Four Sundays: 12th and 26th May, and 9th and 23rd June 2019. Morning sessions 10:30am – 1pm, afternoon sessions 2pm – 4:30pm
Mindfulness has been taught within different spiritual traditions for centuries and the benefits have become well recognised. Jon Kabat Zinn devised the original eight-week secular mindfulness course for stress reduction in the US and now versions of this are taught all around the world.
Wendy Harvey is a counsellor and therapist with a Diploma in Mindfulness-based Approaches from the University of Wales, Bangor. The course will be delivered over 4 days with a morning and afternoon session. The course days are a fortnight apart.
The Midlands Breakfast Club is a car meet for people who have a passion about cars, whether it’s sports, performance, retro or classic!
Meets take place at The British Ironwork Centre from 9am – Midday on the following Sunday dates:
Sunday 17th March
Sunday 19th May
Sunday 7th July
Sunday 1st September
Sunday 20th October
Sunday 8th December
For more information please contact the Midlands Breakfast Club direct: https://www.facebook.com/MidlandsBreakfastClub/
See what life was like in Shrewsbury in 1869. Morris & Company will be displaying images and memorabilia from the past century and a half, some of which have never been seen before by the public.
Take to the skies and make breakthroughs possible! We’ve teamed up with Skydive Tilstock to bring you this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Ever wondered what free falling at 10,000 feet feels like? Well now’s your chance! Tick this off your bucket list and raise vital funds to help Alzheimer’s Research UK make breakthroughs in dementia research. Join us at one of our skydive days running on 8th June and 21st September 2019.
To find out more and for details on how to book your place go to https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/support-us/fundraise/skydive/tilstock-skydive-day/
Throughout the two week period we will be opening up three dig sites in the parkland.
One will continue our exploration of the 8th-century Scheduled Ancient Monument of Offa’s Dyke, the second will search an area of woodland for the site of a building shown on 18-century maps, and the third will look for evidence of the early-18th-century formal gardens following revealing parchmarks last summer.
The dig sites are managed by CPAT with help of National Trust Archaeology volunteers.
Every Saturday and Sunday until 14th July
Bleddfa Centre has an underlying theme of the Ritualisation of Time over 2019, and nowhere are the passages of the seasons more marked than in the garden. We have also had a strand running throughout our programming of the importance of soil, soul, and society, as introduced by Satish Kumar in our Annual Lecture of 2017.
There has long been a debate about whether gardening is actually an expression of art – but everybody makes sculpture and pictures with shapes and colour in their garden. And drawing and painting are a way of seeing…
This exhibition will feature a range of local artists and craftspeople, plus the involvement of Rhos Organic Market Garden, and Hortus, the locally-produced international gardening journal. There will be plants and pictures, baskets and books, pots and sculptures, all with a theme of beauty, practicality and sustainability.
Back this summer for its eighth edition, Ludlow Fringe Festival has announced its colourful programme for 2019. Bursting with some of the liveliest, most entertaining performances from local, national and international acts, there’s something special to appeal to culture vultures of all ages.
With more than 100 events, across 40 venues, over 16 days – you’re guaranteed to find an event that will blow your mind.
Highlights include Shakespeare in Ludlow Castle production of Henry V and our Comedy nights at Ludlow Brewery with great stand up comics including Mark Thomas, Nick Helm, Lou Sanders and Stephen Carlin.
A wide range of arts, community and cultural events spread over two weeks. Check out the website for details of the many individual events. https://www.ludlowfringe.co.uk/whats-on
Every Saturday and Sunday until 14th July
Bleddfa Centre has an underlying theme of the Ritualisation of Time over 2019, and nowhere are the passages of the seasons more marked than in the garden. We have also had a strand running throughout our programming of the importance of soil, soul, and society, as introduced by Satish Kumar in our Annual Lecture of 2017.
