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
Summer Hog Roast, vegetarian available, and delicious desserts. Live music from Double Focus.
Tickets £10.00p each includes supper; children under 16 £5.00p
Bar & Raffle. Raising funds for the upkeep of Edgton Village Hall
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.
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.
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.
Make a boat from a reed, a leaf a piece of bark or a raft made from twigs tied together with grass or stickweed – will it have a stick and leaf mast? Launch them into the river and see how they sail, which will be your best? Also make a catapult from sticks tape and elastic bands, how far will a nut go?
An educational afternoon based on farm tour and illustrated talk about regenerative agriculture including • Our farm vision & what we do • An introduction to soil science & the carbon cycle • Cows, climate change & carbon sequestration • Mob-grazing: mimicking natural grazing patterns • Pasture diversity: soil, plant, animal & human health • The link between soil health, flavour & nutrition • Increasing vital nutrients in our produce • Animal welfare & how we produce ethical meat & milk.
There will be plenty of opportunity for Q&A.
Donations are welcome to the Farm.
Tickets (free) can be booked via the website or contact Yewa Holiday
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
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.
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.
Bring your youngsters to the free fund day. Many activities organised: face painting, sport and much, much more.Bring a picnic and enjoy your time in the sun. Monies will be raised for local charity Empathy. Free admission – small charges for some activities. Children MUST be accompanied by an adult.
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.
Film starts at 5.30pm with refreshments, themed crafts and a licensed bar available from 4.30pm. Holt was once a circus star, but he went off to war and when he returned it had terribly altered him. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) hires him to take care of Dumbo, a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him the laughing stock of the struggling circus troupe. But when Holt’s children discover that Dumbo can fly, silver-tongued entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), and aerial artist Colette Marchant (Eva Green) swoop in to make the little elephant a star.
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
This interactive 1 day course takes place over two mornings on 29 and 30 July (10-1pm). Dr Holiday will introduce you to aspects of crime in Victorian England. You will work on criminal cases in Shropshire and elsewhere, decide guilt and punishment and compare your determination with what actually happened. We will explore differences between 19th century and contemporary forms of criminal justice
We’re not scared. Go in search of the pictures of bears around the meadows, with the bears wanting activities to be carried out at each stop; explore sounds, blow bubbles, make mud fairy cakes and enjoy a bear’s favourite food at the end of the trail cooked over a camp fire. Monday 29th July – Friday 2nd August 1pm-2.30pm. £4 per accompanied 3-11 year old. Booking advised.
The Rev. Thomas Birch Freeman (1809 – 1890) was a British missionary of Anglo-African descent. His success in founding churches and schools in the Gold Coast (modern day Ghana) has been well documented. However, his contribution to botany, plant collecting and horticulture has been overshadowed by this religious legacy.
This 1 hour talk by Advolly Richmond MA aims to reveal the extent of Birch Freeman’s horticultural and botanical legacy and is bolstered by Advolly’s research on Birch Freeman family archives in Ghana.
Tickets available via website or contact Yewa Holiday
International events and local history combine together in this 2 hour session by Jonathan Gammond who organised the exhibition ‘Penley Hospital: The Story of a Polish Community in Wales’ at Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives.
Eighty years ago, German and Russian armies swept across the borders of Poland setting in motion a train of events that led to the establishment of three Polish hospitals in the Welsh countryside near Wrexham, in the village of Penley and the grounds of two country houses, Iscoyd Park and Llannerch Panna. These hospitals were staffed by Polish medics and nurses whose job was to care for the thousands of Polish servicemen and servicewomen displaced from their homes and living in post-war Britain. The hospitals became the focal point of a Polish community.
The session illuminates issues of Europe, identity and the local, regional and international importance of Penley Hospital.
Tickets may be booked via the website or contact Yewa Holiday
This 2 hour session includes a talk about the fascinating work of the Shropshire Archives and the services they offer, a tour behind the scenes, including their conservation and digitalisation work, and the chance to look at a selection of archive material tailored to the interests of the group.
Yewa uses her own family history relating to the Goodacres of Long Clawson (Leicestershire) and Mansfield (Nottinghamshire), including books and materials they wrote on education, to examine trends in education in 18th and 19th century Britain and what this might have to say about social mobility and families in general. For example, there will be some focus on Robert Goodacre who set up the Standard Hill Academy in Nottingham in the 19th century and was also a travelling lecturer on Astronomy. Participants will be able to apply what they learn to their own families.
Tickets available via website or contact Yewa Holiday
The walk around the Quarry will look at the history and development of one of Shrewsbury’s most enduring public open spaces from the 16th to the 19th century. In the 18th century, polite society gravitated to Shrewsbury to see and be seen in the Quarry.
The walk will be preceded by a presentation at the University centre Shrewsbury providing a brief overview of the Quarry’s history.
Tickets available online
What is dementia? How is dementia experienced by those living with dementia, by relatives and by carers? In this interactive session, you will explore the nature of dementia and Namaste care with Isabelle Latham, Senior Lecturer, Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester.
Yewa Holiday will share a personal insight into her mother’s dementia and what it has taught her using music, art and poetry.
The session will also include care home staff who will talk about caring for people living with dementia. There will be plenty of time for Q&A.
Join us for a fascinating dementia journey looking at academic, practitioner and personal understandings of dementia.
All profits will go to the memory garden at Ottley House Care Home, Shrewsbury.
Join storyteller Sally Tonge at the museum for fabulous songs and stories 11am-12pm (museum admission charges apply) No need to book.
Dr Holiday examines trends in migration in 19th century Britain and what this might have to say about families in general by focusing on a Midlands family who migrated to the Cape Colony in the 1860s.
In the Victorian era, railways created migration opportunities for families both within and beyond Britain. Emigration from and immigration to Britain was easier than it is today due to the relative lack of regulation of migration. Migrations in the 19th century from Britain to the British colonies are explored via a Midlands family who migrated to Cape Colony in 1861 and returned in about 1868. This account of family and individual migration is set in the context of the expansion of the railways and minimal migration regulation.
The interactive workshop will explore ideas about why this family migrated and why they returned and what impacts the migration and return of such families had on society at the national, local and family level.
Tickets available via website or contact Yewa Holiday
In this funny, off-beat and warmhearted portrait of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (played by Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a cool-headed shoe shiner, Marcel’s gentle wife Arletty (Kati Outinen) and tough Inspector Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin). With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. Directed by Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki.
The film is preceded by a short talk and there will be a discussion afterwards.
Tickets are available on the website.
On Saturday 3rd August, join the team at Shropshire Hills
Discovery Centre for their Shropshire Food Fair. With local food and drink suppliers displaying their products, the Centre staff are proud to be celebrating all that our wonderful area has to offer! If you are interested in exhibiting, contact the Centre for more information and a booking form. FREE ENTRY for visitors with lots of yummy produce to try and buy.
This is an opportunity to work direct from a life model, using materials of your choice. You are working independently, although a tutor is available for help if you need it. Timed poses varying from 2 minutes to 15 minutes throughout. Please bring your own sketchpad and drawing materials.
Very small groups.
Cost £15 including tea/coffee and cake
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
A brand new one-day event with a feast of main ring entertainment, featuring Big Pete and Grim Reaper monster trucks, the Guido Louis Equestrian Stunt Team and Extreme Mountain Bike Show. We will also have a funfair, trade stands and plenty of food and drink – a great family day out!
LIMITED ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE:
Adults: £8
Children (aged 6 to 16): £5
Under-fives: Free
Family (2 adults and 3 children): £25
