A wonder of woodlands

A wonder of woodlands

free public events in Buxton, Derbyshire

July 2021

As part of the Buxton Civic Association’s Stronger Roots project, I’m coordinating an arts engagement programme of public events. The next wave of these starts with July…why not come and join us if you are in Buxton or thereabouts?

Art in the woods

During Buxton Wild Week and the Buxton Fringe there will be a number of art sessions in the woods of the town. You might like to hone your identification skills and make your own tree book, you might like to sketch, to be creative in Gadley or Corbar or Sherbrook woods or wander through the stories the trees tell us in Grin Low. Or exercise your imagination and shape a new story

IN THE FACE OF A SUDDEN SURGE IN COVID INFECTIONS IN BUXTON, BUXTON WILD WEEK EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED 

The post below holds links and details for all these events but to try to summarise….

 

Wednesday 7^th

10.30 - 12.30:   The woods of Grinlow

 

Thursday 8^th

10.30 - 12.30: Tales of the wild woods, Buxton Country Park

1.30 -2.30: Art in the woods (BWW), Corbar Wood

5 – 6: Art in the Woods, after school session (BWW), Gadley Wood

6.30 – 7.30: Art in the Woods (BWW), Gadley Wood

IN THE FACE OF A SUDDEN SURGE IN COVID INFECTIONS IN BUXTON, BUXTON WILD WEEK EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED 

Friday 9^th

1.30 – 2.30:Art in the Woods (BWW), Sherbrook Wood

4.30 – 6: Art in the Woods, after school session (BWW), Grin Low Wood

6 – 7.30: Art in the Woods (BWW),  Grin Low Wood

IN THE FACE OF A SUDDEN SURGE IN COVID INFECTIONS IN BUXTON, BUXTON WILD WEEK EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED  

 

Saturday 10^th

11am - 1pm: Sketching Trees with Geoff Chilton,  Buxton Country Park

 Sunday 18^th  

11am - 1pm: A Blockbuster with trees with RobYoung,  Buxton Country Park

Wednesday 7^th July

The Woods of Grinlow

Make your own tree book!

Combining finding out about the trees in Grinlow Woods with art, this workshop will take us through tree identification to printing, rubbing, drawing and writing to help us remember those trees. We’ll build our own books, lacing together pages, pictures and discoveries to make Tree Books to keep memories fresh and to add to as the leaves lengthen and ash-keys grow

Venue: Grinlow Woods, meet in Poole’s Cavern Car Park, event accessible for wheelchairs

Artist: Gordon MacLellan of Creeping Toad 

Time: 10.30 – 12.30

Materials are provided (but you are welcome to bring your own!)

Booking: this event is free but places need to be booked: The Woods of Grinlow Tickets, Wed 7 Jul 2021 at 10:30 | Eventbrite

Thursday 8^th July  

(4 events)

Tales of the Wild Woods

There are stories to be told in these woods, mysteries waiting to be unfolded. Join storyteller Gordon MacLellan from Creeping Toad for a storywalk through the woods, with stories to tell and new tales to grow. Gordon will share some of the storytellers art: encouraging visitors to create their own stories. Spinning wonders out of fluttering leaves and bird calls

Venue: Grinlow Woods, meet in Poole’s Cavern Car Park, gentle walk. 

Artist: Gordon MacLellan of Creeping Toad 

Time: 10.30 – 12.30

Materials are provided 

Booking: this event is free but places need to be booked: Tales of the Wild Woods Tickets, Thu 8 Jul 2021 at 10:30 | Eventbrite

Buxton Festival Fringe

10^th July

Sketching Trees with Geoff Chilton

The elegance of beech trees, the strength of ash, the grace of birch and the richness of hazel: our woods are full of wonders and in this event, we invite you to take a bit more time to really look, to get to know our trees. Join Geoff Chilton, a resident artist from the Green Man Gallery in Buxton and learn to sketch the trees of Grinlow Woods. Geoff will take you through a systematic approach to simplifying the drawing of a subject that can at first seem daunting

Venue: Grinlow Woods, meet in Poole’s Cavern Car Park, gentle walk. 

Artist: Geoff Chilton, https://earthpigpottery.com/

Times: 11am- 1pm

Materials are provided (but you are welcome to bring your own!)

Booking: this event is free but places need to be booked: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sketching-trees-tickets-161001839837?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

18^th July

A Blockbuster With Trees? 

Do you write? Do you want to write? Have you written before? Or not at all? Turn our woodland wonders into drama, action, adventure, romance, comedy…horror? Would you like to write a movie with award-winning writer and former BAFTA screenplay judge, Rob Young? Warm, witty and welcoming this workshop will play with laughter, delight and wild ideas….create a hero and walk them through a film, transform a painting into a movie, see a woodland glade as a dramatic set: it’s film-school in a forest!

Venue: Grinlow Woods, meet in Poole’s Cavern Car Park 

Artist: Rob Young, https://robyoung.info/art/

Times: 11am – 1pm

Materials are provided 

Booking: this event is free but places need to be booked: A Blockbuster With Trees? Tickets, Sun 18 Jul 2021 at 11:00 | Eventbrite