From the Traditional Arts Team:
Hope you all had a good summer break and are looking forward to lots of music activities in the autumn!
On Sunday 5 September there’s a free tune arranging workshop with Louisa Davies and Peter Churchill of the band Elfynn at the Bulls Head from 11am to 12:30pm. They will teach a simple tune and then look at ways of making it more interesting, exploring rhythms, chords, instrumentation and harmony. Suitable for all instruments including percussion – bring your instruments along! This is part of the Moseley Folk Festival but you don’t need a festival ticket for the workshop.
On Sunday 12 September the Moseley Village Band will be playing from 2:00-2:30pm at the Waterhall Gallery in Birmingham as part of ArtsFest. This group of musicians meets twice a month to make music together and explore the style and repertoire of the English village music tradition. We welcome all musicians to our meetings at St Columba’s Church Hall in Moseley at 7:30pm on the second and fourth Thursday of each month.
The next traditional music session will be at 8pm on Sunday 19 September at the Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE, when all are welcome to enjoy playing and listening to English, Scottish & Irish folk music and song.
And if you like dancing to traditional music, there will be a ceilidh with live music from Cuckoo’s Nest, caller Alex McClure at 8pm on Saturday 18 September at the Holy Name Parish Centre, 9 Cross Lane, Great Barr, Birmingham, B43 6LN. Tickets £6 from Val Comery 0121 358 2502
Best wishes – Pam
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PAM BISHOP
Traditional Arts Team
19 Springfield Road
Kings Heath
Birmingham
B14 7DU
tel 0121 247 3856
pam@tradartsteam.co.uk
The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk
Who is doing what, where and how in the Midlands folk scene? Make your views known via www.folkmonthlysurvey.info Reply early and be entered into a fabulous prize draw to win tickets to the Moseley Folk Festival!
The Traditional Arts Team is supported by Arts Council England
The official launch of Leamington’s Sustainability Centre will be held on Saturday 11th September at 12.30. The centre and garden will be open to the public between 12 noon and 3pm that day.
The Sustainability Centre is at East Lodge, Jephson Gardens, Willes Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 4ER.
A singing workshop led by Sarah Pennington and Gilo
10:30-4:30, Sat 9 Oct, Unitarian Chapel, High St, Warwick (CV34 4AX)
A harmony singing workshop featuring beautiful sacred songs from different traditions and cultures around the globe: Shape note, Taize, Iona, Harmonic Temple, simple native chants, rousing gospel, and much more.
Gilo & Sarah have been teaching together since 2002 and have built up an enthusiastic following in Dorset and far beyond. They quickly create a safe and fun atmosphere and meld a group into a community of singers for the day. There will be plenty of gentle humour and a patient, sensitive teaching style. No need to read music or think of yourself as a singer: just bring your voice and a smile! The emphasis will be on harmony and simplicity, stillness and celebration, creating angelic sounds to summon up warmth and wonder.
All the songs and chants on this workshop will be taught “by ear”.
Cost for the day £24 Please bring some food for a shared lunch.
******* only £20 if full payment is made by end of August ******
Book by sending a cheque (payable to “Bruce Knight”), to 14 Kennan Ave, Leamington Spa, CV31 3HY. This will reserve your place. For more info, ring 01926 778454, or email bruceknight.voice@virgin.net Places are limited – our workshops normally sell out, so early booking is advised. Please include an SAE if you’d like confirmation and / or directions
Dear Canalside Friends,
I would like to invite you all to Practical Action’s (www.practicalaction.org.uk) second Small is… Festival on September 4-5th 2010. The Small is… Festival is a celebration and evolution of the ideas of “Small is Beautiful”, written by our founder, E.F. Schumacher in 1970, but which still has profound significance today. The weekend event provides a space to share skills, learn about technologies, create networks, develop ideas and to be inspired about international development, sustainability and the planet. It is held in our beautiful, rural office grounds in Bourton on Dunsmore, the Leamington side of Rugby.
The first Small is… Festival in 2009 was a great success! We hope to recreate the wonderful participatory feel of last year, including the fun but productive atmosphere, the open debates, the lively networking and exchange sessions, and the international feel – but with local food and hospitality very evident. Some of the many things you can look forward to are:
· Keynote speaker: Andrew Simms, New Economic Foundation – a very interesting and entertaining speaker on why happiness is more important than economic growth, and what to do about it.
· Debate: What’s the best way to reduce carbon emissions – global, national or local strategies? With Mark Lynas (author of Six Degrees), Molly Scott Cato and Shaun Chamberlin (author of Transition Timeline).
· Workshops: make your own rocket stove; waste art activities for kids; wind turbine and micro-hydro demonstrations; learn about making tin can batteries; play interactive board games; find out about compost toilets.
· Networking and exchange: what are Transition Towns?; how to get a job in international development; who is doing what on sustainable building;
· Straw Bale Solar Cinema: films about Schumacher and much more…
There is overnight camping and great evening entertainment Friday and Saturday nights. So book your place now on our website www.smallisfestival.org (booking is essential so that we know numbers for catering and event licensing purposes).
