Agenda

Minutes of the 2021 Festival AGM

Wolvercote Musicians Play for the Benefit of Sobell House
Saturday 12th November at St Peter’s Church, Wolvercote, 7.30 pm
Click here for tickets from Eventbrite or Bill Clarke 01865 510209

Last year Wolvercote Musicians gave a benefit concert for Sobell House in memory of Catherine Clarke. It was the first time for the village to get together for an event since lockdown. It was such a lovely atmosphere that the musicians and the audience were keen that we should do it again.
We all know Sobell House and admire the expert and compassionate care they provide for cancer patients both in their hospice and through outreach. Most of us have friends, family or simply know of people who have benefited from their care.
This concert has four acts playing for just under 30 minutes each. There’ll be an interval at halftime where refreshments will be served by donation.
Wolvercote Musicians have taken part in benefit concerts and concerts for the Wolvercote Festival and in and around Oxford for more than 20 years now. The music for this concert is acoustic, drawn from contemporary and traditional folk and a sprinkling of songs written by the musicians.

The lineup is:
The Strollers
Nick Malden, mandolin, ukelele, vocals
Jo Malden, vocals
Liz Van Santen, fiddle, harmonium and vocals
John Winterbottom, guitar and vocals
Ran and Kelly
Guitars, keyboard and vocals
As the Crow Flies
Phil Brady guitar and vocals
Rosie Callaghan flute, whistles and vocals
Robin Lipsey, guitar, ukulele and vocals
Ben Avison, Singer/ songwriter
Guitar and vocals

Bill Clarke is starting up his cathedral trips with a visit to Bristol Cathedral on 29th October.

Bristol is a good city to start my Cathedral trips again. Some of you may know Bristol better than I do with its Museums, (www.bristolmuseums.org.uk), Clifton Suspension Bridge and docks with SS Great Britain (www.ssgreatbritain.org). Once we are at Bristol, the day is yours to do and see whatever you wish. Please remember the cathedral closes at 3.30 for evensong and will not open again that day. (www.bristol-cathedral.co.uk)

I plan to leave Bristol at 5.00 pm so we should be back at Oxford at about 7.00 pm.

There is no entry fee to the cathedral, but they do take donations. The cost of the trip is £30.00 per person, to cover the cost of the coach and a tip for the driver.

You can download the application form here

Tickets available here

Some tickets are still available for the Oxlip Theatre performance of Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wytham Woods on the 3rd and 4th of September. Here is a taster of what to expect…

We are sorry to report that some of the community orchard trees have recently been stripped. With this year’s drought significantly reducing overall yields, we have decided to protect the remaining crop for Apple Day by locking the gate to the general public with immediate effect. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Tree Group members may still access the orchard

After rave reviews following last year’s show during the Wolvercote and Wytham Summer Festival, the Oxlip Theatre Company, an ensemble of 17-21 year olds, returns to the magical and mysterious Wytham Woods in early September 2022 to deliver their latest interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the guidance of Oxford-based director and film maker Ruth Platt. This time promises more bite and more music (and more mushrooms!) in this heady lovers’ quarrel, with the same wonderful, professional delivery that the cast provided last year.

This year we’re also offering a matinée to enable more families to come. Open air performances take place on Saturday 3rd September at 2 pm, and 7.30 pm, and Sunday 4th September at 7.30 pm. The location is behind the Swiss Chalet, about a 20 minute walk into Wytham Woods.

Link to tickets and further information

Make your own Footprints by taking part in these free walks and talks lead by some eminent guides. Please note that Thursdays Singing Way walk followed by tea and tour at Christchurch Cathedral must be pre-booked with Bill Clarke on 01865 510109

We have some amazing prizes to be won with our festival raffle. Tickets are £1 each and are available from the White Hart, Wolvercote and at the Community Market from 29th May. The raffle will be drawn in the order below on Friday 24th June in the interval of Music Night. Prize winners will be notified by phone or email if not at the show. Big thanks to all our sponsors and Teresa Hall for organising on behalf of the Festival Committee.

Your mission is to identify the eighteen numbered locations of these images of inscriptions and memorials, all of which are accessible on foot via public rights of way or common land in Wolvercote and Wytham.

A map can be found here on which you can mark the numbers of the images in the location you have chosen. All the locations can be found on this map

If you would like a further challenge you may answer a question associated with each image, which you can download here. The questions also appear under the photo when you click or tap the image.

The locations of the images and the answers to the questions will be posted on the Festival Website later in the summer.

Good luck and enjoy exploring our villages on foot. Many thanks to Amanda Saville for putting this together on behalf of the Festival Committee.

JOIN OUR FOOTPRINT TRAIL

This year the Wolvercote and Wytham Midsummer Festival will be running another village trail of house displays to be discovered during the festival week and we would love you all to join in.  The theme this year is Footprints and we invite you to decorate your front window, garden or gate with a fanciful footprint display.

It could be animal footprints, dinosaur footprints, your own decorated footprint, footprints turned into other creatures, boots filled with flowers, our global footprint – the interpretation is all yours!

HOW TO JOIN IN

Simply email footprints@wolvercote.org to register your entry with your name and street name – we don’t need the number as we are just going to publish the streets that have displays.  We will then send you the festival Footprint Trail flag (pdf) which you can cut out and put in your window or on your gate so that the trail wanderers can find your display.

Your display will need to be completed and ready by the beginning of the festival week – Friday 17^th June. 

Once you have created your display, please take a picture of it and post it to a public Instagram account with the hashtag #WFPTrail. If your account is private,  (or you don’t use Instagram), please send your photo to footprints@wolvercote.org and we will post it on Instagram for you. Please include your name if you want a credit.