What's On Stowmarket

Stowmarket Library has launched Suffolk’s newest crime writers’ festival. Skulduggery in Stowmarket will take place at the library over four days from 27 - 30 April. There will be talks from top crime writers including Elly Griffiths and Alison Bruce.

Trad Jazz Nite organised by the Stowmarket Lions Charity. Sat 5th May. The Storyville Jazz Band, on tour from Holland. Playing at the John Peel Centre, Stowmarket. 7.15pm for 7.45pm. Tickets £12.50 available from John Peel Centre Box Office, Phone 0845 833 5114. or on line www.stowmarket-lions.org.uk

Craft fair with lots of stalls, free parking and scrumptious refreshments in the church hall. Flower festival in the church next door.

The East Anglian Regional Handbell Team will be playing a selection of classical, popular and original handbell music. With 40 musicians and over 360 instruments this is a concert not to be missed.

Weird and Wonderful Wood is returning again to the stunning Estate at Haughley Park on 19th and 20th May 2018. This event is a celebration of many aspects of woodwork, showcasing talents of specialist woodworkers, and described as “the most magical day ever” Anna Morrell, Kent.

Includes entry to Catastrophe Cat Cafe and unlimited cat cuddles! Book a single visit to Catastrophe Cat Café to ensure you get the complete ’Cat Experience’! Enjoy playing with the cats including Bengals & Siamese, using a range of toys. Marvel at them on the ceiling walkway and feed them treats!

Join us on Saturday 12th May from 7.00pm-9.30pm for our Pamper Evening with the Cats! Included for £10: -Free entry to see the Cats -Free luxury spa slippers -Glass of prosecco or Cat themed Mocktail £5 for a 15 minute treatment including Reiki, Swedish Neck/Scalp/Shoulder Massage plus many more.

RATS present Ray & Michael Cooney’s hilarious farce Tom Dick & Harry (by kind permission of Samuel French.) Play with a light supper included. Tom and Linda excitedly await the arrival of Mrs Potter from the adoption agency in the hope that she will approve their application.

Drinkstone Annual Sale Trail 2018 – Saturday 5th May – 9.30am – 2.30pm Households around the village open up their garages to sell a wide range of items. Others prefer to sell their wares from a table top in the Village Hall, where you will also find home made cakes and mouth-watering refreshments .?

A day out for all the family. Monday 7th May. Old Market Street, Mendlesham. Stalls: crafts, tombola, jewellery, books, plants.

Stonham Barns Traditional Sunday Car Boot on Sunday 22nd April 2018 from 8am #carboot Much better weather last Sunday, after the fog and a good turn out. Great weather this Sunday and lots of sellers expected. Covered stalls booking fast.

Good first crowd last Sunday and was great to be back in the field. We expect the crowds to grow each week and the number of sellers & Buyers to overtake last years high figures. Easter Weekend and a great crowd expected. There’s also the East Coast Mini Meet where they are raising money for Guide Dogs.

Beautiful 6 acre woodland garden with variety of rare trees and shrubs, Chinese rocks and landscape sculpture. Lovely in spring with snowdrops, daffodils, camellias, magnolias and bluebells followed by roses in early summer. Woodland Garden open from 1 March to 31 July. Donations to NGS on NGS days.

A light hearted and enjoyable programme of songs and music by our popular, local community choir. profits towards the upkeep of our beautiful church.

Hadleigh Healers are having another popular Day of Readings, with Spiritual Mediums offering 20 minute, one to one readings, for only £15 per reading. Please pre-book your readings with Mavis to avoid disappointment on the day on 01473 823282.

KFA Suffolk presents an Activity Afternoon with the opportunity to try Sit and Stay Fit, a seated exercise session and an active Keep Fit Class. Refreshments included in the ticket price and a representative from the Alzheimer’s Society will be on hand to tell us about their local work.

Visit Lavenham Guildhall on one of our spinning days and see our wonderful volunteers in action; demonstrating the traditional art of spinning wool into the yarn we see and recognise today. Our spinning demonstrations are ongoing throughout the day. Every week on a Thursday.

Visit Lavenham Guildhall on one of our spinning days and see our wonderful volunteers in action; demonstrating the traditional art of spinning wool into the yarn we see and recognise today. Our spinning demonstrations are ongoing throughout the day. Every week on a Thursday.

Join us for a short talk about the Guildhall over coffee and biscuits before enjoying a guided walk around historic Lavenham uncover secrets and hidden tales. Lovely light lunch included. A guided walk around the historic centre of this unique medieval village.

Join us for a great family day out at the 179th Hadleigh Show on Saturday 19th May 2018 located in the beautiful setting of Holbecks Park with plenty of free parking. This year Broke FMX and Titan the Robot will be joining us.

A day of Buddhist meditation and teaching. ‘Inner and Outer Harmony’ We all know it is possible to live in a spirit of harmony, awareness and love, but often something gets in the way and our life is far from that.

