Movie lovers enjoyed watching their favourite films under the stars in Tamworth’s Castle Grounds at the fifth outdoor cinema event organised by Tamworth Borough Council.
Following on from the success of last year, the 2017 event on Saturday, August 5, was also a sell-out, with all tickets to this year’s screening of Pretty Woman and The Goonies being snapped up by film fans.
A digital art project which is aiming to capture 24 hours in the life of Tamworth is now seeking a production team to help collect footage and put the film together.
A Tamworth bus shelter has been given a wild makeover as part of this year’s Arts in Unusual Spaces programme and in partnership with the Tamworth in Bloom campaign.
Local artist Simon Wingfield has transformed the bus shelter on Peelers Way, Kettlebrook, with striking images of a kingfisher, a great spotted woodpecker and a barn owl – all birds which can be seen at the adjacent Tameside Local Nature Reserve.
A large and ambitious community art project to create a massive Mercian mosaic design on the lower lawn of Tamworth Castle Grounds is underway, with hundreds of people across the town decorating 1,400 individual pieces that will make up the final image.
Large crowds enjoyed an afternoon of open-air family theatre in Dosthill Park on Sunday July 16.
Award-winning theatre company Illyria performed the thrilling Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, where life size dinosaurs created monster laughs and roars, entertaining a family audience.
A Tamworth bus shelter will be given a wild makeover as part of this year’s Tamworth in Bloom campaign, and to mark the launch of a brand new community project which will bring art to bus shelters across the borough.
The final design of Tamworth’s iconic new roundabout sculpture will be revealed to the people of Tamworth next week during a live clay modelling session by award-winning artist, Luke Perry.
Members of the public will be able to watch Luke creating a scale model of his monument design live in front of Tamworth Town Hall in Market Street on Tuesday February 21, from 10am.
As well as seeing the design come to life for the first time, adults and children will also be invited to get involved by asking questions and having a play with the clay.
Tamworth Borough Council has been shortlisted for another two top awards in a Midlands-wide competition recognising the best of the best in arts and entertainment – and your votes are now needed to bring the titles home.
Tamworth residents are being asked to give their input into the design of a new ‘showpiece’ landmark which will welcome visitors to the town as they step off the train.
The borough council’s Arts and Events team has commissioned award-winning public artist and sculptor Luke Perry to design a striking sculpture for the Offa Drive and Saxon Drive roundabout outside Tamworth Railway Station to highlight the town’s heritage and culture.
