SPRING AT BEDE'S WORLD
Monday 17 - Friday 21 February
Bede and the Beanstalk
Plant an Anglo-Saxon bean to take home and grow. Follow our farm trail and
find out more about Anglo-Saxon life. 11am - 3pm
Saturday 22 February
Bede's World talk
The origins of England
Professor Richard Morris explores some of the latest evidence for the
beginnings of English society
12 noon
Silversmith demonstrations from Les Howe
Showing of Edwin's Kingdom part II, North Northumbria, 2.30pm
Monday 24 - Friday 28 February
Bede and the Beanstalk
11am - 3pm
Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March
Clocking On
Find out what Bede and the Anglo-Saxons thought about clocks and time.
Family activities for National Science Week.
11am - 3pm
Showing of Edwin's Kingdom part III, West Northumbria, 2.30pm
Saturday 15 March
Showing of Edwin's Kingdom part IV, Border Reivers, 2.30pm
Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 March
Yeavering: Context, Continuity, Kingship
A conference examining the significance of this centre of prehistoric and
Anglo-Saxon power, organised by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
Northumbria National Park and Bede's World. For booking details and prices
click here
Saturday 29 March
Silversmith demonstrations from Les Howe
Sunday 30 March
Don't have a Wooden Heart!
Give it away! Show mum how much you love her by making/giving her a willow
heart or star wand.
11am-3pm
Monday 14 - Friday 25 April
Easter 700 AD
Back by popular demand, a new Easter Egg hunt for 2003! Try your hand at
Easter crafts and find out what Bede wrote about Anglo-Saxon Easter.
11am - 3pm each day except Friday 18th April
Friday 18 April
Good Friday
MUSEUM CLOSED
Easter Weekend Saturday 19 - Monday 21 April
Anglo-Saxon Textiles
Living History group Theod bring alive Anglo-Saxon methods of weaving and
dying cloth for clothing, hangings and blankets. Spinning and weaving
workshop and talks.
Bank Holiday Monday 21 April
Tales of the Northumbrian Saints
Storyteller Jim Grant will entrance you with stories about the men and women
of early Northumbria. Stories hourly from 10.30am.
Saturday 26 April
Bede's World Talk
12 noon
Silversmith demonstrations from Les Howe
Wildlife Walk and Dried Flower Activities from Dorothy Marsh, 2.30pm
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 April
Living History from the Northumbrian Vikings
May Bank Holiday Weekend
Saturday 3 - Monday 5 May
Historical Pottery from Trinity Court Potters
Watch skilled potters at work making pots using the technologies available to the Anglo-Saxons, in period costume, and have a go at making a pot.
Plates of Plenty
Find out what the Anglo-Saxons could have eaten in Springtime by making a model of Anglo-Saxon "food".
11am - 3pm
Bank Holiday Monday 5 May
Basket Weaving
Demonstrations and a chance to try this traditional craft, with weaver Lorraine Weeks.
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 May
So you think you know your vegetables?
Find out what's growing on the farm. Have a look at the old varieties of vegetables in the vegetable garden and vegetable dyes in the dye-plot. Plant some vegetable dye to take home and grow!
11 am - 3pm
Wednesday 21 May
Digital Imaging Made Easy
Free Jarrow Festival Taster Session from South Shields Photographic Society.
10 - 12 noon & 2 - 4pm
Friday 23 May
Drawing for the Absolutely Terrified
Free Jarrow Festival workshop. Advance booking essential.
10.30 - 3pm
Whitsun Bank Holiday
Saturday 24 - Monday 26 May
Medieval Music and Dance
Richard York has an outrageously large collection of replica medieval instruments. Find out how they work, hear the evocative sounds of the Middle Ages, have a go at playing medieval tunes and learn to dance to them. On Saturday and Monday Richard York will lead special workshops - advance booking essential.
Saturday 24 May
Bede's World talk
Bank Holiday Monday 26 May
Archery from Castle Long Bows
Demonstrations and 'have a go' hourly from 10.30am.
Monday 26 - Friday 30 May
Animal Magic
Family activities for half term. Find out about real and fantastic Anglo-Saxon animals and become one of them by making a mask to take home. Meet the real animals on a children's tour of Gyrwe, the Anglo-Saxon farm, at 2pm (parents or guardians must come too!).
