The Old Brick Workshop in Poole is being transformed into a new creative artists’ space for Wellington. Once part of the historic Poole Brickworks, it will soon be a versatile venue for artists and makers when it opens officially on 3rd October. The workshop is a spacious two story building – made appropriately from the …
The first weekend of the 10 Parishes Festival in Wiveliscombe and its surrounding communities – Ashbrittle, Bathealton, Brompton Ralph, Clatworthy, Chipstable with Waterrow, Fitzhead, Huish Champflower, Milverton and Stawley – attracted big crowds to the Street Market this weekend. In very bright sunshine visitors thronged the town’s narrow streets where stalls selling local food, drinks, …
The 10 Parishes’ Festival which runs from 5 to 13 September opened with a drama that let the public enter the disused Wiveliscombe Town Hall for the first time in 50 years. The Wellington-based surrealist multi-media performance company Forkbeard Fantasy gave an invited audience a taste of their highly unconventional sound and projection installation, ‘Beyond …
With entries up and a record numbers of exhibitors in Championship classes, Wellington Summer Flower Show was judged a success by the organising committee even before it opened to the public at the Alan Rogers Centre, Wellington School, this weekend. Wellington Flower Show Secretary Sheena Page said, “We’ve had 13 entries in Championship classes this …
Final preparations are under way for the start of this year’s 10 Parishes’ Festival which opens on Saturday 5 September, running until Sunday 13 September. This ambitious event which celebrates visual and performing arts takes place in Wiveliscombe and surrounding communities. A wide range of previous and new exhibitors will present art and crafts in …
Wellington artist Alison Luisi has won the Best Abstract Painting Award at Tiverton Art Society’s Summer Exhibition, a remarkable achievement as she only started painting seriously less than a year ago. Her success comes years after she did a Art Foundation Course at SCAT on leaving school but painting since then has been “just a …
Blackdown Woodland Fair is a very different kind of summer event. It provides a unique opportunity for children and families to experience first-hand the activities, skills and crafts that The Blackdown and East Devon Woodland Association supports and encourages. This weekend’s event was the 5th year the Association has organised the show on farmland just …
Cothay Manor’s magnificent gardens and historic medieval house provided an idyllic setting for the Garden, Plants, Crafts and Food Fair at the weekend. The event attracted 38 stall holders and many visitors who could browse both the stalls and the manor’s 12 acres of ‘garden rooms’ which have been judged one of the 20 Best …
Local knitter and farmer Annie Musgrove has launched the Meadow Farm Wool Project to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust and the brain injury charity, Headway. Home knitters are able to source their own knitting wool by leasing one or more Jacob sheep from Annie Musgrove’s smallholding, Meadow Farm, near Wellington in Somerset. The project is being undertaken by …
Wellington School’s Christmas Craft and Produce Fair attracted big crowds of gift-hunters from both the school community and the town to the Princess Royal Sports Complex at the weekend. Organised by the Friends of Wellington School, there were dozens of stall-holders selling a huge range of foods and crafts and filling the venue. On hand …
Quilting at its finest was illustrated at this month’s gathering of Wellington Women’s Institute. Quilter Penny Armitage presented her techniques learned over the last 12 years but which began as just a time-filling exercise when her husband’s posting took her to Kuwait. She now lives on the edge of Exmoor. She brought along some of …
