The 44th Bedford Park Festival: June 12-27 2010
More about this year's Festival
Programme of Events
***Programme Update ***
- House Concert - sold
- Champagne Recital - sold out
- Comedy Night - both performances sold out
- Bedford Park Walk - sold out
Booking information
Advance booking is advisable for popular events: forms available in St Michael & All Angels Church and Lad's, Bedford Corner, or print your own (click 'Open' when box appears). Tickets for most events are available on the door, unless sold out. Discounts marked with an asterisk are for children, students and the unemployed. Box Office information from
020 8995 3285 or e-mail: Helen@may.be
Friday 11 June 6.30-9pm
Art Exhibition Preview
Reception with wine and music. The preview party gets the Festival off to a flying start. A delightful opportunity to buy pictures,
meet friends and listen to music.
Exhibition sponsored by
Savills
St Michael & All Angels Church. Refreshments and soft drinks on sale.
Saturday 12 June & Sunday June 13 - Green Days Fete & Craft Fair
Saturday 12 June to Friday 18 June
The Bedford Park Summer Exhibition
An exhibition of works by local artists of all ages. All works are for sale and 40% of the proceeds go to the Festival causes. The painting for the poster is by Mary West (above right). The original will be raffled - tickets on sale at exhibition.
Opening times: 12 Noon-7pm daily, except Sunday 13 June: 11.30am-6pm.
NB: Last viewing day Friday 18 June. Exhibition sponsored by
Savills
St Michael & All Angels Church, admission free, catalogue £1.
Sunday 14 June 7.30pm
- Bach Cantatas
After the frenetic activity of Green Days, a haven of spiritual contemplation. Sandy Burnett leads the West London Bach Consort and Players in two cantatas by JS Bach. In 2010 they will complete their entire cycle performing Bach’s sacred cantatas here at St Michael’s. BWV 30 Freue dich, erlöste Schar BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht.
Sponsored by
Hubbard Pegman & Whitney LLP
St Michael & All Angels Church. Retiring collection
Monday 14 June 7.30 for 8pm
- Candida Lycett Green: Bedford Park and Unwrecked England
50 years after John Betjeman hailed Bedford Park as “the finest suburb in the Western world”, his daughter Candida Lycett Green recalls his fight to save it and chooses favourite places from her book Unwrecked England. With Betjeman readings by John Rowe, slides and questions from the audience. Books for sale and signing, courtesy of
Waterstone's.
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, upstairs £15 (£7.50*). Please use Advance
Booking Form. Refreshments available from 7.30pm.
Wednesday 16 June
- Sam's Brasserie Demo & Tasting 7.30 for 8pm
Ian Leckie, head chef at
Sam’s Brasserie & Bar, demonstrates his skill with food, takes questions and serves samples.
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, upstairs. £15 (£7.50). Spaces limited. Please use Advance Booking Form. Refreshments available from 7.30pm.
House Concert 7.30 for 8pm
***SOLD OUT******
An intimate concert in a lovely Bedford Park house. Louise Grattan
(Violin), Colin Kitching (Viola), Ruth Ridley (Cello), Andrew Carter
(Piano) Patrick Grattan (flute). Mozart Flute Quartet A Major K 298;
Haydn Piano Trio No 6 D Major; Faure Piano Quartet Op 15 C Minor.
12 Woodstock Road, W4. Tickets £12. Spaces limited. Please use Advance
Booking Form. Refreshments available from 7.30pm.
Thursday 17 June
- Lunch Recital - Retorica 1 till 2pm
Philippa Mo and Harriet Mackenzie - “both exceptional violinists”. Bring a picnic to
have afterwards in the garden. www.harrietmackenzie.com
Sponsor: Hubbard Pegman & Whitney LLP
The Studio, 2a Blenheim Road. Refreshments available. Tickets £12, only in advance from Rosalind Leney 020 8994 0762.
Thursday 17 June
- My Darling Clemmie 7.30 for 8pm
Rohan McCullough in Hugh Whitemore’s
acclaimed one-woman drama about Winston
Churchill’s wife Clemmie. Directed by Gareth
Armstrong. “A moving production of a
complex marriage:” Daily Telegraph.
www.indigoentertainments.co.uk
Sponsored by Savills.
St Michael’s Parish Hall, upstairs. £15 (£7.50*) Please use Advance Booking Form.
