Sutton Coldfield Festival of Arts

[ July 12, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Art and dance display at Holland House Infant School with coffee and cakes provided by PTA. 10:00 - 11:30

[ July 12, 2008; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Sutton Festival of Arts very own Joan Mensor (our volunteer coordinator) is presenting an art demonstration on Marquee 3.

[ July 15, 2008; 7:30 pm; ] Creative Arts Fest (19:30); GCSE art exhibition from 19:00 @ Fairfax School

[ July 13, 2008; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Keen gardeners, Hazel Astling and Alison Ker, are hoping for sunshine this weekend to welcome visitors to their open gardens. Teamed with their garden displays is an exhibition of stone sculptures by Hazel’s husband, Viv, and two of his colleagues in the Shapeshifters Sculpture Group.

Trevor Clarke and David Barnes will be giving demonstrations of stone [...]

[ July 11, 2008; 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm. ] Arts workshops involving Highclare and other central Sutton primary schools (13:15-15:15) @ Highclare School (St Paul’s site, Lichfield Road)

Sutton College fine art lecturer Ian Cook is always first on the grid when it comes to developing quirky pieces of work.
Ian, 24, has already enjoyed plenty of success with his paintings and sculptures which uniquely echo the motor industry.
Ian, previously a student at the college, paints using radio-controlled cars instead of a brush, and [...]

[ July 11, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] On Friday July 11 at 7pm a Carnival hits Bishop Walsh Catholic School as part of the Sutton Festival Of Arts.

As the culmination of work from the school’s Arts Week there will be a public showcase evening featuring all the dance, music, drama, art and visual pieces that have been developed by pupils, based on [...]

[ July 10, 2008; 7:30 pm; ] The school, in Upper Holland Road, has moved its annual concert, featuring orchestra (pictured), swing band, woodwind and choir, to Thursday July 10 (7.30pm) to tie in with the Festival.

Plantsbrook is a specialist music college, which has earned a fine reputation for its work, under the guidance of teacher Richard Elliott.

He recently took the school’s [...]