Alison Braithwaite
Art Competition Exhibition of 150 Finalists
Broadway Museum & Art Gallery 65 High Street, Broadway, GBOur annual open art competition is open to any artist, in any medium including painting, sculpture, drawing, textiles, ceramics & printmaking. Artists’ work that was selected for the final judging stage has formed an exclusive selling exhibition of 150 works at Broadway Museum & Art Gallery on the High Street in Broadway from 21st – 30th [...]
The 2023 Photography Competition
Broadway, Worcestershire, United KingdomOur photography competition is open to any photographer in the UK or abroad, amateur or professional, The competition & prizes are generously sponsored by Photographer Peter Martin who has a gallery in Stow on the Wold. Prize categories are: Best Portrait (£250) Best Landscape (£250) Best Photo Essay (£500) We have a panel of esteemed judges, all [...]
Open Studio – Pink Harrison
Pye Corner Mill Bury End, BroadwayMeet artist Pink Harrison in her studio, where her paintings and prints are hanging. Working in oils and watercolours, you will see the sketches of her travels, and materials relating to the finished paintings, and all the tools of a working artist’s studio. Pye Corner Mill is within walking distance from Broadway High Street (Midway between [...]
Wire Bird Sculpture Demonstration by Rachel Higgins
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomWatch renowned local artist Rachel Higgins as she uses a variety of metalwork techniques – wirework, soldering, hammering and riveting – to create a beautiful intricate 3D metal bird. A member of the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden, she will also be exhibiting in the marquee at artBEAT and running 2 dragonfly wire sculpture [...]
Printing without a Press with Joanna Cohn
The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United KingdomTry your hand at two very different print techniques which you’ll be able to continue to do at home, as very little equipment is required. Reductive lino cut is a method of relief print to create a set of limited edition prints. Takuhon is a 2000 year old Chinese print method originally used to record [...]
Velázquez in the Making: Daniel Sobrino Ralston & Richard Ormond
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomThe great Spanish artist Diego Velázquez was a painter of extraordinary ability. He achieved widespread renown, however, during the nineteenth century. Daniel Sobrino Ralston, Acting Associate Curator of Paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, explores how Velázquez striking and newly stylish works were interpreted by connoisseurs, emulated by copyists and – occasionally – knocked off by charlatans. Arts [...]
‘Car Design: Art and Engineering’ by Carsten Astheimer
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomDesign is the process where an idea comes to life, especially in car design; a mix of art and engineering, the result of a multi-disciplinary team often including tens of thousands of people. Although technology has changed dramatically, the art of creating a beautiful car has hardly changed at all. This illustrated talk by car [...]
Find your Voice – Come & Sing!
United Reformed Church 77 High St, Broadway, United KingdomExperience the joy of choral singing, from gospel to spirituals to Renaissance rounds and classical crossover led by inspirational conductor Stuart Overington. Stuart has worked with a diverse range of ensembles including the Royal Opera House Chorus, National Children’s Choir, community choirs, Snow Patrol & Elbow. The afternoon culminates in a sharing event for friends [...]
Sue Barker ‘Calling the Shots’
Cidermill Theatre Cidermill Lane, Chipping Campden, GloucestershireWe are delighted to announce that Sue Barker will be speaking at Broadway Arts Festival in June! Tennis and broadcasting legend Sue Barker shares the remarkable story of her life from her former tennis career as Britain’s No 1 player and world No 3, to her four decades on camera as an award-winning broadcaster. Following [...]
‘Reread, Revisit, Rethink’ with Loyd Grossman
Cidermill Theatre Cidermill Lane, Chipping Campden, GloucestershireDistinguished art historian, travel writer and broadcaster, Loyd Grossman, reflects on places he thought he knew well, but continues to find new and surprising insights. His next book is on Paris, a city that he is now learning to know and enjoy much more intensely. Join him on this journey of rediscovery. "I reread, not because [...]
A Tour of 2 Private Broadway Gardens with Marion Mako
Court Farm Court Farm, Upper High Street, Broadway, WorcestershireBroadway’s gardens have been the backdrop for artists, writers, actors and musicians for over a century. On this walking tour of two famous private gardens with Marion Mako, we shall hear about some of the stories behind those who created, inhabited and visited them, all looking their finest in June. Marion is a garden historian, [...]
A Tour of 2 Private Broadway Gardens with Marion Mako
Court Farm Court Farm, Upper High Street, Broadway, WorcestershireBroadway’s gardens have been the backdrop for artists, writers, actors and musicians for over a century. On this walking tour of two famous private gardens with Marion Mako, we shall hear about some of the stories behind those who created, inhabited and visited them, all looking their finest in June. Marion is a garden historian, [...]
