WOLDS WORDS FESTIVAL Throughout October 2018 Alford, , Louth, Spilsby & surrounding areas George Sfougaras George

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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

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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

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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, 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.

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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

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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. We will be reading Churches Trust from our work and talking about the Friday 5th October, 2.30pm themes in our writing. “A must-see”- Tim Wells, Morning Star St Andrew’s Church, Ashby Cinnamon Press is an independent Puerorum “Fascinating, entertaining and uplifting”- publishing house that offers writing Sunderland Echo courses, a mentoring programme, Tickets £3 including refreshments We are delighted to be working with To find out more visit www. competitions and publishing the National Churches Trust and louthriverheadtheatre.com or contact opportunities, as well as innovative Horncastle Deanery, to bring new Box Office on 01507 600350 which literature available from the online audiences to explore the beautiful is open from 10am-1pm Monday to bookshop. churches of the Wolds and surrounding Saturday. You can book tickets on www.cinnamonpress.com areas. Today St Andrew’s Church are our website any time of the day by pleased to welcome Far Welter’d for an selecting the Buy Tickets button from afternoon of ‘hentertayunment’. any of the events on our site. Please note a £1 fee per booking applies.

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The Big Draw All materials will be supplied but please bring your sewing machine with free with Ash Buckingham motion foot or a plate to cover the Friday 5th October, 10am-12 noon feed dogs and 100% cotton, rayon or viscose machine thread (not polyester!) High Meadow Studio, Lincoln Road, Horncastle LN9 5LY Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft Market Tickets £6 including refreshments Shop, 1 West Street, Alford LN13 9DG A drawing taster session -a chance to experience a couple of hours of drawing fun using charcoal or soft pencil in the Anthony Cropper- company of professional artist and tutor, Life Writing with The Ash Buckingham. Lutradur Leaves with textile artist Karen Lane Held inside at High Meadow Studio Accidental Memoir Friday 5th October, 10.30am-1pm (unless the sun shines .... when it might Saturday 6th October, become a chance to sketch a view across Alford Craf Market Centre 10am-12noon the Wolds from High Meadow!) £28 (including materials) Conoco Room Louth Library, Louth You will need sketch paper-at least an A3 In this workshop Karen will Tickets £6 including refreshments size.. and sticks of willow charcoal or soft demonstrate how to make beautiful pencils and an eraser ..... No kit?-that’s leaf skeletons using Lutradur heat Sunday 28th October, 10am- no excuse!-materials can be provided manipulative fabric, free machine 12noon for a couple of pounds.... come along stitching and a heat tool. These delicate Stanhope Hall, Horncastle and let’s get over those “I can’t draw” leaves look wonderful in a small box Tickets £6 including refreshments thoughts-it’s just for fun and play! frame and would make a unique gift.

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Lampwork Beading holes suitable for European style charm bracelets and/or small holes for making Taster Class jewellery. Price includes all the beads with Pris McGrirr you make in the session, cleaned and available to pick up from the shop the Saturday 6th October, following week or we can post them to 10.30am-1.30pm you. Only 5 places. Please wear cotton Alford Craf Market Centre clothing and not open toed shoes. Long hair must be tied back. £40 Learn to melt coloured glass rods in Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. a hot flame to make your own glass co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft beads, decorate them and fire them in Market Shop, 1 West Street, an annealing kiln. You may prefer large Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG Have you ever thought about writing your memoirs? Don’t know where to Christmas/Autumnal start? This session will help you explore Felt Flower Wreaths your life stories. We will use a range of prompts and exercises to get the with Sharon Murrey creative juices flowing and to help Saturday 6th October, draw on our experiences. We all have a 10.30am-1.30pm story to tell. The session will be fun and engaging and is accessible to all. £29 per person limited to 6 places These lovely felt flower wreaths make the perfect decoration for the new

