Drayton Arts Festival

DraytonArtsFest.org
Drayton Arts Festival
A Community Festival of the Arts
in Market Drayton
Thursday
30th October
to
Sunday
2nd November
2014
www.draytonartsfest.org
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Introduction
2014
Welcome to the first ever Market Drayton Arts Festival, a celebration of
the arts for all to enjoy. With a range of events from artistic workshops,
open studios and theatre to interactive music, dance and literature there
really will be something for everyone. Our resident photographers, 10
Stop Photography, will be present at the events to ensure a record of the
Festival is available subsequently. This booklet is intended to give you a
brief overview of the many things going on. Pages 4-7 list all of the events
that are happening (Thursday 30th Oct - Sunday 2nd Nov). Pages 8-10
give more detail of the events (Friday - Sunday). Due to limited space we
couldn’t fit everything we wanted to in this issue, for further details on
any of the events please refer to our website:
www.draytonartsfest.org
We all look forward to seeing you there,
The Drayton Arts Fest Team
Ticket Prices
While most of the events at the festival will be free, there are a number
of paid events to enjoy too. Where possible, all ticket prices are displayed
in this programe. For the event lists on pages 4 - 7 all paid events have
been highlighted. Advance tickets for events which are chargeable can be
booked at Festival Drayton centre – 01630 654444
Open Studios
Throughout the Arts Festival, local artists will be opening their studios. For
details of times and places, see the Arts Fest website at:
www.DraytonArtsFest.org
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Lead-up Events
2014
Retired Head of Music at the Grove, Ken Sterling will be leading Market Drayton’s first
“Pop Up Choir” in the run up to the weekend of the Drayton Arts Festival. Please join
the choir! All welcome! No auditions! No ability or age restrictions! No need to read
music. Rehearsals held on Tuesdays throughout October at 7.30pm; 7th, 14th, 21st, and
28th Oct. at the Methodist Church Schoolroom, Clive Road, Market Drayton.
Oct
SATURDAY 25th
Around the World in 80 Days 2pm to 4pm at Festival Drayton Centre
A brand new touring co-production by The Oxfordshire Theatre Company and Chipping
Norton Theatre. A joyfully frenetic whirlwind of a show, full of daft Victorian invention,
daring deeds and downright silliness that will have you crying with laughter as you travel
the world.
Line Dance Social Event 7.30 to 11.30pm at the Grove School
Featuring live music with National DJ Paul Bailey in the Grove School Main Hall on
Saturday 25th October 7.00p.m. - 11.30p.m. Large Free Car Park; Tea, coffee and cakes
for sale; Bring own food and cold drinks; Lucky Ticket Prize and Raffle, Proceeds to
Market Drayton First Responders. Tickets on sale now : Pre-booked £6.50 On the door
£7.50. Table reservations available. Contact Suzanne Edwards on 01630 698088
Exhibitions
1st October to 2nd November - Poetry and Prose Exhibition
There will be an ongoing exhibition of prose and poetry displayed in shops and
businesses around the town from 1st October. There will also be a Poetry and Prose
writing Competition for young people, the winner of which will be announced at an
“Open Mic” event in the Mouse Room at the Red Lion on Saturday 1st November.
(If you are interested in entering, pick up a form at the library in Market Drayton)
20th October to 2nd November - Photographic Exhibition
Whitchurch Photographic Society Photographic Exhibition of Market Drayton and the
surrounding area at the Festival Drayton Centre.
30th Oct to 2nd November - Town Centre Art Trail
Come and see the works of local artists in our Arts Fest street galleries located in shops
pubs and cafés where you see the Arts Fest poster. Contact Ann Boyden 01270 811906
to find out how you may display a painting of your own.
