New Work by: Ruth Shelley- Iris Milward
Anna Ravenscroft
Mary Woodin- Jane Ryan
glass, ceramics, etchings, watercolours, Automata
Exciting, in every sense
We’ve got a breadth of performances, activities and events to excite every passion and awaken every sense.For your eyes and ears, you’ll find a host of regular performance art including music, comedy and theatre. If you prefer something more hands-on try an arts and crafts session - such as a potters wheel workshop. Our many country gardens will give your sense of smell a floral treat. Then there’s the Flavours of Herefordshire Festival which really is the icing on the cake for foodies.
You can find out what’s happening, when and where, during your stay by searching our What’s On calendar.
Upcoming Events
May 23, 2013 – June 2, 2013
How the Lights Get In Festival
HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, is back in Hay-on-Wye and bigger than ever, with the thought-provoking debates, infectiously danceable music and parties that you’ve come to expect.
The full line-up is online now, so be sure to book your tickets soon for the best deals to see our great up-and-coming musicians such as King Charles, Nerina Pallot and Sam Lee. The festival also has a wide range of fantastic DJs including Andrew Weatherall, Jamie Anderson and James Welsh sharing our six stages with brilliant comedians like Tom Rosenthal, Daniel Simonsen and John Robins.
May 23, 2013 – June 3, 2013
Hay Festival Literature Festival
Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. We believe the exchange of views and meeting of minds that our festivals create inspire revelations personal, political and educational. Hay is, in Bill Clinton’s phrase, ‘The Woodstock of the mind’.
Hay Festival was founded around a kitchen table in 1987 and continues to attract the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians to inspire, delight and entertain.
May 24, 2013 – June 2, 2013
The Guild of Herefordshire Craftsmen at Hay Castle
Eight members of this Herefordshire Guild will be moving into the Stable, Book Barns and a Tent on the front terrace of this historical landmark right in the centre of Hay on Wye for the duration of the
Literature Festival.
Taking part: Emma Baker-Jones – Leatherwork, Sarah Billingham and Rachel Padley – Ceramics,
Ken Gilbert, Jake Keogh and Martyn Haddon Gardiner: woodcraft, Bernadette Hornyold and Jo Mc Culloch: textile bags and hats, Alison Payne and Antony Halls-Resin Sculptures.
Open daily from 10am- Free admission…. Follow the Flags!
May 24, 2013 – May 25, 2013
Hellens Manor Open Garden
Gardens open supporting the National Garden Scheme. In the grounds of Hellens the gardens are being gently redeveloped to reflect the C17 ambience of the house. Including a rare octagonal dovecote, knot gardens and yew labyrinth, lawns, herb and kitchen gardens, short woodlands and pond walk. Longer walk to Hall Wood, site of SSSI
May 25, 2013 – June 2, 2013
Palace Arts Festival
Founded in 2005, the Palace Art -fest is held to promote artists from Herefordshire and the surrounding regions.
Palace Art-fest is supported by Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust and Friends of Hereford Three Choirs Festival, a proportion of the funds generated reciprocates that support.
The opening preview is held each year in order to offer friends and supporters an opportunity to view and purchase artwork before the Palace Art Fest opens to the general public.
The 2013 preview will take place Friday 24th May 2013 from 6:00-8:00pm
Tickets £10
Please join us for an evening of art, refreshments and live music in support of the Hereford Perpetual Trust & Friends of the Three Choirs Festival.
May 25, 2013 – May 27, 2013
Hampton Court Garden Festival
Come along to Hampton Court Castle and help us celebrate our stunning Award Winning Gardens.
Our First Annual Garden Festival will have some amazing stalls with a difference including some wonderful sculptured pieces. 45 choir members from Got2Sing will be performing on the South Lawns on Saturday, if it’s wet you will find them in the Ballroom.
On Sunday the Appleyard dancers will be performing in the Dutch Garden at 1pm and 2pm. There will be music and dancing each and every day and people in period costume wandering around amongst our visitors
Our Head Gardener will be in attendance in the Vegetable Garden to answer your questions. See the signs in the ticket office on the day for details of times.
Our Tree Trail booklet and Garden Tour Guide will be available in the shop.