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season. You All proceeds from lounge events will go can display Double Jeopardy to The Sessions House CIC to provide them on a Saturday, 6th October essential funds to help progress the long- door for a Matinee: 2.30pm Evening: 7.30pm term regeneration of Spilsby Theatre. beautiful In the Lounge, Spilsby Theatre A number of other events will be welcoming taking place at the Theatre, during or use them Tickets £10/ £8 October, including live music and as a table A contemporary drama written and open poetry and spoken word. centrepiece. directed by local author, Kate Mitchell, Please see the website for up to date You will learn and performed by members and friends information: www.spilsbytheatre.com how to make of the Louth Writers’ Café. various flowers in a range of sizes and Farm styles, choosing from a lovely selection In a semi-improvised performance, the of colours. The wreaths measure characters explore themes of sexual Shetland Wools - around 25cm. No experience is needed abuse and exploitation, and consider and this class is perfect for beginners. some of the challenges of historical Felt Making No sewing required! All equipment is abuse investigations. The performance Sunday 7th October, 10am-12noon provided including tea and coffee. You will be followed by an opportunity to Conoco Room, Louth Library, Louth will be guided along and take a wreath discuss the themes informally with the home to be proud of. writer and actors. Tickets £8, including refreshments Learn how to card and comb a fleece Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. These are adult themes which are not and enjoy felt making a sheep brooch co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft considered suitable for young people to take home! Beginners welcome. All Market Shop, 1 West Street, aged under 18 years. Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG materials included. Capacity in the lounge is limited, and reservation is strongly advised on 01790 752936 or [email protected]

11 7th to 8th October

Brattleby Farm My Writing Life Shetland Wools - with Nick Louth Knitting Lattice Kit Monday 8th October, Sunday 7th October, 1pm-3pm 11am-12.30pm Conoco Room Louth Library, Louth The Lounge, Tickets £8, including refreshments Elizabeth Court, Learn how to knit the Lattice pattern Church Street, and then knit a sheep mug warmer to Louth take home and keep your hot drinks start painting with oils. During the cosy! All materials included. £4 on the door, workshop, you will receive structured includes refreshments practical tuition aimed at getting you Oil Painting: to understand the painting medium of Nick Louth, local oil and painting using both brushes and bestselling thriller writer, Loose and Free palette knife. Includes all the materials and award winning with Bridget Jones that you will need. Please wear old journalist, will talk about clothes and bring an apron. If you have his writing, and share Monday 8th October, attended before, please come again… insights into the world of publishing, 10.30am-3.30pm always different pictures. discussing the benefits and pitfalls of agents, publishing and self-publishing. Alford Craf Market Centre Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. £47 per person co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft Hosted by Write Away. We meet monthly on the second This workshop is suitable for all Market Shop, 1 West Street, Monday at Elizabeth Court. levels and those who would like to Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG

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Monday Morning Talk about your work to date, your Set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana, hopes and ambitions for your writing; Clairee, Ousier, M’Lynn and Shelby- Writer’s Cafe enjoy some quiet time, then reveal Truvy’s regular customers-and Annelle, your writing (new or old) to the group her eager but inexperienced assistant, - Open Invitation for constructive feedback. If it suits engage in small town gossip, running Monday 8th October, 9am-12noon you may wish to join in with the other the gamut of the birth/marriage/ The Old Stables, 30 Victoria Road, writers at the Seasonal Readings death cycle. Turned into a film in 1989 Louth evening on the 12th October. starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field and Dolly Parton, this classic play will have Hot coffee and bacon sandwiches are A contribution of £7.50 towards you in both fits of laughter and tears provided for sustenance. provisions is requested as you become immersed in the comic Join in with our writers to begin or www.louthpoetrygroup.co.uk yet turbulent lives of these southern develop your own writing project. women. Booking Information: By telephone 01507 600064 or mobile 07753 562 To find out more visit www. 320 preferred, or simply by turning up. louthriverheadtheatre.com or contact Box Office on 01507 600350 which is open from 10am-1pm Monday to ‘Steel Magnolias’ Saturday. You can book tickets on by Robert Harling our website any time of the day by 8th-13th October, 7.30pm nightly selecting the Buy Tickets button from The Riverhead Theatre, Louth any of the events on our site. Please note a £1 fee per booking applies. Tickets £9.50, Theatrecards £8, Under 18s £5 Director-Ashley Stevens