A Tour of 2 Private Broadway Gardens with Marion Mako
Springfield House Springfield Lane, BroadwayBroadway’s gardens have been the backdrop for artists, writers, actors and musicians for over a century. On this walking tour of two famous private gardens with Marion Mako, we shall hear about some of the stories behind those who created, inhabited and visited them, all looking their finest in June. Marion is a garden historian, [...]
A Tour of 2 Private Broadway Gardens with Marion Mako
Springfield House Springfield Lane, BroadwayBroadway’s gardens have been the backdrop for artists, writers, actors and musicians for over a century. On this walking tour of two famous private gardens with Marion Mako, we shall hear about some of the stories behind those who created, inhabited and visited them, all looking their finest in June. Marion is a garden historian, [...]
Romeo & Juliet by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men: Outdoor Theatre at Broadway Tower
Broadway Tower Middle Hill, Broadway, GBJoin us for an outdoor production of the timeless & classic love story, Romeo & Juliet, in the stunning iconic location of Broadway Tower With a history stretching back to William Shakespeare himself they present this great play as he first saw it, in the open air, with an all male cast and Elizabethan costumes, music and dance. [...]
Dragonfly Wire Sculpture Workshop with Rachel Higgins
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayRenowned local artist Rachel Higgins is an accomplished metal animal sculptor and a member of the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden. She will be leading a day workshop using a variety of metalwork techniques - wirework, soldering, hammering, riveting… for participants to create a 3D metal dragonfly to take home. A member of the [...]
Madresfield Court & Gardens Literary Tour
Madresfield Court Malvern, Worcestershire, United KingdomAn exclusive tour of Arts & Crafts masterpiece Madresfield Court & Gardens to discover how it became the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh & Brideshead Revisited. Madresfield Court near Malvern, is a moated stately house, and home to the Lygon family for almost 900 years. It played a significant part in the Arts & Crafts movement [...]
Designer Lampshade Workshop with Alison Bick
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomAt the end of this workshop you will take home your very own 40cm lampshade with fabric printed with Alison Bick designs and illustrations. Alison will guide you through the lampshade-making process, and show you her tips and tricks on how to get a professional finish. Suitable for any creative skill level! Alison is a [...]
Swing from Paris Supper Club
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin us for a mid-week supper club in the marquee on the village green! Expect stylish jazz and swing, street food vendors, communal dining in the marquee, a bar and an opportunity to kick back, socialise and meet new people. This is a relaxed event where you will be encouraged to move about and mingle, [...]
Dragonfly Wire Sculpture Workshop
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayRenowned local artist Rachel Higgins is an accomplished metal animal sculptor and a member of the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden. She will be leading a day workshop using a variety of metalwork techniques - wirework, soldering, hammering, riveting… for participants to create a 3D metal dragonfly to take home. A member of the [...]
“Loving Vincent” Film Screening
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomWe are pleased to announce that we are teaming up with the Broadway Cinema Club to bring you the award-winning film “Loving Vincent” on the evening of Thursday 15th June (Cert 12). Released in 2017 Loving Vincent is an experimental animated biographical drama about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and in particular [...]
Willow Seed Head Workshop with Rachel Harwood
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwaySpend a morning creating a fabulous 4ft poppy seed head to take home with you, with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. Willow is a wonderful sustainable material great for making sculptures for the garden. You will be working with willow from Somerset. Suitable for all levels and a great introduction to working with willow. 15 Tickets available [...]
‘Folklore & Fairytales’ – Soprano Laura Coppinger
The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United KingdomLaura is a soprano from Broadway, now embarking on a professional career. She graduated from St Hilda’s College, Oxford with a First Class Honours in Music, and now studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her 'Emerging Artist' recital Folklore and Fairytales shows her remarkable talent in a classical programme that explores fables and folk song from across Europe, in the stunning [...]
‘Of Life and Love’ – Soprano Rose Johnson
The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United KingdomAccomplished Soprano and Operatic performer Rose has recently completed her studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, supported by our bursary programme . She was awarded first place in the Vocal Department Prize and in the Mario Lanza Opera prize. Her ‘Emerging Artist’ recital will feature Schumanns Frauenliebe und Leben and will reveal her passion for spreading the joys of music [...]
