This year’s Caerleon Arts Festival (July 4-13) will be about saving Planet Earth - and how the sensible disposal of waste is all part of the battle. An impressive line up of Welsh and English sculptors will interpret the theme either by working with recyclable material such as scrap metal, or carving in wood to reflect the theme (for the list of Sculptors please see our News page).
There’ll also be an exhibition based on “This Precious Earth”, consisting of about 30 carvings - all inspired by the same theme. It’s travelling around various parts of the country and will be in Caerleon for the Festival. There’ll be demonstrations by some of the artists involved, and a chance to buy their work.
The main field events will be on July 11th, 12th and 13th, on the Hanbury Field, and parents and children are all welcome. Admission will be free. There will be arts and crafts activities for younger visitors, and the Festival organisers will be working again with Newport Wastesavers to produce something amazing from discarded paper, bottles, tins etc. Last year local children, helped by Festival artists, built the now famous pirate "Recycled Ronnie".
So - plenty for the children. And once they’re all exhausted they’ll be able to sit down with their parents and enjoy the sculpting and a whole range of musical and dance events on the field, or visit the many craft stalls.
The arrangements for the annual schools art event are well in hand, and local schools will exhibit their work from July 4th. There’ll also be a schools music competition where budding young composers will get the chance to air their talent, possibly for the first time.
The Festival starts officially on July 4th, and much will take place away from the field in the evenings, with a series of musical and dramatic events. On Saturday July 5th for example there will be a brass band and harp concert in the Roman Amphitheatre, and on Sunday July 6th Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas will be performed in the glorious surroundings of the Priory Hotel gardens. And after last year’s success in the Amphitheatre with Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the Festival Players will return to perform Much Ado About Nothing on Saturday July 12th.
Full details will be announced in due course here or you can ring 01633 430194/421047
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