Sudeley Spring Grand Sale - VIP Ticket Offer

Spring Grand Sale – VIP Ticket Offer

Thursday 23rd - Saturday 26th April 2009 10am - 2pm or 2pm - 6pm and Sunday 26th April 10am - 4pm

VIP ticket for Friends of Sudeley with added value benefits

Treat yourself to a great day’s shopping against the glorious backdrop Sudeley Castle. Select from more than 120 companies selling a tempting array of exclusively-sourced products for the home and garden as well as antiques, garden plants and statuary, decorative accessories such as lamps and cushions, and some unusual fashion and gift items. The small companies taking part have been founded by intrepid travellers bringing back unusual items from off-the-beaten-track or talented artists and craftspeople using their skill to produce original one-offs or smart buyers who have discovered new ranges and negotiated competitive prices. The event takes place in a luxury marquee with wooden, carpeted floors, and there is an adjoining restaurant marquee and free car parking.

VIP tickets

What does VIP status offer you? First and foremost, at least 34 of our most popular exhibitors are offering VIP customers a minimum of an extra 10% discount off purchases made at the Spring Grand Sale. A full list of participating companies with their added value offer can be found on www.grandsales.co.uk, click Spring Grand Sale.

Second, your VIP ticket will allow you to re-visit the Sale on another day, a bonus should you want to consider a big buying decision. You will be able to make use of our shopping bag ‘creche’ at the entrance where you can leave bags – without charge - while you continue to shop. Moreover, if your shopping bags threaten to overwhelm you or you have large items which are heavy or unwieldy, VIP customers can bring their car up to the entrance of the marquee to pick up their purchases.

Finally, VIP customers will be able to buy the bargain hunter’s Bible, The Good Deal Directory – which gives you details of 3,000 factory shops selling great bargains for you, your home, garden and family – at half price – just £5 – and your copy will be personally signed by the author (as long as stocks last).

What you’re likely to find at the Spring Grand Sale

Items on sale in a luxury marquee with wooden carpeted floors and an adjoining restaurant marquee include garden furniture; oak dining tables; delicious homemade cheese; antique Bergeres sofas; original watercolours; faux flowers in vintage cachepots; real fruit licqueurs; wildlife sculptures; decorated peg buckets; garden thermometers; solar lights; vintage fabrics; children’s toys, books and clothing; decorative textiles; cutting-edge cutlery and tableware; unusual jewellery, stylish shoes, fashion accessories and much much more.

How to book your tickets

VIP tickets cost the usual price of £6.50 so VIP status won’t cost a penny more (children under 16 are free). However, they are limited in number so do apply early. They can be bought by visiting www.ukgrandsales.co.uk, phoning 01634 226203 or by writing to PO Box 75, Rochester, Kent ME2 2DB enclosing an SAE. Please state which day and time suits you (either 10am-2pm or 2pm-6pm on Thurs-Sat or 10am-4pm on Sun) and quote reference SUD in order to claim your discount. When re-visiting the show, you can come at any time.


Benefit a charity

The Spring Grand Sale supports the local charity Against Breast Cancer.

(We regret that pushchairs and dogs are not allowed in the marquees)

Sudeley Castle is Open Daily: 10.30am – 5.00pm From 30th March 2009 Adults: £7.20Concessions: £6.20Children (5 – 15yrs): £4.20Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Children): £20.80
www.sudeleycastle.co.ukVisitor Centre: 01242 604244Winchcombe, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 5JD

The Strad Launches Lost and Stolen Database

The Strad magazine has started a new database to help reunite stringed instrument owners with their prized possessions.

If your stringed instrument has been lost or stolen in the last few months, it’s simple to add your details to the register. Go online at www.thestrad.com/lostandstoleninfo and fill out our form.
The information will then appear to the public on our website from May so that readers of The Strad and www.thestrad.com throughout the world can be alert to specific instruments when they surface.

The Strad Lost and Stolen Database is in association with Axa Art.

