WOLDS WORDS FESTIVAL Throughout October 2018 Alford, Horncastle, Louth, Spilsby & Surrounding Areas George Sfougaras George
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WOLDS WORDS FESTIVAL Throughout October 2018 Alford, Horncastle, Louth, Spilsby & surrounding areas George Sfougaras George ce rforman Art shops Pe s & Craf Classes Heritage Talks Literature Work A Partner to East Lindsey District Council Magna Vitae is a Registered Charity. Charity Number 1160156 Welcome to the WOLDS WORDS FESTIVAL This autumn, our brochure Churches Trust, introducing some will once again be providing beautiful new venues for literature you with your cultural fix for and heritage inspired walks and talks. Our craft sessions include felt-making, craft, heritage, literature and knitting and buttons and brooches in performance. addition to discovering the inner artist Throughout October, the Wolds Words in you. Always wanted to learn how Festival is coming to Alford, Horncastle, to research your family tree? Join the Louth, Spilsby & surrounding areas. Lincolnshire Family History Society in Horncastle too. We will be joining in with 2018 celebrations with our events dedicated We hope you enjoy the varied to RAF 100 and Vote 100, with activities, talks and events on offer this film, exhibitions and talks. There is a October and discover something new! whole range of workshops on offer Please take a look through the from poetry to crafting your writing brochure, book which events you skills, walks throughout the Wolds want to go to and we look forward to Countryside and we are delighted meeting you. to be working with the National 2 To book, see page 3 How to book tickets When you see this sign it highlights that the event is a Magna Vitae organised or supported event and advanced booking is required, even when events are free. There are two ways to book a Please note that the receipts provided Important Information place on events marked with will act as your ticket. Wolds Words Please note that a number of events the above sign. staff will be provided with event in the programme are being delivered registers. and managed by external partners By Phone Normal opening times for the and organisations. If this is the case Please speak to the reception team Meridian Leisure Centre: separate booking details will be stated next to the event, please do at the Meridian Leisure Centre on Monday to Friday: 6.30am-10pm check carefully. 01507 607650. To secure bookings, Saturday and Sunday: 8am-7pm payment will need to be made by card. If you require a receipt please Refunds provide an email address. Please note: bookings must be Contents cancelled at least 48 hours in page In Person advance for a refund. Please visit the reception team at the Events .................................................. 4 Meridian Leisure Centre. Payment Venue information .................... 30-31 for bookings can be made by card, cheque or cash. 3 25th September to 1st October Ruben Lopez - The you would ever like to find on an Alford Manor House, archaeological dig; every major time Archaeology of the period is here: Mesolithic, Neolithic, Lincolnshire Day Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo- Lincoln Eastern Bypass Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval”. Inspired Lunch Event hosted by Louth Naturalists’ Monday 1st October, 10am-4pm Antiquarian and Literary Society In excess of 40,000 artefacts have been recovered during the first seven Alford Manor House Tuesday 25th September, 7.30pm months of excavations. Price is dependent on the menu Conoco Room, Louth Library A special Lincolnshire menu to mark Tickets £4 on the door Suffragette Exhibition Lincolnshire Day is available in the tearoom. The Manor House will also be Monday 1st October- Join us as we welcome Ruben Lopez, open between 12noon until 4pm. Walk an experienced archaeologist and Wednesday 31st October in the walled garden and enjoy this site director, for a talk on the Lincoln Louth Library peaceful setting. Please note booking is Eastern Bypass project and its findings. FREE essential. During several years of planning for We mark the 100-year anniversary Further details and bookings can the scheme, surveys located numerous of the Representation of the People be made by calling 01507 463073 sites and a team from Network Act, which first gave women the right or 07919 322230 or emailing Archaeology started work on the most to vote with a month-long exhibition [email protected] important of these in September 2016. celebrating some of the key figures The results between Washingborough from the suffragist movements, Road and the River Witham, have including a special look at women in been nothing short of spectacular. “… Lincolnshire. it’s like a shopping list of all the things 4 To book, see page 3 1st to 2nd October Women’s Role in The Secrets of the Chest A History of Louth the Great War Tuesday October 2nd, 12noon-2pm in 80 minutes by Richard Pullen from Friends of St Andrews Church, Utterby Tuesday 2nd October, Starting