2016 Summer News
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Garforth Community Association Newsletter Summer 2016 Macmillan Cancer Support. Dayspring Church Since the start of 2016 our Ladies and Friends have been Basecamp & Coffee Church busy knitting Easter Chicks and the sale of these raised Dayspring meet together every 1st and 3rd Sunday for over £1,500 pounds for Macmillan. A special thank you to ‘Basecamp’ Church service (podcasts available online at the Local Shops, Banks, Building Societies, Fish Shops and dayspringchurch.co.uk). Coffee Church is an addition to everyone who helped us to raise this amount of money. our regular meeting. Every non-Basecamp week, we meet We could not do this without your generosity. informally together at Cielo Coffee House, Garforth, for At the beginning of June we held a street collection and Coffee and catch up from 10am. have recently held our Annual Coffee Morning. These All are welcome to join us! were once again very successful. Thank you to everyone Youth Alpha who supported us. Our kids work ‘BRAVE’ is split into groups; ‘Pips’, our youngest, aged 2-4 ‘The Joy Club’, 5-7, ‘Glo’, 8-11 and Our next event will be our Christmas Bazaar to be held on ‘Teens’ 11+. Currently our Glo and Teens have joined Saturday, 5th November from 10:00am. There will be together to create a Youth Alpha group and are meeting plenty of Parkin on sale for your Bonfire Parties. After together fortnightly to tackle all the Big questions ‘Life, that, the Chocolate Filled Christmas Stockings will be on is this it?’, ‘Jesus, who is He?’ and so on! So far there has Sale. been an amazing turn out with some great discussion and Janet Gisburn loads of fun! Bowmen of Leeds Assemblies It was good weather at the Garforth Our assemblies team - Mike and Annie - visit primary Gala (apart from the occasional gust schools 3 times per year. They will be delivering of wind – always to be expected at assemblies this summer term to 19 primary schools in the Glebelands) and we ran a successful area, including the 5 within Garforth. This term they will Have-a-Go for people to try out be speaking to Year 6s about their transition into archery. Although it didn’t seem to be quite as busy as secondary school and each child is gifted a journal to help usual, we raised a record amount, allowing us to donate them on their way £100 to the Lions. There was a steady stream of wannabe Churches Together in Garforth Robin Hoods, some of whom came back Dayspring are part of Churches Together in Garforth, again and again! Talking of which, here is who regularly meet for various events including monthly Ken our Chairman with one arrow shot lunches, Lent evenings, Good Friday Walk of Witness, down another, known as a “Robin Hood” Garforth Gala and more. Together we also coordinate our It’s a mixed blessing a rare achievement ‘Messy Church’ in Garforth, which is every 3rd Sunday but costly, both arrows damaged! He and is hosted by a different Garforth Church each month. uses a modern recurve bow with carbon All are welcome to attend any of our events, just contact fibre arrows (much more accurate than our Hub for more details—0113 2320898 the traditional longbow) with an end of 6 Website arrows regularly scoring 50 plus! The We have recently updated our website so please take a other picture of Jonathan, our best longbow man, is look at dayspringchurch.co.uk. Here you’ll find our ‘What’s nearer the truth for the type of bow on?’ section, with all our upcoming events, times and that Robin Hood would have shot, a locations. You can listen back to previous services with our longbow with wooden arrows. Probably podcasts and generally find out more about Dayspring his best ever end of 6 arrows with a Church too. There’s also a ‘Connect’ form, if you want total score of 47 at 20 yards! Here’s more details about Dayspring or fancy joining us, fill it in hoping for some better weather this and we’ll get back to you! Our Dayspring Facebook page, year as outdoor archery, at greater Dayspring Garforth, also provides dates for Basecamp & distances, is all the more enjoyable in Coffee Church. good weather! GCA Art Grooup Already this year we have enjoyed two splendid workshops. Anita Daniel, one of our favourite professional artists who always gives us expert tuition, held the first one. She came to give us instruction on how to approach drawing a live model – albeit a fully clothed one on this occasion. The first part of the workshop was divided into three short sessions where, in each, we had to try and capture the model in three different poses. Quite