Extra Laurie Lee centenary events for autumn 2014

Forthcoming centenary events for the autumn.

Build your skills and confidence – be creative

As I Walked Out – Textural Printmaking workshop

A five day course, (running over five weeks) Wednesdays 24nd Sept to 22nd Oct
The Museum in the Park, Stroud 10am to 3pm.

Experiment with a wide range of materials and learn printmaking techniques including mono printing, collagraph, viscosity inking and relief printing inspired by the museum collections. Work together on a large scale collaborative project inspired by Laurie Lee’s ‘As I Walked Out’. Exhibit your work at The Printmakers Gallery.

The five week course will be based at the Museum In The Park, Stroud and the Gloucestershire Printmaking Studios at Griffin Mill.

Suitable for all abilities.

Cost: £175 for the 5 day course. Price includes materials – maximum 8 people.

Booking: contact Museum in the Park museum@stroud.gov.uk Tel: 01453 763394 www.museuminthepark.org.uk

For more info email tutors Rachel rachemoram@hotmail.com or Christine christine@cfelce.co.uk

Local author and poet Adam Horovitz and fiddle player Becky Dellow will be performing ‘A Slad Century in Poetry and Music’ at Museum in The Park on 25th September – www.museuminthepark.org.uk. (www.amandalawrence.com).

Cider with Laurie – extra dates

Saturday 4th October, 8pm – Kingshill House, Dursley. Booking through Kingshill House on 01453 549133.

Saturday 18th October – Wotton-under-Edge Literary Festival. Performance date, time, venue and booking details tbc at time of posting.

Johnny Coppin –

23^rd October 7.45pm – Edge of Day –– Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School, Cheltenham

For tickets 01242 258002

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust – Day at the Sub Rooms plus Walk to the Slad Valley from Stroud

Saturday 22^nd November 1.30pm Walk to the Slad Valley from Stroud
Join Strouds’ local Wildlife Trust team on a walk from Stroud Sub Rooms forecourt, through the beautiful Slad Valley to Swift’s Hill and the new Laurie Lee Wood nature reserves. The iconic valley, immortalised in Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie remains unchanged and you can still see Laurie’s childhood home, the church, schoolhouse and Woolpack Inn that feature in his famous novel. You will take in some of the Trusts poetry posts, launched earlier in the year and get the opportunity for a quick stop to have a cider, but maybe not with Rosie!

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Please visit our Laurie Lee Centenary Facebook page to find out more https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Laurie-Lee-Centenary-Celebrations/603028139790185?fref=photo or pick up a Laurie Lee Centenary Celebrations bookmark listing all events throughout the year at your Gloucestershire Tourist Information Centre. Bookmarks are also available from Stroud bookshops, cafés, The Woolpack in Slad, The Butchers Arms, Sheepscombe and The Greenshop near Bisley and further afield. If you would like to receive one please send a personal message to the LLCC Facebook page.