13 9th to 11th October

Mike Fowler - The Today Mike will complete the story Inspired by the cycle of poems by of the East Lincolnshire Railway Edmund Spencer describing his Branch Lines of the Branch Lines, after his 2017 talks, courtship and marriage to Elizabeth covering Louth to Bardney, Louth Boyle and celebrating Libraries Week East Lincolnshire to Mablethorpe, Willoughby to and The Wolds Words Festival. Railway part 2 Mablethorpe and Woodhall Junction Light refreshments served. to Firsby lines. Mike will bring some Event hosted by For more information [email protected] surviving railwayana from these lines Louth Naturalists’ Follow us @lincslibraries and show archive film to support the Antiquarian and images. This is one of five railway Literary Society presentations Mike will be giving in the A World of Words Conoco Room, county in 2018 and we are pleased to Thursday October 11th, Louth Library secure his services again. 7pm-11pm Tuesday 9th October, 7.30pm Trinity Centre, Eastgate, Louth, Tickets £4 on the door Poetry Recital LN11 8DJ With Paul Sutherland Mike, a retired broadcaster and film £10 on the door, includes a plate producer grew up in Spilsby and Thursday 11th of food spent many happy hours on Spilsby October, 2.15pm An evening of songs, music, poetry, and Firsby stations. He bases his Louth Library and food, celebrating the diversity presentations on these experiences of our world and the welcome we and draws on extensive memories and Free Event give to refugees. With Lincolnshire research with considerable enthusiasm. Paul Sutherland will be musicians and singers, Tom Lane and reading from his newly Kate Witney, and poetry from Malka published book of love al-Haddad. poems Amoretti.

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Seasonal Readings An Evening of Friday 12th October Music and Verse Start Time: 7pm for 7.30pm with The Inimitable Itchy End Time: 10pm for 10.30pm Fingers, Blues And Ragtime The Old Stables, 30 Victoria Road, Friday 12th October, 8pm Louth Town and Country Club, Cannon A contribution of £5 towards

George Sfougaras George Street, Louth provisions is requested Wine, beer, and soft drinks will be Spoken words and raconteurs; from Tickets £8 available. the Monday Morning Writer’s Café, Supported by The Rye Sisters, folk country, close harmonies. Profits to go All proceeds from this event will be and the Friday Morning Poet’s Salon, to the Lincolnshire Time and Tide Bell. donated to the Area of Sanctuary and with Music from Peter Connor, and The the LCfR Community Sponsorship Ukulele Ladies of Louth; an evening of Tickets available from Off the Scheme, to soul enrichment, with moving words, Beaten Tracks and from Alison on further their light hearted words, serious words, good 01507 327523 or on the door. work with heartfelt music, and a rousing singalong refugees. to close. A light supper at the interval is included. Feel free to bring your own Make a Fused Glass Curved wine or beer. Christmas Centrepiece Booking Information: By telephone Saturday 13th October, 01507 600064 or mobile 07753 10.30am-1pm 562 320, or simply by turning up. Alford Craf Market Centre Tethkar al-Hadddad Tethkar £60 per person

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Poetry Workshop Walking in the with Paul Sutherland Footsteps of Tennyson Saturday 13th October, 10am-4pm Saturday 13th October, 1-4pm Conoco Room, Louth Library, Start at Bag Enderby Church, Louth PE23 4NP Tickets £10 A walk and talk taking in Bag Enderby, Paul Sutherland will be running a Somersby and surrounds. Visit some day long creative writing workshop of Alfred Tennysons boyhood haunts inspiring participants to create and including locations not usually open to Come and create your own curved the public. It is an all-weather walk. The Christmas free standing unique piece edit. In the morning session, using ‘free flow’ techniques participants will be pace is moderate and is approximately of glass for your table centrepiece or 5 miles in length. Tea and cake will be mantelpiece. Overall size 10x4” As encouraged to create pieces of work. In the afternoon editing methods will available at the end. Funds raised will this has to be fired in the kiln twice to go to the upkeep of the ‘Tennyson’ achieve the shape it won’t be ready for be discussed with opportunities for editing the morning writing or to ‘work churches. Space is limited. Please book collection until the following Saturday. on time. Limited to four places only. on’ another piece provided by the participants. Contact leader for more information Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. Paul Sutherland has 13 books of poetry and booking. Tel: 01507-534847 co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft / [email protected] Market Shop, 1 West Street, published. His New and Selected Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG Poems (2017) has received critical acclaim. He has been freelance since 2004 and has a reputation for leading stimulating workshops.

