The speaker programme

The launch event was on 2nd February 2022, the anniversary of the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross, when there was a supposedly a parhelion in the sky and the river ran red with the blood of the soldiers that died.

	Leominster Community Centre Hall for Monday evenings 6-8 pm	Rose tinted Rags Stitchers Wednesday afternoon 1-3 pm in Hereford Closed group	Leominster Community Centre Hall for Thursday mornings 10 am – 12 pm	Additional events
Week 1	7^th February Introduction to project Tracing The Lugg – Jackie	9^th February Introduction to project Tracing the Lugg -Jackie	10^th February Introduction to project Tracing The Lugg – Jackie
Week 2	14^th February Snowdrop artworks by Jane Tudge	16^th February Different snowdrop varieties – Jackie	17^th February Robert Crompton ‘Poetry and the Poly-Olbion’ The reading of the 1600’s poem of the Seventh Song about the Marriage of the Wye and the Lugg.	Sat 19th & Sun 20th Feb. 12 – 4pm Ruth Lewer’s Open Gardens at Lugwardine with special varieties of snowdrops The Garden at Old Longworth HR1 4DF Entrance £5
Week 3	21^st February Jason O’Keefe – historian and re-enactment specialist ‘The Battle of Mortimers Cross’	23^rd February *Lugg poetry* – *Writing a charm to send the floodwaters back into the riverbanks*	24th February Ruth Lewer – snowdrop collector on ‘Wordsworth and Snowdrops’
Week 4	28^th February Marsha O’Mahoney ‘River Voices’	2^nd March Examining how the snowdrops completed so far attach and work with the mill sacks Kate Green- Artist, performing the tune she composed to RTR’s poem ‘A charm for the Lugg’	3^rd March *Robert Crompton -poet, reading ‘2nd part of the Poly-Olbion 7th song poem and one of his own.*‘
Week 5	7^th March *‘Water’*	9^th March The Lugg scrapbook and accompanying artwork and prose *& ‘Water’*	10^th March Mary & Jackie ‘Exploring the legends: Maud and the Dragon of Mordiford’
Week 6	14^th March Chris ‘Exploring the legend: The Mermaid of Marden’	16^th March *‘Exploring the legends: The mermaid of Marden, and Maud & the Dragon of Mordiford’*	17^th March *‘Water’*
Week 7	21^st March ‘Fishing stories’	23^rd March *‘Fishing stories’*	24^th March ‘Fishing stories’
Week 8	28^th March ‘Mills and weirs‘	30^th March No group	31^st March ‘Mills and weirs‘
Week 8	4th April David Lovelace ‘Development of Lugg Valley landscape between Dinmore Manor and Hereford’	6^th April *Stitch and writing poem/lyrics ‘Seasons of the Lugg’*	7^th April Review of David Lovelace’s slide presentation ‘Development of Lugg Valley landscape between Dinmore Manor and Hereford’
Week 10	11^th April Review of snowdrops stitched 1-50	13^th April Stitch and Making ‘Processioning’ staves	14^th April Review of snowdrops stitched 50-113 and Poetry reading of work by Maggie and Robert Crompton reading the Water poet’s poem ‘In prayse of the Needle‘
Week 11	Easter Monday B/H No group	20^th April Review of snowdrops 1-113	21^st April Kate Green – Artist ‘The Lugg songbook‘
Week 12	25^th April Chris ‘The stories of Ethelbert and of Jenny Pipes‘ & an end of project mini celebration	27^th April Riverside picnic at Bishop Palace Gardens	28^th April Elizabeth Semper O’Keefe Hereford Cathedral Archivist ‘ “near the bridge of the Lugg as far as the water of the Lugg'”– the River Lugg as it appears in the archives of Hereford Cathedral’ & an end of project celebration with coffee and cake
Exhibitions	30^th April – 2^nd May Exhibition at Birches Barn Farm	6^th September For about 2 months Exhibition at Herefordshire Archives and Record Centre

Evolving programme to investigate the heritage of the River Lugg. It will be updated regularly, please check back.