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September 2022
Future Shed Friday – Health & Wellbeing Focus
Future Shed Fridays - A welcoming, weekly space to help bring green and healthy initiatives to fruition. Calling…
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Jonny Fluffypunk Live At Dirty Laundry
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Book tickets online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/dirty-laundry With special guest,…
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Amy Jeffs Live @ Dirty Laundry
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Book tickets online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/dirty-laundry Launching us into…
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Door to Door Poetry: Nationwide
Rowan McCabe presents Door to Door Poetry: Nationwide Rowan McCabe is the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. Knocking on…
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Dirty Laundry
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Featuring special guest, world poetry slam champion Harry…
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Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
Continuing the recent renaissance of T.S. Eliot’s work, this performance will include professional actors Amanda Relph and Michael…
Find out more »The Hip Yak Poetry Slam 2023
The quick-fire, incredibly cuddly, knock-out Hip Yak Poetry Shack is back with the much loved and lionised Frome…
Find out more »Open House Open Mic Afternoon
If you play an instrument or sing, have a short story to tell or poem to recite, here’s…
Find out more »The Mysterious Apple People
OpenStorytellers present: live performance, art exhibition, installation, films … and at its core, a riddle to be solved.…
Find out more »Elvis McGonagall
Frome Festival presents Elvis McGonagall The Crysse Morrison Prize for Poetry A night to celebrate the wonderful life…
Find out more »Language Through Literature
An evening of language exchange between native and non-native speakers who would like to practise and exchange whichever…
Find out more »Language Through Food
Come and join us for an evening of informal and interactive language practice accompanied by some delicious tapas.…
Find out more »Better Together Poetry Workshop
Rosie Jackson and Dawn Gorman used a ‘conversation in poetry’ technique in their prize-winning pamphlet. Aloneness is a…
Find out more »Of Earth and Light
Three fathers in love with birds, Bibles, butterflies. Three daughters finding words to keep the past alive and…
Find out more »FELICE HARDY – BOOK LAUNCH
Felice Hardy’s new book ‘THE TENNIS CHAMPION WHO ESCAPED THE NAZIS’ is the story of the dramatic flight…
Find out more »THE LONG ARC
Poetry Performance – THE LONG ARC consists of three new poems about our relationship with trees, our wrestle…
Find out more »Flash Fiction at the Stones
Frome Festival presents Flash Fiction at the Stones. Open Air Performance Bring your story of no more than…
Find out more »Frome Festival Short Story Competition Prize Giving
Frome Festival presents Frome Festival Short Story Competition Prize Giving Open Air Performance Bring a picnic and hear…
Find out more »October 2023
Dirty Laundry
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Featuring special guest, multi-slam winning writer and performer…
Find out more »An Evening with Philippa Perry
An Evening with Philippa Perry: The Show You Want Everyone You Love to Go To How do you…
Find out more »November 2023
Brian Bilston
Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 200,000…
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Frome Musical Theatre Company presents Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
This year Frome Musical Theatre Company will be performing one of the greatest fairy tale Pantomimes of all…
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Dirty Laundry
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Featuring special guest, poet, musician and artistic director…
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Love’s Labyrinth @ The Silk Mill
A storyteller, a musician and a poet are bringing a night of entrancing love stories to the Silk…
Find out more »Leaps of Faith
Frome Writers’ Collective presents an evening of new monologues, brought to life by local actors. This performance will…
Find out more »March 2024
Sir Ranulph Fiennes – Mad Bad and Dangerous
Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Mad, Bad and Dangerous Spend an evening in the extraordinary company of Sir Ranulph Fiennes…
Find out more »Dirty Laundry
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Featuring special guest, award-winning poet and performer, Malaika…
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Frome International Climate Film Festival Fringe 2024
Fringe Event Programme: 5th April : Festival Director James Godman introduces the fringe season with a selection of…
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Connection through Clowning, Community and Curry
May you bring your spring energy into summer with our jam packed event full of all things connection…
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Comedy Night
With Angela Barnes, Caroline Mabey, Ben Cohen and hosted by Matthew McAloone! Headlined by the hilarious Angela Barnes! Angela…
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THE STORY SNATCHER
Stories make the world go round, right? They light a light on every heart and hearth. But what…
Find out more »WHO LIST TO HUNT?
