Boggarts at Longshaw!

A Day of Boggarts

What day? Sunday February 17th 2013

When?

Session 1: 10.30 - 12.30 (needs booking - meeting at the Moorland Discovery Centre, Longshaw) 

Session 2: 1.30 - 3.30pm (no booking needed - meet at the Visitor Centre)

Where? Longshaw Estate, National Trust

Getting there: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/longshaw/

Useful link: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/longshaw/things-to-see-and-do/events/

Cost and booking

morning: price: Adult £8, Child £5 cost includes activities, soup & a roll. Booking Essential (through the Trust - use the link above)

afternoon: activities are free but car parking charges may apply (no booking needed)

Exploring with Stories here will join the bigger event at Longshaw marking the opening of their Boggart* Play Trail. Exploring with Stories will be on hand to tell some Boggart Tales and do a bit of Boggartt detecting - looking for signs of boggart life, adventures and mishaps….

In the morning workshop there will be Boggart stories, Boggart building and other twitchy activities

* Boggarts? if you're not sure then a word of explanation might help…Boggarts are the awkward cousins of the fairies. You'll have read Fairy Stories, we are sure and you will know that Fairies are often beautiful. Boggarts aren't. And that fairies are sometimes kind. Boggarts aren't. And that fairies sometimes grant wishes. Boggarts? Not a hope!

But Boggarts are exciting, naughty, lumpy, bumpy, hairy and stary….Boggarts are fun

Festive Explorings!

Christmas at Ilam Park

not many dragons in Ilam these days
but we can story a few....

Exploring will be at this weekend event on Sunday 9th December when we'll be telling stories, making little story sculptures and generally adding to the festive atmosphere

General details:
Dates and times: 8th and 9th December, 11am - 4.30pm

Venue: National Trust, Ilam Park

What else is happening:
local food, craft and gift stalls. Family activities and woodland grotto. British Christmas tree and log sales. Carol singing. Linches in the Manifold TTea Rood and BBQ

Cost: entry is free (car parking charges may apply?)

Further details: National Trust: 01335 350503

Link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/peakdistrict

Running towards more adventures!

Run Away To Adventure

Sunday 30th September 2012

We have another of our wildly delightful "adventure" events next Sunday

What is happening: making dens deep in the woods! Stranded on a desert island? Lost in the forest? Cast away after storms at sea or on the local duckpond...we'll make the dens we'd like to survive in - woodland shelters, hidden dens, foraging, planning and telling the dreadful tales of how we got stranded here

Where: National Trust, Longshaw Estate nr Hathersage

(meeting: Moorland Discovery Centre, Longshaw Estate, 
Sheffield, Derbyshire, S11 7TZ)

Times: places can be booked on either the morning  or afternoon session

Costs: no cost for activities, car parking charges may apply

What will we do? You'll be working with three of our workshop leaders to:

         tell the story of our adventure: did we run away to live in the woods, were we shipwrecked on a desert island, did pirates abandon us to guard their treasure?

         build our own shelters: using ropes and mats, nets and what we can find in the woods, we'll make our own shelters and weave our first useful tools to help us survive in this new adventure

         record our stories: by the end of our workshop, we'll sit down in our shelters and tell the terrible tales of the adventures that brought us to this place. We might take these tales away with us written on paper, as tiny woven baskets or as postcards….

Places are limited on "Run Away to Adventure" and need to be booked: call 07825 177355 or email stoneandwater@btinternet.com,  to reserve a place and receive further details