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Louth Navigation Trust present and internationally at the Yantai Landscape OUTFALLS: Art and Biennial, China. A selection of the work will Poetry Exhibition be shown for the first 14th to 27th October time in Louth itself. Wednesday to Sunday, 11am-4pm Harriet and Judith have Navigation Warehouse, been working on the Louth LN11 0DA canal, drawing and Free writing since 2013. Over the last year, they met OPENING EVENTS: and worked with local Sunday 14th October people culminating in 3am-5.30pm: an afternoon of canal workshops in July 2018 culture - all welcome to hear and in association with with landscape in their respective discuss diverse visions of the past, the Louth Navigation fields. In our exhibitions and books we present and future of the Louth Canal. Trust - here they collected many local explore how the practice of drawing in From 5.30pm: opening reception with memories from local people, which relation to poetry might be employed drinks and poetry reading by Harriet have now become part of the finished in an affective understanding of place. Tarlo at 6pm. work. Their artists’ book about the Originally an Arts Council commission canal was published this year and Outfalls is a collaboration between by Linda Ingham, Outfalls has been will be available during the run of the two artists, Judith Tucker (visual artist) shown in Lincolnshire at exhibition. and Harriet Tarlo (poet), drawing on and Barton-on-Humber, nationally thirty years of experience of working at Sheffield, Leeds and Kings Lynn Contact [email protected] www.projectoutfalls.com

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Apple Day Who Do’ye think Sunday 14th October, 10am-3pm you are - Workshop Alford Manor House Monday 15th October, 2pm-4pm Visit Alford Manor House garden Stanhope Hall, Horncastle to learn about our collection of Lincolnshire apple trees. Learn about Tickets £6 how these young trees are being Join Lincolnshire Family History Society pruned and how the older trees are and learn how to rediscover your own being rejuvenated. In the marquee, family history. see a huge collection of locally grown Perfect for beginners, come along and apples on display, sample our apple receive advice on how to get started Book the Course of 4 for £52 or juice, ciders, homemade preserves on your research, in particular with book at £15 per session. and apple dishes. Our experts and information specific to researching your Ideal for absolute beginners or as a producers will be available to discuss family tree in Lincolnshire. all things ‘apple’. Visit the tearoom for a refresher. Over four weeks you will selection of apple dishes on the menu. learn the basics of crochet pattern. You Normal admission charges apply for Learn Crochet! will use different stitches to make a case for your crochet hooks, a scarf, a visiting the house and barn. Four relaxed and fun sessions with granny square and some bunting. If you would like further details please tutor Pam Barnell All materials, including hooks, provided. call 01507 463073 or 07919 322230 Mondays 15th, 22nd, 29th or email [email protected] October and 5th November 1pm- Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. 3.30pm co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft Market Shop, 1 West Street, Alford Craf Market Centre Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG

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Lavender Bags WALLIS LECTURE Tuesday 16th October, 2pm-4pm Stuart Sizer - Pictures Alford Manor House in the Windows: the Tickets £8 including refreshments Nicki Jarvis works with ceramics and Stained Glass of St textiles to create objects that celebrate James’ Church, Louth traditional domestic arts. Join her and Event hosted by Louth Naturalists’ Buttons & Brooches make your own lavender bags to keep Tuesday 16th October, or give as a gift. Antiquarian and Literary Society 10am-12noon Entirely hand stitched, these fragrant Conoco Room, Louth Library Alford Manor House and decorative jackets will incorporate Tuesday 16th October, 7.30pm Tickets £8 including refreshments specially screen-printed fabrics and Tickets £4 on the door tiny handmade buttons made by Nicki An opportunity to create fired ceramic for this workshop. You will need to be Stuart is a retired Headteacher and buttons and brooches with Nicki Jarvis, confident with a needle. All materials Local Historian with particular interest tutor at Oxcombe Pottery. During this and tools supplied. in Louth Navigation, The Marsh and two-hour session you will work with Churches with particular onus on Louth white clay and coloured dips to create St James’. unique clay work that can be used to decorate clothes and cushions. St James’ Church, Louth has lost all its medieval windows to be replaced by After the session Nicki will take your work Victorian and Edwardian stained glass to glaze and fire it for durability, before of varying quality. But they all tell a posting it back to you. All materials and story of the makers and those who tools supplied just bring a pinny!

