Canalside events | Canalside Community Food - Part 2

Come and visit our farm for a fun autumn day out!

From 10am: Join in with a seasonal work morning in the fields/polytunnels.
From 11am: Apple pressing suitable for all ages. Bring your own apples if you have spare from a tree in the garden and/or bottles to take juice home in.
Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the social area/pole barn.
2pm: Meet one of our growers and take a farm tour to find out what we grow.
Dog-free event please.

Event details on Canalside’s Facebook group

Tickets for our annual summer party can now be bought here. Alternatively make your way to Gaia wholefood shop in Regent Place, Leamington. If you are a Canalside member, you can buy directly from Ali.

Saturday 16th July, 7pm until late at Canalside Community Food social area.

The event will feature all the usual summer loveliness in our pole barn and spacious grassy social area:

• Live music and dancing – with The Reckless Rhubarb Barn Dance Band
• Fully licenced bar selling local ales and ciders and delicious organic soft drinks
• Hot food, using the bounty of fabulous organic vegetables from our fields
• Open mic for any budding musicians, poets and performers
• Fire circle
• Family friendly – under 16s get in free
• Camp over if you don’t want to have to get home at the end of the evening

Tickets are £7, or £5 for Canalside members (booking fee applies to website ticket sales). Under 16s get in free, but please give numbers to help with our planning.

You can now buy tickets for our annual summer extravaganza on Saturday 11th July.

* Live music * Dancing * Food * Licensed bar * Children’s play area * Fire circle *

Full details are here

Buy your ticket here (small booking fee applies), or head to Gaia, 7 Regent Place, Leamington

For the first time this year, we’ll be opening our gates for Open Farm Sunday on 7th June (2015). Come and have a tour of the vegetable fields and polytunnels, and the fruit orchard with our lead grower. Tours start at 11.30am and 2.30pm. Why not bring a picnic and enjoy our lovely social area. Young visitors will particularly appreciate our woven willow play tunnels and chunky wooden play equipment. If you need further information, please send your questions to Ali.

Tour of the vegetable fields and fruit orchard at 11.30am and 2.30pm
Find out how our fruit and vegetable scheme works
Bring a picnic lunch to eat in our family friendly social area
Children’s play area

Look for the green and white balloons on our roadsign!
Southam Road, Radford Semele, CV31 1TY

Tickets are now available via a number of channels for our fab annual party!

This year promises to be bigger than ever before – a family friendly celebration of our community and the fantastic produce that comes from the land. Here’s a taste of what you can expect this year:
Music from the Quiet Men Big Band
Ceilidh dancing 8pm-midnight
Open mic for all
Famous Canalside bar with local ales and cider and delicious non-alcoholic drinks too
NEW FOR 2013: Hot savoury seasonal food
Something sweet for those late night munchies (exact details to be confirmed very soon)

Tickets are £7.50 for Canalside members and £10 for non-members. Under 16s are free, but please let us know numbers for our information. To get your tickets, do one of the following:
– head to Gaia – 1 Regent Place, Leamington Spa
– click here (small booking fee applies)
– post cheque payment (payable to Canalside Community Food) with your order and contact email address to Ali Jeffery, Canalside Community Food, Leasowe Farm, Radford Semele, CV31 1TY.
Please note, tickets ordered through the website, and by non-members direct from Ali will be available for collection on the gate on Saturday 20th July.

Our summer social event has been renamed the Canalside Summer Party. It will take place on Saturday 20th July and tickets are now on sale here, soon to be available direct from Ali, or from Gaia in Leamington.

The 4th Annual Canalside Barn Dance is drawing near, and tickets are now on sale!

The event will be on Saturday 7th July 2012, and tickets cost £8 (non-members) or £6 (Canalside members). Children under 12 get in free.

Buy tickets here (please note website booking fee applies) or head to Gaia (7 Regent Place, Leamington Spa).

The Annual Canalside Barn Dance will take place on Saturday 7th July 2012. Further details including ticket prices and where to buy them will be posted here when available. Members and non-members are all welcome!

Organised by a small group of Canalside members, and held at the project site

2nd Friday of the month in 2011, 7.30pm for 8pm start

This adults-only rhythm circle will be held on the Friday nearest the full moon each month. If the weather is good, we will be round a fire; if the weather’s rainy, we will be in the pole barn.

We invite you to bring your own percussion instruments (including home-made) if you have any. A number of West African drums and rattles will also be available to play. We welcome both experienced and new rhythm-makers, so don’t worry if you’ve never had a go before – just come along, have a bash and enjoy the experience!

You are also welcome to bring snacks and drinks, for yourselves or to share, after we have made beautiful music together!

Here’s the key info:

• Second Friday of every month
  • Friday 14th October
  • Friday 11th November
  • Friday 9th December
• Social area of Canalside Community Food (please use Canaside entrance) – directions
• 7.30pm arrival to help light the fire and set up the space, for 8pm start
• Cost: £2 for Canalside members, £4 for non-members

Look forward to seeing you there!

Caz, Sam & Lucy xxx