Children’s Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle - a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Children’s Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle - a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Children’s Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle - a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Children’s Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle - a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle - a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Burnt Norton Gardens Literary Tour & Talk
Burnt Norton Burnt Norton, Chipping Campden, GloucestershireA rare chance to visit the gardens at Burnt Norton, near Chipping Campden which inspired T S Eliot’s poem, the first of his Four Quartets. Owner Lady Harrowby will lead a guided tour of the gardens and explain the extraordinary history of the estate, renamed Burnt Norton after a disastrous fire in 1741 where the owner, [...]
Robin Hood by Illyria – Family Outdoor Theatre on the Village Green
Broadway Village Green The Green, Broadway, Worcestershire, United KingdomFrom the earliest ballads of Robin Hood, some pre-dating Chaucer, Illyria has created a fast-moving, fun-packed family show. While good King Richard is away fighting the crusades, his friend Robert Fitzooth, under the assumed name of Robin Hood, resolves to relieve corrupt landowners of their wealth, to ruin the inept Sheriff of Nottingham and to [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle - a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Teen Acrylics Workshop – collage, colour & rhythm
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomA relaxed teen acrylics workshop aimed at 12-17 year olds. Lots of creative fun as a group, learning how to use acrylic paint. You will be making an abstract acrylic painting on board and learning about how to use a limited palette, texture, colour and shape to compose and express ideas and to create tone and [...]
The Great Broadway Paint-Off 2023!
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayYour chance to draw or paint our beautiful Cotswolds village for the day and be in with a chance of winning great prizes along with other artists from across the UK! This is a very popular event that attracts both professional and amateur artists. Top Prize £200 voucher for Jackson's Art Supplies & the winning [...]
2023 Open Art Competition
Bretforton Theatrebarn Bretforton Grange, Bretforton, Worcestershire, United KingdomOur 2023 open art competition is now open for entries! Prizes include: – Main prize £1000 (any medium) sponsored by Wychavon District Council – Painting in Oils or Acrylics Prize £500 sponsored by Priory Gallery – Watercolour Prize £500 sponsored by John Noott (Founders Prize) – Sculpture/3D Prize £500 sponsored by Jason & Susan Lewis [...]
Printing without a Press Workshop
Willersey Willersey, GloucestershireTry your hand at two very different print techniques which you’ll be able to continue to do at home, as very little equipment is required. Reductive lino cut is a method of relief print to create a set of limited edition prints. Takuhon is a 2000 year old Chinese print method originally used to record [...]
En Plein Air Workshop at Batsford Arboretum with Paul-Talbot Greaves RI
Batsford Arboretum Batsford, Moreton in MarshIn this plein air workshop at Batsford Arboretum, you will be guided towards using colour as part of your considered composition by Paul Talbot-Greaves RI. Working in acrylics or oils, you will focus on the shapes and colours of autumn or any interesting colour within the trees to make a statement painting. Looking at the [...]
Art Competition Exhibition of Finalists
Bretforton Theatrebarn Bretforton Grange, Bretforton, Worcestershire, United KingdomOur annual open art competition is open to any artist, in any medium including painting, sculpture, drawing, textiles, jewellery, pastels, ceramics & printmaking. Artists’ work that was selected for the final judging stage will form an exclusive selling exhibition of 150 works at Theatrebarn in Bretforton (15 mins drive from Broadway) from Friday 6th - [...]
The Julia & Martin Wilson Short Story Competition
In 2020 we launched a new short story prize in addition to our art competition in order to encourage creativity during the lockdown. The prize was generously sponsored and judged by festival benefactors Julia & Martin Wilson. The competition now takes place every other year, the next one is in 2024. Entries need to be [...]
Alan Bennett Literary Lunch & Talk at Broadway Golf Club
Broadway Golf Club Willersey Hill, BroadwayJoin us for a social literary lunch & talk on the talent of English playwright, author, actor & screenwriter Alan Bennett. With a glass of fizz on arrival followed by a 2 course lunch, tea/coffee and a 30 minute talk delivered by writer Adrian Barlow, this event will be taking place at Broadway Golf Club, [...]
Mystery Masterpiece Auction 2024
Broadway Arts Festival is giving the public the chance to snap up original artwork by internationally renowned and emerging artists for as little as £25! Showcasing British painters, illustrators, printmakers and photographers while helping to raise funds for the Broadway Arts Festival in 2025, school outreach programmes and local student arts bursaries. Maybe you’ll spot [...]
Intro to Lino Block Printing – Linen Cushion Workshop with Albert Harvey
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomOn this day course you will work with Albert Harvey, a print maker and textile designer from Oxfordshire, to firstly design your very own bespoke Lino print block, carve it and then use it to print your linen cushion fabric. Albert will then take away the resulting fabric to make it into an expertly finished [...]
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