If you would like to help out in any way, e.g. by offering to give a talk or run a workshop then that would be fabulous. Also if you have a spare marquee or large tent you can offer for the weekend we would be overjoyed! We are running the event on a shoestring and those things are really expensive to hire!
If you want to know any more or offer help then please get in touch with Canalside members Kath Pasteur or Steven Hunt at Practical Action (small_is@practicalaction.org.uk)
Thanks
Kath
Katherine Pasteur
International Programme Coordinator – Reducing Vulnerability
Direct tel: 01926 634465
Practical Action is an international development agency working with poor communities to help them choose and use technology to improve their lives today and for generations to come. www.practicalaction.org.uk
Practical Action
The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development,
Bourton on Dunsmore,
Rugby,
Warwickshire, UK,
CV23 9QZ
Tel: +44 – 01926 634400
Fax: +44 – 01926 634401
www.practicalaction.org
How can Energy Field Healing help you?
We’ll be at Zoe’s Garden Party on Saturday
so why not pop down and have a chat,
or try a 30 minute cleansing session for only £20,
includes free goodie bag.
Sat 24th July 12pm – 4pm
Pump Room Gardens, L’spa
For more information or to book your session call Jane on 07966 533556
Places limited so please call to avoid disappointment.
Dear All
I hope the summer is treating you well and that a holiday is in sight!
Just wanted to flag up that “The Secret Garden”, “An Ideal Husband” and “Love in Shakespeare” are now in their stride and roaming around the various lanes of the UK. They’re all a great night out and I think I can safely say there are no other shows out this summer that are similar…
Midlands dates are:
Ideal – tonight, Grey’s Court, Henley-on-Thames
Love – Wed 21st Brueton Park, Solihull
Love – Sat 24th, Charlecote Park. Warwick
Secret – Sun 1st Aug – Calke Abbey, Derby
Secret Tues/Wed 2nd/3rd Aug – Kenilworth Castle
Secret – Thurs 4th Aug – Waterperry Gardens, Oxford
Love – Sat 7th Aug – Wickhamford Manor, Broadway
Ideal – Sun 15th Aug MK Event Centre, Milton Keynes
Love – Sat/Sun 28/29 Aug – Nottingham Castle
Do visit www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk for further info
To whet your appetite there is a video of snippets from the Leamington show now available to view on our website – follow this link and click on the video box in the bottom right hand side of the screen to play the video – http://www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk/portfolio/category/open-air-theatre
And here are some audience reactions:
“Very inventive & well paced. Excellent ensemble playing. Great to see something different!”
“Very refreshing”
“Still reeling from the Love in Shakespeare . All eleven of us had the best night out we have had in a long time due to this superb play. FAB!”
“a relaxed, funny evening out combining traditional and new drama. Very good”
If you would like me to sort out cheap tickets for you then please either e-mail or text me. It would be great to see you!
With best wishes for happy days
Maddy
Maddy Kerr
Executive Director
Heartbreak
North Hall
Spencer Yard
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV31 3SY
01926 430307
07812 241610
maddy@heartbreakproductions.co.uk
www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk
Here’s a message from Pam, one of our members:
There will be a traditional music session next Sunday 16 May at the
Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. All musicians are welcome to come along and
share a few tunes. More information on our website
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music/musicsession.htm
Please pass this message on to anyone else you know who might be interested.
I recently received this email about the upcoming ‘Kenilworth Festival’. Sounds like it could be an enjoyable way to spend a part of the day, especially if you’d like something to keep the younger members of your family busy!
http://kenilworthfestival.co.uk/partyinthepark.htm
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am dropping you a line to let you and your members know about an exciting event happening in Kenilworth.
On Sunday 16th May, the Kenilworth Festival “Party in the Park” will take place in the Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, from 11.30am. The event is a family fun day and admission is free.
We have just secured the BBC’s Dig In Tour who will have a 20m pitch at the event. The Dig In tour will be promoting growing your own food and giving away free seeds. In addition, there will be a demonstration tent and an activity tend, along with a Gardener’s Question Time, led by a BBC celebrity gardener. Every 20 minutes there will be a different demonstration and there will also be an opportunity to ask questions, swap tips and share recipes – everything from sow, grow, harvest and cook!
The Dig In team would love to see visitors with an interest in gardening who would like to participate in the question time sessions and see the demonstrations. The event is suitable for children too, with a chance to plant seeds and take away pots to plant at home.
Full details of the campaign are available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/on_tour/
The Festival website is www.kenilworthfestival.co.uk
We are one of only 8 tour venues in the UK.
I should be grateful if you will spread the word amongst your members – all of whom would be very welcome at our event.
If you need any further information, do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards
Julie Thomas
Kenilworth Festival (Marketing & PR)
www.kenilworthfestival.co.uk
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Free Harmony would like to invite you to the launch of their debut cd
on Sunday August 23rd at Taylor John’s House, The
from 7.30pm where they will be performing songs from the cd.
Tickets will be £5 on the door and limited signed copies of our cd will be on sale.
Hope to see you there
Love from Free Harmony www.chrishoskins.co.uk/freeharmony.html
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