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THURSDAY 30th
Calendar Painting
Awards
Presentation
Meet The Artist
Mark Warner
“Creative Minecraft”
Fun Computer
Children’s
Celebration of Art
Combined Arts
Workshops
Local Schools
Calendar Painting
Exhibition
“Total People”
Study Program
Mask Making Halloween Mask
making with
“Scrappies”
Singing For Fun
Dance
Extravaganza
Seussical Jr “The
Cat In The Hat”
Live Music - Ashley
Fayth (Folk/Pop)
Hale Street
Stompers
Psychic Art
2014
Free
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
9.00am - 10.00 am
£5
Festival Drayton
Vernon Suite
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
9.00am - 11.00am
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
Market Drayton
Library
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
10.00am - 6.00pm
Free - Display of
Artwork by
16 - 18 year olds
Free
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
10.30am - 4.30pm
The Grove School
12 noon - 4.00pm
Free
Methodist Church
Hall, Clive Road
2.00pm - 4.00pm
£2 - Dance Demo
(Julia Holding Dance
Groups)
£5
Junior Am-drams
Free
The Parish Rooms,
Church Street
2.00pm - 3pm
7.30pm - 9.00 pm
Free
Festival Drayton
Centre Auditorium
The Sandbrook
Vaults
The Red Lion
£15
The Grove School
9.00pm - 10.00pm
Free - 8 Spaces Per
Hour
Free
Free
Free
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Hourly Sessions
9.30am - 3.30pm
10.00am - 12 noon
10.00am - 3.00pm
9.00pm - 11.00pm
9.00pm - 11.00pm
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FRIDAY 31st O
Meet The Author Kate Long
Priscilla Masters
Music To Your Feet
(The Big Piano)
£3 (Free with any
purchase)
Buttercross Tea
Rooms
Free
The Festival
Drayton Centre
Jake’s Take on
Seussical Jr (Story
by Jake “Trick”
Evans
Local Schools
Calendar Painting
Exhibition
Free
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
10.00am - 2.00pm
Free
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
10.00am - 3.00pm
Market Drayton
Library
1.00pm - 4.00pm
Fairfields Estate –
Green area at the
end of Sycamore
Way
Festival Drayton
Centre Auditorium
St Mary’s Church
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Poetry on demand - Free
Taylor made poems
by Brenda ReadBrown &
Fergus McGonigal
Incredible Edible
Free
Pumpkin Carving &
Tasting
Seussical Jr “The
Cat In The Hat”
Stafford Orchestra
£5
Junior Amdrams
£8
£5 (Concessions)
10.00am - 12 noon
2.00pm - 4.00pm
10.30am - 4.30pm
7.30pm - 9.00 pm
7.30pm - 9.30pm
Featured Event
imation
Stop-Frame An
Stop-Frame Animation Workshop 1pm - 5pm The Clive and Coffyne
With Hullabulloo Arts who initiate and facilitate workshops, events, parades and
exhibitions working with schools, families, youth groups, community groups and at
festivals. Hullabaloo’s goal is for greater participation and to encourage people to
explore lots of different forms of creative expression. They aim to work with people
to explore personal stories and group narratives, “Our back to basics approach
allows even complete beginners to create their own piece of animated magic!”
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Nov
SATURDAY 1st
2014
Tonks Youth
Theatre Present
“Blackout”
Free
Youth Centre,
Drayton Grove
10.00am
Meet The Author
Misha Herwin
Bakeorama
£3 (Free with any
purchase)
Free if you bake an
item
(Otherwise £1.50)
Free
Buttercross Tea
Rooms
Market Drayton
Library
10.00am 12.00 noon
10.30am - 11.30am
Oaktree Barn,
Blore Heath
10.30am - 4.30pm
Free
Outsite Market
Drayton Library
11.00am
Free
Market Drayton
Town Centre
12.00am - 2.00pm
Joule’s Brewery
Afternoon
Art Exhibition &
Have a go at
Drawing
Flash Mob
Street performance
by local musicians
Brewery Tours
Bell Ringers
Free
St Mary’s Church
Market Drayton
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Open Mic
(Poetry & Prose)
Free
The Red Lion Mouse Room
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Seussical Jr “The
Cat In The Hat”
£5
Junior Am-drams
Festival Drayton
Centre Auditorium
2.30pm - 4.00pm
Film “Leave to
Remain” - Coming
of age drama.
Gallery Singers
Acapella from the
Renaissance to
Present Day
Barn Dance
(Shropshire
Heroes)
Festival Drayton
Cinema Prices
Festival Drayton
Centre
7.00pm - 10.00pm
£7
Sacred Madrigals,
Jazz, Folk & Show
Tunes
£7.50
St Mary’s Church
Market Drayton
7.00pm - 9.30pm
Parish Rooms
Church Street
7.45pm - 11.00pm
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Meet The Author
Mary Williams
J W Ironmonger
Art Exhibition &
Have a go at
Drawing
Little Howard’s Big
Show for Kids
Big Draw
Free
Buttercross Tea
Rooms
Free
Oaktree Barn,
Blore Heath
£8/£7
£28 - Family
Free
Festival Drayton
Centre Auditorium
Fordhall Farm
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Men Who March
Away
Subject to
confirmation
Christchurch,
Little Drayton
Around 4.00pm
Pop-Up Choir and
Friends
Free
Methodist Church
Hall, Clive Road
2.30pm - 4.00pm
Simon &
Garfunkel
Performed by
Bookends
Live Music Hickman & Quinn
(Folk/Roots)
Live Music Ghost Trains
(Folk/Rock/60’s)
Flamenco Guitar
£14
Festival Drayton
Centre Auditorium
7.00pm - 10.00pm
Free
The Sandbrook
Vaults
9.00pm - 11.00pm
Free
Market Drayton
Library
5pm - 6pm
Free
The Red Lion
4.30pm - 7.00pm
10.00am - 12 noon
2.00pm - 4.00pm
10.30am - 4.30pm
10.00an - 4.00pm
Featured Event
Bakeorama
Saturday 10.30am to 11.30am - Market Drayton Library
If you enjoy baking or eating cake, don’t miss this! Bakeorama is a
baking challenge for amateur bakers – bake your favourite cake and
bring it along to Market Drayton Library to share it with others and
stand a chance of winning the Market Drayton Bakeorama Challenge.
