Lady Brad’s Woods Walkshop

Event Information

A guided creative walkshop around local wooded common land with Soobie Whitfield

A guided walk around 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

Soobie Whitfield & Oliver Pickering

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

Oliver Pickering at Lady Brad’s Walk - Outdoors and nature entertainment manager for Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens and will be giving input  on the folklore and history of the trees.

Location of event

For Lady Brad's Woods Walkshop: meet Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Car Park,  Hall Road off the Chester road  B36 9BT and follow brown signs. 

Bus routes 94, X70 & X12 from Birmingham city centre or  X12 or 72 from Solihull centre or the number 71 from Sutton Coldfield.

Also on Greenways Cycle route.