Great Green Barn

01/11/2024

Our Creative Writing Group meetups at the Great Green Barn continue next Wednesday morning. Hosted by Mark Insoll in a fun and friendly space, these sessions are perfect for those who wish to be inspired and share their creative writing with others.

If you want to be inspired with your writing aims, come and join us on Wednesday mornings - your first session is introductory and free. Mark hopes that his experience as a corporate and educational filmmaker, writing and working with a wide variety of topics and treatments, will provide a fresh approach to dealing with that peculiar itch that only writing seems to soothe.

Dates & Sessions
Wednesday Mornings, 10am to Noon​
Price: £15 per meeting - first introductory session free!
For further information, to talk to Mark prior to attending or to register your interest email [email protected]

30/10/2024

The festive spirit soon will be alive and well at our Everlasting Willow Christmas Wreath class. 🎄🎄🎄

Linda Mills has been working with willow for over 20 years. At this class she'll guide us through how to make a natural white willow and fabric wreath that can be embellished with foliage and other natural materials - which if removed after the festive season allows for the willow part of the wreath to be used repeatedly, year-on-year! 🥳❄️🎄❄️ 🥳

Friday 29th November, 10am - Noon
Great Green Barn, Upper House Lane, GU5 0SX
£45 including all materials and refreshment.
For further information and to book visit GreatGreenBarn.com.

28/10/2024

If creative writing's your thing, join us at the Great Green Barn on Wednesday mornings at 10am for our two-hour Creative Writing Group meetup hosted by Mark Insoll.

Last week an attendee felt the session really helped her progress, and said "This writing workshop has given me the motivation I very much needed. It was inspiring to hear other writers work, a great space to share my own work for the first time and to provide a goal to write on a selected word for next week. Just what I needed!"

If you want to be inspired with your writing aims, come and join us on Wednesday morning - your first session is introductory and free. Mark hopes that his experience as a corporate and educational filmmaker, writing and working with a wide variety of topics and treatments, will provide a fresh approach to dealing with that peculiar itch that only writing seems to soothe.

Dates & Sessions
Wednesday Mornings, 10am to Noon​
Price: £15 per meeting - first introductory session free!
For further information, to talk to Mark prior to attending or to register your interest contact us using the email in Comments.

23/10/2024

Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for an evening of fun and board games at the Great Green Barn - 6.30pm to 9pm! Whether you’re in on the board gaming action or prefer just watching from the sidelines and having a chat; this event is for you!
We've a host of board games including as Monopoly, Exploding Kittens, Ticket to Ride - Europe and Code Names... and if you've a favourite board game please bring it along! We’d love to see your interesting games.

Visit GreatGreenBarn.com for full details.

Monopoly image courtesy Suzy Hazelwood @ Pexels . com.

22/10/2024

From this week we've fresh, locally baked Organic Sourdough made with flour (a mix of organic white, rye and wholemeal), water and sourdough starter (which itself is just a mix of flour and water). 👍👍👍
Chris (pictured) lives in Cranleigh and will be delivering these fabulous loaves to us each Thursday - the loaves are circa 750g and £6 each. 👍 Vanessa can attest these are DELICIOUS!! 😊
We're expecting these to be very popular, so please do pre-order where possible. 👍😊👍

21/10/2024

Join our FREE introductory creating writing session at the Great Green Barn this coming Wednesday morning.

Whether you're new to creative writing or writing regularly, this first session will give you an opportunity to see if these sessions will work for you, and ask questions of our host Mark Insoll.

Whilst being published may be the dream, a rewarding writing experience doesn’t necessitate seeing your name in print. Meeting with other writers in a friendly and supportive environment can be fun, thought-provoking and motivating.

Comprising a two-hour session starting at 10am on Wednesday (23 October), our aim is to create an opportunity for people who already write for pleasure to read out and discuss samples of their work with other committed writers.

Mark hopes that his experience as a corporate and educational filmmaker, writing and working with a wide variety of topics and treatments, will provide a fresh approach to dealing with that peculiar itch that only writing seems to soothe.

Dates & Sessions
Wednesday Mornings, 10am to Noon​:
23 October - Introductory Session (Free)
30 October and 6, 13, 20 & 27 November 2024 - Weekly Sessions
Price: £15 per meeting - first introductory session free!
Register your interest: Email [email protected]

18/10/2024

Dame Maureen Lipman said of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒖𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒚 "The most elegant, exquisite, beautifully realised show. It's fascinating... interesting... moving. It has all her career, and more than that it really takes you inside the soul of another human being. Fantastic. Don't miss it."

Written and performed by Helen Anker (𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘢!, 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘯) we're taken through the life of Audrey Hepburn, one of the world's most beloved icons as she invites us to a private viewing of her collection of film memorabilia at her home in Switzerland.
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As Audrey takes us through the items, she shares her successes and failures, her triumphs and disappointments, confronting her anxieties and fears with joy and laughter, and finding the truth she's never been able to voice before.

