Lewes Food Market

Friday 1st October @ Market Tower

Celebrate the launch of OctoberFeast up at the Market Tower, where Old Gabriel will be heard voicing its approval.

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Since its launch in July this wonderful community market has become a vibrant and essential part of Lewesians’ shopping routines – snap up some locally grown fruits, vegetables, fantastic cakes and pastries and other products from farms, allotments and gardens.

Date: Friday 1st October
Time: 9.30am – 1.30pm
Ticket Info: Free – no tickets
Venue:
Market Tower

Market Street

Lewes,
East Sussex, BN7 2NB

07824 711 727

The Power of Flour – SOLD OUT
Friday 1st October @ Plumpton Mill

Paul and Carole Nicholson have lovingly restored this original water mill back to full working order and are milling locally grown, high grade organic flour on site.

This very special workshop will cover the history and practical engineering of water powered milling and the alchemy of simple, handcrafted bread. As well as milling and baking, we will also prepare and share a delicious seasonal lunch.

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Numbers are limited and there are only a few places left.

Date: Friday 1st October
Time: 10am to 2pm
Ticket Info: £40 (For more information and to book contact Robin Van Creveld robin@communitychef.org.uk, www.communitychef.org.uk
Venue: 
Plumpton Mill

Plumpton

East Sussex, BN7 3AH

Big Night
Friday 1st October @ All Saint’s

Directed by Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott (1996). 107 mins, 15. An intimate look at the immigrant struggle to attain the American Dream, set in New Jersey in the 1950s. The brothers in Big Night – chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and businessman Secondo (Tucci) – have come to New Jersey to open a bistro named The Paradise that serves the finest in traditional, authentic Italian cuisine.

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They decide to stake everything on a magnificent ten-course feast, inviting all the local movers and shakers. The dining scene, featuring Isabella rossellini and Minnie Driver, is one of cinema’s most succulent passages. Buon appetito.

Date: Friday 1st October
Time: 8pm
Ticket Info : £1.50 for Lewes Film Club members, or £5 to members of the public on the door.
Venue:
All Saints Arts Centre

Friars Walk

Lewes, BN7 2LE

Tel: 01273 471588

Email: info@lewes-filmclub.org

Shakespeare a La Carte – Friday 1st
Friday 1st October @ Bill’s

Devised and performed by Jonathan Cullen, Fiona Dunn & Richard Hahlo.
At Lewes’s very own Bill’s produce store, your waiter takes your order for a two-course dinner, as well as your choice from the Shakespeare menu. Some of the best bits, and a few surprises, are then served up at your table and all around the restaurant.

Ticket price includes a two-course dinner (see more info below for menu)

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Originally commissioned by the Brighton Festival, and winner of an Argus Angel Award, this ‘charming gem of a production’ (Miriam Reilly, Pick of the Week, Radio 4) was subsequently recorded in 2009 for BBC Radio 4′s Afternoon Play.

This production is presented with the kind permission of Hydrocracker


The menu is as follows:
- Chicken, chorizo and butterbean stew
- Bill’s classic fish pie
- Thai pumpkin and coconut curry,cashews and jasmine rice (v)
- Toffee apple crumble and vanilla pod ice cream
- Warm chocolate brownie and vanilla pod ice cream

Date: Friday 1st October
Time: Show commences at 8pm (arriving for dinner from 6.30)
Ticket Info: Can be purchased online or in person from The Print Room, Station Street (01273 472710)
Venue:
Bill’s Produce Store

56 Cliffe High Street

Lewes, East Sussex

BN7 2AN

Tel: 01273 476918

Apple Pressing in the Market Tower
Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd & Saturday 9th @ the Market Tower

Fed-up with seeing your apple glut go to waste year after year? Start storing them now … OctoberFeast is soon to be the proud owner of an apple press.

Thanks to the generosity of The South Downs Sustainable Development Fund, Lewes now owns its own fruit press and OctoberFeast will offer the opportunity to locals to bring their apples and pears to the Market Tower on the Saturday 2, Sunday 3rd & Saturday 9th October and have them pressed for a moderate charge of 50p per litre.

If anyone is interested in volunteering to help with the pressings please contact us.

