THE FEAST OF SAINT VALENTINE

Grizedale Arts and The Farmer’s Arms Present
The Feast of Saint Valentine
Dissecting the couple form and serving it back up in three delicious courses, we celebrate the unconventional ways in which animals, aliens and humans find connection without the need for red roses and awkward dinner dates. So whether you’re consciously decoupled, gloriously throupled, militantly single or plain old boyfriend and girlfriend, we can guarantee a better Valentine’s than Thorntons.
You will be greeted with a glass of sparkling wine and have the opportunity to explore the launch of our latest pub exhibition “Your Cottage or Mine?” curated by Molly Reeve. Photographs by Phil Polglaze forensically explore the sites in which gay men felt free to couple up before the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
Then join us in the bar for canapés and a screening of Jennifer McMillan’s “Two Aliens and Two Horses Walk Into a Bar”: a happenstantial four-way first date which comically teases out the ways in which bodies of all varieties are packaged for pleasure or profit.
After a collective welcome and brief history of St Valentine’s day, follow through to the large group tables in the dining room, where Alistair Debling performs “Nastja and Nastja Presents: Old Polish Traditions for the Kitchen and Table”. The revenge tale of a jilted lover, it’s a romantic-comedy- Slavic-slasher-cookery-class-come-introduction to the evening’s three course Polish feast made lovingly from traditional recipes and local ingredients.
After dinner, it’s back to the bar or onto the dance floor for the dummy’s guide to country dancing (aka the original intimacy workshop) before classic soul records take over for the remainder of the evening.
ORDER OF SERVICE AND MENU
6:30PM ~ Arrival
glass of sparkling wine and a mix of canapés, exhibition “Your Cottage or Mine?” by Phil Polglaze and Molly Reeve
7:00PM ~ Screening
Two Horses and Two Aliens Walk into a Bar by Jennifer McMillan
7:15PM ~ Welcome
a brief history of the feast of Saint Valentine and what it might mean today
7:30 ~ Dinner
Pierogi
with wild mushroom, potato, caramelised onion parsley sauce
Performance ~ Nastja & Nastja Present Old Polish Traditions for the Kitchen and Table
Bigos
A hunter’s stew with Farmer’s Arms sausages made from
Grizedale Forest venison, sauerkraut and prunes (available vegan with squash, kale and carlin peas)
Performance ~ Part Two
Miodownik
Polish honey cake with sour cream (vegan version available)
9:00PM ~ Dancing (guided) country dancing with caller
9:45-11:00PM ~ Dancing (unguided) soul records on vinyl
Tickets £32 per person
Vegan and GF Options available on request- please email molly@grizedale.org to discuss dietary requirements

