beforetickets 30th£1 booked Apriloff WINCHCOMBE MUSI & ARTS 23-30 May 2016 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS MUSIC VISUAL ARTS TALKS & POETRY WORKSHOPS STREET FAIR www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 1 WEOME Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts. Welcome to the sixth annual Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts, in which we aim to build upon the success of previous Festivals with a varied programme of music, poetry, art, sculpture and workshops in and around Winchcombe. This Festival could not take place without the vital support of many individuals and organisations who have given their time and provided funding for many of the events. We also appreciate the generosity shown by the town’s churches and businesses for making venues available free of charge. The following organisations have provided vital support to fund specific Festival events: The Oldham Foundation (Festival-wide sponsor) Warner’s Budgens (Festival-wide sponsor) www.warnersbudgens.co.uk ADB Consult Ltd Benjamin Chocolatier Ltd www.benjaminchocolatier.co.uk Cotswold Eye Care Centre www.cotswoldeyecare.co.uk Food Fanatics www.food-fanatics.co.uk Newsum Antiques www.newsumantiques.co.uk Ros Martin Tax Consultancy www.taxdr.co.uk Strawberry Hill Vineyard www.strawberryhillvineyard.com Vale & Hills Family Butchers www.valehills.co.uk Discover 1,000 years of Winchcombe Country Show www.winchcombeshow.org.uk British history and explore The Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts is run by a dedicated team supported by award-winning gardens at a many volunteers who help with the management of individual events. much loved family home, in Festival team: David Banks, Lynne Banks, Lil Brooks, Sue Brooks, Judy Crombie, The Cotswolds the heart of the Cotswolds. Barbara Curry, Rob Davies, Lesley Davies, Ros Martin, Celia Royle, Jane Smoczynski. Media partner: 10% Open daily until discount th Festival updates on Impromptu, the Breakfast when you Sunday 30 October 2016, Show and the John Oldham show. book online 10am - 5pm Events throughout the season Discounts for group bookings www.sudeleycastle.co.uk WINCHCOMBE Time Out Tel: 01242 604 244 of the Ordinary MUSI & ARTS 23-30May 2016 2 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk ART TRAIL JAZZ SUPPER STARTS Tickets £25 (to include supper) TE03 Entry Free NT01 TODAY FOR 7 DAYS Venue St Mary’s, Cowl Lane Venue At 14 open studios Time 7.30pm Time Open daily throughout the Festival. Details Talented jazz duo - singer Hannah Davey and pianist Tom Details Winchcombe’s popular Art Trail offers a unique Lindsay - bring you an evening of your favourite jazz tunes opportunity to view and buy original works of arts from the American songbook, in an intimate setting. Known and crafts directly from the artist. Just a short for their stunning melodies, witty lyrics and toe-tapping drive out of Winchcombe, other artists’ venues can rhythms, there will be songs you know and perhaps a few new be found in the picturesque villages of Stanway gems to discover from Gershwin, Kern, Ellington and more. and Guiting Power. Art workshops for adults and Event supported by ADB Consult Ltd children will be held throughout the week. For more information visit www.winchcombefestival.co.uk BACH: PURE AND SIMPLE Event supported by Please see separate Tickets £8; £5 under 18s TE04 The Oldham Foundation Art Trail leaflet Venue St Peter’s Church Gloucester Street for full details. Time 7.30pm Details This cello recital will highlight some of Bach’s most famous and touching works. Bach, born in 1685, is known as the MONDAY 23 MAY inventor of "counterpoint" which is the foundation of all later western compositions. Nella Hunkins illustrates this ART AT SUDELEY CASTLE EXPERIENCE through the solo cello suites and with short explanations. Tickets £5 to include refreshments TE01 Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street Time 10.30am – 1.00pm TUESDAY 24 MAY Details 'Belinda Durrant, Artist in Residence at STARTS TODAY FOR Sudeley Castle, will be demonstrating her SCULPTURE EXHIBITION 6 DAYS fine papercut work from 10.30am to 11.30am. Entry Free NT02 From 12 noon to 1pm Belinda will talk about Venue Charingworth Court, Broadway Road her 'Sudeley experience’ and what draws her Time Tuesday 24th May and Wednesday 25th May 2.00pm - 5.00pm to the Castle. Work inspired by her residency is Thursday 26th May – Monday 30th May 11.00am - 5.00pm now on display at the castle. Ticket holders will Details Cotswold, national and international sculptors will be be entitled to entry to Sudeley Castle on the same exhibiting their work in the beautiful setting of the private day for £7 (a reduction of up to £7.50). gardens of Charingworth Court, Winchcombe. Curated by Winds of Change Gallery, the exhibition embraces a wide range of work and styles to include mosaic, glass, metal and stone. REMEMBERING QUATIA By kind permission of Susan