Glossop Labour Club is hosting a mini arts festival - Mayfest - for the May Day bank holiday weekend

The idea is to celebrate the creativity, talents and skills of local people, particularly young people, through themes of local identity and renewal.

The festival will include art, film, fire, folk, food, music, pageantry, painting, photography, poetry, sculpture, singing and story-telling.

And, of course, the burning of the Wicker Man on the Beltane Bonfire. Put your bad memories in an envelope, stick it in the Wicker Man and perhaps he'll take them away...
 
 

Thursday, May 1

8.00 pm: Opening of Mayfest by Councillor Jacqui Wilkinson

8.30 pm: Inside the Wicker Man - an investigation of the 1973 movie

10.00 pm: Local election results
 
 

Friday, May 2

8.00 pm: An evening at the Cabaret Voltaire - see the show that started the Russian Revolution. An interactive event devised by Michael Howard, senior lecturer in the history of art at Manchester Metropolitan University

£2

Surreal supper available

9.30 pm: The Mayfest Poets
 
 

Saturday, May 3

11.00 am - 4.00 pm: Bank Holiday Café with wholesome home-made cakes and sandwiches

8.00 pm:  LIVE! at the Labour Club with our own bitter-sweet singer-songwriter

Eliza P

and the amazing Evad Snave, live flamenco T-V

£5, concessions £3

Pie and pea supper available
 
 

Sunday, May 4

8.00 pm:  Baxter Investigates... Again!

The 'world premiere' of a 90-minute locally-shot film from Johnny Cake Films, plus a spoof trailer, with popcorn and hotdogs available

£2
 

From the people who brought you DIRTY HOWARD and 9.15 now comes the World Premiere of the feature length BAXTER INVESTIGATES… AGAIN!
Plus a supporting spoof film trailer: HELL HOWARD.

BAXTER INVESTIGATES… AGAIN!
A Spoof American Cop Show, in which an inept and burnt out detective, prior to his long overdue retirement, is called on for the first time in years to investigate a murder.

A film by
Max Hartshorne, Julian Jones & John Richardson.
Starring
Howard Donohue, Max Hartshorne, Julian Jones & John Richardson.
Screenplay by
Julian Jones.
With additional ideas from
Max Hartshorne & John Richardson.
Duration 90 minutes (approximately)

HELL HOWARD
Howard Vincent has spent 18 years in an asylum under the care of Doctor Hieronymous Jones. Was Doctor Jones’ diagnosis of Howard’s mental state correct, or is the truth behind his illness something far beyond our understanding? Something from the very depths of Hell? 

A film by
Max Hartshorne, Julian Jones & John Richardson.
Starring
Howard Donohue, Julian Jones & John Richardson. 
Duration 3 minutes

12 noon: The Glossop Guizers' Ancient Pace Egg Play embarks on a 'world tour' of town centre pubs, starting from The Globe on High Street West at 12 noon.

12 noon:  The Globe, High Street West
1.00 pm:  The Friendship, Arundel Street
2.00 pm:  The Old Gloveworks, George Street
3.00 pm:  The George, Norfolk Street

Join in the parade around the town centre with the Loathley Worm, the Green Man, Teaser, Fool, Hobby horse, Dragonwoman and kids in fancy dress

6.00 pm:  Beltane barbecue and bonfire with burning of the Wicker Man (put your bad memories in an envelope and stick them in the Wicker Man), balloon sculpture, caricatures and face painting

8.00 pm:  LIVE! at the Labour Club with Fayze2 - the extraordinarily talented young duo of Joe and James Fay from Hadfield

£5, concessions £3 (including barbecue) 

All weekend - exhibition of paintings by Tracey Cupitt, Andrew Fruish, Helen Gerrard, Jean Hobson,  Vaughan Parker and exhibition of work by pupils of Longdendale School

Special guest beer for Mayfest: Beltane Bitter from Shaw's brewery, Denton

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