The Country Living Fairs in London and Glasgow are fast approaching and time is running out to purchase advance tickets. By booking ahead you'll save up to 30% on the door rate, but there are only a limited number of tickets left so act now to avoid missing out. Join us for a traditional Christmas in London (12th to 16th November, Business Design Centre, Islington)
Do all your Christmas shopping at the Fair with over 375 stands including 50 new exhibitors
David Austen Roses will be showing visitors how to create stunning festive flower arrangements
Learn how to wrap even the most awkwardly shaped presents with expert Jane Means
Visit our Christmas cabin featuring a beautiful room set styled by the Country Living homes team
Stock up on seasonal treats in the Fair's biggest ever Food HallOr at the new Fair in Scotland (20th to 23rd November, SECC, Glasgow)
There are also lots of new faces among the 200 exhibitors at the Scotland Fair with 60 companies exhibiting for the first time
Stop by the Food and Drink Theatre for wine tasting sessions, festive baking demonstrations, and Christmas cooking with the chefs from the Nick Nairn Cook School
Learn how to make traditional Christmas wreaths and create your own stocking fillers with Snapdragon
Sample and buy a range of fine whiskies from Spencerfield Spirit
Plus a stunning Christmas cabin, present wrapping demos and much more Click here to find out more about the Fairs. To save up to 30% by booking in advance please call our ticket hotline on 0844 848 0169
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Eurovision Song Contest 2009 ! Enter by 21 November 2009
NO MORE NIL POINTS! – Because this year something exciting is happening to Eurovision.
The BBC has called upon the exceptional talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber to compose a song which will be the 2009 UK Eurovision entry.
However, he needs an act to perform it!
Lloyd Webber and the BBC are embarking on a search for an act that will sing Andrew’s song, represent the UK and be shot to European stardom.
Do you dream of performing to over 100 million people Europe-Wide?
Maybe you could be as successful in Europe as Duffy or Coldplay?
To enter visit the website:
www.bbc.co.uk/eurovision
ANYONE CAN ENTER - the search is open to amateur, professional or semi professional singers.
The act can be made up of a maximum of 6 singers and they need to produce a piece of video footage of them performing with sound. This can be posted or uploaded directly to the website.
Acts with recording contracts or agents must seek their approval to enter.
All applicants must be at least 17 years old on 1st January 2009.
Closing date is 5pm on 21st November 2009
The BBC has called upon the exceptional talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber to compose a song which will be the 2009 UK Eurovision entry.
However, he needs an act to perform it!
Lloyd Webber and the BBC are embarking on a search for an act that will sing Andrew’s song, represent the UK and be shot to European stardom.
Do you dream of performing to over 100 million people Europe-Wide?
Maybe you could be as successful in Europe as Duffy or Coldplay?
To enter visit the website:
www.bbc.co.uk/eurovision
ANYONE CAN ENTER - the search is open to amateur, professional or semi professional singers.
The act can be made up of a maximum of 6 singers and they need to produce a piece of video footage of them performing with sound. This can be posted or uploaded directly to the website.
Acts with recording contracts or agents must seek their approval to enter.
All applicants must be at least 17 years old on 1st January 2009.
Closing date is 5pm on 21st November 2009
Friday, 3 October 2008
Enterprising Women Make A Difference Conference 2008
Join us at the 3rd Annual Conference for Women Entrepreneurs in Gloucestershire.
This full day event is designed specifically for women considering self employment and those already running organisations in the private, public and voluntary sector. It is an exciting opportunity to meet with and be inspired by successful women in our region.
The event offers a variety of activates, including speakers such as Jackie Llewellyn-Bowen and Diane Savory CEO of Cult Clothing, plus a range of training opportunities and masses of networking!
Date - Wednesday 12th November 2008
Venue - Cheltenham Racecourse
Time - 9am - 3.30pm
Cost - £25 plus vat
To view the full programme and to book your place visit - www.enterprisingwomenconference.co.uk or email info@glosebs.co.uk or call 01242 864200
This full day event is designed specifically for women considering self employment and those already running organisations in the private, public and voluntary sector. It is an exciting opportunity to meet with and be inspired by successful women in our region.