Refreshments from 7.30pm.
Photo: Popperphoto. Getty Images
Friday 18 June 7.30 for 8pm
I’m a Woman: Kate Dimbleby
Songs about women at work, home and play, first
sung by Pearl Bailey, Sophie Tucker, Billie Holliday,
Peggy Lee, Dolly Parton, Dusty Springfield and Carole
King. Acclaimed jazz singer Kate Dimbleby ("an ageless mix of Snow White and Mae West" - The Times) returns from extended maternity leave with her four-piece band and new show, grappling with the highs and lows of the generation told they can “have it all”.
Featuring the Honky Tonk Angels - Naadia Sheriff on piano and vocals; Jonty Fisher on bass and vocals; Sophie Alloway on drums and Chris Allard on guitar and vocals. Ahead of the show's World Premiere five-week run at the New End, Theatre Hampstead. Read about her previous shows and tours here.
Sponsored by the Hogarth Health Club and Continuum Systems, home and business audio and video.
St Michael & All Angels Church. Refreshments available from 7.30pm. £10 (£5*).
Please use Advance Booking Form.
Friday 18 June to Sunday 20 June
- Artists at Home
The annual Open Studios scheme in Chiswick, Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush. 64 artists are exhibiting, from 6 to 9pm on Friday and from 11am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. Picture (right) by Joanna Brendon. Full details: www.artistsathome.net
Saturday 19 June 7.30 for 8pm
- Champagne Piano Recital: Peter Bithell
*** SOLD OUT******
Marking Chopin’s bi-centenary, international concert pianist Peter Bithell – winner of the Rachmaninoff Prize - performs Chopin Nocturne no 16 E flat op 55 no 2 and Polonaise- Fantasie op 61. Plus works by Schubert and Ravel, in a beautiful Bedford Park House. With champagne and canapés in the garden from 7.30pm and during interval.
Sponsored by Hubbard Pegman & Whitney LLP.
22 Woodstock Road, W4. By kind permission of Jane and Kenny McKenzie.
Tickets £30, Spaces limited. Please use Advance Booking Form.
Refreshments available from 7.30pm.
Sunday 20 June 10am
- Parish Eucharist
With Children’s Church and crèche. Refreshments after the service.
Sunday 20 June 11am to 6pm
- Exhibition: 6 Furniture Designer/Makers - The Arts & Crafts Legacy
Free exhibition of work by locally-based designers, including Martin Grierson, whose furniture can be seen in churches, museums, private homes and public buildings (including the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, right). He will give a talk at 12 Noon. Click here for Exhibition leaflet, including information on all six designers, who work within a mile of Bedford Park.
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, upstairs
Sunday 20 June 7.30pm
- Festival Fringe: Comedy Night - The Unexpected Items
***BOTH PERFORMANCES SOLD OUT******
GapYah - the YouTube sensation, with 1,250,000 hits - was filmed in Rusthall Avenue Chiswick. Its creators, The Unexpected Items, perform their new sketch show live, before appearing at Glastonbury. Sponsored by ChiswickLife.TV .
Tabard Theatre. £8. Please use Advance Booking Form. Refreshments in pub!
Monday 21 June 7.30 for 8pm
From Hanover to Buenos Aires....
Virtuoso accordionist Milos Milivojevic (right) is joined by violinist David Juritz and friends for Piazzolla’s Five Tango Pieces, Handel’s Organ Concerto and other classical showpieces. Sponsored by
Hubbard Pegman & Whitney LLP.
St Michael & All Angels Church £10 (£5*). Please use Advance Booking Form.
Refreshments available from 7pm.
.....followed by supper!
Following the performance, supper will be served in the Hall upstairs,
where the entertainment will continue. Places limited, so book early.
Combined ticket £25 (£18*). Please use Advance Booking Form.
Wednesday 23 June & Thursday 24 June 4 to 6pm
- Chiswick & Bedford Park Preparatory School Art Exhibition
Vibrant works of art by children aged 4 to 11 from Chiswick & Bedford Park Preparatory School.
St Michael & All Angels Church. Free. See noticeboards for opening times.
Wednesday 23 June 7.30 for 8pm
- An Evening with James Cracknell
James Cracknell, Olympic gold medallist, explorer, writer and broadcaster, talks about his career and new TV series, in conversation with the BBC’s Torin Douglas. Sponsored by Discovery Networks, the global TV company in Chiswick Park.
