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
Upholstery Demonstration
at Bank House
Time 10.30am – 12.30pm
Up to 10 participants
Learn about the techniques, tools and materials used in upholstery
Gerry Barwell and Rachel Baker will take you through the process of taking a simple frame and creating a footstool using sustainable natural materials.
Handout provided with information on the materials used and other sources of information including local classes.
Free event – charge for refreshments – email gerrybarwell@Icloud.com to book your place
Needle Felting Workshop with Clare Linford
at the Town Hall
Time 10.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 3.30pm
All materials are supplied
Cost £12
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
Words for the Wordless with Sarah Holland
at the Poetry Pharmacy Lab
Time 11am to 1pm
Join Poet and Meditation Teacher Sarah Holland to become aware of the wordless space before language emerges, finding preverbal expression for our creativity. Slow down, listen and discover what emerges onto the page. No previous writing experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to stop for a while.
check website for updates – https://poetrypharmacy.co.uk/
Botanical Drawing Workshop with Catherine Jones
at the Border Lights Gallery
Time – pm – TBC
Up to 8 participants
Details to follow
Origami Mari Llwyd with Tim of Blue Crow Crafts
at the Poetry Pharmacy Lab
Time TBC
Create your own origami Mari Llwyd, inspired by one of Wales’s strangest and most wonderful folk traditions. Using Tim’s specially designed paper template, you’ll fold and construct your own version of the mysterious horse-headed visitor associated with Welsh midwinter tradition.
Not suitable for younger children because of the dexterity required.
check website for updates – https://poetrypharmacy.co.uk/
B.C. Orchestra
at the SpArC Theatre
Time – 1.30pm
Details to follow
What did Charles Darwin ever do for the arts? – an illustrated talk by John Fletcher
at the Church Barn
Time 2.00pm
Charles Darwin was not an artist and apart from reading a few contemporary novels, by all accounts he had no great interest in the ‘arts’. You may think that he belongs in history books, or perhaps only in the academic department labelled ‘Science, Biology’. But, in this talk I will try to convince you that Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection has a great deal to teach us about the origins of art, the subject matter of art and some features of the modern art world.
Cost £3.50 book online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
KIN: Tending the Fire
at the Poetry Pharmacy Lab
Time 7pm
KIN performers together, or Raine Geoghegan with Nessie and her harp.
Poetry, storytelling and music come together in an intimate evening exploring Gypsy life, heritage and belonging. Raine Geoghegan and fellow performers share poems, stories and songs, accompanied by Welsh Gypsy harpist Nessie. A gathering around the metaphorical fire, celebrating oral tradition, memory, family and the stories that travel with us.
check website for updates – https://poetrypharmacy.co.uk/
Ceilidh featuring This Way Up
at SpArC Theatre, Brampton Road, Bishops Castle, England, SY9 5AY
Time 7.30pm
This Way Up! are Shropshire’s foremost Ceilidh band with a big sound and unrivalled reputation for high energy. They are a multi instrumental 5 piece band, playing guitar, bass, melodeon, saxophone, whistle, flute, banjo, mandolin and percussion.
Admission – Adults – £12 and £3 for youngsters – Booking is via the SpArC Theatre at
https://www.sparctheatre.co.uk/event/arts-festival-ceilidh-with-this-way-up/ soon
