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Rennie Grove Hospice Care will for the 4th time be presenting a series of spectacular shows at the beautiful and iconic St Albans Cathedral for three nights in July under the directorship of Pippa D. Collins.

Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Saturday 30 July

The concerts are hosted by Rosemarie Ford and will showcase an eclectic mix of music and song ranging from rock and pop classics to magnificent songs from popular West End shows.

The shows will provide a mix of amazing musical and vocal performances from: The Jupiter Singers (performing on Wednesday & Thursday) and The London Show Choir (performing on Saturday) along with performances by the Brilliant Theatre Arts, youth theatre, all accompanied by a live band.

From the West End stage Hugh Maynard (The Lion King, Miss Saigon, Sweeney Todd) will be performing hits from some of your favourite shows.

Tickets are on sale now!

Tickets are priced at £10, £20, £25 or £35.
Concession tickets available for accompanied children under 16: £15 (on the £25 tickets) or £10 (on the £20 tickets).
To book your tickets please visit https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/sounds-around-the-abbey2022 or phone ​01727 890290

Wealthy Romans lit their homes with small pottery lamps, fuelled by olive oil.

Join us for a clay workshop where you can build your own to take home and try out for yourself.

Arrive at any point during the session and stay for as long as you’d like. Recommended for ages 4+ (all children must be accompanied by an adult.) Adults without children welcome.

Sessions: 10:00 – 12:30pm & 1 – 2.30pm
£5 per lamp.

Spinning wool into yarn and then weaving it into cloth was a staple skill in the Roman world.

Join us to have a go at the ancient art of Drop Spinning, turning sheep wool into your own yarn. If time allows, you can then weave with your yarn.

Arrive at any point during the session and stay for as long as you’d like. The more you spin, the more yarn you’ll have to weave with.

Recommended for ages 7+ (all children must be accompanied by an adult). Adults without children welcome.

Sessions: 10.00 – 11.30am & 1:00 – 2.30pm
£5 per participant.

As part of The Art of Grieving Festival 2022, The Ollie Foundation is facilitating a Zentangle session. It will provide 90 minutes of calm where, regardless of artistic ability, participants can enjoy creating a unique and beautiful piece of art.

Through their work, participants will consider that there are no mistakes, only opportunities, that we are all unique and we can all create something beautiful. No artistic skills are needed for this mindful art session that offers relaxation, connection and a metaphor for life.

Zentangle looks complicated but it’s simply a series of lines and shapes that you are guided to place on your paper and before you know it, you have created something like these!

£5 per person. Booking Required.

Five Days To Say Goodbye is a 20 minute screenplay based on Beverley Bishop’s final days with her son Jess in the funeral home. In Beverley’s words ‘It is a story of love, loss and life after tragedy. It is a story I felt the need to tell, in the hope that it would help others.’

A screening will be held at St Albans Museum & Gallery and will be followed by a panel discussion.

Free. Booking Required.

Test your creative skills by building your very own “Junk boat” from some recycling materials. Decorate it and then put it to the test. The only limit is your imagination.

Can you make it water-tight? How will it move? Will it float in our paddling pool? Come and find out!

Drop in any time during the 1:30 – 4.30pm session and stay as long as you’d like

Suitable for ages 3+. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

£3 per participant. Drop in.

Test your creative skills by building your very own “Junk boat” from some recycling materials. Decorate it and then put it to the test. The only limit is your imagination.

Can you make it water-tight? How will it move? Will it float in our paddling pool? Come and find out!

Drop in any time during the 1:30 – 4.30pm session and stay as long as you’d like

Suitable for ages 3+. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

£3 per participant. Drop in.

Build and take home your own Celtic roundhouse (on a slightly smaller scale!) using traditional building methods and materials.

Learn how to build “wattle and daub” walls using willow weaving and a clay mixture, whilst understanding more about the people who lived in St Albans before the Romans arrived.

Saturday 30 July. Sessions at 10.00-11.30 and 13.00-14.30

£10 per participant (including free museum entry.) Booking Required.

Come and transform a sock into your very own seagull buddy to take on the Seagull Search around the museum.

Drop in any time during the session and stay as long as you’d like.

Recommended for ages 3+. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Thursday 28th July
Thursday 11th August
Thursday 25th August.

£3 per participant

To link with our exhibition St Albans on Sea, Curator David Thorold gives a talk on Roman trade with Verulamium from the Iron age and through the Roman period looking at what goods were traded in both directions, how items were transported into and out of Britain and the reasons that trade developed.

The talk will be held online via Zoom and last approximately 50 minutes, with time for questions at the end.

£10. Booking Required.