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall. Tickets £15 (*£7.50).
Please use Advance Booking Form
Thursday 24 June 1-2pm
- Lunch Recital: Mediterranea Trio
In a beautiful Bedford Park studio, the Mediterranea Trio perform Mozart's Piano Trio in G major; Debussy's Piano Trio in G Minor; and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, op 67. Bring a picnic to have afterwards in the garden. Sponsored by Hubbard Pegman & Whitney LLP
The Studio, 2a Blenheim Road. Tickets £12, only in advance from Rosalind Leney 020 8994 0762. Refreshments available.
Thursday 24 June 7.30 for 8pm
- The Poetry of Gardens in the first Garden Suburb
Bring a favourite “garden” poem to read
(max. 25 lines) - your own, or by a well-known poet. Special guest Polly Devlin OBE - author, broadcaster, conservationist and film-maker – will select poems that have moved her. Plus music, hosted by local poets Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat. Sponsored by the West London Centre for the Alexander Technique.
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, upstairs. £7.50 Please use Advance Booking Form, or tickets on the door. Refreshments available from 7.30pm.
Friday 25 June 4pm
- The Orchard House Puppet Theatre
A puppet show by pupils from Orchard House School, with script and puppets they’ve created themselves.
St Michael & All Angels Church. Free.
Friday 25 June to Sunday 27 June
- Bedford Park Photographic Exhibition and Competition
For photographers of all ages, various categories. Entries close 4pm Saturday June 14th. Details and entry forms here or from: Snappy Snaps, 83 Chiswick High Road; Lad’s Newsagent, Bedford Corner; Parish Office. Sponsored by Snappy Snaps and Vibeke Dahl Photography
PREVIEW PARTY Friday 6.30-8.30pm
Refreshments available
OPENING TIMES Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 11.30am-5.30pm
PRIZE GIVING Sunday 5.30pm
(Voting closes 5pm) Raffle tickets on sale for sittings and portraits by Vibeke Dahl (right) and Kelvin Murray. Draw at Prize Giving.
St Michael’s Parish Hall upstairs. Admission £1 (children 50p).
Saturday 26 June 7.30 for 8pm
- Festival Party: Singalongacelebration
A tongue-in-cheek Chiswick celebration of the 2010 BAFTA Best Actor award for Colin Firth. Singalong and dance to music from Mamma Mia, Bridget Jones, Love Actually, and A Single Man. Dress the part, do the quiz, with lots to eat and drink (v v good!)
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall. Tickets £15 (*£7.50).
Please use Advance Booking Form.
Sunday 27 June
- Festival Mass 10am
Solemn Sung Eucharist: the Bedford Park Festival Orchestra and Chorus.Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle.
Conductor Jonathan Dods
- Festival Mass Lunch from 12.30pm
Lunch in the Vicarage Garden after Mass.
Vicarage Garden. £6 (£3*). Please use Advance Booking Form
- Bedford Park Open Gardens 2-6pm
Visit up to a dozen of the most beautiful private gardens in Bedford Park. Entry by ticket (and map) from St Michael’s Parish Hall, where cream teas are on sale (right). Sponsored by
Andrew Nunn & Associates
St Michael’s Parish Hall. £6. Children free.
- The Bedford Park Walk 3-5pm
***SOLD OUT******
A tour of the key architectural and literary features of Bedford Park led by architect, John Scott, and lecturer Dr Pamela Bickley. Cream teas on sale afterwards. Sponsored by
Andrew Nunn & Associates.
Meet 3 pm in St Michael’s Church £6 (£3*). Please use Advance Booking Form (limited availability on the day).
- Rosalind Leney’s Pupils’ Concert 6pm
Piano solos, 18th and 19th Century music and children's pieces.
Sponsored by Hubbard Pegman & Whitney LLP
The Studio, 2a Blenheim Road. Refreshments available.
Tickets £5, in advance only from Rosalind Leney 020 8994 0762.
Booking information
Tickets for most events are available on the door, unless sold out. Some events require advance booking because places are limited. Discounts marked with an asterisk are for children, students and the unemployed. Advance Booking Forms are now available in St Michael & All Angels Church (porch and inside) and Lad’s Newsagents, Bedford Corner. Or print your own here.
Box Office information from 020 8995 3285 or e-mail: Helen@may.be