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
Artisan Market
at the Town Hall – on both floors
Time 10am – 4pm
Local artists and crafts people selling their wares, from Art to Jewellery & Ceramics to Silk.
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
Soup Kitchen and Tea Rooms
at Bank House, 4 High Street, Bishops Castle, SY9 5BQ
Time 11 am to 4 pm
Enjoy homemade soup with a cheese/ herb scone or fresh seeded bread – plus the usual tea/ coffee/ cake offerings.
All funds raised go towards SpArC projects. Donations of cakes welcome.
Morris Dancing Workshop
at The Three Tuns Inn
Time 12 noon – 2pm
Exciting, Vigorous, Dynamic & Exhausting simply to watch. Martha Rhoden’s Tuppenny Dish & Shropshire Bedlams bring energy, skilland a wonderful sense of life enhancing pleasure to the Welsh Border tradition of Morris Dancing.
The workshop will introduce participants to the exhilarating delights of maintaining this unique custom.
Admission Free – Donations to Festival Funds invited.
Pottery Workshops with Jonathan Franklin
at Bishop’s Castle Methodist Hall, Station Street, Bishop’s Castle
for adults – Time 10am to 12 noon
for youngsters – Time 2pm – 4pm
12 places for adults – Admission £20
10 places for for youngsters aged 9 – 14 – Admission FREE – but booking is essential
Both workshops will be making slab vases. Jonathan will bring examples and supply all the materials. He will then take them back to his workshop for firing and arrange collection. Please wear old clothes or bring an apron.
via the Town Hall or online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH
Venue – Poetry Pharmacy Lab, High Street, opposite the dentist.
From alarm bells, through hand bells, cycle bells, bell-shaped flowers, and even pub names, the shape and sound of bells evokes memories and has inspired writers. Come and explore this evocative theme through exemplar poems, discussion and writing prompts.
Sing with Shropshire Harmony Quire
Time : Session 1: 11am – 1pm & Session 2: 2pm – 4pm.The two sessions will be different with no duplication – come and join us for one or both.
Venue – Lydbury North Village Hall, Lydbury North, SY7 8AU
Join us to sing or play an afternoon of 18th century four-part harmony songs in the West Gallery and American shapenote traditions, led by Andy Watts, musical director of the Carnival Band. Our songs will include pieces by local lad, Thomas Owens, a thatcher from Lydbury North who was recently the subject of an episode of The Song Detectorists https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ksp3.
All voices are welcome. The music is suitable for strings and woodwind instruments and parts for Bb instruments will be provided. Music and sound files are produced in advance and will be available to download if you would like to practice before the day.
To help us get an idea of numbers, and to get access to the learning resources before the session -plus any updates about the day -we recommend booking online (although you can also just turn up!)
Session 1 is from 11am to 1pm. Teas, coffees and biscuits available from 10.30.
Lunch break: 1pm – 2 pm – bring your own (or eat at the local pub – booking advisable). Hot drinks will be freely available.
Session 2 is from 2pm to 4pm.
Free entry and parking, Disabled Access and facilities.
Donations to Festival Funds invited.
Booking online means that you will get access to updates and the learning resources in advance. http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
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
at the Church Barn
Time 2.00pm
Every picture tells a story…
Keith does not profess to be a ‘proper’ photographer. For him a photograph serves as a portal through which the viewer is drawn in to experience the unfamiliar, or discover the hidden context of the subject. He is an enthusiastic explorer, capturing wild and forgotten places on camera, both over and underground. Keith is also a musician and this work combines his photographs with his music and words all inspired by the beauty and mystery of the world around him.
Cost £3.50 book online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
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