Rook Lane Blog
Category Archives: Event Previews
Muddy Stiettos Awards 2024
April 9, 2024
Hi everyone. We have got through to the regional finals of the annual Muddy Stilettos Awards, in the “Best Event Venue” catagory for Dorset, Somerset & Bristol region, one of only five Venues. If you agree we would […]
Exhibition Offer for 2022
November 2, 2021
Are you thinking of putting on an exhibition of your work, we have the perfect venue for you. It is spacious, light, welcoming, and right in town. The perfect setting for any style or medium of art. If […]
Christmas Party Special Offer 2021
September 16, 2021
After all the upheaval and changes many that business’s have had to deal with during the pandemic, it must be time to let our hair down. Time to celebrate and reward our staff for their support and fortitude […]
September at Rook Lane….The Frome Art Fair, the Bardic Chair Storytelling competition and Fiata Winds concert.
September 8, 2015
Open Storytellers presents: The Bardic Chair Storytelling competition with Mr Rook’s Speak Easy. Thursday 24th September Doors 7pm//Start 7:30pm This year the Bardic Chair Story Telling competition sees Mr Rook’s Speak Easy collaborating with Open Storytellers. Come along […]
Home of our Delight: Exploring the impact of the First World War on Mells
September 1, 2015
Home of our Delight explores the stories of the young men marked on the Mells village memorial, and of their families. As well as gamekeepers, gardeners and colliery workers these men included the last son and heir of […]
Tales of adventure, exploration and intrigue come to Rook Lane
February 19, 2015
Nationally acclaimed contemporary storyteller Giles Abbott is set to bring his new show to Frome to launch the new monthly sessions of storytelling club Mr Rook’s Speak Easy. Tongues of Flame, is a new, Arts Council England commissioned […]
A trio of folk gigs to welcome in the Spring…
January 31, 2015
For fans of folk music we have a trio of treats in store this season. All three of these gigs are likely to be a little bit special, so well worth making the journey. On Friday 20th February, […]
Storytelling, but not as you know it….
October 28, 2014
Picture the scene: It’s a crisp autumnal evening, and you wend your way through Frome’s cobbled streets and narrow alleyways until you see the beckoning lights of Rook Lane Chapel, welcoming you up the hill and inside. Here […]
Random Mouse: From dirty folk rock to The Lords of Thyme…
October 17, 2014
In August 2014, Random Mouse promotions came into being. A small-scale, grass-roots operation, Random Mouse is about bringing sporadic, small and beautifully-formed gigs to Frome. For it’s inaugral event, the Mouse hosted a side-splitting gig from Jessica Delfino […]
Frome with a view…
October 14, 2014
The Frome Urban Sketchers were formed in 2013, as the brainchild of local artist David Chandler and NVB Architects Director & Chair of the RIBA SouthWest, Giles Vallis. The idea was to offer an oppurtunity for sketchers and […]
