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Live Lute Music
- Sunday 18th May, 1:30pm to 4pm
Our resident Lutenist will be bringing melodic tunes to the 1620s House.
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Digby’s Designs Hunt
- From: Thursday 22nd May, All day
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Search the grounds for ten famous family crests linked to Leicestershire to finish Mr Digby’s research.
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Team Falchion Medieval Group – Living History Weekend
- Friday 23rd May to Saturday 24th May, 10:30am to 3:30pm
Team Falchion Medieval Group will be camped at the 1620s House and Garden for a fun-filled Living History weekend this May half-term!
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Fairy Foraging
- Tuesday 27th May, 11am to 3pm
Help the fairy find the ingredients she needs to complete the spell to make more fairy dust.
Simply No Slurping! Victorian Afternoon Tea and Talk
- Sunday 8th June, 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Join the Victorian Baroness as she demonstrates the DO'S AND DON'TS of Afternoon Tea Etiquette
Ayres and Graces – A European Tour
- Friday 13th June, 7pm to 9pm
Let Ayres and Graces delight you with a selection of songs as heard by musicians and others who travelled through 16th Century Europe seeking the best of new music.
Jacobean Crafts
- From: Saturday 14th June, 10:30am to 5:30pm
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The Friends' Jacobean Craft group meets every month and showcases some of the needlecrafts of the time.
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- Sunday 15th June, 1:30pm to 4pm
Our resident Lutenist will be bringing melodic tunes to the 1620s House.
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Pen and Watercolour Workshop
- Wednesday 25th June, 10:30am to 12:30pm
Learn different pen drawing techniques and ‘dry’ watercolour painting to create your own botanical artwork using flowers and foliage from our 17th Century gardens as inspiration.
Live Lute Music
- Sunday 20th July, 1:30pm to 4pm
Our resident Lutenist will be bringing melodic tunes to the 1620s House.
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The Wind in the Willows – Open Air Theatre
- Friday 1st August, 6pm to 8pm
Multiple award-winning Illyria celebrates Kenneth Grahame’s timeless tale of friendship, laughter, the longing for home and the lure of adventure.
Live Lute Music
- Sunday 3rd August, 1:30pm to 4pm
Our resident Lutenist will be bringing melodic tunes to the 1620s House.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Open Air Theatre
- Saturday 30th August, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Quantum Theatre presents a brand new production of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular play of love and intrigue, magic and celebration set on that most dangerous of nights when fairies are abroad and nothing is as it seems…
Live Lute Music
- Sunday 21st September, 10:30am to 1pm
Our resident Lutenist will be bringing melodic tunes to the 1620's House.
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