Join us for the spring afternoon of fun at Caldmore Community Garden!
Arts and crafts – Family games – Face-painting – Home-made cake – Spring Treasure Hunt
Free entry!
Hot and cold drinks and cake will be sold at our community cafe, and you are more than welcome to bring your own picnic.
Let’s meet at the Garden!
A great way to round off the summer with an afternoon of live music including performances from some of Walsall’s best live acts as well as leading national names.
The ever popular Alex Fawson will be kicking off proceedings as well as hosting the day. The afternoon also sees a performance from local legend Martin Breedon who will be bringing his band the Rustlers to enliven The Garden Stage. Fresh from her storming performance at the Arboretum in August as vocalist for Funk and Disorderly, Gemma Niles will be returning to the garden heading up her own band Katsu Cassettes.
Heading up the the M6 from Birmingham singer song writer, Jack Cattell will be taking the stage later on in the afternoon, for a rare Walsall performance, showcasing music from his new EP, Locked Away. https://jackcattellmusic.bandcamp.com/.
Heading up the bill, we are very proud to have the return of the amazing songsmith, story teller and all round national treasure Ash Mandrake, who will be sharing his own unique brand of psychedelic folk. https://ashmandrake.bandcamp.com
This amazing event is brought to you absolutely free and is hosted in the beautiful environs of Caldmore Community Garden.
The event starts at 1.00pm and goes on to 7.30. The garden café will be opening all afternoon serving up hot and cold drinks and a range of cakes and light refreshments. You’re welcome to bring your own picnic and there will be covered areas in the unlikely event that we have any rain showers!
The event is it’s very definitely family friendly, and there is a play area for young children along with hosted activities, so please come on down and chill with us, to round off our summer of great events at Caldmore Community Garden!
August Open Day at Caldmore Community Garden – Creepy Crawlies!
Saturday 12th August, 12-4pm
Address: Caldmore Community Garden, Carless Street, WS1 3RH
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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