Events at Postlip
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Other happenings at Postlip
The
biggest event of the year is the annual Cotswold Beer Festival, organised in
partnership with CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) and now in its 34th year. The
2010 Festival will be on July 23rd, 24th & 25th. A sell-out every year, it hosts over three and a half thousand ticket
holders who have around 80 real ales and 20 ciders to choose from.
Barn dances and folk music events including the English Country Music weekend sometimes happen at Postlip. Here are the Wrigley Sisters in the great hall, and we've also enjoyed the music of the Fagans, Eric Bogle and many others.
For the last few years we have been programming events to take place by the fireside in the ‘great hall’ during the colder months. Favourite events include the telling of the Odyssey and the Iliad by leading storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, one woman plays about Aung San Suu Kyi and Rachel Carson, poetry from U A Fanthorpe, a talk on Robert Frost’s formative years nearby, recollections from Sonia Rolt and Emma Smith about working on the canals during the war, Christmas concerts and classical recitals.
And
in the past we have hosted Cromwellian banquets, held a butterfly festival,
exhibited tribal rugs, held a 2CV race, and filled the grounds with sculpture
– Postlip's pretty versatile! We
are always open to new ideas and opportunities which appeal to us or have the
promise of raising money to help maintain and restore the house and tithe barn.
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The
woods and grounds are regularly used, both recreationally and educationally, by
local school parties and organisations such as the Scouts and Forest School.
We
do hire the Tithe Barn out, chiefly for wedding parties but sometimes for other
big occasions such as significant birthdays more
.