Faringdon Arts Festival 2010

Faringdon Arts Festival takes place at Market Place and various venues in Faringdon, Oxfordshire and happens over seven days from Thursday 1st until Sunday 11th July 2010 and offers something for all ages and tastes.

Line-up

Full programme

Thursday 1 July
Community & Tourist Information Centre - Amanda Hislop Art Exhibition
Faringdon Community College - Battle of the Bands Admission £2

Friday 2 July
Pure Me - Nick Maitland Art Exhibition

Sunday 4 July
Portwell Angel - Faringdon Art Society Exhibition
Faringdon Folly open. Admission £1.50 adults, 50p children
The Red Lion - 15 Minute Club

Monday 5 July
Piano Gallery - Art Exhibition
Faringdon Leisure Centre - Artistic Skating Workshop

Tuesday 6 July
Market Place - Market Day Music with Phill Baker and Stevie Sax
Faringdon Corn Exchange - Open Stage
Portwell Angel - Louise Woodgate sings Puccini and other opera favourites

Wednesday 7 July
Portwell Angel - Wine Appreciation Workshop. Advance booking £5

Thursday 8 July
Old Town Hall - Faringdon Art Society Annual Exhibition
The Bell Hotel - Decorative ceramic teapots Exhibition
Faringdon Corn Exchange - Cajun music and workshop with Bayou Seco from 8.00pm

Friday 9 July:
All Saints Church - Devon Ringkly Ringers 11.15am
Pump House (June Rennie Room) - Needlecraft Exhibition and Lace Making Workshop 5pm
Pump House (Jubilee Room) - Faces & Motion Photography Exhibition
Pump House (Mike Ilott Suite) - Faringdon Flickr Photographers Exhibition
Rat's Castle - Lord Berners Soiree - Dinner and Berners' music performed by Consensus Quartet. Advance booking £25
Market Place Stage - Weekend Launch Event (6.15 - 11pm) - Battle of the Bands
Winners; Fly Dynamix; African Drums: Aaron Keylock Band; Quadrophobe; Dirty Deeds
All Saints Church - St. James Singers 8pm
Faringdon Corn Exchange - Salsa Dance Party 8pm
Saturday 10 July:
Faringdon Leisure Centre - Artistic Skating 10am
Faringdon Folly open. Admission £1.50 adults, 50p children
Faringdon Library - Roz Kaveney, poetry 11am
Town Park - Faringdon Fringe with Sonic Drop, DJs, Graffiti Wall, Juggling, Skate Board Mini Ramp (£2 for 1 hour pass)
Market Place Stage (10.30am - 11pm) - The Dacoits, Chalice, TiffLees & Keiran, Trev Williams, The Follys, Emma Kennedy, The Man with Stereo Hands, Paul Vanags, Castaway Oyster, Ain't Drunk Jus' Drinkin', Charlie Baxter, Brickwork Lizards, Fry, and Slink.
Plus Face Painting, Hair Stencilling, Pavement Art, Dalek
All Saints Church - Cotswold Voices, Abbie Fidler (popular songs from 10.30am) plus Floral Display
The Bell Hotel - Fantasy Life of an Author with Juliert McKenna, Sarah Pinborough, Ian Whates, Roz Kaveney
Faringdon Corn Exchange - Triple Threat Youth Theatre 1pm; Zanoba middle eastern dancers 1.30pm; Singalong (2 - 4pm) with Mervyn Penny & Judy Harris, Reg Eyles, Peter Wentworth, featuring songs from the great American songbook; .Tea Dance (5.00pm - 11.30pm) with Jazz from Denny Ilett and friends
The Red Lion - The Back Room Poets from 7.00pm

Sunday 11 July:
Market Place Stage (10.30am - 6.00pm) - Fiona & Friends, Fergusson, Mark Chilvers, Blind Dog Blues, This Eden, Chris Ayres, Nina & Nick Reiber Hodgson, Jive Plus, Cooper Black
Faringdon Folly open. Admission £1.50 adults, 50p children
All Saints Church - Matthew Kilford 1.15pm, Phousa 2.00pm, Floral Display
Budgens - 'Faringdon Follies: The Making of a Grand Eccentrc' 2.00pm. Advance booking £5
Faringdon Youth Centre - Open Session from 2.00pm
Faringdon Corn Exchange - ABC Sound System from 12.30. Music and workshop with Baraka from 8pm
Portwell House Cellar - Helen & Pythius Peacocke 4.00pm

Tickets

All events FREE unless otherwise stated. For advance bookings please email focuson@bordengate.com

Any profit from events at Faringdon Corn Exchange will be donated to UNICEF Fund for Haiti).

The festival will offer various events including art, comedy, dance, exhibitions, face-painting, poetry, talks and workshops will take place at various venues around the town centre. These include a card making workshop, song writing workshop, drama workshop, sculpture workshop, flower arranging workshop, Paul Cornell introduces writers from the world of Sci- Fi comics books and tv, exhibition of samplers and patchwork lacemaking demonstration and workshop, Faringdon Art Society Workshop, and an Annual Exhibition open throughout the festival weekend.

Travel and accommodation

During the Festival weekend some roads will be closed. Car parks are located in Gloucester Street and Southampton Street. Buses from Swindon, Oxford and Wantage will stop within a short walk of the town centre. For more information see: http://faringdon.org/tttourism1.htm.

More information will be here when available.

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