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Norden Farm Market
Join us in our atmospheric 18th century Long Barn for our Festive Night Markets this December.
The perfect opportunity to browse for unique gifts, food and drinks as local artisan stallholders showcase their handmade wares and artisanal produce.
Enjoy all your favourite festive snacks and beverages together with a well stocked bar featuring craft ales, mulled wine and a full food menu (served until 7.45pm).
You can also take part in our drop in Lantern Making Workshop at Friday's Market between 6pm - 8pm. The perfect opportunity to get set for Saturday's Lantern Parade by weaving and decorating your own willow and tissue paper lantern.
Free Entry
Festive Night Markets
Fri 6 Dec 6pm -9pm
Sat 7 Dec 6pm - 9pm
Fri 6 Dec Stallholders: Cooper's Honey & Bees, Macy's Workshop, Plum and Peach, Pure Pet Food, Wild Bloom Beads, Agosti Gelato, S&L Pamper, Purely Soap, Ultra Kriti, Fizzy Roses, Boxpatchbunnies, KASTANIA, PetitePosie.co, The Faraway Gang, Marmalove, Beads and Bracelets, Los Origenes, Smoking Skewers, Luminary Candel Co and Felted Forms.
Sat 7 Dec Stallholders: The Craft Workshop, Cooper's Honey & Bees, ILIANA, Macy’s Workshop, Plum and Peach, Pure, Luxury Chocolate For You, Candle Lion, Holy Cow Tea, Purely Soap, Wooxaxed, Ultra Kriti, The Plant Wagon, Tropic Skincare, Ka Na Homecooked, Zoe’s Cookie Corner, Smoking Skewers, Luminary Candle Co and Thames Valley Wordsmiths.
If you would like to enquire about a stall at one of our upcoming markets, please email our team at markets@nordenfarm.org
- 12:00 -16:00 FREE
Pottery: Slab Built Candle Sticks
Led by Helen D Evans
During the workshop you will use Slab Building techniques to make Candle Stick(s). Helen will guide you through the process and give you demonstrations and ideas.
Your work will then be bisque fired off-site, a clear glaze applied and then re-fired and ready to collect from Norden Farm in approximately 4-6 weeks.
Cost includes clay, use of materials, x2 firings and application of a clear glaze.
All work will be fired to Earthenware.
You may want to bring with you:
Sketchbook for ideas / with ideas
Pens / pencils / ruler / eraser
A cloth to wipe your hands on
An apron
Any clay tools you may have
Some thin card to make templates
Helen will notify you and arrange a date regarding the collection of your work after the workshop.
This is part of a series of workshops being run by Helen D Evans which is suitable for all
abilities.
1pm - 4pm
£50
Break(s) will be negotiated at the start of the workshop.
Other pottery courses led by Helen include:
Coiling and Surface Decoration
Press Moulds & Slab Building
Come and Try Slab Building
Seasonal Decorations
Lantern Making Workshops
Led by Same Sky
Get set for the Carnival of the Animals Lantern Parade! Join us across November and December for Lantern Making Workshops ahead of this year's parade in Maidenhead Town Centre on Saturday 7 December from 4.30pm.
There are opportunities for all ages to get involved at Norden Farm and in Maidenhead Town Centre - find out more below.
Lantern Making Workshops at Norden Farm
Across 2 hours weave an intricate animal-inspired willow frame before covering and decorating your creation. Pre-booking essential. Children must be accompanied by a paying adult.
