This early Autumn has some delightful and comforting music & nature activity – we are delighted to invite you to:
- Singing walk 1st Oct FREE
- Croydon Fun Palaces Oct 6 th & 7th , 8th FREE
- Music heritage trail Sept 30th & Oct 14th FREE
- Mini retreat all meno stages including post Oct 29th
- Calat Oct singing starts Oct 31st
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Croydon singing events – mini, local, FREE (Parkbathe is adults only, other things for all)
- Oct 1st 1.30 Addiscombe Railway Park – Parkbathe, Singing and other walks https://tinyurl.com/56f3k2y3
- Oct 6th Twilight Fun Palace – Whitehorse Park includes Parkbathe & candlelight singing https://snappytickets.co.uk/events/nature-fun-palaces-selhurst/
- Oct 7th Afternoon and/or evening – Fun Palace Addington Nature arts, fire, soup, singing https://snappytickets.co.uk/events/nature-fun-palace-addington-croydon/
- Oct 8th The Wilderness Fun Palace – open day, Parkbathe, singing walk, lantern making https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/wilderness-sundays-1350819
Sign up for Parkbathe here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/parkbathe-34393467709 or on the day
Music heritage trail walks with Catherine for the Croydon Year of culture
FREE please book as places limited
Sept 30th midday 12-1.30pm (central Croydon) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/croydons-music-heritage-trail-walking-tour-tickets-710187428717
Oct 14th 2-3.30pm Black history month (central Croydon)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/croydons-music-heritage-trail-walking-tour-tickets-710192985337?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Menopause Month events with Catherine
Oct 14th Brixton Book in person launch £5 – Catherine is co-editor
https://www.roundtablebooks.co.uk/events-store/menopause-the-anthology
Oct 18th Diverse online book launch 1 pm with readings FREE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/menopausethe-anthology-online-launch-tickets-720503343897
Oct 29th Studio 39 (South Croydon hills) Half day menopause age retreat £40 early bird before 15th Oct using code MENOMONTH https://www.thirty-nine.org/service-page/pause-and-affect-october-29?referral=service_list_widget
October – more about the fun palaces
Creative Fun Palaces in Nature – Selhurst and Addington FREE (limited places, so need to book)
We have two lovely FREE events for the Croydon Year of Culture, offered in the spirit of Joan Littlewood – and the Fun Palace movement. Fun Palaces are sessions where we are all teachers (optional) – adults can come to share skills and have new creative experiences. If you have a skill or topic that you know about and want to offer a small input 10-15 mins is enough or longer, let us know. You don’t need to be expert. We are also contributing ti the Wilderness Open day on the 8th, a nice little space hidden away near Selsdon High street.
These events are for adults (16+ if with an adult). There is little opportunity sometimes for grownups to relax and play in the woods, without attending to others’ needs. Come, renew, refresh and rediscover your joy in simple activities like nature arts, forest bathing, bushcraft, wandering in dappled light, sitting round sharing songs and stories/poems in candlelight (WHR) plus yoga, and cooking together round a fire (Frylands). Instruments welcome. Attend part or all of each session advertised, as your time permits. Let yourself have this delight in a way that fits for you. With Suzy Strudwick (of GowildwithusCIC).
Oct 6th twilight 3 hr session in Whitehorse Road urban park and community garden – read more and book here https://snappytickets.co.uk/events/nature-fun-palaces-selhurst/
Oct 7th an afternoon 3 hrs session and/or an evening 3 hrs session, in Frylands Scout camp, read more and book here: https://snappytickets.co.uk/events/nature-fun-palace-addington-croydon/
#ThisIsCroydon #CandlelitStories #CampfireCooking #SingAroundTheFire #FunPalace
Funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. If these are popular we will apply for additional funding, following feedback at the events.
Oct is Menopause Month – More details to entice you Half day Retreat
I am excited to be partnering with Sara at Studio 39 in South Croydon to offer a half day Menopause transition retreat for those in Peri menopause through post menopause, all ages. Sunday 29th Oct: 2.30 – 5.30pm . £45 with early bird £5 discount. This delicious, self-nourishing retreat will involve:
- Menopause information presentation and sharing including some lesser known facts and how to manage both symptoms and GP in a range of ways. Group circle sharing will also be facilitated by Catherine.
- We will move into a replenishing break with tea break (in a beautiful garden, if good weather, with some menopause cake and menopause related teas).
- Then a section of small group choices – talking about different peri and post stages, or activities options (collage or comfort card or zine with completed examples for inspiration) Coming back to the large circle for sharing, surprises, interesting connections, feelings etc.
- Final section, some forest bathing and then meditation with Sara, sitting around the fire, if clement. We will share a chant (I will be gentle with myself chant) for us to sing together. Then writing a thought, feeling or action to release as no longer useful, and give to the fire.
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Catherine & Anne
Anne Crump, Catherine Pestano, Paula De Souza
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