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gave the windows in memory of Tennyson: how he An evening of loved ones. Tonight Stuart will look at what was speaks to us today Linkisheer Dialect there before the present glass, how Wednesday 17th October, by Far Welter’d (East the glass was made and painted, 7.30-9.15pm Lincolnshire Dialect Society) including some of the stories behind Somersby House, PE23 4NR Wednesday 17th October, the windows. Tickets are £8 and this includes a 7.30pm-9.30pm finger food supper and beverage Kings Head Hotel, Louth, upstairs ‘On the Trail of Hazel Hale will guide us through the function room Sir John Betjeman’ delights of some of Tennyson’s poetry, Tickets are £6 which includes a with commentary and readings from by the Lincolnshire Branch of the buffet. To pre-book call Tony Lazell the parlour of Somersby House, his Betjeman Society home for the first 28 years of his life. on 01507 450526, or pay on the door. Wednesday 17th October, 7.30pm Hazel has been teaching English If you have no idea what ‘grufty round Conoco Room, Louth Library Language and Literature throughout her the wikins’ means, or what someone’s career and is currently teaching for the Tickets £3 payable on the door doing when they’re ‘gawstering’, then Worker’s Educational Association (WEA) or in advance to Stuart Crooks, come along to an evening with Far at various locations in Lincolnshire. Peppers Holt, , Welter’d and ‘appen you’ll find out. PE23 4NE Booking essential. Space is limited. You’ll hear poems, stories and songs in Linkisheer dialect, and there’s even a An entertainment based on the Contact leader for more information bit of audience participation when we recently published brochure of the and booking. Tel: 01507-534847 play Call My Bluff Linkisheer style! And same name. / [email protected] there’s a buffet included in the ticket

20 To book, see page 3 18th October price. I tell ya, there’s nowt like a bit of through almost 40 countries, Karl James Fowler - Linkisheer hentertayunment! By the introduces a fascinating presentation way, we reckon these horganisers ‘ave of side splitting tales and compelling Friend or Foe of the gotten it wrong: it should be Wolds stories based on his real life epic Wods! adventures. Featuring inside movie Medieval Church? secrets from such classics as Bridge on Thursday 18th October, 2pm-3pm Misadventures in Movie the River Kwai, Batman, James Bond, St Margaret’s Church, Thimbleby, The Exotic Marigold Hotel, Avengers Horncastle LN9 5RE and many more. Locations - In the Free but must be booked in Footsteps of Heroes Combined with a look behind the advance Iron Curtain, encounters with US With Guest Speaker Karl Bird During Victorian times, many Presidents, Tigers and even the Dalai Lincolnshire churches were restored (Former “Cruise Director’ with Lama, this will be an unforgettable by Louth architect James Fowler. This Carnival Cruise Lines) event for all. entertaining talk guides you through Thursday 18th October, 2.30pm To find out more visit www. the history of St Margaret’s church in Tickets £6 to include free tea or louthriverheadtheatre.com or contact Thimbleby and how Fowler restored coffee Box Office on 01507 600350 which the church …. yet only 100 years later, Thursday 18th October, 7.30pm is open from 10am-1pm Monday to as a result of these restorations, the also featuring a Quiz and Q&A Saturday. You can book tickets on spire had to be removed and rebuilt. our website any time of the day by Why did the building materials fail? session. Tickets £9, Theatrecard £8 selecting the Buy Tickets button from Enjoy an afternoon with Dr Matthew The Riverhead Theatre, Louth any of the events on our site. Please Godrey, Historic Churches Support Trekking solo in the footsteps of his note a £1 fee per booking applies. Officer for the as he childhood heroes on the big screen tells the story of this village church.

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exciting! You will be able to purchase can be used in a number of different some extra paints and ‘bits and pieces’ ways to create a ‘watercolour’ or ‘oil’ if needed. Don’t forget a packed lunch, effect and can be overpainted almost tea and coffee is available throughout straight away making it very easy to the day. correct any mistakes or improve things you don’t like! How about painting an Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. original Christmas card, your pet, house co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft or favourite landscape- bring photos/ Market Shop, 1 West Street, images with you. Tea, coffee and Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG biscuits provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Student requirements list will be Atmosphere & Mystery Acrylic Painting sent to you on booking (brushes, paper, in Watercolour Workshop for paints etc). with Anne Barnham Book online at www.alfordcraftmarket. Beginners & co.uk or by visiting Alford Craft Friday 19th October, Intermediates Market Shop, 1 West Street, 10.30am-3.30pm Alford, Lincs, LN13 9DG Alford Craf Market Centre with Carey Jones £25 per person Saturday 20th October, Exploring how the use of different 10.30am-4.30pm colours can alter the ‘feel’ of a painting. Alford Craf Market Centre We shall paint several versions of £25 per person the same view showing seasons, mist distance etc … this can be quite Come along and paint with acrylics- bright, vibrant and very versatile, they

