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Summer in Gloucester

Culture Vulture — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:31:32 +0000

With over 30 great events happening this summer in Gloucester you can experience fireworks, live music, carnival, open air cinema and theatre, sport, family fun days, exhibitions, motorcycle and car shows, choral and blues festivals and even a real beach all bringing the city to life by day and by night.

July sees Open Air Theatre, Gloucester Carnival & the World Together Festival, whilst August includes Volleyball, Witches & Wizards, Seaside Fun and a celebration of Jamaican Independence Day.

Find out more at www.thecityofgloucester.co.uk/site/whats-on/summer-in-gloucester

Broadway Arts Festival

Culture Vulture — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:56:54 +0000

Broadway Arts Festival is taking shape nicely for next year and looks to be another of those events where a Cotswold community creates an important cultural event by drawing on local passion and long term historical connections.

Broadway is a gem of a Cotswold village, very well known to US visitors and this Festival will do more to strengthen the link. The American painter John Singer Sargent created his masterpiece ’Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ whilst staying in Broadway - having fled Paris where his painting of ’Madame X’, had scandalised the art world.

2010’s Festival will be between the 11-20th of June and the organisers have already secured loan from the Tate of important studies for the picture.

Food & Drink Festival puts on weight…

Culture Vulture — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:45:13 +0000

…almost doubling in size in one year!

The launch of Stroud’s very own VegeBurger, the first Stroud Sausage Festival, a beer trail with a difference, and the much-requested return of one restaurant’s Pudding Evening.

These are just some of the highlights unveiled by organisers of Stroud’s second Food and Drink Festival. With 40 events and promotions spread across two weeks in September, the Festival aims to promote the diverse array of food and drink, grown, served and sold in the town.

Visitors will be spoilt for choice, as the Stroud Walking Festival, the annual Stroud Fringe Festival and the Open Eco Homes event will also be held at the same time. Dubbed Stroud Festival Fortnight, more than a hundred events will be spread across 17 days between 4^th and 20^th September.

The Food and Drink Festival was only intended as a one-off event last year. However traders overwhelmingly voted it a success, with two restaurants enjoying their busiest-ever evenings. Thanks to funding from Stroud Town and Stroud District Councils, organisers were persuaded to do it all again.

Most of the events have limited places and so early booking is advised. A 36-page Festival brochure is available from tourist offices and all participants and full details are available online at www.stroudfestivalfortnight.com