The Gainsborough Farmers and Craft Market will be a fun event this September with their usual fresh and local produce and craft traders. Additionally, there will be a Literature Village, Steampunk street theatre, storytelling, free crafts and entertainment for children.
Literature Village
For the first time, Newark Book Festival Literature Village will be ‘on tour’ outside of Nottinghamshire – over the border here in Lincolnshire.
Gainsborough Market Place will welcome the ‘stallies’ from Newark Literature Village with their market stalls dedicated to all things book related. Find authors and poets promoting their work, book illustrators, writing groups, craft makers and book themed products.
There will be a super dozen Literature Village traders with something for everyone: children’s and adult fiction, history, thriller, poetry. There will also be storytelling on the Market Place and in the Library on Cobden Street – the Musicians of Bremen and the Pied Piper of Hamlin will be brought alive in a new story format. (10 am in the Library and 11 am on the Market Place). Come and settle down on a beanbag in our pop-up story telling tent!
The Gainsborough Library and Gainsborough Heritage Centre will both have stalls and there will be free crafts for children from AllyPally the Storybook Emporium.
Street Theatre
The fantastical Steampunk ‘Crab and Crumb’ will be joining us on their crazy bicycle machine. Jeremiah Crab and Thadious Crumb -Victorian fairy catchers and magical pest control – will be out and about dealing with pests and trading their weird and wonderful wares (have a sneak peek here).
Enjoy a day out to this historic market town. Explore the historic town centre with its independent shops and Marshall’s Yard shopping centre within easy walking distance. Gainsborough is also home to the magnificent Gainsborough Old Hall as well as many other nearby attractions and things to do. Head over to our visit and things to do pages to find out more. For regular updates follow Discover Gainsborough on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
