10:30am
Clitheroe Castle Atrium

● FREE: William Micheal Neary – Lancashire street poet to perform to individual visitors CC24 venues throughout the day. Walkabout.

● FREE: Steve Rostron will be painting live throughout the day to produce a site-specific piece ‘Connected’ CC24. Feel free to chat with this professional Artist and ask any questions you may have.

10:30am – 12:30pm
Clitheroe Council Chambers

Enso CIC with Sarah Dearden

Exhibition of work produced from Enso CIC

FREE: Artful Minds Kids is a group session for children aged 8 to 15. The group gives each child a place to begin exploring their own creative abilities. I guide them with techniques and help them to develop the confidence to begin implementing them independently. We also encourage the acknowledgement of the mindfulness of creative activities and their positive impact on wellbeing.

10:30am – 14:30pm
Longitude Gallery

Selected artwork from the Gallery

FREE: Artist Rebecca Taylor Murray will be hosting a relaxed ‘drop in and draw’ session. She will be talking about what to expect from Art workshops and sessions available in Clitheroe whilst showcasing her own Art Work. Information on what and where things are happening at the festival this year will also be on hand.

11:30am – 13:00pm
Clitheroe Castle Atrium

FREE: Cassandra Batterby – Ribble Valley Abstract Landscape Session.

“What if you had to pay for every line you drew?” Artist Terry Miura

In this short and welcoming workshop we will focus on pen and ink drawings, using a range of source images, developing and exploring our line work and mark making, to create efficient, beautiful and simple line drawings.

13:30 – 15:00pm
Clitheroe Castle Atrium

FREE: Andrew Ratcliffe – Not to be missed!

Welcoming and friendly portrait session, all levels welcome. Local Artist Andrew has painted King Charles twice (his private collection), Neil Kinnock (Westminster Collection), Ken Dodd and has regularly appeared in The National Portrait Gallery London.

10:30am
Clitheroe Castle Atrium

Festival hub and Open venues open

11:30am
Clitheroe Castle Atrium

FREE: The amazing Aimee Lily Williamson performing a dance solo written and created by the Artist.

Performance piece: SELKIE – not to be missed.

10:30am – 14:30pm
Longitude Gallery

FREE: Artist Rebecca Taylor Murray will be hosting a relaxed ‘drop in and draw’ session.

12 noon – 14:30pm
Outside Longitude Gallery

FREE: Live forging experience with Carter and Duck Blacksmiths

11:30am – 15:00pm
Clitheroe Council Chambers

Clitheroe Stanza writing group drop-in session.

FREE: The group will be working with all ages to produce an Ekphrastic Poem. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art, CONNECTED to CC24. The scene or work of art will be one on that day. Selected poems will be performed in The Main Hub Prior to the prize giving work the Plein Air and The Open.

From 16:00pm
Holmes Mill Bistro

Prize giving and thank you speeches

Selected ekphrastic poems performed by a member of The Stanza Writing Group Clitheroe.

Music by Claudia Chapelhow: Saxophone / clarinet /piano