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Culture at the Charlbury Beer Festival: full line-up announced

We are pleased to announce the full line-up for the CBF's Culture Club, which will take place at Charlbury Cricket Club on Saturday 24 June.

12.00-2.00: Family-friendly printmaking workshop with local artist Anthony Lloyd. Suitable for all ages and abilities – it’s free, so just drop in!

2.15-2.45: Charlbury Children’s Choir, led by Charlbury-based music teachers and composers Jennie Grierson and Jenny Mahler Larsen, sing a selection of their favourite songs

3.00: The Bodleian Library's Tolkien archivist Catherine McIlwaine on 'JRR Tolkien and Oxford'

3.45: On the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush in the UK, Eddy Smythe will talk about his father: 'John Smythe QC, MBE – World War II airman, Empire Windrush pioneer, and Attorney General of Sierra Leone'

4.30: Paris-based cosmologist Dr Natalie Hogg on 'Cosmology's first century: a guided tour of the universe from Einstein to the James Webb Space Telescope'

5.15: John Partington on 'Beer and the Bible: why Jesus would have been a CAMRA member'

6.00: Charlbury Ukulele Group – bring along a ukulele and/or your voice if you want to join in!

Again we will be sharing a marquee with the tea tent, so non-drinkers as well as beer-drinkers are all very welcome.

Edward Fenton · Wed 24 May 2023, 16:29 · Link


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