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The Lincolnshire For more information please have a beatboxer, don’t use auto-tune, contact: spiritofsutterby@gmail. and conform to traditional harmonies. Landscape: Through com 01790 754079 All in all it promises to be a fun the Eyes of Alfred Lord evening. An evening with Space is limited so early booking is Tennyson & John Clare advised. Tickets are £10 and include a Saturday, October 20th, 2.30pm Octangle; welcome drink and nibbles at Ferndale Franklin Hall, Spilsby Louth Male Voice Manor (opposite the church). £5 includes refreshments Choir’s spin-off Octet All proceeds will go to the upkeep and fabric fund of Bag Enderby church. A lecture by Professor Mark Seaward, Saturday 20th of October of the University of Bradford, Booking and more information Drinks from 7pm, concert starts at examining the connection between via: 01507-534847 / poet and landscape. Works by both 7.30pm. End time: 9.15pm approx [email protected]. Tennyson and Clare make extensive use £10 of their knowledge and understanding We are pleased to announce a concert The Best of Bowie of the natural world. This is a chance in Bag Enderby church with Octangle, to gain an insight and understanding who are members of Louth Male Voice presented by Sweeney of the landscape in which both poets Choir. Entertainments lived, wrote and worked. They bill themselves as Louth’s Saturday 20th October, 7.30pm The Sutterby Project is a community premiere Boy Band and sing acappella. The Riverhead Theatre, Louth project researching the past and The styles of songs they perform Tickets £20, Theatrecards £18.50 preserving the future of the (lost) vary widely. Unlike some ‘Boy Bands’, village of Sutterby, in the Wolds. Octangle don’t use microphones, don’t A sincere and respectful dedication to David Bowie. With the band having

23 21st October

frontman Charlie and his band of dedicated aficionados lovingly recreate a selection of Bowie favourites from throughout the years. Their attention to detail, both musically and visually, is impeccable. ‘The Best of Bowie’ is all about love and respect for the man that Rolling Stone Magazine called “the greatest rock star ever”. “I saw [DavidLive] at Goodwood Revival and they were fantastic!” Chris Evans BBC Radio 2 To find out more visit had the present line-up for ten years, www.louthriverheadtheatre.com or ‘Fatal Attraction’ David Live is an honest and insightful contact Box Office on 01507 600350 Sunday 21st October, 2pm -4pm musical tribute which looks back over which is open from 10am-1pm Monday Stanhope Hall, Horncastle Bowie’s incredible musical legacy. to Saturday. You can book tickets on our website any time of the day by Tickets £6 including refreshments David Bowie, who died aged just selecting the Buy Tickets button from The authors of ‘The Crime Writer’s 69 on 10th January 2016, had an any of the events on our site. Please Casebook’, two leading experts in the immeasurable impact on music and note a £1 fee per booking applies. field of crime, will discuss why the popular culture and this show presents genre is so popular with both readers a sincere token of remembrance as and writers. The talk will include

24 To book, see page 3 23rd October reference to some true crime case Land of the Dead Workshop during Professor Joanna studies and the advances in criminal Halloween Half Term. Two fun filled investigation throughout the years. days to celebrate the day of the dead Innes - Bouyer in Stephen Wade is a crime historian by playing games, dancing to Mexican who has written more than 60 books. music, crafting colourful skulls and Lincolnshire: Stuff Stuart Gibbon is a former senior discovering the land of the dead for Balls, Spinning Schools detective who now advises writers 6-11 year olds. as a consultant. This event is a must and Saving the Church To find out more visit for anyone interested in true crime www.louthriverheadtheatre.com or 1770-1811 and crime fiction whether historical or contact Box Office on 01507 600350 contemporary. Event hosted by Louth Naturalists’ which is open from 10am-1pm Monday Antiquarian and Literary Society to Saturday. You can book tickets on Land of the Dead our website any time of the day by Conoco Room, Louth Library selecting the Buy Tickets button from Tuesday 23rd October, 7.30pm Craft Workshop any of the events on our site. Please Tickets £4 on the door Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th note a £1 fee per booking applies. October, 10am- 3pm Cambridge graduate and Oxford Professor Joanna Innes research focuses The Riverhead Theatre, Louth on British social policy 1688-1830 and is £30 involved in an international collaborative In association with Sophie Watkinson project on changing ideas and practices from do-Dance. associated with ‘democracy’. If you love the movie Coco and enjoy In this talk Professor Innes will all things crafty then you will love this describe Reynold Gideon Bouyer’s two most notable, linked projects:

