{"id":14710,"date":"2018-01-23T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:03:39","slug":"darwin-shrewsbury-festival-with-free-events-is-coming-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/darwin-shrewsbury-festival-with-free-events-is-coming-in-february","title":{"rendered":"DarwIN Shrewsbury Festival with free events is coming in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">Shrewsbury will be celebrating the birthday of Charles Darwin, it&#8217;s famous son, with a two-and-a-half week festival next month. The 2018 DarwIN Shrewsbury Festival will be held between 8<sup>th<\/sup> February and 24<sup>th<\/sup> February, with an exciting schedule to entertain the whole family. From brain-teasing lectures to dance workshops, to a series of fun and interactive events, that will all take place across the town, the fest is set to be bigger and brighter than ever.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The final of the first Shropshire Young thinkers Competition will kick off the festival on 8<sup>th<\/sup> February. The finalists of this event run by Morris &amp; Company and the University Centre Shrewsbury, will present to a panel of judges their &#8216;One Great Idea To Change The World&#8217;, at University Centre Shrewsbury. Winners of the 7 to 11 and 12 to 17 age categories, will be presented fantastic prizes and crowned. Tickets can be booked for the judging event at the site- originalshrewbsbury.co.uk\/Darwin.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The festival programme has a diverse range of specialist talks, to inspire and engage audiences, including Prof. Martin Rudwick&#8217;s memorial lecture. Throughout the festival, there will be guided tours of Darwin&#8217;s childhood. The Hive will host an evolution of dace, talk and workshop. Children during the half term can join workshops of The Wildlife Trust and Shrewsbury Museum. On 10<sup>th<\/sup> February, there&#8217;s a Darwin-themed Park Run. The museum&#8217;s Stop Cafe will host Cafe Concert, featuring music of Beethovan, Bartok and Bach, and also musicians Peter Adams and Zoe Beyers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Shrewbury BID&#8217;s Partnership Manager, Aleks Vladimirov, said they are excited about the events for the festival, that celebrates the town as as the origin of independent thinking and to remember a man and his ground-breaking ideas. The Festival has many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirelive.com\/entertainment\/2018\/01\/23\/darwin-celebrations-set-to-get-shrewsbury-thinking\/\">free events<\/a> and are popular, so the public is advised to book in advance. More information and ticket details for the DarwIN Shrewsbury Festival is hosted on the website- originalshrewsbury.co.uk\/Darwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shrewsbury will be celebrating the birthday of Charles Darwin, it&#8217;s famous son, with a two-and-a-half week festival next month. The 2018 DarwIN Shrewsbury Festival will be held between 8th February and 24th February, with an exciting schedule to entertain the whole family. From brain-teasing lectures to dance workshops, to a series of fun and interactive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","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=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14711,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}