Showing posts with label Dove Valley Centre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dove Valley Centre. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Fossils, Art and Inspiration


Fossils,
Art and Inspiration
Art Days for Grown-ups
Sunday 10th March and
Sunday 17th March 2013
Dove Valley Centre
nr Longnor
10.30 - 4
create our own
ancient rockpools?

These days are partly training for our existing volunteers, training for possible new volunteers and also just days for adults who'd like to have a go themselves. We have worried about the wording of these - we want to offer days for adults and teenagers rather than families - we do a lot of activities for family groups but sometimes it is good for grow-ups to have some creative time that is just for themselves...

These days also mark the overlap between the end of  our "Exploring with Stories" project and the start of the next phase of "Ancient Landscapes"
just drawing...

Inspired by fossils from local limestone and the rich landscapes of the Upper Dove Valley, we'll share skills, ideas and techniques giving ourselves time to experiment and reflect

No experience needed - just join in and have a go!

Workshops are free and materials are provided but spaces are limited so please book a place (either day or both)
Further details sent with confirmation


Sunday 10th: crochet your own coral, needle-felt a fish, printing fossils, small models of monsters
Sunday 17th: making tiny people, plankton cloths, casting fossils, just drawing, fossil lanterns

Booking and more information:
stoneandwater@btinternet.com
07791 096857
http://exploringwithstories.blogspot.co.uk


Sunday, 7 October 2012

Apple Day, 2012

the day began beautifully...
...and held beautiful all day

A bright, beautiful autumn day with clear skies and hogweed seedheads



Activities: tiny clay apples
tables of clay and treasure chests

dookin' for apples

A day of apple tasting and orchard walks, fruity stories, orchard treasure chests and apple cakes to taste. We made small apple books, and clay apples, apple trees, orchard fairies and even a monster to fit sneakily into a treasure chest

Artists involved:
Gordon MacLellan - Creeping Toad
Sue Blatherwick
Dove Valley Centre




Thursday, 27 September 2012

The apples are coming!


APPLE DAY
Sunday 7th October, 2012
relax and wait while the wildlife watches you
Dove Valley at sunset

celebrate autumn's richness with orchard investigations, apple recipes and fruit-creature-puppets stories and laughter

The last of our Exploring with Stories public events for now, Apple Day is a celebration that has become well established in the alst few years after an initial launch by Common Ground

This event offers a chance to look at orchards, to think and find out more about your own fruit trees, to taste apples and autumn recipes, to listen to some tree, wood and wildness stories and generally be creative

Where: Dove Valley Centre, Under Whitle, nr Longnor, SK17 0PR

Time: 11am - 3.30pm
The event is FREE


telling stories at the Dove Valley Centre