This event is supported by the Friends of Market Drayton Library.
Entry: free for anyone bringing a baked item. £1.50 without a baked
item.
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FRIDAY 31st O
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h Centre, Drayton Grove.
9.30 am - 4.30 pm at Market Drayton Yout
ls; (Continued from Thursday).
schoo
local
Exhibition of short-listed paintings from 13
Study Programme.
Work by 16 - 18 yr olds’ from the 'Total People'
10am to 3pm Stor y-telling sessions Mar
ket Drayton Youth Centre,
Jake Evans, National Story Teller of the Year, will
be reading “Cat in the Hat” stories and
performing his own original interactive stories and
songs.
s.
Meet the Author at the Buttercross Tea Room
cilla Masters
Pris
10am to 12noon Kate Long - 2pm to 4pm
10.30am to 4.00pm - Music to Your Feet- the Festival Drayto
n Centre
Come and join in playing your favourite tunes when the Giant Piano arrives
for the
Drayton Arts Fest. So much fun for every age-group - so hurry up to jump
to your
favourite songs; it’s just like the real thing out of the film “BIG” featuring
Tom Hanks!
Drayton Library
Poetry on Demand 1pm to 4pm at Market
ce poets Brenda Read-Brown
rman
perfo
great
Tailor-made poems just for you by the
and Fergus McGonigal.
IncrEdible Pumpkins - 2pm to 4pm - Fairfields Estate, Sycamore Way
A chance to join in with carving and tasting. Free pumpkins (limited amount) Come
along and have help to carve one to take home. Pumpkins are not just for carving they
also taste ‘yummy’ and are really easy to grow your own. See how they grow and what
they taste like. Lots of pumpkin recipes, and incredible pumpkin facts.
tre - Market Drayton Am-drams
7.30pm to 9pm at the Festival Drayton Cen
‘The Cat in the Hat’. Performances
Junior Theatre Workshop present Dr Seussical Jnr
also on Thursday evening and Saturday matinee)
The Stafford Orchestra 7.30 pm at St Mary’s Church
The Stafford Orchestra is performing a delectable choice of music as part of the
new Drayton Arts Festival. There is music to send shivers down your spine, especially
selected for All Hallows Eve. Come and be transported back a century to music of
Butterworth, Grainger and Bantock and then enjoy familiar pieces, such as Saint-Saens
‘Danse Macabre’. Tickets are priced £8/£5, from the Festival Drayton Centre or on the
door.
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SATURDAY 1st
Nov
2014
t” Youth Centre, Drayton Grove
10am Tonks Theatre Workshop “Blackou
us as we travel through time back to
Tonks Youth Theatre presents “Blackout.” - Join
. Contact Louise 077 360 360 63 for
World War Two. Saturday 1st Nov. Starting 10am
details. (Free Entry)
Meet the Author at the Buttercross Tea Rooms.
10am to 12noon Misha Herwin
10.30am to 4.30pm Art Exhibition by Ashley Mixed Media Arts Group
Oak Tree Barn, Blore Heath Farm (TF9 2EG). During the day there will be the
opportunity to ‘have a go at drawing’! Sessions open to people of all ages who would
like to try their hand will be free Also open Sunday 2nd November 10.30 - 4.30. (Free)
Library
Flash Mob 11am outside Market Drayton
us!
join
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A Fun Dance Event on
Open Mic 2pm to 5pm – The Red Lion Pub, Mouse Room. Come
and read
your work or let us entertain you! Performance poetry- readings from
work in progress
- snippets of novels - tasty morsels of short stories. Contact the library
if you would like
to read your work on 01630 652105 or on marketdrayton.library@shropsh
ire.gov.uk
Poetry/Prose writing competition; winner to be announced. Free admissi
on
tre - Market Drayton Am-drams
7.30pm to 9pm at the Festival Drayton Cen
‘The Cat in the Hat’. (Performances
Junior Theatre Workshop present Dr Seussical Jnr
also on Thursday evening and Saturday matinee)
Film: Leave to Remain (15), 7pm to 10pm at the Festival Drayton Centre.
