{"id":13731,"date":"2017-04-24T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2017-04-24T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:10:41","slug":"hawkwood-college-in-stroud-to-host-may-day-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/hawkwood-college-in-stroud-to-host-may-day-festival","title":{"rendered":"Hawkwood College in Stroud to host May Day Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">Hawkwood College will be hosting its annual May Day Festival at its premises on Painswick Old Road, in Stroud, on 1<sup>st<\/sup> May, a Monday. The family fun day will have live music by local artists on the patio area, throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Children&#8217;s activities throughout the day include storytelling, face painting, maypole dancing , treasure hunt in the grounds, nature and art. Adults get free taster workshops. The Hawkwood programme offers talks, chances to try out biodanza, laughter yoga, calligraphy and more.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Local suppliers will be putting up stalls in the main hall. Demonstrating and selling their works here will be some of Hawkwood&#8217;s tutors. Here guests can have a drink from the bar with beer from Stroud Brewery, or they can enjoy the barbecue with organic bites, or get a treat of delicious ice-cream from Winstone.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The &#8216;Bard of Hawkwood&#8217;, an annual competition, will be held with aspiring poets, writers, story tellers and singers performing here original works. Alicia Carey, the principal of the college, said they are celebrating Hawkwood&#8217;s 69<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary this year and fundraising for their coming 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. Visitors are welcome to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazetteseries.co.uk\/leisure\/music\/15238147.May_Day_Festival_at_at_Hawkwood_College_in_Stroud\/\">free event<\/a>, with the gates open from 10am to 5pm, where entry is free, but car parking is chargeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkwood College will be hosting its annual May Day Festival at its premises on Painswick Old Road, in Stroud, on 1st May, a Monday. The family fun day will have live music by local artists on the patio area, throughout the day. Children&#8217;s activities throughout the day include storytelling, face painting, maypole dancing , treasure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}