What’s On

Saturday 2nd

Worcester Carnival Pitchcroft and around Worcester. A full day of events including the Carnival Village at Pitchcroft and the Grand Parade through the city centre. This year, our theme is “Celebration” – we want this year’s carnival to be a celebration of Worcester, the place and the people. Whatever that means to you! We want Worcester Carnival to be every bit as big a party as we all remember. www.worcester-carnival.co.uk

Wednesday 6th & Sunday 17th

Round and Round the Garden Commandry Worcester. Join us in the stunning Commandery gardens for the Worcester Repertory Company’s annual theatre production! Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy and is a Tony award winning play. It is wildly comic and deeply moving which is perfectly positioned for the Commandery Gardens and the annual return of our alfresco theatre production! The Plot - All is calm, serene and peaceful when we meet Sarah who is desperate to have a nice, civilized weekend – but the sequence of events that unfold, as her family members arrive, ensures (not surprisingly) a weekend of disaster!

Friday 8th

Pudding Nights Jinney Ring Craft Centre, Hanbury Road, Hanbury, Bromsgrove, B60 4BU. Pudding Nights are our most popular regular theme nights, and the Jinney Ring looks forward to bringing them back after a period of such uncertainty. Tickets are £30 per person with a minimum booking of 2 people per table. A child’s ticket is £17.50 and applies to under 12-year-olds. Please phone in to book children in. Pudding nights start at 7:30pm.

Saturday 9th

The ABC of Wine Forge Mill, Needle Mill Lane, Riverside Redditch, B98 8HY. Join us for a fun and engaging wine tasting experience withing our atmospheric covered cloisters area. ABC of wine, not only an introduction to wine tasting, but reference to the phrase ‘Anything But Chardonnay’. This wine tasting will challenge your preconceptions of wine and include some top tips for your next supermarket visit as well as help you pair the right wines with the right foods. Tony Elvin of the Wine Events Company will coach you through the basics of tasting, looking at quality, aromas and tastes. You’ll taste six different wines including examples of grape varieties from different countries, discovering the impact that climate, food and production methods can make on the taste of the wine in your glass. Please dress warmly if it is a cool evening. ALL TICKETS £22. Bookings in advance can be made via the Palace Theatre website: www.redditchpalacetheatre.co.uk

Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th

Hagley Beer & Music Festival Old Halesonians RFC, Wassell Grove Lane, Hagley DY9 9JP. Fun Fair, Market, Workshops, Entertainment & Displays. £20pp on the gate. The festival brings together great music, street food and the largest beer & cider festival in the area. All staged under the watchful eye of the Clent hills and the Wychbury monument. Entertainment for all everyone including a fun fair, craft market, show, displays and workshops and of course award winning street food. Kids under 12 are FREE! Under 18s just £5 Adults £20 unless you manage to get limited early bird tickets.

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Great Malvern Food Festival Great Malvern Food Festival returns for it’s 11th year! This is the only FREE food festival in the region and this popular two day festival takes place Saturday: 10am-6pm, Sunday: 10am-5pm Food and Drink stalls from local producers. Town Trail Cooking Demonstrations Priory Park

Saturday 9th July - Saturday 17th September

The Magic of Middle Earth Worcester Museum, Foregate Street Worcester, WR1 1DT. From the collector who brought you May The Toys Be With You comes The Magic of Middle Earth! Journey beyond the books to discover the artistic legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s incredible fantasy world. This major new exhibition celebrates the fantasy world brought to life by Tolkien, and the generations of writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, environmentalists, and game designers it has influenced. Discover a magical treasure trove of over 200 rare objects and artworks. The Magic of Middle Earth provides fun for all ages, from little halflings to wizened wizards! For more family fun explore the museum with the Elves and Dragons trail, just £1 from the Museum Shop.

Sunday 10th

Warndon Villages Summer Fete Lyppard Hub Lyppard Hub, Worcester. Traditional Summer Fete bringing the community of Warndon Villages together for an afternoon of family fun and entertainment, hosted by Lyppard Hub and Warndon Parish Council. Fun for all the family to enjoy with live music, rides, BBQ, face painting, community and craft stalls and much much more. 12pm-4pm.

