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.
Free summer holiday play scheme for children aged 8-12! You can now register your child for up to 3 weeks of outdoor fun at Caldmore Community Garden with nature education, science experiments, gardening, arts and crafts, games, cooking and free play.
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.
– Come to the launch of our new Gruffalo Trail at the Garden – meet the Mouse, Owl, Fox, Snake, and of course the Gruffalo himself! – Take part in Gruffalo crafts and listen to Julia Donaldson’s story at 12pm and 1pm. – Enjoy home-made cake and hot drinks at our Community Cafe, and bring a picnic if you like!
Aimed at children under 6, but siblings can come along, too!
Our address: Caldmore Community Garden, Carless Street, WS1 3RH
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.
Join us for an exciting evening at the Community Garden with pizza from our wood-fired oven and a talk about all things bats – Bekie from Brum Bats will tell us all about bat life and habits, and we will have a go at using bat detectors to see what bats we have in Caldmore.
Children must be accompanied by adults. Please wrap up warm and bring a torch as it will get dark while we are in the Garden.
Booking is necessary, please e-mail us on caldmoregarden@gmail.com or txt / Whatsapp 07871813252.
Funded by West Midlands Combined Authority Green Grants.
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 