June 2023
Circus Fun Weekend – workshops and performances,
an extravaganza for all ages
- Date:
- Thu 1 – Sun 4 June
- Price:
- Adult £204
Child/Young person (5 – 25yrs) £165
(£150 second or third child in same family) - with…
- Jacob-Hi Ho, Juggler Jim, Darine, and other Farm Yard Circus friends!
No lions, no prancing ponies, and no performing seals. Simply real people, good company, great tuition, wonderful workshops, and three days of pure circus fun!
There will be workshops, for complete beginners as well as for experienced circus enthusiasts, in juggling (balls, clubs, passing, and more …); staff spinning, plate spinning, devil-sticks, hula hoop, and more …; aerial hoop and silks; rope walking and slack-lining; acro-balance and human pyramids; uni-cycling; and performance skills.
There will also be a fire show, a mass fire club-swinging routine, and the lighting of a fire sculpture created on the weekend, by you!
After dark, we’ll have a cabaret, UV-light performance in fluorescent room, and a Cowshed party to write home about.
And on the last day, we’ll finish off, in the fully-matted play area, with a games session, using your new skills!
Families welcome, couples and singles welcome, and beginners welcome too. Everybody is welcome, because anyone can learn how to juggle, how to really play, and how to develop and improve their circus skills.
We'll show you how!
Jacob Hi-Ho, a multi-talented circus artist and former UK Slackline champion; and Juggler Jim, an experienced performer and workshop leader; and Darine Flannagan, an acrobat and play leader, will all help you learn new skills and explore your potential as an individual and as part of a group in a relaxed, friendly, and well-equipped setting.
And for anyone who just wants to watch, the workshop space also has comfy sofas!
This fully residential weekend, with great food, fun, and friendship, begins on Thursday evening and finishes after a late lunch on Sunday.
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Indigo Dyeing Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 16 – Sun 18 June
- Price:
- £198 (Veranda Room)
£216 (House Room or Garden Cabin)
Non-resident price: £156 (includes meals and tuition) - with…
- Vicky Hirsch
A weekend exploring this magical dye which changes colour on exposure to oxygen to become deep blue. Chemically identical to woad, this dye has been used since 2400BC.
We will use Japanese Shibori techniques, and batik to create resists and introduce a little contrast with Potassium Permanganate brown.
Vicky Hirsch is a multi-talented craftswomen with many years of creative making and teaching experience
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June Working Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 16 – Sun 18 June
- Price:
- No charge
This is a chance to get to know the farm, turn your hand to old jobs and new, enjoy good company and good food too!
An opportunity to have bright ideas by the compost heap, happy talk in the hen house, and cool chat in the kitchen. Join us to prove that many hands make light work and that today’s stranger is tomorrow’s friend.
Our Working Weekends are run in the beautiful spirit of the WWOOF organisation: we feed and accommodate you, you work, with us.
For more information on WWOOF, see www.wwoof.org.uk.
Booking has closed for this event