Saturday 7 December, 7.30pm
Book online at GreatGreenBarn.com

16/10/2024

Beginning next Wednesday (23rd October) with a FREE introductory session, the Great Green Barn will be trialling a six-week series of creative writing meet-ups hosted by Mark Insoll.

Whether it takes the form of a short story, memoir, poem, comedy sketch, essay, play or novel, creative writing allows us to express our thoughts, experiences and emotions in unique and personal ways. And whilst being published may be the dream, a rewarding writing experience doesn’t necessitate seeing your name in print. Meeting with other writers in a friendly and supportive environment can be fun, thought-provoking and motivating.

Comprising a two-hour session starting at 10.00 am, our aim is to create an opportunity for people who already write for pleasure to read out and discuss samples of their work with other committed writers.

Mark hopes that his experience as a corporate and educational filmmaker, writing and working with a wide variety of topics and treatments, will provide a fresh approach to dealing with that peculiar itch that only writing seems to soothe.
Dates & Sessions
Wednesday Mornings, 10am to Noon​:
23 October - Introductory Session (Free)
30 October and 6, 13, 20 & 27 November 2024 - Weekly Sessions
Price: £15 per meeting - first introductory session free!
Register your interest: Email [email protected]

14/10/2024

We had a fabulous time on Saturday with 𝐎𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 at the Great Green Barn. "What a night!", "Cheryl captures Joyce Grenfell perfectly" and "I'm so looking forward to the next event" are just three comments by audience members at this nostalgia gem of a show.

Thank you SO much Cheryl and Paul for bringing your terrific show to us, and to Tim too for all your help. And of course, thanks to all members of the audience for coming along to our new venue and enjoying the show - your laughter, sentiment and applause filled the barn to its rafters.

11/10/2024

Experience the elegance of a traditional full Afternoon Tea served under the beams of our beautifully restored 17th century Great Green Barn.

We've chosen the very best for you; warm scones with jam & clotted cream, extraordinary cakes and pâtisserie and an array of freshly prepared finger sandwiches. All served with a selection of loose-leaf teas.

Our next Afternoon Tea is Tuesday 15 October at 3pm - advance booking is essential. Book online at GreatGreenBarn.com.

09/10/2024

This Saturday, experience the wit, wisdom and whimsy of the inimitable Joyce Grenfell this Saturday as Cheryl Knight "absolutely captures her spirit" in this gem of nostalgia that recreates one of Joyce's stage shows.

Saturday 12 October, 7.30pm at the Great Green Barn Theatre, GU5 0SX.
Book online @ GreatGreenBarn.com.

Quote: Everything Theatre

03/10/2024

"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night" 😂

So said the inimitable Joyce Grenfell, one of the greatest female entertainers of the twentieth century. And you can expect much more of this wit, wisdom and whimsy in 𝐎𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞, next week's first theatre show at the Great Green Barn!!

This delightful gem of nostalgia recreates the setting of one of Joyce’s stage shows, and Cheryl Knight ‘𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕’ (Everything Theatre). Truly a labour of love, this show brings back to life an extraordinary entertainer.

Saturday 12 October at 7.30pm - for details and to book visit GreatGreenBarn.com.

30/09/2024

Don't forget if you're coming to the Repair Cafe on Saturday to bring your soft plastic with you so it can be recycled.

We can collect all sorts of soft plastic, crisp packets, biscuit wrappers, frozen food bags, bread bags, the list really is endless.

All we ask is that the packaging is clean.

Thank you.

26/09/2024

Just over two weeks to our first theatre show at the Great Green Barn!!
𝐎𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 celebrates one of the greatest female entertainers of the twentieth century, the inimitable Joyce Grenfell.
This delightful gem of nostalgia recreates the setting of one of Joyce’s stage shows, and Cheryl Knight ‘𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕’ (Everything Theatre). Truly a labour of love, this show brings back to life an extraordinary entertainer.
Saturday 12 October at 7.30pm - for details and to book visit GreatGreenBarn.com.

18/09/2024

The Great Great Green Barn Book Club! 👍

This is something we'd love to start and grow, though we need the help of one or two people who'd be happy to lead and develop this with us. If you're interested, please do drop a comment below and we'll get in touch, or drop us an email. 🤞

09/09/2024

𝐐. What do Joyce Grenfell, Robert & Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Audrey Hepburn and Noël Coward have in common?

𝐀. You will find them all in the Great Green Barn's Autumn Theatre Season, plus there are cookery classes, afternoon teas, games nights, and much more to come!

Visit the Great Green Barn website for further details and how to book.

Following a restoration where traditional crafts were at the forefront, the Great Green Barn is now open and hosts events that benefit our local community and society and, importantly, our planet...

03/09/2024

Our first theatre show at the Great Green Barn is 𝐎𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞, which celebrates one of the greatest female entertainers of the twentieth century, the inimitable Joyce Grenfell.
In this gem of nostalgia, which recreates the setting of one of Joyce’s stage shows, Cheryl Knight ‘𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕’ (Everything Theatre). Truly a labour of love, this show brings back to life an extraordinary entertainer.
Saturday 12 October at 7.30pm - for details and to book visit GreatGreenBarn.com.