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Festival AGM Monday 23rd April 2012, 7.30pm

at Wetherby Social Club, Sandbeck Way, Wetherby, LS22 7DN

All welcome! 

Wetherby Festival will be holding it’s 2012 Forum and Annual General Meeting on Monday 23rd April 2012 at Wetherby Social Club, Sandbeck Way, Wetherby, LS22 7DN at 7.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to come along. There will be an opportunity to discuss the way forward for the Festival which has been running successfully for 35 years. 

 Spawning Salmon

 
After a gap of 12 years the sculpture entitled ‘Spawning Salmon’ down by the riverside in Wetherby now has a plaque explaining that it was installed to commemorate the Millennium.  In 2000 Wetherby Festival ran a competition to find a piece of public sculpture to celebrate the new Millennium.    

The project was jointly funded by Wetherby Town Council and Wetherby Festival. The winner was a work by Michael Liesener entitled ‘Spawning Salmon’ created from powder coated mild steel in the colour similar to that of bronze. At the time of creating the Spawning Salmon Michael Liesener, who still lives in Wetherby, was working as an engineer and the work was created during his lunch breaks over  a period of time.  

 The original plan was for the sculpture to be erected in the proposed Wharfedale Lawn Greenspace area (now the Jubilee Gardens) but building work was still in progress there. Therefore the sculpture was mounted by the weir in Wetherby as a temporary measure. 12 years later the Spawning Salmon has become a permanent fixture down on the riverside beside the old water wheel, at the town end of the weir and opposite the salmon steps.   It adds atmosphere to the peace and tranquility to be found under the ancient bridge over the River Wharfe which has played such an important role in the history and development of Wetherby.        

        

   

  

  

  

 

  

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