Shepton Mallet Lantern Festival Workshops & Christmas Sunday Market

Our community share offer has successfully raised £128,000 from 303 investors. This strong grassroots support provides the evidence we need to now seek the remaining funds required from larger funders. To everyone who invested and joined our project – Thank You! Here’s a breakdown of our members: 75% of our members live in Shepton Mallet…

Thank you to everyone who came to visit our first pop-up open day today. Hundreds of visitors streamed in from the busy Sunday Market and were able to explore the ground floor and learn about the history and our future plans for reopening the whole building. We have been allowed use of the ground floor…

This week volunteers installed a temporary lighting system on the ground floor. These stage lights are hung from existing ceiling structures and will support the programme of pop-up events that will take place this spring and summer. Media students programmed the DMX lights to be controlled using a scene selector, which means that at the…

We are excited to announce the return of cinema, theatre, dancing and live music to the Amulet – just for this summer. There will be something for everyone in the events lineup, which opens with Mark Chadwick of the Levellers on Friday 4th July, followed the next day by Shepton Mallet Big Band and runs…

There was be a public meeting for volunteers and anyone interested in the project, on Thursday 22nd February 7pm at the Art Bank, High Street, Shepton Mallet. The main purpose was to discuss how the ideas received so far could be combined into a new vision for the building. Ideas have been taken from the…

There will be a public meeting for volunteers and anyone interested in the project, on Wednesday 24th April at the Art Bank, High Street, Shepton Mallet. The bar will be open at 6:30pm and the meeting will start at 7pm. The main purpose will be to discuss progress to date, with opportunities to ask questions.