THE FOREST BEE Spring 2018 COURSES, WORKSHOPS, GROUPS & INDIVIDUAL TUITION IN THE FOREST OF DEAN www.theforestbee.co.uk BEE SPRING 2018.indd 1 17/12/2017 18:01:35 Our grateful thanks to the following for supplying our cover images: Top Row Left to Right: Feltmaking with Christine Waygood | FitStepathon with LVC Fitness | Monks Project with Forest Threads Craft Group Bottom Row Left to Right: Crochet a Bowl with Humble By Nature | Uke Band with U3A | Willow Weaving with Lin Powell of ArtSpace. Logo created and donated to The Forest Bee by local cartoonist, Ron Tocknell Volunteering – Be part of ‘The Buzz’ To keep going and growing, we need your help! ‘The Forest Bee’ is run by volunteers, but with our growing success we are now struggling under the weight of the work – please come an help if you can. Join our Management Committee Help us grow ‘The Forest Bee’ into an even more useful resource for the people of the Forest. Meeting most months usually on a Thursday 10.30-12.30. Distributors Help needed in Ross, Monmouth, Redbrook and Newland. Marketing/Publicity Officer Someone to reach out to groups and local tutors as well as local businesses to encourage them to become part of The Forest Bee. We could also do with someone who has excellent communication skills to refine our publicity material and/or write press releases. Young Persons Representative - Young Bee! To explore opportunites available specifically for young people in the area, encourage voluntary groups to take advantage of our free editorial opportunities, to perhaps write a column specifically aimed at young people, and encourage youth groups to advertise with us. Grants Opportunities Someone to keep up to date with grant opportunities available that may be suitable to help support The Forest Bee in its aim to grow to an even better local community resource. Also, an opportunity to develop your skills in writing grant applications. Printed in Gloucestershire by Severn using 100% renewable energy on FSC certified paper with vegetable oil based inks www.severnprint.co.uk 01452 416391 @severnprint 2 THE FOREST BEE | SPRING 2018 BEE SPRING 2018.indd 2 17/12/2017 18:01:35 Welcome to the 11th edition of The Forest Bee Phew, by the time you read this new issue Christmas and the New Year festivities will all CONTENTS PAGE be over for another year and we’ll be looking forward to a bright, happy and hopefully Articles 16 prosperous New Year in 2018. Many of us Arts & Crafts 5 will be making our New Year’s Resolutions, and what better than to resolve to learn Complementary something new! Therapies 29 More and more we are being told that a good way to stay young and keep our brains active Dance 20 is to keep learning new things. Learning helps Food & Drink 30 the brain cells to branch out and make new connections rather than shrivel and die of Foraging 31 boredom doing the same old same old. General Interest 23 We have plenty on offer here to choose from. Apart from several drawing, painting, pilates Health & Fitness 10 and yoga courses you could try working with stained glass, crocheting with dreadlocked Languages 25 yarn or learning how to identify the beautiful Music 18 birds that live around us in our lovely Forest. And if you find you still have some time on Outdoor Activities 28 your hands you could always offer your services to us at The Bee. We are always Personal & Spiritual ready to welcome helping hands. Development 26 However you start the New Year we at The Forest Bee Opportunity 29 Forest Bee hope that 2018 brings you all that you wish for. Important please read While we take every care compiling this brochure to ensure details are correct at the time of printing, changes can occur. Please check with tutors before making arrangements, as The Forest Bee cannot accept responsibility for changes or errors. Disclaimer The views expressed in this brochure are not necessarily those of The Forest Bee or its partners. We are a not for profit voluntary organisation helping people come together and keep it local! T: 01594 861278 M: 07919 851669 E: [email protected] www.theforestbee.co.uk @theforestbee Write to: Greystones, Lydbrook, Glos GL17 9NA The Forest Bee is a voluntary organisation set up to promote courses, activities and groups across the Dean. THE FOREST BEE | SPRING 2018 3 BEE SPRING 2018.indd 3 17/12/2017 18:01:36 4 THE FOREST BEE | SPRING 2018 BEE SPRING 2018.indd 4 17/12/2017 18:01:36 ARTS & CRAFTS WEDNESDAY ART GROUP Wednesday Art Friendly group, come GLASS COURSES IN PILLOWELL and find your hidden talent. Beginners and WITH MOLLIE MEAGER improvers very welcome. Tea, coffee and Conversation in Glass Collaging, biscuits provided. 10.00am – 12.15pm, walking, sketching, working Wednesdays at The West Dean Centre, collaboratively and individually on glass Bream, £48.00 for 6 weeks ongoing. with paint, stain, enamels, and engraving. Just turn up to meet us or contact Sylvia Beginners/experienced. 