Award-winning poet Dawn Gorman will read from her work, including her latest, Instead, Let Us Say. Dawn’s work covers the plight of the natural world to personal loss but offers a message of hope that is “loud with life”. Email: dawn@dawngorman.co.uk to book and for more details * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.
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Imagiro
Discover the story of Imagiro and his paper-folding adventures! Author, and origami expert Matt Stone offers you perfect family entertainment for a Sunday morning. Email: matt.j.stone@hotmail.co.uk or visit www.mattstone.me.uk for more details and booking information – maximum 15 families. * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.
Your Corsham Stories: Corsham History Walk
Enjoy a walk with a touch of history as your guide Simon Williams takes you on a stroll around the town centre. Email: sleigh@corsham.gov.uk * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.
Your Corsham Stories: Write a Postcard
We want to know your Corsham stories! We’ll be at St Bart’s annual Breakfast Service so come along, enjoy a bacon roll, and write a postcard for display. * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.
The Anarchist’s Mobile Library
Go on an adventure through the pages of the most exciting children’s books in history, and meet extraordinary characters, all inside a retro, pop-up caravan! An interactive show for families, encouraging children to see literature in a new light, to take control of their own destiny and imagine new endings to the stories around them. Suitable for ages 5+. Box [read more…]
Fleabag
See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series in this Encore NT live screening from London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag is a “witty, filthy and supreme”, rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Box Office: www.poundarts.org.uk or 01249 701628 * This event is part of [read more…]
The Secret Code of Paintings
John Parker, of The John Parker Gallery, will be sharing the story of the Old Masters, symbolism in painting and the messages hidden on the canvas. Email: john@theparkergallery.co.uk to book and for more information * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.
Content Collaboration
What kind of stories could you tell if you weren’t in charge of the words? Let local poet and Young Adult writer Luke Palmer be your guide as you cross and recross the language line between writer and editor, between being the words’ master and their servant. Contact LCPalmerpoet@gmail.com to book. Suitable for ages 11+. * This event is part [read more…]
Your Corsham Stories: A Walk with Mr Corsham
Join Julian Carosi, local historian and author of Corsham Revealed and Corsham Revealed More for a walk with a difference along the High Street and The Avenue. * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.
The Poetic Imagination
Join local artist Helen Garrett (info@helengarrett.org) and use goose feather quills and Chinese ink to take natural form as your starting place and inspiration and allow writing to emerge naturally from the connection with material and the power of your imagination. * This event is part of Corsham StoryTown.