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Potato Day
Filed in Eleanor Hoad, Uncategorized, erdington, permaculture, February 8, 2011, 8:52 am by Eleanor
Come along to Edible Erdingtons Potato Day festival
Saturday 26th February 11am-3pm
Erdington High Street, outside the Swan pub, near the fountain
Free, all welcome
Over the last 12 months Eleanor Hoad and a group of volunteers have been growing vegetables on Erdington High street. Come and see the vegetable plots and join in a celebration of the humble [...]
Apple Day 2010
Filed in Eleanor Hoad, Events, Uncategorized, apples, erdington, permaculture, October 18, 2010, 1:55 pm by EleanorApple Day Sunday 24th October 11am-3pm Court Lane Allotments, Erdington, Birmingham
Free fun for all the family at this years Apple Day.
Drawing on centuries of tradition surrounding the humble apple, ‘Apple Day’ will include:
* Live apple pressing, see and taste local apples turned into delicious juice with our amazing home made apple [...]
Art workshop for refugee children
Filed in Mohsen Keiany, Uncategorized, November 24, 2009, 8:01 am by MohsenDr Mohsen Keiany in partnership with Women’s Federation for World Peace, conducted a day workshop for children of refugee families. The art workshop was assisted by another artist – and former Head Teacher – Marjorie Saunders.
Around 30 children from a number of different countries, and ranging in age from 3 to 16 years old, enjoyed [...]
BuggyCam - Week 3
Filed in Uncategorized, November 17, 2009, 7:51 am by GeorgeThe first three BuggyCam sessions were designed to introduce the idea of cameras and photography to the children. The next 6 sessions leading up to Christmas is focusing on them taking the led to tell us what they would like to take photographs off. We want it to be open and have discussions with the [...]
Residency Up-date
Filed in Uncategorized, , 6:00 am by GeorgeI thought I would give a short up-date about what Reel Access has been up to recently and it’s been really quite hectic. We have been working with The Pump Youth Club every Monday night creating animations, small films and pop videos. We are five sessions in and its going really well. We have also [...]
BuggyCam - Week 2
Filed in Uncategorized, , 5:34 am by GeorgeBuggyCam - Week 2
For our second BuggyCam session with the children we again brought in the puppet. Again we started of at Norton hall Nursery in the morning and went to The Pump Daycare in the afternoon. As in the previous session the puppet brought with him a ‘present’ for the children to help during the [...]
Urban Orchard Competition Launched
Filed in Eleanor Hoad, Events, Uncategorized, erdington, permaculture, November 12, 2009, 5:48 am by EleanorEleanor Hoad Erdington Artist in Residence is looking for entrants for an exciting new competition. The Urban Orchard Competition is inviting local people to enter for their chance to have a fruit tree dedicated to a person they think is important. It could be a relative, a loved one, a local hero, someone inspirational [...]
Xanadu
Filed in Uncategorized, October 21, 2009, 8:14 am by danI’ve just cut the keys on my new studio space… Xanadu!, in Digbeth, Birmingham.
Here are a few pictures of it just for the record!
BuggyCam
Filed in Uncategorized, October 19, 2009, 6:48 am by GeorgeBuggyCam - Week One
Last week Reel Access began BuggyCam, an innovative project which gives early years children the opportunity to be creative through photography and film. In collaboration with Norton Hall Nursery and The Pump Daycare the project began on Thursday with a group trip at Canon Hill Nature Centre. The idea was to get [...]
The fruits of Erdington- First fruit harvest
Filed in Uncategorized, erdington, permaculture, September 28, 2009, 3:29 pm by EleanorA very successful days fruit harvesting took place on 18th September. Following a bike research tour of fruit trees recommended by local people on a lovely sunny day, I visited several of the most promising sites to try and harvest some fruit… Just look at the results! Russets, eating and cooking apples, damsons and plums!
I [...]