The event offers a variety of activates, including speakers such as Jackie Llewellyn-Bowen and Diane Savory CEO of Cult Clothing, plus a range of training opportunities and masses of networking!
Date - Wednesday 12th November 2008
Venue - Cheltenham Racecourse
Time - 9am - 3.30pm
Cost - £25 plus vat
To view the full programme and to book your place visit - www.enterprisingwomenconference.co.uk or email info@glosebs.co.uk or call 01242 864200
National Awards to be presented at Cotswold Dry Stone Walling competition
The contest, which takes place at Prestons Folly, Broadfield Farm near Tetbury on Sunday 5th October is run by the Cotswolds Conservation Board in partnership with the Cotswold branch of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain.
Competitors will have the chance to enter one of four classes: class one - professional, class two - amateur, class three - novice and class four - beginner pairs.
Organiser, Mark Connelly from the Cotswolds Conservation Board said:
"This years event is exciting because it has an added dimension to it in that it encompasses the Dry Stone Walling Associations Annual Anniversary Walling Championship, which is being held to celebrate the organisations 40th Anniversary. The event will see national finalists competing for awards that have been donated by the patron of the association, His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales".
Competitors will have the chance to enter one of four classes: class one - professional, class two - amateur, class three - novice and class four - beginner pairs.
Organiser, Mark Connelly from the Cotswolds Conservation Board said:
"This years event is exciting because it has an added dimension to it in that it encompasses the Dry Stone Walling Associations Annual Anniversary Walling Championship, which is being held to celebrate the organisations 40th Anniversary. The event will see national finalists competing for awards that have been donated by the patron of the association, His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales".
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Surrealism Returns art exhibition 27/09/08 - 23/11/08
Saturday 27th September – Sunday 23rd November 2008
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Significant Surrealist works of art return to Gloucestershire at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum to celebrate a momentous chapter in the history of Surrealism. Drawn from collections all over Britain, visitors can enjoy seeing pictures and sculptures by key artists of the movement including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Man Ray, Edward Burra and Yves Tanguy.
Surrealism Returns is inspired by an exhibition of 70 years ago, Realism and Surrealism: Several Phases in Contemporary Art, which was shown at the Guildhall, Gloucester in 1938 and rediscovered by the art historian, Dr Lee Beard, formerly of the Courtauld Institute of Art, with whom Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum is co-curating Surrealism Returns.Original archival material complements the artworks and contributes to showing the impact of Surrealism in terms of subversive art and political drive and reveals how the 1938 exhibition was a collaboration between London-based galleries, dealers and collectors, such as Roland Penrose, and a local Exhibition Committee including Sir William Rothenstein, artist and ex-Principal of the Royal College of Art, and Cheltenham-raised art collector Hugh Willoughby.
Recent research reveals that by 1938, Willoughby had built up a significant collection of Picassos, which had been exhibited at Tate and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum three times between 1934 and 1937. They included Picasso’s Weeping Woman drawing of 1937, now at Tate, from where it is being loaned for Surrealism Returns. Also returning for this show are Joan Miró’s The Head of a Catalan Peasant, Roland Penrose’s The Last Voyage of Captain Cook (both loaned by Tate), Man Ray’s Torso and Belle Main and three works by Henry Moore.
A full education and event programme supports this exhibition and an accompanying catalogue, with essays by art historians and including new research, has been written by co-curator Dr Lee Beard.
Surrealism Returns and its accompanying programme of talks and education work are supported and sponsored by: The Friends of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum; The Henry Moore Foundation; AXA Art Insurance and Stuart Alexander; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; The Elephant Trust; Simon Chorley Art & Antiques, Constantine Ltd.
Cheltenham Art Gallery & MuseumClarence Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 3JTTelephone 01242 237431 http://www,cheltenhammuseum.org.uk
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Significant Surrealist works of art return to Gloucestershire at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum to celebrate a momentous chapter in the history of Surrealism. Drawn from collections all over Britain, visitors can enjoy seeing pictures and sculptures by key artists of the movement including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Man Ray, Edward Burra and Yves Tanguy.
