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We hope you enjoy browsing through this selection of highlights from the 2018 Festival.

All images copyright Helen Beynon Photography, except * copyright Penkhull Festival.
Event 1
​Thursday 20th September, 7.30pm
English Song Recital

St Thomas's Church, Manor Court St, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7LG

Thomas Isherwood, baritone
Jonathan Fisher, piano


Programme to include:
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel
​George Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad


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Event 2
​Friday 21st September, 1.00pm
Concert given by pupils of Newcastle-under-Lyme School

St Thomas's Church, Manor Court St, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7LG

The annual May Walley Award will be presented.

Admission free and unticketed.


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Event 3
​Friday 21st September, 2.15pm
Singing Workshop for local school pupils

Penkhull Village Hall, Trent Valley Road, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 5JB

Lin Marsh, vocal leader


Invited schools only.


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Event 4
​Friday 21st September, 7.30pm

Pirrouetting and Pictures
St Thomas's Church, Manor Court St, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7LG

Jocelyn Freeman, piano

Carl Maria von Weber - Invitation to the Dance
Alissa Firsova - Lune Rouge
Chris Brammeld - Four Little Pieces
Maurice Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales
Modest Mussorksy - Pictures at an Exhibition


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Event 5
​Saturday 22nd September, 10.00am
Singing Workshop for adults

Penkhull Village Hall, Trent Valley Road, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 5JB

Lin Marsh, vocal leader


Event 6
​Saturday 22nd September, 2.00pm

Clay Together - figure making workshop with British Ceramics Biennial
Penkhull Village Hall, Trent Valley Road, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 5JB

Join local ceramic artists to make two ceramic figures, one that will be part of ‘Cast of Thousands’, a huge artwork for the British Ceramics Biennial 2019 festival, and another for you to take home.

​Suitable for all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult. 
There is an additional £3 charge if you wish your figure to be taken away to be fired.


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Event 7
​Saturday 22nd September, 7.30pm

Voyages: Music From Around The Globe
St Thomas's Church, Manor Court St, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7LG

Equinox Saxophone Ensemble

Grainger arr. Smith - Handel in the Strand
Bach arr. Pennill - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, first movement
Dubois arr. Tomsett-Rowe - A la Parisienne
Trad. arr. Rickards and Wood - Songs of the British Isles
Tweed/Wood - Birmingham Suite

Wood - Serendip
Monti arr. Tomsett-Rowe - Czardas
Tomsett-Rowe - Antalogia Latina
Molinelli - Four Pictures from New York, Nos. 1 and 2
Buttall arr. Wood - Waltzing Soprilda


Event 8
​Sunday 23rd September, time tba
Artistic Festival Finale

Trent Art Gallery, Brunswick Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 1HF

Fizz and nibbles
Presentation of the Trent Art Young Artist Prize
Royal Society of British Artists group show

​Admission free and unticketed.
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