Titchfield Platinum Jubilee celebrations get under way

Today marks the start of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee events in the village.

Over 20 scarecrows have been created by residents for the St Peter’s Scarecrow Trail and village ‘Yarn Bombers’ have been busy crocheting red, white and blue bunting and flowers.

To view all the scarecrows a map and voting form for the best entry can be obtained from St Peter’s for just £5.

The trail takes place from the 28th of May through to the 5th of June, 10am till 4pm daily.

And those crafty ‘Yarn Bombers’ have also been decorating lamp posts and village signs with their handiwork.

TACT (Titchfield Arts Community Theatre) announcement

It’s with mixed emotions that we announce that it’s a wrap for TACT.

It has been an amazing and fun journey, some of us from the start with the Passion Play which was performed in The Square in 2002.

The then vicar of Titchfield, Bill Day, asked Heather Carling to direct a Passion Play to celebrate the Millennium. Heather is RADA trained and taught Drama at Southdowns College. The cast was widely drawn from members of the Church and Village. It was performed in the Square at Easter 2002 and drew a large crowd.

Building on that success Heather got together a cast from members of the Church and Village to celebrate the 200 th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar by performing a series of plays based on ‘Heroes’.

The success of this stimulated a desire for the company to put on further productions. These included an evening of plays by Noel Coward, a Nativity Play and more recently Cabarets of short skits and songs.

These were initially held in the Parish Room, more latterly moving to the Community Centre. The winning formula has always been for the audience to bring their supper and sit together at tables.

This decision to end has not been taken lightly but CoVID has understandably given people a chance to re-evaluate their time and commitments and we have decided to go out on a high!

Over the years we have supported many local charities by donating our proceeds. Our final monies will be split 50/50 between The Parish Rooms and The Community Centre, both of which have been good homes for TACT.

All props and costumes will be donated to Titchfield Festival Theatre.

Our company has changed over the years and we thank each and every performer and behind the scenes supporter for their time and contribution in making each year a success.

We could not have done any of this without the fantastic support from our audiences and we thank you so much for your enthusiasm and participation – we’ve loved entertaining you.

Pat Shirley

Director TACT

Titchfield Art and Craft Show

Opens -Saturday 23rd April 2022 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday 24th April 2022 from 10am to 4pm

After an extended break the Titchfield Art & Craft Show was very pleased to be able to set-up and run the show again this year.  We had to move to a different time of the year, causing some confusion for regular visitors; but without the November ‘21 show it would have been a 2 year loss in our fund-raising contribution to the Titchfield Community Association, the charity that runs Titchfield Community Centre.

The Show had a great turn out of Artists, Photographers and Crafters this year with 130 artists exhibiting 377 pieces of art in the main hall.  There were also 18 Crafters in the Malt & Barleycorn rooms selling craft ranging from woodwork, glassware, jewellery, textiles, ceramics, ironwork and even a local micro-brewery.

Over the course of the Show weekend, including the preview evening, we had approximately 800 visitors.

Funds raised
With the funds raised from the sale of Preview Evening Tickets, Entrance fees and artwork sales we have raised a total of £6,000 to be donated.  This will help with the ongoing improvement projects currently running at the Titchfield Community Centre.

Some images form this years show.

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