Sat 2 Nov | 10.30am – 12.30pm and 2pm – 4pm | Suitable for 6+ years | £7 per person
Sat 30 Nov | 10.30am – 12.30pm and 2pm – 4pm | Suitable for 6+ years | £7 per person
Drop In Lantern Making Workshop at Norden Farm's Festive Market
Join our Drop In Lantern Making Workshop at the Norden Farm Festive Night Market on Fri 6 Dec. Get parade ready in 20 mins! Drop in to make and decorate a simple willow and tissue lantern ready to illuminate on parade night. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Fri 6 Dec | 6pm - 8pm | Festive Market | Suitable for 3+ years | £5 per lantern
Drop In Lantern Making Workshops in Maidenhead Town Centre
There are also Drop In Lantern Making Workshops in the town centre. Get parade ready in 20 mins! Drop in to make and decorate a simple willow and tissue lantern ready to illuminate on parade night. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Sun 1 Dec | 10.30am - 4pm | Nicholsons Centre | Suitable for 6+ years | £5 per lantern
Sat 7 Dec | 10.30am - 2pm | Maidenhead Library | Suitable for 3+ years | £5 per lantern
Lantern Making Workshop (for Adults)
Sat 16 Nov | 10.30am – 12.30pm and 2pm – 4pm | Ages 17+ years | £10 per person
Tickets for this workshop can be booked online here.
Find out more about this year's Lantern Parade here.
Royal Ballet and Opera Cinema Season: Wolf Witch Giant Fairy
Do not miss this 'enchantingly staged' family folk opera, following the triumphant, Olivier Award-winning run in 2021.
Red Riding Hood is tasked with delivering bread to her Grandmother, deep in the heart of the fairy-tale forest. But en route, Red meets a cunning Wolf who tricks her into taking a different path. Along the way, Red stumbles into a colourful cast of characters, including a scary witch, a talking cat and a rather persuasive Peddler. Join our ragtag band of wild musicians as they guide all the family through this famous tale with new twists, turns, magic and song.
Courtyard Theatre Cinema
£10.50 | £9 conc
Running time: 65 minutes, no interval
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Maidenhead Schools Exhibition 2024
We are delighted to present the fifth Maidenhead Schools: Art, Design and Photography Exhibition showcasing the work made by the students from Maidenhead schools.
All work has been created by students from Berkshire College of Agriculture, Holyport College and Newlands Girls School. The exhibition aims to unite Maidenhead schools and colleges by celebrating the creativity and talent of our local students.
Work will be judged by a panel on Friday 8 November. The panel includes Joshua Reynolds MP; local visual artist Aysha Khan; Nicola Metcalf, a local digital artist; and Chair of Maidenhead Painting Club – Brian Ford.
This exhibition is part of Farm Out, the flagship Norden Farm Arts Programme for schools funded by the Spoore, Merry and Rixman Foundation.
Tues 22 Oct - Sat 9 Nov
5pm - 10pm
Free Entry
- 17:00 -22:00 FREE
Hundred Watt Club - A Burlesque and Cabaret Spooktacular Speakeasy!
Back at Norden Farm by popular demand, Hundred Watt Club invites you to peek inside their cabinet of curiosities and celebrate Halloween with an evening of bizarre burlesque, queer cabaret and sublime circus entertainment.
Expect spinetingling striptease, madcap comedy, dizzying circus stunts and all manner of cabaret tomfoolery. You’ll never be the same after a glimpse into this topsy turvy world. Expect the unexpected, but come prepared for an unforgettable night of tongue in cheek, glamourous, grown-up fun!
Plus - dress up in your most glamorous vintage or Halloween inspired outfit to be in with a chance of winning a bottle of Prosecco!
Hundred Watt Club are proud to be one of the longest running burlesque revues in the UK.
The lowdown: not for the fainthearted, this show employs and embraces adult themes, strong language and partial nudity with gusto. Glamorous, vintage attire is encouraged (we love it when you dress up!) but not enforced; wear what you’re comfy in.
‘Old school mischief and timeless raunchiness collide at the Hundred Watt Club. Hats – and corsets – off to Lena Mae for an excellent night of entertainment’ Sussex Express
‘Harking back to the gin drenched halcyon days of a grimy Berlin nightclub in the 1930s, Hundred Watt Club sparkles, fizzles and shines brightly on a dark night’ Fringereview.co.uk
‘Righteous, radical…an absolute riot!’ Mardigrasmag.co.uk
Over 18s only.
Courtyard Theatre
£22
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