Family Art Fun

This page contains information about the wealth of wonderful theatre, dance, music and art events and workshops in North Norfolk, specifically developed for children and families.
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Holiday Activities for Families in Holt Country Park
Holt Country Park, Edgefield Road, Holt
For the past few years, NNDC's Arts and Countryside Services have worked together to deliver the increasingly popular Art in the Park programme in our Green Flag awarded Holt Country Park. To sustain and develop these creative family learning opportunities, we have been working with Holt Area Partnership, Holt Town Council, Holt Youth Project and Holt Library. Through a grant of £10,000 from the BIG Lottery's Awards for All fund, the partnership now offers an exciting, enjoyable and educational programme of events taking place in Holt Country Park during the forthcoming holiday periods. No booking required; just turn up on the day and enjoy!
For further information contact Rosie Glasgow 01263 516324

Art in the Park Summer Programme

• Medieval Day
  Thursday 24 July 10am-4pm at Bacton Wood and Friday 25 July 10am-4pm at Holt Country Park
  Join us in a day of medieval fun with a combat re-enactment using the swords and shields you make, archery and falconry
• Recycling Wombling Day
  Friday 1 August 10am-4pm
  Holt Country Park
  Come and meet some Wombles who have an important message for you about the three R's. Transform your plain old white T-shirts into individual funky works of art in a 'tagging' workshop with local artist Mik Richardon, take part in a Wombling quiz and make a sculpture using recyclable junk. Bring along a picnic, an old T-shirt and a bag of old boxes, bottles, cartons and other junk sculpture material you can think of
• Woodland Olympics and Frisbee Golf
  Tuesday 5 August 10am-4pm
  Holt Country Park
  Keep fit whilst having fun on our wacky woodland Olympics and Frisbee Golf courses; marvel as local artist, Mik Richardson, transforms the mobile gym whilst demonstrating his unique mural painting and spray art skills
• Water World Pond Life Day
  Thursday 7 August 10am-4pm at Bacton Wood
  Friday 8 August 10am-4pm at Holt Country Park
  Join us in discovering the wonderful world of the majestic dragonfly. Take part in a fantastic recycled sculpture workshop with local artist Karen Whiterod before trying your hand at pond dipping to see if you can net a ferocious dragonfly larva
• Masks,Storytelling and Fun Drama with Rhubarb Theatre
  Thursday 14 August 10am-4pm at Bacton Wood
  Friday 15 August 10am-4pm at Holt Country Park
  Including Gruffalo storytelling sessions (drama and games for up to 8 years and parents), mask-making inspired by characters from the wonderful world of The Gruffalo and fun drama for 9+ years (involving games, comedy, stage fighting and mask)
• Creepy Crawly Day
  Thursday 21 August 10am-4pm at Bacton Wood
  Friday 22 August 10am-4pm at Holt Country Park
  Free entry
  Create your very own 'creepy crawly creation' with local artist Liz McGowan using only materials found in the park. Take part in a quiz to discover just how important these tiny but industrious creatures are to the world around you; before hunting down our Rangers to go on an intrepid mini beast safari
• Music in the Park
  Friday 29 August 10am-4pm
  Holt Country Park
  Come and help local artist Kate Munro to create a giant musical sculpture for the park using metal, wood and other found materials. Relax over a picnic lunch (12 - 2pm) whilst enjoying Dixieland jazz played acoustically by The Good Time Jazz Band, one of the best trad jazz bands in the eastern region

Bacton Wood: Large outdoor car park (level surface)
No WC facilities

Holt Country Park: Parking on site (pay and display)
Designated disabled parking
Wheelchair accessible WC

Art on the Beach

Extending its Art in the Park programme, NNDC offers the following Beach events:

• Sand Sculptures at Sea Palling
  Sunday 27 July 2.30pm - 4.30pm
  £1.20/child
  Unearth your artistic side and try your hand at sand sculpting on this fun family afternoon
• Beach Combing and Mobile Making at Mundesley Beach
  Sunday 31 August 2pm-4pm
  £1.20/child
  Come and test your beach combing skills as we hunt for pieces with which to make a beach combers mobile. Can you find 5 different shells, bits of drift wood and holey stones? The more you find the better

