfestival about his work written while staying in Shropshire and to link with it, I will be running an art workshop where we will create wild horse pictures using the wild colour and expressive techniques of Der Blaue Reiter. No, you don’t need to have ever done art before, no you don’t need to be able to draw horses, the whole point is we’re using our imagination and thinking about wild colour and wild animal power !  I’m sure DH Lawrence took inspiration from the Long Mynd and the fabulous animals up there!
So let’s celebrate this unique landscape in an uplifting and creative workshop.
All other materials provided, we will be using watercolours, chalk & oil pastels and acrylic pens.
www.catherinejonesart.co.uk
£13 – booking online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall 

Sterling Silver Earrings workshop with Kathy Taylor of Katie Flutie Jewellery
Time : 10.30am to 12.30pm
at the Town Hall

Sterling Silver Pendant Workshop
Time : 1.30pm to 3.30pm
at the Town Hall

Make a simple pair of earrings/pendant using Sterling silver. You’ll use professional equipment and use traditional techniques including soldering to make halo earrings (stud or dangly)/a halo pendant. After the workshop these will be polished in the tutor’s studio and will be available to collect at the town hall a few days later; alternatively they can be posted to you at cost.

 £18 – includes all materials.
Booking via the Town Hall or online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH 

Artists’ Open Studio
Time : 10am – 4pm
Sarah Gillard, Painter – Yarborough House, High Street.
Liv Goode, Painter – Yarborough House, High Street.
Drusilla Cole, Printmaker & Jane Pickett, Ceramicist – Bull Street
Jenny Jones, Painter – The Porch House, High Street, SY9 5BE.
Julia Bath, Painter & Jane Allard, Weaver – The Old Bakery, Church Street. (behind Opticians)
Marian Watson – Handmade silver & gold jewellery, and Paintings – Chapel View, Station Street, SY9 5AQ.
Di & Andrew Douce, Painters – The Old Manse, Station St., SY9 5AQ.
Tim Phillips & Kate Evans, Painter & Ceramicist – St. Cleopas, The Cabin, Bishops Castle, SY9 5JG  [10 minutes walk uphill via Welsh Street.   Good parking, good tea.]
Anne Stephens, Jewellery & Crafts – The Garden House, Laburnum Alley, Union Street, SY9 5AJ.
Robert Fowke, 70s Sci-Fi Art – Studio Room at the Barn, rear of 23 High Street, accessible by lane off Union Street at SY9 5AJ
Helen Robinson, Stained Glass artist – The Old Vicarage, Church Lane, SY9 5AF
Georgia of Snailhouse Stitching – 4 Union Street, SY9 5AJ
Nina Archer, abstract landscape painter – The White Cottage, 14 Golden Grove SY95LD (Turn right off the A488 at the Acton crossroads and our entrance gate is about half a mile. Parking available outside the studio)  info@ninaarcher.co.uk
Admission Free

Artists’ Open Studio Going Wild in BC
This year’s Open Studios includes a special collaboration with Going Wild in Bishop’s Castle, a community-led project run by Lightfoot Enterprises that supports biodiversity and stronger connections between people and the natural world.
Artists taking part were invited to display a piece of work responding to the theme “Going Wild” offering personal reflections on nature, and wildlife. The collaboration celebrates creativity and visitors are invited to explore the artworks during Open Studios and find out more about the Going Wild in Bishops Castle project and how to get involved.

D H Lawrence 100 Years Ago – a talk by Paul Binding
at the Church Barn
Time 2.00pm

The years 1924-1926 were very difficult ones for Lawrence (born 1885).  Health was very poor; several times he was near dying. In 1923 and 1924 he and his German divorcee wife lived in both Mexico and New Mexico (US) both of which made a huge impression on DHL. The novel about Mexico which came out of his experience, The Plumed Serpent (1925) is one of the hardest of his books to read, but the long short story St Mawr – named after a horse – has been very much admired. During these years when back in England Lawrence visited Pontesbury, Shropshire and wrote one of his best stories The Virgin and the Gipsy.
Cost £3.50  book online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall

Dance Like a Tudor with Ruth & Mark Goodman
at the Three Tuns
Time – 2pm to 3pm

So, just how did they bow and curtsey correctly in the 16th century? (Here’s a clue – it’s not what you see in films!) 
Learn some 16th century dances both simple and tricky, sedate and lively.  Dance with grace as they did at the Royal court, or with gusto in the way of the ordinary people.
Previous dance experience is not needed we will guide you through each dance.
Mark and Ruth Goodman run The Tudor Group, who research & interpret Elizabethan history. Mark provides the music on bagpipes and Ruth the tuition.
Oh, and bring a hat!!
Admission by donation to festival funds

Poetry of Borders with Jan Westwood
at the Poetry Pharmacy Lab, High St, Bishop’s Castle, SY9 5BQ
Time – 2pm to 4pm
Come and join Jan for a guided exploration of poems concerned with borders. These could be borders of place, time, season or states of mind. The poems will be drawn from the past and present, and a range of writers with a diversity of backgrounds.
Ticket price includes coffee and cake!
Booking here – https://poetrypharmacy.co.uk/pages/events-in-bishops-castle

Concert – Latin Jazz Experience with Sticky Wicket
at the Town Hall
Time 7.30 for 8pm start

Sticky Wicket’s Latin Jazz Experience, features the same line up as last year’s successful
‘Putting on the Ritz’ concert but with the addition of two wonderfully talented ladies, Sarah Eastwood and Peta Wicket.   In this session they will include many of the early jazz & swing tunes from last year with the addition of Sarah’s cool vocals plus some well known Latin Jazz hits featuring Peta on Congas.
The other musicians featured with be…
Nick Wiltshire on Bass
Jim Wynn on Piano
Chris Gumbley on Reeds (Saxes & Clarinets)
Plus of course Mr Sticky Wicket on Drums!
Admission – £15
book online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall