Courtyard Events

Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

Events coming up at the Courtyard, visit their website for all events that are showing today, or by the week or month.

The Courtyard Centre for the Arts is the leading arts provider in Herefordshire and a registered charity. We have a 400-seat main house, a 120-seat studio theatre, rehearsal rooms, a gallery, meeting spaces and an award-winning cafe bar. Whilst being primary a receiving venue, we also produce in house including our annual panto, youth theatre shows and some co-producing. We have a varied live, film and visual arts programme, a thriving youth theatre and work extensively with people of all ages in the community.

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Website: Visit The Courtyard Website

Pop Up Shop

Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

INDIE style will be the order of the day as some of Herefordshire’s small businesses come together to sell their unique wares.

Maylords Shopping Centre, Hereford, will play host to the first ever major pop-up shop for makers and creatives from Herefordshire and the Marches.

Running for six weeks, the pop-up promises to showcase and sell the best of locally produced art, clothing, jewellery, toys, housewares and more, in addition to a small vintage goods section.

The pop-up will also be hosting an art gallery and workshops for those wishing to try their hand at a new skill or trade.

The pop-up shop will be open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 4pm on Sundays from June 17 to July 28.

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Website: Visit Hereford Etsy Team Website

Craft On The Outside Art Exhibition

Venue: Weir Garden
Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

Join us for garden-inspired art alongside the Wye.

After spending time at The Weir, Hereford College of Arts students will be creating individual pieces of craft. Threaded throughout the garden, you can view their Weir inspired pieces up close.

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Website: Visit The Weir Garden Website
Price: This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.

New Perspectives

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Come and discover a new exhibition at Berrington and uncover the new ways that SHYPP have been inspired by the Berrington Garden Project.

As part of the Berrington Garden Project, we have been working closely with SHYPP (Supported Housing for Young People Project), and have offered the young people a chance to creatively respond to the gardens. Now, we are inviting you to come and discover this new exhibition in the Welcome Centre and learn about what the gardens mean to this group.

The Garden Project is a large scale project that is looking to revive the gardens and offer them as a space for groups throughout the community.

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.

Look! Look! Look!

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Experience Georgian splendour of the gardens with a contemporary take on a Georgian pavilion. Discover an installation in our Walled Garden from internationally renowned artists Heather and Ivan Morison. Taking their inspiration from how the Harley’s enjoyed their garden in the Georgian era, you can see the garden in a totally new light. Go on, take a look!

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.

A Dress Fit For A King

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

We’re revealing the hidden stories of women during the eighteenth century at Berrington. Discover stories of the lives, loves and losses of women both upstairs and downstairs.

Uncover the original eighteenth-century Court Mantua dress, owned by Ann Bangham, the wife of Berrington’s original owner, Thomas Harley. Discover more about the Harley’s and the culture of the Georgians.

Working with this exhibition, Herefordshire artist Lorna J Brown has created, ‘Eye am She’ to redress the balance of Berrington’s stories, revealing the hidden feminine aspects and how they are intertwined and integral to the masculine successes at Berrington.

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
Suitability: Assistance dogs are welcome.
Accessibility: The mansion is only accessible via 12 steep stone steps at the entrance.

Garden Photography Competition

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Discover the gardens in an entirely new way as you take up the challenge of getting the best winter shot of ‘Capability’ Brown’s final masterpiece.

As part of the Berrington Garden Project, we want you to give us a fresh perspective of the gardens in summer by using your camera.

With a prize for the best shot, come and embrace the summer garden and our newly reopened curved garden.

If you have a camera and can send your pictures to us either via email or through social media, then come and have a go. All of the money raised will go towards the garden project.

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: £3
Suitability: Unfortunately dogs are not welcome at this event
What to bring and wear: You will need to have your own camera and the ability to email your picture to us, or show it to us on social media

‘Eye am She’ by Lorna J Brown

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Experience an artistic response to the story of Ann Bangham, wife of Berrington’s original owner, Thomas Harley, as Herefordshire based artist Lorna J Brown brings us ‘Eye am She’.

