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February at the National Trust in East Anglia
| Author: National Trust, East Anglia | Published: 20th January 2013 01:00 |
WHAT'S ON AT
THE NATIONAL TRUST
IN FEBRUARY
Winter Walks © David Levenson, NT
BEDFORDSHIRE
Dunstable Downs
Little Lambs
Every Thursday 10am - 12noon, term time only
A crafty fun club for toddlers at Dunstable Downs
Enjoy a chat with other mums as the kids enjoy some creative play!
They will get to make all sorts with us, as you relax and watch. The children can try different craft activities every week and listen to stories!
Suitable for children under 5yrs
Small donations for material costs are welcomed
50 things Activities
Sunday 3 February
An event supporting and exploring one of the fifty things activities aimed at families with children aged under 11 & ¾ .
Getting outdoors and closer to nature
Saturday 17 February
These events would include nest box making, nature walks, orchid walks and also include bugs and beasties.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Peckover House and Gardens
The Garden in Winter 2013
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 February
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 February
12 noon - 4pm, last admission 3:30pm
An opportunity to see the early seasonal flower display in Peckover Garden, including many bulbs and scented plants. Reed Barn Tea Room open for warming soup and hot drinks.
Please note House is not open
Normal garden admission
Wicken Fen
Wild Art
Wednesday 13 February, 10.30am - 12.30pm, or 2-4pm
Create masterpieces from natural materials, in the wild, and to take home.
Ticket £4.75 Booking essential
ESSEX
Hatfield Forrest
February Family Fun
Mon 18 - Fri 22 February, 11am-3pm
Mud pies and mud slides, we'll be doing lots of messy play this week
Donations gratefully received, NoBk
NORFOLK
Blickling Estate
Valentine's Dinner
Thursday 14 & Saturday 16 February
What better way to spend Valentine's Day than dining out in style. Impress your partner with dinner in Lord Lothian's study and add some delicious romance with dinner-a-deux. Booking essential. £ 39.50 pp.
History comes to life.
Wednesday 20 February
Whose house is it? See the Diggers, our costumed interpretation group ‘ghosting'.
Brancaster Millennium Activity Centre
Amanda's Cookery Day
18 February, 9am
Join our experienced Head Cook, Amanda Newton, for some seasonal warming recipes using locally sourced food.
Adult £54
The Sea & Sky in Oils & Acrylics
22 to 24 February
This weekend is suitable for beginners or those who would like to develop techniques to improve their work and individual style. We will be exploring brush techniques, paint application, colour mixing, subject selection, composition, colour and tone. Working inside the studio, you choose your subjects from your own photos and sketches. These will then be developed into a range of seascapes considering the themes mentioned above. Guidance and help will be given by new tutor Merrie Curtiss-Fuller.
Adult £166 (non-residential participant), Adult £239 (residential participant)
Oxburgh Hall
Estate rambles
Weekends only 2/3 9/10 16/17 23/24 February
Experience early spring flowers including snowdrops & aconites
Enjoy a free guided woodland walk with one of our Garden Stewards
Winter nature trails for children
Normal admission
Nordic Walking drop-in sessions
Tuesday 19 February, every hour 11:15 - 2:15
Drop-in family event for Nordic Walking during February half term.
All equipment provided.
£1 per person plus normal admission
Sheringham Park
Edible or Deadible? Quiz trail
16 February to 24 February, 10:00am to 4:15pm
Find out about foraging for wild food with a fun quiz trail
Child £2 (Includes a prize)
Animal Tracking
Tuesday 19 February, 10:30am - 12:30pm and 2pm - 4pm
Foxes, badgers and deer live in the Park but are seldom seen. Learn how to follow the trails these animals make and spot the tell-tale signs they leave behind.
We will learn about the trails wild animals leave behind and make a plaster-cast animal print. Then we will take a walk into the Park - away from the beaten track to check a camera trap and look for the animal signs, prints, feeding signs and poo! Includes a walk of around 2 miles with some rough ground - unsuitable for pushchairs.
Children £3.50 Accompanying Adults £2
Booking required Tel 08442491895 or visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sheringham
SUFFOLK
Ickworth
Bug hotel and wildlife area fun
Thursday 21 and Friday 22 February, 11am - 3pm
Park and garden admission applies
Join us in the wildlife area and help us build mini bug hotels and develop the wildlife area to make it a great habitat for lots of different creatures. Take a mini bug hotel home for your garden and complete one of your 50 Things to do before you're 11 and ¾ challenge.