at the Lincoln Tank LN11 0TH 2pm in the south porch of St James An opportunity to see the secrets Church £3 Monday 1st October, 7.30-8.30pm of our recently installed modern day The walk and Stanhope Hall, Horncastle Parish chest. talk by Dr Tickets £3 Our new Parish chest contains archival Gurnham will An illustrated lecture covering the material of the Parish of Utterby and consider the role of women in World War 1. How will be open for visitors to have a look earliest history they got into a stalemate with the at the contents. We have a growing and origins Government over the fight for equality, collection of newspaper articles and of Louth, leading to the rise of the Suffragettes. photographs as well as some lovely examining The talk moves on to the work women work recently written by the children St James’ undertook during the war and the of Utterby Primary Academy, under the Church and enormous impact they had, leading in guidance of Dr Marshman Education talking about no small part, to the Allies eventual Officer for Heritage Lincolnshire. The medieval victory in 1918. children wrote their own histories, Louth. We using archival quality ink ball point pens will look down Westgate to see and acid free archival paper to store the many Georgian houses, before their work in the chest. walking back to the Museum through Victorian Louth. At the end of the walk, Refreshments will be available participants may look round Louth Museum. 5 2nd October Old Words: village of Sutterby, in the Wolds. For more information and to book Wolds Words please contact: spiritofsutterby@ Tuesday 2nd October, 7pm-9pm gmail.com or 01790 754079 Franklin Hall, Spilsby £5 includes refreshments, Kathryn Warner Numbers limited-booking required - Edward II: The An introduction to the fascinating world of palaeography- a lesson in how Unconventional King to read and understand handwriting Event hosted by Louth Naturalists’ from the past. Antiquarian and Literary Society Villagers from every village in the Conoco Room, Louth Library Wolds left their mark on the historical record. You are invited to come and Tuesday 2nd October, 7.30pm meet some of them through the Tickets £4 on the door words they left behind. Their wills and Tonight’s speaker is inventories give a fascinating insight considered a foremost into the goods they owned and the expert on Edward II, lives they led. No previous knowledge with an article published expected or needed. in the English Historical The Sutterby Project is a community Review, a book in 2014 project researching the past and and a website about preserving the future of the (lost) Edward II and Facebook 6 To book, see page 3 3rd October Page, Kathryn has carved out a strong NEW Quilting Club Rowan McCabe, presence as an expert on the king and the C14th in general. with quilter Sue Frecklington Door-to-Door Poetry Edward II is one of the most reviled Wednesday 3rd Wednesday 3rd October, 7.30pm English kings in history. He drove October, The Riverhead Theatre, Louth 10.30am-3.30pm his kingdom to the brink of civil Tickets £10, Theatrecards £8.50 war; allowed male lovers to rule the Alford Craf What do you think would happen if kingdom; led a great army to the Market Centre most ignominious military defeat you knocked on a stranger’s door and in English history. His wife took a £13 per person offered to write them a poem? Two lover and invaded his kingdom and Make a pieced quilt with expert help years ago Rowan McCabe became he was ultimately forced to abdicate. from Sue. Bring your own materials, the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. According to popular legend he died you can bring your own machine or use Through a funny and thought- screaming, impaled on a red-hot poker. one of ours. You can book 3 ahead- provoking mix of spoken word and it’s up to you! Includes tea, coffee theatre, find out about the people he Using almost exclusively contemporary and biscuits-please bring a packed met on his journey around the North sources and the king’s own letters and lunch. Proceeds in aid of Alternating East of England; from a council estate speeches, Kathryn strips away the Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC), in Stockton, to a mosque in Newcastle; myths to provide a more accurate and from his appearance on BBC Breakfast, vivid picture of her subject. On First Wednesday of each month to the most expensive properties in the starting on Wednesday 5th September. region. Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. About community and loneliness, at co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft the heart of it all lies a simple, yet vital Market Shop, 1 West Street, question: Can we trust strangers? Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG 7 4th to 5th October Pints, Poetry & Prose Thursday 4th October, 6pm-8pm In the Cocktail Lounge, The Mason’s Arms, 13 Cornmarket, Louth, LN11 9PY Entry is free Far Welter’d Relax with a pint in the company of poets and authors who met through & the National Cinnamon Press.