For more information about any of our upcoming events please email growingplaces_activities@walkingtheland.org.uk
Please consider making a donation to help us reach our project match funding goal. Any contribution would be greatly appreciated. Please visit Growing Places on Go Fund Me and help make it all happen. Thank You!
Upcoming Events
Growing Places Exhibition and Events 25th January to 23rd February
Museum in the Park – Exhibition in Gallery 1 & Gingerbread House in the Courtyard
See, hear and explore the work of artists made during this year long project as they engaged with communities where town meets the Cotswold protected landscape. Find out about the work of local farmers, and taste locally grown food, consider the soil that feeds the food and the landscape that provides habitat for wildlife. Visit the Gingerbread House and see the creative work of local groups. Add your ideas about the future.
Events during the Exhibition
- 1st and 2nd February – Gathering Weekend
- 7th February, 5pm – Private View
- 8th February – Eco Printing workshop
- 9th February – Workshop: Celebrating the Life of a Noble Beech Tree – please contact growingplacesglos@gmail.com if you are interested
- 22nd February, Wassail
Growing Places Gathering – 1st & 2nd February Museum in the Park, Stroud
Saturday 1st February 11.00 – 4.30 Gallery 2 and Garden Pavilion
- Workshops and discussions, sharing experiences from the project. Join conversations between artists (11.30am) Composters (12.45pm), teachers and community groups (2.45pm) farmers and landowners (3.15pm)
- Contribute to discussions about the future and discover how to become involved.
- At lunchtime: locally grown soup and specially composed songs
- Please feel free to come to as much of the day as you can. Please register your interest to give us an idea of numbers
- Experience arts, singing, nature and storytelling workshops in the Garden Pavilion and Gingerbread House. Suitable for all ages.
Sunday 2nd February 11.00am – 4.30pm Gallery 2 and Garden Pavilion
A day of discussions underlying the delivery of the project; celebrating creativity and land based community activity in the Stroud Valleys; hearing about models of good practice from other parts of the country.
Scene setting by local MP, Dr. Simon Opher.
Other input includes Martin Large – Stroud Common Wealth, Richard Keating – Walking the Land, John Meadley – Pastures for Life, Adam Horovitz – Poet, Resident artists – Women’s Art Activation System, with additional input from Community based architects Valerio Massaro and Ioana Petkova – London South Bank University and Andrew Howe – the Shropshire based “The Landing Project”, Participate Contemporary Artspace CIC and Shrewsbury Food Hub.
Discussions will be between 11am & 3pm – please feel free to come to as much of the day as you can and contribute ideas about the future of art and landscape, community and farming. Please register your interest to give us an idea of numbers
Take part in arts, nature and storytelling workshops in the Garden Pavilion, walk and visit the Gingerbread house. Suitable for all ages.
Artist Residencies and Events Programme 2024/2025
2025 Residencies & Events
Apple Wassail – Sunday 5th January 2025 2.30pm-5pm
Mel Golding and members of her choir will lead the singing. including songs about apple trees and the earth they grow in.
Valerie Coffin Price – 13th – 20th January 2025
Valerie Coffin Price will be the resident artist in the Ginger Bread House in 13-20 January when her work will connect with apple trees and their importance in our local community.
Exhibition – Museum in the Park, Stroud opening January 25th January
Museum in the Park – Exhibition in Gallery 1 and Gingerbread House in the Courtyard
See, hear and explore the work of artists made during this year long project as they engaged with communities where town meets the Cotswold protected landscape. Find out about the work of local farmers, and taste locally grown food, consider the soil that feeds the food and the landscape that provides habitat for wildlife. Visit the Gingerbread House and see the creative work of local groups. Add your ideas about the future.
Events during the Exhibition
- 1st and 2nd February – Gathering Weekend
- 7th February, 5pm – Private View
- 8th February – Eco Printing workshop
- 9th February – Workshop: Celebrating the Life of a Noble Beech Tree – please contact growingplacesglos@gmail.com if you are interested
- 22nd February, Wassail
Growing Places Gathering – 1st and 2nd February
Saturday 1st February 11.00am – 4.30pm Gallery 2 and Garden Pavilion
Workshops and discussions, sharing experiences from the project. Join conversations between artists (11.30am) Composters (12.45pm), teachers and community groups (2.45pm) farmers and landowners (3.15pm). Contribute to discussions about the future and discover how to become involved.
At lunchtime: locally grown soup and specially composed songs.
Please feel free to come to as much of the day as you can. Please register your interest to give us an idea of numbers
Experience arts, singing, nature and storytelling workshops in the Garden Pavilion and Gingerbread House. Suitable for all ages.
Sunday 2nd February 11.00am – 4.30pm Gallery 2 and Garden Pavilion
A day of discussions underlying the delivery of the project; celebrating creativity and land based community activity in the Stroud Valleys; hearing about models of good practice from other parts of the country.
Scene setting by local MP, Dr. Simon Opher.
Other input includes Martin Large – Stroud Common Wealth, Richard Keating – Walking the Land, John Meadley – Pastures for Life, Adam Horovitz – Poet, Resident artists – Women’s Art Activation System, with additional input from Community based architects Valerio Massaro and Ioana Petkova – London South Bank University and Andrew Howe – the Shropshire based “The Landing Project”, Participate Contemporary Artspace CIC and Shrewsbury Food Hub.
Discussions will be between 11am & 3pm – please feel free to come to as much of the day as you can and contribute ideas about the future of art and landscape, community and farming. Please register your interest to give us an idea of numbers.
Take part in arts, nature and storytelling workshops in the Garden Pavilion, walk and visit the Gingerbread house. Suitable for all ages.
2024 Residencies & Events
Kate McMahon Parkes – variable dates through the project.
Kate will be making glass inserts for the Loom Wall
Huw Montgomery – 16th – 22nd September.
Huw will be making furniture for the gingerbread house with mature larch felled from Folly wood)
Deb Hoy – 11th – 20th October.
On Friday 18th October 11-1 join Deb for a drop in workshop drawing with ink made from seeds and berries from around the Oakbrook, SCA, Folly Wood and Hawkwood.
Miniature Museum (Tara Downs and Bart Sabel) – 6th – 14th October, 22nd – tbc October.
Nichola Goff – 4th – 10th November.
Join Nicola on Saturday 9th November for mono printing with natural inks and origami butterfly making.
Eleanor Holliday – 11th-17th November
Eleanor will be composing and working with choirs.
The Women’s Art Activation System (WAAS – Sarah Dixon and Sharon Bennett) – 25th – 30th November
Bennett & McDermott (Sharon Bennett and Dan McDermott) 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th November & Weekend of Sat 7th December
Drop in workshop with resident artists Bennett and McDermott and explore woodland time on the weekend of Saturday 7th December.
Periscope (Emily Joy & Alison Cockroft) – 9th – 15th December.
Please consider making a donation to help us reach our project match funding goal. Any contribution would be greatly appreciated. Please visit Growing Places on Go Fund Me and help make it all happen. Thank You!