Winter woods and glowing lights

Winter lights
free events with a glowing promise

Buxton, Derbyshire
18th and 19th December 

 a tracery of branches, a snowy scene, some winter leaves or Santa stuck in the chimney: box lanterns and shining bottles with Creeping Toad! 

Winter has arrived and here in Buxton and we’ve been having days of rain and wind and occasional snow. Summer seems to be a long ago memory and the beauty of these cold months is dripping itself into the puddles

In our ongoing efforts to entertain, engage and delight the woodland people of Buxton, the Stronger Roots team and Creeping Toad have arranged a couple of free events in the weekend of 18th and 19th December to remind us of our the beauty of our woods and the wonders of winter.

Saturday 18th December

Winter Woodland Lanterns

10.30 - 13:00

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Rd, Buxton, SK17 6DA

Join us at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery to make a lantern and take a little of the wonder of woodlands home for the festive season

 

Made of card and paper, these lanterns will stand on a table and glow with a warm light shining through the lantern’s “windows” decorated with images of tree branches, woodland animals or the colours of stained glass leaves…join us for some thinking and drawing, colour, glue and delight

 

Venue: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Rd, Buxton, SK17 6DA

This event is free and materials are provided but tickets are limited so please book a timed slot

Booking tickets: this is the Stronger Roots eventbrite page - please don’t try to book through the Museum as it will just confuse us all!

   

Sunday 19^th December

Bottle Lanterns at the Green Man Gallery

11:00 – 15:00 

The Green Man Gallery, Hardwick Studios (formerly Hardwick Hall), Hardwick square South, Buxton, SK17 6PY

Drop in at the Green Man and make your own moment of Midwinter to celebrate the woods of our town. Using leaves, feathers, drawings and glue, we’ll be turning bottles into small lanterns. Glowing like jewels, these can stand on a table or window ledge or hang from a branch and bring a whisper of the wildwood into your home for the festive season

 

The Gallery will be open at the same time for viewing the artists’ Christmas collections and the Gallery shop offers beautiful cards and unique gifts

 

Activity: takes about 15 minutes

Joining in: free, no tickets needed just turn up and join in

Materials: materials are provided but if you can bring a clean plastic bottle with you that would help

Booking: you do not need to book for this event: just drop by and join in. There is an eventbrite page if you want to check details, here

 

Bumblebee Lantern Workshops!

Bumblebee Lanterns!

a procession of buzzing excitements!

Public events in November

a bumble lantern row

balloon bumble colouring up

Do Bumblebees fly at night? Yes!

Do Bumblebees glow!Yes!

Or at least they will in the Bolsover Lantern Procession on Saturday 30^th November

Creeping Toad is working with the Bumblebee ConservationTrust’s Pollinating the Peaks Project  to make a set of bumblebee lanterns for the procession

Over several days we are aiming to make a whole colony of bumbles with lots of small personal lanterns ready to fly around a giant Queen (or two). There will be quick balloon bumbles ready to decorate. Or you could take a bit longer to make a small willow bumble or a willow pyrmid dorated with lots of bees and maybe some bee-friendlyflowers! Then there will be our big Queen Lanterns that we'll will need somehelp to make. 

Why not join us for a buzzing good time of willow, tissue, glue and laughter in Chesterfield? 

Find out a bit more about Bumblebees, as well! Maybe over the winter as our Bumbles sleep you could plan a bee-friendly garden for them to wake to in the spring?

willow lanterns need glue and tissue!

Lantern making

We have two days of lantern making workshops

Dates: Saturday 16^th

Sunday 17^th November

Place: At Loundsley Green Community Centre, Cuttholm Rd, Loundsley green, Chesterfield, S40 4QU

Times: 12 – 4pm

Cost, etc: this event is free. No experience is necessary - materials, help and guidance in lantern-making are all provided!

Children: should bring a grown up with them

Wear: clothes to get messy in!

decorate your lantern!

Make 1: your own small bumblebee or flower lanterns to carry in the procession

Make 2: help us make our large bumblebee queen lanterns

Can’t join the Procession: don’t worry! Make a bumblebee to light the winter evenings of your own home!

The Procession: organised by Junction Arts, this colourful event starts in the grounds of Bolsover Castle before heading through the streets of the town

Date: Saturday 30th November, 6 – 8pm

Meeting point: Bolsover Castle

What’s happening: Parade entry: 4pm
Lantern Competition: 4:30pm
Parade starts: 5pm
Carols at the Cenotaph: 5:45pm

Details: Bolsover Lanterns

come bumbling with us!