what’s on Save the Date! Burns Night Supper Saturday 29th January 2011 Barley Town House Watch this space for more information or call 01223 870251 Christmas Events are held at National Trust properties, churches and village halls around the district during December, so do check local papers and websites for details.
A QUIZ FOR CHRISTMAS This quiz is for that period after Christmas Dinner when you don’t perhaps want to watch ‘The Great Escape’ on TV and the family are not in the mood for Monopoly or Cluedo. Work out the answer and send your entry to me at 4 Chapmans Close, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, SG8 6AH by 31st December. Written entries only and the first correct answer opened will win a small prize. Assuming that bit-part actors work an eight hour day and can be hired for £25.00 per hour, livestock costs £50.00 per head irrespective of type, the local jeweller is having a sale, any one item for £40.00, the Forestry Commission is giving away saplings at the astonishingly cheap rate of £10.00 each, and instrument hire is £20.00 per day, how much did Christmas cost? Good Luck! Colin Limming.
Unpicked Meadow Public Art Project Riverside Park, Stockbridge Meadows A Quick Recap… Artist Jo Chapman was chosen at a public Artist Selection Evening back in March and since then has started on a year long public art project for the Meadows. Her brief was to create a year-long public art project with visiting artists and workshops to engage the local community and to inform a final permanent art work. Rather than an artist coming to the village for a day or two to create a work without knowing the village, Jo has been commissioned to spend time finding out about the Meadows and meeting people through creative workshops before producing a final piece. The project was launched back in May with visitors creating wooden plaques, painting or writing haiku poems. These plaques were joined by ones created by Orchard Manor and Melbourn Primary School and have been mounted to form a welcome wall for anyone entering the Meadows to see.
Over the summer the ARTIVAN was launched, a project space to meet, make and exhibit work. Jo took a two berth stripped out caravan and Melbourn Village College students redesigned the inside and outside. We’ve had workshops in stick lizard making, clay fruit, print making and outdoor adventures with guest artists including Liz McGowan, Mark Haywood and Holly Rumble over the summer. This autumn will have seen lantern making, bird song inspired sound art and the launch of the Stockbridge Tapestry project.
Renga Poetry Sleeping Bag Party! Another strand running through the project is renga poetry, a form of Japanese poetry with a series of short verses linked into one long poem about the season it’s composed in. Renga is a social form of poetry writing, led and hosted by a poet, anyone can come and join a renga party to write poetry. Local poet Clare Crossman has been leading the project. She has woven together individual haiku created in May for the spring renga, hosted a summer renga party in the Meadows and visitors to the Meadow in October contributed their autumn verses. Visit the website to read the poems so far. The final renga to be composed will be the winter renga, which will take place in the ARTIVAN on the Meadows on Sunday 23rd January from 2pm – 4pm. Climb aboard, bring a sleeping bag to snuggle up in and drop in for a hot chocolate and to compose a wintery verse! All are welcome, poetry writing suitable for age 9 upwards. Paper, pencils, drinks and an explanation of how to write Renga will be provided. Contact Kirstin for more details or see: www.melbourn.org.uk/publicart Take Part in Creating Art for Melbourn with the Stockbridge Tapestry So far we have contributions from ages 2 to 92 years old! Any age can get involved in your last chance to influence the final piece of art work. Imagine a tapestry created by Melbourn residents stretching around the Meadow. Jo Chapman is inviting you to create a section for the Stockbridge Tapestry, a communal artwork that will wrap around the Meadows and provide a seedbed for the final artwork.inspired by the Meadows and the natural world.
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What inspires you in nature? Why is nature important to our lives? How can we look more closely? How do we make connections?
Launched this summer, we would like as many people as possible to write, print, stitch or draw and contribute a section to the Stockbridge Tapestry. You could even transpose photographs of nature onto the fabric. Your section for the tapestry can be made at home or melbournmagazine
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