Events TBC & Details to follow in the summer
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
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.
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
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