Summer 2025 events at Asthall Manor

This year, instead of garden open days, we have some exciting theatrical and musical events to tempt you with. They all include access to the garden as part of the ticket price.

Tim Mitchell’s exceptionally helpful series of ecological growing workshops will continue in the walled garden, and again, a walk around the whole garden is included.

Full details and booking for these and some of our autumn events are on our website:asthallmanor.com/what’s on

Workshops in the kitchen garden

17 May - Gardening with Wildlife

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/kitchen-garden-workshop-gardening-with-wildlife/

21 June – Turning Waste into Gold – compost and natural fertilisers

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/kitchen-garden-workshop-making-compost-and-natural-fertilisers-turning-waste-into-gold-2/

28 June – Let Food be thy medicine (Guest workshop by Jean Smith)

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/kitchen-garden-workshop-let-food-be-thy-medicine/

13 Sept - Seed Saving: Closing the Loop on your food growing

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/kitchen-garden-workshop-seed-saving-closing-the-loop-on-your-food-growing/

23 – 25 May – Oxford Chamber Music Festival 25th Anniversary Celebrations:

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/guest-event-the-voice-of-nature/

Fri 23 May – Concert in St Nicholas Church 7-8pm (Bach, Takemitsu, John Thow)

                Gardens open from 4pm

Sat 24 May – 11-2 pm Where Heaven Meets Earth – a painting workshop with Kieran Stiles

    3-4pm Painting Performance: A dynamic live painting and musical improvisation, bringing two entangled art forms into conversation to explore the dynamism of creativity. Free and no need to book.

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/where-heaven-meets-earth-a-workshop-on-painting-asthalls-trees-with-kieran-stiles/

Sat 24 May – Painting Performance – as above

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/guest-event-where-heaven-meets-earth-with-kieran-stiles/

Sat 24 May – Concert and dinner: Gardens open from 4pm, Concert (Mozart, Arvo Pärt) 5.30pm in St Nicholas Church, followed by drinks and dinner in the Ballroom

Sun 25 May – Gardens open from 1pm, Concert (Vivaldi & Respighi) 3-4pm in St Nicholas Church

6-8 June – In the Footsteps of the Mitfords. For the first time since a socially-distanced version in 2020, Scary Little Girls are back, with their irreverent look at the Mitford sisters, whose childhood home was Asthall Manor. Performing to small groups who move around the site, Scary Little Girls and Chipping Norton theatre bring the experiences, opinions and relationships of the infamous sisters to life through their letters, fiction and memoirs.

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/guest-event-in-the-footsteps-of-the-mitfords/

Wed 2 July: Much Ado About Nothing, performed by the Handlebards. Garden open from 5pm, performance 6-8pm

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/guest-event-handlebards-production-of-shakespeares-much-ado-about-nothing/

Sun 13 July: Nature & Environment Book Club 4-5pm in the Manor’s new guest kitchen.

https://www.asthallmanor.com/event/kitchen-garden-nature-environment-book-club-2/

For details and bookings, with links to explore all of these events, please visit our website, asthallmanor.com, and go to What’s On.

https://www.asthallmanor.com/whats-on-list/

We look forward to seeing you!