There has long been a debate about whether gardening is actually an expression of art – but everybody makes sculpture and pictures with shapes and colour in their garden. And drawing and painting are a way of seeing…
This exhibition will feature a range of local artists and craftspeople, plus the involvement of Rhos Organic Market Garden, and Hortus, the locally-produced international gardening journal. There will be plants and pictures, baskets and books, pots and sculptures, all with a theme of beauty, practicality and sustainability.
There will also be talks and demonstrations linked to the exhibition:
Saturday 15th June – Demonstration of botanical painting by Ruth Kirkby.
Saturday 22nd June – Pottery demonstration by Tony Hall 2pm – 4pm.
Stafford based motorhome company, Erwin Hymer Centre Travelworld is hosting a National Dethleffs motorhome event featuring UK national mountain bike champion, Scott Beaumont.
The whole event will be taking place from 17th – 23rd June with Scott attending on the 17th and 18th along with his Dethleffs 7877-2 model, his race bikes and will be screening some of his team films too.
Pro mountain bike racer, Scott, nick named ‘Boom Boom’ competes in European and UK race events with the help of what he describes as his ‘house on wheels’ Dethleffs motorhome. He has done so since he started competing at the tender age of four.
He says: ““I am no stranger to motorhomes, and the Dethleffs range is by far the most superior brand I have had the pleasure to use. It’s the crème de la crème of motorhoming, so it’s no wonder the Erwin Hymer Centre are dedicating a full week to highlight the range – there really is that much to talk about!”
The show will feature the brand new 2019 Dethleffs product range, with lots of brand goodies available too. Refreshments are also available for all guests.
Managing director, Ross Edwards said: “ It’s great that Scott can join us for a second time after coming along to our opening event in February – it makes such a difference when visitors can see with their own eyes exactly what Dethleffs motorhomes can do.”
Please register here for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-dethleffs-event-2019-tickets-62134030558#tickets
Mainly made up of locals, the volunteers lead groups along favourite routes as well as lesser known ones and there’s also a selection of themed walks, including the Map & Compass Course, the night time Stars in Your Skies Walk, and the Landscape Photography Walk.
Needle Felted Landscapes – £30.00
Thursday 20th June 5pm-8pm
In this evening workshop you will create a landscape picture using only wool. Bring a picture you would like to recreate in a woolly painting, or be inspired on the day.
All materials provided including a picture frame for you to take your masterpiece home in!
This workshop is all about the joys of fair weather eating. You will make sensational salads, perfect picnics and sweet treats to enjoy on all those lazy Summer days. With her flair for foraging and her gardening knowhow, Milly will show you how to prepare delicious dishes
using local herbs, vegetables and country produce. As always, you’ll go home with lots of your day’s achievements so bring plenty of containers! £35 per person, booking essential.
Join bestselling spy novelist Mick Herron as he talks about his new book Joe Country, the latest instalment in his highly acclaimed Slough House series starring Jackson Lamb.
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die and as Jackson Lamb’s crew of misfit exiles emerge for the sixth time, it looks likely not all of them will return from the field.
In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent’s Park, Diana Taverner’s tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she’s going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil …
And with winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can’t ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score. This time, they’re heading into joe country…
Kicking off with 2010’s Slow Horses, Mick Herron’s Slough House series has lit a match under the British spy genre. With its world-wary coterie of misfits and starring the cunning Jackson Lamb, Herron is now at the front rank of espionage fiction . We’re delighted to welcome the spymaster to Booka during Independent Bookshop Week!
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against a signed copy of Joe Country). Includes a glass of wine / soft drink on arrival. Tickets available from the bookshop, or purchase online (with booking fee).
ONE NIGHT OF ELVIS – LEE MEMPHIS KING
There are Elvis tributes….. and then there’s Lee Memphis King.
Lee Memphis King, Europe’s most successful Elvis Presley tribute artist, recreates the essence of the King with consummate ease and an almost unbelievable combination of stunningly accurate vocals and incredible passion in every performance.
Over the last 10 years as Lee has toured his ‘One Night of Elvis’ he has picked up numerous accolades and has headlined and sold out some of the most prestigious venues across the UK and beyond. In August 2016 he completed a sell out concert tour of Israel, performing to over 8000 fans.
