Songs and Plays of Noel Coward

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Summer Revue - A Talent to AmuseA fantastic first night.  If you missed it you can still get tickets for Wednesday!

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Heritage Lottery Fund awards £1.2m Funding for Cambo Stables Project

Cambo Institute in Fife has been awarded £1.2m by Heritage Lottery Fund towards the creation of an education and training centre at Cambo Estate.The centre will be based at the restored Georgian Stables, and the Glasshouses in the walled garden, giving the buildings a new lease of life and a sustainable future.

The Institute has already embarked on the major task of raising the £1.9m additional funding required to match the grant from Heritage Lottery Fund and to date has pledges and donations for £850,000 from trusts, foundations, legacies, donations from Friends of Cambo and fundraising events.

Established in 1998, the Institute now provides a host of learning and volunteering opportunities in heritage, the environment, arts, culture and horticulture.

The renowned gardens and snowdrop woods, now with a worldwide reputation, are increasingly used to introduce a wide range of art forms to visitors and will host an exciting European premiere of Inuksuit in partnership with East Neuk Festival on Saturday 6 July.

Sir Peter Erskine, Chairman of Cambo Institute, who was delighted to hear of Heritage Lottery Fund’s support for their exciting plans said:

“Our aim at Cambo is not only to enhance the visitor’s experience with arts activities but also to ‘turn the clock back’ on the estate and recreate the opportunities that would have been available to local people in the community 100 years ago, providing training, apprenticeships and supported employment.

The Cambo Stables Project will create an education and visitor hub with the facilities to expand current activities, safeguard public access and involvement for the future and provide an income to ensure its sustainable future”

Colin McLean, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Scotland, said:
“Our heritage offers a rich resource for skills and education so HLF is delighted to support Cambo Estate where it is being used in such an innovative way. The gardens provide powerful and memorable experiences for young people, making learning fun and opening their eyes to the natural heritage which surrounds them. We applaud the commitment of the team at Cambo and are delighted that even more people will now benefit from the work being done.”

East Neuk Festival

East Neuk Festival Family Day at Cambo Estate – Saturday 6th July.
www.eastneukfestival.com

Cambo opens its doors to East Neuk Festival on Saturday 6th July with fun packed events for all the family. Everything from face-painting, colouring in to building a giant nest and stories from celebrated children’s authors, Vivian French and David Campbell. Mara Artisan Seaweeds will be leading a workshop and show you where to find nature’s wild bounty and other intriguing delicacies.

And for the adults, Cambo House will host a range of literary events with some of the UK’s leading nature writers. We also have two cutting edge music concerts by John Luther Adams. The UK premiere of Inuksuit with 30 percussionists in the walled garden and his highly acclaimed songbirdsongs over at Cambo Barn. Where else could you get all that?

Rose Festival

Roses, roses, roses.... Yes our Rose Festival starts this weekend. Be sure to pop along.
The gardens are looking amazing now and we still have lots of free tulips available for our Friends of Cambo Season Ticket holders.
Don't worry if you don't have a ticket you can still collect tulips for a small donation to our charity - Cambo Institute.  See www.camboinstitute.org.uk for more informtion.
Festival dates : 21 June to 7 July 10am to 5pm every day

Tips from the locals

Tips from the locals: Fife
A great deal of information about Fife in one blog.  Oh yes, and we are featured too.

Swimming out of the Frame by Pauline Castaing

New Exhibition in Cambo House   4 -14 June 2013

Pauline has been living, and working, in St Andrews for the past  few months and the work she has done is in itself an allegory of her own ‘adventurous escape’ from the big city to the ‘nature’ of Scotland.  Previously her sculptural work has always dealt with the various traps man makes for himself in life.  However the long constrained characters she represents are now breaking the boundaries, literally swimming out of the borders of the frames in her new wall sculptures and watercolour paintings which depict travellers struggling their way out towards the sea……

Pauline will be returning to Paris after the exhibition to prepare for a major exhibition in Paris in September.

Exhibition Launch goes well.  Even the weather turned up!

Friends of Cambo Season Ticket Special Offer

Don't miss out. Free coffee and cake for everyone who becomes a Friend of Cambo Season Ticket holder this week.  It's only £15 for a single ticket and £25 for a double (admits you and a guest).
As a ticket holder you will have entry into the gardens as often as you wish (until expiry date), 5% off at plant sales and even more discount on event tickets. BUY YOURS NOW