Along with the usual mix of great gigs, sessions, workshops, and sustenance there was a very welcome visitor to this year’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival: blazing sunshine, pretty much all weekend. While mere trifles like rain and gale force winds would never dampen spirits here, a mini-heatwave was a joyful addition to the 2019 line-up.
As ever, it's impossible to see every tempting concert...
'Clean Stream' is an exhibition about keeping plastic out of water. If it goes into our rivers and streams it ends up in the ocean, killing sealife and entering the food chain. This exhibition focuses on how we can reduce our plastic consumption; there is a map showing you where to shop plastic-free locally in Shrewsbury. It showcases the Love Your Magnificent Severn project, their plastic-...
Open Britain Shrewsbury is welcoming Andrew Adonis to town this Friday, 14th September.
Addressing a public meeting at University Centre Shrewsbury, Lord Adonis (Labour peer and former cabinet minister) will discuss the need for a People's Vote ahead of the final Brexit negotiations. Whichever way you voted, this should be an interesting event. Given the complexities and consequences...
This year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival opened in stormy style, with high winds and torrential rain. But a bit of weather doesn’t put off diehard folk fans. We all donned capes and cagoules and followed the music.
As ever, we didn’t manage to see all the acts we hoped to see; there is always a range of fabulous music happening across the three main stages and scattered...
Lawn and Meadow Participate Artspace is running until the end of this week!
Take the opportunity to call in to the artspace and see this year's summer show, with art works in many different media, including living plants. Coinciding with preparations for the Shrewsbury Flower Show, the exhibition has drawn artists from around the country.
Lawn and Meadow 24...
Last night I met a group of extraordinary people who settled in Shropshire about a year ago, having escaped war-torn Syria as refugees. They had come to a collective decision that they need to do something to express their despair about what is happening to the people of East Ghouta, a once affluent and beautiful suburb of Damascus, Syria. Sitting in a comfortable kitchen in Shrewsbury, I was...
Local residents - including some refugee families who still have friends and relatives under fire - have organised a silent march for peace this Saturday 10th March, starting at Pride Hill at 2pm. The march aims to publicly condemn the violence against civilians in Syria and to demand the UN-backed ceasefire is enforced in Ghouta. The killing must stop.
The offensive in Ghouta is...
We’ve been doing this write up of Shrewsbury’s annual folk festival for a few years now, though 2017 is the first that could boast unbroken sunshine. Every year there’s a great line up, a huge range of workshops, sessions and ceilidhs to suit most tastes and age groups, and food and craft fields packed with deliciousness. A couple of times, there have been comments below the line where the...
Emma Burton, director of My Soul Space yoga studio, has launched the world’s first ever Elevating Yoga & Energy Editing® Course. Called ‘My Soul’s Purpose’, this 9-week course is designed to help people find their balance and calm amidst the stresses of today’s hectic lifestyles.
According to Emma, “Energy Editing is a powerful healing modality that...
State of the art hot yoga studio, My Soul Space www.mysoulspace.co.uk is celebrating 2 years of business in Shrewsbury. The studio will mark the anniversary by being the first venue in the West Midlands to host a ‘Gloga’ class (glow yoga) on Thursday 15th December at 7pm. The class will be hosted by 3 yoga teachers, so participants...
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