May 2016
Coco & the Butterfields
Colourful, energetic and crowd-stomping, they express the intimate vibrancy of a village folk fair with powerful vocal melodies and an undercurrent of driving beat-box. The Assembly rooms, Presteigne £12 from The Workhouse Gallery or Courtyard Antiques, Presteigne or We got tickets
Find out more »August 2016
MBA Music
Mid border Arts Music event Anna and Elizabeth Atmosphericarrangements using guitar, banjo, fiddle and the uncanny blend of their voices in close harmony. Tickets www.wegottickets.com, The Workhouse Gallery, Courtyard Antiques
Find out more »March 2017
Artists and Makers
AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE LOCAL ARTISTS WORKING WITH WOOD, STONE, SILVER, SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, PAPER, PAINT, LINEN, WOOL AND SILK. THIS YEAR WE WILL BE SHOWCASING NEW WORK FROM A DIFFERENT ARTIST EACH MONTH. for details contact Rosamund 01544 260777
Find out more »August 2017
Pop up Museum-Presteigne
POP UP MUSEUM OF WELSH COSTUME AND TEXTILES AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, MARKET HALL, PRESTEIGNE Thursday 10, Friday 11, Saturday 12 August 10.30am – 4.30pm Sunday 13 August 10.30am – 2pm Entry free Curated by Rosamund Black Exhibition exploring the regional differences in Welsh costume with a display of original shawls, petticoats, individual pieces of costume plus textile related artifacts. With a set of hand made costumed dolls illustrating the diversity of regional styles.
Find out more »WELSH COSTUME TALK BY ROSAMUND BLACK AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, MARKET HALL, PRESTEIGNE Sunday 13 August 3pm Rosamund discusses the origins of Welsh costume, drawing on early illustrations and documentation. Tickets £5 from Courtyard Antiques and The Workhouse in Presteigne plus on the door.
Find out more »Welsh Costume Talk-Presteigne
WELSH COSTUME TALK BY ROSAMUND BLACK AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, MARKET HALL, PRESTEIGNE Sunday 13 August 3pm Rosamund discusses the origins of Welsh costume, drawing on early illustrations and documentation. Tickets £5 from Courtyard Antiques and The Workhouse in Presteigne plus on the door.
Find out more »March 2018
Radnorshire Art
Cancelled due to bad weather conditions Locally made, artisan gifts, cards, furniture,paintings and more.
Find out more »April 2018
Full Circle Dance Night
Party featuring Little Rumba in dance mode and Dave Luke’s Poobahs. The chequered dance floor will be in action as well as the Full Circle Bar. Presteigne Assembly Rooms 7.30pm Tickets £12 from Courtyard Antiques & 01544 267163 Promoted by Full Circle
Find out more »Wind in the Willows by Box Tale Soup
A beautiful new adaption of Kenneth Grahame’s much loved classic, featuring unique handmade fabric puppets and a charming original score, commissioned by the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. Presteigne Assembly Rooms 7.30pm Adults £10 Children £7 Family Ticket £25 from The Workhouse & wegottickets.com
Find out more »July 2018
Kington Choral Society Masterclass
Kington Choral Society invites you to a singing Masterclass with Julie Cooper Sunday 15th July 2018 at 2.30pm at the Presteigne Assembly Rooms. Following the spell-binding appearance of this internationally acclaimed soprano in Bach's St John Passion in May we are thrilled to welcome Julie back to Presteigne - watch while she instructs three aspiring local singers, including KCS bursary student Serena Jopson, then chat with Julie over tea and cake. Tickets online at www.kingtonchoral.org.uk or from Winnie's (High Street,…
Find out more »October 2018
Mexican Halloween Party
The Assembly Rooms, Presteigne Mexican Day of the Dead Celebration Party 8pm Tickets £10 078371 60505 Children's Workshops 10am-1pm Film Coco (PG) 2pm
Find out more »March 2019
Grand Spring Sale
Vintage Collectables Jumble Tea, Coffee and Cakes Raising money for Shelter & Help Refugees
Find out more »May 2019
Music – Presteigne
Pharis & Jason Romero This talented duo are from Horsefly, British Columbia. Their music is described as simple, beautiful Old Time music made in small batches by loving hands. Their heartbreakingly harmonic live show is an ever-evolving and never-ending quest for good songs and beautiful sounds, played on vintage guitars and Jason’s renowned hand-made banjos. Presteigne Assembly Rooms 8pm Tickets £12 Book in advance 01544 350407 or 01597 825390 Promoted by Nigel Dodman
Find out more »July 2019
Artists and Makers
ARTISTS AND MAKERS AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE 10am to 3pm New autumn colours and winter knits from local Artists and Makers working with Wood, Wool, Silver, Stone, Leather, Paper and Paint. Plants and teas in the Green Room Enquiries 01544 260777
Find out more »October 2019
Presteigne Screen
