Events Around Lydney

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is coming to Yorkley to give us an insight into the lives of these creatures. Bumblebees pollinate our crops and contribute significantly to our economy through the ecosystem service that their pollination of crops provides.

Come and make your own spooky decorations with our staff and volunteers, followed by a dusk walk in the forest. We’ll provide all the materials needed to make your Halloween decorations at the cosy visitor centre, warmed by our wood burning stove.

At 9.30 in the morning on the 11th November 1918, mere hours before the end of the Great War, George Morrison was killed in action. And he is extremely unhappy about it.

Once again we are a Halloween Free attraction for those who do not celebrate, or do not like Halloween.

Additional free activities including colouring, crafts and Bigjigs!

Welcome to a quick-fire comedy improvisation show, packed full of sketches, gags, songs, surreal situations and general silliness. Be prepared to receive flying packets of Instant Whip! Completely improvised and directed by the audience the show is highly addictive, interactive, engaging and fun.

diana ross tribute party nite plus disco

This fun and informative workshop is designed for artists of all abilities. We will be painting a still life of pumpkins, which are plentiful at this time of year. Students will be guided all the way with personal tuition and demonstrations.

We are getting to the time of year where bright orange pumpkins grace the supermarket shelves and our spooky decorations come out. Come along to this parent and child workshop and create your very own miniature pumpkin of your own. You can decorate it to be friendly, scary or even to look like a cat!

Spend time with Rita developing a painting after spending some time working on colour exercises and experimental pieces to produce different effects. We will use landscape, leaves, fruit, nuts and berries as inspiration and you will see how watercolour can be combined with other media to add interest.

Join Yvette on this half day workshop and learn how to create your own unique mosaic pendant, using stained glass, millefiori and glass and metal beads. A great chance to produce some unique wearable art or they can make ideal Christmas presents. You will be able to make up to 2 pendants.

Follow our fiendishly fun family Halloween trail around Chepstow Castle. Between 10am - 4pm;11am - 4pm on Sunday.

Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt is a Spiritualist Medium who is currently touring the UK with her successful Psychic / Mediumship Evenings.

The Kymin Halloween Trail has been going for several years and has become a local tradition with lots of visitors each day and we also get visitors from much further afield! It’s a family event and everyone’s welcome. The Round House will be suitably, and spookily, decorated for the occasion.

Karen and Richard Carpenter performed, and wrote, some of the greatest love songs of all time. Recreated to perfection by the Carpenters Experience performing a great catalogue of music. Lead singer Maggie is a hugely experienced show performer with over 20 years in the business.

Now seen by over 250,000 fans, Europe’s No 1 Country music show returns for another fantastic night of toe tapping Country classics.

A double bill of brand-new one act plays created to commemorate the end of WW1. Carrying On As Normal, by David Evans, is a series of scenes depicting life in Monmouth during that war taken from Keith Kissack’s book.

A fascinating one-woman show starring Kim Hicks as Sarah Guppy, the first woman to patent a bridge and to formally design one. Sarah also patented a breakfast machine and an exercise bed, had 6 children and married Charlie Coote, her second husband, when she was 66 and he was 31.

Brace yourself for two hours of thrilling action and provocative choreography with the ultimate Forbidden strip tease (and a few men in uniform thrown in for good measure).

Brilliant comedian songwriter and raconteur Richard Digance returns to the Savoy after a three year absence. He celebrated 50 years in the business in 2017 and is back with a series of dates doing what he loves best, telling stories, playing the guitar and singing songs.

Formed in 2013, Ystradivarius exists to perform chamber music from the 17th and 18th centuries using instruments that are all copies of instruments made and played in baroque times, creating a special and distinctive sound. Ystradivarius is one of very few such ensembles based in South Wales.

Come and join us at the FOLC Christmas Craft Fayre on Sat 10th November. With a good variety craft stalls there should be something for everyone. Hot food, cakes and beverages available and there will be a raffle.

The first of two big-band-blast-offs for Prema this autumn! Bristol based, serial knee-jerkers Mr Tea and the Minions play their own unique take on full power Balkan flavoured Ska, Dub, Swing and Folk, inspiring uncontrollable silly dancing and wild bouts of jumping around wherever they go.

Prema resident artists Eve Coy, Hannah Dyson and Celia Smith join forces for the ultimate drawing afternoon! Everybody Draw is an opportunity for family and friends to come together to draw.

In a not-too-distant future, people can buy personal cleaners - Intronauts; miniaturized human workers injected into their bodies in order to carry out essential maintenance. But what happens if your cleaner discovers your dirty laundry? And how much do you actually want to know about what goes on inside?