The 4th Annual Canalside Barn Dance is drawing near, and tickets are now on sale!
The event will be on Saturday 7th July 2012, and tickets cost £8 (non-members) or £6 (Canalside members). Children under 12 get in free.
Buy tickets here (please note website booking fee applies) or head to Gaia (7 Regent Place, Leamington Spa).
Hello all,
Thanks for your ongoing support of Foundry Wood. Just to keep you up to date – below is a drawing of the vision for the woodland site.
Foundry Wood – draft drawing
A more formal planning application has been submitted this week but the attached gives you an idea of what we hope to achieve. If you have any further queries or would like details of a specific project – please get in touch with Kath or myself.
Also, the next work party on site is later this month:
When: Sunday 20th May, 11am – 3pm
Where: Meet at Victoria Park Car park on Princes Drive opposite the entrance to the tip. If you can’t make it for 11, please phone Kath on 07814 605 245 and she will come and meet you
What: Levelling the ground where we’ve cleared the brambles (so a bit of digging), planting some wildflowers plus a few other jobs depending on weather!
Please wear sturdy shoes and appropriate clothing, tools will be provided as well as Tea/Coffee and biscuits!
Hope to see you soon
cheers
Kristie Naimo
ARC CIC
07906 262 364
www.TradArtsTeam.co.uk
This month we have the opening of a new Storytelling Café in Worcester and a traditional music workshop with the multi-talented Alistair Anderson. As well as listing all our May events there is advance notice of a community storytelling festival in June.
Thursday 3 May 8:00pm
Traditional song session, Kings Heath
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song-sessions.html
Sunday 13 May 11am – 5pm
Traditional music workshop with Alistair Anderson
Open to all musicians but only a few tickets left
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=351
Sunday 13 May 8:00pm
Alistair Anderson in concert
Tower Of Song, Kings Norton
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=352
Tuesday 15 May 7:30pm
Wednesbury Storytelling Café
TALES AND VEILS
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Sandwell-Storytelling-Cafe.html
Wednesday 16 May 7:30pm
Birmingham Storytelling Café
DAVE TONGE
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Birmingham-Storytelling-Cafe.html
Sunday 20 May 8:00pm
Traditional music session, Moseley
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html
Monday 21 May 7:30pm
Worcester Storytelling Café
Opening night with GRAHAM LANGLEY
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Worcester-Storytelling-Cafe.html
Wednesday 23 May 8:00pm
Tales and Ales storytelling session
The Lamp Tavern
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/tales-and-ales.html
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June
Martineau Gardens Storytelling Festival
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/storytelling_festival_2012.html
The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk
www.TradArtsTeam.co.uk
The Traditional Arts Team brings a very special guest to Birmingham on Sunday 13 May. Alistair Anderson is internationally recognized as the master of the English Concertina and one of the leading performers on the Northumbrian Pipes. He delights audiences with the lyrical slow airs and lively dance tunes of Northumberland and with his own music, which has grown out of his love of traditional music. He will perform at the music venue Tower of Song at 8pm, with support from local singers.
Admission £7, tickets from 0121 247 3856 or info@tradartsteam.co.uk, more info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=352
Alistair will also lead a traditional music workshop for all instruments during the day. Tickets for the workshop are £20 and must be booked in advance. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=351
Here are our regular music and song events:
Moseley Village Band
Thursdays 12 & 26 April, 10 & 24 May, 7:30 to 9:15
St Columba’s Church Hall, corner of Chantry Road, Birmingham B13 8D
All musicians welcome, £3 per session (first session free)
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Moseley-Village-Band.html
Traditional Music Session
Sundays 15 April and 20 May, 8-10pm
Prince of Wales, Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 BEE
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html
Traditional Song Session
Thursday 3 May, 8-10pm
Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, B14 7SA
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song-sessions.html
The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine.
More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk
Please see below for details of our next work party at the woodland and some feedback from the initial community consultation.
When: Sunday 15th April 11am – 3pm
What: Clearing brambles (and other weeds before they start to get out of control!)
Where: Meet at Victoria Park Car park (opposite the entrance to the tip on Princes Drive)
Please note: Gloves and Tools will be provided, please wear appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear. BTCV (British Trust of Conservation Volunteers) are kindly supplying tools so please let us know in advance if you plan to come along so we can ensure we have enough equipment to go round!
As before, it’s a great opportunity to come look at the woodland if you’ve not been as well as get involved and help with the transformation of the site!
Community Woodland Consultation – feedback so far and the site has a name….
We’d like to thank everyone who came along to their consultation evenings last month, filled in the survey or gave their feedback and suggestions for the woodland that is being created as part of the Ford Foundry redevelopment.