Next Friday, 4th October 2019, 7:30pm for 8pm, Assembly Rooms, Presteigne. The Heiresses Paraguay - 2018 - 98 mins - Rated 12A The comfortable 30-year lesbian relationship of two rich Paraguayan socialites is sundered when one of them is jailed for fraud. And the fallout is as unexpected as it is moving. The outgoing Chiquita (Margarita Irun) thrives in prison, making new friends and quickly grasping how the system works, while the gentle, shy Chela (Ana Brun) suffers the humiliation…
Find out more »February 2020
Music-Presteigne
ALAW Saturday 29 February Presteigne Assembly Rooms, 8pm Oli Wilson-Dickson – fiddle/vocal Dylan Fowler – guitar/vocal Jamie Smith – accordion/vocal “Simply incredible” Frank Hennessy BBC Radio Wales Described by Songlines magazine as a 'Welsh supergroup', ALAW are three leading musicians who bring a wealth of experience to a shared passion – the traditional music of Wales. Oli, Jamie and Dylan have a long history of working together, sharing projects such as The Devil’s Violin, Szapora and The Ian McMillan Orchestra.…
Find out more »March 2020
Theatre-Presteigne
The Box of Light and Dreams Sunday 1 March Presteigne Assembly Rooms 4pm - 6pm Three Mid Wales artists create the perfect afternoon of entertainment with riveting storytelling, hauntingly beautiful music and evocative shadow puppetry. This new company, Emergency Turtle, combine storytelling by Kama Roberts, shadow puppetry by visual artist James Jones-Morris and live music and song from Jim Elliott. This is a heart-stopping collection of tales from near and far which deal with the common language of the human experience…
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Photograph (Borderlines) £5.50 India/Ger/USA 2019 110 mins 15 Love with a twist from the director of The Lunchbox – Mumbai street photographer Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) convinces a shy student Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) to pose for him, a pic he uses to keep Dadi, his pushy grandmother, at bay when she demands he find a wife. A touching slow-burn relationship develops after Dadi insists on seeing more than a photograph, and Rafi is forced to find the girl again and beg her to continue the…
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Honeyland (Borderlines) £5.50 Macedonia 2019 89 mins 12 It took three years to shoot the 400 hours of film from which the producers distilled this moving 89-minute exploration of an ancient way of life in rural Macedonia. Hatidze and her elderly mother are, we learn, the last remaining keepers of wild bees in Europe. They tend their remote hives and sell their wares in the city market as we grow ever closer to the rhythms of their life in a heart-stoppingly beautiful landscape. It’s…
Find out more »Sale-Presteigne – POSTPONED
Saturday 21 March 4th Annual Grand Spring Sale Fabulous clothes, vintage, collectables & jumble Tea, coffee & cakes Presteigne Assembly Rooms 10am - 2pm £1 Entry for Shelter and Help Refugees Info: Sabina Ruber 01544 262864 / Kate Bull 01544 370637
Find out more »Talk-Presteigne – POSTPONED
Sunday 22 March From Necessity to Luxury Mark Lucas, Curator of the Welsh National Wool Museum, looks at the changing history of the wool industry in Wales. It was once a widespread industry with 900 mills, of which only a few working mills remain. Mark's illustrated talk is accompanied by a selection of woollen fabrics and historical artifacts. Presteigne Assembly Rooms 2.30 - 3.30pm £5 The Workhouse (cash only) & online at wegottickets.com
Find out more »Poetry-Presteigne – CANCELLED
Wednesday 25 March Readings by the poet, MANUEL IRIS followed by Q&A Presteigne Assembly Rooms 7.30pm Mid Border Arts and the Sidney Nolan Trust have organised this event with celebrated Mexican poet Manuel Iris, Poet Laureate of the City of Cincinnati. Manuel Iris is coming to the UK as a visiting research fellow of the University of Roehampton and will spend a week at The Rodd. His poetry reflects his obsession with beauty, time, death, and the bridges that marry them.…
Find out more »Presteigne Screen
Monos Colombia 2019 102 mins 15 In this chilling and highly original film set in Colombia, ‘monos’ (monkeys) are a squad of ill-disciplined paramilitary teenagers whose real purpose is never fully explained, but whose noms-de-guerre (Wolf, Rambo, Dog, Boom Boom etc) suggest a frightening focus they never really live up to. They survive on both a mountain top above the cloud line, and in a dense jungle, and spend much of their time keeping teen anarchy at bay which is, of course, especially…
Find out more »April 2020
Music-Presteigne – CANCELLED
Wednesday 1 April Chamber Music for Strings Musicians from North Wales and Shropshire present an informal concert premiering two works by newly-resident-in-Presteigne composer John Hyslop. The works, for a Viola trio and string quartet, employ traditional musical forms infused with hints of Ibero-Celtic Iron Age pop music from the Walton Basin, circ. 2500 BC. Presteigne Assembly Rooms 4pm. Admission free with suggested £10 donation, on the door All proceeds to children's cancer charity, Team Cleo
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