In this latest production, Lee Memphis King portrays Elvis Presley at his peak celebrating the iconic ‘Vegas Years’ from 1969 – 1977. Resplendent in the most authentic costumes from Elvis’s performance and an orchestra backing this incredible performer prepare to be taken back in time to see Elvis in the way it was.
This brand new production is dedicated entirely to the ‘Vegas Years’ when Elvis would perform in Las Vegas and tour throughout the US and Canada – the definitive record of these performances are contained in the films ‘Elvis- That’s the Way It Is’, ‘Elvis On Tour’ and the ‘Aloha from Hawaii’ concert.
The show is enhanced by an orchestra of world class musicians and backing vocalists coupled with impressive video screen projection mapping out Elvis’s life and music.
Lee Memphis King recreates it all with stunning authenticity – the voice and equally important for Lee, the passion and energy that Elvis put into his songs. He leaves audiences in no doubt that they are witnessing the world’s No 1 Elvis Tribute Artist. Pure entertainment and Pure Presley.
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Enjoy the sunset and sunrise on the shortest night of the year at a magical location.
Join our Ranger and Engagement staff for an unforgettable night of wild camping on the Long Mynd. Our team will be supplying a warming fire and there will be a long-drop loo available. You will need a small tent, sleeping bag, torch, food and drink.
Shrewsbury Golf Day – Sponsored by Nick Jones Wealth Planning
Date: 21st June
Time: 9am start
Location: Shrewsbury Golf Club, SY5 7BL
Cost: £50 per player, £200 per team of 4, £100 to sponsor a hole
Includes 18 holes of Texas Scramble Style golf, tea, coffee and bacon rolls on arrival and a two course meal at the end of the day + raffle and auction.
Come and have a go at this ancient metalworking technique. You will be helping to create a large recycled fish sculpture for the Town Park Gardens. You will be making individual fish scales from old aluminium cans. This workshop is for adults.
Come and have a go at this ancient metalworking technique. You will be helping to create a large recycled fish sculpture for the Town Park Gardens. You will be making individual fish scales from old aluminium cans. This workshop is for adults.
Do you have a story that you’d like to tell? Have you ever thought of becoming an author? Do you have lots of good ideas that you’d like to craft into something a bit more substantial?
Join award-winning author Edward Docx for an hour of insight, advice, encouragement and ten practical tips on how to turn your thoughts into a professional storyline.
Ed has written four novels. He’s been long listed for the Booker Prize and won the Geoffrey Faber. He reviews contemporary fiction for The Guardian and he’s been teaching the Guardian Masterclass for Fiction for the last seven years. He’s also hosted dozens of Arvon residential writing courses and coached lot’s of private pupils – several of whom are now published.
We’re delighted to be hosting this special event with Ed and his publisher Pan Macmillan to celebrate Independent Bookshop Week. So why not come along and get some practical advice, some top quality inspiration and a fascinating insight into the world of creative writing.
All those attending will receive a paperback copy of Ed’s latest novel Let Go My Hand.
Tickets: £12 (Includes ‘How to Write a Book’ session and a copy of Let Go My Hand) Tickets available from the Bookshop or purchase online (with booking fee)
Back at Theatre Severn for third consecutive year. Mamma Mia! Here we go again.
Grab your platforms and flares for a journey back in time to when ABBA dominated the charts and ruled the airwaves! Thank ABBA For The Music is a two-hour theatre spectacular that captures all of the magic and excitement of one of pop history’s most successful and entertaining live bands.
Featuring all of ABBA’s greatest hits, including Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Take A Chance On Me, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Knowing Me Knowing You, Fernando, Super Trouper and many more!
With stunning costumes, live band, interactive video projection, some tongue-in-cheek Swedish humour, and of course ABBA’s spectacular trademark harmonies – this is the ultimate feel-good party show!
ABBA and 70’s fancy dress is optional … but adds to the fun!
