Festival programme - week 1
.. Week 1 in Detail plus Special Features.
GRAND OPENING MAY DAY BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND
Download the souvenir programme of events HERE
Friday 1 & Saturday 2 May
Friday 1 May : 7.30 pm
Krakov Restaurant Café, 41 St Cuthbert’s Street, Bedford MK40 3JG
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY DINNER £11.95
New European Cuisine. Exclusive set menu 2 courses
limited numbers - early bookings advised!
www.krakowrestaurant.co.uk ~ Bookings 01234 272053
Congratulations go to The White Horse and Charles Wells for two achievements in the Publican Magazine 2009 Awards Competition. This is the equivalent of the Brewing Industry and Pub Trade 'Oscars'.
Tenanted Pub of the Year - Sponsored by Enjoy England
WINNER: The White Horse, Bedford, Bedfordshire
and
Pub Company of the Year – Tenanted / Leased 200+ outlets - Sponsored by Mediatheme
WINNER: Charles Wells Pub Company, Bedford, Bedfordshire
Managers Nigel & Sue Anstead. Telephone 01234 409306
Supporting Macmillan Cancer Support - Bedford Multiple Sclerosis Centre
The White Horse 3 day Food, Drink and Talent Festival
The White Horse, Newnham Avenue, BedfordMK41 9PX
Saturday, Sunday, Monday 2, 3 & 4 May ~ 12 noon to late! FREE
Saturday 2 May at 1 pm
art’icle magazine stalwarts OPEN TWO FESTIVALS! Bedford/Jersey Arts Festival 2009 & The White Horse Festival.
Saturday 1.00pm
JOHN VERITY ~ DAVID MORGAN
MICHAEL PIPE - Compere
With DOUDOUMBA HALF MOON DRUM CIRCLE
swinging into action on the outdoor stage with 12 hours of continuous music and dance with a WWII arts theme. Charismatic local ‘best pub’ award winners, Nigel and Sue have fascinating food - BBQ 1pm - 5 pm, wonderful wines and real ales awaiting family friendly audiences over 3 whole days! Programme . . .
Saturday: All afternoon and evening featuring
Andy Collier, Swingsters, Shambles Glenn Miller Sound,
Rik King, Matt Roberts and to close a wonderful day,
9 pm to 1 am—cool jazz sounds through
midnight from the Roy Hunt Trio
Sunday & Monday from 12 noon to late . . .
Continuous food, drink and live entertainment
Saturday 2 May : 10 am—4 pm FREE
Priory Methodist Church, Newnham Avenue, Bedford
EXHIBITION OFJERSEY POTTERY
the personal collection of Suzanne Edwards
Refreshments
Sunday 3 May ~ FESTIVAL GALA OPENING DAY
Festival Church of St Peter de Merton with St Cuthbert,
De Parys Avenue, Bedford
BEDFORD JERSEY ARTS FESTIVAL @ ST PETER’S ~ 10.15 am
Festival Morning Service led by Rev Mike Fudger
Guests:
Sally Le Brocq, Lieutenant Bailiff and Jurat for Royal Court of Jersey
Patrick Hall MP for Bedford and Kempston
Guest soloists: Mark and Flynn Le Brocq
BEDFORD JERSEY ARTS FESTIVAL
GALA DAY AT ERSKINE MAY HALL ~ BEDFORD PREP SCHOOL
De Parys Avenue, Bedford - car parking free
All tickets from Central Box Office Bedford: 01234 269519
Gala Luncheon, Performance and Interval Team all inclusive 12.30 pm - 4.30 pm
£25.00 / £20.00 unwaged *
250 FREE TICKETS for 2.30 pm Gala Performance only from Central Box Office only
12.30 pm Festival Gala Buffet Luncheon by L'Epicerie
2 course buffet luncheon including drinks - and desserts to die for!
Gala Performance Interval tea and patisseries
2.30 pm Official Opening & Gala Performance
The Festival will be opened by Sally Le Brocq, Lieutenant Bailiff and Jurat for Royal Court of Jersey
with Festival Patron, Patrick Hall, MP for Bedford & Kempston
SPECIAL GUESTS
Cllr Mrs Nicky Attenborough, Deputy Mayor of Bedford
John Moule, Headmaster of Bedford School
art'icle magazine honoured writers of music, local history, drama and fringe
Deirdre Knight, art'icle magazine Roving Rural Music Reporter ~ Dennis Craddock ~ Stuart Antrobus
Dennis was a WWII Bedford Schoolboy sharing classes with Victoria College evacuees! Find him on this day - he has some super memories and photographs to share!
