EDUCATION What's On
JULY Saturday 2nd
weekend – but the sequence of events that
foods. Tony Elvin of the Wine Events Company
unfold, as her family members arrive, ensures
will coach you through the basics of tasting,
(not surprisingly) a weekend of disaster!
looking at quality, aromas and tastes. You’ll taste six different wines including examples
Worcester Carnival Pitchcroft and around Worcester. A full day
Friday 8th
of grape varieties from different countries,
of events including the Carnival Village at
Pudding Nights
discovering the impact that climate, food and
Pitchcroft and the Grand Parade through
Jinney Ring Craft Centre, Hanbury Road,
production methods can make on the taste of
the city centre.
This year, our theme is
Hanbury, Bromsgrove, B60 4BU. Pudding
the wine in your glass. Please dress warmly if it
“Celebration” – we want this year’s carnival
Nights are our most popular regular theme
is a cool evening. ALL TICKETS £22. Bookings
to be a celebration of Worcester, the place
nights, and the Jinney Ring looks forward to
in advance can be made via the Palace Theatre
and the people.
website: www.redditchpalacetheatre.co.uk
Whatever that means to
bringing them back after a period of such
We want Worcester Carnival to be
uncertainty. Tickets are £30 per person with
every bit as big a party as we all remember.
a minimum booking of 2 people per table.
Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th
www.worcester-carnival.co.uk
A child’s ticket is £17.50 and applies to under
Hagley Beer & Music Festival
12-year-olds. Please phone in to book children
Old Halesonians RFC, Wassell Grove Lane,
in. Pudding nights start at 7:30pm.
Hagley DY9 9JP. Fun Fair, Market, Workshops,
you!
Wednesday 6th & Sunday 17th Round and Round the Garden Commandry stunning
Worcester.
Join
Commandery
gardens
Repertory
Company’s
Entertainment & Displays. £20pp on the
in
the
Saturday 9th
for
the
The ABC of Wine
music, street food and the largest beer &
us
gate.
The festival brings together great
annual
Forge Mill, Needle Mill Lane, Riverside
cider festival in the area. All staged under
theatre production! Round and Round the
Redditch, B98 8HY. Join us for a fun and
the watchful eye of the Clent hills and the
Garden by Alan Ayckbourn is part of The
engaging wine tasting experience withing our
Wychbury monument. Entertainment for all
Norman Conquests trilogy and is a Tony award
atmospheric covered cloisters area. ABC of
everyone including a fun fair, craft market,
winning play. It is wildly comic and deeply
wine, not only an introduction to wine tasting,
show, displays and workshops and of course
moving which is perfectly positioned for the
but reference to the phrase ‘Anything But
award winning street food. Kids under 12 are
Commandery Gardens and the annual return
Chardonnay’. This wine tasting will challenge
FREE! Under 18s just £5 Adults £20 unless you
of our alfresco theatre production! The Plot -
your preconceptions of wine and include some
manage to get limited early bird tickets.
All is calm, serene and peaceful when we meet
top tips for your next supermarket visit as well
Sarah who is desperate to have a nice, civilized
as help you pair the right wines with the right
Worcester
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