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PHOTO|FROME – CAMERALESS WORKSHOP – LUMEN & PHYTOGRAM PRINT (ADULT EDITION)

Posted on June 5, 2023

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Anjalika Baker will demonstrate a process using expired darkroom paper, plant materials, etc, to enable participants to create unique sun prints. All materials are provided, however bringing along plant materials and/or small objects you like to use for the print is encouraged. Suitable for adults of all ages.

PHOTO|FROME – CAMERALESS WORKSHOP – LUMEN AND PHYTOGRAM PRINT (FAMILY EDITION)

Posted on June 5, 2023

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Anjalika Baier will demonstrate a process using expired darkroom paper, plant materials, etc, to enable participants to create unique sun prints. All materials are provided, however bringing along plant materials and/or small objects you like to use for the print is encouraged.

Ring Out – A Miscellany of Bells

Posted on May 19, 2023

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A resounding finale to the Ring Out Project, including hand bell ringing and a talk by a local bell expert. there will also be a performance of an innovative new composition by Frome based composer Helen Ottaway, combining the sounds of conventional musical instruments with local church bells.

Frome Sings The Legends

Posted on May 2, 2023

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The best of Frome’s musicians, interpreting the great songwriters, raisung money for a legendary charity. A wonderful evening of music and food raising money and awareness for WHY

“STOMPIN” FSB Big Band

Posted on June 13, 2022

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A live music concert presented by the F.S.B. Big Band, giving two hours of swinging jazz and show tunes from the 1920s to the present day, made famous originally by bands such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller and others. The band has the traditional line up of Five Saxes. Four Trumpets, Four Trombones, Piano, Bass and drums, and vocals by Alec James.

Elizabeth Rowe: The Poet of Frome

Posted on June 13, 2022

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A Frome Society for Local Study event to coincide with the ‘Celebrated Women of Frome’ exhibition at Frome Museum. Although famous in her day throughout most of the known world, Elizabeth Rowe has sadly been neglected for the greater part of the time since her death in 1737. A re-evaluation of her works and their influence, however, has been recently taking place. Dr Carole Sargent, from Georgetown University, Washington DC, will talk about why Elizabeth Rowe still matters today and how Frome can best honour her.

Frome Festival: JAVAJAM Trio

Posted on June 13, 2022

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We will be playing a sublime mixture of Jazz, Bossa Nova, and Vintage Pop with our own twist. Expect anything from American songbook classics and Antonio Carlos Jobim to The Stranglers and The Beatles. Vocals: Sarah-Jane Hassell, Keyboards: Roger Lewin, Tenor Saxophone/Flute: Phil Brown.

John Hegley Presents “Peace, Love and Potatoes”

Posted on June 17, 2021

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John Hegley is one of the UKs foremost performance poets. A regular for BBC radio and a headliner in festivals around the country including Edinburgh, he has produced ten books of verse and prose, two CDs and one mug. His poems manage to take the minutiae of modern life like dogs, potatoes and handkerchiefs spinning them into a philosophical framework.

Spoils of War: Talk by Christopher Joll

Posted on June 7, 2021

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An illustrated talk by Christopher Joll, based on his recently published book. Christopher is director of many national military events and also a military historian.

Yoga Teacher Ate My Pet!: Rose Wadham

Posted on June 7, 2021

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Join stand up comedian and impressionist Rose Wadham plus the coterie of characters who live in her head as she addresses the problem of vegan Vikings, frustrated yoga teachers, bad mothers, village life, foreplay, pointless beauty rituals, teenage dogs, schadenfreude, art galleries, feet, and her irrational fear of cleaning ladies. 

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