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June 24

French Music Avec Moustache Et Le Mec

French Music Avec Moustache Et Le Mec
12.30pm to 2.30pm Cafe du Parc

To book a place on any of the Café du Parc events contact Café du Parc direct on - Tel: 01237 429317

June 30

Make Your Own Bideford Map

Make Your Own Bideford Map  - Part of Bideford’s Heritage Day
10.30am - 12.30pm or 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Free: All Welcome
Booking Essential - contact the Burton

Be a map maker extraordinaire, and produce your very own map of Bideford. Use your map making skills to reinventing the streets of Bideford, marking the buildings of importance to you whilst designing your own Bideford Trail. Maps made will be displayed at Bideford Library throughout July. Part of the Heritage Day extravaganza the workshop has been organised in conjunction with Bideford 500, Bideford Library and Devon Family Learning.

This will be the fourth year Bideford 500 have delivered a Heritage Day for Bideford. It will be on Saturday 30th June from 10am - 5pm, in and around Mill St and Cooper St, and this year it includes the Burton! Heritage Day recognises and celebrates the development of the port and town in the 1500’s and 1600’s, with a full programme of events starting at 10am. For more information see www.bidefordheritage co.uk

June 30

Heritage Day Guided Walks Around Bideford

Heritage Day Guided Walks - Part of Bideford’s Heritage Day
Every 30 minutes from 1pm - 4.30pm
Free: Donations are welcomed and booking is advised
(contact the Burton)
Led by Bideford 500’s living history volunteers, Heritage Day Guided Walks will begin at the Burton every 30 minutes from 1pm, and starts with highlights from the Burton’s Collection before a tour of prominent historical sites and buildings throughout Bideford as featured in the town’s Heritage Trail. Each tour lasts approx 1 hour, participants should be prepared for all weathers and wear sensible shoes for walking.

We'll also be running a family workshop, Make Your Own Bideford Map, see For Families for further details.

This is something we are really excited about - for a long time the staff at the Burton have talked about developing guided tours of Bideford, combining the best of both our services, heritage and tourist information. But Bideford 500 have beaten us to it, training volunteers, producing historical dress and developing a professional and expert guided tour of the town and its heritage trail, and so it makes perfect sense for us to work with Bideford 500. This will be the fourth year Bideford 500 have delivered a Heritage Day for Bideford. It will be on Saturday 30th June from 10am - 5pm, in and around Mill St and Cooper St, and this year it includes the Burton! Heritage Day recognises and celebrates the development of the port and town in the 1500’s and 1600’s, with a full programme of events starting at 10am. For more information see www.bidefordheritage co.uk

July 07

Using your Sewing Machine to Draw with Rowena Light

10am - 4pm, £30

So popular was this workshop we're running a repeat date on the 7th July!


Taking inspiration from the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition, this free machine embroidery workshop is suitable for both beginners and the more experienced. The aim of the day is to make a panel to decorate a book cover, or produce a finished artwork to be framed. Students will start by working from their own doodles, drawings or simple photos, learning to transfer the design and to draw it with free machining onto fabric. Printing and paper items may also be collaged into the final piece. Students should bring their own sewing machine, with the ability to drop the feed dog (teeth) or cover it with a foot plate, all connectors, foot pedal, a manual if possible, embroidery or darning foot, machine embroidery needles, sharp fabric scissors, pins, embroidery or darning foot, 50cms of plain cotton fabric, Bondaweb, a variety of scraps of fabric in one colour way which can be used for a background, a chiffon scarf in the same colour as the lightest fabric in the background or white, machine embroidery threads in the background colour, black and maybe metallic thread, a plain paper note book or sketch book, pencil, permanent marker pen with fine point, and A4 piece of tracing paper, some doodles, drawings or clear photos of an image e.g. flower heads, a pet, a ship, some shells etc, and any printed ephemera that relate to the image. All other materials will be provided by the tutor at a fee of £4, payable directly to the tutor on the day. Rowena Light is an experienced textile artist who has exhibited internationally and leads workshops throughout Devon and Cornwall.

See above (For Adults) to download a booking form.

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