Ledbury Food Market
Sunday 8 July

Herefordshire is known for the quality of its local food and drink and on Sunday 3rd July you have an opportunity to find out what this county has to offer. Local cider and wines, cheese, bread, delicious desserts, so don’t eat before you leave home!

Organised in association with Rachel Hicks of Just Rachel HEREFORDSHIRE FOOD CHAMPION 2010-2011

 

Family events

 

Friday 6 July

87. Festival Schools Day
10am - 2pm
Community Hall
Poetry for £1.00!
Featuring Val Bloom, Chrissie Gittins and Andrew Fusek Peters. Invite your Year 5 and 6 students. This exciting workshop day offers students the enriching experience of hearing varied forms of poetry performed by renowned poets. Also a unique opportunity to work with these experienced writers.

Festival Schools Day and Children's Festival sponsored by Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charitable Trust.

 

88. Out Loud! Festival Launch
Family Performance
5pm - 6pm
The Baptist Church
£3
Val Bloom, Andrew Fusek Peters and Chrissie Gittins.
Expect exuberant and humorous poems, zingy performances, lots of action, wild and wonderful flights of fancy. Whoop and shout with three poets, who between them have published numerous collections including Duppy Jamboree, Mad, Bad and Dangerously Haddock, and The Humpback's Wail.

 

Saturday 7 July

89. Flag Making: How Will Your Garden Grow?
10am - 12 noon
The Baptist Church
Free drop in workshop, ages 5+
Help Illustrator and Theatre Designer Ali Glanville Jones find the words and pictures that will help make the flowers blossom, the trees bloom and the sun rise! Create flags and textiles to hang in the Baptist Church garden. All materials provided!


90. Hey Little Bug! Poems for little creatures with James Carter
10.30am - 11am and 11.30am - 12 noon
Ledbury Children's Centre
£1 per child with an accompanying adult
A gentle, fun and interaction session for 0-6 year olds and their parents. Action rhymes, music and poems aplenty. Support by Ledbury Children's Centre - tickets available only through the Centre.

 

91. Puddings and Poems
11am - 3pm
Baptist Church, downstairs
£3 for a choice of 3 different puddings
Pavlova, gooey chocolate brownies and pudding inspired poems in association with Candlestick Press.

92. Journey to the Centre of My Brain with James Carter
1pm - 2pm
Baptist Hall
£3, ages 7 - 777
Ever met an alien? James is probably the closest you'll ever get. Come along for a madcap session from the quirkiest and liveliest poet and guitarist in town.

 

93. Wonderful Beast presents Coat of Umpteen Pockets
2.30pm - 3.30pm
Baptist Church
£3, ages 7 - 11
Inspired by Adrian Mitchell's book Umpteen Pockets, two actors, including Adrian's daughter Sasha, and a musician bring these funny, insightful, playful and beautiful poems to life. Each performer has a magical coat with 'umpteen pockets' out of which appear poems and songs to make children laugh, listen, dig deep into their imaginations and to sing.

Sponsored by the English Speaking Union

 

94. Coat of Umpteen Pockets Workshop
4.15pm - 5.15pm
Baptist Church, downstairs
£3, ages 7 - 11
Wonderful Beast provides a post-show workshop in which children are encouraged by the three performers to have fun with words and to create and perform their own poems.

 

95. A is Amazing: Wendy Cooling and illustrator Piet Grobler
5.40pm - 6.40pm
Baptist Church
£3
Family event. Celebrate the wonders that can be experienced when words and pictures really work together. There are poems for all moods in A is Amazing, chosen by Bookstart founder Wendy Cooling and illustrated by Piet Grobler. Listen to the poems and be ready to join in with your thoughts and ideas.

Sunday 8 July

 

96. Animate a Poem drop in day
11am - 4pm
Market Theatre
Free
Come and help to create an animated poem using the magic of stopmotion animation. Make characters and scenery from the poem by using a range of exciting materials and watch them come alive! Also try your hand at other simple animation techniques. It's fun and by the end of the day we will have made a film of our poem!


97. Balloonheads and Wordwigs
1.30pm - 4.30pm
Baptist Church
Free
Create your very own Balloonhead with an acrostic poem Word Wig! Poet and Blue Peter badge-winner Sara-Jane Arbury will guide you through the art and craft of making your colourful poetic creation. And in a few weeks time, if it doesn't pop, your Balloonhead will begin to wrinkle and look very, very old...

 

98. Woodland Poetry Magic
2pm
Free
Gathering point: The walled garden next to St. Michaels Church
Length of quest, allow 2 hours!
Something's amiss in Ledbury's magical wood! The seasons have got stuck and time is on hold. You are invited to join in this adventurous quest to help find the solutions and solve the mystery.

Dress appropriately for the weather and woodland walking. Bring snacks and drinks. Younger tots best in backpacks but prams okay. Suitable for people of all ages, children under the supervision of adults. This exciting adventure is brought to you by our local charity Out to Play.

 

99. Create Misunderstood Monsters - The Workshop
1.30pm - 2.30pm
Baptist Church, downstairs
£3 per child, ages 4 - 8
Create your own misunderstood monsters through poetry, music and drawing. These monsters are then uploaded in the Free All Monsters Game where they can roam the entire globe and be collected by Monster Spotters everywhere.

Free All Misunderstood Monsters - The Game
You can play Free All Misunderstood Monsters in two ways, as a Monster Maker and a Monster Spotter (you can be both!). To create your own monsters and set them free, click here www.freeallmonsters.com

 

100. Olympic Singathon - Songs from around the World
2pm - 3pm
Baptist Church
Free
An Olympic singathon for all the family. Never sung outside of the shower before? Don't worry, natural voice practitioner Hanna Lawrence makes it easy, regardless of musical experience or ability. Come and enjoy a fun and uplifting mixture of songs.

 

101. Misunderstood Monsters - The Show
4pm - 5pm
Baptist Church
£3, ages 4 - 8
Saint George, the monster catcher, is on his most dangerous mission yet and he needs your help. But are the monsters as monstrous as they seem or are they simply misunderstood? Overcome your fear of fiends, spiders, aliens, crocodiles etc. through the power of spoken word and music with Aoife Mannix and Janie Arnour. A show for 4 - 8 year olds in association with Apple & Snakes and Half Moon Young People's Theatre.

 

 

 

 

 

2012 Family event highlights...

Chrissie Gettins



Flag Making

James Carter

 

 

 

Umpteen Pockets

 

 

A is Amazing by Wendy Cooling

Animation Workshop

 

Balloonheads