Amber Valley Borough Council is celebrating Architecture Week 07 on the theme of ‘How Green is Our Space?’ with a time’lines event.
Between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm on Saturday 16 June, people are invited to come along and enjoy a family day out along the Ripley Greenway.
Nestle under living willow pods and enjoy public artworks, listen to stories, create mini pixie and fairy huts, dens and costumes, watch and join in with the 1623 theatre company performing extracts from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and try your hand at composing and performing a piece of music using natural materials from along the Greenway.
Bring family and friends, a picnic, sun cream and wellies.
The event will be taking place along the Ripley Greenway by the living willow pods between the Albion Street entrance and the Nottingham Road bridge.
The schedule for the day will be as follows:
- Fairy and pixie costumes and fairy and pixie den building (in miniature)
- Story telling in the living willow pods
- ‘Sounds from the Ground’ – A piece of music created out of stones, twigs, rocks, blades of grass, etc., from the surrounding grounds
- 1623 theatre company performing extracts from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, the last of which will be accompanied by some of the pixies and fairies in their costumes.
11:45 – 12:15 and 12:45 – 1:15: 1623 Shakespeare Company.
12:15 – 12:45 and 1:15 – 1:30/45: story-telling in the willow pods on an environmental theme.
1:30 – 2:30: ‘Sounds from the Ground’ workshop with Beth de Lange.
11:30 – 2:30: Ongoing drop-in ‘making things’ workshops for the pixie and fairy dens and costumes.
Architecture Week is designed to give people the opportunity to think about how the local built environment affects them and what it might look like in the future. This year will be the fourth consecutive year in which the time’lines project has participated in the Architecture Week initiative.
Architecture Week is a joint initiative between Arts Council England and the Royal Institute of British Architects in association with the Architecture Centre Network. Organisation and management of the event is carried out by Arts Council England.
The time’lines project is designed to engage the public in arts activities and introduce artworks along Ripley Greenway, the multi-user route that follows the path of the old Ripley Railway.
The project is being co-ordinated by Amber Valley Borough Council and Groundwork Derby and Derbyshire and is supported by Arts Council East Midlands, Amber Valley Borough Council and Derbyshire County Council.
For more information contact Néo Heny at Amber Valley Borough Council on 01773 841529.
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News release issued by the Council’s Policy and Change Unit (01773 841655)
