reaching communities

Father’s Day at Caldmore Community Garden

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Join us for a Community Fun Day for dads and their kids – come and join us for an afternoon of circus, creativity, and a campfire!

– Thingamabob by Matt Pang – performances at 12:30 and 2pm 
With an internationally renowned blend of circus, invention and humour, Matt Pang brings to life a giant ball slinging, self exploding piece of handcrafted gadgetry, inspired by the famous Rube Goldberg machines and Heath Robinson contraptions.

– Arts and crafts – make a Father’s Day card!

– Home-made cake and campfire – toast some bread and marshmallows over the fire!

It’s a Pay as You Feel event – please donate to the Garden to support our future events and activities. There will be donation buckets and a possibility of paying by card, too – you can also visit our Local Giving page https://localgiving.org/charity/caldmorevillagefestival/project/CCG/.

Organised with support from Black Country Touring, West Midlands Combined Authority’s Inclusive Communities fund and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Willow Workshops with artist Kate Morrell at Women’s Tuesdays

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WILLOW WORKSHOPS
WITH ARTIST KATE MORRELL

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.

Easter Egg Hunt

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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.

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

Free Seed Saving Workshop with Heritage Seed Library – Tuesday 20th September – 12-3pm

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Seed saving might seem like a dark art but once you get into it you realise how satisfying it can be to take one step further towards self-sufficiency in your growing. This course will introduce you to the rationale behind seed saving and give plenty of practical examples of the process. We will also introduce you to some of the fascinating varieties within Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library.

Session will cover:
• Reasons for saving seed saving
• Extracting seed from key crops
• How to improve the purity of your seed
• Storing seed

To book, please e-mail caldmoregarden@gmail.com, send a message on Facebook or Whatsapp / text us on 07871813252.

About Garden Organic
Garden Organic is the national charity for organic growing. We have been around since 1958 and have over 20 000 members. Our goal is simple – to get people growing organically. We do this in lots of ways:
• Working with communities providing them with support in their growing
• Providing horticultural advice to gardeners
• Campaigning on topical issues such as the use of peat or pesticides
• Preserving traditional and heirloom varieties in our Heritage Seed Library
• Researching into organic gardening techniques

We also have an organic demonstration garden at Ryton on Dunsmore just outside Coventry, where you can book onto to tours and workshops. For further information visit: www.gardenorganic.org.uk.

Our Gardening Workshops are funded by The National Lottery Community Fund – Reaching Communities.

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.

Vacancy: External Evaluator

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CALDMORE VILLAGE FESTIVAL ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXTERNAL EVALUATOR FOR CALDMORE COMMUNITY GARDEN AND OUR “GARDEN FOR ALL” PROJECT

Role: External Evaluator

Fee: £6,000.00 to £7,000.00 for the full engagement period (paid in two annual installments).   

Engagement period: July 2022 – February 2024

This is freelance self-employed post, spread over two years.

Place of work: Remote working and visits to the project in Walsall

We are looking for an evaluator who has experience in the arts and participation to carry creative evaluation of our flagship project – Caldmore Community Garden with activities and events funded as a part of Reaching Communities’ “Garden for All” project. If you do not fit all the criteria but do have relevant experience that could make you a great candidate, we would still love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. We welcome applications from people with a range of experiences and skills.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion throughout our projects and our workplace. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We aim to make the application process as accessible as possible.

To apply, please email your CV and a one page cover letter to:  Anna Webster –  caldmoregarden@gmail.com by Friday 24th June.

Please note, applications will be reviewed as they come in as we are looking to appoint this post as soon as possible.

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