and Richard Wakeford. Tickets £5 TE02 Venue The Methodist Church Hall, High Street Time 2.00pm HOW POETRY CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE Details On 6th August 1914, the local Royal Tickets £5 TE05 Gloucestershire Hussars, including well-known Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street local men, rode off to war from the George. Time 2.00pm – 3.00pm Sent first to guard the coast, they later fought at Details In this talk poet Jennie Farley will discuss the healing Gallipoli and in Egypt, where they met tragedy power of poetry, featuring poets past and present. An open in the desert in 1916. Come and learn more mic session will provide an opportunity for members of about these events from Carol Harris. the audience to share their own life-saving poems. 4 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 5 NEEDLE FELTING WORKSHOP - FELTED FLOWERS WEDNESDAY 25 MAY Tickets £28 to include materials and a drink TE06 Venue ‘Winds of Change’ Art Gallery, NEEDLE FELTING WORKSHOP – FELTED BIRDS Hailes Street Tickets £28 to include materials and a drink TE08 Time 10.00am – 12.00noon Venue ‘Winds of Change’ Art Gallery, Hailes Street Details This workshop is led by Jayne Time 10.00am – 12.00noon Emerson, whose work has sold to Details Jayne Emerson leads this second needle felting workshop. Chanel, Calvin Klein, John Lewis, The lovely birds you will learn to create are now infamous M and S and Boden. Needle felting after Jayne taught Kirstie Allsopp how to make them on involves using barbed needles that Kirstie's Handmade Britain! They are very simple to make, mesh wool fibres together to create and once you have mastered the robin you can experiment felt. The process is simple, quick with different-coloured fleeces and feathers to make your and perfect for beginners. Learn own choice of exotic (or garden) bird! how to make colourful blooms that can be attached to stems, or even appliquéd onto a backing fabric. STILL LIFE FOR BEGINNERS Tickets £12 to include materials and refreshments TE09 CLASSIC WIND Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street Time 2.00pm – 4.00pm £8; £5 under 18s Tickets TE07 Details If drawing is something you’ve always Venue St Nicholas’ Church, Chandos Street wanted to try this workshop is for Time 7.30pm you. Even if you haven’t picked up a Details Classic Wind was established in 1993 and comprises pencil for years come along and find the five principal wind players from the Cheltenham your hidden creative talent! Covering Chamber Orchestra. For the Winchcombe Festival the basic principles of drawing such they have devised a programme entitled ‘Rhythm and as composition, line, tone, texture and Dance’. This will be an attractive and approachable shading, local illustrator Gemma Hastilow mix of well-loved and original tunes from around the will guide you through drawing a still life. world. Refreshments available – donations in aid of All materials provided. St Nicholas’ Church. ISLAMIC ART: BARBARA CURRY FOLK NIGHT (GUEST PERFORMER JOHNNY COPPIN) Tickets £5 TE10 Time 3.00pm Tickets £8 at the door NT03 Venue The Methodist Church Hall, Details For over a thousand years, from Venue The Garden Room, The White Hart Inn, High Street Marrakesh to the Taj Mahal, from High Street Jerusalem to Mecca, the Muslim Time 8.00pm – 10.45pm world has celebrated art and the Details Johnny Coppin is an established singer/songwriter, craftsmanship of makers in glass, theatre music composer and poetry anthologist who is stonework, pottery, manuscripts, famous for his eloquent songs of Gloucestershire. His carpets, calligraphy and garden strong, clear vocals have taken his music to festivals design. What does the Qur’an say all over Europe, including Cambridge and Edinburgh, about art? Are faces allowed to be produced many solo albums, and a wide range of TV portrayed? Are there any images and radio programmes. This is an Open Night, in the of the Prophet? This fascinating middle of which Johnny will play and sing two sets. and fully-illustrated talk may surprise you. 6 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 7 TEA WITH THE OBSESSIVE COLLECTOR THURSDAY 26 MAY Tickets £20 TE11 STARTS The Wesley House, High Street TODAY FOR Venue WINCHCOMBE ART CLUB EXHIBITION 4 DAYS Time 3.00pm Entry Free NT04 Details Come to see and handle some favourite objects as local dealer and Venue The Guide Hall, High Street collector Mark Newsum guides you through a lifetime of collecting antiques Time Thurs: 2.00pm – 5.00pm; Fri and Sat: 10.00am – and curiosities. Cost includes full afternoon tea: sandwiches, freshly baked 5.00pm; Sun: 10.00am – 4.00pm scones, jam and cream, an assortment of cakes and a choice of teas. Details Winchcombe Art Club’s three day summer Event supported by Newsum Antiques exhibition opens this afternoon. On display will be paintings in oils, pastels, watercolours THE HARPSICHORD COLLECTIVE and acrylics, many of which will be on sale.