The Garden Cafe at the Chantry Centre has built a reputation for its fantastic home baked cakes and savouries, along with good company and chat. When the weather’s good, there are benches in sun and shade in the garden; and in any weather you’re welcome indoors, even with muddy boots. Find the cafe through the […]
Rumour has it that Wassailing will be back at the Museum in the Park on the afternoon of Saturday 22 February! Who knows quite what will be happening … expect a madcap mix of music, morris dancing, mayhem and merriment! Come along and drop in between 1.30pm and 3.30pm, everyone welcome whether you are wearing […]
Come and explore mycelial connections through song with Mel of Sing Your Heart Out Stroud. In this workshop you will learn and interact as one living vocal network, showing how invisible threads connect us all, the way mycelium connects together under our feet. Learn new songs and experiment with embodying this fascinating world. For adults, […]
Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Gloucestershire Archives is running a two-year GREEN Pledge project to help record the county’s environmental legacy and drive forward climate action. Global warming and the ecological crisis are the most pressing and universal concerns we face. Heritage holds the memory of people and communities, and Gloucestershire Archives is a […]
The Garden Cafe at the Chantry Centre has built a reputation for its fantastic home baked cakes and savouries, along with good company and chat. When the weather’s good, there are benches in sun and shade in the garden; and in any weather you’re welcome indoors, even with muddy boots. Find the cafe through the […]
Join community artist Susie Walker for a new art for wellbeing series. We’ll be using natural materials inspired by the Growing Places exhibition, the Museum’s Walled Garden and the surrounding parkland. From printing with fruit and veg, drawing with sticks and natural materials, exploring cyanotype we’ll try out different techniques and have fun along the […]
This 1 & ½ day workshop will teach you how to extract beautiful colour from natural substances which you’ll use to dye wool yarn and fabric. These substances may be fresh, dried, powdered or liquid extracts. With the expert guidance of textile artist Rebecca Connolly we’ll start with the Friday afternoon preparing wool; making mini hanks and mordanting, […]
GAVIN FAIRHALL LEVER create a wondrous explosion of colour in the wild and unkempt garden of the London folk scene. A tangle of roots from Northern Ireland, Cornwall and Norfolk gives exuberant life to a truly contemporary folk music, full of thorns and flowers. Tonight, multi-instrumentalist James Patrick Gavin (who many of you will recall when he was […]
We’re in the month of the Spring Equinox. All things being equal, this should be our most exciting herb walk yet. Do join us to see what we find. We’ll meet at the corner of Everlands and Church Road, where the bridge crosses the Cam. See us there at 10am and we’ll walk along the […]
The Garden Cafe at the Chantry Centre has built a reputation for its fantastic home baked cakes and savouries, along with good company and chat. When the weather’s good, there are benches in sun and shade in the garden; and in any weather you’re welcome indoors, even with muddy boots. Find the cafe through the […]
Everything you ever wanted to ask about gardening but didn’t like to ask
Listed among the classic ‘wacky races’ of the Cotswolds, Dursley’s annual pancake race is a fixture not to be missed. All the Pancake Day action happens at Midday on Parsonage street – don’t be late or you’ll miss it. If you want to join in, come along with your own frying pan and pancake. Fancy […]
