PILGRIMS FESTIVAL – November 2018
Bassetlaw Christian Heritage are hosting a range of events for this year’s Pilgrims Festival in Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Free lantern-making workshops
Free lantern-making workshops – make a lantern and join the parade in Retford on Tuesday 20 November.
Tuesday 30th October – 10am – 4pm, with artist Jessica Kemp at Retford Library
Friday 2nd November – 10am – 4pm, with artist Kirsty Champ at Bassetlaw Museum, Retford
Thanksgiving Dinner
Venue: Spencer’s on the Square, Retford
Thursday 15th November 6.30pm for 7pm
3 course dinner plus entertainment from Adam Schofield and Jessica Mary Brett (£29.95) Call 01777 800230 to book
Pilgrims Art Exhibition
Featuring art inspired by the Pilgrims Story
Venue: Babworth Parish Church, near Retford
Saturday 17th November 10am – 4pm with a talk by local historian Adrian Gray at 11am
Sunday 18th November 12pm – 4pm- see working embroiders and artist
Refreshments available
Parade & Performances
Retford — Tuesday 20th November
5.30pm: Parade from Carolgate to St Swithun’s Parish Church
6pm: St Swithun’s all age event, led by Rev Mark Cantrill, with the Elizabethan Academy, Katie Green’s Imagination Museum: Mayflower 400 and the Songbirds
7pm: the ‘400’ photograph, then refreshments for all in the Church
Music at Worksop Priory
Monday 19th November 7pm for 7.30pm
International Harpist Leah Stuttard
£10 entry incl. mince pies & mulled wine
Friday 23rd November 7pm for 7.30pm
Doncaster Waites: Music from the Pilgrims’ streets
£10 entry incl. mince pies & mulled wine
Supported by funding from, and delivered with the support of:
- Arts Council England
- Bassetlaw Christian Heritage network
- Bassetlaw Museum
- Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham, Church of England
- Elizabethan Academy
- Made by Katie Green
- Retford Business Forum
- Retford Civic Society
- Retford Library (Inspire)
- Retford Lions
- Retford Rotary
- Spencer’s on the Square
- TLS