ARTS FESTIVAL 2005
Bradford on Avon Arts Festival 2005
This years arts festival is bigger and better than last year. See details of all exciting events below:
Programme in brief
FRIDAY 23rd September
The White Wine Art Trail 6pm - 8.30pm free entry to all the town’s galleries
Concert: Paraskevi Saxon Church 7.30pm - 9pm (tickets £5 from the TIC)
SATURDAY 24th September
Family arts workshop St. Margaret’s Hall, 11am - 4pm (free)
Anthony Wilson’s Junk Sculpture St. Margaret’s car park, 11am - 4pm (free)
Graffiti Wall St. Margaret’s car park, 2pm – 4pm (50p for half an hour)
Church Street Party music, dance, drama, stalls, food, drink, 4pm – 9pm (free)
Dr Feelgood St Margaret’s Hall, 8.30pm (tickets £7.30 from TIC)
SUNDAY 25th September
Market Street Happening surreal event, 8am - 6pm (free)
Poetry Workshop Ale & Porter Arts, 10am - 1pm (tickets £8 from TIC)
Acoustic Triangle Wiltshire Music Centre, 7.30pm (tickets £14 from TIC)
Wind in the Willows Children’s workshop Library, 10.30am - 12.30pm (free)
Tea Dance, “Moonrakers Dance Orchestra”, St Margaret’s Hall, 6.30pm (£5)
MONDAY 26th September
Quoins Organic Vineyard Visit, Little Ashley, 5pm – 6.30pm (£2 inc. samples)
The “Just William” Lady with Alison Neil, St Margaret’s Hall (tickets £5)
TUESDAY 27th September
Artists are from Venus, Scientists are from Mars Piers Bizony, Ale & Porter Arts, 7pm (£2from TIC)
Con Brio Singers United Church Hall, 7pm – 8pm (free)
Shambles Open Evening shops open until 8pm, demonstrations, tastings, music
WEDNESDAY 28th September“Do you Bite your Thumb at Us, Sir?” Shakespeare Workshop, St. Laurence School, 7pm – 9pm (£5 from TIC)
Britten Sinfonia Evelyn Glennie, Wiltshire Music Centre 7.30pm (tickets £25)
THURSDAY 29th September
Writers Workshop Library, 2.30pm - 5.30pm (tickets £2 from TIC)
Voices - Youth Theatre St Laurence School 7.30pm (tickets £3 from TIC)
Film “Eat,Drink, Man, Woman” Ale & Porter Arts -8.00-10.30 (BoA Film Society, tickets £5)
Miles Kington “Around the World in Eighty Jokes” Library, 6.30pm (£8)
The Comedy Club the Barge Inn 7.30pm – 11pm (£8 from the Barge Inn)
FRIDAY 30th September
Singathon Ale & Porter Arts, from 12pm, record breaking marathon (free)
Literary & Arts Quiz Coach House, Swan Hotel, 7.30pm (tickets £2 from Ex Libris)
Music at the Marquee The Specials, Victory Field-7pm (tickets £8.50, £10 after 10pm, 2-day pass for £14.50)
SATURDAY 1st October
Sculpture Garden Wellclose House, Newtown, Sat & Sun, 10am - 6pm (free)
Chamber Town Day 11am - 3pm, special promotions all round town
Outdoor Music Knees Corner, 11am - 3pm (free)
Film, “Bradford Remembers” Octagonal Garden, St Margaret’s Car Park, 7.15pm (free)
Sacred Music, Paragon Singers Holy Trinity Church 7.30 - 8.30 -free
Sunflower Competition-Westbury Garden, 5.30pm - 6pm (free)
Sunflower Float Town Bridge or footbridge- floating sunflower heads with nightlights down the river, 6.30pm (free)
Music at the Marquee Arthur Brown and friends, Victory Field, 7pm (tickets £8.50, £10 after 10pm, 2-day pass for £14.50)
Sunday 2nd October
Wind in the Willows Theatrical Walk & Picnic, starting at the packhorse Bridge, 2.30pm (£3 from TIC)
Festival Feast at the Tithe Barn 7pm (tickets £30 from TIC)
ALL WEEK:
Michael Simpson, “Bench Paintings” Tithe Barn 10am - 5pm (free)
Open Galleries and Studios (in conjunction with the Cloth Road Arts Trail)
Art at the Art House, demonstrations and “meet the artists” sessions all week, 10.30am - 5pm (free)
Art at Stowford, demonstrations and workshops all week (free)
Art at the Quaker Meeting House, family workshops 3pm - 5pm both Festival weekends (free)
Millenium Embroidery Display, Wiltshire Music Centre (free)
Music at the George, Woolley Street all week (free)
Breakdancing, Black Cat, Riverside 4.30pm - 5.30pm sessions every weekday evening during festival (free)
Art at Fortythree workshops for adults, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri (£10, telephone 01225 863909 to book)
Lions Art Exhibition, St Margaret’s Hall 7.30pm Friday 30th and Sat and Sun, 10am – 5pm
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