Showing posts with label Buxton Festival Fringe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buxton Festival Fringe. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 July 2013

The Tide Stays In!

In tropical heat to-day, some 40 people called into the Green Man Gallery for some determined "Knitting of a new landscape"

It was great! There were needles knitting, crochets hooking and alarming needle-felt barbs avoiding people's fingers. Seaweed was knotted and jellyfish ribboned and wobbled. A lot of the new creations were placed in the window display by their makers



And the Gallery has asked for our Ancient Landscape to stay in the window for another week!

branching coral


seaweed might be knitted....


seaweed could also be knotted...


...but sooner or later, it always gets someone!

a sea slug takes shape

a half-grown sea slug

the adult slug sets off on adventures




crochetted and fossilised ammonites 
contributions from our friends at Silverdale Library

Saturday, 29 June 2013

The Return of the Tiny! Pirates!



RETURN OF THE TINY! PIRATES 
cheerful, lively and very, very small!

 Fresh from treasure-hunting around the world, the Buxton Pirates are back. Join the Stone & Water crew to make your own miniature pirate and tiny ship and venture off into Pavilion Gardens looking for Tiny! treasures. 

Where: Pavilion Gardens, St. Johns Rd, Buxton SK17 6BE 
We'll be working under a tree near the children's play area - look for the Jolly Roger!  
we'll either be like this, or maybe damper!


When: Saturday 6 July 
2pm to 5pm 
How much; Free
No tickets, no booking, no walking the plank, no feeding to sharks (unless you really want us too!)




Friday, 28 June 2013

The Next High Tide


The Next High Tide

Sunday 7th - Sunday 14th July
Window display: our ancient tide will wash into The Green Man Gallery again as part of the Buxton Festival Fringe. So pop into the Gallery and among the prints, paintings, photos and thrills on display, have a peaceful moment beside our prehistoric world, soothed by the gentle corals, graceful seaweeds and occasional nautiloids…..and if the Gallery is closed, you can always swim past the window and send us the photos of yourself....

and when you want to join in…..

Knitting A New Landscape
Sunday 14th July
Times: 11.00 - 16.00 (last new activities at 3.30)
Join us for a frivolous day in Carboniferous Derbyshire being adventurous and ambitious. We want to spin our Ancient Landscape out of the window and across the gallery with seaweeds waving from ceilings, tentacles from nameless seabeasts crawling across the floor, giant corals lumping in corners and fingerfish flashing through this ancient world…

We'll bring wool, crochet hooks, felting needles, card, glue, pencils, crayons and tape. Please bring your own knitting needles.

Finding the Gallery:
55 High Street
Buxton
SK17 6HB
Tel: 01298 77401
kelp taking shape

 Parking: there is no parking at the Gallery itself but there is some free parking in the streets round about and Pay and Display parking in the Market Place just a couple of minutes walk away. Some street spaces are P&D, as well, so check before you wander away from your vehicle!

Buses: we are just a couple of minutes from the Market Place bus-stop and even closer to stops on Dale and West Roads

Train station: about 15 minutes walk away