Practise those hook-a-duck skills, meet the village vicar of Curio-St Leonard’s, and get your dog perfecting their waggiest tail for the Curio-St Leonard’s Village Fete! With lots of stations to explore and try your hand at, this will be a day of silly fun and prizes to be won, for all the family.
With all the charm and wholesome informality of a traditional English Village Fete, A Curious Town brings you a day with all the norms, plus a few curious twists. Come along between midday and 5pm to experience minigames like obstacle races, vegetable carving, or the infamous welly wang, and let your creative side out with flower arranging, cake decorating, or making a flower brooch. Have your face painted, enter the raffle to win fabulous prizes, or get your furry best friend to enter into the dog show - because pets deserve prizes too!
And don’t forget to explore the space while you’re at it! St Leonards church will be filled with fantastic artwork in the exhibition, installation pieces upstairs, and curious musicians and walkabout performers roaming around to entertain you.
Why not pop in to the Department of Grumbles while you are there?
Most stations will be running throughout the day, but some will have specific timings for you to drop-in. Please see below so you know when to pop by:
12:00-2:00pm - Flower pin/hair clip making
Choose your own coloured petals and flowers to style and make your own pin, the perfect summer-y addition to your outfit!
12:00-2:00pm - Cake decorating
What’s better than making art? Getting to eat it afterwards! Get creative and channel your art into baked goods, and your cake might win a prize!
1:00-3:00pm - Kids flower arranging
Learn the art of arranging flowers with Magda Lauer, learning how to compliment one plant with another and how to give your bouquet a personality just like yours.
1:00-3:00pm - Face painting
Whether you’re an animal or an ice queen, a fairy or a football fan, get your face painted by the wonderful Happy Face Entertainment
2:00-4:00pm Vegetable carving
Enter the vegetable carving competition, and carve your own un-beet-able design into a vegetable of your choosing. May the best veggie win.
3:00pm - Dog show & parade
A chance for man’s best friend to shine! The categories will be: Best Dressed, Waggiest Tail, Best Trick & Most Similar to Owner.
4:00pm - Prize Giving
If you’ve entered anything throughout the day, stick around to see if you’ve won.
ABOUT OUR VICAR:
"Join Revenant Colin Durr for some heavenly hilarity as he welcomes all to his parish church for tea, welly- wanging and lots of unholy fun"
"Neil Frost is the co-founder of the multi-award-winning theatre company Mad Etiquette, specialising in physical comedy and clown influenced contemporary performance. He has created comedy shows and character acts both for adults and children, which have toured international and received critical acclaim. "Silliness as an art form" The Scotsman, "Mr. Frost is so endearing that you cannot help but play along" Fringe Review
Community fun for everyone! We can’t wait to see you at the Village Fete.