New Medieval Europe Gallery now open

http://www.farncombeestate.co.uk/coursedetail.asp?course=1776&fac=

Medieval Europe 1050–1550

The Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery

Opening 25 March 2009

The new gallery features the famous Lewis Chessmen alongside Byzantine art, Romanesque and Gothic metalwork and ivory, coinage, jewellery, arms and armour, prints, leatherwork, tiles, and scientific instruments.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/europe/room_40_europe_ad_1000-1540.aspx

UNLOCK THE MUSIC'S SPRING CONCERTS

http://www.farncombeestate.co.uk/tutordetails.asp?tutor=322

"Songs of Life and Love"

he theme for our Spring series of concerts is "Songs of Life and Love". There are three concerts with differing programmes of music, poetry and dance. There will be some overlaps but the each programme has a different emphasis.

The musical community of Unlock the Music are pupils and friends of Lizzie Perring and Trudi Garth who will be performing with their teachers in these exciting and varied evenings. The standard set by Lizzie and Trudi for their pupils is very high and the commitment to developing this music abilities through dedicated practise shown is outstanding. Many are young people with lots of other commitments to fulfill but music gets put top of the list. Lizzie Perring teaches singing in Coventry and Leamington Spa. Trudi Garth teaches flute and piano in Rugby and Coventry. Both are themselves life time performers and are joined by amongst others, Jane Farrington, on cello, Maddy Kerr of Heartbreak Productions who will host some of the concerts and Roger Greasby of Born in a Barn who will be managing the sound for the concerts. Unlock the Music makes music in the local community by networking with other teachers and musicians and including family and friends of pupils in its events.

PART ONE Saturday 21st March 7.30 Spencer Yard, Leamington Spa

A mixed programme of classical and popular music which will include music by Purcell, Bach, Debussy and Sondheim as well as some contemporay popular songs, with dance and poetry.

TICKETS FOR THIS CONCERT CAN BE RESERVED BY PHONE UNLOCK THE MUSIC TEL: 024 7641 5563

PART TWO Saturday 4th April 7.30 St. Nicholas Church, Abbey Fields Kenilworth

A programme of beautiful music which will include music by Purcell, Bach, Debussy and Sondheim as well as some contemporay popular songs.
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW for this concert FROM:- ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH TEL: 01926 858651 or UNLOCK THE MUSIC TEL: 024 7641 5563


PART THREE Monday 11th May 7.00 Baginton Village Hall

Favourite moments from the past two concerts.

TICKETS FOR THIS CONCERT CAN BE RESERVED BY PHONE UNLOCK THE MUSIC TEL: 024 7641 5563

For further details on the location of these venues please link to the website and follow the embedded links.......

Lizzie Perring
www.unlockthemusic.co.uk

Art auction for Red Nose Day

Help a brilliant cartoonist raise some funds for RED NOSE day !

Bid until midnight on Friday 13th (Red Nose Day)
http://www.paulnocher.com/rednoseday

One Life Live opens this week!

Don’t miss out on a brighter future – book your tickets to One Life Live 2009 today!

Do you long to do something different with your life? Whether you feel unfulfilled in your job, are facing redundancy or simply feel in need of achieving a better work/life balance – One Life Live 2009 is the event for you.

Taking place this weekend at Olympia (13-15 March) the 2009 event is packed with advice for those who have been affected by the recent job market crisis. With hundreds of exhibitors, experts, free one-to-one career consultations and seminars, One Life Live is dedicated to providing invaluable advice and information on how to manage a life or career change.

- Hear from some of the country’s leading career coaches
- Meet recruitment and re-training experts
- Get in touch with further education institutions
- Speak to career change consultants
- Investigate distance learning opportunities

From options to retain for a new career, undertake a new educational or personal challenge, become your own boss, take a career break to travel or volunteer overseas, or simply achieve a more meaningful life, the event offers a whole host of practical solutions.