An inspirational coming of age drama that unveils the unseen world of teenage asylum
seekers. The film is brought to life by powerful performances from an ensemble cast of
emerging talent, young refugees themselves, and acclaimed actor, Toby Jones.
Gallery Singers 7pm at St Mar y’s Church
in Telford. Winners of the 2013 North
‘The Gallery Singers are a chamber choir based
acapella and accompanied works with
Wales Choral Festival (mixed class), singing both
nt day. An intimate and entertaining
a repertoire spanning the Renaissance to the prese
styles.
performance spanning many musical genres and
Barn Dance 7.45pm to 11pm - Parish Rooms, Church Street. The Shropshire
Heroes play just about the liveliest traditional barn dance music you’ll hear anywhere.
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SUNDAY 2nd N
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The Big Draw 10am to 4pm at Ford
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from the Big Lottery ‘Awards 4 All’. (See
drawing and collage, flex creative skills, learn
opportunity for families to have fun, try out
e ideas and feelings about what makes ‘our
more about the local landscapes and shar
booking required, just ‘drop- in!
Shropshire’ special to each of us. No pre-
Meet the Author at the Buttercross Tea Rooms.
10am to 12noon Mary Williams 2.00pm - 4.00pm J W Ironmonger
10.30am to 4.30pm Art Exhibition by Ashley Mixed Media Arts Group
Oak Tree Barn, Blore Heath Farm (TF9 2EG). During the day there will be the
opportunity to ‘have a go at drawing’! Sessions open to people of all ages who would
like to try their hand will be free. Times are to be arranged and will be advertised on
the Arts Fest website. Also open Saturday 1st November 10.30 - 4.30. (Free Entry)
Little Howard’s Big Show for Kids 2pm to 4pm Festival Drayton Centre.
Little Howard is the world’s only live interactive animation.
He’s won many awards
and he’s a published author and has done lots of television
stuff, like The Royal Variety
Performance, The Slammer (CBBC) and Little Howard’s Big
Question (BBC1) – yes, he’s
even had his own television show!
Sat 2nd Nov / 2:00pm
st Church, Clive Road, Market
2.30 to 4pm - Pop-up Choir - The Methodi
Drayton. (Admission Free)
ce featuring: ‘The Ukey Monster’ a
Market Drayton “Pop Up” Choir in a performan
ians.
ukulele group from Ellesmere, and other Local music
Ghost Trains 5pm to 6pm at Market Drayton Libra
ry
£3 per person please book in the library. Come and listen
to an amazing sound that’s
refreshingly difficult to pigeon-hole, Ghost Trains are perhap
s best described as a vibrant
mix of traditional folk-rock and classic 60’s pop.
Simon and Garfunkel 7.30pm to 10pm at the Festival Drayton Centre
The most authentic sounding production of it’s kind performed by the Bookends.
With incredible live performances bound together with video clips, audio snippets and
imagery, the show is both powerful and moving. The presentation touches on the highs
and lows of an incredible friendship and career.
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DraytonArtsFest
Fest
Our Supporters
Our Team
Nick Ainsworth
Suzanne Byrnes-Antoney
Cai Antoney-Lewis
Hamish Armytage
Lynnn Ashburner
Philippa Atkey
Maureen Bailey
David Beckwith
Peggy Bourne
Ann Boyden
Judy Crabb
Mirka Duxberry
Suzanne Edwards
Kath Farrimond
Alison Fellows
Denise Griggs
Malcolm Hague
Victoria Hilton
Julia Holding
Charlotte Hollins
Glyn Jackson
Ann Keegan
Janine Kitchen
Chris Middleton
Libby Middleton
Paul Nevins
Cathy Nurser
Margeret O’Connor
Laurence Payne
Sarah Pitt
Louise Pounds
Richard Priestley
Carol Siddall
Sue Smith
Ken Sterling
John Upton
Geoff Vernon
Tony Weatherall
Mary Willliams
Peter Williams
Kate Woodward
Our Sponsors
Market Drayton Community Partnership
Market Drayton Local Joint Committee
Market Drayton Town Council
Shropshire Council Community Arts Service
Jean Jackson Trust
Meadons Insurance Brokers Ltd
Festival Drayton
Market Drayton Amdrams
Market Drayton arts club
10 stop photography
St Mary’s church
Market Drayton library
Sandbrook vaults pub
The Red Lion pub
Local cafés, shops
Fordhall Community Land Initiative
Community centres
Methodist church
Joule’s Brewery
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Our Patrons
Sir Algernon Heber- Percy KCVO
Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire
Mr Geoff Vernon MBE Chairman
Festival Drayton Centre
Market Drayton
The Drayton Arts Fest Team would like to thank the above for their
hard work and support in ensuring the success of this festival!
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