Salisbury, England News: Arts Festival, Amesbury Mosaic, Oak Apple Day and the Avenue of Champions

Salisbury Festival Begins

Salisbury Arts Festival begins tomorrow (25th May) with a free, fiery opening show at Hudsons Field Ageas Salisbury Festival

Oak Apple Day

Image from Amazon

Oak Apple Day is on the 29th of May. I wrote about Oak Apple Day in my post on Grovely View in Wilton, but there’s a much better piece on the Wiltshire and Swindon Heritage site, with some great pictures: Keeping Wiltshire Traditions Alive: Oak Apple Day

Salisbury Mayor Making

Image from Wikimedia[1]

Salisbury’s Mayor Elect for 2012-2013 is John Collier. The new Mayor’s ceremony is on Saturday 26th[2]. Salisbury City Council – Mayor Making Celebrations for Salisbury.

Amesbury Mosaic

I saw the Amesbury Mosaic on the ‘Arts Together’ blog earlier this week[3]. It incorporates Stonehenge, the Ancestor and Amesbury Abbey. I don’t have permission to reproduce the mosaic (I need to work out who to ask), so you’ll have to click the link below to see it. It’s very good Arts Together: Amesbury Mosaic

‘Avenue of Champions’ at Salisbury Cathedral

The ‘Big Church’ is hosting Ben Dearnley’s ‘Avenue of Champions’ from 23 June until 16 September 2012. This is a series of sculptures of olympians and para-olympians, including Mark Foster, Ade Adepitan, Steve Williams and Debbie Flood. Recent Press Releases – Salisbury Cathedral

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Footnotes

1. By Jordi22 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons” [↩]
2. I’m maintaining a list of mayors at on the Mayors of Salisbury page [↩]
3. I don’t know whether the mosaic itself is new or not [↩]