11am - 3pm
Wednesday 28 May
Friends of Bede's World Embroidery Exhibition
Thursday 29 May
Art with Pastels
Free Jarrow Festival workshop. Advance booking essential.
10.30 - 3pm
Friday 30 May
How to tell Stories
Free Jarrow Festival workshop. Advance booking essential.
10.30 - 3pm
Saturday 31 May
Medieval Fair
1pm - 5pm
Silversmith demonstrations from Les Howe
Sunday 1 June
Net-making and rush-weaving
Watch these traditional crafts and have a go yourself.
Sunday 15 June
My Hero!
Make your dad a glorious Sutton Hoo helmet for Father's Day.
11am - 3pm
Saturday 28 June
I'll Huff and I'll Puff
The big bad wolf would have been out of luck in Bede's time. Find out how the Anglo-Saxons built their houses with our games and crafts to mark National Architecture Week.
Bede's World talk
Silversmith Demonstrations from Les Howe
Dried Flower Activities with Dorothy Marsh
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 June
Living History from the Northumbrian Vikings
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July
Besom Brooms!
Watch traditional broom-making and have a go at making your own broom.
Saturday 12 July
Sing Anglo-Saxon Chant for a Day
Sing Anglo-Saxon music composed in honour of St Cuthbert, using Anglo-Saxon Chant notation, and discover how Anglo-Saxon notation relates to notation used today. All music will be taught on the day - no previous experience necessary.
Full day workshop led by John Rowlands-Pritchard of Opus Anglicanum.
Advance booking essential. Tickets £15.00.
Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July
Dig This!
Meet the archaeologists and have a go at being one yourself!
Family activities for National Archaeology Day and demonstrations of Anglo-Saxon crafts on Gyrwe.
11am - 4pm
Wednesdays in Summer Holidays
Storytime
Children's storytime at 2pm in the Medieval Bestiary temporary exhibition.
Monday 21 - Friday 25 July
King of the Hill
Create splendid helmets and swords, like those of the Anglo-Saxon King Rędwald at Sutton Hoo.
11am - 4pm
Wednesday 23 July
Wind in the Willows
Take 6 Theatre Company perform this classic in the open air on the Anglo-Saxon Farm. Booking essential, tickets: £7.00 adult; £5.00 concession.
Saturday 26 July
Silversmith Demonstrations from Les Howe
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 July
Discover Anglo-Saxon daily life
Living History from Theod
Monday 28 July - Friday 1 August
Radical Runes
All about Anglo-Saxon writing before the Latin alphabet. Make a runic pendant and learn to decode runes.
11am - 4pm
Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 August
Historical Pottery from Trinity Court Potters
See Saturday 3 - Monday 5 May.
Anglo-Saxon craft demonstrations on Gyrwe, 1pm-4pm.
Monday 4 - Friday 8 August
Picture This!
Decorate a photo frame using Anglo-Saxon art.
11am - 4pm
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 August
Sweetness and Light
Watch wax candle making demonstrations, have a go yourself, and find out about traditional 'skep' beehives.
Monday 11 - Friday 15 August
The Importance of being Urnest
Make an Anglo-Saxon Urn to take home.
11am - 4pm
Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 August
Medieval Crafts: Alchemy and Tiles
Meet medieval Alchemist Jack Greene and find out about the practical medieval craft of tile making with Karen Elkins. Hands-on mixing potion ingredients and tile-making.
Anglo-Saxon craft demonstrations on Gyrwe, 1pm-4pm.
Monday 18 - Friday 22 August
In a Spin
Learn how to use an Anglo-Saxon style drop spindle to make a friendship bracelet or headband.
11am - 4pm
August Bank Holiday Weekend
Saturday 23 - Monday 25 August
Bees, Bows and Battles
Meet a bowman, a beekeeper, and Anglo-Saxons on horseback.
Monday 25 - Friday 29 August
Brilliant Beads
Bedeck yourself with your own colourful Anglo-Saxon style beads.
