Binsted Arts Festival

 

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2018 Festival Programme

 

HOW TO BOOK

Places on the poetry workshop are limited so please enquire first. If you book and then cannot attend, please inform us so that someone else can be offered a place.

• Click here to download the BOOKING FORM as a Word document (if not seen, look in Downloads)

  Click here to download the BOOKING FORM as a PDF

• Email: bafbooking@edmart.plus.com

• Phone: 01243 555778

• By post: Binsted Arts Festival, Manor Lodge, The Street, Walberton, BN18 0PJ

For events with a charge, please send a cheque made out to ‘Binsted Arts’. Tickets reserved will be available at the event.

WHERE TO FIND US

• St Mary’s Church, Binsted, is at BN18 0LL. If coming west along the A27, take left turn signed ‘Binsted’. Satnav and Google maps suggest a left turn nearer Arundel goes through to Binsted – it doesn’t.
• Mill Ball, Binsted Lane, Binsted is at BN18 0LJ. It is further down Binsted Lane past St Mary’s Church and first on the left after the Flint Barn.

PARKING: No parking in Binsted Lane. For St Mary’s Church, parking is at the Old Rectory, just past St Mary’s Church on the left. For Mill Ball, turn in and park in the grounds.

The nearest train station is Barnham. There is a taxi office next to the station (01243 551753).

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Events at a Glance

 

Friday 8 June

‘Protest Poetry’  -  Writing workshop led by Mandy Pannett, poet and creative writing tutor.
For people of all levels of experience or none. Examples of protest poetry and some ideas for attendees to try out.
3.00 to 5.30 pm at the Pool Room, Mill Ball, Binsted: £10: up to 14 people

Refreshments will be available at Stable Cottage, Binsted, opposite the church, for anyone attending the workshop who would like to stay for the poetry evening

Poetry Evening and Competition Prize-giving
With readings by prize winners and also by Jeremy Page, the competition judge.
7.00 to 9.00 pm at St Mary’s Church, Binsted: free

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Saturday 9 June

Guided Woodland Walk:  ‘Binsted’s Ancient Woodland: what to see and how it’s threatened’
Led by Tony Whitbread, retiring Chief Executive of the Sussex Wildlife Trust
10.00 am to 12.00 pm, starting at St Mary’s Church, Binsted: £5: up to 30 people

‘D.H. Lawrence, Censorship and the Meynell family in Sussex’
Talk by Oliver Hawkins, artist and local historian and a descendant of the poet Alice Meynell
2.00 to 3.30 pm at St Mary’s Church, Binsted: £5

‘Seven Brides for Binsted’ - An evening of dramatic sketches
by Drip Action Theatre Company
7.30 to 9.30 pm at St Mary’s Church, Binsted: £10

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Sunday 10 June

‘Lassus Lamentations: Renaissance masterpiece mourning the destruction of a place’.
Concert of music by Orlando Lassus (c. 1532-1594)
By a local Consort of Viols with Singers
12.30 to 2.30 at St Mary’s Church, Binsted: free: half-hour interval with light refreshments, or bring a picnic

‘Michael Wishart, Artist’ 
Talk by Tim Hunting about this mystical nature painter and witty memoirist, brought up in Binsted (1928-1996).
4.00 to 5.15 at St Mary’s Church, Binsted: £5

 

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About the Festival

 

The Binsted Arts Festival builds on the long-held attraction of Binsted near Arundel and the wider Sussex countryside for artists and writers.  

It involves the local community and anyone with a feeling for these special places in artistic activity enjoyment and learning today, at locations in and around the village of Binsted.   

Our 2017 Arts Festival theme was a 'Harvest' of rural life in Sussex, and celebrating the Binsted countryside.  

Click here to read the June 2017 Binsted Arts Festival Report

Click here to read the June 2016 Binsted Arts Festival Report

 

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