A Sculpture Garden featuring the work of twenty five leading sculptors in the gardens of the Odney Club will be a highlight of the Cookham Festival 2009. This new event , by kind permission of the Odney Club, is being curated by Bridget Fraser of the Barn Galleries, Henley on Thames. The Sculpture Garden will feature a collection of twenty five outstanding sculptures from leading local sculptors and others, including Lydia Karpinska, the late Ken Court and Eunice Goodman. Festival visitors will be able to follow the trail under the ancient cedar trees, across the gracious lawns and discover sculptures hidden in the herbaceous borders.
Bridget Fraser said” It is a great pleasure for me to be curating the first ever Sculpture Garden for the Cookham Festival. For me, it is like a homecoming. I lived in Cookham – the Dean, the Rise, the Dean again – from 1972 until 1986. It was in Cookham that my children spent their early years and, like me, forged some of their firmest friendships. Cookham is a community like no other and it is an honour and a pleasure to be associated with the Cookham Festival, to celebrate all that is so vibrant, so wonderful and so welcoming: everything that is Cookham. Some of the sculptors’ names you will recognise, others will be new to you. Enjoy it all as you explore the perfect grounds of the Odney Club. Beautiful gardens, amazing sculpture: what a treat in store.”
Other highlights of the Festival include two concerts, one featuring the Taplow Choir, winners of the Youth section of the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition. The second concert will be an opportunity for local singing enthusiasts to participate in a community choral event Cookham Sings! Well known conductor, Ralph Allwood (Director of Music at Eton College ) will rehearse from scratch a group of local singers to perform a concert of opera choruses, to be performed the same evening on the first Saturday of the Festival. Participants will include The Incognitos ( Eton College boys close harmony group ) and members of local choirs . The Cookham Festival Committee is interested in hearing from singers interested in getting involved in this event. (Enquiries to John Hedger 01628 523911)
Other highlights include Art Exhibitions featuring the work of Frederick Walker and Ralph Thompson. Workshops on Drumming, clay modelling, charcoal drawings and embroidery workshops. More than twenty local artists will be participating in Artists’Open Studios.
The Festival will close with a Bank Holiday Celebration on The Moor on May 4th.
Issued on behalf of Cookham Festival Committee for more information please contact Judith Diment on 07860 162313
Monday 15 December 2008
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