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July Open Day – Big Butterfly Count – Saturday 29th July

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July Open Day – Big Butterfly Count

When: Saturday 29th July 2017 at 12-4pm

Join us at the Big Butterfly Count – national action day to count and get to know British butterfly species! There will be family competitions, butterfly arts and crafts, and butterfly feeder making.

Peter and Natalie Mason will play for us live at the Garden – enjoy the music with a non-alcoholic coctail made with some of the herbs and fruit grown in the garden.

Come to our Photo Portrait Studio – as a part of our ongoing consultation, you can have your family portrait taken in return for your ideas for the Community Garden.

There will be games and races, barbecue, cakes and drinks at our community cafe. So why not come to the Garden and spend a lovely afternoon enjoying the outdoors, relaxing, learning and being a part of a great local community project?

Palestine Day – Sunday 23rd July

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Palestine Day

When: Sunday 23rd July 2017 at 12-4pm

Join Walsall Kobar Friendship Association for a Palestine Day at Caldmore Community Garden.

Keynote Speaker – Jackie Walker, former Vice Chair of Momentum, will give a speech Palestine in the modern British political context – The importance of resisting smears of anti-Semitism: a personal account. Her presentation will be followed by a film Balfour and Me.

There will be book stalls, refreshments, a lot of family activities – magic show, ballon art, gardening activities, games, pottery decorating

For more information contact Sureha 0741 599 1636.

 

Free Summer Holiday Club for children

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Free Summer Holiday Club for children

When: Wednesday 26th July – Friday 25th August 2017

Monday – Friday at 12-3pm


Free holiday activities for children!

Gardening activities, nature arts and crafts, games and play outside and inside – the club operates in all weathers.

For children over 8 years old.
Younger children must be accompanied by parents.

Bring your own packed lunch.

To book a space please contact Anna on 07871813252 or come on the day.

Caldmore Acoustic Music Festival

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Caldmore Acoustic Music Festival

When: Saturday 8th July 2017 at 2-11pm

Where: Caldmore Community Garden (12 Carless Street, WS1 3RH Walsall) and The White Lion Public House (150 Sandwell St, WS1 3EQ Walsall)

Join us for a day of music jointly hosted by Caldmore Men’s Shed, Caldmore Community Garden and The White Lion Public House.

From 2pm in the Caldmore Community Garden.
Garden cafe open with refreshments and home made cakes and barbecue. Lots to do for the children with arts and crafts and garden games.

From 7pm in the White Lion.
Special festival beers and barbecue.

 

 

 

Soil to Plate – Free gardening course in Caldmore Community Garden

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Soil to Plate – Free gardening course in Caldmore Community Garden

When: Monday 26th June 2017 at 1-4pm

Join us for the next free gardening course session at Caldmore Community Garden.

The course generally covers ground preparation, planting and seed sowing plus maintenance of plants and gardens. For those that want to learn or improve their gardening skills and knowledge but are not interested in gaining an accredited qualification.

• Preparing the Ground
• Planting Seeds/Plants
• Maintaining Plants Outdoors, weeding, watering, mulching
• Plant, weed, pest and disease identification
• Composting

This course is delivered to cater for absolute beginners and those experienced gardeners within the community. Learning tips and pointers from Jonathan Ensell an award winning garden designer and lecturer with 24 years of gardening experience.

The course is FREE.

Caldmore Garden Cinema – Monsoon Wedding – Indian Film Night

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Caldmore Garden Cinema – Monsoon Wedding

When: Sunday 25th June 2017 at 9.15-11pm

MONSOON WEDDING

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

Directed by Mira Nair
India, 1hour 54 minutes, Comedy/Drama/Romance
English / Hindi with English subtitles

Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. Evenings can get cold, so please bring warm clothes and a blanket.

 

Sensory Open Day – Saturday 24th June

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Sensory Open Day

When: Saturday 24th June 2017 at 12-4pm

Join us for our June Open Day – we will be presenting our Sensory Garden to the community with plenty of activities focusing on our sensory experience of nature.

12.00-4pm – Garden of the Senses
– sensory arts and crafts
– tours of our sensory garden
– sensory games and challenges
12.00-4pm – Barbecue, cakes and drinks at our community cafe

Come to the garden to enjoy the outdoors, relax, learn and be part of a great local community project.

Caldmore Garden Cinema – The Dupes – Palestinian Film Night

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Caldmore Garden Cinema – The Dupes – Palestinian Film Night

When: Sunday 4th June 2017 at 9.30-11.15pm

The Dupes (The Deceived)

The first Palestinian feature film – 1972 directed by Tewfik Saleh, based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1962 classic novel Men in the Sun.

Set in 1958, 10 years after the Nakba, it gives an insight into an earlier time of Palestinian oppression. The film follows the journey of three Palestinian from a refugee camp in Iraq, across the desert hoping to find work in the oil boom in Kuwait. Ill treatment, humiliation, heat and checkpoints. Ghassan Kanafani was a writer, political activist and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The film was released the same year Kanafani was assassinated by a car bomb, he was age 36.

Black and White with English subtitles, 1 hour 46 minutes.

Remembering the Nakba – Walsall Kobar Friendship Association

FREE ENTRY

Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. If the weather is good, it will be an outdoor screening – please wear layers and bring a blanket, it can get cool in the evening.

Bees and Butterflies Open Day – Saturday 27th May

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Bees and Butterflies Open Day

When: Saturday 27th May 2017 at 12-4pm

Caldmore Community Garden would like to invite everyone to our “Bees and Butterflies” Open Day this Saturday.

Come to the garden to enjoy the outdoors, relax, learn and be part of a great local community project.

There will be plenty of activities for all ages:
– bees and butterflies arts and crafts
– bee and butterfly friendly plant trail and competition
– make a bee hotel
– face-painting
– barbecue and cakes and drinks at our community cafe.

You are very welcome to bring your own picnic.

Caldmore Children’s Cinema – Angry Birds

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Caldmore Children’s Cinema – Angry Birds

When: Sunday 28th May 2017 at 2-4pm

Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely outcasts – Red, Chuck and Bomb – to figure out what the pigs are up to.

US 2016, PG, 97 minutes

Come and join us for indoor screening of Angry Birds – The Movie at Caldmore Children’s Cinema.

FREE ENTRY.

Seats are limited, so don’t be late. Children must be accompanied by an adult.