THE BIGGEST PARTY WITH THE UK’S BEST ABBA TRIBUTE • The Sands Centre, Carlisle
YOU WERE AMAZING! • The Sage Gateshead
www.thankabbaforthemusic.co.uk
14 gardens will be open over the weekend. Tickets are £6 each, accompanied school children, free. Music and flowers in St George’s Church, Clun. Teas and plants in Hightown Community Room. All proceeds to St George’s Church.
This popular workshop is back –
Beginners Crochet course
Learn to crochet and create squares that can be sewn together to make a blanket or pot holder.
Take part in a fun and creative workshop and come away with basic knowledge to enable you to create crocheted squares you can sew together to make a blanket
You will:-
get step by step instruction
learn basic crochet stitches and techniques
pattern and stitch guide
the satisfaction of developing your crocheting skills
You can book on our morning or afternoon session
The session is charged at £12 plus £3.50 for a kit ( wool and hook) or people to bring their own – a ball of double knitting wool and a size 4 crochet hook. The session will run from 9.30am until 11.30am
To book your place or to purchase a gift voucher email communications@forgeurbanrevival.co.uk
(Please note that if bookings are below 5 per session we reserve the right to move the workshop to another date or time – and offer you a chance to move or have payment returned)
the morning session is posted as a separate event
A fantastic fun day planned at Morville School on Saturday 22nd June. 4 great live bands, games and a variety of stalls. A children’s story tent, books read by published author Sarah Griffiths, and two very special guests will be making an appearance throughout the day…. Peppa Pig and Marshall from Paw Patrol. Plus lots more to enjoy!!! Come along and join in the fun!!!!
Come along to Arley Arboretum for a great plant fair with HALF PRICE ENTRY to the Gardens, Arboretum & Plant Fair of just £2.75. Discover a tranquil wonderland of rare and ancient trees, exquisite walled gardens and panoramic views. The Arboretum offers plenty to do for all ages, add to this a plant fair with top class specialist nurseries and we’ve the perfect day out for plant lovers. The nursery folk will be more than happy to give you the benefit of their experience in how to plant and care for the plants you buy so you can get the best from them. The plant fair runs from 10am-5pm. Free parking. Tearooms serving light refreshments.
Full details at www.planthuntersfairs.co.uk
As part of our Get Creative Series
Get Creative with Acrylic will be led by Graham Sherman. The session will focus on the understanding of how to use acrylics , techniques and then the creation of your own acrylic landscape on canvas to take home with you.
The session will run from 9.30am to 2pm. Cost for this session £19 per person – all materials (inc.canvas) will be provided. Places will be limited and will be on a first come first serve basis – to book your place email communications@forgeurbanrevival.co.uk and we will send you instructions for booking and payment.
This session is suitable for all abilities and capabilities – aged 15 upwards.
Kantha stitching an Indian style of decoration.
A new and exciting workshop . Cost £12 and a £4 kit if needed. Time 9.30 to 11.30 am. Suitable for beginners and experienced who want to try something different.
To book your place contact us on communications@forgeurbanrevival.co.uk
What a great skill to learn making the perfect personal gift for a birth, wedding, anniversary, special birthday, event etc.
A new exciting workshop joining our Get Creative series They are great fun to make but do take a lot of card so the cost for the workshop is 15.00 per person and includes all the card/decoration.
With this new skill people will be amazed when they receive gifts from you in the future. This will be a small facilitated workshop with much 1 to 1 attention so book early. Adapt box to meet your messages and occasion etc.
Booking essential so to book or seek more info contact Ann at communications@forgeurbanrevival.co.uk
Maude & Rose
Present
Saturday 22nd June 2019
9.30am – 11.30am
Get Your Machine OUT OF THE BOX!
This course is for young adults aged 11-18, to take the first steps or gain confidence in using a their own or a family sewing machine.
We will learn Setting up, What is everything is called? Threading up, Filling a Bobbin, Sewing control.
Bring all of our learning together to make a Sewing Machine Pincushion.
Priced £12 – includes all tuition and practice materials
£3.50 Material Pack for project- Material, Button, Stuffing & Velcro.
Maximum 6 students so booking essential.
