Designer Makers from Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft will be showing and selling their work; jewellery;furniture;ceramics;glasswork;textiles and more…FREE ADMISSION. Cafe in church.
This is a full day workshop from 10am -4pm, and is suitable for both complete beginners or more accomplished painters.
Watercolour, also aquarelle, is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
During the first part of this day long workshop Artist Bakhtiar Umataliev will be demonstrating his watercolour painting skills, and giving expert advice (including his tips about working plein air).Following this you will be taught the basics of watercolour painting including composition, colour mixing and different brush techniques, so that you can create a painting which captures the play of light on water and the atmosphere of a small harbour scene with boats.
Please bring your own sketchpad and paints if you have some, plus lunch.
Cost £60 including tea/coffee and cake. Free parking
Please contact us if you wish to book direct, or if you have any questions.
To book this event
Email info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone 07751 362171
Or see our website for more events https://www.myartshack.co.uk
Travel on replicas of our original 1903 Great Western liveried carriages with goods wagons and brake van attached. Watch the shunting at the turnaround. Additional historical activities each weekend.
Over 70 classes for sweet peas from the Formal Vases to Bowls, Baskets, Plants, Floral Art & Children’s section.
The show includes a Society Stand where you can seek advice on Sweet Pea problems from Experts, Seeds of pre 1910 Old Fashioned Sweetly scented Varieties, Membership
The Pikemen & Musketeers of the Honourable Artillery Company and are dressed and equipped as members of the Company would have been in the 1640s.
Around 40 will be parading for us each day at 1pm for approximately an hour, and you will be able to meet them afterwards. It promises to be quite a spectacle!
Then meet Brian Godwin, National Trust Firearms advisor, in Cromwell Hall and find out more about Chirk Castle’s special collection of Civil War era muskets and armour.
Real Ale Train
6.30pm departure from Llangollen Station
Step on board and soak up the atmosphere whilst enjoying the Real Ales on offer at our well stocked bar.
Double return journey – arrive back approximately 9.30pm.
£18 Advanced ticket price includes a free Llangollen Railway pint glass.
REAL ALE – £3 per pint, Wines and Soft Drink also available
Food will be available to purchase from The Station Cafe + Bar on the evening, along with a BBQ on the platform.
Reserved seating will be provided for parties of eight or more.
It is not advised that children attend this event.
Advanced tickets – £18 per person with a FREE Llangollen Railway Pint Glass
Tickets purchased on the evening – £20 per person
Due to the terms of our premise licence – Passengers are NOT permitted to bring their own alcohol on board the Real Ale Train. Any alcohol brought will be removed from the customer for the duration of the event, the railway reserves the right to refuse admittance if the request is not complied with. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Shrewsbury URC choir join with Shrewsbury Brass Band for an evening of light music. This is a FREE concert but with a collection to support the church and brass band. Raffle and refreshments too!
Shropshire Theatre Organ Trust event. Aaron Hawthorne & Cameron Lloyd play Wurlitzer theatre organ at The Buttermarket in Shrewsbury. Doors open at 1.30pm for a 2.30pm till 5.00pm Concert. Cost £7 on the door (£6 for members). Raffle, sales table and refreshments available.
Free family music within Cae Glas Park . Bring a picnic 2pm until 4pm
Whittington Castle Car Boot Sale. £5 per car if you are selling items – free entrance to visitors to the sale. Cars from 8.30am onwards. No need to book just turn up and staff will show you where to set up and collect your fee. Sorry no trade stands. Dogs on leads are welcome. Tearoom will be open selling hot drinks and bacon baps etc.
Travel on replicas of our original 1903 Great Western liveried carriages with goods wagons and brake van attached. Watch the shunting at the turnaround. Additional historical activities each weekend.
The Pikemen & Musketeers of the Honourable Artillery Company and are dressed and equipped as members of the Company would have been in the 1640s.
