TIME MACHINEA NEW ONE-DAY FAMILY FESTIVAL

CELEBRATING STOWMARKET’S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

This festival has been produced by the Stowmarket Cultural Group, bringing together cultural organisations across the town to collaborate and celebrate Stowmarket’s culture and history.

Walkabout event and shows Look out for the Time Travelling Machine piloted by the (usually confused) Victorian gadgeteer professor Keith Robinson. The professor has landed in Stowmarket and needs some help navigating his way around and discovering more about this fascinating town!

Stowmarket Snap Map Market Square

Share with us your photos of Stowmarket – what you like, what you don’t like, where you live, where you go, who you see, who you are, or whatever you’d like to see on our Snap Map of Stowmarket. Share online via stowsoc@gmail.com or call in to pin up your snaps and see how the map grows over the day.

10am - 4pm

SATURDAY 9TH OCTOBER

An audience with James Campbell Stowmarket Library

James Campbell, children’s author and comedian, will be delivering an afternoon of fun and laughter all around the theme of Time Travel.

2.30pm – 4pm

Taste the Past Home Close, Museum of East Anglian Life

Celebrating the heritage of fruit in East Anglia, showcasing their new dialect heritage project with the University of Leeds, and exciting plans to be the National Museum of Food. Come and share your local dialect with us and help shape the future of the museum.

10am - 4pm

Stowmarket Bells - past, present and future Stowmarket Library

Discover Stowmarket Bells and bell ringing in the town, meet the ringers and find out about how the bells have reflected the life of the town and its people over 500 years. Learn about hopes and plans for the future, supported by a Lottery funded project which will give Stowmarket a new peal of 10 bells in 2022. Pick up a family discovery pack and find out how you could have a go at this very special activity.

10.30am - 12.30pm

The War Just Outside Ipswich The Regal Cinema

Behind the scenes documentary film about the trenches filming facility in Akenham, Suffolk. The film talks to the location’s creators about how the system came about and the filming that has taken place there over the past 17 years.

Tickets are £6.50 and come with a free hot drink.

Bookings: regalstowmarket.co.uk or call 01449 612825

11am

Dreams for the future of the town Fox Yard Studio

A showcase of artwork and stories from the public in the gallery downstairs, with workshops on the first floor where people can come and contribute to a larger tapestry of writings, paintings and fabric – all stitched together to form a collective artwork.

9am – 5pm

Stitching Stowe Stowmarket Library Garden

Much like the thread that binds the pages of a book, there is a thread that runs through our community, binding those who live here to the history, the story, of ‘the place’. Come and see the launch of the new Stowmarket Library Garden, stitching together the stories of the town and infusing them into paintings and other artwork.

9am - 5pm

History of Old Fox Yard Old Fox Yard

9am – 5pm

From a coaching inn to the design quarter of Stowmarket. The courtyard and the units around it will be storytelling the many uses and memories.

Saturday 9th October

1. Stowmarket Library 4. Museum of East Anglian Life 5. John Peel Centre 6. Market Square3. The Regal 2. Old Fox Yard

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Secrets of Suffolk & Stowmarket’s Past John Peel Centre

Join Stowmarket Local History Group on a tongue in cheek journey into ghostly sightings, fairies and historical facts. Come and learn about some of the grisly myths, tales and true stories of Suffolk and Stowmarket. Murder most foul, Devil Hounds and unusual events. Starting at the John Peel Centre, the gruesome crew will talk and then take you on a guided walk, highlighting some known and not so well-known facts about the town. Bookings essential: www.johnpeelcentre.com or call 01449 774678.

10.30am - 12.30pm1.30pm – 3.00pm

All events are free unless stated

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