Plans for activities on site are currently being drawn up and we have taken on board the suggestions of nature trails, designated wildlife areas, outdoor education spaces, wild play areas (amongst many others!) We’ll hopefully have a site map/drawing soon.
By far the most popular name for the area was ‘Foundry Wood’ – which is both simple and appropriate given the location of the site.
In the coming months a new website will be launched, and we’ll be creating a ‘Friends of Foundry Wood’ group. If you would like to get involved or learn more in the meantime, please visit continue to visit www.arccic.co.uk
Many thanks
Kristie Naimo
ARC CIC
www.arccic.co.uk
www.TradArtsTeam.co.uk
This month includes all of our regular events for April plus advance notice of a music concert in May. To see information about these events and much more about Folk events in the Midlands why not subscribe to our magazine Folk Monthly at www.folkmonthly.org.uk
Friday 30 March, 7:30pm
Matlock Storytelling Café
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Matlock-Storytelling-Cafe.html
Thursday 5 April, 8:00pm
Traditional song session
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song-sessions.html
Sunday 15 April, 8pm
Traditional music session
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html
Wednesday 18 April, 7:30pm
Birmingham Storytelling Café
A FEAST OF TALES
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Birmingham-Storytelling-Cafe.html
Wednesday 25 April, 8:00pm
Tales and Ales storytelling session
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/tales-and-ales.html
Sunday 13 May, 8:00pm
Alistair Anderson in concert
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=352
The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk
Time: March 31, 2012 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Everywhere
Organized By: WWF and others
Event Description:
People around the world coming together to celebrate and show we care about our brilliant planet by turning off the lights for an hour.
Find out more
“See through the spin to really go green!” That will be the message that TV celebrity architect Charlie Luxton will be giving in Shipston on Wednesday 21 March, when he speaks at the Shipston Community Energy Fair.
Charlie Luxton is the presenter and “architectural expert” for many TV programmes including 2011 DIY SOS: The Big Build (BBC1) and Britain’s Hidden Heritage (BBC1), and he has many years’ practical experience as an architect in the design of environmental buildings. He is currently working on a programme for BBC2, Rebuilding Britain, which will be aired later this year. At home he has helped start Hook Norton Low Carbon, a community co-operative that has invested over £400,000 into village-wide carbon reduction schemes. This includes green-furbishing thirty houses, creating a car pool, installing a 12kW solar array on the local school and exploring the potential for a community wind turbine.
“Seeing Through the Spin to Really Go Green” Charlie Luxton’s talk will take place at 7.30 Wednesday 21st March Townsend Hall, Sheep Street, Shipston (as part of the Shipston Community Energy Fair) The Community Energy Fair, which is being organised by local energy advice charity Act on Energy & Transition Shipston, will showcase the work of local organisations and energy businesses. There will be the chance to find out more about different types of insulation, heating, lighting and renewable energy technologies – all things that can help improve energy efficiency in the home.
The Community Energy Fair will be open from 4pm to 9pm and entry is free. Energy costs have doubled in the past five years and are likely to continue to rise in the future, making energy efficiency increasingly important, both environmentally and financially. Transition Shipston has recently organised an energy study of the town with support from Shipston-on-Stour Town Council. Dave Passingham from Transition Shipston, one of the authors of the report, said: “Our study showed the importance of improving energy efficiency in the town, so the energy fair will give people a great opportunity to find out more about this.”
For more information about Shipston’s Community Energy Fair, or the programme of energy fairs which Act on Energy is organising across Stratford District during March, contact Roger Matthews on 01789 298503 or e-mail him at roger.matthews@phonecoop.coop.
Community Group ARC CIC are assisting the developers of the former Ford Foundry in Leamington to deliver a green triangle of land at the back of the site as a ‘community woodland’.
To have your say on what you think the space could be used for, please complete the survey here (http://www.arccic.co.uk/Survey.html) or come along to one of our public consultation evenings:
Thurs 8th March Leamington Town Hall 7pm
Weds 14th March Bath Place 7pm
Practical activities will also start on the site from March:
Willow Hedge Planting Days –
What: Planting a willow hedge along the railway line fences in the community woodland.
When: Sat 3rd, Sun 18th & Sun 25th March Time: 11am – 3pm
Where: Meet at Victoria Park car park at 11am
(If you can’t make it for that time, phone Kath: 07814 605 245 so she can come and meet you.)
If the Willow planting is completed – we’ll be clearing brambles and creating a compost heap!
Hallo,
There is an open meeting of the Leamington Society at 7.30 on Thur April 26th 2012 at the Leamington Spa Pump Rooms.
Mike Bunney, the Chairman of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, will give an illustrated talk on wildlife trusts (the movement is 100 years old) and especially Warwickshire (50 years old).
Entry £2.
Yours, Gitta