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As events are booked for the Ashby Arts Festival 2009, details will be placed on this page.  Subscribe to our email newsletter to be the first to be informed of events.  To download out Festival Calendar please click here

 

Event  (click below for more details)

Price

Location 

 Exhibitor

To book contact... 

 Thu 20 Aug

 

Crime Writer Talk

(2.15 - 3.45)

 

 Free

 Ashby Library

 Anne Zouroudi

 0116 305 5917

 Fri 21 Aug

 Telstar Swing Band

(8.15pm -11pm)

 £8 adult

 Venture Theatre

 

 

 Ashby TIC 01530 411767

 

Concert in a Day -

Grade 2+

10am - 7pm

 £10 per young person

£3 for show (adults)

 Ashby Baptist Church

Jackie Ashton

 01332 864007

Sat 22 Aug

 Arts Festival Opening

various events/time

Free 

 Market Street, outside Boots

 

 just turn up

 

 Ashby African Drummers performance / Workshop

10-12noon

 Free

 

 Market Street, outside Boots

Ashby African Drummers 

 

 just turn up

 

 Salsa Dancing Performance / Workshop

12noon onwards

 Free

 Market Street, outside Boots

 

 Just turn up

 

 Busking Session

11am - 3pm

 Free

Rushtons Yard 

Ashby Songwriters 

Just turn up 

 

Writing Folk Past Lives Fiction Workshop

(10 - 4)

£30 adult

The Marquee 7 Melbourne Rd, Newbold, Coleorton LE67 8JH

Folk on the Farm

 Tel: 01530 223467 sue@writelink.co.uk

 

 

Fiddling Folk Workshop

(10 - 2)

Adult£10 child £5

The Marquee 7 Melbourne Rd, Newbold, Coleorton LE67 8JH

Folk on the Farm

 Tel: 01530 223467 sue@writelink.co.uk

 

 Johanne with the Long Hair

(7.30pm onwards)

 £3 includes wine & nibbles

Ashby Museum 

 Sue Kendrick

01530 223 456 

 

 Exhibitions

Buy a ticket for £3 per adult to view all exhibitions and open studios

 various

 various

 

 

 Open Studios

Buy a ticket for £3 per adult to view all exhibitions and open studios

various 

 various

 

 

 Quorn Brass Band

7:30pm

£5 adult 

 Holy Trinity Church

 

 Ashby TIC 01530 411767

Sun 23 Aug

Harmony Singing Folk Workshop

(10 - 4)

Adults £25 Conc £20

The Marquee 7 Melbourne Rd, Newbold, Coleorton LE67 8JH

Folk on the Farm

 Tel: 01530 223467 sue@writelink.co.uk

 

 

Performing Folk

(7pm)

 Free

The Marquee 7 Melbourne Rd, Newbold, Coleorton LE67 8JH

 

Folk on the Farm

 Tel: 01530 223467 sue@writelink.co.uk

 

  Exhibitions

 Buy a ticket for £3 per adult to view all exhibitions and open studios

 various

 various

 

 

 Open Studios

 Buy a ticket for £3 per adult to view all exhibitions and open studios

 various 

 various 

 

Mon 24 Aug

 

 

Illustrate Your Story (for age 8+)

10 - 12

 £3 per child

 Ashby Baptist Church

 

 Ashby TIC 01530 411767

 Tue 25 Aug

3 n 3 (3 plays in three days) 11-16yrs  (9:30-7pm)

 

£30 per child 

 Ashby Venture Theatre

NWLDC 

Ashby TIC 01530 411767 

 

3 n 3 (3 plays in three days) Performance (6.30pm)

 

 

 Ashby Venture Theatre

 

NWLDC 

 

Ashby TIC 01530 411767 

 

 Open Reading

(7:30 - 9:30pm)

 Free

 La Zouch Restaurant

Ashby Writers 

 

Ashby TIC 01530 411767 

Wed 26 Aug

 Festival Art Talk

7-9pm

 £3.50 to include refreshments

Ashfield In2Focus, Resolution Road, Ashby de la Zouch Le65 1HW

 Hester Finch and Phil Redford

 Ashby TIC T: 01530 411767 or Helen JoyceT: 01530 560166

 

Ukuleles & Guitars for 6+ yrs

10-12 or 1-3pm

 £5 child

 Ashby Baptist Church

 

 Ashby TIC 01530 411767

Thu 27 Aug

Still Life Workshop

 

£20 adult

Ashby Museum

 Di Lorriman

01530 414276

Di Lorriman 

 

Pyrography Workshop

Age 8+

1-3pm

 £4 child

 Ashby Baptist Church

 

 Ashby TIC 01530 411767

 

 Roots & World Music from Mellow Baku with David Anderson

8.15pm

 £3 Adult £3 child

 The Crowded House

 

 Ashby TIC  01530 411767 or The Crowded House

Fri 28 Aug

Literary Dinner:"Twenty Years In The Word Mines"

(7.30pm - 11pm)

£20 per adult

La Zouch restaurant 

Ashby Writers 

Ashby TIC 01530 411767

Sat 29 Aug

 

Himalayan bowls, gongs, percussion and voice

11-11:45am & 2:30-3:15pm

 Free

Ashby Congregational Church, Kilwardby Street

Stephen Scotney 

Just turn up 

Sun 30 Aug