GEORGINA FRANKLIN

Jewellery

Individual Contemporary Design Commissions undertaken

Please see website for studio opening times. www.georginafranklin.co.uk

The Forum, 18 Market Square, Tenbury Wells, Worcs. WR15 8EA Phone 01584 810085

Textile Workshops With Angie Hughes

Zoom and face to face creative workshops including machine and hand embroidery, print and mixed media techniques. Based in Ledbury. Email angie@angiehughes.com tel 07533 362900.

Stone Carving Workshops

Monthly in Llangarron HR9 6PH. Glenn Morris, sculptor, leads an informal, friendly group. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience. Full tuition, safety equipment and tools provided. Stone available if required. Copious refreshments guaranteed. 01989 770776. Frances@artsinthemarches.co.uk

Recycled Glass Fusing

Learn to cut, prepare, fire and fuse recycled glass. Create light-catchers, tea light stands or pictures. Half day workshop £30 / person. Includes all materials and homemade refreshments. Workshops arranged to suit you, and / or your friends up to max. 5 people. frances@artsinthemarches.co.uk

Basketmaking Using Rush

Presteigne. Courses available throughout the year covering many techniques. Small groups and all levels taught. All materials and equipment included. For more information see Rushmorebaskets.com or contact Clair at rushmorebaskets@gmail.com 07713 514902.

Creative Breaks

Learn a new skill and explore your creativity with experienced tutors, all based in beautiful countryside with outstanding views and local produce. We offer a wide range of courses throughout the year:- Basketmaking, Upholstery, Felting, Rag Rug Making, Sculpture, Stone Carving, Dichroic Glass, Plant Dyeing, Natural Dyes, Herbal Medicine, Siminagashi, Rush Basketry, Creating a Sketchbook, Jewellery, Glass Fusing, Hand Block Printing, Sewing, Stained Glass, Weaving, Linocutting, Painting and Drawing, Japanese Woodblock, Printmaking, Weaving Wire, Woodcarving and Pottery. For full details visit www.creativebreaks.co.uk Make it yourself - take it home - treasure it – or give it with pride!

July HEREFORD CATHEDRAL

Mondays, 10 July & 14 Aug - Creative Cloisters sessions. Attendees will have full access to the Cloisters, College Hall and Canon’s Garden, 10am-2.30pm, £15 to include tea, coffee and a sandwich lunch, please book, 01432 374251. 15 July, 10am-12pm & 19 July 3.30pm-4.30pm, Lego Club for ages 8-14 years, free, but advance booking essential. Mondays, term time - Toddler Group, craft activities and prayer; suitable 1-3 years, 9.30am, free. Hereford Cathedral, 01432 374225, www.herefordcathedral.org

July EASTNOR POTTERY INTO TO THE POTTERS WHEEL £49 per person. Perfect indoor activity for individuals, couples and small groups. 1.5 hr sessions take place on specific dates through-out July. POTTERS WHEEL COURSES 8, 15 & 26 July 2023. £150 per person. Spend the day relaxing and creating pots on the potter’s wheel. Eastnor Pottery, Home Farm, Eastnor, near Ledbury. Please check availablity and book online www.eastnorpottery.co.uk Email admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk or tel 01531 633886.

July ORIEL DAVIES GALLERY WORKSHOPS

1 & 2 July - 2 day Indigo workshop with Jeanette Orrel, 10.30am-4.30pm, £140 for both days. Fridays 16 June - 21 July - Spoon Carving with Graham Beadle, 1-4pm. Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, 01686 625041.

July & August MID WALES ARTS CENTRE

7 July - Tai Chi / Dance / Painting Day, email office@midwalesarts.org.uk for more information. 24, 25, 31 July & 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 & 29 August Children’s Summer Workshops, 10am-4pm. 26 July, 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 August - Sculpteen (teenage) Summer Workshops, 10am-4pm. Wed - Weekly Art talks, 2-4pm, free. Thurs - After-School Pottery for children 7-11 years, 5-6.30pm, £7. ThursPottery & Ceramic Sculpture Club for all ages and abilities, 2-4pm & 7-9pm, £10. Fri - Pottery & Ceramic Sculpture Club, 11-1pm & 1-3pm, £10. 1st Sat of each monthFamily Pottery 2-4pm, £10, children £8. 2nd Sat of each month - Life Drawing, 10am-1pm, £20/£14. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, Newtown, 01686 688369.

