Borth Scarecrow Festival and BorthFfest are back, and this year’s theme is ‘Hobbies and Occupations.

Last year 52 scarecrows went on display and £67.41, the proceeds from Trail Maps sold for 20p each, went to Borth Community Bus Shelter Project. This year’s money will go to Borth RNLI.

The Scarecrows will be on show from noon Friday, 22 May to noon Monday, 25 May. A trail map showing the scarecrow locations can be bought for 20p from Nisa and Premier Stores. Voting slips are part of the trail maps.

You can also see the scarecrows online on 24 and 25 May on the ‘Borth Here and Now’ and Borth Arts’ Facebook groups.

You can also vote online at [email protected].

All votes must be cast by noon on 25 May and prizes will be given at 4pm at The Star of the Sea as part of the closing ceremony of Borthfest.

“Please come along and join us,” an event organiser said.

“Nisa and Premier Stores have kindly donated prizes again.”

Borth Scarecrow Festival is organised by Borth Arts, sponsored by Borth Carnival Committee and NISA Borth, and supported by Premier Stores in Borth.

The festival is part of BorthFfest, which returns on 22 May for four days of art, music, literature and dance.

Featuring an opening ceremony with Radio Cymru’s Caryl Parry Jones and BBC Radio Wales’s Aleighcia Scott, the festival includes awards for art, film-making, scarecrows and dapper dressing, a debate on ‘the aesthetic unaesthetic’, considering the mundane and overlooked, and The Borth Ultimate Morris Dancing Squad shaking their driftwood. Visitors can catch Huw Stephens being interviewed in Welsh by Parry Jones or join a creative writing workshop with author Drena Collins on ‘What’s wrong with Moist? Why we like some words and dislike others’.

Borth life can be viewed through the decades and lens of Ieuan Ellis, while the award-winning station museum commemorates 150 years since 300 pupils from Uppingham School relocated to a Borth Hotel after a typhoid epidemic.

Mural painting, wild swimming art, sashiko, felt-making, sunset painting, and many different kinds of workshops pepper each day as artists open their studios or curate exhibitions, while literature and the art of reading is represented by true tales from wild places, three very different book launches and a graphic novel reading room. This heady mix can be shaken and stirred by a piano recital of country and soul, a DIY soundscape of indie, folk and noise, and singer’s tribute to the US midwest.

A craft fair and charities fair top and tail the festival, with a healthy pop-up of fringe events each day.

The festival is now in its third year, thanks to the commitment and involvement of Borth’s creators, and the kind participation of Star of the Sea and Libanus cinema. It is dependent on donations, too, so all help is welcome. BorthFfest runs from 22-25 May at Star of the Sea, Libanus cinema and other Borth venues.

The programme can be found @borthffest on Instagram and Facebook.