List of Events
Pru Green: Swan Song
Pru Green’s Swan Song celebrates her life story in ceramics through times spent in Alvingham, Gwili and Essex; sixty years of making pots and encouraging others along the way. She is delighted that former students, now experts in the field and friends, have agreed to join her in this exhibition. The exhibition opens with a preview on Saturday, September 12 at 2pm
Jane Walker – A Line in Thread
Sheffield artist Jane Walker creates paintings that are augmented with stitch and collage. Her recent work is centred around the coal industry both in South Yorkshire and the Saarland in Germany. Her imagery moves on a sliding scale between abstract and real or imagined places.
Hello Children Everywhere
Remember Uncle Mac, Children’s Hour and BBC Schools? Radio, television and film played a big part in schools in the past – so here’s a chance to wallow in a little nostalgia over a tea or coffee. Check wilderspinschool.org.uk for details. Admission Ticket includes free refreshments. Check wilderspinschool.org.uk for details. Wilderspin School Museum
IT’S NICE UP NORTH (U) at Ropery Hall
A special, 20th-anniversary screening tour of Graham Fellows’ much loved comedy documentary It’s Nice Up North, presented also as a tribute to the late Martin Parr, the celebrated photographer who shot the movie, and whose distinctive eye is central to the movie’s charm and enduring appeal. The film follows Fellows’ alter ego - the legendary comic character John Shuttleworth - on a gently absurd journey through the Shetland Islands to test the theory that the further north you go, the…
Bah Humbug! (10th Anniversary Production)
Friends at Barton return with their “Dickens of a phantomime” with borth matinee and early evening shows. Tickets from October: wilderspinschool.org.uk
Bah Humbug
Celebrating its 10th anniversary Friends at Barton return with another great family pantoto kick off the Christmas season. All tickets £5, available to book in the autumn. Wilderspin School Museum
Wot Italian?
Get ready for an unforgettable evening of music and comedy as award-winning comedian and singer songwriter Boothby Graffoe teams up with internationally acclaimed Italian guitarist Antonio Forcione. Wot Italian? Is a hilarious and heartfelt collision of Graffoe’s sharp wit and whimsical storytelling with Forcione’s virtuosic guitar mastery. This show promises a mix of brilliantly crafted songs, laugh-out-loud anecdotes, and jaw-dropping musical skill — all served with a side of Mediterranean flair.
Sarah Gillespie and Chris Montague at Ropery Hall
Performing songs from their new album The Shieling. Folk, Americana & Blues, Sarah s a critically acclaimed Anglo-American songwriter who h as toured internationally for 15 years playing leading venues and festivals as well as appearing on BBC arts and culture programs like Woman’s Hour and Loose Ends while Chris is one of the UK’s most distinctive guitar voices. He co-wrote five tracks on Gillespie’s last album and brings an edge of rawness and unpredictability to the duo’s live show.
Encore
An exhibition of photographs from Beretun and Baysgarth Schools’ Musicals from 1966 to 1985 taken from the R N Smithson archive, by kind permission of the family.
Simon Evans – Staring at the Sun at Ropery Hall
Simon Evans is Back! Waaaay back… With growing evidence that we are living in a Computer Simulation – and a pretty glitchy, off-brand simulation at that – and the approaching watershed of the AI Singularity looming like a weirdly pixelated cumulonimbus on the horizon, BBC Radio 4 stalwart and veteran of a quarter century of highly acclaimed stand-up comedy Simon Evans is squinting at an uncertain future, and revisiting the blue remembered hills of his youth.
