A weekend of fun has been promised at a Northamptonshire village as its annual festival arrives.
Guilsborough is staging its second ‘Festival Weekend,’ starting on Friday evening with a wine and jazz evening, followed by a 5km Fun Run on Saturday, and a fashion show at 2pm in the village hall.
The festivities will end on Sunday with a street fair.
Organisers have arranged a variety of different activities to attract young and old to the village, and with all money raised going directly to charities in Guilsborough.
Sunday activities will include Srufts, a fun dog show and dog agility course, tug of war, live music from local bands, and a live Pirate Theatre.
Visitors can have a go at traditional fairground games, such as a coconut shy and skittles, as well as children’s fun including a bouncy slide and fairground rides.
The main road through Guilsborough will be transformed into a colourful site, with treasure trails, an art exhibition, stalls and children activities.
There will also be a barbeque, a beer tent and ice cream, as well as teas and cake in the Village Hall.
The village church, St Etheldreda’s, will feature a flower festival over the Guilsborough Festival Weekend, with more than 18 clubs and societies creating their own floral displays.
The church will also be the place where the festival comes to a close with a village Songs of Praise service to be held at 6pm on Sunday.
Entrance to the Guilsborough Street Fair is £2 for adults and £1 for children. For more details on the Festival please call Chris Benbow on 01604 743506.
For information and entries regarding the Dog Show please call Sarah Dalzell, 01604 743023.
For anyone wishing to join the Guilsborough Fun Run, this is will start from Guilsborough Cricket Field at 9.30am on Saturday.
Entrance fee is Adults £5, under 16s £3, and all standards are welcome.
Please telephone Caroline Houghton on 01604 740933 for more information on the fun run.
A FESTIVAL which celebrates the East Midland’s Architecture comes to Northampton.
The regional festival Love Architecture 2012 takes place from Friday to Sunday, June 24.
The festival is one of a series of regional festivals organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to promote architecture and to encourage people to look at the buildings around them.
Events on an architectural theme are taking place across the region during the festival, including two special access-all-areas tours of “Northampton’s Jewel”, 78 Derngate, and RIBA-award-winning 82 Derngate on Thursday, June 21.
Hosted by 78 Derngate, Midsummer McAslan & Mackintosh offers an opportunity for people to tour Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s last major work, alongside newly-restored 82 Derngate.
Accompanied by expert guides from 78 Derngate, visitors will get to see areas of the building that are usually off-limits to the public.
82 Derngate is a RIBA-award-winning project, combining Grade II Regency grandeur with modern efficiency.
Project Architect Umberto Emoli will ‘walk and talk’ participants through the building, telling how it was saved from semi-dereliction and transformed. There will be two tours at 6pm & 7pm on Thursday, June 21, each lasting approximately two hours. Tickets are priced at £10 and include a glass of wine or soft drink. Tickets can be booked at www.78derngate.eventbrite.co.uk
AN Iraq veteran from Northampton will host a Family Fun Day event this weekend.
Liam Evans-Jones an ex-Serviceman who developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after serving in Iraq has organised the event to raise money for Combat Stress.
In 2006, at the age of 18, Liam became one of the youngest soldiers in the British Army to be sent to Iraq for a six-month tour.
Mr Evans-Jones was deployed to Iraq again in 2008.
Liam and his mother Karen Townsend, are holding the event at Moulton Football Club in Brunting Road on Father’s Day this Sunday from midday to 5pm. A disco will start at 6pm.
Activities will include: bungee-jumping, Zorb balls, It’s a Knockout competition, stalls, raffles, auctions and a disco.
There is no entry fee but the It’s a Knockout competition costs £20.
A Lunchtime Talk will take place at Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering tomorrow.
The talk ‘J.L. Carr: Settled in Kettering’ will be presented by Bob Carr from 1pm to 2pm.
Commemorating the centenary of J.L. Carr’s birth on May 20 1912, his son Bob Carr presents his father’s life history as a teacher, novelist and publisher; including his time as the headmaster of Highfields’
Primary School in Kettering.
Tickets cost £5 per person, £2.50 for Leisure Pass Holders. For further information visit: tic@kettering.gov.uk or call: 01536 315 115.
PUPILS both past and present from Bishop Stopford will present a celebration of their artwork at the Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering this week.
Bishop Stopford: Past, Present and Future will run at the Kettering gallery from Saturday to Saturday, June 23.
For further information visit: www.kettering.gov.uk/museums
A SOCIAL evening of ballroom dancing will take place on Saturday from 8pm to 11pm at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Church Rooms, in Church Lane, Northampton.
