Join us for the vibrant Polish And Eastern European Festival at Caldmore Community Garden, where cultures converge and diversity flourishes! Immerse yourself in a day filled with authentic Polish and Eastern European flavors, music, and traditions.
Food
Live music
Children’s Activities
Bouncy Castle
Candy Floss
Face-painting
Caldmore Community Garden, 12-5pm, free entry
Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and organised in partnership with Midlands Polish Community and People for People.
Join us for a spectacular day of art, nature, creativity and performances brought to us by Black Country Touring!
2pm The Zoo that Comes to You by Scarlet Oak Theatre – A family show featuring puppetry and live music! Come and meet these eclectic animals as they discuss their life experiences and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world. A joyous journey featuring puppetry, live music and playful characters, Scarlet Oak Theatre welcomes people of all ages to join the conversation about animal conservation.
12-4pm Where We Growby Black Country Touring – four short performances grown from community gardens across the Black Country have been spread around our garden. Wander around and enjoy each one!
And as always – arts and crafts, drinks, home-made cakes and refreshments at our community cafe!
Scarlet Oak Theatre
Jasmine Orchard and Lucia d’Inverno met when training at Circomedia: centre for contemporary circus and physical theatre. Both artists bring to the company their experience from working in a variety of educational settings; youth theatres, baby sensory classes, schools and home education groups. With their professional experience of acting, puppeteering, directing and producing they have come together to form Scarlet Oak Theatre, a company committed to making theatre that is equally accessible and engaging for children and their grownups.
Brought to us with support from Black Country Touring, The National Lottery Community Fund, West Midlands Combined Authority, Arts Council England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and People’s Postcode Trust.
Learn to sculpt your own small willow animal at Caldmore Community Garden and get involved in making some bigger sculptures for everyone to admire! Kate will show us the techniques she uses to make the sculpture from start to finish – feel free to bring along any pictures to work from to make your own piece.
Come and join us for a fun and relaxed willow weaving as a part of our creative Women’s Tuesdays group. We can work indoors or outdoors (weather permitting).
Kate Morrell is an experienced willow artist based in Leicestershire. She set up her workshops 4 years ago and has met some wonderful people who have sculpted the most fantastic sculptures. Kate’s website: https://katemorrellwillowworkshops.co.uk
WORKSHOP DATES:
Tuesday 18th April 10am – 1pm Tuesday 25th April 10am – 1pm Wednesday 3rd May 10am – 4pm Wednesday 10th May 10am – 4pm
Please aim to attend all 4 workshops as they are seen as a process – we start from learning to how make a small sculpture for our own garden, and proceed to make a few larger ones to install at the Community Garden.
We will be working in small groups, so you will get help and support both from Kate and from other women.
To book a place, please e-mail calmoregarden@gmail.com or text 07871813252.
The workshops are one of the creative projects funded by The National Lottery Community Fund as a part of our Reaching Communities Project.
Come and join us for a free Easter Egg Hunt event with two egg hunt zones – one for children under 5 and one for 5-12.
Come dressed up in your party dress and wear your Easter bonnet if you have one!
Easter arts and crafts – make your own Easter basket, cress head and Easter cards Seed sowing and gardening for kids Tombola Face-painting Cake and drinks at our Community Cafe
1pm Easter Egg Hunt for children – don’t be late!
There is only one hunt and it finishes within 15 minutes, so you’re going to miss it if you’re late.
The free Festival of Lights returns for two days at Caldmore Community Garden on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November 2022. The festival provides a free celebration of diverse cultural and artistic traditions and brings people together across cultures to enjoy arts and creativity for all ages.
Caldmore Community Garden will be illuminated to create a place where diverse traditions of Diwali, Bonfire Night, and All Soul’s Eve meet to light up the night and open the doors to all the community.
Saturday 5h November: – 6pm – Animal Magic by storyteller Peter Chand and Fox & Rocha
Sunday 6th November – 5.45 meet at the Garden for the Lantern Procession – 7pm fire performance by Helter Skelter Arts
Gates open half an hour earlier with hot drinks and cake at our community cafe.
