Come and join in the fun at MERL's Jubilee Village Fete
Monday, 28 May 2012
The University's Museum of English Rural Life is celebrating the Queen's 60 years with a Jubilee themed village fete on Saturday 9 June.
University staff are especially welcome to come along and perhaps enter the ‘University staff cake baking competition'. Bring your best Victoria and/or Chocolate sponge cakes to the fete on the day for a chance to be crowned the University's cake King or Queen!
If baking's not your thing, there are other ways you can get involved on the day... MERL are looking for photographs of the Queen - have you met her, been to a garden party or seen her on a walkabout? If so, bring your pictures along on the day and the ‘Sense of Place' team will scan them and add them to the Historypin website as part of their ‘Pinning the Queen's History' project.
This year students from the Institute of Education will be exhibiting their work in the Art Department Building L104. An integral part of the four year BA(Ed) course, the Art programme enables the students to continue their development as artists, as well as prepare them for the role of subject leader in Art in the primary school and their work makes a very special exhibition.
Also visiting are border morris side, Armaleggan who will be joined by the Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band to provide entertainment throughout the day. As well as many of our old friends including the Newbury and District Agricultural Society, the 5-a-day market and Thames Valley Vintage Tractors, we'll also be welcoming a 17thC Sealed Knot bodger.
There will be all kinds of activities from traditional games and the village stocks, free craft workshops and the chance to print yourself a copy of a unique Jubilee design created by Typography Lecturer, Martin Andrews and printed on his very special press.
Refreshments will include ice cream, smoothies (‘cycled' yourself!), ‘Janet's Jubilee Teas' served on the wonderful crockery kindly donated over the last few months, a hog roast (and sausages) with homemade apple sauce, and local beers and cider served in the ‘Jubilee Arms'!
Entry this year is £2.50 per adult and free for children. Your numbered programme will offer the chance to enter a prize draw to win two adult tickets to the Berkshire Show in September, so please come along and join in the fun.
For more details, visit the fete website at www.reading.ac.uk/merl/jubileefete