For full programme details of these and other events contact 01263 516027

Whilst every effort is made to keep to these dates and times, NNDC reserves the right to cancel or change any event at short notice
Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times and dogs must be kept on leads

For further information contact Emma Bolger 01263 516298 emma.bolger@north-norfolk.gov.uk

Parking on site (pay & display)
Designated disabled parking
Wheelchair accessible WC

Sheringham Little Theatre Summer Family Party and Picnic
Mannington Hall, Erpingham NR11 7BB
By kind permission of Lord and Lady Walpole
Sunday 20 July from 4pm
With the Lee Vasey Big Band and The Vintage Hot Orchestra
Bar, refreshments, ice creams, face painting and raffle
Tickets £12 (under 16s free)
Contact 01263 822347

Parking on site
Designated disabled parking
Wheelchair accessible WC
Level entrance

Charities Day - in aid of BREAK
Mannington, near Erpingham
Sunday 31st August
Music, entertainment and many stalls
Hall open - both floors
12pm - 5pm

Parking on site
Designated disabled parking
Wheelchair accessible WC

Contact laurelwalpole@manningtongardens.co.uk

Nutmeg Puppet Company Summer Tour 08
The Nutmeg Puppet Company, East End, Bulcamp House, Bulcamp, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9LG
Tel 01502 478999
info@nutmegpuppet.co.uk

The Rubbish Monster:

Fri 18th: 1pm & Sun 20th July: 11.30am - Latitude Festival, Henham Estate, nr Southwold

Sat 26th July: 1.30pm - Salhouse Broad, Norfolk Broads, NR13 6HE : 01603 722775 + w/s

Sun 27th July: 11.30am & 2.30pm - Picnic in the Park, How Hill, Ludham, Norfolk, NR29 5PG

Tue 29th July: 2.30pm - Southwold Pier - Bookings on the Pier or via Nutmeg 01502 478999

Sat 2nd August: 2pm - The Fisher Theatre, Bungay - Box Office: 01986 895367

Sun 3rd August: 3pm - Hoveton Riverside Park, Wroxham, NR12 8UD

Tue 5th August: 2.30pm - Southwold Pier - Bookings on the Pier or via Nutmeg as above

Sun 10th August: 2.30pm - Chedgrave Common, Nr Loddon NR3 1TN

Fri 15th August: 2.30pm - Southwold Pier - Bookings on Pier or via Nutmeg

Sat 16th August: 2.30pm - The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth - Box Office: 01986 873285

Sat 24th August: 2.30pm - Somerleyton Hall, Nr Lowestoft, NR32 5QQ + puppet w/s

Apple Pip:

Wed 27th & Thurs 28th August: 2.30pm - Norwich Puppet Theatre, NR3 1TN. Box Office: 01603 629921

Wild Puppet Workshops : Rod Puppets made from natural materials

Sat 6th September, 11am & 2pm - 'Wild About Norfolk', Notcutts Garden Centre, Norwich

Also at Salhouse Broad: 2.30pm & Somerleyton Hall: 11am

Beach Hut Art Project
Saturday 12th - 26th July 2008

Two North Norfolk artists, Fiona Davies and Peter Talbot are doing a community art project and appealing for help from the public & other artists. The project is environmental and involves a beach clean up from East Runton to Overstrand. They hope to build an alternative beach hut and sculptures for a sculpture walk, from the debris found on the beach. Anyone can be involved, at anytime over the next two weeks, Saturday 12th - 26th July 2008, even if you only pick up one piece while you walk your dog. Anyone can make an artwork, any medium, in response to the project. The sculptures will be placed along the beach and cliffs. Artworks of other mediums will then be exhibited at the Henry Blogg museum in August.
The dates are as follows:
12th - 16th, East Runton beach
17th - 21st, Cromer beach
22nd - 26th, Overstrand beach

Please come and help on any day you wish, for as long as you wish, Fiona will be there between approximately 10.30 am - 4.30pm

A wheelie bin will be available outside the Henry Blogg Museum, Cromer, to deposit drift wood and materials suitable to use for art.

The Project doesn't need funding but any donations of gloves & bin bags would be very much appreciated.

If you wish to know any more details please ring Fiona on 07966 749591

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