Saturday 5th November will see a performance of ‘Animal Magic’ from Peter Chand and Fox & Rocha at 6:00pm. Join Storyteller Peter Chand and musical maestros Fox & Rocha for a family session of stories and songs from around the world. You will encounter fantastic tales of elephants with small noses, preening peacocks and misbehaving crows. A toe-tapping interactive and lively evening awaits you as this delightful trio returns to Caldmore Community Garden.
On Sunday 6th November the joyous and beautiful Lantern Procession will start off the evening at 5:45p.m. The procession, led by fiddle player Adrian Ward, will walk from the Community Garden to Caldmore Green. Pick up a lantern created by the school children from Caldmore Primary Academy, toddlers and families from Caldmore Tots group and the community of Caldmore. Alternatively, bring your own torches and join in the fun. We will light up the streets of Caldmore and invite everyone to accompany us on our way back to the Garden.
Return to the Garden for an incredible free, fire performance, at 7pm by Helter Skelter Arts that will light up the Garden with their flames and daring stunts! A great show for all the family. (Keep an eye out for the duo around the Garden as well, as they paint patterns and images in the air with their amazing LED props)!
The festival is delivered by Caldmore Village Festival Group and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, Black Country Touring, whg and Children In Need.
Inspired by the flora and fauna of Caldmore Community Garden we will create linocut prints celebrating the diversity of the garden and the beauty that can be found. Linocut is great for focusing on the details and texture found within nature. We will carve and print greetings card and print designs – experimenting with colour and technique – and exhibit our finished prints and well as hand-printing our work to sell as cards and prints – unique designs for a unique setting.
Over seven weeks we will explore the techniques of linocut; starting with a single colour print that can be used to print greetings cards and then moving on to creating prints that use several colours; either through a layered print technique or a reduction linocut technique.
It doesn’t matter if you are a complete beginner – this versatile technique will bring out the artist in everyone! We will be using non-toxic inks and learning hand printing techniques to ensure that this is a really accessible process. Prepare to be bitten by the printing bug!
Workshop dates:
Tuesday 4th October 10am -1pm
Tuesday 11th October 10am -1pm
Tuesday 25th October 10am -1pm
Tuesday 1st November 10am – 1pm
Tuesday 8th November 10am – 1pm
Tuesday 15th November 10am – 1pm
Tuesday 22nd November 10am – 1pm
To book, e-mail caldmoregarden@gmail.com, txt / Whatsapp 07871813252, or send us a message. Spaces are limited and booking is advisable!
Free entry!
Alix is a printmaker and artist based in Coventry. She is a full time artist and splits her time between making art and teaching linocut workshops at venues around Coventry and Warwickshire. Alix is a predominantly self taught printmaker; she began printmaking after attending a workshop in November 2015 at Birmingham Printmakers and the bug was well and truly caught! She creates single colour, multi-block and reduction linocut prints. She also creates pencil and pencil crayon drawings. Her drawings are ‘true to life’ but her linocuts have a more contemporary feel. Alix enjoys creating images of animals and birds and takes inspiration from nature. She captures the character and detail of the animals, forgoing background to concentrate on the beauty, patterns and textures that can be found. She works from home – printing in her kitchen, usually with a spoon! Recently she has begun to experiment with a multi-layered coloured technique using translucent inks and a printing press. She aims to be as environmentally friendly as possible in her printing methods and materials.
Join us this Saturday at 12p.m. for a fun afternoon of craft activities, live music and games (we have an educational treasure hunt and quiz). See what we get up to at the Mens’ Shed on Mondays and the Womens’ Tuesday group. There will be live music from Trouble and Strife at 1p.m. and we’ll be looking at ideas to reduce, reuse and recycle. As usual, there will be homemade cakes for sale, so let’s help save the planet (and eat cake).
Immerse yourself in a day filled with authentic Polish and Eastern European flavors, music, and traditions.
Easter arts and crafts – make your own Easter basket, cress head and Easter cards
Caldmore Community Garden 