The annual plant sale at Harkstead on May 2nd raised nearly £4000 for Harkstead Church Heritage and Hope and Homes for Children. The sale takes place over just 2 hours, but the work that goes into it lasts all year.
The bulk of the work is carried out by Rodney Freeman and Evie Rayson, who have already started to prepare for next years sale. Between them they seed, seperate and grow many hundreds of plants, most of the work being carried out in a polytunnel
In the days running up to the event, the plants are placed on trays ready to be transferred to the Village Hall, and this is where the many other helpers come in. They transfer, lay out and label all the plants, offer advice and generally help out the vistors to the sale. There are too many to mention individually, but they all deserve a vote of thanks.
Following on from the success of last year’s Babergh International Film Festival, it has been decided to make it an annual event, and to expand the project to include venues in Mid-Suffolk.Called ‘The Wider Picture Project’ the project brings foreign language films to communities who do not have their own cinema during April and May.
Films for this year’s festival include ‘The Singer’ starring Gerard Depardieu, ‘La Vie En Rose’ a biopic of Edith Piaf, ‘We Shall Overcome’ from Denmark and ‘Caramel’, a romantic comedy set in Beirut.Venues taking part in the Babergh area include Polstead Village Hall, Nayland Village Hall, Peninsula Pix Tattingstone, Hollywood in Hadleigh, Flix in the Stix Lavenham, Screen at Sproughton, Hartest Cinema and The Quay Theatre, Sudbury. A number of educational screenings will be taking place at both Sudbury Upper School and Holbrook High School. Most of the venues are part of the Suffolk Digital Cinema Network a countywide organisation which assists groups to organise film shows in towns and villages in Suffolk. Each venue, run by local volunteers, will be screening films for both adults and children and some screenings will be accompanied by food from the film’s country of origin.
