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The Arts Brand of Waterperry Gardens and the School of Philosophy and Economic Science
Oooh, that's me in the front row with the green top hat. Pic of the 2018 story telling festival in the amphitheatre before covid, remember those days?
Dear Friends,
The big events of the year are now all successfully complete and the echoes of Bizet's 'Toreador' is gradually fading from the record player of my brain. All went well and the Opera festival was blessed with great weather. Congratulations to them all.
We are battling with a bit of a plague of wasps around the Teashop at the moment so if you visit and have a cream tea then don't open the jam until the last minute! Unless you get a buzz out of being engulfed by a hoard of striped marauders that is.
The Oxford Story Telling Festival is coming up this weekend and is more modest than the other events with a few hundred people attending rather than thousands. It is a special little gem of a show and I recommend it. Check out the website and have a look at the packed timetable. Day tickets are still available of course.
There are lots of young volunteers here who used to help out at Art in Action when they were kids which is fun to see.
best wishes,
Simon Buchanan.
Wildest Imaginings - An intimate weekend festival weaving magic with stories,spoken word, poetry and song.
The last event of the summer season will be the Waterperry House Open Weekend.
On the 2nd and 3rd of September we open the doors of the house to all comers from 10am to 4pm and you can come and see what goes on and what the owners, The School of Philosophy and Economic Science, get up to on their retreat weeks and weekends. There is no charge. Fresco tours, drop in philosophy, economics, vedic maths, Sanskrit and meditation taster sessions are all available. There will also be a rare opportunity to see the ice house. This year there will be a concert at the end of Sunday in the ballroom.
Then after that we have building work going on in the top floor of the house as on-suite bathrooms are going the be added to the upstairs bedrooms. This will take a few months but make the house more comfortable for retreats and private hire in the future.