All young people under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult (not paying but remaining on site)
To book email communications@forgeurbanrevival.co.uk
Steampunks and their friends are invited to Blists Hill Victorian Town over the weekend of 22 & 23 June for our popular ever Steampunk Festival.
A neo-Victorian scientific fantasy, steampunk is all about mixing the old and new. It re-imagines today’s technology powered by 19th century steam, combined with lots of good humour, fun, games and elaborate fashions inspired by Victorian and Edwardian costumes, reinvented for the 21st century and beyond.
This year’s theme is an amazing spectacle of an apocalyptical Martian invasion of earth and the fight back to ultimate victory.
The Ministry of Steampunk (MoS) will be transforming Blists Hill for one weekend only into a magical, mysterious world of Martian invasion and ultimate human triumph all with the accompanying Steampunk sights and sounds. The whole site will be utilised from the top of the High Street right into the woods at the bottom of the site. The story will be played out by MoS enthusiasts and visitors can dip in and out as much or as little as they like. Also expect Cthulhu’s Witnesses, Women’s Suffrage and the Steam Wizards. There will be traders throughout the Town and a main stage in the ironworks for talks and entertainment.
Saturday evening entertainment (additional ticket required – details to follow soon) includes the return of Wight Hot Pipes and great food and drink including a Gin Bar.
Annual Passport Tickets are valid for daytime admission to this event.
More details to follow soon!
Building on its brilliant first year an exciting festival encompassing all types of transport. The WLLR is a key part of this great event
A Flower Festival with a musical theme set in our beautiful 13th Century Church. A real English country village event. There will be music, the village schoolchildren will sing and musicians will play. There will be a plant sale and cream teas to enjoy. Most of all there will be a warm welcome for everyone.
Intermediate Crochet course ( some experience needed)
The workshop is just £12 per person
Learn to crochet a flower to make a brooch or as a decorative attachment to anything you wish –
a ball of double knitting wool( preferably a pale colour) and a size 4mm crochet hook required or purchase a kit for £3.50
Take part in a fun and creative workshop and come away with skills and knowledge you can build on to create your own flowers for brooches.
We will look at how to crochet at least two different types of flower and attach findings to turn them into a brooch.
You will:-
get step by step instruction
learn different crochet stitches and techniques
get a pattern and stitch guide
pins to turn them into brooches
advice on where to find other patterns
To book email communications@forgeurbanrevival.co.uk
This is an afternoon event but check events for the same workshop being run in the morning as well
Please share.The deluge can’t last forever. Why not celebrate the end of it by joining us at a fabulous, community, midsummer, musical celebration? There’ll be lots of faces you’ll know and lots of music you’ll love. Just click on the poster image.“Joseph Horovitz’s delightful score, written in 1970 to words by Michael Flanders, about Noah and his Ark. It’s a delightful piece full of wit and charm, and will appeal to children and adults alike”.
The talk is the second in the series, ‘Themes in the Ritualisation of Time’ taking place at Bleddfa at each of the cardinal points (equinoxes and solstices) of the four seasons this year.
This ‘summer solstice’ event will be presented by Professor Keith Ray and take the form of an extended illustrated reflection upon a selection of the mute clues we have as to how our prehistoric forbears of between 6,000 and 1,000 years ago may have experienced, manipulated and represented the passage of time in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe.
Ideas about memory, mnemonics and memorialisation in the nearer and more distant past have been discussed extensively by archaeologists looking at ancient sites and artefacts over the past thirty years or so. The talk is by no means a review of such discussions, however, though the reflections have in large measure been informed by them, as well as by thinking in cultural anthropology and history.
Tickets £12 which includes a tasty solstice supper!
Please email hello@bleddfacentre.org or call 01547 550 377 to reserve yours.
The talk is the second in the series, ‘Themes in the Ritualisation of Time’ taking place at Bleddfa at each of the cardinal points (equinoxes and solstices) of the four seasons this year.