Friday 15th

The Spooky Men’s Chorale Huntington Hall, Crowngate, Worcester, WR1 3LD. As thunderous as a herd of wildebeest, as sly as a wagonload of Spike Milligans and as sonorous as a cloister of monks, the Spooky Men’s Chorale are the gift that keeps on giving. They emerged blithering and blinking-eyed from the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2001, and armed with no more than their voices, a nice line in deadpan and an ill-matched set of hats, have been gleefully disturbing audiences everywhere since. Always renowned for a combination of Visigothic bravado, absurdist humour and eye-moistening tenderness, the Spookies in middle age, and fortified with a new generation of wunderkids, are more masters of their territory than ever before. You must see them, really you must. £24.50 Doddington Lodge Village Country Fair Doddington Lodge, Doddington DY14 0 Kidderminster. CALLING ALL ENTRIES! This year at the Doddington Lodge Village Country Fair on Saturday 23rd July 2022, we have decided to do things a little differently… Don’t worry, there will still be the delicious treats, food & drink’s, entertainment and stalls with lots of different goodies, but this Summer, we are giving you all a chance to get creative and have some fun! Our competition categories are as follows: The best homemade bakes & cakes (adult category and child category); The best homegrown vegetable (Open to all); Design a miniature garden (child category only); The best flower arrangement (Open to all); The best crocheted/knitted granny square (Open to all). We are so excited to announce that entries are now open! We kindly ask that all entries are amateurs, and that you have fun getting creative with your entry! To enter, please send a email to reception@ doddingtonlodge.com with your name and category/categories you are taking part in. It is going to be an absolutely wonderful occasion, enjoy a tasty treat or a drink with live music!

Saturday 23th - Saturday 30th

Three Choirs Festival This Festival is the world’s longest-running classical choral music festival, rotating annually between Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester and featuring a week-long programme of concerts, cathedral services, exhibitions, walks and talks, with the Three Cathedral Choirs, Three Choirs Festival Chorus and Youth Choir, the Philharmonic Orchestra, internationally known soloists and conductors, guest choirs and recitalists and young artists. 3choirs.org

Sunday 24th

Hamlet The Comedy Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B60 4JR. Enjoy this outdoor performance in the atmospheric grounds of Avoncroft Museum, on the Guesten Hall Lawn. “Hamlet The Comedy” finds the eponymous royal student returning home for the summer holidays to find something rotten in the state of Denmark and it’s more than just the bag of dirty washing! Mum’s married Uncle Claudius and Dad’s dishing the dirt from his grave – it’s enough to make a teenager mad! Things will never be the same again in the Hamlet household. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy is performed as you’ve never seen before with lots of laughs, music and memorable moments. 6:30pm (gates & refreshments open from 5:30pm). Summer Fun at Hartlebury Castle Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury nr Kidderminster, DY11 7XZ. Fun hands-on craft activities and castle trail throughout the summer holidays. Pick up a trail and find out interesting facts about travelling cultures and make traditional crafts like paper flowers. Additional charge of £2.50 per child applies for the day’s craft activities. Materials included. £6.50 – £11.50

Friday 29th - Sunday 31st

56th Annual Welland Steam and Country Rally Woodside Farm, Welland Nr Upton upon Severn WR13 6NG. A show for all the family! A rally of 90 working steam engines, nostalgic fairground rides, models and crafts, vintage and classic motor cars, tractors, motorcycles and more. 9:30am-7pm Arena events – bird of prey and dog displays, sheep show, Punch and Judy show and tractor pulling. Tickets: Adult £16, Children & OAP £14, Children under 11 – free.

Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st

Goodheart Animal Sanctuary Summer Open Weekend 2022 The Nickless Farm, Kidderminster, DY14 0BE. Goodheart Farm Animal Sanctuary’s highly popular Summer Open Event is BACK and this year, to mark their 5th anniversary, they are celebrating with a two-day open weekend at their beautiful 92-acre site. From 10am to 4pm both days. There are over 300 rescued farm animals to meet, including pigs, sheep, cows, chickens and even alpacas. There are lots of fun family activities over the weekend including a kid’s scavenger hunt, animal talks and Q&A sessions, delicious vegan food and drink, tombola, raffle, merchandise and more! Tickets are £5 per person, children under 5 enter for FREE.

Saturday 30th July Sunday 7th August

Jurassic Farm 2022 Churchfields, Churchfields Farm, Salwarpe, Droitwich. Something BIG is coming back to Churchfields. After the success of Jurassic Farm in 2021 it returns to Churchfields even bigger and better than before! For nine ROARSOME days T-Rex, Triceratops and friends will escape their enclosure and take over the fun farm! The Churchfields Jurassic Farm Experience includes: Real Dinosaurs – get up close and personal with these moving, breathing magnificent beasts. Baby Dinosaur Nursery – friendly cute dinos popular with our youngest guests. As well as a Fossil Trail Map & Puzzle Sheet, Fossil Dig, Caveman Games & Activities, The Fun Farm and our Maize Maze and try and find your way out!