Events TBC & Details to follow in the summer
Vintage Travel Poster Workshop with Catherine Jones
at the Border Lights Gallery
Time – am – TBC
Up to 8 participants
Details to follow
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
Papercutting with Christine Green
at the Poetry Pharmacy Lab
Time 10.30am to 2pm
Discover the absorbing art of papercutting with artist Christine Green. Learn the techniques behind this intricate craft and create your own piece to take home. A hands-on workshop celebrating pattern, patience and the surprisingly beautiful things that can emerge from a simple sheet of paper.
check website for updates – https://poetrypharmacy.co.uk/
Scraptastic Workshop – with Liz Still
at SpArC Theatre, Brampton Road, Bishops Castle, England, SY9 5AY
Time 1pm – 3pm
Come and get creative- load of recycled materials to make whatever you can dream up.
ALL Welcome! Under 9’s must be accompanied by a willing helper!
Admission Free – Donations to Festival Funds please
A textiles talk by Diane Gaffney – details to follow
at the Town Hall
Time 2pm
From the mountainous land border in the far west down to the tropical southern border, we pursued hints and rumours of groups of women still indigo dyeing, making traditional pleated skirts, embroidering, hemp and batik making which led to out-of-the-way villages, workshops and festivals.
Admission – £3.50 booking online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
Pop up restaurant – authentic 4 course Thai menu created by Rhea’s Rustic Kitchen
at the Bank House
Time from 6.30 pm
30 places available – we will stagger the sittings by 30 mins
Vegetarian and vegan options will be available to pre-book
Booking opens from mid January when the full menu will be available
£40 per person – Bank House is unlicenced so BYOB
A Concert in Two Parts
at the Town Hall
Time 8pm (Doors open at 7.30pm)
Part 1 – Allgold Chamber Choir
Music from the Heart – twelve voices and a collection of passionate songs and madrigals from across the centuries.
Part 2 – Guest singer – TBC
Admission £13 booking online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
