three hares woodland

A reminder we are hosting an outdoor storytelling and community crafting session celebrating Autumn, this Saturday at Three Hares from 12-4pm, continuing our year of Stories programme. All welcome!

Dougie Mackay will bring a selection of stories relating to the seasons and the craft in focus: felting.

Jenny Muirhead will lead a collective crafting piece, using wool to create a ‘felted’ piece of art representing imagery from one of the stories. All abilities welcome.

Arrival from 12, with crafting from 12.30.

Book a place:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/folklore-and-felting…

Mona Kastell has won Gold medal at the World Stage Design 2022 Awards in ‘Alternative Design’ for her set design for ‘Glimpsing Air Pockets'(pictured above), a Scottish immersive, multi-sensory dance theatre production bridging stage design with Nature connection to shape sustainable communities and wellbeing.

Creative Scotland funded Mona’s World Stage Design 2022 attendance in Calgary, Canada to exhibit her nominated Ecoscenographic set design and to work alongside international peers, lead ecological workshops, promote Ecostage (an online initiative to promote sustainable performing arts practice) and network to develop ecological design thinking in the international performing arts industry.

Mona included an extra fee as part of her funding application to be donated to a local Scottish woodland to help offset her international flight and encourage local environment regeneration for which she chose Three Hares Community Woodland.

Thank you, Mona, and congratulations!

See more of Mona’s work here:

https://www.monakastell.com/

https://www.monakastell.com/2022/08/06/wsd22-professional-exhibition/
https://www.monakastell.com/2022/08/12/coming-back-from-wsd22-with-an-award-first-place-in-alternative-design/

Come help us celebrate the Musical Forest tomorrow (Sat 8th Oct 12-2pm) for our official Launch and picnic. Featuring our very own band The Musical Forest Allstars!

You can read all about the project in the recent edition of the Reforesting Scotland Journal. https://reforestingscotland.org/publications/journal/

A wee reminder that September’s Volunteer Day is postponed until NEXT weekend, 2nd October, 11am-3pm.

We will then continue our usual pattern of Volunteer days being on the last Sunday of every month, 11am-3pm.

Next dates: 2nd Oct, 30th Oct, 27th Nov.

We will also take a break in December.

2nd Oct, join our Conservation Day Facilitator Eilidh and the Dirty Weekenders (Edinburgh Uni Conservation Society) for tree care and path maintenance.

Join us this Sunday for another fun conservation day.

This Sunday from 11am till 3pm we’ll have our monthly conservation. After a warm summer we have lots of sorting out as parts of the land are very over grown. We plan to do some braken removal and of course our all important tree care.

Make sure to bring a packed lunch and appropriate clothing as ever the unpredictable august weather is still with us. This is a family friendly event and everyone is welcome to join us for all or part of the day.

If you are unsure of how to find us either by public transport or car all the information can be found here https://three-hares-woodland.org/how-to-find-us/

Hope to see some of you there!

Join us for an afternoon of music creating at the Musical Forest!

Mischa Stevens, a professional musician and music teacher, will combine found sound with storytelling while teaching you different rhythms and facilitating a jam session. We have a number of hand-made instruments for you to get involved with, ranging from marimbas, cajon, bass kalimba and pipes

Tickets are essential and limited – so register early.

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