9.30am-4.30pm, for more information. Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th April, £150 T: 01594 562901 E: [email protected] (concs £120). Making a Line Stained glass course WEST DEAN ART GROUP working with glass, light and line using You’ve longed to learn to draw and paint? paint, engraving, staining and leading. Come and have a go amongst friends. Beginners/more experienced. 9.30am- 10am-1pm, Fridays (no terms dates to 4.30pm, Saturday 10th March and Sunday worry about). 11th March. £150 (concs £120). £10 per session (pay on the day). Cherry Tree Cottage, Corner Road, West Dean Centre, High Street, Pillowell, Lydney,GL15 4QU Bream, GL15 6JW. T: 01594 562396 Contact Gary on T: 01594 544774 E: [email protected] E: l [email protected] www.farOpen.co.uk www.gary-fell.co.uk HANDSPINNING & HANDWEAVING Tuition in handspinning and/or handweaving. Learn to make unique yarns and textiles. 9.30am-12.30pm, 10 weeks starting Thursday 11th January, £140. Coalway Methodist Church Hall, Old Road, Coalway, Coleford GL16 7JJ Contact Colin Squire on T: 01452 740639 or M: 07870 542987 E:[email protected] FOREST THREADS CRAFT GROUP Multi craft group with varied projects and £4.50 per session also lunches. Cost £2.50, 7.15-9.15pm, 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Yorkley Community Centre, Bailey Hill, Yorkley, GL15 4RS. Please ring to book your place: 01594 839106 Contact Tiny Wood on 01594 560219 Drinks & Cakes available for purchase E: [email protected] ‘Forest Threads Craft Group’. THE FOREST BEE | SPRING 2018 5 BEE SPRING 2018.indd 5 17/12/2017 18:01:36 FELTMAKING & CONTEMPORARY using a template and finish it off with TEXTILES WITH CHRISTINE WAYGOOD bobbles, flowers or tassels! Saturday & Thursday workshops, 25th February including lunch and materials. Workshops Make a pair of Felt Slippers in a run from 10am - 4pm, cost £65 and Day Design and make your own pair of include lunch, snacks and materials. seamless felt slippers from wool, using a Felt Green Men Planters A chance to template. 25th January make your own Green Man planter to fill Contact Christine Waygood at The with herbs or flowers for the summer. Studio, Kent Cottage, New Road, 28th April. Blakeney Hill, Blakeney, GL15 4BS. Vessels and Planters Make a vessel or T:01594 516902 planter for your garden, free standing or M: 07947 123665, hanging style to plant up for the summer. E: [email protected] 24th March. www.christinewaygood.com Inspirational Felt Making Learn how to design your own pattern/picture. Use CRAFTS WITH ARTSPACE it as it is or make it into a book cover, All courses 18 hours long, £60 (concs a cushion, a scarf or another item. 13th £25) + £2 a week towards materials. January, 10th February, 10th March, 14th Free places may be available to those on April, 19th May. Job Seekers Allowance, ESA or if you have Design and Make a Felt Hat in a Day fewer than 5 GCSEs - contact ArtSpace Design and make a felt hat to suit you, for details. Inspired by British Landscape Painters Create your own landscape painting inspired by the great artists of the past. 10.30am-12.30pm, 9 weeks starting Wednesday 17th January. Pludds Village Hall, The Pludds, Nr Ruardean. Drawing and Painting Explore a wide range of media like graphite, pastels, watercolours and more. 10.30am- 12.30pm, 9 weeks starting Thursday 18th January. The Pavilion Café. Angus Buchanan Recreation Ground, Victoria Road, Coleford, GL16 8DR Weaving with Willow Suitable for beginners and intermediates alike, exploring the many applications of this natural resource. 10.30am-12.30pm, 9 weeks starting Friday 19th January. The Main Place, Old Station Way, Coleford, GL16 8RH For contact details see ArtSpace ad on page 4. 6 THE FOREST BEE | SPRING 2018 BEE SPRING 2018.indd 6 17/12/2017 18:01:37 flowers, floral cakes/handbags, corsages Alwyn Page and leaf manipulation. Available at West Dean Centre, Bream, Wednesdays, Demonstrator and Judge in all aspects of 1.30 – 3.30pm, starting January 10th Flower Arranging & Basic Floristry. or at Woolaston Methodist Church, Available to groups, clubs and local organisations Netherend, Thursdays 7.00 – 9.00pm for classes, workshops and demonstrations to suit your needs. (Friday pm for Wk 4) starting January Tel: 01291 625294 11th. Cost £32, payable Wk 1. e: [email protected] Flower Arranging for Spring – 6 week NAFAS qualified and experienced Teacher courses using cheerful spring flowers, suitable all levels. Available at 3 different ARTLIFT - ARTS ON REFERRAL IN times, 2 venues: Woolaston Methodist CINDERFORD Church, Netherend, Wednesdays, Artlift provides free art for people with 10.30am – 12.30pm starting 7th February; long term mental or physical health West Dean Centre, Bream Wednesdays, conditions, or those who are bereaved, 1.30 – 3.30pm, starting 7th February; isolated, or carers in need of respite.