Discover Culture in the Wokingham Borough
Summer 2008 will be packed with arts and cultural festivities for Wokingham borough residents to enjoy.
The Wokingham Discover Culture festival runs through the summer and is sponsored by The Cultural Partnership. It will take the Hands-on-Arts Pavilion to fayres, fun days and carnivals across the borough as well as supporting the Cantley Proms and Theatre in the Park and organising a visual art exhibition for children and young people.
This year’s Wokingham Discover Culture festival continues to work in partnership with community events to create a summer season of culture for the Wokingham Borough’s residents.
The festivities begin at the Wokingham Lions’ Wokingham May Fayre on Bank Holiday Monday May 5, where the ever-popular Discover Culture Hands-on-Arts Pavilion will make its first appearance of the year. The pavilion, sponsored by Ready Steady Store, offers people of all ages the chance to enjoy creative arts workshops and family-friendly demonstrations. Among the free opportunities on offer will be the chance to learn traditional weaving, puppet-making and performance and print-making.
The Hands-on-Arts pavilion will also be at the Crowthorne Carnival in Morgan Recreation Ground on Saturday July 5; Earley Fun Day, organised by Woodley and Earley Lions Club, in Events Field Kilnsea Drive in Lower Earley on Saturday July 12 and Spencers Wood Carnival in Clares Green Road on Saturday September 13.
From Tuesday July 1 until Friday August 29, the Mall Gallery in Wokingham Borough Council’s Shute End offices in Wokingham will host the Arena for the Arts 2008 exhibition. Arena for the Arts showcases the artistic talent of the borough’s young people. This year’s exhibition will explore the theme The Natural Earth.
An evening of musical favourites performed by the Lewisham Concert Band is on offer at the Cantley Prom, which is again being promoted by The Cultural Partnership. The proms is a chance to enjoy a picnic in the ground of The Cantley House Hotel followed by an evening of music that will culminate in a rousing rendition of Land of Hope and Glory.
The Cantley Prom is on Sunday July 20 from 5.30pm for picnics concert at 7.30pm. Advance tickets are £20 for adults, £17.50 concessions and £7 children and can be booked online at www.cantleyproms.co.uk or by phone: 0118 978 9912.
On Friday August 22, Distraction Theatre Company will bring its thrilling and swashbuckling new comedy The Three Musketeers to Dinton Pastures for the Theatre in the Park evening. The performance, organised by the borough council’s Countryside Service, will be at 8pm and ticket are priced £10 for adults, £8 for group bookings of six or more and £7 for under 16s and students. A pre-show summer buffet will be available for £10 per person and all tickets can be booked in advance by emailing: countryside@wokingham.gov.uk or calling 0118 934 2016.
The Cultural Partnership is a community group that champions arts, sports, heritage and leisure for people of all ages in the borough and is supported by Wokingham Borough Council and local businesses.
The Cultural Partnership’s chairman Gwynneth Hewetson said: “Discover Culture, now in its fourth year, is growing and adding new events each year – we are taking the Hand-on-Arts Pavilion to Crowthorne and Spencer Wood carnivals for the first time and that is an exciting development. We hope that by working with community events we can bring more arts and more fun to the whole community.”
The Wokingham Discover Culture festival runs through the summer and is sponsored by The Cultural Partnership. It will take the Hands-on-Arts Pavilion to fayres, fun days and carnivals across the borough as well as supporting the Cantley Proms and Theatre in the Park and organising a visual art exhibition for children and young people.
This year’s Wokingham Discover Culture festival continues to work in partnership with community events to create a summer season of culture for the Wokingham Borough’s residents.
The festivities begin at the Wokingham Lions’ Wokingham May Fayre on Bank Holiday Monday May 5, where the ever-popular Discover Culture Hands-on-Arts Pavilion will make its first appearance of the year. The pavilion, sponsored by Ready Steady Store, offers people of all ages the chance to enjoy creative arts workshops and family-friendly demonstrations. Among the free opportunities on offer will be the chance to learn traditional weaving, puppet-making and performance and print-making.
The Hands-on-Arts pavilion will also be at the Crowthorne Carnival in Morgan Recreation Ground on Saturday July 5; Earley Fun Day, organised by Woodley and Earley Lions Club, in Events Field Kilnsea Drive in Lower Earley on Saturday July 12 and Spencers Wood Carnival in Clares Green Road on Saturday September 13.
From Tuesday July 1 until Friday August 29, the Mall Gallery in Wokingham Borough Council’s Shute End offices in Wokingham will host the Arena for the Arts 2008 exhibition. Arena for the Arts showcases the artistic talent of the borough’s young people. This year’s exhibition will explore the theme The Natural Earth.
An evening of musical favourites performed by the Lewisham Concert Band is on offer at the Cantley Prom, which is again being promoted by The Cultural Partnership. The proms is a chance to enjoy a picnic in the ground of The Cantley House Hotel followed by an evening of music that will culminate in a rousing rendition of Land of Hope and Glory.
The Cantley Prom is on Sunday July 20 from 5.30pm for picnics concert at 7.30pm. Advance tickets are £20 for adults, £17.50 concessions and £7 children and can be booked online at www.cantleyproms.co.uk or by phone: 0118 978 9912.
On Friday August 22, Distraction Theatre Company will bring its thrilling and swashbuckling new comedy The Three Musketeers to Dinton Pastures for the Theatre in the Park evening. The performance, organised by the borough council’s Countryside Service, will be at 8pm and ticket are priced £10 for adults, £8 for group bookings of six or more and £7 for under 16s and students. A pre-show summer buffet will be available for £10 per person and all tickets can be booked in advance by emailing: countryside@wokingham.gov.uk or calling 0118 934 2016.
The Cultural Partnership is a community group that champions arts, sports, heritage and leisure for people of all ages in the borough and is supported by Wokingham Borough Council and local businesses.
The Cultural Partnership’s chairman Gwynneth Hewetson said: “Discover Culture, now in its fourth year, is growing and adding new events each year – we are taking the Hand-on-Arts Pavilion to Crowthorne and Spencer Wood carnivals for the first time and that is an exciting development. We hope that by working with community events we can bring more arts and more fun to the whole community.”
Wokingham Borough Council
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