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The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us but Suffolk has festivals aplenty during October and here’s the Essential Suffolk guide with all you need to know
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t’s going to be a busy month on the festival circuit this October, with five festivals taking place across the county. As ever the breadth of these festivals is astonishing ranging all the way from heritage crafts to jazz, literature to live art and performance.
OCTOBER 1 – 7
Cornucopia 2018 White House Farm, Great Glemham
and large-scale table making. Workshops will be open each weekend for visitors to explore and meet the makers – with work available for sale or made to commission. Some makers are also offering seasonal craft workshops at the farm – for instance, Jon Warnes is hosting workshops on Sheds and Log Stores and an introduction to Green Woodwork. Cornucopia also features weekend Open Studios alongside three Autumn Exhibitions and the farm’s ‘pop up’ Hedge Quarters Tea Rooms – all open daily from 10am – 6pm.
Celebrating heritage crafts, rural writing, seasonal foods and the visual arts, Cornucopia straddles September and October and is based at White House Farm in Great Glemham. For 2018 Cornucopia is hosting Open Studios for a large selection of artisan craft workers. Skills on display include bronze casting, stained glass, jewellery/ silversmith work, leather work and bag making, wood turning, chair making, knife making, wool work, basketry, drawing, tree surgery
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The Exhibitions include: ‘The Suffolk Chair Collection’ – with over 50 antique and contemporary chairs with pieces by some of the county’s leading chairmakers; ‘Pesta Nukenen’ – a celebration of the Spring Festival’s sister project in the Heart of Borneo, Sarawak, East Malaysia; and ‘Hefted – From Source to Sea’ looking at livestock farming landscapes in the river valleys of Cumbria and Suffolk, with new paintings of the North Sea by Maggi Hambling – as the sea into which all our eastern rivers flow. The final part of the autumn programme is a series of Writing Residencies with guests Sean Hewitt, Melissa Harrison, Tim Richardson and Louise Gray. INFORMATION www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk