May 30, 2017 —
As well as Facebook and Twitter, you can now keep up to date with the work of 10 Parishes Artists on Instagram – follow us now on 10_parishes_festival. You can also follow us at www.facebook.com/10ParishesFestival and www.twitter.com/10Parishes. If you are a participant in this year’s festival then do tag us in any of your social media… Continue Reading »
May 29, 2017 —
The graphic representation of the 10 Parishes Festival is always hugely anticipated – with modern art blended with surrealism often the theme. Once again Aga Karmolinska has brought her talents from her Bathealton home to develop the theme of this year’s festival, the B3227. This well-known route sweeps from the western edge of Taunton all the… Continue Reading »
February 3, 2015 —
Support the 10 Parishes Festival by becoming a ‘Friend of the Festival’, and receiving the following benefits: Invitations to Private Views, Exhibitions and Art Shows Free entry to Art Gardens organised by the Festival A Friends Social Event Priority Copy of the Festival Guide The knowledge that you will be supporting a community event for the… Continue Reading »
September 13, 2013 —
One of the more intriguing exhibits of the 10 Parishes Festival has been Philip D. Moore’s video installation at Cotleigh Brewery entitled ‘The Seed, The Farmer and the Machine’, which takes a intimate look at the journey of grain from field to market. It centres around the processing machinery which is used for only a… Continue Reading »
September 13, 2013 —
A particularly successful event held at Moorish on Thursday night of the Festival, the Pizza and Poetry event combined to provide us with some top notch entertainment along with those wonderful wood-fired pizzas. Taunton based poetry groups Fire River Poets and Junction 25 we both well represented, as well as those who came along of… Continue Reading »
September 13, 2013 —
Strange things happen in Bathealton. One time there was an outbreak of scarecrows. Now extraordinary, massive blooms have sprung up all around the village. Report has it there is even a huge pink one that is carnivorous, if the pair of Wellies sticking out is a clue… though no reports of missing children or adults… Continue Reading »
September 10, 2013 —
When people say policemen get younger all the time – they clearly haven’t heard about some of our 10 Parishes Festival artists! First it was the schoolchildren and young people of Wiveliscombe Primary School plus Kingsmead Community School, then we heard about successful sculptor Jessica (aged 17 – see details here), and now Fire River Poets… Continue Reading »
September 9, 2013 —
One of the 10 Parishes Festival’s youngest sculptors Jessica Weetch, 17, found her first ever exhibition got off to a flying start when she sold a sculpture within three hours on the opening night, for £150. Jessica, of Palace Gardens, Wiveliscombe, who is exhibiting at This is Moorish café-restaurant along with six professional artists, was… Continue Reading »
September 9, 2013 —
Wow what a brilliant day as the Street Market & Carnival hit the streets of Wiveliscombe on the Festival’s first Sunday, when well over 3,000 people flocked to the town – and a superb holiday atmosphere reigned. Brightly coloured awnings and bunting decorated the town, with West Street closed to traffic as crowds thronged to… Continue Reading »
September 6, 2013 —
If you go down to the woods today…adventures of all kinds are on offer at Haydon Hill Wood in Chipstable, in the special Festival event A Thousand Feet Up. Set in this beautiful 14 acre wood, just over 1000 feet above sea level, it’s the first year for this new and stunning venue for some… Continue Reading »