Nailsworth Festival 2022
Saturday 21st May until Saturday 28th May
Three Storeys, Old Bristol Rd, Nailsworth, GL6 0JE
The Nailsworth Festival aims, for one week of the year, to bring something a little different to the cultural life of our community, providing something for everyone.
We are delighted to be hosting a few of the Nailsworth Festival events here at Three Storeys;
‘Meet the Artists’
Saturday 21st May, the Setting Gallery, 10am-6pm
Free
As part of their joint exhibition in our gallery, Sally Clarke, Emily Lucas and Wendy Rhodes will be on hand with demonstrations and the chance to talk to each artist about their work. Emily Lucas and Wendy Rhodes are also running a workshop each, later in the week.
© Antony Thompson, Thousand Word Media
Chloë “Space Aliens Ate My Story”
Tuesday 24th May, 7.30pm, the Setting Gallery and The Plot café, bar available
Cost: £8; To book tickets please visit http://www.nailsworthfestival.org.uk/book/
From elves to UFOs, Chloë engages performance storytelling at warp 10. Outrageous, original and otherworldly! Come and join Chloë on her creative mission: to boldly take Story Cabaret where it’s never gone before. Spoken word cabaret blending comedy and fantasy for grown-ups. Years of travel fuel her multicultural repertoire. She’s a local favourite at Cheltenham Literature Festival “LitCrawl” nights. She’s been a support act for a pagan rock band and dares to take dragons to Wales. In 2019 she co-founded the Moving Stories Café project, a spoken word open mic session now running online.
“A master storyteller” - Cotswold Life
‘Walk and Draw’ workshop with Wendy Rhodes
Wednesday 25th May, 11am-3pm, the Setting Gallery
Cost: £50; To book tickets please email Wendy Rhodes, wrhodesart@gmail.com
A sketching workshop for up to 6 people. Starting in the gallery with a talk and then heading out into the lanes and footpaths around Nailsworth. Participants should bring their own sketchbook and drawing equipment, appropriate walking footwear is advised. All abilities welcome.
Monoprint workshop with Emily Lucas
Friday 27th May, 2pm-4.30pm, the Setting Gallery
Cost: £35 inclusive of all materials; To book tickets please email Emily Lucas, emilylucas777@gmail.com
A half day monoprint workshop for up to 6 people. A whistle stop tour of monoprint techniques experimenting with inks, plates and a printing press. Participants will have an opportunity to play with colour, texture, surface and line. Create colourful prints to take home. All abilities welcome.
Jonny Fluffypunk
Friday 27th May, 7.30pm, the Setting Gallery and The Plot café, bar available
Cost: £10; To book tickets please visit http://www.nailsworthfestival.org.uk/book/
Stand-up poet and lo-fi theatre maker Jonny Fluffypunk has been dragging his art around the UK and occasionally beyond for over 20 years, deftly fusing bittersweet autobiography, disillusionment and wonder into an act that has established him as a firm favourite at gigs, festivals and housing benefit offices everywhere. He has two volumes of poems and his solo ‘no-fi’ stand-up spoken word theatre shows have toured extensively around theatres, garden sheds, summer houses, empty shops and Britain’s other ad-hoc performance spaces in a blatant championing of homespun DIY culture.
“Acute social observation, intricate humour, surreal fantasy, sharp irony and wit...and England’s most pretentious moustache.” The Independent
For more information about the Nailsworth Festival please visit www.nailsworthfestival.org.uk