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Recent Events
Saturday 24th & Saturday 31st July - Box Office stationed outside PAUL's Newsagents
Sunday 25th July - All day filming for 'Alrewas, A Good Billet'
Saturday July 17th - The 130th Alrewas Show
As ever it was a blustery day which always makes putting the tents up a lot of fun! All in all though it was a good day and we managed to sign people up for workshops.
Check out this film of our carbon-free float at this years' Alrewas Show
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th June 2010 - Alrewas Open Gardens Weekend
What a lovely weekend! We set up our stall outside the newsagents and then moved on down to Open Garden Number 1 (J&J Gravells) to carry on taking bookings for workshops and hand out draft programmes. Here are some piccies...
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Friday June 25th- Village Hall
'An Evening With Kate'
Music and comedy with a popular local band.
Monday April 26th - Alrewas Parish Assembly - The festival was represented at the Parish assembly and met with villagers to tell them about our wonderful event. Peter showed a film of life in Alrewas which featured footage from the 2008 festival. Here it is!
Saturday April 10th Grand Auction, Village Hall- Over £900 raised, see film on home page
Saturday March 20th - DOUBLE SCREENING 4.30 pm - 'Up' & 8.00pm 'Inglorious Basterds'
'The Flea Pit' Angels & Demons February 20th
The Flea Pit - 'Beyond The Pole' Saturday January 30th
We were very proud and very fortunate to be able to show this film. Some of it was shot in the home of our very own Tony Jones and many villagers were film extras. We were especially delighted to have a visit from the Director, David Williams and his wife Helen Baxendale who had a role in an produced the film. They answered questions from the audience and received a valuable 'Alrewas Oscar' for 'Best Use Of Local Extras'
We ran two showings of the film and both houses were sold out within days of the tickets going on sale, we even had a reserve list of over 30 people.
This picture shows a couple of young cinema goers with Helen.
Click here to open the article about this film published in the Lichfield Mercury.
Here is a very short film to give a flavour of the day.
Village Carol Singing - December 18th - £100 raised for charity and festival.
Family Christmas Film 'Elf' December 23rd 2009, The Flea Pit
MEXICAN CEILIDH - Saturday December 5th 2009
The evening started with an hilarious Spanish/English health and safety message swiftly followed by the grand making of the Mexican hat. A few sheets of newspaper and a roll of masking tape saw dozens of brilliant hats. The next task was to make a pair of maraccas. These were used to accopmany the first of 'The Hoover's' Mexican number, 'La Bamba'. It wasa great evening with tequila sunrises and excellent chilli con carne. Thanks go to everyone who helped and especially to Joanna Stevenson who put so much work into the event.
Hey amigos!
The Mosses would just like to congratulate you all on a superb night out at la hacienda village hall on Saturday. To the band, to the bar, to the cook[s] to the bar staff et al, very well done. The great fun that was had by all must, surely, show how vibrant Alrewas Arts Fest. is and is going to be next year.
The youngsters who were there had me in stiches and everybody did at least one dance and even invented one when dancing on hats. What a good, breaking the tension opening "surprise" Jo, with the newspaper hats. Well done! We were sat next to people we had never met before but were all laughing and chatting as if there was no tomorrow. That was the magic of the evening.
Thanks again.
Adrienne & Nigel
THE FLEA PIT - Saturday november 29th - 'Coco Before Chanel'
THE FOURTH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday November 21st 2009 -A visual and aural treat to lift the spirits!
A great success with some brilliant films on display.
ALREWAS SHOW July 18th 2009
The Festival had a stand at this years Show. We were there with the sheep (of course), the ever popular DVD's and clipboards. Why clipboards?! As we start to plan for Festival 2010, in order to secure grant funding, we need to provide evidence of what effect the last Festival had within the community as a whole. We need your views.
We were also doing some Willow work - encouraging youngsters to get involved. I hope you like the results!
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FUSE FESTIVAL Lichfield July 2009
Local artist Jeff Jacks was 'Artist in Residence' at FUSE this year. He was joined in the 'exhibition in a tent' by Janneka Evans whose work was selling like hotcakes!
OPEN GARDENS July 2009
The sun shone for this years Open Gardens in Alrewas and hundreds of people enjoyed the many gardens open to the public.
The festival garden hosted by the Reilly family welcomed the festival sheep, sold copies of the Festival Film, 'A Cut Through Alrewas' and many children and some adults helped to create a lovely Willow Hideaway.
