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GLASBURY ARTS 13th Harp Summer School 20-23 August 2025 – For full details go to harp menu above
GLASBURY ARTS HARP SUMMER SCHOOL
GLASBURY ARTS 13th Harp Summer School 20-23 August 2025 – For full details go to harp menu above
GLASBURY ARTS HARP SUMMER SCHOOL
GLASBURY ARTS 13th Harp Summer School 20-23 August 2025 – For full details go to harp menu above
GLASBURY ARTS HARP SUMMER SCHOOL
GLASBURY ARTS 13th Harp Summer School 20-23 August 2025 – For full details go to harp menu above
GLASBURY ARTS EXHIBITION 2025
This year will see our 22nd Annual Exhibition at Glasbury Village hall - 17th to 21st October 2025
GLASBURY ARTS EXHIBITION
This year will see our 22nd Annual Exhibition at Glasbury Village hall - 17th to 21st October 2025

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GLASBURY ARTS
Tribute to Lord David Lipsey
It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Lord David who drowned whilst swimming in the river Wye at Glasbury on 1 July. Lord David and his wife Lady Margaret were our first patrons. 
Losing someone we regard as a long-standing friend is even more painful in these tragic circumstances and our thoughts are with Lady Margaret and the family at this difficult time. 
Lord David’s link with Glasbury Arts goes back to 2003  when he visited our first exhibition, which was intended to be a one-off event but is now in its 22nd year. What impressed him most was the fact that students from Gwernyfed High School were exhibiting alongside significant artists and, together with Lady Margaret. became one of our longest serving and most generous supporters. When the new independent Glasbury Arts charity was formed in April 2011 we invited them both to become patrons.
Our annual exhibition grew and developed  maintaining the ethos of having both established artists and local secondary school students exhibiting together  that had so impressed Lord David back in 2003. This theme was continued when we co-founded the Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting series of exhibitions across Wales with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery in 2017. Along with the visual arts Lord David’s interests also spread into music and both he and Lady Margaret supported many young musicians over the years.
When Glasbury Arts set up a Harp Summer School in 2011 Lord David became a regular visitor at the final concert and was so enthusiastic about the performance. In 2020  we set up our Harps in Schools programme providing free music tuition to young people in two of our local schools, and Lord David made his support a priority.
There are also other mid – Wales  charities he supported, being a trustee of the  Cambrian Music Trust, Chairman of the Sidney Nolan Trust, and a trustee of the Mid-Wales Music Trust. Others will no doubt write extensively about his considerable political career, and his journalistic life  for diverse publications such  The Times, Guardian and, Economist not to mention his enthusiastic interest in harness and greyhound racing.
For Glasbury Arts however, it his support and commitment to our charity over 22 years which is uppermost in our minds,  and we have lost a great friend and supporter who will be irreplaceable and  missed by us all.
 

Welcome to Glasbury Arts

 

Glasbury Arts

Glasbury Arts is a community arts charity in the heart of mid-Wales run entirely by volunteers. This year we will be adding to our programme a little slower than previous years as we finalise details, so please do check back regularly for full event details.
We hope you will find something of interest within the programme.

 

We would like to thank our members, volunteers, and supporters for their ongoing support,

We are especially grateful to our Patrons Lord David and Lady Margaret Lipsey, Catrin Finch, Alan Salisbury, Katherine Thomas, Harriet Earis, Kirsty Williams CBE, Eleanor Turner and to Nic Carter Jones of New Millennium who has taken over the design and management of our website.

Harps in Schools film featuring Jo Brand and Catrin Finch