Hodge Hill Common Creative Tree Workshop

Event Information

A guided walk around Hodge Hill Common and Lady Brad's Woods in Birmingham, exploring local wooded, common land, noticing the shapes, movements, colours, sounds and textures of some trees.

Participants will be encouraged to creatively respond to what they notice through different prompts, writing, drawing or creating art from found materials. At the end of the walk they will be invited to co-create one large community response.

Contributors

Friends of Hodge Hill Common and Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens & Soobie Whitfield

Friends of Hodge Hill Common is a recently formed friends group that exists for the sake of the Common and all those who live on or near it - humans and other- than-humans alike.

We want to bring local people together to safeguard this little patch of semi-wild natural space, and raise awareness of its biodiversity. We want to work to keep it clean and safe for all to use. And we want to build up a local community, strengthening ties of friendship between all who see themselves as Friends of Hodge Hill Common.

@friendsofhodgehillcommon

Soobie Whitfield works freelance with local communities, engaging them in creative projects around place, space and heritage.  She trained in Dance Theatre at Laban and more recently completed an MA in Applied Theatre at Royal Central School for Speech and Drama. She is also involved in  community engagement for Signdance Collective International who ran some online workshops as part of UTF 2021 programme.

@soobie14

Location

For HodgeHill Common Walkshop: meet on open grassland area next to Hodge Hill Common road, B36 8AG.

Bus routes 94 and 28 stop on the Common , X12 and X13 stop Shawsdale Road which is a 6 min walk away.