Around 40 will be parading for us each day at 1pm for approximately an hour, and you will be able to meet them afterwards. It promises to be quite a spectacle!
Then meet Brian Godwin, National Trust Firearms advisor, in Cromwell Hall and find out more about Chirk Castle’s special collection of Civil War era muskets and armour.
When Elizabeth meets the terse and abrupt Mr. Darcy, she loathes him at first sight. But is there more to him than meets the eye?
Brought to life by award-winning writer Laura Turner, this adaptation has been a favourite of Chapterhouse audiences for years and will be a joy to perform in the company’s 20th year of touring.
Join friends and family for an evening of theatre beneath the stars in the stunning Grand Valley at Hawkstone Park Follies, basking in the glow of this timeless classic.
Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm. Please bring a picnic blanket or low back seating. Sensible shoes advised. 10 minute walk from the car park to the Grand Valley.
Tickets are limited and must be purchased in advance.
Come and see the unicorns at Park Hall
This interactive workshop will explore law, history and everyday understandings of the terms ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’. We will examine refugee definitions; consider the similarities and differences between refugees, migrants, victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants; and articulate our understanding of who is and who is not a refugee.
Love a bit of domestic noir and looking for your next gripping read? Then join us for an evening of criminally good conversation and a glass of wine as Shari Lapena, international bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, talks about her latest electrifying thriller Someone We Know.
It can be hard keeping secrets in a tight-knit neighbourhood. In a tranquil, leafy suburb of ordinary streets – one where everyone is polite and friendly – an anonymous note has been left at some of the houses. `I’m so sorry. My son has been getting into people’s houses. He’s broken into yours.’ Who is this boy, and what might he have uncovered? As whispers start to circulate, suspicion mounts. And when a missing local woman is found murdered, the tension reaches breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they’re telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their secrets? Maybe you don’t know your neighbour as well as you thought you did . . .
Shari Lapena’s debut novel The Couple Next Door was the UK’s bestselling fiction title of 2017. Her two follow ups, A Stranger in the House and An Unwanted Guest, were both Sunday Times Bestsellers.
Shari will be in conversation with fellow crime author Mary Torjussen. We’re delighted to welcome her to Booka when she tours the UK from Canada this July.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against a signed copy of Someone We Know). Includes a glass of wine / soft drink on arrival. Tickets available from the bookshop, or purchase online (with booking fee).
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This workshop examines the extent to which smugglers and traffickers are brought to justice and how smuggled migrants and victims of human trafficking can be protected. We will explore the law and the practice of states in Europe. You will also examine the extent to which smuggling and trafficking might be a feature of life in Shropshire.
Dr Richard and Mavis Gulliver were the original botanists for The Botanist Gin which is distilled on the Hebridean Isle of Islay. The Gullivers worked with master distiller Jim McEwan to add gin to the range of whiskies produced by Bruichladdich Distillery. Three years of research, extensive foraging and collaboration with Jim led to the first distillation in 2010.
The gin sold so well that the global drinks company, Remy Cointreau, bought the distillery. Until retiring in 2017, the Gullivers collected and processed all the botanicals for every distillation.
This interactive talk also examines 22 Islay plants and there will be a sampling of The Botanist Gin.
Tickets available online or contact Yewa Holiday
Have you heard about ArtShack but are not sure what we offer or whether it would be suitable for you? This is an open day where you can come along on either a Morning or afternoon session and try your hand at a creative activity.
23rd July & 13th August 2019
10am -12pm OR 1pm – 3pm…
£5 to include refreshments
We also offer a series of 1 day & half-day creative workshops on a variety of subjects, see our website https://www.myartshack.co.uk/ for the latest list.
PLEASE CONTACT US FOR DIRECTIONS AND AVAILABILITY!
Email – info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone – 07751 362171
Our Ranger Team will meet you in the car park at 21:00 (20:30 in August) and show you the best spot to watch the bats emerging for the night.
