MGSO4 Festival is pleased to announce a new open arts commission to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of the discovery of Epsom Salts and the festival theme ‘Discovery.’
In preparation for the next MGSO4 Festival in July 2018, we are looking for experienced, enthusiastic people to join our Board, the body with overall responsibility for MGSO4’s governance as a registered charity.
Following several months of creative workshops around the borough, we are very pleased to announce that there will be an exhibition of work produced as part of our inter-generational clay project Washed Off Memories.
We are delighted to have been awarded a grant of £750 through Community Foundation for Surrey (CFS), to support creative activities that benefit older people.
Thanks to an excellent public response to the art exhibited in the town centre café during our first festival, we are delighted to announce there will be a rolling exhibition of local artists’ work in Caffè Nero, Epsom.
After reading a fantastic collection of poems on the theme of Our Town, MGSO4 Festival judges have selected the shortlist for the children's poetry competition.
MGSO4 Festival has partnered with luxury handmade brand The Surrey Soap Company to offer a fantastic special edition product range of Epsom salts to support fundraising efforts. A donation of 16% will be made to festival funds for each purchase.
A competition has been launched to find the borough's most talented musicians, aged 18 and under and the winners will perform live on stage at MGSO4 Epsom & Ewell Arts Festival in June.
Residents and visitors to Epsom and Ewell will soon be spoilt for choice as shops, businesses and venues prepare to host the biggest number of concurrent exhibitions of original artwork that the borough has ever seen.
A brand new song has this week been released to celebrate the launch of MGSO4: Epsom & Ewell Arts Festival, by local songwriter and musician Ben Tompsett.
MGSO4 Epsom & Ewell Arts Festival has launched a competition to find the borough’s most talented young poets, on the theme of ‘Our Town.’ Submissions are invited from children and young people aged between six and 18, in the form of a poem of up to 40 lines.
The first ever arts festival in Epsom & Ewell is to welcome the celebrated playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, back to his childhood home, for a unique event.
Teenagers from The Challenge, a government-backed volunteering scheme, have selected MGSO4 Epsom & Ewell Arts Festival their social action project for 2016.
University of the Creative Arts, Epsom has welcomed plans for an arts festival in Epsom & Ewell, and put forward its marketing students to come up with new ideas for promoting the three-day event.
To make sure that everyone can enjoy the arts festival, many of the high-quality events put on by MGSO4 will be completely free. These range from arts and music sessions for people who have dementia, to exhibitions and outdoor shows.
The MGSO4 team is pleased to be working with local groups including The Sunnybank Trust, Conquest Art, Phab, drop-in centres and care homes for older people, as well as all schools in Epsom & Ewell.