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It is recommended that people bring washed fruit to the Market Tower, preferably quartered, and clean plastic containers. (Plastic litre bottles used for milk are ideal)

This project aims to promote greater awareness of the apple and pear trees in Lewes, so, if you know the type of tree in your garden, we would also welcome that information and their number when you come to the Market Tower.

The press holds 18kg of crushed fruit which will produce approximately 8 litres of juice. With a full press, it should be possible to do 3 pressings an hour.

Date: Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd, Saturday 9th October
Time: 10am – 4pm
Ticket info: No ticket required -50p per litre charge
Venue:
Market Tower

Market Street

Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2NB

07824 711 727

Lewes Farmer’s Market
Saturday 2nd October @ Lewes Precinct

Delicious fresh produce including fresh meat, poultry, fish and game; eggs; cow, sheep and ewe cheeses; raw milk and natural yoghurts … much of the produce is organic, and all of it is local.

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Also seasonal fruit, vegetables and herbs; a wide variety of breads, and sweet and savoury bakes and pies; honey, jam and pickles; take-away food to eat there, and take-home meals to eat later; local fruit juices, wines, cider and ale; cut flowers and unusual plants for the garden; and local quality craft and hand-made soaps.

Date: Saturday 2nd October
Time: 9am – 1pm
Ticket Info: Free – no tickets
Venue:
Lewes Precinct

A Celebration of Local Apples & Cheese
Saturday 2nd October @ The Market Tower

‘An apple without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.’

There will be stalls with apple and cheese related food and drink, bar, music, tastings and apple ‘events’. Expert advice on apples and orchards will be provided by Peter May. There will be a Ploughman’s Lunch available, a raffle and ‘The Launch of the Octoberfeast Apple Press’.

(The Press will be  in the Market Tower on each Saturday and Sunday. Please let us know if you have excess apples to press for juice.)

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Can you support your local market at this event and donate any apples? These should be bagged in clear plastic (1kilo or above) ready to sell, and if possible be labelled with the variety of apple or a description e.g. cooking apple. If you are able to do this could you e-mail lewesfoodmarket@hotmail.com giving us an idea of how much you can bring in on the day.

Thank you for your support.

Date: Saturday 2nd October
Time: 12.00 – 4pm
Ticket Info : Free – no tickets
Venue:
Market Tower

Market Street
Lewes,
East Sussex

BN7 2NB

07824 711 727

Hog Roast at The Buttercup Cafe
Saturday 2nd October @ The Buttercup Café

Hidden away in the Cliffe is Lewes’ best-kept secret … the Buttercup Café.  They have invited Peter Richards to roast a whole hog in the courtyard, ready for serving just in time for lunch at 12. Get there early if you want the trotters.
Full menu will be confirmed nearer the time.

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Date: Saturday 2nd October
Time: Open 9am – 5pm. Hog ready @ 12pm
Ticket Info: Usual food menu prices apply, no ticket required
Venue: 
Buttercup Café

At Pastorale Antiques

15 Malling Street,

Lewes

Tel: 01273 477664

Dancing In The Old
Saturday 2nd October @ Harvey’s Yard

Harvey’s annual event to usher in the season’s new beer.

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Date: Saturday 2nd October
Time: 1pm
Ticket Info: Free – no tickets
Venue: Harvey’s Yard

Shakespeare a La Carte – Saturday 2nd – SOLD OUT
Saturday 2nd October @ Bill’s

Devised and performed by Jonathan Cullen, Fiona Dunn & Richard Hahlo.

At Lewes’s very own Bill’s produce store, your waiter takes your order for a two-course dinner, as well as your choice from the Shakespeare menu. Some of the best bits, and a few surprises, are then served up at your table and all around the restaurant.

Ticket price includes a two-course dinner.

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Originally commissioned by the Brighton Festival, and winner of an Argus Angel Award, this ‘charming gem of a production’ (Miriam Reilly, Pick of the Week, Radio 4) was subsequently recorded in 2009 for BBC Radio 4′s Afternoon Play.

