EVENTS
Summer 2021
We are delighted to be collaborating with Belle Vue Arts Festival this summer. The theme is WILD....
with a focus on exploring the
Rea Brook.
We had a wonderful day with over 200 people joining us for the following activities:
Mindful Meditation
Clay workshop
Busk under the bridge
Stories by the Riverside
Silent Disco Walk
Learn the Nelken Line
Sing with Roxane
Saturday 31st July
2021
Mindful Meditation
with Sarah Holland
9am - 9.30am
Free Event
Donations Welcomed
Drop in Clay Workshop
with Ruth
Come and make decorative tiles using natural materials found along the Rea Brook
FREE EVENT
Voluntary donations welcomed
Suggested £5 family
Time: 10.00 - 12.00
Location :
the Beach on Small Bend Field
Silent Disco Rea Brook Walk
Enjoy a new way to experience the nature reserve
accompanied by music and movement.
Lead by Sally Tonge.
Time: 12.00 - 13.00
Suitable for over 18s
Tickets £10
Booking Essential
Meeting point:
Sainsbury's Local Carpark on Whitecroft Road
Stories by the Riverside
with Sally Tonge
Enjoy a new experience of listening to Sal's magical stories via 'silent disco' headphones.
Learn the Nelken Line
Come and learn a simple piece of walking choreography
based on the seasons.
Originally created by German choreographer Pina Bausch
Ruth will guide you through the simple moves and we will attempt to walk between the 'busking' stages performing the Nelken Line
Free Event
Busk Under the Bridge
14.00 - 18.00
An opportunity to bring your instruments down
'the Brook' and play or sing to passers by!
Location:
Haycock Way Underpass
SING with Roxane Smith
OTHER ACTIVITIES.....
delivered by
Shrewsbury Town Council's Ranger Team
Bug Hunting
Tree Identification
Wild Flower Search
Machinery Display
All Free
10.00 - 13.00
Location:
Column Meadows, off Haycocks Way
Rea Brook Wonders
the future....
We hope to be able to deliver ongoing creative events and are looking into funding to do this. Any offers of help with this would be much appreciated.
In order to receive updates
In the meantime check out our Rea Brook Wonders Group on Facebook
Piano Installation
December 2020
An old piano was donated to Rea Brook Wonders and with permissions of the Nature Reserve's site manager, and support of Shrewsbury Town Council, the piano was installed in the Nature Reserve, on the Hazledine Way underpass. It took a team of volunteers to wheel the piano down a muddy track and to securely fix it to the wall of the bridge structure. We then painted the piano white.
It was a pop-up experiment to surprise and delight passers by on their daily walks during lockdown. Members of the enjoyed playing the piano and posted photographs and videos on our Rea Brook Wonders Facebook Page.
The floods came early in December and as the river levels rose, we decided to remove the piano and have begun to dismantle it to make artworks from its innards!
With thanks to Shrewsbury Town Council for supporting this pop-up project