Then using bat detectors they’ll lead a walk through the gardens, picking up all of the best spots and passing on their expert local knowledge. Expected finish time 22:30 (22:00 in August).
This workshop will examine attitudes in Europe to ideas about migration and passports, focussing on the UK in the period 1793 to the First World War.
We will explore and contrast the response by the UK to refugees fleeing from France during the French Revolution in the 1790s and to refugees fleeing Russia in the 1880s and 1890s; examine Parliamentary debates about passports and how passports were used in this period; consider the impact of the Aliens Act 1905 on refugees; and discuss the changes to the passport brought about by the First World War.
Tickets are available online or contact Yewa Holiday
Wednesday-at-One Recitals at Shrewsbury Abbey.
Free Entry – Refreshments Available from 11:30am.
Retiring Collection in aid of Shrewsbury Abbey Organ Restoration Fund.
Garden History in 8 ‘objects’ is for anyone interested in gardens and social history.
This interactive workshop will give participants an opportunity to examine and discuss objects connected with plants, people and places that have shaped the history and developments of our historic gardens and landscapes.
A fully illustrated lecture putting the objects into their historical context will round off the workshop.
Tickets available online or contact Yewa Holiday
The 2019 edition of Shrewsbury successful and long running Beer and Cider festival, this year with added spirits (well, gin at least) and country wines.
The 2019 edition of Shrewsbury successful and long running Beer and Cider festival, this year with added spirits (well, gin at least) and country wines.
The 2019 edition of Shrewsbury successful and long running Beer and Cider festival, this year with added spirits (well, gin at least) and country wines.
The 2019 edition of Shrewsbury successful and long running Beer and Cider festival, this year with added spirits (well, gin at least) and country wines.
Join us for an evening of novel conversation and contemporary feminist fiction as bestselling authors Jo Baker and Anna Hope discuss their latest novels.
From Jo Baker, bestselling author of ‘Longbourn’ comes a dark, thrilling new novel – ‘The Body Lies’: a work of riveting suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world – or in the pages of a book – when the stakes are dangerously high and the relationship between a creative writing school tutor and a student goes tragically wrong.
‘Expectation’ by Anna Hope is a novel of the highs and lows of friendship – how it can dip, dive and rise again. It is also about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. Most of all, it explores that liminal space between expectation and reality, the place – full of dreams, desires and pain – in which we all live our lives. Anna is the bestselling author ‘Wake’.
Both novels handle issues around feminism, the woman’s experience, societal and moral influences and pressures. For Jo and Anna they also mark a move away from historical fiction to the contemporary landscape. We’re delighted to welcome them to Booka for what should be a great event.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against a signed copy of either book). Includes a glass of wine / soft drink on arrival. Tickets available from the bookshop, or purchase online (with booking fee).
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Join estate bee keeper John Beavan at the Chirk Castle, for the second year of these popular events. John is an experienced beekeeper who lives locally and will be keeping several hives on the estate as well as offering some beekeeping themed experiences for visitors.
During this approximately 45 minute experience you will learn about keeping bees from John, get dressed up in your own bee suit, have a look at some of the tools of the trade and then open one of his hives and meet the bees.
Participants will explore the changing climate in the UK and Europe generally towards refugees since the First World War and the increasing emphasis on identity and passports. We will explore newspaper reports and writings from the 1930s focussing on the situation in the UK and France; consider aspects of the 1951 Refugee Convention; and assess how refugees enter the UK.
Tickets available online or contact Yewa Holiday
Jonathan Terry explores concepts of environmental activism in a changing world. The workshop begins with an exploration of forest policy and how it has been influenced by environmental activism and looks at some of the drivers for environmental activism. We will be looking at a variety of campaigns from trees to whales to climate change. There will be opportunity for Q&A.
This interactive workshop explores how we can understand the landscape through a knowledge of history, the land and its owners, industry, forestry and agriculture as well as through disease.