Children, don’t miss The Ladybird Trail and Sharron’s wonderful, active craft centre.
The Courtyard Bar and the Ice Cream Parlour will be open along with our wonderful Orangery Restaurant and if the weather is kind to us there will also be a Pimms tent.
The Castle will be open to the public for viewing
Exhibitors
Broomy Hill Enchanted Garden Nursery
Faerie Garden Starter kits and potted plants in biodegradable pots plus hand made enchanted beings.
Into the Garden Store
Garden and home must haves, gifts, plants and Garden design
Chapel Gate Nurseries
Peat free grower with herbaceous perennials, shrubs, Astratia, lavender and Hydrangeas
Elegance Natural Skin Care
Natural skin care products including their famous gardeners’ hand cream
Carrob Growers
Garden plants – roses, decorative fruit bushes, general plants
Traditional blacksmith – Alan Colebatch
Traditionally made pokers, candle sticks, curtain poles, hooksand gates.
Corriander Floral Arts
Herb and Hedgerow Cottage Garden Dried Flower Arrangements.
Rainbow Cottage Crafts
Fairtrade clothes and hand made gifts
Steve Elsby
Beautifully hand crafted wooden pieces.
Maria Fernandez
Obelisks and planters in different materials: stone, terrazzo, copper
Natural range of bags with natural, flowers, motives
Batik art with vibrant colours and natural motives
Bakefield Worms (Sunday & Monday only)
Worm hatching kits, children’s ‘sow and grow’, books for children and composters
The Bespoke Barrel Company (Sunday & Monday only)
Restored oak barrels made into arm chairs and stylish accessories, clocks, tables, candle sconces etc
P&J Gardner (Monday only)
Carnivorous Plants
Artists
Stan Panjankowski’s Copper dragon and wind spinners will be on display in the grounds.
Also look out for Ed Elliot’s Carved angel and carved hooded characters.
May 25, 2013 – May 26, 2013
Potter’s wheel workshop
Potter’s wheel workshop
Ever yearned to go ‘hands on’ with a potter’s wheel…or maybe you need to fine tune your technique? Whatever your experience, beginner or improver, this is the course for you.
Small friendly groups and seven electric potter’s wheels ensure plenty of individual attention and guidance. Participants are consistently amazed at what they achieve in a day!
Content
Day 1
The workshop starts at 10am. After tea/coffee, introductions and initial demonstration you will be taken as a group, step by step, through the pot throwing process. Once you have got the hang of things, you will be encouraged to develop at your own pace with individual tutoring as and when required. Around 1pm, a light lunch consisting of bread, cheese, salad and fruit is served. In the afternoon there will be further demonstrations after which you will work larger lumps of clay, make bigger pots and explore different shapes and forms. The session ends at 5pm. The results of your labour will then be left to dry overnight.
Day 2
10am. Your pots from Saturday are now ‘leather-hard’ and ready to be turned. After a demonstration you will learn how to throw foot-rings, add handles and other motifs. Colour can be added at this stage using an exciting range of coloured under-glazes and decorating slips. Following lunch participants choose from the range of demonstrated techniques to finish their work. The workshop concludes with a brief review of each others achievements and creativity. The weekend ends at 5pm.
Remaining dates for 2012
Dates for 2013 –25 & 26 May, 28 & 29 Sept, 27 Oct, 23 & 24 Nov & 15 Dec. Other dates are available for group bookings.
Pricing
Cost: £105 for the day £190 for the weekend. Includes refreshments, lunch, all the materials you are likely to need*, firing, glazing and the cost of posting your finished masterpieces.
The Battle of Mortimers Cross (1461)
6 horse stampede jousting show & stunt riding exhibition plus Birds of Prey Flying Spectacular.
A fun day out for the family and a learning experience for all.
Re-enactments of the Battle Of Mortimers Cross; Living History; Children’s activities; Medieval Traders; Have-A-Go Archery; and lots more.
May 26, 2013 – May 27, 2013
Vintage Eastnor
Steam Engines, Children’s Story Teller, Children’s Entertainer, Jazz Band, Tea Tent, Swing Boats, Rowing Boats on the lake.