What’s On
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March
📣 The Woke John Clare 🌿✊
Honesty and Hypocrisy in Georgian England
Saturday 28th March
🕒 3pmJoin us for a fascinating talk with Roger Rowe in aid of the John Clare Cottage Thatch Appeal
John Clare was a fierce critic of injustice, enclosure, and inequality — and his words still speak powerfully to us today. In this lively talk, Roger Rowe explores Clare’s radical politics and asks what they can teach us now about land, community, and our shared right to nature.
Roger discovered Clare’s genius in the early 1970s and has spent decades studying Clare’s published and unpublished poems and prose — producing a remarkable library of books on this extraordinary writer.
The talk will last roughly 1.5 hours, with an interval to enjoy homemade refreshments in the John Clare Cottage café ☕🍰
We’d love to see you there — come along, be inspired, and support the Cottage restoration 🙌🌿
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April
🌍✨ Call for Performers!
International Poetry Evening at John Clare Cottage
Do you write poetry inspired by your culture, heritage, home country, or language? 🌎📝
Does your work have an international flavour? ✨
We’re inviting poets to perform at our International Poetry Event at John Clare Cottage on the evening of:
📅 Evening of Saturday 18th April
🎤 If you’d like to take part, we’d love to hear from you!
Please email us at info@clarecottage.org 💌
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Bonus Invitation
🎥 Bonus invitation: share a short video!
We would also really love to receive short video recordings of the following line from John Clare’s poetry, translated into your home or second language 🌿️
(Ideally with a little nature in the background 🍃✨)
“I found the poems in the fields, and only wrote them down.”
🌟 Whether you’re an experienced performer or it’s your first time reading aloud — you are warmly welcome.
Please get in touch! 💚
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July
Sherlock Holmes & The Hound of the Baskervilles
Thursday 2nd July
Doors 18:15 - Performance 19:00How can one show possibly contain so much action and adventure? Elementary, my dear!
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present a brand-new riff on the fiendishly famous case.
Features live music, audience interaction and more mystery than you can shake a magnifying glass at.
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August
Twelfth Night
Thursday 20th August
Doors 18:15 - Performance 19:00Get in a fight. Cross-dress. Throw on some yellow stockings. Love can make you do the funniest things…!
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present their own brand of Shakespearean mayhem in the Bard's comedy of fools, duels and dual identities.
Family-friendly fun with live music and audience participation.