Sutton Hoo
Half Term Fun!
Gruesome Graves Tours
Monday 18 February to Friday 22 February, 2pm
A special tour of the burial mounds for youngsters - don't forget to bring an adult!
Normal admission, book on the day.
Get Crafty
Tuesday 12 and Thursday 14 February, 11am-4pm
Drop in and make a piece of the Sutton Hoo treasure to take home.
Normal admission.
Out of the Case!
Sunday 17 February, 1.30-2.30pm
Get a step closer to our fantastic collection of Sutton Hoo replicas at an informal talk in our exhibition hall. Hold an original piece of the Sutton Hoo Ship from 625AD!
Normal Admission
Theatre Royal
Afternoon Art Talk
Thurs 17 Jan - Thurs 21 March, 2pm - 4pm
The Englishness of English Art Series 2: Victorian Paintings.
Ten weekly talks on Victorian painting presented by Dr Roger Simpson.
Flanders and Swann
At The Drop Of A Hippopotamus
Saturday 2 February
After three sell out tours Tim, Duncan, the Hippo and the words and music of Flanders and Swann are back. Flanders and Swann's own brand of inoffensive, gentle but witty and often satirical humour has stood the test of time, remaining popular with all ages. Join multi award winning comedian Tim FitzHigham and BBC Radio 4 musical maestro Duncan Walsh Atkins as they tune the madeira decanter, polish the dinner jackets and iron the piano, breathing new life into The Hippopotamus, The Gnu, The Gasman, Omnibus, Madeira M'dear and all the favourites from the greatest comedy songsmiths ever. A wonderful evening of humour for lifelong fans and the uninitiated alike.
Gyles Brandreth-The One Man Show
Sunday 3 February
Join Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth for an afternoon of wit, word-play and hilarious name-dropping (from the Queen and Oscar Wilde to John Gielgud and Michael Jackson!) as the actor, author, One Show reporter, former MP and government whip, turns raconteur and spills the beans on his unlikely life in show-business and politics.
Henning Knows Bestest
Friday 8 February
German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn is a fountain of knowledge. There's no shortcut to success, hard work will eventually pay off and there is no shame in paying tax. But what he knows bestest is that his comedy shows are a guaranteed success. Either he's funny or he confirms a national stereotype. It's a win-win situation. Wunderbar!
Tomorrow I Will Be happy
Monday 11 February
When a stranger comes to a crumbling seaside town looking for his friend Darren, he discovers that he was killed in a homophobic hate crime. As the secrets of the past come spilling out, we learn that all is not quite as it first seems with Darren's group of friends...
Performed by young people aged 16-19, the Theatre Royal is delighted to have the opportunity to take part in this exciting national youth theatre festival. National Theatre Connections brings great new plays for young people to theatres across the UK.
Chris Addison
The Time is Now, Again
Wednesday 13 February
The star of The Thick of It and Mock The Week brings his twice extended, critically acclaimed tour The Time Is Now, Again to the Theatre Royal. Top class stand-up from one of the classiest, toppiest stand-ups around.
Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy
Friday 15-Sunday 16 February
‘I hope you like my story - I wrote it for you just to show I could. It's about the old tractor and it's about Joey and it's about me.'
Michael Morpurgo's compelling sequel to the award-winning War Horse is a moving account of the changing face of the English countryside and a beautifully-crafted reminder that stories really can reach out across the generations. A delightful show combining drama, storytelling and original music.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Thursday 21 February-Saturday 9 March
A new Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds production.
Crashing a party he knows he shouldn't be at, young Romeo's heart is stolen by the beautiful Juliet, daughter of his father's greatest enemy. But as night gives way to day, the heat of young love gives way to ancient hatred and tragedy is destined to tear these doomed lovers apart.
Featuring stirring live Italian folk music, this new production of Shakespeare's most popular tragedy strikes at the heart of the conflicts and contrasts of human existence, exploring comedy and despair, reserve and rashness, youth and age and of course, hatred and love.
For more information on any of our shows and events please refer to the Theatre Royal website: www.theatreroyal.org, email: booking@theatreroyal.org or call the box office: 01284 769505
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