This ‘summer solstice’ event will be presented by Professor Keith Ray and take the form of an extended illustrated reflection upon a selection of the mute clues we have as to how our prehistoric forbears of between 6,000 and 1,000 years ago may have experienced, manipulated and represented the passage of time in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe.
Ideas about memory, mnemonics and memorialisation in the nearer and more distant past have been discussed extensively by archaeologists looking at ancient sites and artefacts over the past thirty years or so. The talk is by no means a review of such discussions, however, though the reflections have in large measure been informed by them, as well as by thinking in cultural anthropology and history.
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
Saturday 22nd June – 2019
He’s the man with the sunglasses and the black suit who delivered some of the world’s darkest and most emotional ballads, yet Texas-born Roy Orbison remains one of the most distinctive looking, and sounding performers in modern music, despite dying 30 years ago leaving others to bring his music to the concert stage.
But Barry Steele, who takes on the role in The Roy Orbison Story, comes with very great credentials and a genuine admiration for the Big “O”. Now he is set to put the rock back into ‘Roy Orbison’ as he takes to the stage to commemorate this legend in The Roy Orbison Story 30 Year Special.
Expect what is being billed as an upbeat and contemporary slant on Orbison’s legacy, as Barry Steele and Friends take audiences on a musical journey from the early Sun years right through to the late 1980s, when Orbison was experiencing a huge resurgence in popularity and worked with Bono, Bruce Springsteen and others including super group the Traveling Wilburys alongside former Beatle George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne.
So get ready for a night of solid gold 60s hits and 80s contemporary as the Roy Orbison Story celebrate the musical legacy of The Big O. As well as the toe tapping sound of the music giant that is Roy Orbison, you’ll hear the fantastic Barry Steele perform songs written by Roy Orbison, but never performed by him!
The production also features chart busting hits originally made famous by the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Jeff Lynne & ELO, George Harrison, Del Shannon and The Spencer Davis Group; Come and see us as there’s plenty of rock with Roy! From Only the Lonely to The Traveling Wilburys, Barry Steele has been stunning audiences across the globe with his uncanny ability to recreate the vocal talents of the legendary Roy Orbison. This unmissable show will take you on a musical journey in time – don’t miss out!
Summer concert at Alington Hall, Shrewsbury School, by the Community Choir conducted by John Moore. Tickets £8 with free drink after the performance, available on the door.
An evening of pastoral music to celebrate the Shropshire Landscape of Mary Webb on the weekend of the summers solstice, interspersed with readings from her works.
At 7.30pm £12 per ticket.
The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture in Berriew, welcomes The Derek Harrison Band on Saturday 22 June 2019.
Stunning boogie piano will meld with Fats Waller influences as Derek (Piano / Vocal) amusingly reflects on his New Orleans, Los Angeles and QM2 experiences and brings stardust Jazz Standards to twinkle the exhibits at ALMoS. Stuart Tanner on bass, dynamic drummer Graham ‘Rockit’ Ashley and, bringing his Chet Baker and John Coltrane influences, trumpeter Stan Williams complete this versatile swinging line-up. Also included is a light supper of Gumbo and Cornbread.
“This is a completely new line-up for the Museum”, said ALMoS administrator, Anne-Marie Pope, “I can’t wait to hear all Derek’s stories, the amazing playing and the fantastic food – it will be a wonderfully entertaining evening.”
The Derek Harrison Band will play at 8.15pm, shortly after doors open at 8pm. Tickets are £12.50 in advance, £15 on the door, with reductions for under 16’s and free for under 10’s (where they do not require a seat). Advance tickets can be bought from the Andrew Logan website (http://andrew-logan.myshopify.com/collections/tickets-for-events), or in person at either the Museum, at The Lion Hotel, Berriew or at R H Bunners on Arthur Street in Montgomery.
The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture opened in Berriew in 1991 and celebrated an auspicious 25 year Silver anniversary in 2016. The museum is open 12 – 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays throughout June, July, August and September and by arrangement. Usual entry to the Museum is only £3.00 (Concs £1.50 / Family £8). For more information contact the Museum direct on 01686 640 689 or almos@andrewloganmuseum.org.