Join us as Lorna J Brown introduces ‘Eye am She’. This is a mixed-media art installation, inspired by the life of Ann Bangham and the eighteenth-century seedlings of modern celebrity culture. Throughout this piece Brown also references different elements of the Georgian’s culture, including their use of ‘Lover’s Eye Miniatures’ and ‘The Secret Language of Flowers’. This is an entirely fresh perspective on Berrington’s past, Georgian culture and the women that lived here.

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.

Nozstock

Location: Bromyard, Herefordshire

Amid the emerald fields and raggle-taggle farmhouses of Herefordshire’s ruralest countryside lies Nozstock The Hidden Valley.

Like the very best of festivals, Nozstock was founded by a fun-loving family, their extended relatives, friends, acquaintances and pretty much everyone who had a guitar to play or a joke to tell. It was a hazy, optimistic time at the turn of the millennium, when life felt simple and summers were long and full of amusements. The Hidden Valley has successfully retained this homely, welcoming nostalgia, but we’ve woven it into a delightful amalgamation of performance, art, electronic supersounds and good old-fashioned guitar-strumming and drum-bashing, thanks to some great advice and not a small dose of audience participation and feedback. Now an established family event, Nozstock is a sonic escape boasting nine stages of entertainment with surprising sights and intimate, secluded areas of theatre and discovery to be unearthed.

When its visitors down tools and hand themselves over to Nozstock’s crew, safe in the knowledge that their hedonistic needs will be met, they discover there’s a small world of frivolity to find, all scrupulously programmed by the festival’s founders, the Nosworthy family and their eclectically informed friends.

The festival’s ethos is about bringing play to everyone, in whatever form it can. Nozstock believes in the value of not only entertaining, but in participation and contribution. It’s an ever-changing event with a clear agenda; to invite conversation, interaction and serious recreation. Above all, Nozstock The Hidden Valley is a blissful family festival that caters to all ages with activities that little ones can enjoy as well as entertainment for teens, students, seasoned festivalites, party-starters and grandparents.

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Website: Visit Nozstock Website

Fruit Rhymes Trail

Venue: Brockhampton Estate
Location: Bromyard, Herefordshire

Explore the wonderful world of fruit in nursery rhymes. Featuring traditional nursery rhymes and many of the fruits that you can find growing at Brockhampton.

Fun for all ages, how many of the nursery rhymes do you know? Which fruits can you identify and how many of the fruits featured have you tried? Complete the trail and win a prize.

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Website: Visit Brockhampton Estate Website
Price: £2.50
Suitability: Children welcome. Dogs on leads are welcome.
Meeting point: Trail begins from visitor reception at Lower Brockhampton

Much Marcle Steam Rally

Venue: Rye Meadows
Location: Near Ledbury & Ross On Wye, Herefordshire

Much Marcle Steam Rally offers a superb array of Steam Traction Engines, Vintage Tractors, Vintage Commercial Vehicles, Vintage Motor Cycles and Cars, Stationary Engines, Fairground Organs, Models and Crafts.

During the day, there will be numerous events going on in the main ring and around the show field.

We have plenty of room for anyone who would like to stay to enjoy the atmosphere across the full weekend.

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Website: Visit Much Marcle Steam Rally Website
Camping & Caravans: Welcome but must be applied for
Admission Charges: Adult £10.00, U16’s Free
Parking: Free, disabled spaces close to pay gate

The Greatest Kingdom

Venue: The Enchanted Kingdom
Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

This Summer enter the Enchanted Kingdom and witness the Greatest Show.

ROLL UP! ROLL UP!

It’s time to enter the Enchanted Kingdom and witness the Greatest Show. Prepare to be amazed as you watch a selection of your favourite songs from the movie soundtrack brought to life right in front of your eyes through song and dance by our professional cast.

After the show, it’s your big moment for a private meet and greet with the Ringmaster and Bearded Lady in the Enchanted Forest. Photos will be taken with the characters which can be purchased at your own discretion.

