International Women's Day 2019

We delivered a series of workshops to create placards and decorations for the International Women's Day event in Derby Arboretum.
We worked with St Joseph's Brownies, Roma Community Care, Derby Woodcraft Folk, Sahaly Women's Group, and 2 drop in sessions at Derby Arboretum and Derby Women's Centre. We had a busy few weeks and the event was a great success.

Arboretum Spring Fest - Sunday 20 March

New ‘Friends’ Group celebrates Spring in the Arboretum

On Sunday 20^th March the newly formed Friends of Derby Arboretum group and the Rotary Club of Derby are organising a Spring Fest which will include various activities to celebrate Spring in this wonderful city centre park. A key theme will be the pancake in all its forms.

There will be many activities including pancake races, pancake decorating, spring hat making, a drumming workshop, floral exhibition in the Orangery, clothes and bric-a-brac sales, craft activities and a photography competition. It is intended that it will not be limited to the traditional English form of pancake but will represent all cultural forms. So naans, chapattis, anything that is cooked in a pan and can be tossed!

The organisers are calling for any local groups or businesses to enter teams of four in the ‘pancake’ tossing relay races. The entry fee will be £5 per team. Contact Richard Benfield on 01332 824403 for an entry form.

The photography competition is open to all amateurs and is aimed at finding inspiring images of this historic and beautifully laid out park in Spring.

Luminate Lantern & Light Festival

Luminate Lantern

& Light Festival

in the Derby Arboretum

Thurs 26^th November 2015

There will be a choir performance, lantern procession, illuminations around the park, followed by soup & rolls.

Meet at the Orangery - 3.30pm finishing about 6.00pm.

The lanterns will be on display in the Orangery till Monday 30thNovember

                      For further information contact spiral_arts@hotmail.co.uk            


funded by People's Health Trust using money raised by Healthcalm through The Health Lottery
       

Luminate Lantern workshops

We have begun our lantern-making for our Luminate Lantern and Light Festival on 26 Nov. We delivered workshops over the half term holidays with participants of every age. We made star shapes and owl shapes using willow and tissue as well as glass jar lanterns to decorate the fountain in the park.
Go to the news page to see details for the Festival.

Sculpture workshops - 175th Anniversary

We held 9 days of workshops over the holidays to create a range of sculptures for the great 175th Anniversary celebrations on the Derby Arboretum Park. It was a very busy time. Thank you to everyone who came and helped.

Witchey Halloween in the Park

We had a busy afternoon in the park making our fantastic pop-up and down witches.
Parents and children had great fun gluing, sticking and cutting. And then we had a puppet show!

'Walk in Her Shoes' - International Women's Day

Just a few of the people who dropped by and helped create shoes for our shoe bunting.
We were asked once again by the Midlands Co operative to run an activity raising awareness of the campaign 'Walk in Her Shoes' they are supporting.

Last month's "Big Draw"

 Photos from our "Big Draw" workshop last month inspired by the lovely Arboretum Park, we were visited by some enthusiastic families who helped us make a forest grow here in the "Heart of the Park"

Batik at the Station

Our 2nd Carers Break workshop was held in the community room at Chaddesden Fire Station.
This time we were painting with hot wax and beautiful batik inks.
It is a lovely space to work with a full view of the engines!!
We had fun trying to close the automatically opening doors when we left though!!

Carers Breaks

We have started our Carer's Breaks workshops at the Arboretum Park.
We had a nice afternoon, chatting and making paper.
We are looking forward to our next workshop tomorrow - 
Batik painting at Chaddesden Fire Station Community Room.

Liquidizers and kitchen roll

Torch Making Workshops

Have a look at the photo gallery of our torch making workshops at the Silk Mill Museum. We worked with 28 schools, 267 young people and 49 teaching staff. Phew!! We also delivered 5 more torch workshops directly in schools and worked on 4 park events to make mini torches. Click on the link below. http://www.derbycityssp.co.uk/gallery/view/5553/

Creative House Workshops

The next Creative House workshop is

THURSDAY 23 FEB 1pm-3pm - MOSAIC MIRRORS

Come along and create a mirror fit to seen in!
Paint, print, collage onto a deep wooden frame mirror.
Embellish with buttons, shells, glass nuggets and other 'treasures'.

£10 per person includes, all materials, techniques, chat and refreshments.

Here are some photos from our last 2 Creative House sessions

Shibori dyed fabric 

Papermaking - with fleece

Papermaking - with feathers and leaves

To see more photos visit our Arts and Wellbeing Page