Storytelling for Wiltshire Day!

Celebrate Wiltshire Day at The Wiltshire Museum! As part of this event we will have a range of Folk activities, as part of our Folk exhibition Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex. Watch and have a go at Cotswold Style Morris Dancing, listen to family-friendly Folk Stories with Kirsty Hartsiotis and craft with our kids folk art activities.

 June 7

All day

The Wiltshire Museum, Devizes

William Morris in the Cotswolds

Designer, poet and socialist William Morris took a lot of inspiration from the Cotswolds and the surrounding area. This talk will explore Morris's relationship with the region, and how it inspired his poetry, design and his ideas of ideal living - and look at the friends who were inspired to follow him here.

June 9,

7.30pm

Arts Society Southampton

Arts and Crafts in the Cotswolds

The Cotswolds became one of the most vibrant rural centres of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by William Morris’s retreat at Kelmscott Manor, groups of designers and makers settled in the region. This talk explores their work, and their impact on the architecture, art and life of the area, looking at all areas of craft from country houses to churches to utopian communities.

June 11,

11am

Arts Society Birmingham