arts and crafts

Job Opportunity – Creative Projects Co-Ordinator at Caldmore Community Garden (2 days a week)

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We’re recruiting a Creative Projects Co-Ordinator to join our friendly team. You will work closely with artists and partners, help put on events, and engage with the local community, community groups, volunteers and creatives. You will contribute to the planning, evaluation and delivery of the arts programme.

The successful applicant will have a passion for creative arts, poetry, performance and strong co-ordination and admin skills. You will be experienced in working creatively with a range of artists and organisations and be committed to working with communities and artists in Walsall.

Contract: 2 days a week, June to December 2024.

Salary: £14-£15 per hour (£25,480 – 27,300 pro rata), depending on skills and experience.

Download the Recruitment Pack as a Word Document or PDF below to find out how to apply. If you’d like to talk with someone in the team before you apply, e-mail caldmoregarden@gmail.com.

Email your completed application to Anna Webster at caldmoregarden@gmail.com by 8am on Monday 13th May 2024.

The arts programme at Caldmore Community Garden is funded by West Midlands Combined Authority’s Inclusive Communities Programme operated by the Heart of England Community Foundation. The poetry project is co-funded by Black Country Touring.

Easter Egg Hunt at the Caldmore Community Garden Garden – 23rd March 12-4pm

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Come and join us for our annual

EASTER EGG HUNT at Caldmore Community Garden:

– 12.30pm and 3pm – Easter Egg Hunt for children aged 1-4 – have a go at finding chocolate eggs at the Garden!
Little ones must be accompanied by a grown-up, no older siblings allowed in the tots area. Please don’t be late!

– 1-3pm – Easter Egg Trail for older children – complete an Easter Egg trail, solve the clues and claim your chocolate egg! No need to come at a specific hour, your child can do it at any time during the event.

There will be lots of other activities, including:

🥚 Easter arts and crafts
🥚 Children’s entertainment with Happy Child
🥚 Tombola
🥚 Face-painting
🥚 Cake and drinks at our Community Cafe

It’s a Pay as You Feel event – we are a charity and need your support putting events like this for the benefit of the local community. Put some spare cash into a box or pay by card to help us bring you more activities in the future.

You can also donate to the Garden here: https://localgiving.org/…/caldmorevillagef…/project/CCG/ . Your support will be much appreciated.

Christmas at the Garden – 16th December 2023 1-4pm

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Come and join us for a joyful Christmas celebration at the Garden.

Visit Santa’s Grotto – meet Santa and his elves! All children get a present from Santa.

Enjoy Christmas music with B’Opera:

  • at 1pm Relaxed Concert for children aged 0-5 and their families;
  • at 2.30pm – Carols and winter songs from all around the world.

There will be Christmas crafts, and our community cafe will be running with mince pies, non-alcoholic mulled wine, hot drinks and home-made cake!

Everyone is welcome!

Free wreath making workshop at Caldmore Community Garden – 5th December 10am – 1pm

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Make a Christmas wreath using natural vine wreath base which can be reused, collected sprigs of pine, fir holly and other greenery and traditional aromatic Christmas dried orange and cinnamon.
Add a few reusable artificial berries and ribbons.

Led by Deb Slade, Community Arts Worker. Deb rally enjoys gathering the greenery, drying orange slices etc at the start of the Christmas month.


You are welcome to bring some of your own greenery – Deb will bring plenty of holly for everyone, so look out for the more unusual, blue greens and lime greens for contrast. If any one has any eucalyptus, bring loads!

The workshop is free, but spaces are very limited and booking is essential! To book, e-mail caldmoregarden@gmail.com or message / whatsapp Anna on 07871813252.

The workshop is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. 

Let the Summer Begin – STREET GAMES

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Let the summer begin!

Come and join us for Street Games at Caldmore Community Garden – an inclusive and accessible fun day of street games, live music and dance with BSL Performance and Interpretation. You can expect games from around the world that everyone can get involved in, hosted by fabulous Game Hosts and party music sets from EIF Sound and Music.

The show is brought to us by Black Country Touring.

There will also be leather crafts with Walsall Leather Museum, nature activities for kids with Nature Makers, glitter tattoos, home-made cakes and refreshments at our community cafe!

Not to be missed.

Big Garden Birdwatch and Bird Science Saturday

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Join us for Big Garden Birdwatch at Caldmore Community Garden, and have a go in your own back garden or from your balcony.

We will be learning about birds’ habitats and feeding habits, explore bird flight and other aspects of bird science.

We will be opening the booking process mid-January, you will be able to book for one hour of family science at 11am, 12pm or 1pm. In the meantime, save the date 28th January!

Our Garden Saturdays are funded through People’s Health Trust Active Communities Fund and West Midlands Combined Authority Green Grants. 

Women’s Tuesdays: Nature linocut project with Alix Almond

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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.

Contact details:
www.alixalmond.com
Instagram: @alixalmond
Facebook: @AlixAlmondArt
alixalmond@hotmail.co.uk

Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and People’s Health Trust

Buzz in the Meadow Family Fun Day – 24th September 2022 – 12-4pm

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A woodland themed day of fun full of family activities. Come and meet our Meadow Sprites – watch magical meadow creatures take over the Garden in a bewitching performance by Curious Cargo theatre group brought to you in association with Black Country Touring.

Other attractions include:
– Fairy Garden arts and crafts.
– Make your own leaf cast with artist sophia moffa from “A Sense of Place” project.
– Drinks and home-made cakes at our community cafe.
– Come dressed up as a woodland creature or a fairy!

All activities are free.

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Day – Saturday 25th June at Caldmore Community Garden

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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).

Easter Egg Hunt at Caldmore Community Garden

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It’s time for Easter Egg Hunt!

Join us this Saturday 12-4pm for chocolate madness at Caldmore Community Garden – the hunt will start at 1pm and will be over around 1.20, so please be there on time if you don’t want to miss out! There will be two zones – one for toddlers who must be accompanied on the Hunt by a parent and one for children over 5.

There will also be lots of other attractions – tombola, face-painting, Easter arts and crafts, Garden stall, and hot drinks and homemade cake at our community cafe!

See you on Saturday!