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

Apple Day - extra fruit!

Some extra photos of Apple Day excitements at the Dove Valley Centre, with thanks to Sue Blatherwick

Big Draw in Buxton Museum!

Revealing the world through drawing

Wednesday 31st October

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

10 am - 12 noon

1pm - 3pm

Shells, fossils, wonders and marvels: join artist and storyteller Gordon MacLellan and make your own collection of drawings and prints using tiny treasures, wonderful artefacts and fabulous fabrics from around the world

This is a Big Draw event: part of the world's biggest celebration of drawing. Buxton saw a colourful draw on Saturday 13th in Pavilion Gardens. For our next pencil-driven adventure, come to the Museum on 31st and enjoy the latest exhibitions as well as our event. Look, peer, handle and maybe even sniff objects to handle: from African masks to ancient fossils, Australian seed pods to deep sea shells: a chance to draw, sketch and scribble your own set of pictures of a fascinating world. 

Can you draw your way around the world in 10 pictures? 
Or span the history of the Earth in 20? 
Or why not just pause in a busy day, take up a pencil and relax for a few minutes!

No booking needed: just drop in (but give yourself 30 minutes to work in so don't arrive right at the end of a session!)
Children under 8 years old need to bring a grown-up with them!

Free: materials supplies

Where: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Rd, Buxton, SK17 6DA

This isn't an "Exploring" event as such but it is the same team involved and we thought you might like to join in!

Big Drawings!

autumn leaves and big pictures!

autumn colours might get those fingers drawing!

Saturday October 13th

11am - 2pm

meet by the Bandstand 

in Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, SK17 6BE

Free

Materials provided

October is the month of the Big Draw so why not warm up your pencil fingers, wriggle those painting hands and give your art legs a shake down and join us for a Big Draw in the Pavilion Gardens

Inspired by the colours and patterns of autumn in the Gardens, we'll do a big picture in front of the Pavilion working on a long roll of paper with chalks and oil pastels

Everyone is welcome - you don't need to be "an artist" - enjoying autumn is enough for us to get you drawing!

Wet weather? we'll still work together but indoors and on a smaller scale - find us in the Conservatory!

Artists: Sarah Males and Gordon MacLellan are two of the leading artists from Exploring with Stories. Based in Buxton they both work to find ways of celebrating the places where people live, work and play.

early morning dew might inspire a scribble

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

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

Link: www.dovevalleycentre.co.uk

Time: 11am - 3.30pm

The event is FREE

telling stories at the Dove Valley Centre