This production is presented with the kind permission of Hydrocracker


The menu is as follows:
- Chicken, chorizo and butterbean stew
- Bill’s classic fish pie
- Thai pumpkin and coconut curry,cashews and jasmine rice (v)
- Toffee apple crumble and vanilla pod ice cream
- Warm chocolate brownie and vanilla pod ice cream

Date: Saturday 2nd October
Ticket Info: Can be purchased online or in person from The Print Room, Station Street (01273 472710)
Time: Show commences at 8pm (arriving for dinner from 6.30)
Venue:
Bill’s Produce Store

56 Cliffe High Street

Lewes, East Sussex

BN7 2AN

Tel: 01273 476918

World Pea Throwing Championships
Sunday 3rd October @ Castle Ditch Lane

One of Lewes’ more surreal competitions (and there are many, and most of them take place outside the Lewes Arms) is the ‘World Pea Throwing Championship’, which is taking place this year in Castle Ditch Lane at 2pm on Sunday 3rd October.

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The rules are simple. Contestants have to throw peas – supplied by the organisers – as far as they can, using whatever throwing method they choose. The World Record is still held, we’re informed, by Danny Tear, with a throw of over 30 metres.

All proceeds go to the Sasha Roberts Scholarship Fund. This is the 12th edition of the Championships: being an OctoberFeast event, all the peas used will be locally sourced.

Date: Sunday 3rd October
Time: 2pm
Ticketing Info: Adults £2 entry, children £1
Venue:
Lewes Arms

Castle Ditch Lane

Lewes

East Sussex

Babette’s Feast
Sunday 3rd October @ All Saints

Directed by Gabriel Axel (1987). 102 mins, subtitles, PG. A celebration of the ultimate feast which causes old wrongs to be forgotten, ancient loves to be rekindled, and a mystical redemption of the human spirit.

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Date: Sunday 3rd October
Time: 11am (breakfast from 10.30am)
Ticket Info : £1.50 for Lewes Film Club members, or £5 to members of the public on the door.
Venue:
All Saints Arts Centre

Friars Walk

Lewes, BN7 2LE

Tel: 01273 471588

Email: info@lewes-filmclub.org

Meet The Producer
Monday 4th October @ Cheese Please

Meet the award-winning artisan cheese-makers Alsop & Walker and celebrate the launch of their special OctoberFeast cheese.

Ouse Valley will also be launching their new chutney at this event.

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Date: Monday 4th October
Time: 4 – 6pm
Ticket Info: Free – no tickets required
Venue:
Cheese Please

46 High Street

Lewes

East Sussex

BN7 2DD

Tel: 01273 481048

Harvey’s Brewery Tour & Tasting – SOLD OUT
Monday 4th October @ Harveys Brewery

Another rare chance to sample Harvey’s finest and find out more about the methods and traditions behind Britain’s finest ale.

The evening will include a tour and tasting.

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Date: Monday 4th October
Time: 6.30pm
Ticket Info : £7.50 from Harvey’s direct
Venue:
The Bridge Wharf Brewery

6 Cliffe High Street

Lewes

Sussex BN7 2AH

Tel: 01273 480209

Plant Journey Workshop
Tuesday 5th October @ Tilton House

With Anna Richardson

Join us at this magical time in Autumn to explore the rich downland and woodland fauna.
We’ll meet in the yurt at Tilton and then explore the woodland and Downs for finding plants in their natural setting.

There will be the opportunity to discuss the plants medicinal and practical uses. We’ll drink teas derived from plants on the grounds.

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Anna was trained with Eliot Cowan author of “Plant Spirit Medicine” and is passionate about helping people reconnect with nature.

Please bring a light lunch – there will also be a cook up of our findings at the end of the day.

Date: Tuesday 5th October
Time: 10am – 4pm
Ticket Info: £65 via Tilton House (email info@tiltonhouse.co.uk or call 01323 811 570
Venue:
Tilton House

Firle

East Sussex

BN8 6LL

Tel: 01323 811 570

Lewes Social Sous Club
Tuesday 5th October @ 197

‘Speed dating, without the dating’. The launch of new weekly club in which members enjoy a three-course experimental meal in the School Hill restaurant, changing places between every dish to freshen up the conversation.

