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Fabulous event run by Kingham & Daylesford Rotary in aid of Helen and Douglas House and Rotary Charities. Come in 20/30’s period dress and if you pre-book you will get an extra glass of champagne! Visit www.champagneclassic.org.uk

The Festival includes a town art trail, a professional art exhibition, piano and poetry sessions, coffee concerts, a blues night, pottery workshops, jazz night, choral concerts, folk music, floral art, creative writing , pub gigs, walks, Gala Night and a street fair.
Many events are free and some celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 500th anniversary of the birth of Queen Katherine Parr, who is buried at nearby Sudeley Castle.
Tickets are on sale now from the Tourist Information Centre:
Tel 01242 602925
For full event details and to buy tickets online visit www.winchcombe.co.uk/festival
The Festival has its own Facebook page winchcombefma and will be tweeting @winchcombefma.

Fritillary Field and church open from 11.30am
Refreshments all day in the village hall
Church services with Roly Bain, the clown, at 9.30am and 5.30pm
plant & souvenir sales, displays and children’s activities
An excellent day out for all the family!

Many people shoot photos which then lie dormant on their hard drives forevermore. Professional photographer Nick Meers shows you a basic digital workflow, explaining how to get consistently good results from your digital image files and make them shine. On this computer- based course Nick demonstrates various ways to optimize your images confidently using some simple skills like cropping, e-sizing and removing parts of your images. See how to bring those dull pictures back to life with various simple adjustments and you’ll be sharing your photos with everyone, even printing albums and photo books to show off the results. Nick demonstrates using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Now that you are confident in using your digital camera it’s time to move on and take better control of it. Develop a photographic eye by exploring those important features in the camera menu that turn a snap into a photograph, such as metering modes and depth-of-field. Learn about composition by photographing Cotswold landscapes here on the Estate. Understand the Rule of Thirds, and take home fantastic images that will impress your family and friends. Course runs Sunday evening to Tuesday lunchtime.

Please bring your camera with fully charged batteries and instruction manual.

This course is for anyone seeking better results from their digital SLR or ‘bridge’ style camera. Photographer Nick Meers shows you why the auto button often delivers the wrong results. He also guides you through your camera’s menus in a lively and entertaining way to help you shoot better images.

This Christmas why not forget the Christmas Cake and tuck into a box of 12 handmade cupcakes with a wonderful Christmas theme and a really modern approach to design? On this workshop we present you with a tray of 12 freshly baked cupcakes to decorate with step-by-step guidance all day. Create cupcakes shaped like Christmas baubles, Christmas Puddings, Christmas trees and more. All materials are provided – just bring your pinny and have fun!

Cupcake Towers are enormously popular and frequently replace the traditional wedding cake these days. Our one day workshop provides step-by-step tutoring and, using freshly-baked pre-prepared cupcakes, you learn a variety of skills and styles that give you the confidence to go on to create your own cupcake towers. Designs include Vintage and Florals, and moulds are used to create lifelike lace designs. This course builds on the skills from the Creative Cupcake workshop, but if you’ve not yet been on that workshop, the tuition on the day will still enable you to take home a box of 12 beautiful cupcakes that will make you extremely proud.

Cupcakes are very trendy right now and the aim of The Creative Cake Academy is to show what you can achieve in a one day workshop whether you are a complete novice or an experienced Cake Decorator looking for new ideas. You decorate a freshly baked tray of 12 cupcakes, with step-by-step guidance enabling you to produce beautiful designs that include pearls, embossed surfaces, stencilled patterns, stunning lifelike roses and much more. This workshop continues to build on the skills from the Creative Cupcake workshop which you need not have attended to produce a stunning box of Vintage cupcakes.

Here’s your opportunity to study the history and design of magnificent contrasting gardens, with an emphasis on appreciating the origin of plants from all around the world. Sezincote and Bourton House gardens provide beautiful planting of contrasting styles and fashions, each with its special and unique character. We hope also to visit two private gardens, one on the Farncombe Estate designed by Julian Dowle in contemporary Japanese style, and the Arts and Crafts garden at Rodmarton Manor near Cirencester. Practical plant identification is provided. Expenses include travel but exclude entrance fees. The course starts on Tuesday evening and finishes on Friday after lunch.