Highlights at One Life Live 2009 include:
-Over 150 seminars and workshops
-Eight life changing zones with over 300 exhibitors and thousands of exciting opportunities to do something different with your life
-One-to-one consultations with life coaches, careers advisors, travel, volunteering and business start-up experts
-16 in-depth master classes to help you plan a life change
-Inspirational celebrity speakers

One Life Live 2009 takes place in Grand Hall Olympia from 13-15th March.

Special Offer - Book tickets in advance and save £2!

Tickets cost just £14 when booking in advance (£16 each on the door). Visit www.onelifelive.co.uk or call 0844 8483225

Book your ticket today and start living your One Life!

Local History Forum

Local History Magazine has just recently launched a new website forum where you can view and post relevant information. Please visit http://www.localhistoryforum.co.uk/

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum OPEN 2009

The exhibition, which takes place between the 5 June and 2 August , is open to all professional artists based in the West Midlands, with the stipulation that work must have been completed after 1 January 2008.
http://www.arts-media.org/index.php/news/entry/leamington_spa_art_gallery_museum_open_2009/

Ledbury Artplace Challenge Exhibition

11th – 18th April

Tantalising Tag Books - For full details contact Farncombe tutor Angie Hughes www.ledburyartplace.co.uk

You can use any kind of material wood, metal, cloth, paper etc. to make it out of it doesn’t have to be a textile piece. If you would like a pattern for the size and shape of the ones Angie Hughes has made and some instructions contact her directly, otherwise let your creativity run wild!!!!

Tag books will be exhibited at Ledbury Artplace,

· There will be a 1st 2nd and 3rd prize.

· Entry fee will be £5 (Limited to 2 tagbooks per applicant if you have time to do 2!)

· Important !! Applications to be received by Mon 30th March (for an application form email angie@angiehughes.com

· Delivery of tagbooks to Ledbury Artplace by 12 noon Thursday 9th April. (please include return postage)

· Exhibition Saturday 11th April – Saturday 18th April (prize giving preview on Friday 10th April 7pm onwards).

Aesthetica Creative Works Competition - win £500

Enter the 2009 competition and get a copy of the Creative Works Annual for FREE

The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is looking for undiscovered poets, artists and writers. For a limited time only, I would like to present you with this exclusive offer, where you will receive a copy of the Creative Works Annual absolutely free when you enter this year’s competition.

There are three categories in the competition:

· Artwork & Photography

· Poetry

· Fiction

There will be three winners, each receiving £500. The winners and finalists will be published in next year’s annual, which will be available nationwide in the UK through Borders stores. The closing date to receive submissions is 31st August 2009.

To view competition terms and conditions please click here <http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm>


To enter the competition and claim your free annual please click here <http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?storeid=26777&itemcode=Entry2>


Enter the 2009 competition and get a copy of the Creative Works Annual for FREE

Referral Winners in February

Congratulations to C Reeds of Mid Glamorgan, A Hunt of Worcestershire and P Hassam of Berkshire who all won vouchers in our referral scheme in February.

Juliet Heslewood - Lecture at Farncombe Estate is the subject of her new book!

Juliet Heslewood studied for her first degree at London University and later gained her MA from Toulouse. For over 25 years she lived in France where she devised and led study tours on art and architecture as well as continuing her writing career. Her books include ‘The History of Western Painting’ and its companion on Sculpture – both for young people – which were translated into twelve languages. She has a new book out now, the subject of another popular lecture which she gives at Farncombe: “Mother: Portraits by 40 Great Artists”. From Rembrandt, Rossetti and Van Gogh to Picasso, Kahlo and Hockney, forty portraits make up this collection of atists’ mothers. A delicious combination of art history and biographical anecdote, it is also an elegant celebration of the powerful relationships between sons, daughters and their mothers.

Juliet will be happy to sign copies of her new book, when students attend her lecture at Farncombe Estate on the 29/03/2009 - copies will be available to purchase

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