July & August SIDNEY NOLAN TRUST

8 July & 26 Aug - Cultivate. Creative programme for 15-25 year olds, 10am-2pm. Mondays until 10 July (term time) - MAKE, an arts and creative club for young people aged 10-14, 3.30pm-5pm at the Youth Centre, Presteigne. Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne. To book01544 260149 or www.sidneynolantrust.org

July THE HIVE WORKSHOPS

Every Tues - Life Drawing for all ages, 7-9pm, £8. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 01743 234970.

July QUILT ASSOCIATION WORKSHOPS

6 & 7 July (attend 1 or 2 days). Patterns from the East, Batik on tissue and fabric with Jenny O’Leary. £60 one day, £110 for two days. Minerva Arts Centre, High Street, Llanidloes 01686 413467. chris.shercliff@quilt.org.uk

July HAY CASTLE WORKSHOPS

1 July - Botanical Dying Workshop, 10am-4pm, £50.

1 July - Hurdle Making and Greenwood Crafts, 10am-12.30pm & 1pm-3.30pm, tickets from £15.

2 July - Print Making for Activism short course, an introduction to linocut, 9.30am-2pm, from £50.

22 July - Black Mountains College Discovery Day, 10am2pm, free. Book via Black Mountains College website.

July WILD AND MADDER NATURAL CRAFT WORKSHOPS

17 July - Artists Toolkit: make a natural ink, personalise a sketchbook and paint your own dip pen, 10am-1pm. Making and using charcoal, 2-5pm. 26 July - Indigo Dye using shibori and tie dye techniques, 10am-1pm. Lino printing with natural printing inks, 2-5pm. 31 July - Flower pressing and paper making, 10am-1pm. Magic colour changing ink and ink diffusers, 2-5pm. Sutton Court, Tenbury Wells, £40 per workshop. www.wildandmadder.co.uk

Sat 1 & Sun 2 July & Sat 30 Sept & Sun 1 Oct STONE CARVING COURSES

With Lottie O’Leary. A two day course for all abilities. £270 inclusive of stone, lunches, tea and coffee. Knighton, LD7 1PN. Bookings 01547 528792, oleary.lottie@gmail.com www.lottieolearystonecarver.co.uk

Wed 12 & Thurs 13 July TEXTILE BAZAAR

World textiles including individual wearables, homeware and collectable textiles. Textile workshops by Bailey Curtis, Angie Hughes and Jeanette McCulloch. Lunches and refreshments. Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, near Ledbury, £1 entry, Wed 11am-5pm, Thurs 10am-5pm, www.textilefairs.co.uk

Sat 22 July CAN YOU RESIST IT?

Experiments, trials with words, surfaces and all manner of masking mediums. 10-4pm @ Monkland Village Hall, near Leominster. £20 members/ £25 guests. For booking please ring 01544 327657 Marches Scribes.

CONTEMPLATION Dinko Nenov

Exhibition

De Koffie Pot, Hereford

1st - 8th July, 10am-5pm

Sat 29 July - Sat 12 August CHURCH STRETTON ARTS

FESTIVAL

2 & 3 Aug - Slab Tiles Pottery Workshop, led by Lucinda Lovesey. St Lawrence Primary School, 10am or 2pm, £35. 5 Aug - Hand Weaving Demonstration by Sue Christian, along with one of her looms. Drop in, watch and learn. St Lawrence Primary School, 11am-4pm. 7 & 8 Aug Mixed Media Figurine, led by Stephanie Jacobs. St Lawrence Primary School, 10am-4pm, £70. www.strettonfestival.org

Mon 31 July - Fri 4 Aug LEOMINSTER PRIORY CHURCH

HOLIDAY CLUB

Five days of fun for Primary School age children. Leominster Priory Church, 9.30am-3pm daily, 07766 044673.

Tuesdays DRINK AND DRAW

Weekly life drawing group for all abilities. Bring your own materials and just turn up. Upstairs at The Green Dragon Hotel, Broad St, Hereford, 7-9:30pm, £8, 07587 192495.

Wednesdays INFORMAL ART GROUP

All welcome, help given if required. The Old School Community Hub, New Radnor, 2-4pm, 01544 350242.

