An exhibition of Original Postcard Artworks. Created by artists for this event.
At Participate Contemporary Artspace
PLUS: 3 days of Postcard Making Workshops for the public. Run by artists here at Participate.
Dates: 7th. 8th. 9th of August. (All day events) For more details of this and the exhibition, visit our website.
Shropshire Art Society’s ongoing Exhibition at St Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, features the work of Ivor Hammonds and Margaret Turner from August 5th to 30th.
Parallel Visions by Lesley Wooton and Jane Farrington.
These two mixed media artists have work which is uncannily complementary, often with a surreal or tongue-in-cheek element.
Free entrance. As always, the Reading Room Café will also be open, serving drinks and homemade food with a warm welcome for all.
Curated by Richard Selby who is co-owner and director of the Redfern Gallery in Cork Street, London. He specialises in Modern British Art and has over 30 years of experience in that field.
For this exhibition I have chosen a wide selection of historic works from the early twentieth century such as Alfred Wallis, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. I have also chosen to include a number of contemporary artists who work in or are connected to Cornwall. Ceramics by the Cornish potter Richard Phethean.
Every Saturday and Sunday 11am – 5pm (also open throughout Presteigne Festival Fri 23rd – 29th Aug and H’Art 7th – 15th September).
Parallel Visions by Lesley Wootton and Jane Farrington.
These two mixed media artists have work which is uncannily complementary, often with a surreal or tongue-in-cheek element
Opening hours: Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm (also open everyday during Presteigne Festival 23rd – 29th August & H’Art 7th – 15th September)
‘Out of the Wood’ at the Bleddfa Centre’s apple orchard is a contemporary sculpture exhibition bringing together 13 invited artists from Wales and England. The premise of the exhibition is a simple one – each participating artist was given a length of birch cordwood (4 feet long x 4 inches diameter) to utilize as they felt appropriate after visiting not only the exhibition site but also the source of the donated birch – the nearby Castlering Wood.
The resulting exhibition features a diverse and exciting collection of contemporary artworks by artists interested in the possibilities of making sculpture from a singular unit of wood as the start point.
The exhibition was made possible by the Knighton Tree Allotments Trust who kindly donated the birch cordwood.
Opening hours: Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm
‘Out of the Wood’ at the Bleddfa Centre’s apple orchard is a contemporary sculpture exhibition bringing together 13 invited artists from Wales and England. The premise of the exhibition is a simple one – each participating artist was given a length of birch cordwood (4 feet long x 4 inches diameter) to utilize as they felt appropriate after visiting not only the exhibition site but also the source of the donated birch – the nearby Castlering Wood.
The resulting exhibition features a diverse and exciting collection of contemporary artworks by artists interested in the possibilities of making sculpture from a singular unit of wood as the start point.
The exhibition was made possible by the Knighton Tree Allotments Trust who kindly donated the birch cordwood.
Presented by Immersion Theatre, This open air performanmce is a magical show perfect for the whole family. Imagination runs wild and logic is abandoned in this fantastical, larger than life musical, brimming with nonsensical fun and excitement for the entire family to enjoy. Suitable for ages 4+.
Live Stand-up is back at The Hermon. Prepare yourself for a wild night of laughs with some of the best acts on the scene. This month we have…
After a short break for August, comedy is BACK at The Hermon and features North Shropshire’s 3rd best
badger-based entertainer, Mr Badger. He’s on the comeback trail after his BBC troubles and is currently wowing audiences across the UK.
Support comes from pro comedian Craig Deeley, ex Butlin’s redcoat Shaun Messer, Canada’s finest Brad Bryans and your guest MC for the evening, Craig Dixon from Laffin Chimp Comedy.
How to pay/book
👉1. www.hermonchapel.com
👉2. Ticket link 👇
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/hermonchapel/t-mkrxyr
👉3. 01691 662 196
👉4.Visit us on Chapel street SY11 1LF
Prepare to laugh the night away at our comedy and curry night – this promises to be a hugely popular and entertaining evening with a line-up of hilarious comedians.
Ian Stone is a British stand-up comedian, broadcaster and writer notable for appearing as a guest on shows like Mock the Week and is also a regular guest on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Fighting Talk. He currently presents the weekday breakfast show on London-based digital and AM sports radio station Love Sport Radio.
Kate Lucas is an award-winning musical comedian known for her razor sharp and deliciously dark songs. She combines catchy melodies with original lyrics to showcase her playfully bitter musings on life. Audiences have come to expect what not to say and how not to behave from this gloriously talented young comic.
Jonathan Elston is a fresh, punchy, gag-driven comic who combines sharp joke writing and quirky observations with a youthful likability that charms his audience and endears him to any room.
