A visual arts and activities display featuring ancient and modern, classic and contemporary, typed and pictorial Bibles for adults and children to browse through. This event is part of Frome Festival.

A visual arts and activities display featuring ancient and modern, classic and contemporary, typed and pictorial Bibles for adults and children to browse through. This event is part of Frome Festival.

In the post-Restoration period Frome became a major centre of non-conformity, with many places of worship being built within the town. This walk will visit several of them (exteriors only) and reveal the stories behind the denominations who built them. Led by David Lassman of Frome Heritage CIC. This walk starts at St John's Church. […]

A visual arts and activities display featuring ancient and modern, classic and contemporary, typed and pictorial Bibles for adults and children to browse through. This event is part of Frome Festival.

Please note this event is taking place in Silk Mill Gallery, not Silk Mill West / Frome Art School as per the brochure Discover what top agents look for in submissions. Kate Hordern, who runs an independent literary agency with a growing list of clients, and Clare Wallace, shortlisted for the British Book Awards Agent […]

A visual arts and activities display featuring ancient and modern, classic and contemporary, typed and pictorial Bibles for adults and children to browse through. This event is part of Frome Festival.

Poet, priest and peacemaker, Columba was one of the most influential saints of Ireland and Scotland, helping to transform and shape Christian heritage across both nations. Learn about his remarkable life and meditate on some of his prayers. Led by Annie Herridge. This event is part of Frome Festival.

Discover Britain’s oldest trees with author Julian Hight in an illustrated talk featuring stunning photography, music and video. From great oaks to Celtic rainforest, millennial yews to remnant hunting forest, their stories, legend and mythology are revealed through an ancient treescape. Entry includes £2 off Julian’s new Ancient Tree Explorer book. http://www.treeman.ukThis event is part […]

Authors Peter Clark and Annie Elliot bring Charles and Catherine Dickens back to life with vibrant scenes from their different Dickens books. Find out what happened when middle-aged Charles fell in love with a teenager and wanted to be rid of the loving wife, who had given him ten children.This event is part of Frome […]

A visual arts and activities display featuring ancient and modern, classic and contemporary, typed and pictorial Bibles for adults and children to browse through. This event is part of Frome Festival.

Julian of Norwich was a medieval woman who walked closely with God. Living through tumultuous and dangerous times, she survived illness and received visions from God which still encourage and inspire Christians today. Led by Ann Phillips. This event is part of Frome Festival.

Step back in time to meet one of the UK’s most celebrated cult television entertainers! Wacaday’s utterly brilliant, ‘Timmy Mallett’ will be joining us on Friday 10th July at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome. The evening will feature an intimate up close and personal event with an onstage live interview plus an audience Q&A hosted by […]

Nicholas is a prize-winning novelist and biographer. In discussion with Kylie Fitzpatrick, he will explore the intimate connection between writers and spies, and the authors and places which have inspired him. In his latest novel, ‘Frame 37’, Dyer – an ex-journalist – tries to stop a dubious candidate from becoming US President.This event is part […]

Discover St John’s on an atmospheric tour by candlelight around our church. Experience the immersive combination of meditation, light, music and stories that this ancient church has to share with us. Afterwards, you are invited to join the choir for Compline – a short service of quietness and reflection. This event is part of Frome […]

Join John Hegley for an opportunity for writing drawing and drawing out the creative. No experience required, just experiences. There is optional sharing and singing. There is mandolin playing. There is colouring-in. Activities are designed for anyone who has been seven-years-old. All adults to be accompanied by a child or children. No children to be […]

In the post-Restoration period Frome became a major centre of non-conformity, with many places of worship being built within the town. This walk will visit several of them (exteriors only) and reveal the stories behind the denominations who built them. Led by David Lassman of Frome Heritage CIC. This walk starts at St John's Church. […]

Andrew Miller talks to Emma Craigie about ‘The Land in Winter’, his Booker-shortlisted, ‘word-of-mouth favourite’ novel, set in Somerset during the Great Freeze of 1962-3. As the relentless snow creates […]

Join Frome Writers Collective for a wonderful celebration of local, regional and international writing talent. The winners of the Young Writer Competition and the Frome Writers in Residence contest will be announced, and acclaimed author Claire Fuller will reveal the winners of the Frome Short Story Competition and award the prizes.This event is part of […]

Join local author and heritage tree specialist Julian Hight on this ever-popular walk to see some of Frome’s most majestic trees, and hear about their history, legacy and lore. This easy walk will include Millennium Green, Rodden Meadow and Willow Vale. This walk starts from the Cheese & Grain. This event is part of Frome […]

Glamour and glory! Back by popular demand, Fashionable Faith will give you an expert guide through the history and meaning of Christian dress. Admire the detail of our embroidery, be dazzled by the array of colour, understand the rich symbolism and meaning of Church-wear in today’s world. This event is part of Frome Festival.

Emeritus Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, Prof. Keith Barnham considers how Frome could become the first UK town with an all-renewable electricity supply from wind and solar power. The software GIFTS (Get It From The Sun) compares solar and wind supply with grid demand and calculates the anaerobic digestion required to deliver secure […]

Lily Dunn talks to Harriet Derioz about the importance of memoir in our fragmented times, as a transformative experience for both writer and reader. A discussion about life – writing as a shifting and changing form, and why a personal narrative is so much more than finding the story and sharing it with the world.This […]