Wednesdays DRINK AND DRAW

Weekly life drawing group for all abilities. Bring your own materials and just turn up. Ty Tan Gallery (opp. Blue Boar), Hay-on-Wye, 7-9:30pm, block book in advance £90 for 10 weeks or drop-in for £11, 07855 628627.

Thursdays KNIGHTON ART GROUP

A friendly welcoming group. Any level welcome. Any medium accepted. Lunch served from 12pm. Knighton Community Centre, 1pm-3pm, £3 per session. Kay Yendole, 07624 379335.

Thursdays HEREFORD LIFE DRAWING

The Courtyard, Hereford, 10am-1pm, £7.50, 01432 340555.

3rd Friday of every month FRIDAY CRAFT CLUB

Bring your crocheting, embroidery, paper crafts or jewellery. Good company with tea and cake, no booking required. Pot & Page, 8 New St, Ledbury, 10.30am-12.30pm.

I mentioned this film in March’s Borderlines preview but now on general release it merits fuller attention not least as yet another tour de force from Isabelle Huppert – who also starred in director Jean-Paul Salomé’s last film, MAMA WEED – initially unrecognisable in a blonde hair-do, playing the real-life union rep at a nuclear plant threatened with huge job losses. After being physically attacked for standing up to dark forces at work there, a corrupt police investigation has her vilified, then prosecuted for supposedly fabricating this. There are vague similarities to Mike Nichols’ 1983 SILKWOOD here but Huppert, who I yield to no-one in my admiration of, conveys an intensity and multi-layered sensitivity that Meryl Streep never quite managed in that nuclear plant drama and being based on fact, LA SYNDICALISTE chillingly subtexts the structure of a hazardous, highly secretive industry. Reviews by Mark Williams

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW

3 July MAD ABOUT THE BOY: THE NOEL COWARD STORY (12A)

10 July THREE COLOURS: RED LAR Film Club

Assembly Rooms, Mill St, Ludlow, 01584 878141

BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP

1 & 2 July CHEVALIER (12A)

Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye. 01497 822010

CONQUEST, BROMYARD

28 July MR JONES (15)

Conquest Theatre, Bromyard. 01885 488575

COURTYARD, HEREFORD

1 - 3 July ASTEROID CITY (12A)

1 - 13 July CHEVALIER (12A)

3 & 6 July MAD ABOUT THE BOY: THE NOEL COWARD STORY (12A)

10 - 20 July PRETTY RED DRESS (15)

12 - 18 July A CLEVER WOMAN (15)

15 July FANTASTIC MR FOX (PG) free pre-activity from 10.30am

15 - 20 July INLAND (15)

14 - 21 July INDIANA JONES & THE DIAL OF DESTINY (ctbc)

21 - 27 July HELLO, BOOKSTORE (PG)

21 - 27 July RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN (PG)

22 - 27 July SMALL, SLOW, BUT STEADY (12A)

28 July - 10 Aug MISSION

IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (12A)

28 July - 3 Aug LA SYNDICALISTE (15)

29 July THELMA & LOUISE (15) Cult classic

28 July - 3 Aug MEDUSA DELUX (15) The Courtyard Theatre, Edgar St, Hereford 01432 340555

6 & 11 July ALLELUJAH (12A) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321

8 July LUNANA - A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM (PG) Cawley Hall, Eye 01568 615836

12 July THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER (U) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125

14 July EMPIRE OF LIGHT (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125

15 July WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT (12A) Aston on Clun VH 01588 660139

26 July PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (PG) Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms 01588 676060

28 July MR JONES (15) Conquest Theatre, Bromyard 01885 488575

28 July NO BEARS (12A) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125

MKT. THEATRE, LEDBURY

12 July THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER (U)

14 July EMPIRE OF LIGHT (15)

28 July NO BEARS (12A) Market Theatre, Market St, Ledbury 07967 517125

REGAL CINEMA, TENBURY

2 - 12 July ASTEROID CITY (12A)

21 - 26 July MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (12A) Regal Cinema, Teme St, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811442

SAVOY, MONMOUTH

22 & 23 July TALKING PICTURES TV WEEKEND A whole weekend of special cinema events and special guests. From 11am each day, £30 per day or £50 for two days.

Savoy Theatre, Church St, Monmouth 01600 772467