Autumn Woods public event

AUTUMN WOODS 

trees are palaces too! 

a day of tree ideas, planning adventures, creating stories, making and mess and laughter
Date: Saturday 4th October 
Venue: Serpentine Gardens, Burlington Rd, Buxton SK17 9AL 
Parking: Burlington Road or Pavilion Gardens 
What3words: lurching.instant.scrambles   
Times: 10.30 - 3.30 
This event is free: no booking or tickets needed
Materials are provided
You just bring the smiles, ideas and a helpful grown-up

change of venue notice

 

given the fearsome weather that is being predicted for this weekend, we're moving the Autumn Woods....but only about 100 metres or so!

 

We will be in action in the grounds of the Serpentine Community Garden with strong polytunnels for shelter from the stormcats and rainwolves!

 

Address: Serpentine Community Garden, Burlington Rd, Buxton, SK17 9AR

What3words: roofs.frog.nudge

 

Times 10:30 - 3:00

 

 Join us in the woods of the Serpentine Gardens, Buxton,  to enjoy the trees by the river. Find your own answers to the questions: 

who sits in a tree's throne room?

who guards a trees' treasures? 

who waits in the root-dungeons? 

who waves flags from the twig battlements? 

who dances in a branch's ballroom? 

Make your own Tree Palace Pop-up. 

Take home your own Bee and Bug Palace for your garden 

This is the third of four events Creeping Toad partners Stone and Water are doing as a series Celebrating Woodland with the aim of getting people recognising the richness and importance of the woodlands around us. Funded by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Community Grant Fund

mousehole: hidden in the Palace depths

Kites and monsters: public events

Kites, Monsters and Trees

public events in the Autumn

As the summer turns towards autumn, the rosehips redden and the blackberries ripen on the brambles, we have a lively series of public events coming up. Some are Stone and Water, some are Creeping Toad: most are a bit of both!

More details are still to come for some but get these in your diary!

September

Sunday 21st: Autumn Kites 1: make and fly a kite inspired by the winged wildlife of Buxton. Drop in an exercise your flying skills! Design and make your own kite: we’re hoping for swallows, swifts, falcons, bats, bees and butterflies…..

Venue: Ashwood Park, Bakewell Rd, Buxton, SK17 9TB. (At the Morrisons end of the Park)

Time:10:30 - 15:30,

Cost: free

Organiser: Stone and Water

Project: Art in Action: setting out to build skills and bring people together

October

Saturday 4th: Autumn Woodland: a Fun Palaces event looking at trees and woodland wildlife: making bee houses, pop-up forests and giant drawings

Venue: Serpentine Walks, Burlington Rd, Buxton, SK17 9AL.

Time: 10:30 - 15:30

Cost: free

Organiser: Stone and Water with Creeping Toad, Buxton Wild Weeks and the Babbling Vagabonds

Project: Celebrating Woodland for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Sunday 5th: Wirksworth Wizarding day

I am telling stories through the day on this amazing festival of magic, wizards, witches and wildness!

Magical creatures and wonderful monsters
old tales of enchantment. Here you may meet unicorns and dragons, boggarts, mermaids and stoorworms. Our stories will take us from the hills and rivers of Derbyshire to the wild north of Scotland. Add your own monster to the mix and slide a page into - or out of - The Wirksworth Bestiary. Suitable for families.

Details and booking: https://www.wizardingday.com/activities

A Creeping Toad day

Friday 24th

Assembly Rooms Buxton: a day with Buxton Wild Weeks exploring sustainability, biodiversity and the richness of our local environments Details to follow

More details to follow

Tuesday 28th: Autumn Kites 2: make and fly a kite inspired by the winged wildlife of Buxton. Drop in an exercise your flying skills! Design and make your own kite: we’re hoping for swallows, swifts, falcons, bats, bees and butterflies. Given that we are very close to Hallowe’en, we’re expecting a few broomstick kites and maybe some floating ghosts tangled in the treetops…we’ll be making indoors in the library and flying in the Rec

Venue: Buxton Library, Kents Bank Rd, Buxton, SK17 9HW.

Time: 10:30 - 15:30

Cost: free

Organiser: Stone and Water with Creeping Toad

Project: Art in Action: setting out to build skills and bring people together


Friday 31st

And at end the month, join us for a thoroughly spooky day at Ryecroft Hall, Audenshaw for Tameside MBC. There will be stories, masks to make, gargoyles build and sinister grinning goblins to hide in corners at home!

Details to follow

Organiser: Creeping Toad