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Date: Tuesday 5th October
Time: 7pm
Ticket Info: £25, tickets in advance directly from 197
Venue:
197

197 High Street

Lewes

East Sussex

Tel: 01273 479713

Who’s Game?
Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th @ The Shelleys Hotel

A fantastic event at this historic Lewes hotel includes a live cooking demonstration of Piddinghoe game by Head Chef Nick Miles, plus 2 courses with matching wines.

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The menu will be as follows:
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Pan-fried pigeon breasts, new potatoes, pancetta, wholegrain mustard dressing

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Roasted venison loin, rosti potato, savoy cabbage, pear chutney

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Date: Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th October
Time: 12.30pm – 2pm
Ticket Info: £10 per person (available from The Shelleys)
Venue:
The Shelleys

High Street

Lewes

East Sussex BN7 1XS

Tel: Carlo Fernando on 01273 472361

Email: info@the-shelleys.co.uk

Reading About Food: A Discussion – CANCELLED
Tuesday 5th October @ Lewes Town Hall Council Chamber

Organised by the Lewes University of the Third Age (U3A).

Sadly Professor John Postgate is suffering ill health so the event has been cancelled.

The Pelham Arms Sausage & Cake Festival
Tuesday 5th – Sunday 10th October @ Pelham Arms

The Pelham Arms will be showcasing homemade cakes and locally made sausages from nearby farms, butchers and independent producers, including their very own..

A donation to Cancer Research will be made for each sale.

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Date: Tuesday 5th – Sunday 10th October
Time: Pub opening hours
Ticket Info: Free – no tickets
Venue:
The Pelham Arms

High St

Lewes

East Sussex BN7 1XL

Tel: 01273 476 149

EAT THIS! – Tuesday 5th – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 5th October @ Harvey’s Depot

Devised and Directed by Nicky Blackwell and Susannah Waters
Script by Susannah Waters
Lighting Design by Clare O’Donoghue

From Paddock Productions, the company behind the much-loved Lewes productions of The Young Visiters, The Finnish Prisoner, and the Shoe Nail Dance, comes another exciting theatrical event.

EAT THIS is a brand new play exploring ‘table talk’, and the secret passions that lie just below the surface of your average dinner party.

Ten people to dinner…anything can happen!

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Written by the Paddock’s Artistic Director Susannah Waters, and including a fantastic cast of professional and amateur actors.

With lighting by Clare O’Donoghue, Sound and Movement by Nicky Blackwell.

Cast includes: Karen Ascoe, Nicky Blackwell, Jonathan Cullen, Fiona Dunn, Richard Hahlo, Sasha Harrington, Simon Hellyer, Elizabeth Pickard, Oliver Pickard and Carmen Slijpen

Date: Tuesday 5th October
Time: 8pm
Ticket Info: Can be purchased online or in person from The Print Room, Station Street (01273 472710)
Venue: 
Harvey’s Depot

Pinwell Lane

(opposite Lewes Station car park)

Decadence & Nutrition
Wednesday 6th October @ Tilton House

With John Bayley, Resident Chef at Tilton House

Pick goodies from Tiltons’ kitchen garden and learn to create a nutritious feast! Learn a range of fantastic plant based dishes, new kitchen techniques & knife skills, share in ideas on menu planning and creating different dishes using the same ingredients and cooking methods. Not to mention enjoy some wonderful botanical based foods, that are not only bursting with flavour but also loaded with health benefits. Includes Breakfast, lunch & dinner!!!!

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Date: Wednesday 6th October
Time: 10am – 5pm
Ticket Info: £90 via Tilton House (email info@tiltonhouse.co.uk or call 01323 811 570
Venue:
Tilton House

Firle

East Sussex

BN8 6LL

Tel: 01323 811 570

Cheese Please Presents …
Wednesday 6th October @ Cheese Please

Love cheese? Love beer? Don’t miss the chance to learn sample a fine selection of local Sussex cheeses washed down with assorted brews from Harveys in this ‘cheese tutored’ evening.

