This workshop is part of our April Ashley season. April was a friend of Andrew's and had a large collection of his wearable sculpture pieces. Some of these are on display as part of our exhibition April: A Lady in Hay which runs until September 22.
Section 28 and Me Wales
Tom Marshman is working to gather communities to explore the impact of Section 28 legislation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. By hosting a series of tea parties to discuss the impact of Section 28 on the queer community in Wales.
Tom wonders if growing up within the decade in which queer life was silenced has made him a bit of a show off, compelled to share queer or LGBTQI+ stories? He has observed many other peoples strong reactions to this legislation. Emotions are running high, particularly at this dangerous moment when a repeat of similar legislation is possible, returning to the silencing of queerness in the UK.
The tea parties are a place for communities to meet and share their stories over tea and cake. You could have lived through this time or be curious to know more, everyone is welcome. Tom is collaborating with Welsh artists to present short performances connected to the topic to provoke conversation, these presentations will provide starting points for discussion.
This event is part of our April Ashley season and is produced in partnership with Hay Pride.
We are running Pay-What-You-Can ticketing with tickets at £3 / £5 or £8
Come and make a foraging basket which you can use to collect fruit, vegetables or flowers.
This workshop runs all day with breaks for tea and coffee and lunch.
Please feel free to bring a packed lunch or have lunch in our cafe.
All materials provided.
Join bestselling author Barbara Erskine - The Lady of Hay - to learn about researching a historical novel in our one day writing workshop.
There is much fascination and surprise to be found in historical research. Whether you are an established writer of historical fiction, a beginner or just a lover of history, the subject is addictive and rewarding.
Barbara will share her own experiences of what she has learned and failed to learn over her years of writing history-based novels and encourage an informal discussion about the intricacies and pitfalls involved; the excitement and danger of diving down rabbit holes; the best ways of channelling a passion for meeting the real or imagined inhabitants of the past: when to take short cuts and when that can spell disaster; how to pull up messages from hoofbeats and gas lamps and stones; the fine line between fiction and biography ; whether it’s better to use books or on-line sources and much more.
And maybe there will be talk of ghosts . . .
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
We would like our events to be as accessible as possible while also making sure that we cover costs and are starting to introduce 'pay what you can' tickets.
We have tickets available at £75 (reduced rate), £100 (actual cost), and £125 (pay it forward).
Consider contributing more on the scale if you:have the ability to comfortably meet all of your basic needs
Consider contributing less on the scale if you:
If you select an amount at the higher end of the scale, you will make possible future events and activities and support our volunteers who are generously contributing time. Thank you!
Kate Bliss, a regular face on BBC antiques programmes and an independent jewellery and fine art valuer is hosting a free ‘drop-in’ Valuation Day for jewellery and silver as well as other antiques and contemporary fine art.
Have you recently inherited items you know nothing about? Do you have jewellery you never wear? Kate offers a unique opportunity to find out more about your valuables including their potential value.
A Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, Kate has over 20 years experience valuing single items to unique collections and whole house contents. Whether it’s the right time to realise some assets or simply de-clutter, Kate will provide you with a verbal consultation and arrange items for sale if suitable.
Drop-in for a free valuation in the Clore Learning Space 10am to 4pm, Friday 19th April.
We’re delighted to announce that the celebrated Library of Mistakes will be in residence at Hay Castle, 1st-3rd March 2024
Join historians, financial experts, investment sages for a wealth of wisdom, and enjoy a weekend of financial booms and busts, bubbles, swindles, panics and crashes.
A Weekend of Mistakes that offers you insights from the past - and some key lessons for your financial future!
An Edinburgh-based charity, the Library of Mistakes is dedicated to learning from the lessons of financial history – to better inform the present and help navigate the future. Since opening in 2014, it has developed from a specialist library to having an international following for its online events, webinars and podcasts on both historic and contemporary issues.