7pm doors open
8pm Jonathan Elston
8.20pm interval
8.45pm Kate Lucas
9.10pm interval
9.30pm Ian Stone
10.15pm Depart
A cash bar will be available throughout the night serving soft and alcoholic drinks. Treat yourself to a delicious curry, rice & naan for just £8.95.
Tickets for Comedy Night are £20 per person and will be available from this website soon.
We recommend this event is suitable for people aged 16+. Parking is at Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron & Enginuity.
Prepare to laugh the night away at our comedy and curry night – this promises to be a hugely popular and entertaining evening with a line-up of hilarious comedians.
Ian Stone is a British stand-up comedian, broadcaster and writer notable for appearing as a guest on shows like Mock the Week and is also a regular guest on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Fighting Talk. He currently presents the weekday breakfast show on London-based digital and AM sports radio station Love Sport Radio.
Kate Lucas is an award-winning musical comedian known for her razor sharp and deliciously dark songs. She combines catchy melodies with original lyrics to showcase her playfully bitter musings on life. Audiences have come to expect what not to say and how not to behave from this gloriously talented young comic.
Jonathan Elston is a fresh, punchy, gag-driven comic who combines sharp joke writing and quirky observations with a youthful likability that charms his audience and endears him to any room.
A cash bar will be available throughout the night serving soft and alcoholic drinks AND curry! For just £8.95 you can treat yourself to a curry, rice and naan (veggie curry available).
Parking is at the Museum of Iron and Enginuity. Doors open at 7pm. Recommended age for this event is 16+.
❤️ WEDDING FAYRE ❤️
In need of some inspiration to help you plan your big day?
Come along to our September Wedding Fayre to meet some of Shropshire’s best wedding suppliers from venue dressers to wedding cars, wedding invites to photographers, Shropshire registrars to the team here at the Park House Hotel.
For more information call 01952 461658
We can’t wait to see you there!
The Blanket Boy follows a young clown leaving his family home. Alone and confused, he tries to understand how to function in our society as a not-so-grown-up grown-up. with some help from his new friends (you) The Blanket Boy will embark on an adventure of comical discovery of what it means to become an adult. When you think of Clown, don’t think of a man adorned in makeup whilst wearing large shoes and baggy pants, that may or may not haunt your dreams. Think more along the lines of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, or Rowan Aktinson’s Mr. Bean. The Blanket Boy is a show of Dru’s quality research into the world of laughter and brings together all of his training and experience over the last 3 years to make you, the audience, laugh.
“Blanket Boy is a solo modern-absurdist clown piece, looking at what it means for a boy to become a man. The strange journey to manhood is told through the eyes of the 18-year-old performer Dru Cripps with the aid of his drill and blanket. Blanket Boy has a strong use of physical comedy due to the intentional lack of verbal communication and is perfect for anyone interested in the topic of identification. The performance involves fresh levels of audience participation, Improvisation and the creative use of a Blanket and Drill to express the shows underlaying themes of acceptance, vulnerability and doubt.”
As seen on The Greatest Dancer, BGT and Judge Romesh.
“Excellent comic timing” – Egg People (liverpool)
“Perfect awareness of the audience”
“Comical pushing of performance boundaries” – The Actor’s Space (Barcelona)
“Surprising, he was funny, no?” – Philippe Gaulier (London and France)
“Blanket Boy” (a modern-absurdist clown piece) looks at what happens when a young clown is thrown out of his family home with a hand full of daft objects, his comfort blanket and a desire to find out where he belongs in this strange world.
“Blanket Boy” has a strong focus on physical comedy, fresh levels of audience participation, risky amounts of Improvisation and the creative use of everyday household objects (E.g. hats, drills and blankets)
More about Dru:
Dru is an Actor, Dancer and Clown who graduated at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts college, with the highest attainable qualifications. For five years Dru has been a regular appearance on the streets of Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing clown street shows and Improvised theatre venue shows. After graduating, he went on to train in ‘Clown’ with the world renowned Philippe Gaulier, at the Trestle Arts centre in St. Albans and then later on in France. Philippe Gaulier (renowned clown guru who trained the likes of sacha baron cohen) found Dru “Not Awful, suprising”.
Wanting to do better, Dru went to Barcelona where he trained at The Actor’s Space on an intensive Art of Comedy Course, When returning to the UK, Dru worked with The Egg People, a street theatre company at Hope Street Limited, Liverpool and up in glasgow formulating his show with two clown mentors as a part of Surge’s “Special Pitch” which enabled him to perform his show to several large Glaswegian audiences, made up of 200 industry professionals.