25 23rd to 25th October

the founding of a Stuff Ball, at which Pumpkin Carving Stories on a String all who attended were supposed to wear Lincolnshire worsteds, and the Tuesday 23rd October, 2pm Presented by Dotted Line Theatre establishment of a network of parish Louth Library & Polyglot Arts ‘spinning schools’. £1 per child Thursday 25th October Bouyer was a high-profile clergyman- Dare you Performances at 12noon and activist in late eighteenth-century venture on down 3.30pm. Workshop is 2pm South Lindsey; his reputation extended and use hubble, The Riverhead Theatre, Louth not just to Lincoln, but to London and bubble, toil and the royal court. trouble to carve Tickets £7, Under 16s £5, Workshop Fee £5 She will also talk about his increasing your very own City girl Jacina leaves her phone-fuelled concern to defend the Church of pumpkin for life to travel deep into the Amazon England against what he saw as Hallows Eve? jungle, on a quest for her grandma. ignorant and fanatical itinerant Recommended But there’s no WiFi in the rainforest, preachers, and how this led him to for ages 4-11 so Jacina must rely on her eyes, her refocus his later educational work, after year olds (under ears and her heart, as the mysterious he had been hand-picked by the Bishop 8s must be creatures of the jungle reveal to her a of Durham to promote education in accompanied by new path and a way back home. that diocese. But Bouyer didn’t only an adult). Reserve your spot as places change his mind from his own volition: are limited. Journey to the heart of the mysterious he also had to respond to criticism he rain forest, with live Brazilian music, For more information email louth.library@ encountered from parents who had songs and puppetry. For ages 6+. gll.org or telephone 01522 782010 their own ideas about what kinds of To find out more visit www. education their children needed. louthriverheadtheatre.com or contact

26 To book, see page 3 25th to 26th October

Room on a Broom ‘Proof’ by David Auburn Thursday 25 October, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th 2.30pm-3.30pm October, 7.30pm nightly Louth Library The Riverhead Theatre, Louth Free, please book in advance Tickets £6 It’s a windy day for a ride on a witches Proof is an emotion driven drama broom, so hold onto your hat and don’t evoking themes of mental health, drop your cat, and let’s hope you have mathematics and trust. enough room. An interactive story Catherine, the daughter of a brilliant session based around this spooktacular yet troubled mathematician, is faced family favourite! with the question; How much genius Join Rhubarb Theatre for storytelling has she inherited… and how much and crafts. insanity? This performance, which brings to life David Auburn’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, is being independently Box Office on 01507 600350 which produced by a group of young is open from 10am-1pm Monday to and exciting performers. A fresh Saturday. You can book tickets on contemporary play like this one is not our website any time of the day by to be missed. selecting the Buy Tickets button from any of the events on our site. Please note a £1 fee per booking applies.

27 27th October

Nuno Felted Scarf Back in Time for Tea Workshop Saturday 27th October, 2pm-3pm Saturday 27th October, 10am-4pm Conoco Room, Louth Library, The Old Forge Art Studio, Louth Wainfleet Bank, Wainfleet St. Mary, , PE24 4JP Tickets £6 including refreshments Cost £48 per person, includes all Get your 1940’s glad rags on and join materials and light refreshments, us for tea and cake as we take a trip back in time. please bring a packed lunch. You will create your Watch a selection of films from the own unique Nuno Lincolnshire Film Archive recalling felted scarf, using soft life in the Louth area in the 1940s, Merino wool, pure silk together with a special Lincolnshire and fibres. Nuno is the archive compilation celebrating the To find out more visit www. centenary of the RAF. louthriverheadtheatre.com or contact art of wet felting wool Box Office on 01507 600350 which through fabric making is open from 10am-1pm Monday to a beautiful texture on Saturday. You can book tickets on the work. our website any time of the day by Suitable for all abilities. Places limited, selecting the Buy Tickets button from booking essential. any of the events on our site. Please note a £1 fee per booking applies. Tel Barbara on 01754 880652 www.theoldforgeartstudio.co.uk