Surrealism Returns is inspired by an exhibition of 70 years ago, Realism and Surrealism: Several Phases in Contemporary Art, which was shown at the Guildhall, Gloucester in 1938 and rediscovered by the art historian, Dr Lee Beard, formerly of the Courtauld Institute of Art, with whom Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum is co-curating Surrealism Returns.Original archival material complements the artworks and contributes to showing the impact of Surrealism in terms of subversive art and political drive and reveals how the 1938 exhibition was a collaboration between London-based galleries, dealers and collectors, such as Roland Penrose, and a local Exhibition Committee including Sir William Rothenstein, artist and ex-Principal of the Royal College of Art, and Cheltenham-raised art collector Hugh Willoughby.
Recent research reveals that by 1938, Willoughby had built up a significant collection of Picassos, which had been exhibited at Tate and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum three times between 1934 and 1937. They included Picasso’s Weeping Woman drawing of 1937, now at Tate, from where it is being loaned for Surrealism Returns. Also returning for this show are Joan Miró’s The Head of a Catalan Peasant, Roland Penrose’s The Last Voyage of Captain Cook (both loaned by Tate), Man Ray’s Torso and Belle Main and three works by Henry Moore.
A full education and event programme supports this exhibition and an accompanying catalogue, with essays by art historians and including new research, has been written by co-curator Dr Lee Beard.
Surrealism Returns and its accompanying programme of talks and education work are supported and sponsored by: The Friends of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum; The Henry Moore Foundation; AXA Art Insurance and Stuart Alexander; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; The Elephant Trust; Simon Chorley Art & Antiques, Constantine Ltd.
Cheltenham Art Gallery & MuseumClarence Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 3JTTelephone 01242 237431 http://www,cheltenhammuseum.org.uk
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Open Day Prize winners
Congratulations to the following who received prizes following our Open Day on Sunday 21 September:
£100 Farncombe Voucher, T Morgan, Bristol
£50 Farncombe Voucher, H Thackway, Moreton in Marsh
£25 Farncombe Voucher, K Smith, Cheltenham
Meal for 2 at the Dormy House Hotel, B Jones, Wychbold
Snowshill Manor family ticket , H Foster, Gotherington
Orchestra of the Swan concert tickets, M Evans, Naunton
Cotswold Conference Centre hamper of local produce, J Smith, Gotherington
Bennetts Fine Wines, G Wingrove, Kineton
Wilson Vale Luxury Hamper, S Finlay, Stretton on Fosse
Ecover Bags, J Rollinson, Offenham, M Knowles, Willersey, V Osborn, Willersey, D C McArthur,
Coventry, E Heasman, Churchdown, A Hughes, Milton Under Wychwood, S Flowerden, Enfield, S Hogden, Kineton
£100 Farncombe Voucher, T Morgan, Bristol
£50 Farncombe Voucher, H Thackway, Moreton in Marsh
£25 Farncombe Voucher, K Smith, Cheltenham
Meal for 2 at the Dormy House Hotel, B Jones, Wychbold
Snowshill Manor family ticket , H Foster, Gotherington
Orchestra of the Swan concert tickets, M Evans, Naunton
Cotswold Conference Centre hamper of local produce, J Smith, Gotherington
Bennetts Fine Wines, G Wingrove, Kineton
Wilson Vale Luxury Hamper, S Finlay, Stretton on Fosse
Ecover Bags, J Rollinson, Offenham, M Knowles, Willersey, V Osborn, Willersey, D C McArthur,
Coventry, E Heasman, Churchdown, A Hughes, Milton Under Wychwood, S Flowerden, Enfield, S Hogden, Kineton
Marshals wanted for sponsored walk
Marshals are needed to help support the Breast Cancer Campaign friendship walk starting from Farncombe Estate on Sunday 19 October... If you can offer a few hours to help, please contact Sarah England on sengland@breastcancercampaign.org or call 020 7749 4126.
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