ROOK Lane Arts Chapel on Bath Street is offering a whole host of varied entertainment throughout September.
From 8th September to 22nd October, from 11am – 4pm, Home of our Delight explores the stories of the young men marked on the Mells village memorial, and of their families.
Find out more about the impact of World War 1 at home, expressed through letters, diaries, artefacts and a unique collection of commissioned memorials. Admission is free.
On Tuesday 13th September, The Battle of the Somme with Professor Sir Hew Strachan begins at 6.30pm.
The British folk memory of the Battle of the Somme is dominated by one moment: 7.30am on 01 July 1916. It was a bright summer’s day, the sun well up, and falling from the east on the backs of the German defenders and into the faces of the British. Officers sounded their whistles, and their men scrambled up ladders to get out of the trenches and into No Man’s Land.
Tickets cost £6, concessions £4, under 25’s free.
On Thursday 15th September, Mr Rook’s Speak Easy Presents: Return to Lyonesse by Mike O’Connor & Barbara Griggs, starting at 7.30pm.
Recreated from Breton, Cornish and Welsh texts, Return to Lyonesse tells of the legendary Celtic lands of Lyonesse, Ys and Cantre’r Gwaelod, now lost for ever beneath the waves.
The storytelling performance with harp accompaniment is part of Summerlands Storytelling Festival which is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and The Big Lottery Fund.
Tickets cost £6, concessions £4 in advance and £7/5 on the door.