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Telephone: 01432 806 007
Website: Visit Enchanted Kingdom Website
Email: info@enchantedkingdomhereford.co.uk
TICKETS:
Child (1-14 years): £9.95
Adult (15 years +): £5.95
Under 12 months: Free

Red Riding Hood Trail

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

The best places to go & things to do around Herefordshire during the Summer holidays.

Step foot into the gardens and head on a quest to find the big bad wolf.

Grab your red cloak and step back in time to follow the footsteps of the big bad wolf. See if you can take up the challenge and defeat this scary beast as he hides in the gardens.

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: £2.50 per trail, includes a prize

Swallows & Amazons Trail

Venue: Croft Castle & Parkland
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Join us for a summertime adventure around Croft as we recreate the much-loved story of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ by Arthur Ransome.

Imagine you’re sailing away from dastardly pirates, learn some much-needed outdoor survival skills and reconnect with nature and the outdoors on our summer holiday trail.

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Website: Visit Croft Castle Website
Prices: £2.50
Suitability: Children welcome, dogs on leads are welcome.
Accessibility: The trail path may involve steps and uneven paths.

1920’s Weir Garden

Venue: Weir Garden
Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

It’s time to dig out the bucket and spades – come along to our 1920’s beach.

Practice those throwing skills as we take you back to traditional fair games of tin can alley and our coconut shy, who can score the most points?

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Website: Visit The Weir Garden Website
Price: This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
Suitability: Children welcome, Assistance dogs are welcome.
Meeting point: Once you’ve been to the kiosk head towards our Natural Play area.
What to bring and wear: Wear suitable footwear as we have lots of uneven paths.
Accessibility: Some steep climbs and steps.

River Folklore Trail

Venue: Weir Garden
Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

Discover the unusual magical creatures who live here on the banks of The Weir Garden.

Discover the ancient legends of Water Dragons, Nymphs and other magical creatures who have lived here alongside the river for hundreds of years.

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Website: Visit The Weir Garden Website
Price: Per trail £2.50
Suitability: Children welcome, Assistance dogs are welcome.
Meeting point: Collect your trail sheet from the kiosk when you arrive.
What to bring and wear: Wear suitable footwear as we have lots of uneven paths.
Accessibility: Some steep climbs and steps.

Circus Skills Workshop

Venue: Hampton Court Castle
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Circus skills workshop & entertainment by Solo Circus. Back again for another day of fun and circus skills! Enjoy an interactive family day out in a magnificent setting, featuring circus skills and comedy juggling.

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Website: Visit Hampton Court Castle Website
Prices: The Gardens and Castle Tours will be open as usual, and normal entry prices apply.

Hands On History

Venue: Goodrich Castle
Location: Ross On Wye, Herefordshire

Get set for a truly historic summer and discover what it was like to live, work and fight in a real-life castle.

Whether it’s learning to sword fight, taking part in pike drills, or transforming into a roundhead or cavalier, there’s plenty of hands-on fun to keep the kids entertained.

And once the little adventurers have put their skills to the test, let imaginations run wild as you explore Goodrich’s mighty castle walls and spooky dungeon!

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Website: Visit Goodrich Castle Website

Brick Making Workshop

Venue: Berrington Hall
Location: Leominster, Herefordshire

Let your creative side out and be a part of something special as you have a go at creating your own Berrington brick as we’re joined by the Eastnor Pottery – The Flying Potter.

As part of the Berrington Garden Project, we are raising awareness for the importance of the bricks that have stood here to make the walled garden for over 200 years. You can take part in this interactive workshop and have a go at creating two of your own bricks, one for you to take home, and the other to be a part of Berrington’s future events. This is a chance to do something different, try out something new and leave your own mark at Berrington.

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Website: Visit Berrington Hall Website
Prices: £3 per person. Normal admission applies.

Eastnor Air Dried Clay Workshop

Venue: Eastnor Castle
Location: Ledbury, Herefordshire

Create an ‘air dry’ clay creation to take home with you.

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Website: Visit Eastnor Castle Website
Grounds Admission: Adult: £8.50 | Child (3-15 yrs): £5.75 | Family (2+3): £23.00
Discounted tickets available online, Castle upgrades available