a challenge! The latter half of the workshop was given over to a much lengthier study - a portrait of the model. We all found it a very successful exercise and enjoyed it tremendously including the model who confessed he, too, had learnt a lot! I have included two photographs of this workshop – one is a collage of some of the finished portraits and the other is a photo of the members attending, including the model! He’s on the back row. Can anyone match him to any of the portraits?! Jeremy Taylor, another of our favourite professional artists who has tutored us on various topics in the past, came in April and held a workshop on ‘boats and reflections’ and ‘splattering’. Lots of wet-into-wet and splattering techniques and I, for once, was in my element. I love splattering! I use it as often as I can to create interest and texture and love the effect. It can be a bit of a haphazard technique as it involves ‘splattering’ small droplets from a toothbrush loaded with paint by running your thumb along the bristles. It’s sensational when it works! Jeremy added another dimension to it this time. He ‘splattered’ as already described and then threw salt, not too much, randomly over the painting whilst the paint was still wet. As the salt dries, colour is leached out of the painting. As we were painting a couple sheltering under an umbrella on a very rainy day, the effect was terrific. The third photo included is an example. Other workshops and demonstrations lie ahead and we’re looking forward to the rest of the year. As always, here is Gordon Hall’s tel. no: - 0113 2860239. Give him a ring if you’d like to join us. Gillian Webster Garforth Flower and Vegetable Show. Caroline Atha School of Dance Thirty six years old !! What a term! AND still going strong ! What is this ? Our very own Five of our students attended the IDTA Freestyle annual Garforth Flower and Vegetable Show !! Scholarships. They had been nominated last year out of This will take place on Saturday 3rd September at The thousands of dancers. Miner's Welfare Hall and will be open to the public from Congratulations to Jasmyn Watson, one of the youngest 2 p.m. on that day . nominees, and Isobelle Broadbent on reaching the top 9 There are 76 classes for ANYONE to enter plus 4 special in the country, Congratulations to Kady Maude, making ones for children. Grow it , make it , photograph it ,create the quarter-finals, and Jessica Bambrook and Jessica it or bake it! There’s something for everyone . Kewley making it to the top 12 in their age group. Even if you don’t enter (and why not ???), it’s still worth a visit. There are spectacular refreshments baked by Fantastic examination results again, and a special mention Julia (tutor at CarltonTowers Cookery Courses ) tombola for Georgina White, who has been nominated for IDTA and raffle with great prizes donated by local businesses. Scholarship for Grade 5 Tap. You will also be able to see the myriad of fruit ,flowers, handicrafts, photos and home produce that have been Exceptional results at competitions, with Senior Troupe entered in the show. Winners, and Choreography awards were among the top There is even an auction at the end so that you can go trophies. home laden with goodies giving the impression that you have been to Chelsea ! Caroline Atha School of Dance has performed at school This is a community event so do try to enter or at the fairs and the Garforth Gala, and look forward to least visit but remember “you have to be in it to win it“ !! participating in more of these events, including the We need your support to encourage more people to grow Emergency Services Gala. or make things , especially the youngsters as they are our future. Jessica Bambrook also successfully auditioned for a Prove the “Garforth’s Got Talent “ and let us see who has second year at Northern Ballet “The X Factor “ Who has the patience ,skill and perhaps . a little bit of luck to be the proud winner of one of our We look forward to more exams and competitions this shields, trophies or prizes ? year. Our motto is ..GROW IT AND SHOW IT ! Miss Caroline would like to thank the teachers Stacey, Janine and Melinda for their continued hard work and Good luck everybody and looking forward to seeing you. Heidi and Charlotte for their assistance in class. Peter Harrison Happy dancing Chair, Garforth Flower and Vegetable Committee Caroline Atha Tea Dance Another six months gone. We are still going but our numbers are down due to operations, illnesses and holidays. New faces still appear, even from Newcastle. The usual highlight has been our Easter bonnet parade.