28 To book, see page 3 29th to 30th October

Yellow Belly Picnic Jean Howard - Out At her first school in Hemingby it was hearing Tennyson’s Lady of Shallot that Monday 29th October, 3pm of the Spotlight: the cemented Jean’s love of rhyme and Alford Library Lives and Writing of rhythm. Tickets £6 Tonight, we will learn more of the life Learn all about Lincolnshire’s wonderful Some Lesser-known and verse of Emily Mucklow, now home -grown produce with Sunnyside Lincolnshire Poets perhaps best remembered for being Up Farm Shop’s resident Butcher, Nick the young sister of the eight Beechey Event hosted by Louth Naturalists’ Bradley. boys who served at such cost in WWI. Antiquarian and Literary Society Samuel Palmer Chapman, the subject Nick has been a Lincolnshire Butcher of Henry Winn’s scolding poem that for over 40 years and will be talking Conoco Room, Louth Library begins ‘Dear S P Chapman – are you about the local produce sold at Tuesday 30th October, 7.30pm dead?’ will be another Yellerbelly to Sunnyside Up Farm Shop, including Tickets £4 on the door feature in tonight’s programme. The Lincolnshire Red Beef and their others? – we’ll see. specialty Lincolnshire sausages, using Jean moved to a farm in the a recipe from Nick’s Granddad who Lincolnshire Wolds when she was just owned a Butchers shop in Lincolnshire 5 years old, and although her career during the 1950s. began in industry in Lancashire she returned to Lincolnshire with her accountant husband Russell in 1974, working for the county library service and as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide. Jean now organises the Society’s lecture and outings programme.

29 31st October

Alford Craf Market Centre 1 West Street, Alford LN13 9DG My Paranormal Tales www.alfordcraftmarket.co.uk Wednesday 31st October, 7pm = wheelchair/disabled access London Road Pavilion, Louth Alford Library Tickets £6 6 South Market Place, Alford LN13 9AF Stephen Wade tells Alford Manor House some unexplained West Street, Alford LN13 9HT stories of ghosts, poltergeists and other = free car parking mysterious phenomena = wheelchair/disabled access from his Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Bag Enderby Church casebooks. The audience will also PE23 4NP be invited to tell their own stories as well, so come along with accounts of Conoco Philips Room, Louth experience you feel are beyond the Library, Northgate, Louth LN11 0LY rational. = wheelchair/disabled access Stephen’s tales include accounts Elizabeth Court from Epworth, one of his favourite Church Street, Louth LN11 9BP investigations, and his special family tales of ghosts at windows, ghosts on = wheelchair/disabled access stairs and the exorcism of a Yorkshire Franklin Hall pub where a family fled in terror. Halton Road, Spilsby PE23 5LA

30 To book, see page 3 Venue Information

High Meadow Studio Spilsby Theatre The Old Stables Lincoln Road, Horncastle LN9 5LY Church Street, Spilsby PE23 5DY 30 Victoria Road, Louth LN11 0BX Kings Head Hotel, Function Room = free car parking The Cocktail Lounge, 10 Mercer Row, Louth LN11 9JQ = wheelchair/disabled access The Mason’s Arms = free car parking There is ramped access for the Bar and 13 Cornmarket, Louth LN11 9PY Bar toilets only. Unfortunately there is no London Road Pavilion ramped access to the Studio Theatre and Town and Country Club London Road, Louth LN11 9QP no wheelchair space in the Studio Theatre. Cannon Street, Louth LN11 9NL = free car parking Stanhope Hall Trinity Centre = wheelchair/disabled access Boston Road, Horncastle LN9 6NF Eastgate, Louth LN11 8DJ. Limited space and limited disabled parking Louth Playgoers Riverhead Theatre = free car parking = free car parking Victoria Road, Louth LN11 0BX = wheelchair/disabled access = wheelchair/disabled access = free car parking St Andrews Church = wheelchair/disabled access Ashby Puerorum, Horncastle LN9 6NT Navigation Warehouse St Andrew’s Church Louth LN11 0DA Utterby LN11 0TH Somersby House St Margaret Church, Thimbleby PE23 4NR Horncastle LN9 5RE St James Church Westgate, Louth LN11 0DP KEY: The Old Forge Art Studio = free car parking Wainfleet Bank, Wainfleet St. Mary, = wheelchair/disabled access Skegness PE24 4JP

31 Festival Highlights Magna Vitae Events

Event Page Event Page EXHIBITION CHILDREN Suffragette Exhibition 3 Room on a Broom 27 HERITAGE LITERATURE Women’s Role in the Great 5 Far Welter’d & The National 8 War Churches Trust A History of Louth in 80 5 Anthony Cropper 9-10 minutes Poetry Workshop 16 Who Do’ye Think You Are 18 Fatal Attraction 24-25 James Fowler 21 My Paranormal Tales 30 Back in Time for Tea 28 Yellow Belly Picnic 29 CRAFTS The Big Draw 9 Brattleby Farm Shetland 11 Wools - Felt Making - Knitting Lattice Buttons & Brooches 19 Lavender Bags 19

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