OFFA EVENTS present their SUMMER SHOW! featuring
Phoebe Rees – Scottish fiddler and singer
Vicky Turrell – author and columnist in the Advertizer
Peter Cartlidge and Cathy Andrew – singing duo from Ellesmere
Hermon Chapel, Chapel Street, Oswestry. Friday 26 July. 8pm. Tickets £10.
Phoebe Rees – Scottish fiddler and singer
Phoebe Rees grew up in Scotland and it was in the North-West Highlands that she began learning the fiddle. Influenced and inspired by her early years in the Highlands and also by her travels throughout the rest of the British Isles, Europe, Brazil and India, she includes her own compositions along with interpretations of material by musicians close to her heart. Phoebe accompanies herself on the fiddle, viola and guitar.
Vicky Turrell – author and columnist in the Advertizer
Vicky is an author and journalist. She grew up in rural Yorkshire on a farm in the 1940s and 50s. She writes the ‘Nature Notes’ column in the Advertizer and has published two popular books based on her column – ‘Robin on my Teacup’ and ‘Ducklings on my Doorstep’.
Peter Cartlidge and Cathy Andrew – singing duo from Ellesmere
Peter and Cathy are well-known in the local folk and music scenes. Both are members of the popular Ukey Monster. Peter is also a member of the excellent ceilidh band Five Speed Box. Peter and Cathy will sing a number of well-known songs and invite you to sing along!
To order tickets email offaevents@aol.com or phone 01691 650293. Tickets will also be available direct from Hermon Chapel’s website.
This two day course on how to buy a woodland includes information on woodland management and pests and disease.
The first day on 27 July will take place at the University Centre Shrewsbury. There will then be visits to two woodlands (High Cullis and Hallstyle & Oxenbold): 29 July, 10am-1pm and 30 July, 10am – 1pm.
Please contact Yewa Holiday if you have any queries.
The Battle of Shrewsbury Medieval weekend
Over the anniversary weekend of the battle of Shrewsbury, 615 years ago, we travel back to medieval Shropshire to see the sights of everyday life leading up to the battle.
During this great family day out you will get to see knights in armour and archers preparing for battle, living history including traditional crafts and cookery. With many activities to try your hand at throughout the day. This will include national and regional organisations showing how medieval skills can still be used today.
There will be a historical market selling all manner of wares; the market will also include many local suppliers of various crafts too.
Ending each day you will be able to take sides and cheer on your favoured army, as part of the battle happens in front of you on the original battlefield.
REENACTORS/ TRADERS ANNOUNCEMENT
To express interest and find out more about the event contact us at matthew@eventplan.co.uk
Join us at our Multi Period Living History Weekend. Travel through time from Anglo-Saxon Mercians to World War 2. Discover how people lived, what they ate and how they fought. Each encampment will have demonstrations throughout both days and their will be an Arena Programme of activities throughout both days.
Open from the end of July – You’ll have great fun finding your way through the puzzle of pathways
Returning for another fabulous summer season the maize maze is a must to try. Navigate your way through a labyrinth of pathways with lots of dead ends and u-turns.
Do you want to know more about Oswestry? Hear about our history as you wander around the town with one of our local guides, listen to myths and legends as you stroll through the parks and alleyways of our border market town – then come on a guided tour.
Travel in the luxurious tea train featuring the first class Sierra Leone Railway carriage with entertainment on board. Spaces limited – advance booking only.
Doug Allan is David Attenborough’s favourite Arctic cameraman, famous for his films of polar bears, seals and ice. He has been to both poles. had close encounters with a walrus and spent five winters and eight summers in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey. “He is not as other men”, says Attenborough. “He cheerfully endures conditions more uncomfortable and for longer periods than anyone I know. He has an uncanny understanding of animals. That tells him what the animal is about to do before he does it. Come to hear extraordinary stories.
