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STOP PRESS Welcome to STOP PRESS . This is intended to highlight events that have missed the deadline for hard copy.
Feel free to send me anything you need circulating Inside is :- Childswickham Inn Cider Fest Michael Jackson Broadway Book Club going strong Yoga for health Ashmolean Broadway Picnic on the Green Lots going on at The Fleece Who you gonna Call?
CHILDSWICKHAM INN Phone 01386 852461
Michael Jackson on Sept 2nd *********************** Also not to be missed is
BROADWAY Library Book Club
"Do you enjoy reading? Would you like to try reading something different to your usual choices? The newly formed Broadway Library Book Club will be meeting on the third Monday of each month at 2.30 p.m. in the library. Books are being chosen by the mem- bers at their meeting in March, and the library will obtain the books for members. If you're interested in joining us please contact Fiona Robbins on 01386 300954 if you'd like further information or just turn up We'd love to see you there!"
Yoga to Relax & Revive.
Gentle movement and relaxation. Beginners welcome. Childswickham Village Hall Tuesdays 10.30-12 am,
Bretforton Village Hall Tuesdays 6.30-8 pm.
Broadway Lifford Hall, Wednesdays 7-8.30 pm.
Enquiries Aston Colley 01386 870893, www.unwind-yoga.co.uk
Ashmolean Museum Broadway
Summer at the Ashmolean Museum Broadway
Visiting the Museum
At the Ashmolean Museum Broadway we have been improving our displays with room cards providing more information on the objects in the collection thanks to research carried out by staff and volunteers.
If you are bringing children there is a trail to follow so they can learn more about Tudor House and the art- work and we run special activities during the school holidays.
The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm and Bank Holiday Mondays.
Admission Prices are £5 for adults, £2 for children and £10 for a family ticket. Don’t forget if you are a UK taxpaper you can gift aid this and receive 12 months free entry giving you a chance to visit the different exhi- bitions throughout the year.
Volunteer Fair 18th July 11am-2pm
The volunteer fair will be a great opportunity for you to discover how you can help your local community mu- seum and art gallery if you have a few hours to spare each week.
There will also be representatives from other community groups and charities at the event giving information on the voluntary roles they have available.
So if you are interested in volunteering please come and see how you can benefit some local organisations and learn what you can gain from the experience too.
F.L Griggs Exhibition
The Ashmolean Museum Broadway’s summer exhibition, which will run until 11th September celebrates the work of F. L. Griggs (1876–1938). The exhibition has been curated by Katherine Wodehouse, the Print Room Supervisor for the Western Art Department at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
The son of a baker, Griggs was born in Hitchin but moved to Chipping Campden in 1905.He is best known as a draughtsman and print-maker. His artistic career was assured in 1900 by a commission from Macmillan to illustrate their guidebook series Highways and Byways. Beginning with his native Hertfordshire (1902), he completed eleven further volumes, among them one devoted to Oxford and the Cotswolds (1905). Places that he originally encountered as an illustrator often subsequently provided him with inspiration for his own topographical and imaginative work.
Griggs’s experiments with etching began in 1895 but it was not until 1912, the year of his conversion to Ro- man Catholicism, that he created his first mature works in the medium. Thereafter, it remained his primary means of artistic expression. His profound faith reinforced his deep-seated love of the countryside and medi- eval architecture. His reputation as an etcher was unsurpassed as acknowledged by his election to the Roy- al Academy in 1931. Demonstrating an equal mastery of meticulous architectural detail and poetic effects of light and atmosphere, he created images of compelling visionary intensity.
Griggs rented Dover’s House in Chipping Campden for twenty years before designing and constructing his final home, New Dover’s House, which almost bankrupted him and remained unfinished at his death. Griggs collaborated with the renowned Arts & Crafts architect and designer, Ernest Gimson, on various projects, including several local war memorials. Later, in 1929 he founded the Campden Trust together with Gimson’s
July at The Fleece Inn Bretforton The Fleece, The Cross, Bretforton, Worcestershire, WR11 7JE. 01386 831173 | [email protected] www.thefleeceinn.co.uk
Come rain or shine, join us at The Fleece this summer for great food & drink in our beautiful village setting. It's been another busy month, and between weddings, festivals, morris dancing, wine tastings and a new menu, we found time to pick up another award! Congratulations Nigel - crowned Entrepreneur of the Year at the Hereford & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2016! Read on for details some of the great events coming up at the Fleece this month, in- cluding Bretforton's own music festival, and we hope to welcome you to the Fleece Inn soon. Nigel Smith, Landlord, and team x
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The Handlebards - Romeo & Juliet Fri 15 July, 7pm Described by Sir Ian McKellen as “uproariously funny”, the four-strong all-female HandleBards per- form fast-paced, irreverent and bicycle-powered Shakespeare plays. Expect a “gloriously eccentric and very, very fun- ny” (The Stage, on A Midsummer Night’s Dream) side-splitting production of Romeo And Juliet. The girls will be accompanied by live music from a local madrigal group. £12 (Under 18s £6) : Book Now!
BretFest & Last Night of the Proms Fri 15 - Sat 23 July A week of musical fun for all tastes from Classical Recitals to The Sound of Music, finishing with the spectacular Bretforton Silver Band. Our regular folk night is part of the fun, and our outdoor bar team will be down the Butty for the Proms! http://www.bretfest.com/