Celebrating the 180th birthday of Whitchurch’s own Mr Randolph Caldecott ‘the man who couldnt stop drawing’. The Caldecott Festival is a family friendly creative festival organised by a small team based in Whitchurch and aims to promote creativity in any form by people of any age. The Caldecott Festival brings together illustration, art workshops, music, street theatre, sculpture, writing, storytelling, crafts, pottery, bell ringing. fun characters, photography, films, games and a market for the day! This year they have two wonderful authors who will be with them all day at the festival. Siân Hughes, winner of the Seamus Heaney award, the Avron international poetry prize. She will run two workshops on writing poetry and judge the Haiku competition. And Mark Bardsley author of Dogs, Crazy Animal Poems & When I Was Young and Foolish and Bloom Town. He will run an Interactive session for children in the morning at Whitchurch Library. Mark will be talking in the afternoon about how he came to be writing and illustrating such wonderful, Laugh out loud books of poetry. There will be activities for the whole family. The full Programme, with times of events can be viewed here FESTIVAL Programme | Caldecott Festival At the festival there will be a very short opening ceremony, and a closing ceremony. The former will be at 10 a.m. and the latter at 4.00. Prizes for all the competitions will be presented at the closing ceremony by the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, writers, musicians, and artists. The prizes will be for competitions 1-8. Competitions 1-7 are for people of any age. Competition eight is for pupils only. 1 Short story –“Where did the Great She Bear go after she had gone into the shop on the High Street? (THE GREAT PANJANDRUM) 2 A Haiku on The Countryside 3 A Song about Whitchurch- lyrics to be new, and a tune original or borrowed 4 A drawing of Whitchurch High Street today 5 Whitchurch in 1866-pictures and words-maximum six hundred words 6 The Railway and Whitchurch up to 1866, in any format 7 A piece of music about dreams and hopes for “my future” 8 Caldecott went to London when he was twenty-six to live. In pictures or words tell us what you will be doing when you are twenty- six #LowCostFamily #FamilyFesitvals We're sorry but <%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title %> doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
