Calendar of Gaddesden Society Events
This calendar shows Gaddesden Society events, including talks, film nights and other events run by GadSoc.
Book Club Trip to Jaipur Literary Festival
Terri Adams and Suzie Banerji
Postponed from 2020, we are pleased to welcome Terri Adams and Suzie Banerji for their talk on the Jaipur Literary Festival. Terri and Suzie have kindly agreed to brush off their talk of their visit, harking back to a simpler time of travel and exploration!
Doors open: 8pm, talk commences 8.15pm
Entry fee £1 including cheese and wine
Everyone welcome
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.
The film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. Its story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression.
Much of the music used in the film is period folk music. The movie was one of the first to extensively use digital color correction to give the film an autumnal, sepia-tinted look. Released by Buena Vista Pictures (through Touchstone Pictures) in North America, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain and by Universal Pictures in other countries, the film met with a positive critical reception, and the soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, making it the only motion picture soundtrack to have ever received the accolade. The country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film included John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Chris Sharp, Patty Loveless, and others. They joined to perform the music from the film in a Down from the Mountain concert tour which was filmed for consumer consumption via TV and DVD. (Wikipedia)
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Service
at Little Gaddesden Parish Church
A special eucharist service celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration
Round up of what’s happening in Little Gaddesden
See Individual Events for more Details
- Sunday 29th May 9:30am in the Parish Church
- Saturday 4th June 10:30am-6:00pm in the Village Hall
- Art Club Exhibition – Refreshments Available
- Saturday 4th June 2:00pm-5:00pm in the Church
- Historical Display, Tower Tours, Flower Display and Refreshments
- Saturday 4th June 6:00pm-11:00pm on the Sports Field
- Sunday 5th June 9:00am at the Church
- The church bells will ring for the Platinum Jubilee
- Sunday 5th June 10:30am-6:00pm in the Village Hall
- Art Club Exhibition – Refreshments Available
- Sunday 5th June 1:30pm for 1:45pm at the Church
- Kids’ Royal Crown Parade (meet up at 1:30pm, parade at 1:45pm)
- Sunday 5th June 2:00pm-5:00pm on the Sports Field
- Fun Day & Summer Fair
- Including The Soapbox Derby (2:45pm-4:30pm)
- Monday 6th June 11:00am-6:00pm in the Village Hall
- Art Club Exhibition – Refreshments Available
Little Gaddesden Art Club Summer Exhibition
Over the Jubilee weekend, in the Village Hall
Including children’s pictures of our Queen.
- Saturday June 4th 10:30am to 6:00pm
- Sunday June 5th 10:30am to 6:00pm
- Monday June 6th 11:00am to 6:00pm
Refreshments available
Historical Display at the Church
In Celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
- Historical Display of vestments, silverware and valuable Parish records
- Guided Tours of the Church Tower
- Flower Display
- Refreshments in the Thomas Field Hall
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Party
Calling All Villagers!
This is an invitation to help us kick off the Jubilee Weekend with a bang!
- Live Music: The Dicemen – bringing post-punk, folk, indie and acoustic back into style
- All you have to do is turn up at the marquee on the Sports Field
- Saturday 4th June 6pm – 11pm
- Delicious Asian Dumplings
- Disco
- Little Gaddesden’s Got Talent: Calling all thespians, singers and musicians. Contact penny.holland77@gmail.com.
- Ice Cream Van
- Fish and Chip Van
- Free Entry: Pay Bar and Pay for Food
Queries and suggestions to Sarah Gall at sarahgaddesden@aol.com.
Church Bells to Ring for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Church bells will ring at 9am on Sunday 5th June to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee
Little Gaddesden Art Club Summer Exhibition
Over the Jubilee weekend, in the Village Hall
Including children’s pictures of our Queen.
- Saturday June 4th 10:30am to 6:00pm
- Sunday June 5th 10:30am to 6:00pm
- Monday June 6th 11:00am to 6:00pm
Refreshments available
Kids’ Royal Crown Parade
Create your crown and join us in the parade, to kick-start the Platinum Jubilee Fun Day & Summer Fair!
- 1.30pm: children to meet at Little Gaddesden Church
(all children must be accompanied by an adult) - 1.45pm: parade starts – children will walk from LG church, along
church road, to the playing fields (children will walk with their accompanying adult) - 2pm: Maypole Dancing & the Fair begins!