Past Events: April - July 2010 Programme
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Music
Accenti Brass Quintet 
Part of the Sunday Teatime Concert Series 2010
Sunday 25 April
Doors: 4.45pm
Performance: 5.30pm
Exhibition
Kirsten Cooke: 51 Woodcote Road
Kirsten Cooke’s haunting and intimate photographs exploring the liberation of a house.
Sat 1 – 14 May
Mon – Sat 10.00am – 4.00pm
Music
Daniel Pioro (violin) and Charlotte Bonneton (viola)
Part of the Sunday Teatime Concert Series 2010
Sunday 23 May
Doors: 4.45pm
Performance: 5.30pm
Music
Emily Andrews (flute) and David Massey (guitar)
Part of the Sunday Teatime Concert Series 2010
Sunday 6 June
Doors: 4.45pm
Performance: 5.30pm
Exhibition
Frank Hudson and Glass
Retrospective exhibition of the glass works of Frank Hudson, alongside contemporary work by Sonja Klinger, Kim and Tom Atherton.
Sat 12 – 26 June
Mon – Sat 10.00am – 4.00pm
Exhibition
Paris: London: Frome
David Partner’s beautiful portraits of Frome over the last twenty years, taken alongside a professional, worldwide career behind the lens.
Sat 3 – 24 July
Mon – Sat 10.00am – 4.00pm
Exhibition
Corinna Sargood
Exhibition of Corinna Sargood’s lino cut illustrations for Angela Carter’s Book of Fairytales.
Sat 3 – 24 July
Mon – Sat 10.00am – 4.00pm
Community
"Through the Woods, Darkly" Public Launch
Public launch with special events.
Saturday 3 July
6.00 - 8.00pm
Words & Music
Sweetbriar present The Wonderful Birch
Story-telling and music.
Saturday 3 July
7.00 – 8.00pm
Talk
Director Jo Ann Kaplan on Angela Carter
Jo Ann Kaplan, director of “The Holy Family Album” discusses Angela Carter and the making of the film alongside a special screening
Saturday 3 July
8.00 – 9.00pm
Music
John Law’s Art of Sound
"A sublime trio... a band heading for great things"
Friday 9 July
Doors 7.30pm
Performance 8.00pm
Words
Teas & Trees: Frome Story Circle in the Food Frome café
Frome Story Circle weave stories in the surroundings of Corinna Sargood’s exhibition of fairytale illustrations.
Saturday 10 July
3.00 – 4.30pm
Music & Workshop
Out of the Blues (workshop and concert)
Motown, salsa and robust funk in a classical context. Elena Riu and Keith Fairbairn lead a composition and performance workshop for young people.
Saturday 10 July
Workshop: 3.00 – 5.00pm
Performance: 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm)
Words
Teas & Trees: Storytelling with Open Story Tellers
Everyone loves stories, and in the surroundings of Corinna Sargood’s exhibition of fairy illustrations, Open Story Tellers imagine a wood to wonder in.
Sunday 11 July
3.00 – 4.30pm
Music
Eclectica! Cancelled
"A vibrant fiesta of virtuoso music from around the globe".
Sunday 11 July
Doors 7.00pm
Performance 7.30pm
Words
Kevin McCloud : No more Noddy
Kevin McCloud (of TV fame) deplores the swamping of our towns with noddyland housing. He will tell us about the challenges of building his new exemplar eco-housing scheme in Swindon, making it socially sustainable, and feeling as though it belongs where it is.
Monday 12 July
7.00pm
Workshop
Tracks through the Wildwood: Creative writing with Rose Flint
Creative writing workshop with Rose Flint. Treading softly, we will explore secret ways through the woods, meet beasts and fays, disguised guides and tricky princes before we come to our rewards. No writing experience needed - come and surprise yourself.
Tuesday 13 July
11.00am – 12.30pm
Film
Company of Wolves
A wolfish and weird evening in the company of the strange imaginings of Angela Carter. Big-screen showing of Angela Carter's dark, symbolic take on Little Red Riding Hood.
Tuesday 13 July
9.15pm (bar open from 8.00pm)
Drama
Frome Drama Club: Equus
Dr. Dysart is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has committed terrible violence in a fit of passion. Dysart attempts to understand what has driven Alan to such an act and, in doing so, opens an extraordinary Pandora's Box which leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation.
Wednesday 14 July
& Thursday 15 July
7.30
Music
Iain Ballamy Quartet
"Intensly melodic, eventful and full of surprises" Andy Hamilton
Friday 16 July
Doors 7.30pm
Performance 8.00pm
Words
Marina Warner on Angela Carter
The Return of the Fairytale – in She-Wolf’s Clothing. Talk by Marina Warner.
Saturday 17 July
3.00 – 4.30pm
Words
EKO Poetry Competition judged by John Hegley
John Hegley, one of the country’s most innovative comic poets, familiar from the festival circuit and Radio 4, arrives in Frome.
Saturday 17 July
7.30pm
Music
Jackdaws Songbirds
Melifluous harmonies alongside fantastic Food Frome teas in one of Frome’s finest acoustic spaces.
Sunday 18 July
2.30 – 4.00pm
Words
The Frome Festival Debate
Creative Frome invites you to take part in the first official Frome Festival debate. The topic is the current role and future health of the local arts scene. Listen to a range of divergent views and then have your say.
Sunday 18 July
5.00 – 6.30pm
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