The price of tickets cost £3. For further information on this ballroom event please call Jean Earl on 01604 629286.
A SPECIAL talk to teach people how to look after their treasures at home will take place at the Manor House Museum in Kettering this week.
Have you got a treasured object at home that you would like to know how best to look after?
The Museum Officer may be able to help show you how to care for your treasured possessions and ensure that they are preserved for generations to come.
The drop-in surgery will take place today from 2.30pm to 4pm.
For further information email: tic@kettering.gov.uk or call: 01536 315115.
AN exhibition about an adventurous Mouse comes to the Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering this week.
Mouse, is at the gallery from Saturday to Saturday, July 14.
For further information on the exhibition, please visit www.kettering.gov.uk/ museums or call: 01536 534 274, email artgallery@ kettering.gov.uk
FRIDAY
MUSIC:
Auntie’s Acoustic Session, Black Bottom Club, contact 01604 233401.
SATURDAY
MUSIC:
Modern-folk duo, Turin Brakes, Picturedrome, Northampton, doors 7.30pm , tickets £15 in advance. Call 01604 230777.
DJ Allsorts and Peter Bartella, Black Bottom Club, Northampton.
Andy Stone, from 8.30pm, British Rail Club, St Andrew’s Road, Northampton.
Big Mistry, female fronted 90s to current pop covers band, The Harlequin, Kettering, 9pm.
Freeze, Kingsley Park WMC, Kingsley Park Terrace, Northampton.
FLOWER FESTIVAL:
50th Flore Flower and Garden festival, open by Saturday and Sunday. Seven gardens open under National Gardens Scheme, lunches, teas, produce stalls, and an exhibition by Danetre Quilters in the church. Open from 11 am to 6 pm
SUNDAY
CAR BOOT SALE:
Northampton Rotary Club car boot sales, from 8am until 12:30pm, at the Northampton University site, Boughton Green Road, Northampton. All proceeds to go to local charities. Sellers (booters) – cars £6 and vans £8. Buyers 25 p each adult or 50 p per car. Around 40 stalls and more than 800 people visiting the sale. No traders allowed.
MUSIC:
Hannah Lee, from 2-5pm, British Rail Club, St Andrew’s Road, Northampton
Reggie, Kingsley Park WMC, Kingsley Park Terrace, Northampton.
MONDAY
QUIZ:
Rob Benedict’s Pub Quiz, Charles Bradlaugh, 8-10pm. £1 or £5 for teams of 5+.
FILM:
Movie night, Picturedrome. Top films from 8pm. Free entry.
TUESDAY
DANCE:
Salsa Estrellas Salsa Classes, the Picturedrome, from 7pm.
THURSDAY
Tea dance:
Tea dance, Picturedrome, Northampton, 1pm.
OPEN HOUSE:
Open house night, Black Bottom Club, every Thursday is open house night.
The Platform, Charles Bradlaugh, all welcome to perform or just sit back and watch, 9pm-midnight.
FRIDAY
MUSIC:
Auntie’s Acoustic Session, Black Bottom Club, contact 01604 233401.
SATURDAY JUNE 23
MUSIC:
POPtarts massive night of 90s mayhem, Black Bottom Club, plus DJ Suff
Attitude, from 8.30pm, British Rail Club, St Andrew’s Road, Northampton
The Buzz, underground club-night, Charles Bradlaugh, 9pm-2am, £5otd.
FLOWER FESTIVAL:
Kislingbury Flowerpot Weekend, Saturday – stalls, music, refreshments, Spitfire flypast, Open Mic.
Sunday - Duck race (11am), classic vehicles, kids fun, companion dog show, tug of war, music. Contact Alison Ward on 07770528188.
COFFEE MORNING:
In aid of Cats Friends at Rothwell Methodist Church, Market Square, 9.30-11.30 am. Admission 20p.
MONDAY
QUIZ:
Rob Benedict’s Pub Quiz, Charles Bradlaugh, 8-10pm. £1 or £5 for teams of 5+.
FILM:
Movie night, Picturedrome. Top films from 8pm. Free entry.
TUESDAY
DANCE:
Salsa Estrellas Salsa Classes, the Picturedrome, from 7pm.
SATURDAY JUNE 30
MUSIC:
Jamie Neal, from 8.30pm, British Rail Club, St Andrew’s Road, Northampton.
Fuego Nights, female fronted Latin & funk covers band, Walnut Tree, Blisworth, 9.30pm.
Mid-Sensation, seven-piece soul and Tamla Motown band, The Harlequin, Kettering, 9pm.