11am - 4pm
Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 August
Calligraphy Demonstrations from the Northumbrian Scribes
Living History from the Northumbrian Vikings
Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September
Heritage Open Days. Free entry.
Living History from the Northumbrian Vikings
Saturday 27 September
Silversmith demonstrations from Les Howe
Saturday 11 October
Dances, Fantasias and Laments: Harpsichord music from 1550-1750
Played by Julian Cima. Tickets: Adults £7.50; Concessions £5.50. 2.30pm
Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 October
Calligraphy Demonstrations from the Northumbrian Scribes
Saturday 18 October
Ready, steady, Teddy!
Celebrate Big Draw Day by drawing bears the easy way with local teddy artist Beryl McCartney. Original bear stories. Make your own bear book. Prize draw for all accompanied teddies!
11am, 1pm, 3pm.
Saturday 25 October
Bede's World talk
Silversmith Demonstrations from Les Howe
Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October
Anglo-Saxon Food
Living history group Theod demonstrate Anglo-Saxon food and cooking techniques.
Monday 27 - Friday 31 October
Bringing in the Harvest
See our harvest from Gyrwe, the Anglo-Saxon demonstration farm! What did the Anglo-Saxons eat? Make yourself a plate of Autumn "food" to take home, and have a go at making traditional corndollies.
11-3
Saturday 29 November
Bede's World talk
Silversmith Demonstrations from Les Howe
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 December
Christmas Craft Fair
Free entry to museum and farm.
Saturday 13 December
Christmas Carols
Festive music from Jarrow Choral Society, 2pm.
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 December
Christmas Extravaganza!
Changing seasons on Gyrwe
Watch the seasonal changes on the Anglo-Saxon demonstration farm by joining the regular walks Around the Anglo-Saxon farm, to meet the animals and watch crops and vegetables develop, led by Bede's World farm staff, and Wildlife Walks, led by Dorothy Marsh, spotting wild animals and plants.
Around the Anglo-Saxon farm at 2pm on:
- Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March
- Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 April
- Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 May
- Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June
- Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 July
- Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 August
- Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 October
Wildlife Walks at 2.30pm on:
- Saturday 26 April
- Sunday 25 May
- Saturday 28 June
- Sunday 20 July
- Saturday 30 August
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SATURDAY TALKS:
FORWARD PROGRAMME FOR 2003
Saturday 25th January 2003
SIGNS FOR SILENCE:
MONASTIC SIGN LANGUAGE IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
David Sherlock
12 noon
Saturday 22 February
The origins of England
Professor Richard Morris explores some of the latest evidence for the
beginnings of English society
12 noon
Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 March
Yeavering: Context, Continuity, Kingship
A conference examining the significance of this centre of prehistoric and
Anglo-Saxon power, organised by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
Northumbria National Park and Bede's World. For booking details and prices
click here
Saturday 26 April
The Bamburgh Research Project
Graeme Young and Philip Wood talk about ongoing excavations at the early medieval Northumbrian royal stronghold.
Saturday 24 May
But what did they have for breakfast?
The really important questions about Anglo-Saxon England
Debby Banham looks into Anglo-Saxon food.
Saturday 28 June
The Foundation of Jarrow
Professor Ian Wood investigates why Benedict Biscop's monastery was sited at Jarrow.
Saturday 25 October
Rewriting the history of the Picts, Gaels and Scots - what and why?
Dr Sally Foster, Historic Scotland, is re-evaluating ideas about these peoples to be published in her new book.
Saturday 29 November
The straight and narrow way: conversion of the landscape
David Stocker, English Heritage
Saturday 31 January 2004
The Jorvik Story
Dr Peter Addyman unpicks the ideas behind the development of this Viking attraction.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Free admission to our temporary exhibition space
31 January - 24 March 2003
Last of the Seacoalers
29 March - 14 July
A Process of Discovery: the work of Brian Hope-Taylor
3 May - 3 June
The Bede Metro Station project
18 July - 26 August
A Bestiary - The Painter in a Medieval Zoo
by Iain McKillop
A fascinating series of small original oil paintings inspired by the seat carvings of 'misericords' of British churches accompanied by poems by the artist.
29 August - 13 October
The Northumbrian Scribes exhibition
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BEDE'S WORLD SATURDAY TALKS