What’s on
Alice's Adventures in Horsley
Come down the rabbit hole with us on the very first night!
A Village Walk
Celebrating our footpaths!
Come together for a village walk to enjoy restored paths and stiles
Village Music Concert
A star-studded lineup featuring Hawkmoth, Diana Yukawa, Bill Roberts, Stephen Peart, Solskin, and The Elastic Band.
Village Bring and Share Lunch
What a great way to round off the festival. Does what it says on the tin, but please bring you own tin and bottle!
Walking Pages
Join artist Maxine Relton for a new experience in drawing and finish with your own handmade book to take home. All abilities welcome, materials provided. Limited places, advance booking required.
Music and Dance
Join The Horsley Band, Moonlighting, Ordinary Folk and the Yama Dance Company. Booking required or tickets on the door.
This event now starts in the 3 in 1, Horsley Church (7:30pm for a 7:45pm performance by the Yama Dance Company) and continues in the Village Hall.
In Conversation: Pippa Jones with Maxine Relton & Peter Hunt
What inspires our artists and makers? Is Horsley unusual in nurturing artistic talent? What are the challenges facing artists and makers today? How do they keep going in these precarious times? Join us in a series of conversations involving local artists and makers, established and emerging, from different genres, as they reflect on their work and artistic lives.
Horsley’s Winter Wildlife #2
Who did this poo? Who made that track? What’s that smell? And what’s that on the camera trap? Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Chair, David Bullock does not claim to be able to tell every species by its faeces, but he will have a go!
Suspiro Flamenco
Suspiro Flamenco is based locally and led by Vicki Clifford, with guitarist David Butcher.
Drawing Stories
Join graphic artist Liz Lancashire for a workshop drawing objects you love and telling their stories on paper. Bring along a favourite object or photo to work from.
Ruskin Mill Walk & Presentation
Join us at Ruskin Mill to walk the land of this environmental and cultural asset and take an informed view of the buildings in the valley at Horsley Mill, including the fish farm, the forge, and the green woodwork shelter, and see craftspeople at work.
Block Printing Workshop
This is an all-day workshop for anyone aged 12 and upwards, offered by Rod Nelson ARE. Rod is fascinated by the ancient graphical medium of woodblock print.
Poetry Night
An evening of poetry readings from local poets David Hales, Anthony Hentschel, Polly Howell and Maxine Relton. The theme is Horsley and its environs, old and new, including poems about the Horsley House of Correction.
Everyone’s invited to submit their own Horsley haikus!
Blackberry Hill Story
In 1972, Keld and Anja Liengaard bought the property, ‘Blackberry Hill’, for what became a twenty-year experiment in ‘right living. Join Ruth Liengaard for a fascinating insight into the thinking and practice behind this experiment.
In Conversation: Jo Leahy with Peter Cluer & Pip Heywood
What inspires our artists and makers? Is Horsley unusual in nurturing artistic talent? What are the challenges facing artists and makers today? How do they keep going in these precarious times? Join us in a series of conversations involving local artists and makers, established and emerging, from different genres, as they reflect on their work and artistic lives.
Festival Arts Trail
Come and meet 10 local artists in their creative environments: it’s a chance to learn about some of their ideas and working methods, to buy work directly from the makers and perhaps even commission a personal piece.
Digging into Horsley's Cultural Roots
An evening celebrating Horsley’s dramatic past. Maybe you were a frightened child in the front row or the rear end of the pantomime cow but you’re welcome to share and reflect on what Paul Hofman has unearthed so far.
In Conversation: Helen Price with Max Caffell & Rod Nelson
What inspires our artists and makers? Is Horsley unusual in nurturing artistic talent? What are the challenges facing artists and makers today? How do they keep going in these precarious times? Join us in a series of conversations involving local artists and makers, established and emerging, from different genres, as they reflect on their work and artistic lives.
Poetry and Film
Pip Heywood invites you to join him for a reading from his latest collection of poetry “The Escarpment”, with poems about seagulls, foxes, a family bubble party under lockdown, Hebridean coastlines and much more - interspersed with films about magic trees, landscapes and experiments with abstract film.
In Conversation: Elaine Hynd with Hannah Eadie-Moore, Elliot Gilfoyle, Maise Meredith & Sam Hofman
What inspires our artists and makers? Is Horsley unusual in nurturing artistic talent? What are the challenges facing artists and makers today? How do they keep going in these precarious times? Join us in a series of conversations involving local artists and makers, established and emerging, from different genres, as they reflect on their work and artistic lives.
In Conversation: Mavis Zutshi with Imogen Harvey-Lewis & Rob Collins
What inspires our artists and makers? Is Horsley unusual in nurturing artistic talent? What are the challenges facing artists and makers today? How do they keep going in these precarious times? Join us in a series of conversations involving local artists and makers, established and emerging, from different genres, as they reflect on their work and artistic lives.
Out of the Dark Story Telling
In this, the coldest time of the year, Fiona Eadie and Sarah Deco bring you stories of hope and light.
Festival Arts Trail
Come and meet 10 local artists in their creative environments: it’s a chance to learn about some of their ideas and working methods, to buy work directly from the makers and perhaps even commission a personal piece.
Bee Hotels & Biodiversity Exhibition
Make a bee hotel at this workshop run by Steve Huntley and his son Woody.
There will also be a display of images on biodiversity organised by artist Heather MacLennan.
Horsley’s Winter Wildlife #1
Who did this poo? Who made that track? What’s that smell? And what’s that on the camera trap? Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Chair, David Bullock does not claim to be able to tell every species by its faeces, but he will have a go!