Fairlight Hall are delighted to announce the second season of this exciting collaboration with Oxford Lieder Festival. OLF is the UK’s biggest and most renowned festival of classical song, and the recipient of a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award. As well as presenting many of the world’s greatest musicians in Oxford each October, Oxford Lieder supports the very brightest artists of the new generation both at the Festival and further afield throughout the year. Over the course of the year, Oxford Lieder’s artistic director – the pianist Sholto Kynoch – will introduce exceptional emerging professional singers to Fairlight, in a Read More
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Wreath Making Course
Fairlight Hall will be holding their annual wreath making course on the 6th of December between 10:00 and 15:00 in the recital room at Fairlight Hall, where participants can experience making their own festive wreath to take home and a light lunch in the afternoon. Tickets £75 available here Read More
Garden Volunteers
Fairlight Hall Garden Volunteers At Fairlight Hall we offer a volunteer scheme so people can be involved in a variety of areas within the garden. Volunteers at Fairlight Hall will be able to experience one of the finest gardens in East Sussex which is rarely open to the public. They will have the chance to assist in various areas of the garden including: Cut Flowers Decorative borders & pots Exotic borders Glasshouses Herbaceous borders Lawns Meadows Nursery Organic vegetable production Organic fruit production Volunteering is a excellent way to build up experience for a career in horticulture, learn about plants and meet Read More
As You Like It- The Lamb Players at Fairlight Hall
The Lamb Players present ‘As You Like It’ at Fairlight Hall on Friday 17th – Sunday 19th August 2018 Following nine sell out seasons at Lamb House, The Lamb Players play their first season at Fairlight Hall, TN35 the weekend of 17th August. West End and Broadway favourites Jonathan Broadbent, (My Night With Reg, Donmar), Jessica Regan (Doctors, Long Day’s Journey on Broadway) and Radio 4’s Carrie Quinlan lead the company in Shakespeare’s heart-breaking and hilarious As You Like It. Played in the round with beautiful original music, don’t miss this exclusive event playing for four performances only. Picnics encouraged! Book early at www.thelambplayers.com Read More
Handmade at Fairlight Hall
Handmade produce from Fairlight Hall. Read More
Paolo Arrigo- Italy from Seed to Plate
Fairlight Hall’s Talks and Workshops 2017 Season continues on Saturday 24th June with ‘Italy from Seed to Plate’. This entertaining talk by Paolo Arrigo of Franchi Seeds is for gardeners, foodies and Italophiles alike and covers the story of vegetables from Roman times to the present day followed by a delicious lunch of wood fired pizza made with seasonal organic vegetables from the Walled Garden. Paolo Arrigo is passionate about food. Born and brought up in London, he is still very much an Italian at heart and was taught from an early age how to pick mushrooms, grow and cook Read More
Gardening training placements available
If you are interested in re-training for a career in horticulture, there are currently training opportunities in the beautiful gardens at Fairlight Hall through the Work and Retrain As a Gardener Scheme (or WRAGS). Fairlight has supported this great scheme for several years and Head Gardener, Whitney Hedges is keen to help more trainees make their first step towards a career in horticulture. National charity, the WFGA, through WRAGS provides men and women of all ages with the opportunity to work for up to 15 hours per week for one year under the instruction of a head gardener or knowledgeable Read More
Tessa Boase- The Housekeeper’s Tale
The second talk in the 2017 Season takes place on May 19th. Author Tessa Boase has uncovered a series of extraordinary true stories about the housekeepers who ran some of Britain’s most prominent households. £20 with coffee and cake. tickets HERE Far from the cosy, complacent world of Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey, real housekeepers worked surprisingly hard, often in humiliating circumstances, for very little financial reward. This was not, as it turns out, such a cushy job. Tessa’s talk will focus on two very different housekeepers: the ineffectual and elderly Mrs Wells of Uppark in Sussex (mother to H.G.Wells), and racy Scotswoman Read More
LUCINDA LAMBTON
The first of our 2017 Fairlight Hall Talks and Workshops LUCINDA LAMBTON- Palace for Pigs, Architecture for Animals Featuring the works of William Kent, Robert Adams and John Nash. Join Lucinda as she takes us on a race across the most delightfully eccentric field of British Architecture with anecdotal narrative and photographs to delight. £20 with coffee and cake TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE Read More
A Festive Workshop
On November 18th Fairlight Hall held their annual Christmas Flowers and Wreath making workshop, the final event in the ‘Lunch and a Lecture’ Series. This year participants made traditional holiday wreaths, lead by Fairlight Hall’s Head Gardener Whitney Hedge. She taught how to moss wire and spruce copper wreath bases. The Wreaths were constructed in the gloriously decorated hall at Fairlight Hall to a background of festive song. There was a veritable cornucopia of decorations for use to personalise the creations. Whitney Hedges said ‘I found It incredible how different Read More