Events in the New Forest

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The Olde Tyme Players Theatre Company at the Bashley Village Hall at 2pm - 4.30pm.One Week Old Tyme Music Hall and alternate week The Best of British Variety Show. Group bookings also welcome

Price £11.50 includes tea and
cakes during interval .Booking essential Tel: 01425
612830 Juliette Sinclair

Families will love exploring the Gardens on our fun and informative trail. Discover plants that were on the earth the same time as the dinosaurs; venture across the Jurassic Boardwalk; find the fish in the Top Pond. All children completing the trail will receive some free salad seeds and have an opportunity to win tickets for Exbury’s popular Ghost Train and Santa Steam Specials.
Price included in Gardens Admission.

Exbury's second Tea Festival promises a celebration of the nation's favourite drink! Housed in the Gardens, the Festival promises talks, trails and tastings - in fact everything connected with Tea! Not many people realise, but much of the world's tea supply stems from Camellia sinensis - a plant found in abundance at Exbury.

Thousands of quality second-hand books, ordnance and antiquarian maps, prints & ephemera. Free admission, family friendly and wheelchair accessible. The Centre is on the main car park and near restaurants, pubs and great walks!

Copythorne During WWII

Swing Jive Dance Class, Vintage cars and military vehicles & BBQ, 1940s Movietone News Cinema and Interactive Learning Zone, Swing Jive Radio Broadcast 'Maorie Anderson' (performed by Lynda Moncaster), Forces Favourites music from  1940 to 1945, Swing Jive Radio Broadcast Copythorne during the war (Documentry). Stage Show ‘Outbreak’ , ‘In The Mood Dance Night’ and more...

More details: Breamore.

Around 45 artists in and around the New Forest are opening their studios. Paintings, prints, jewellery, sculpture and textile arts are on show.

Chapterhouse open-air theatre production Pride & Prejudice

Family Fun Day, Stalls, sideshows, bbq, teas, bar, Fun Dog Show

Thousands of quality second-hand books, ordnance and antiquarian maps, prints & ephemera. Free admission, family friendly and wheelchair accessible. The Centre is on the main car park and near restaurants, pubs and great walks!

More details: Breamore.

See Exbury’s fantastic collection of Nerine Sarniensis in the Five Arrows Gallery, specially prepared to highlight the extraordinary beauty of these hybrids as they scintillate under direct light. There will be a range of Nerines for sale.

Steam engines of all shapes and sizes will be on show, from full-size traction engines to miniature road vehicles. Enthusiasts will find models and miniatures in the Engine Shed, while Exbury’s own Steam Railway will run through Yard Wood, clothed in early autumn colour. This will be the eight year of this event, which grows in popularity and provides a terrific morning and afternoon spectacle as all the steam vehicles parade in front of Exbury House. Prices within Gardens Admission.

As part of the ‘Big Draw’ weekend, Exbury will be welcoming children free of charge into the Gardens. Children will be encouraged to collect fallen autumn leaves and berries to help create a collage with the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS).

Enjoy a wonderful early morning tour of Exbury Gardens with Head Gardener John Anderson, exploring the best of the autumn colour in Yard Wood. The 1 ½ hour walk is guaranteed to work up an appetite for a delicious New Forest breakfast in Mr Eddy’s Restaurant. All food sourced from local producers. Strictly limited numbers, booking essential. Free re-entry to Gardens afterwards to view Nerine Exhibition.
Time: 8:00am – 10:30am

Burley Village Hall, 10am - 4pm

Country Crafts Web Site

Come and learn photographic techniques in the delightful setting of an autumnal Exbury. Four hour courses starting at 8am and 12 noon, max 15 per session.  Time may be spent in the Gardens before or after your course, with the opportunity to view the Wild Autumn Art Exhibition and Nerine Display in the Five Arrows Gallery.

There will be a superb array of artists’ bears and some favourite manufacturers’ bears will also be available for purchase . For those who wish to craft their own bears Barbara-Ann of Norbeary Fabrics, will be present again with an even greater range of materials and components including eyes, joints etc. Why not combine a day out in the beautiful New Forest with our not-to-be-missed bear fair.

Thousands of quality second-hand books, ordnance and antiquarian maps, prints & ephemera. Free admission, family friendly and wheelchair accessible. The Centre is on the main car park and near restaurants, pubs and great walks!

Burley Village Hall, 10am - 4pm

Country Crafts Web Site

LEON MCCAWLEY is the President of Avon Valley Concerts and to celebrate the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth and bi-centenary of Frederic Chopin’s in 2010, he pays tribute to both composers in a contrasting solo recital

Thousands of quality second-hand books, ordnance and antiquarian maps, prints & ephemera. Free admission, family friendly and wheelchair accessible. The Centre is on the main car park and near restaurants, pubs and great walks!

In the two years that the quartet has been together, RAVEN’s eclectic programming has already impressed audiences around the country.  Through the fresh arrangements of well-known pieces by cellist, Natalie Holt, their performances radiate life and vibrancy.

JAMES TURNBULL is a young, but experienced oboist  and CLAIRE JONES was appointed Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales. This will be a great evening.

The GOULD PIANO TRIO is one of the UK’s finest chamber ensembles,. No strangers to Avon Valley concerts, it returns with a vibrant and contrasting programme.  The trio regularly performs at the  Wigmore Hall and at festivals such as the BBC’s Proms.  It tours extensively on the Continent and in the USA.

STEPHANIE OADE and ANDREW BOOTH will play for you on the guitar and cello.

American violinist, KURT NIKKANEN is an international soloist is joined by MARIA ASTERIADOU to form a formidable duo.