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Date: Wednesday 6th October
Time: 7 – 9pm
Ticket Info: Tickets available direct from Cheese Please (01273 481048) or Harvey’s (01273 480209)
Venue:
Cheese Please

46 High Street

Lewes

East Sussex

BN7 2DD

Tel: 01273 481048

Cooking The Books – Marguerite Patten CBE
Wednesday 6th October @ Lewes Library

Marguerite Patten in conversation with Mark Hewitt, Artistic Director of Lewes Live Literature, and food writer Hattie Ellis.

Marguerite Patten OBE, the doyenne of food writers has a career that spans over 60 years. Probably the world expert on cooking with spam, Marguerite began broadcasting on the wireless in 1944 when only a quarter of British households owned a fridge, guiding us through rationing and becoming the BBC’s choice as the first postwar TV cookery expert.

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A prolific writer, demonstrator and home economist, Marguerite’s tally of cookery books is rapidly approaching 170 with worldwide sales of more than 17 million. In 1991 she was awarded an OBE for ‘services to the art of cookery’ and has been honoured with four Lifetime Achievement Awards. She was a castaway on Desert Island Discs in 2001 and, aged over 90, is still regularly devising new recipes and testing them, usually having at least one book in the preparation stage, and writing for two national magazines as well as being an avid gardener and opera lover. She lives in East Sussex.

Hattie Ellis is an award-winning writer and journalist who is the author of eight books. Her work has taken her widely around Britain and the world to track down stories, often connected to food and drink and how they are a part of places and lives. Her recent work has spanned bees and honey, the chicken industry, specialist shops, fishermen’s tales and pubs. She writes widely for newspapers and magazines and has been involved in numerous television and radio programmes.

Part of East Sussex Arts Partnership’s Word County programme
presented in association with East Sussex Library Service.

Books will be available for signing.

Date: Wednesday 6th October
Time: 7.30pm (doors open 7pm)
Ticket Info: £3 (available from the library)
Venue: 
Lewes Library

Styles Field

Friars Walk

Lewes BN7 2LZ

Tel: 0345 60 80 196

Pete Brown Hops & Glory
Wednesday 6th October @ The Snowdrop Inn

One Man’s Search for the Beer that built the British Empire

In the eighteenth century India Pale Ale was specially brewed to mature on the long voyage from England to India. Beer Writer of the Year Pete Brown tells the story of his attempt to recreate the voyage that gave birth to the greatest beer style ever: India Pale Ale.

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Travelling by cargo ship, canal boat and tall ship from Burton-on-Trent to Calcutta via the Cape of Good Hope, he encountered Brazilian pirates and gun-toting Iranian guards on the way, while one question burned in his mind: what would it taste like when he got there? Pete will be reading from his award-winning book and giving a tutored tasting of a wide range of IPAs accompanied by a British Raj Banquet prepared by chef Stephen Adams at The Snowdrop.

Date: Wednesday 6th October
Time: 7.30pm
Ticket Info : £20 including food
Venue:
The Snowdrop Inn

119 South Street
Lewes,
East Sussex BN7 2BU

Tel: 01273 471 018

EAT THIS! – Wednesday 6th
Wednesday 6th October @ Harvey’s Depot

Devised and Directed by Nicky Blackwell and Susannah Waters
Script by Susannah Waters
Lighting Design by Clare O’Donoghue

From Paddock Productions, the company behind the much-loved Lewes productions of The Young Visiters, The Finnish Prisoner, and the Shoe Nail Dance, comes another exciting theatrical event.

EAT THIS is a brand new play exploring ‘table talk’, and the secret passions that lie just below the surface of your average dinner party.

Ten people to dinner…anything can happen!

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Written by the Paddock’s Artistic Director Susannah Waters, and including a fantastic cast of professional and amateur actors.

With lighting by Clare O’Donoghue, Sound and Movement by Nicky Blackwell.

Cast includes: Karen Ascoe, Nicky Blackwell, Jonathan Cullen, Fiona Dunn, Richard Hahlo, Sasha Harrington, Simon Hellyer, Elizabeth Pickard, Oliver Pickard and Carmen Slijpen

Date: Wednesday 6th October
Time: 8pm
Ticket Info: Can be purchased online or in person from The Print Room, Station Street (01273 472710)
Venue: 
Harvey’s Depot

Pinwell Lane

(opposite Lewes Station car park)