Creeping
Toad
Hopping into
excitement
public events over the summer months
Events where you can find me over the summer months
Families: unless otherwise stated, these events are
aimed at family groups – stray adults are welcome to come and join us, too: to listen
laugh and make things as suits.
Appropriate
ages: If you are 7 years old or less, can you please bring
a grown-up with you and don’t lose them during the session.
Stern
word: I try to keep things as relaxed and cheerful as possible
during sessions but I do reserve the right to ask people to leave if their
behaviour disrupts the rest of the group and I generally recommend getting to a
drop-in event at least 40 minutes before the scheduled end of the event as I
often have to pack up and move somewhere else quite quickly!
Last minute bookings: I still have odd days here and there (some are very strange!). If you would like a session for your site or your own group, contact me at creepingtoad@btinternet.com or 07791 096857 to find out more
June
Saturday 25th: Peeling Back the Layers at the Dove Valley Centre
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| March 2016! but we are expecting sunshine! |
A community archaeology day on this exciting project,
When: 11 – 4, free
Where: DVC, on the road between Longnor and Sheen in the Staffordshire Moorlands,
SK17 0PR
My role: I am here as the Collections in the Landscape
events leader and we’ll be wondering about what is being found on the dig and
making model houses to assemble “old Whitle”
July
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| I don't know if they have horse chestnuts... |
Saturday 9th Langley Vale Woods, Surrey
a day of activities with the Woodland Trust. I’ll be
there helping people make their own books about the day and telling some leafy
tales about trees – lots of other things going on as well
When: 11am – 4pm, free
Where: Langley Vale Woods, near Epsom
Useful link:
Saturday 16th The Magical Storytelling Yurt
Buxton Festival: Tales from a tent: a rolling programme
of storytelling through the day – no booking, just turn up and get those ears
flapping. I tell stories as we find audiences: if you arrive in the middle of a
session a new one will begin fairly soon – generally every 40 minutes or so.
And the stories? Of giants and creepies, boggarts and beasts and boisterousness,
frivolous, fearsome and fun….
When: 10am – 4pm Free
Where: Pavilion Gardens, Buxton
Part of Buxton Festival:
Sunday
17th TINY! DRAGONS,
WYRMS AND SERPENTS
Another Tiny! event. Join us to fill the Gardens with dragons, medieval wyrms
and wonderful serpents - none of them bigger than your hand (or maybe a wriggle
as long as your arm). Our Stone and Water group has been doing Tiny! events for
several years now as part of Buxton Festival Fringe. Join us under the trees to
make your own Tiny! Creature: a cheerful, quiet, restful place within the wider
activity of Pavilion Gardens. Step into a creative moment and find your own
inner dragon – or outer Wyrm, or simply flappy monster….
When: 11am – 4pm, free
Where: Pavilion Gardens, Buxton: look for us under a tree near the younger children's playground
August
Tuesday 9th: Dragon
Days
More dragons! Join me on a journey to discover
the last dragons of Derbyshire with stories and puppet-making.
Make your own dragon as big as your hand
with its own nest or cave and collection of treasure.
When:
11am – 1pm (if we fill up the morning slot, we might be able to run a scaly overspill in the afternoon)
Please
book a place: 01298 937375
Fee: £6.00
Where: Green Man Gallery, Hardwick Hall, Hardwick Square S, Buxton SK17 6PY
Part
of the Buxton Family Festival, download a programme for the whole festival here:
Thursday 18th
Tiny Castles and
Palaces
A
morning of miniature making with glittering towers and crashing draw-bridges,
dungeons, ballrooms and princesses out to cause trouble…join us to make your
own miniature storyland
Where:
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Rd, Buxton, SK17 6DA
When:
10am – 12 noon, free
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| Dovedale: cross the river... |
Monday 22nd
Building beasts
using twigs and leaves, mud, pebbles and cones, we’ll make some of the
unexpected inhabitants and secret places of the Gardens
Where:
Ness Gardens, Neston, Wirral
Details to follow
Wednesday
24th August
Hoards
and Secrets
where
would you hide your most precious objects? And what would you hide? Celebrating
hidden hoards from Reynards Cave and Beeston Tor, we’ll make treasure maps of Dovedale, decorate our own treasure boxes and find natural treasures to hoard inside them!
When:
11 – 1 and 2- 4
Where: Dovedale,
(park in commercial carpark at mouth of dale) and find us either over stepping
stones and on the grass or beside
the National Trust mobile visitor unit
Event is
free – just drop by and join in - but there is a charge for car parking
Saturday
27th August
Heroes and Villains of Sherwood: from merry men and Marion to the
Sheriff and anyone else we can think of: woodsmen, forest girls, monks, lords
and princesses: join us to make some wonderful puppet characters and then help
us tell a story of Sherwood that no-one has ever heard before!
Where and when:
Booking: tbc, don’t think it is needed but get there for the start
of a session
Part of the D H Lawrence Festival of Culture: link to follow
