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Writers at the Goods Shed

This month we bring you three published writers from the Bristol area - Ali Bacon, Jean Burnett and Kerry Postle - who have teamed up to provide writing events focusing on historical fiction.

London to Broadway & Back

For our October 'Shed Talk', We have invited Judith Dimant to talk about her years as producer for one of the world's most renowned touring theatre companies and explain how a small piece of work that starts in the subsidised sector can end up on Broadway.

Free – £8

Talk: Steve Russell Mountains of the Moon

Steve Russell's childhood passion has led him into an award-winning career as a versatile professional photographer of portraits, landscapes, interiors and works of art. In his talk at the Goods Shed he will explain how the high and remote mountains in Africa opened up a whole new vista.

Free – £8

Talk: David Wilson – Highgrove’s sustainable farming

David Wilson is farm manager of the Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove and in January's Shed Talk will be talking about his journey with Prince Charles shaping the process of converting to sustainable, organic agriculture.

Free – £8

Writers at the Goods Shed- Matt Duggan

Join poet Matt Duggan as he reads extracts from his work and then it is your chance to share your writings with like minded authors

Women Artists: Artemisia Gentileschi to Tracey Emin

Expert Lynne Gibson considers how women artists accessed training and sustained careers. Asking what happened to their works and their reputations in following centuries.

Free – £8

Writers at the Goods Shed – Debbie Young

Join Debbie Young at our March gathering of Writers at the Goods Shed (WAGS) bringing you the opportunity to share your own work with Debbie and other like-minded writers.

Talk: Unravelling the double helix postponed

We are very sorry, but this talk is having to be postponed, we are in the process of organising a new date and will be contacting everyone who has purchased a ticket shortly

Shed Talk: The Answer Lies in the Soil

This month’s talk is brought to the Shed in conjunction with Greening Tetbury and this evening we welcome three speakers to talk about their experiences of sustainable/organic farming.

Shed Talk: ‘A Physicist amongst the Penguins’

Professor Barham will begin with an introduction to each of the 18 (or thereabouts) species of penguin, their individual characteristics and behaviour before talking in detail about the African penguin and explain why they are now an endangered species

Shed Talk with Andrew Kerr: Elvers and Elvering

Presented by Chairman of The Sustainable Eel Group, Andrew Kerr is going to bring us up to date about this iconic species and explain How and Why it is now listed as Critically Endangered and What is being done to bring about recovery.

Shed Talk an evening with David Abram- Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain

An evening with artist and author David Abram who uses aerial cameras to capture images of prehistoric ceremonial sites and settlements. Painterly in tone and tending towards abstraction, his large-scale works render visible sublime forms barely discernible at ground level.

Gardeners’ Question Time at The Goods Shed

Join us for Gardeners’ Question Time on Sunday June 4th. Sort out your horticultural headaches at an informal event with our panel of experts – Margie Hoffnung, Sue Bradley-Jones, Duncan Montgomery and Tim Cordall.

Gardeners’ Question Time at The Goods Shed

Join us for Gardeners’ Question Time on Sunday October 1st. Time to  think about putting the garden to bed for winter and making sure you have something nice to look at during the long dreary months  at an informal event with our panel of experts – Margie Hoffnung, Sue Bradley-Jones, Duncan Montgomery and Tim Cordall.

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