As part of ’Invitation to View’, Otley Hall are offering individuals, couples and small parties the chance to join a larger group on a guided tour. Spend time in this 15th/16th Century Grade 1 listed, moated hall, voted one of the top 20 Historic Houses in the uk.

This mad immersive comedy from the makers of Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is all confetti and chaos! The Wedding Reception sees Will and Stacey expecting a small party to celebrate their wedding - but Stacey’s mum had other plans!

Charity Ball in aid of Fresh Start - new beginnings, includes welcome drink, 3 course meal, entertainment and dancing. Charity auction with some fantastic prizes. Dress code Black Tie. Tickets £55 per head For ticket enquiries contact rtcharityball@gmail.com

Astronomy & Archaeology (N. Emeny). Organised by Bury St. Edmunds & District Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Rod Finn (Secretary).

Annual General Meeting & Mini-auction. Organised by Bury St. Edmunds & District Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Rod Finn (Secretary).

Monthly Meeting Ipswich Group, Suffolk Family History Society. Thursday 26th April at 7:15 p.m. David Allen presents: “Black Teeth and Dirty Fingernails: The Great Unwashed of Victorian London”. London was a magnet for people from Victorian Suffolk , often thinking they were going to live in a better place.

Border Craft Collective - come and meet local crafters

Quiz Evening. Teams of up to 8 (age 15 and over), however come along and we can put you in a team. £8 per person, including fish and chip supper/sausage and chip supper/vegetarian spring roll and chip supper (advanced booking essential due to food orders). Licensed bar, raffle.

Join us for a Clay Workshop in your area for both Beginners and the more Experienced. Groups and Individuals catered for. Emma is a practising Ceramic and Applied Artist and highly qualified Tutor, offering various Clay Workshops and has many years experience working with all ages and abilities.

Garden sale. Tools plants etc on offer.

Open garage sales helping to raise funds. Every Saturday weather permitting There are no stalls available. This is our own fundraising event.

Open coffee/social morning held on a regular basis

Open garage sales helping to raise funds. Every Saturday weather permitting

A programme of exhilarating choral music for Easter, featuring Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4, his motet Lobet dem Herrn and Buxtehude’s Heut’ triumphieret Gottes Sohn, Jesu meines Lebens Leben, Magnificat and Alleluia.

Roll up roll up to Britains greatest Circus. beware of imitations wait for Britains Best as Voted Best circus in the UK on 2 separate polls.

Following its hugely successful first year of trading, Bury St Edmunds’ Farmers’ Market is back!

Dave O’Higgins tenor/soprano sax Chris Ingham piano Rev. Andrew Brown bass George Double drums Currently the saxophonist in the Darius Brubeck Quartet and mainstay of the Ronnie Scott’s Orchestra and BBC Big Band, Dave has played with Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles and is among the most in-demand,...

The garden consists of a Kitchen garden, the back walled garden which is abundant with tulips and Narcissi and a small walled garden with shrubs and perennial borders. Late spring colour is provided by bulbs, tulips, alliums and camassias. The front lawn overlooks the parkland and two small borders.

Extensive lawns sweep around the east and south sides of The Hall and the formal gardens are separated from the adjacent park land by a ha-ha. The sizeable garden has formal beds, including a shrub bank and a partially walled kitchen garden.

A wonderful Tudor event with over 100 costumed Tudors, and includes lots of merry making and activities for all the family to join in. Tudors will be in the main house, around the gardens & grounds and joining in all the May celebrations; musical events, plays, processions, dancing and pageantry.

A social evening with the knockout final and presentation of trophies

A guided walk along the the old railway line and taking in three water mills as well as Sudbury’s famous water meadows. A pleasant 5.5 mile guided walk from magnificent Melford Hall to Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury.

A popular guided walk taking in some railway and village history as well as both some modern archaeology and the natural beauty of the Suffolk countryside. Join us for a guided four-mile walk retracing the route of the former Great Eastern Railway Line linking the medieval wool towns of Lavenham and Long Melford.

Interesting 9 acre garden with fine views over Constable countryside; lawns sloping down to small lakes and water garden; fine trees, rhododendrons and azaleas; walled garden; mixed borders and ornamental greenhouse. Wide variety of plants.

Snowflake Ball - Save the date! (fundraising for Home-Start in Suffolk)

British Borneo – Brunei, Labuan, North Borneo & Sarawak (J.J. Gaskell). Organised by Ipswich Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Mike Smith (Secretary).

Annual General Meeting, Bourse & Quiz. Organised by Ipswich Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Mike Smith (Secretary).

Between 15 and 20 exhibitors will be offering a wide range of secondhand, out of print and collectable books for sale. From paperbacks to antiquarian. Often also postcards and ephemera. Home made refreshments available. Free parking. The longest running independent book fair in East Anglia.

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