A talk about love and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII. Thomas Wyatt’s story features loyalty, betrayal,…
Find out more »DAVID R ABRAM’S ‘TRACES’ – PREHISTORIC BRITAIN FROM ABOVE
Writer-photographer David R Abram presents a one-off show specially devised for Frome Festival, combining highlights from his acclaimed…
Find out more »THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS WITH JENNIE GODFREY
Join Hunting Raven Books for an evening with Sunday Times bestselling author Jennie Godfrey as she talks about…
Find out more »MEDITATION – JULIAN OF NORWICH
Julian of Norwich was a lady ahead of her time. In her 30th year, she became dangerously ill…
Find out more »THE ANCIENT TREES OF WINDSOR – HISTORY, LEGACY & LORE
Julian Hight has travelled widely, camera in hand, to document and tell the stories of historic ancient trees.…
Find out more »AN EVENING FOR PALESTINE
Join singer and musician Ali Elmubarak from Sudan and storyteller Michael Loader for live music with oud and…
Find out more »BURNE-JONES WINDOWS TALK
Built in 1836-38, Holy Trinity Church is home to a world class collection of stained-glass windows by the…
Find out more »MEDITATION – JAMES FINLEY
In this calming meditation, inspired by James Finley’s teachings, find tranquility through deep breaths and mindful awareness. Connect…
Find out more »THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURE RESERVES
In this time of climate change and the ever-increasing threat from human action, why are nature reserves still…
Find out more »A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
After hearing William Ruff’s talk about the surprising origins of everyday words, you may never think of tulips,…
Find out more »September 2024
Andy Parsons – Bafflingly Optimistic
Following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Andy is back on the road with his brand new stand…
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Dirty Laundry Christmas Special
Live storytelling and spoken word poetry night with open mic. Christmas special, featuring stand-up poet, rabble-rouser and owner…
Find out more »A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A script-in-hand performance of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' in the unique setting of the chapel at the…
Find out more »January 2025
Through The Front Door – presented by Open Storytellers
A journey of dreamworlds, music hall, poetic histories, asylums and workhouses; laws of the land; hands in the…
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Behind the Finds with Drew Pritchard
Behind the Finds with Drew Pritchard Step into the fascinating world of antiques and architectural salvage with Drew…
Find out more »Ben Fogle – Wild
Nigel McIntyre & Gareth Watson Presents BEN FOGLE : WILD “Adventures, expeditions, and journeys have helped shape and…
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An Evening with Nigel Owens MBE
Following on from other sell out dates across the country, Aitch and Aitch Bee Events are delighted to bring…
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Robin Ince – Normally Weird And Weirdly Normal
For over thirty years, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained audiences, despite struggling with sadness, selfdoubt,…
Find out more »Meditation On St Augustine
Augustine, bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430 AD, was one of the most significant Christian thinkers after…
Find out more »Meditation On St John
John was a young fisherman who wrote a book about his best friend, Jesus. His gospel has influenced…
Find out more »The War’s Long Shadow – Writing WW2 80 Years On
Why does the Second World War continue to fascinate us? Three local writers, Michael Tasker Phillips (Grace), Frances…
Find out more »Meditation On Julian Of Norwich
Julian, a remarkable woman, lived during the late Medieval period, a time of suffering and unrest. Her theology…
Find out more »Openstorytellers Takes 2 On Climate Change
Green and Healthy Frome asked OpenStoryTellers to explore the impact of climate change on people with learning disabilities,…
Find out more »Professor Kate Williams – The Bob Morris Lecture 2025
A New York Times best selling author of six historical books and regular on TV and podcasts, Professor…
Find out more »John Harris ‘Maybe I’M Amazed’ – In Conversation And Signing
Frome-based Guardian writer John Harris' new memoir, 'Maybe I'm Amazed: A Story of Love and Connection', is an…
Find out more »Bohemia – Somewhere Between Rome And Shepton Mallet
Sian M. Williams' delightfully quirky tale of a village folk club and its devotees who live in a…
Find out more »Meditation On Psalm 121
David was a shepherd, a warrior, a musician, a King and in Psalm 121 he muses to whom…
Find out more »The Hip Yak Poetry Slam 2025
The hugely entertaining, poetry, comedy cabaret the Hip Yak Poetry Shack is back with the much loved and…
Find out more »Tales From The Grimm Reaper
A site-specific script in hand performance of a selection of The Brothers Grimm Stories. Can you cheat death?…
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