| 5:30pm | WELCOME DRINKS (PREMIUM Ticket holders) Read More | |
| 6:30pm | The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest Read More | Edward Chancellor |
| 8:30am | Why banks are different and why they're important (PREMIUM) Read More | Ian Fraser, Jared Bibler (chair: Paul Greatbatch) |
| 9:45am | The Madness of Crowds Read More | Will Quinn in conversation with Russell Napier |
| 11am | Deception: The discreet charm of the con artist and why we fall for them Read More | Chris Swinson & Sir Philip Augar (chair: Alice Sherwood) |
| 11am | The Ukraine and Gaza (parallel session) Read More | Helen Thompson & Nick Butler (chair Sir Martin Donnelly) |
| 12:15pm | The financial plight of Sir Walter Scott and other cautionary tales from north of the border Read More | Ray Perman in conversation with George Littlejohn |
| 12:15pm | The Energy Transition - myths, mistakes and realities (parallel session) Read More | Nick Butler, Helen Thompson (chair: Tamim Bayoumi) |
| 1:15pm | LUNCH | |
| 1:15pm | Investment lunch: Interest rates - up? Down? Flat? All of the above? (PREMIUM) Read More | Ed Chancellor, Merryn Somerset Webb & Russell Napier |
| 2:30pm | Banks: A confidence trick that works … most of the time Read More | Jared Bibler, Ian Fraser & Ray Perman (chair: Sir Philip Augar) |
| 3:45pm | How countries go bust: The Asian Financial Crisis and the Euro Crisis Read More | Merryn Somerset Webb, Russell Napier & Tamim Bayoumi |
| 4:45pm | The complex ethics of banking: who gets the blame? Read More | Jared Bibler, Ian Fraser, Sir Philip Augar (chair: Ray Perman) |
| 6pm | Networking drinks (PREMIUM) Read More | Premium tickets |
| 7:30pm | Orderly markets in unlikely places - piracy, kidnapping, ransomware and other weekend hobbies Read More | Anja Shortland (chair: Alice Sherwood) |
| 8:45pm | A night-cap: The Leith Whisky Bubble of 1898 Read More | Paul Kosmetatos |
| 8:45am | Investment Breakfast with Merryn Somerset Webb & guests (PREMIUM) Read More | Premium tickets only |
| 10am | Self-deception and classic and predictable investor mistakes Read More | Herman Brodie in conversation with Alice Sherwood |
| 11:15am | Investment panel: profiting from the mistakes of others Read More | Merryn Somerset Webb, Russell Napier, Ed Chancellor (chair: Paul Greatbatch) |
| 12:30pm | Epic Fails: The mistakes that didn't have to happen Read More | Chris Swinson & Russell Napier |
If you would like to be involved in shaping future Weekends, do please contact us for further information on Founder Supporters and Sponsors. To book a call to discuss opportunities, please email Paul or Alice on info@haycastletrust.org
If you would like to be put on the list for cancellations, or hear about future Weekend of Mistakes events please email info@haycastletrust.org
If you are looking for information on accommodation please see FIND ME A BED
An exclusive one-day crime writing workshop with Kim Sherwood.
Kim Sherwood was commissioned to write a new series of James Bond books, becoming the first female author in the series of spy novels created by Ian Fleming. She is the creative writing lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and her first novel Testament (2018) won the Bath Novel Award and Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award. In 2019, she was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Dame Hilary Mantel called Kim "a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication.”
Join Kim to explore how crime fiction comes together from a writer’s perspective with discussion and practical exercises on creating compelling characters, structuring story and developing setting. Whether you're just beginning or you've been living with an idea for years, this workshop will offer a practical look at the genre with guidance on how to make it your own.
TIFFANY MURRAY HAS COVID AND IS THEREFORE UNABLE TO RUN THIS WORKSHOP
THE WORKSHOP WILL STILL RUN AS EMMA BEYNON HAS STEPPED IN
An exclusive one day writing workshop exploring story writing, exploring themes from your own life and memories. If you have the urge to write but don’t know where to begin or have made a start but need fresh impetus to push on through to the end of a draft, this day is for you. Drawing on fiction and memoir, and using poetry we will play with the toolbox a new writer needs: character, story, structure, and setting. Emma will lead you through practical writing exercises, and the day will be supportive, productive, creative, and fun.
Special one day workshop as part of our Hay Winter Weekend activities - Places are limited so book now!
Learn how to make a work of art from the pages of recycled books, with celebrated paper artist Kate Kato, who uses discarded and recyled papers, wire and found objects to create sculptures inspired by the natural world. The theme of this workshop is moths.
Visit Kate's website
All materials provided
There will be the opportunity to make tea or coffee or you can purchase drinks downstairs in our café. There will be a break for lunch - please bring a packed lunch or you can eat in our café or elsewhere in Hay.
Jasper Fforde was on the crew of On the Black Hill working as the clapper loader back in 1987. His talk will give insights into the making of the film - and what a clapper loader actually does!
Here is a little extract from his website about the film:
"The project was interesting for me, not least because I'd read and enjoyed the book, written by Bruce Chatwin, it was my first movie as a fully-fledged crew member - I was the clapper loader - and the locations were in an area I knew particulry well as I'd spent my childhood in and around the area. The production team chose the eight weeks with the greatest range of weather as the film itself covered eighty-odd years, so we wanted to depict all the seasons, and did. We had everything from driving rain to snow to bright sunshine. We basically shot through the Spring of 1987, a magical time in Wales as much then as it is now."
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
We would like our events to be as accessible as possible while also making sure that we cover costs and are starting to introduce 'pay what you can' tickets.
We have tickets available at £3 (reduced rate), £5 (actual cost), and £7.50 (pay it forward).
Consider contributing more on the scale if you:have the ability to comfortably meet all of your basic needs
If you select an amount at the higher end of the scale, you will make possible future events and activities and support our volunteers who are generously contributing time. Thank you!
