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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO COLOUR
What is colour? What does it mean? And how has it shaped our art and history? In this talk, Cambridge art historian and BBC broadcaster James Fox explores the extraordinary history of colour, from cave paintings all the way through to contemporary art.
Diving deep into the colours of black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green, he'll range across the world and through time, to reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have influenced our culture and imagination.
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The Pedwardine Ensemble has a wealth of experience between them with various individual roles over the years in BBCNOW, CBSO, London Cello Orchestra and chamber music performances across Europe. Central to the Pedwardine Ensemble is cellist Sonia Hammond who has gathered colleagues around her that share a love of making chamber music together. They now play Principal roles in St Woolos Sinfonia and their collective musical maturity gives sincere warmth to the works they perform. For their debut at Hay castle they will perform String Quartets by Haydn, Dvorak and Moeran.
General admission (seated) £12
If you visit Hereford between now and April, you will see some very colourful artworks next to the Railway Station. No.1 Station Approach, Hereford College of Arts (HCA) and NMiTE’s new student accommodation, features two vibrant geometric artworks on each side of the building. The artworks mark the start of a new cultural gateway to Hereford, welcoming visitors and enriching residents’ experience of the city.
This talk is part of our Castle in Colour Season which begins at the end of February and runs until May. Other Friday talks include "Medival Colour" with Rosemary Firman and "A Tale of Two Cities: Colour in Venice and Florence" with Paul Hills
The talk will begin at 7pm - please come up to the main entrance on the lawns and up the drive form Oxford Road. The Honesty Bookshop door on Castle Street will be closed.
Katherine Stansfield
Katherine Stansfield is a multi-genre novelist and poet. Her historical crime series Cornish Mysteries has won the Holyer an Gof Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Winston Graham Memorial Prize. The most recent instalment is The Mermaid's Call. She co-writes a fantasy crime trilogy with her partner David Towsey, publishing as D. K. Fields, and has also published two full length poetry collections and a pamphlet with Seren. Katherine is co-editor, with Caroline Oakley, of Cast a Long Shadow: new crime short stories by women writers from Wales, published by Honno. She teaches creative writing for a number of universities and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
This workshop is intended for those with some writing experience and is primarily centred around research and process.
Teas and coffees will be provided on arrival and will be available throughtout the day.
Lunch is not provided but can be booked in Hay Castle Café - please contact us for more details
As part of the evening Epicure events are offering a pre-bookable Spring supper.
Brie, leek & caramelised red onion tart, Lane cottage dressed leaves, coleslaw £12.50
Dairy free option £12.50
Gluten free option £12.50
Book via the link below and you’ll receive a confirmation email - no need to bring this with you - your name will be on a list behind the café counter when you arrive.
Hay Madrigals, founded in February 2019, are a group experienced amateur, professional and semi-professional singers and instrumentalists who love making music together. We perform not just madrigals but short masses, motets and other secular pieces, as well as solos and duets, from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
For more info visit Hay Madrigals
To complement the concert, Epicure events are offering a pre-bookable Spring supper.
Brie, leek & caramelised red onion tart, Lane cottage dressed leaves, coleslaw £12.50
Dairy free option £12.50
Gluten free option £12.50
Book via the link below and you’ll receive a confirmation email - no need to bring this with you - your name will be on a list behind the café counter when you arrive.
The construction of Hay Castle’s Great Hall sits parallel in time to the music of ‘Instruments of Time and Truth’. With their name inspired by Handel's last oratorio, the ensemble represents world-class performances of baroque and classical music.
Civil war, political upheaval, plague: Hay Castle’s rebirth in the mid-17th Century came at a time of great drama in British history - most memorably observed through the eyes of that great diarist, Samuel Pepys. Instruments of Time and Truth, Oxford’s premier early music ensemble, present a concert exploring the sounds and colours Pepys himself would have been familiar with: music he would have experienced at the theatre in works by Purcell, chamber music by the likes of Matthew Locke that he himself would have played, and finally the diverse range of music that he owned, brought to life from the many books and scores of his famous library.
Bojan Cicic: Violin
Ian Wilson: Recorder
Susanne Heinrich: Viola da Gamba
Linda Sayce: Theorbo
Christopher Bucknall: Harpsichord
Seated tickets only £20
Interval at 20.15pm
To find out more about the group please see: Instruments of Time & Truth
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Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England looks into the relationships of the various noble families of the 13th century, and how they were affected by the Barons’ Wars, Magna Carta and its aftermath; the bonds that were formed and those that were broken.
Heroines of the Medieval World tells the stories of some of the most remarkable women from Medieval history, from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Julian of Norwich.
Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest traces the fortunes of the women who had a significant role to play in the momentous events of 1066.
The talk will begin at 7pm - please come up to the main entrance on the lawns and up the drive form Oxford Road. The Honesty Bookshop door on Castle Street will be closed.
Please join us for an evening exploring the possibilities of the unaccompanied violin, as well as seeing what happens when you invite it’s sibling - the viola, on stage too. Award winning violinists (and closeted violists) Emily Turkanik and Raphael Papo, will be joining forces to present a rich program of both unaccompanied solos and duets dating from the Baroque period to the 21th Century. The works will range from some of the most profound music ever to be written, to possibly the most humorous.
Click here to see Rafael performing 'The Red Violin Caprices' by John Corigliano
Repertoire
Bohuslav Martinů - Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H. 313 (1947)
Eugène Ysaÿe - Sonata No. 5 for Violin, Op. 27 (1923)
John Corigliano - The Red Violin Caprices (for solo violin)
A. Mozart - KV 424 - Duo for violin & viola in B flat major
Johann Sebastian Bach - Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004
18:30 Venue and Bar open
19:30 Concert begins
Join us for a pre-show supper - between 6.30 and 7.15pm.
Click here to order food
To complement the concert, Epicure events are offering a pre-bookable Spring supper.
Brie, leek & caramelised red onion tart, Lane cottage dressed leaves, coleslaw £12.50
Dairy free option £12.50
Gluten free option £12.50
Book via the link below and you’ll receive a confirmation email - no need to bring this with you - your name will be on a list behind the café counter when you arrive.