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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.

Soil to Plate – Free Gardening Course at Caldmore Community Garden

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Soil to Plate – Free Gardening Course at Caldmore Community Garden

When: The sessions will take place every 4th Monday of the month.

Start: Monday 24th April 2017 at 1-3pm

Join us for a new gardening course at Caldmore Community Garden.

The course will generally cover 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 will be delivered to cater for absolute beginners and those experienced gardeners within the community. We will be looking at food and herb production as well as wildlife and ornamental gardening. Learning tips and pointers from Jonathan Ensell an award winning garden designer and lecturer with 24 years of gardening experience.

Session Number One Starts on Monday the 24th April 2017 – We will be covering ground clearance and preparation. It’s all about getting over the first hurdle in gardening.

Sessions are FREE, but you will have to register – please e-mail Anna at caldmoregarden@gmail.com.

Caldmore Garden Cinema – Land and Freedom

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Caldmore Garden Cinema – Land and Freedom

When: Sunday 9th April 2017 at 7.30-9.30pm

LAND AND FREEDOM

Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters.

Directed by Ken Loach, 1996.

109 minutes.

Entry: free for cinema club members (membership card valid one year: £10 per family, £5/person)

Bring your own snacks; tea and coffee available at the Community House. Evenings are still cold, so we will be watching the film inside.

Caldmore Children’s Cinema – The BFG

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Caldmore Children’s Cinema – The BFG

When: Sunday 9th April 2017 at 2-4pm

From the imaginations of two of the world’s greatest storytellers, Roald Dahl and Steven Spielberg, THE BFG tells the extraordinary tale of a young girl named Sophie (played by Ruby Barnhill) and the Big Friendly Giant (played by Mark Rylance) who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. Together they embark on a marvellous and buckswhashling adventure filled with snozzcumbers, dream jars, frobscottle and even the Queen! The mismatched pair form an unlikely friendship that will inspire enormous bravery in the BFG and give Sophie a taste of the family she dreams of.

US 2016, PG, 117 mins

FREE ENTRY.

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

Contact: CALDMOREGARDEN@GMAIL.COM, 07871813252

Spring Open Day – Saturday 1st April

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Spring Open Day

When: Saturday 1st April 2017 at 12-4pm

‣ Easter Egg Hunt – don’t miss the 1pm start!
‣ Find signs of spring in the garden
‣ Spring arts and crafts and garden activities for children
‣ Pizza from our own clay oven
‣ Delicious cakes and drinks in our Garden Café

Lots of things to do for everyone and a chance to help out and get to know more about the garden’s many activities, including our Men’s Shed project.