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Short Story Competition Winner Comes Full Circle #WriteUP #writingcompetitions #amwriting

January 10, 2019
Imagine this. You've just won a short story competition; you're luxuriating in your new-found success and your bank account is anticipating to a useful injection of funds -- but then, what next? Is this the beginning of a successful writing... Read More

Call to Artists 2019 #OpenStudios, #ArtTrail, @silkmillstudios, @BlackSwanArts, @brutonartfactory, @SAW_Somerset, @HauserWirth

December 12, 2018
Frome Open Studios is inviting artists from Frome and the surrounding villages to apply for our 2019 event. The Open Studios event is an integral and much anticipated part of the Frome Festival and has become a celebration of the... Read More

Open your Hidden garden and support the Frome Festival #OpenGardens

December 12, 2018
The Frome Hidden Garden Event attracts hundreds of garden lovers over three days each summer. It is held during the Frome Festival and next year will run from July 12th-14th 2019. The proceeds from the event provide financial support for... Read More

Rook Lane Arts Trust receive Heritage Lottery funding to tell the story of famous art foundry, J.W. Singer & Sons, Frome

November 22, 2018
Rook Lane Arts Trust has been successful in securing significant funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, allowing work to start  this autumn on Casting the World: The Story of J.W. Singer & Sons, Frome. The project will take place next... Read More

A Little Festival News

November 15, 2018
We're getting excited at the Festival office, with planning for the 2019 Festival now underway. Next year's Festival theme will celebrate the rich cultural and industrial heritage of our town, with the bicentenary of the birth of JW Singer who... Read More

Frome Festival Cricket review

July 25, 2018
The most eagerly awaited sporting event of the last 106 years took place on 15 July 2018. The world cup final? The Wimbledon men’s final?  No. It was the re-match of the Bax Broughtonians v Broughton Gifford cricket match on... Read More

In the Footsteps of Siegfried Sassoon

July 18, 2018
If you were lucky enough to get one of the tickets for the sell out walk with readings from a selection of World War I poets, or perhaps you missed out, you may find the following review by the Frome... Read More

Frome Festival Opening Party

July 17, 2018
If you missed the Frome Festival opening party at the Granary with Vida Futura, Laugh Clown Laugh, and Sweet Machine, here's a little clip of Vida Futura and a couple of pics of Sweet Machine rocking the Granary! Read More