diary of arts events in the area
Please check the diary of events below to see what's on in the area of North Bedfordshire or available online. You will find details of our own lectures and events and those of other organisations that may be of interest. You can use the arrow at the bottom of the list to see more events.
If you are involved with an arts event in the area and would like us to add it to our diary, please contact us.
Arts in the Area
Dr Stephen Feeke Looks back over her career in 1970, Barbara Hepworth (1903–75). He covers her use of colour in her sculpture and drawings.
Monthly event. Book via The Place, Bedford website.
Perry Straker on Norman Hartnell
Produced By: RUFF Theatre
Produced By: RUFF Theatre
Venue tba.
Lecturer: Anna Warrilow
Monthly event. Book via The Place, Bedford website.
3rd to 7th March
Venue tbc.
3rd to 7th March
Lecturer - Isabelle Kent. Three Lectures covering : (1) Diego Velázquez (2) Murillo and Baroque Seville (3) The Obsession for Spanish art in Britain.
Coffee from 10.15am. Lunch included. Full details to follow. Booking from October.
Flabbergast’s Macbeth fuses a rigorous and respectful approach to text and storytelling to bring a magical, lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy to life. Puppetry, clown, ensemble, physical theatre, and exhilarating live music, combine in a powerful and provocative interpretation.
Flabbergast’s Macbeth fuses a rigorous and respectful approach to text and storytelling to bring a magical, lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy to life. Puppetry, clown, ensemble, physical theatre, and exhilarating live music, combine in a powerful and provocative interpretation.
Lecturer: Meri Arichi
Monthly event. Book via The Place, Bedford website.
Venue tbc
Full details to follow. Bookings taken from January. Click here to register interest.
Aard-winning Dyad Productions and Company Gavin Robertson are joining forces!
Every hospital, medical-based, Doctors-and-Nurses cliche-ridden drama onstage in a comedy mash-up spoof! It'll have you in stitches!
Including anatomy, aeronautics, cartography and engineering. Lecturer: Guy Rooker
Monthly event. Book via The Place, Bedford website.
Lecturer: Alice White. Her perspective on art from 17th to 21st centuries
Produced By: The Pantaloons (27th-29th May)
Produced By: The Pantaloons (27th-29th May)
Monthly event. Book via The Place, Bedford website.
Sumptuous and opulent jewellery, from 1890 to 1929. Lecturer: Andrew Prince.
The Handlebards present a fantastically funny bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’.
History of the River Ouse with tea on the boat. Full details to follow. Click here to register interest.
Lecturer: Mark Hill
Grinling Gibbons and his carvings in wood. Lecturer: Justin Reay
A journey into the heavenly realm through angelic words and music. Lecturer: Patrick Craig
The photo at the top of this page shows work produced during a Young Arts project and is used by kind permission of Hilary Birkett.