Click here to buy tickets for the screening of On The Black Hill at 6pm
Supported by Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), made possible by the National Lottery.
Cefnogir gan Ganolfan Ffilm Cymru fel rhan o Rwydwaith Cynulleidfa Ffilm y BFI (FAN), a wedi wnaed yn bosib gan y Loteri Genedlaethol.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
We would like our events to be as accessible as possible while also making sure that we cover costs and are starting to introduce 'pay what you can' tickets.
We have tickets available at £3 (reduced rate), £5 (actual cost), and £7.50 (pay it forward).
Consider contributing more on the scale if you:have the ability to comfortably meet all of your basic needs
Consider contributing less on the scale if you:
If you select an amount at the higher end of the scale, you will make possible future events and activities and support our volunteers who are generously contributing time. Thank you!
If you select an amount at the higher end of the scale, you will make possible future events and activities and support our volunteers who are generously contributing time. Thank you!
PAST EVENT
Come and enjoy the big screen on the Castle lawns, produced by Flatpack in partnership with Hay Castle Trust, with support from Film Hub Wales.
'Writing with Light' present a weekend of words and film, transforming Hay Castle into an open-air cinema for the first time. Step through the imposing gateway to the castle gardens and settle in for the most entertaining Dickens adaptation you can find on film. And what better way to experience this classic than under the stars at the centre of literary haven Hay-on-Wye. We’ll be making the most of the surrounding keep and battlements, creating an immersive environment for cinema under the night sky. Projections, Archive shorts and guest speakers will celebrate the art translating text into moving images, inspiring all ages to read more, watch more and make films.
Saturday Sep 2: The Personal History of David Copperfield (PG)
Brilliantly cast with the endlessly talented Dev Patel taking on the titular character. Set in the 1840s, the film chronicles the life of it's iconic character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David's journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, color, and humanity.
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) - IMDb
Epicure Events will be running a bar and selling popcorn and ice cream to enjoy during the film - you can also pre-order a Local Sausage Hot Dog to enjoy before the screening.
Supported by Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), made possible by the National Lottery.
Cefnogir gan Ganolfan Ffilm Cymru fel rhan o Rwydwaith Cynulleidfa Ffilm y BFI (FAN), a wedi wnaed yn bosib gan y Loteri Genedlaethol.
Terms:
- Ticket prices include entry into the Castle after 7pm.
- Seating not provided - for comfort, please bring your own camping chair and or blanket to sit on.
- Well behaved dogs welcome.
- Please note tickets are non-refundable - the event will go ahead rain or shine.
See also:
Friday Sep 1: Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)
Come and enjoy the big screen on the Castle lawns, produced by Flatpack in partnership with Hay Castle Trust, with support from Film Hub Wales.
'Writing with Light' present a weekend of words and film, transforming Hay Castle into an open-air cinema for the first time. Step through the imposing gateway to the castle gardens and settle in for the delightfully funny and beautifully animated Fantastic Mr Fox. As literary adaptations go, Wes Anderson taking on Roald Dahl was always going to be a pretty magical combination. And what better way to experience this family classic than under the stars at the centre of literary haven Hay-on-Wye. We’ll be making the most of the surrounding keep and battlements, creating an immersive environment for cinema under the night sky. Projections, Archive shorts and guest speakers will celebrate the art translating text into moving images, inspiring all ages to read more, watch more and make films.
Friday Sep 1: Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)
This is the story of Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and his wild ways of hen heckling, turkey taking, and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try "just one more raid" on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Walter Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Nathan Bunce (Hugo Guinness), and Franklin Bean (Sir Michael Gambon). It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends.
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
Epicure Events will be running a bar and selling popcorn and ice cream to enjoy during the film - you can also pre-order a Local Sausage Hot Dog to enjoy before the screening.
Supported by Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), made possible by the National Lottery.
Cefnogir gan Ganolfan Ffilm Cymru fel rhan o Rwydwaith Cynulleidfa Ffilm y BFI (FAN), a wedi wnaed yn bosib gan y Loteri Genedlaethol.
Terms:
- Ticket prices include entry into the Castle after 7pm.
- Seating not provided - for comfort, please bring your own camping chair and or blanket to sit on.
- Well behaved dogs welcome.
- Please note tickets are non-refundable - the event will go ahead rain or shine
Saturday Sep 2: The Personal History of David Copperfield (PG)
Contributors: Sophie Howe, first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales; Lee Waters, Deputy Minister for Climate Change.
Chaired by Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen.
With the climate and ecological emergency, humanity faces perhaps its greatest ever threat. In many ways, Wales has been a leader in this field but the challenges remain immense. For ‘Green Wales’, two of the most eminent figures in Welsh politics discuss our present situation and explain what we must do to secure our future.
PART OF OUR HAY FESTIVAL: WALES SERIES 2023
A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN HAY FESTIVAL AND HAY CASTLE
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