Throughout this time Dru has performed comedy related performances and taught at university’s, festivals and theatre companies in various locations in and around wales. Most recently Dru has just returned from Etampes, France, where he has once more been training under Philippe Gaulier, this time, Philipe was laughing at Dru and saying “he is funny no? It is good what you do!, it’s like pure clown” a great improvement.
How to pay/book
👉1. www.hermonchapel.com
👉2. Ticket link 👉https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/hermonchapel/t-qkzoll
👉3. 01691 662 196
👉4.Visit us on Chapel street SY11 1LF
Join us this autumn for an unmissable celebration of the West Midlands’ only UNESCO World Heritage Site – the Ironbridge Gorge.
The Festival of Imagination will showcase the amazing story of the Ironbridge Gorge, past, present and future as it’s never been seen before.
Presented by Ironbridge World Heritage Festival and partners, the programme will see the Gorge come alive with a fantastic fiesta of arts, crafts, culture, virtual reality, music, film, poetry, family-friendly events and food and drink.
Events during the Heritage Open Days in WEM include:
Open Day at Whitchurch Road Cemetery. [Sat & Sun];
History of the Methodist Church, Conacher Pipe Organ and the Millennium Chapel/Mortuary. [Sat am];
History of the Talbot Hotel, Shrewsbury & Wem Brewery [Sat am];
History & Dendrochronology of the Castle Hotel [Sat pm];
Guided Tours & Walks:
Wem Parish Church, War Memorial, Church Hall, Union Buildings, Castle Mound. [Sat & Sun pm];
Chapel St. including the Cemetery, British School. [Sat pm];
Reminiscence Session: shops and industrial Wem in the C20th, including video memories of the Kynaston Ballroom. [Sun pm]
Also Drop-In sessions and displays [Wem Library & ChurchHall] on the history of Wem
Artists and makers living and working in the beautiful Redlake Valley, near Bucknell in South Shropshire, will get together for a fourth time to put on a group exhibition of work. To include paintings, drawings, jewellery, stone and wood carving, hand-printed books, diaramas, photography, print-making and hand-made cards – and more! The special guest this year is Tamsin Abbott who makes beautiful stained glass panels inspired by nature and folklore.
Entry is free; tea & home-made cakes available.
Come to the 4th Redlake Valley Artists exhibition in Chapel Lawn Village Hall from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd September! Work will include paintings, drawings, jewellery, stone carving, wood carving, privately-printed books, photography, printmaking, hand-made cards and more! In addition, special guest this year is Tamsin Abbott who makes beautiful stained glass panels inspired by nature and folklore. The exhibition will be dedicated to the memory of the late Graham and Ann Arnold, who were always enthusiastic supporters of the show, and there will be a unique opportunity to buy framed prints of work from their collection. Entry is free; tea & cake will be available.
Opening times: Friday: 10am to 6pm, Saturday: 10am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm.
Following the success of last years October show, we are doing it all again!! On Saturday 19th October 2019 at Shrewsbury URC from 10am you will be able to experience a fabulous family day out.
We will have some amazing detailed and lovingly made Layouts for you to see in various gauges, Trade stands for you to top up your model railway collection, or get you inspired to start one.
All our Exhibitors and Traders are extremely knowledgeable and passionate about model railways and will only be more than happy to offer advice and any questions you may have.
The Whistle Stop Cafe will be open for the duration of the event, serving scrumptious homemade cakes, a selection of hot and cold food and drinks.
We very much hope you can join us!
Broseley’s amateur dramatics group brings us another hysterically funny comedy from the Farndale Avenue suite, penned by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr
BroADS presented us with the ladies’ version of Macbeth a year or two back.
This one orbits around the efforts of the Townswomen’s Guild’s efforts to mount a sci-fi thriller: in their usual hopeless and hilariously funny fashion of course.
“They came from Mars and landed outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall in time for the Townswomen’s Guild’s coffee morning”
The comedy itself is not a long one, but what a title!
Laugh yourselves silly at Broseley’s Birchmeadow. Tickets available from October 1st at Downes’s in Broseley High Street or via our website.
We can hardly wait until the BroADS crew heads out to the launch pad and the Red Planet. The countdown’s begun, and the excitement’s building.
Broseley’s amateur dramatics group, Directed by Kate Harris, brings us a hysterical Farndale Avenue comedy … another ACE by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr.
“They came from Mars and landed outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall in time for the Townswomen’s Guild’s coffee morning” is the title … nearly as long as the first act !
One wonders just how the Guild is going to make out this time – hilariously incompetently, no doubt.
