Book onto our afternoon workshop as part of our Ground Nest Fest community day. Aimed at children aged 8+, the workshop will allow the children to make their own puppet focused on ground nesting birds or other important species supported by our upland habitats. For example, lapwing, short-eared owl and the common frog.
Sue Walpole is a Visual Artist and international professional lantern puppet maker working with natural or recycled materials with over 20 years freelancing in the creative arts sector as a community, health and wellbeing facilitator. Locally she is currently exhibiting for Manasamitra Waterfall of Kites, Creative Producer for FUSION Barnsley and established artist for Handmade Productions in Hebden Bridge amongst others .
Nature is a big inspiration to Sue's work and our ground nesting birds featured in her 2024 Culturdale installation Curlew Sickle Moon at IOU Creation Centre Halifax.
Children must be accompanied by a parent, who enter for free. Suitable for children over the age of 8. For parents or carers with more than one child, once a standard ticket has been purchased you are eligible for discounted 'sibling' tickets (you can purchase a discounted ticket for each additional child).
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On the day
Meet at the Drill Hall, Settle.
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What to expect
Two hours of creativity, where your children will be immersed in the world of puppet making. They will create a special memento from ground-nest fest to take away with them.
Facilities
Toilets avaliable.
Fully accessible.
Parking
The nearest car parks are the Marketplace and Greenfoot Car Park.
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This event is being run by Wild Ingleborough, an ambitious, landscape-scale project working with the community to bring about nature’s recovery in this part of North Yorkshire.
This event is part of Ground Nest Fest, a week-long festival celebrating ground-nesting birds and their habitats, held in partnership between Wild Ingleborough and Yorkshire Peat Partnership.
