Events TBC & Details to follow in the summer
Open Day at the Weighbridge Railway Museum
Station Street
Time 10am to 4pm
More details to follow
Hot drinks and Homemade Cakes will be available.
Admission Free, Donations very welcome
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.
Needle Felting Workshop with Clare Linford
at the Town Hall
Time 10.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 3.30pm
All materials are supplied
Cost £10
Booking is via the Town Hall or online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH
Singing Workshop with Rapsquillion
at the Methodist Hall, Station Street
10.30am – 12.30pm
Anyone who has ever fancied singing with others is very welcome, regardless of experience. Our aim is to get participants making a lovely sound as quickly as possible.
Admission Free – Donations to Festival Funds invited
B.C. Orchestra – Table d’hote
at the SpArC Theatre
Time – 1.30pm
House on Crutches Museum – Drop-in
Time : 1.30pm – 4.30pm
at the Cobbles next to the Town Hall
Displays illustrate the story of Bishop’s Castle from early times to the present day. Something of interest for everyone. Activities for children include dressing-up, brass-rubbing, the Toy Cupboard and the popular ‘Piggies Trail’
Admission Free – Donations to Festival Funds invited
Textiles – talk by Diane Gaffney
at the Town Hall
Time 5.30pm
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