FESTIVAL GALA PERFORMANCE
Compere ~ Philip Le Brocq, Chair of Victoria College Foundation
Director ~ Richard Moon, Bedford Pantomime Company
Festival commissioned world premiere: “Dear Channel Islanders”
A play by Peter Tabb telling of the evacuation of Victoria College boys to Bedford School in WWII presented by Victoria College, Jersey
directed by Philip Le Brocq
A programme of music and dance by
Mark and Flynn Le Brocq (tenor and treble) accompanied by Richard Heyes
~ Bedford School with Malcolm Green, Head of Woodwind ~
Fusion Choir ~ MD Caroline Muzolf of All Saints’ Church, Bedford
Daubney Middle School Choir MD Ruth Lusby
Young musicians and dancers from the Polish Integration Group
Emma Garrett
Bedfordshire and Jersey share a large Polish community whose culture the Festival shares today!
Young dancers from the Polish Integration Group (below)
Supporting Headway Cumbria Patron: Mark Le Brocq & Headway Bedford 
Monday 4 May ~ FESTIVAL May Day AT ST PETER’S
St Peter’s Chapter House, De Parys Avenue, Bedford
TALKS ‘n’ TEA
Introduced by
Elizabeth Slack Chair of Bedfordshire Festival of Music, Speech and Drama
DAY PASS £15.00 a saving of £6.50 * Or individually priced below
Come and mingle! Lunchtime ‘bites’ and drinks attractively priced:
4.30 pm illustrated talk includes a Jersey Cream Tea!
11 am : £5.00 *
JERSEY—A CULTURAL HISTORY IN 45 MINUTES FLAT!
Presented by Rod McLoughlin, Cultural Development Officer for the States of Jersey. How is it that an English-speaking island 14 miles from the French coast has French as an official language even though it was never part of the Kingdom of France? Rod McLoughlin delves—very rapidly—into more than 800 years of Jersey’s cultural history to explain why King John’s disastrous military campaign in Normandy in 1204 was the beginning of a very special relationship with the English, rather than the French Crown.
1 pm : £5.00 *
A PECULIAR OCCUPATION :
new perspectives on Hitler’s Channel Islands
Presented by Peter Tabb, Jersey historian and author of a book by this name and playwright of “Dear Channel Islanders”— to be performed during the Gala Performance on 3 May.
3 pm : £5.00 *
BEDFORD IN THE WAR - IN WORDS & PICTURES 1939—45
Presented by Stuart Antrobus, Bedford historian/author of a new local history book “We wouldn't have missed it for the world” : The Women’s Land Army in Bedfordshire
1939—1950 ISBN 978-1-903747-93-3
4.30 pm : £6.50 including Jersey Cream Tea *
ZANUSSI—TRANSATLANTIC BALLOON
BBC film and talk by Christopher Davey, retired army major, hot air balloon adventurer, author of Orchid and the Fawn (ISBN 184394), Verger of the Church of St Aubin on the Hill, Jersey ~ Publicity Officer of Jersey Island Singers ~ amateur thespian
Supporting 
Monday 4 May at 7.30 pm
Festival Church of St Peter de Merton with St Cuthbert
De Parys Avenue, Bedford
PAUL EDWARDS AND HIS MUSIC
presented by CANTAMUS ~ Music Director : Gary Mudd
One of Bedford’s premier choirs presents a tribute to a Bedford Composer,
his songs ~ his music ~ his friends ~
with PAUL EDWARDS organ
TICKETS £12.00 / £8.00 *
* TICKETS FROM BEDFORD CENTRAL BOX OFFICE 01234 269519
* ONLINE www.bedfordcornexchange.co.uk/events/whats-on 
Bedford Jersey Arts festival
1 May – 5 July 2009 in Bedfordshire UK
Celebrating 70 years of friendship 1939—2009
“Victoria College, Jersey children evacuated to Bedford School during the Nazi Occupation of Jersey in WWII”
This website is an ongoing project started in late January 2009.