No 13....Lucky for Bearwood!

Great news!  Warley Woods Community Trust is hosting its 13th Picnic in the Park next Sunday 13th July.  

There's a programme full of events and activities for everybody to enjoy so why not bring your rug, make a picnic and take everybody you know to Warley Woods for the afternoon? The sunshine's been invited to come along too!

Music's on from 1pm - 6pm courtesy of the friendly bunch, the Bearwood Promoters who put on the Bearwood Shuffles at Lightwoods Park Bandstand and features local bands and a local dance group including Simon Boswell, Jane James, Peter Hyde and Friends,Ethel Vince, Paul Miller and Mr Apollo, The Fidgets, The Strangest Feeling and All Hail Regale. 

There will also be a range of children’s activities, including lots of craft making opportunities,

face painting, bouncy castles and golf games.

The number of stalls and activities havebeen increased on previous years; so lots of crafts, food and gifts to browse. There will also be local charities tempting you with tombolas and cakes. 

The Trust will have a bookstall, samosas, games and their own tombola to help raise money for the maintenance of Warley Woods. 

The Warley Woods regulars the Warley Woods Pacers (runners) and Kickstart Bootcamp will be offering fun activities. For those who don’t want the fuss of making their own picnic, or if they forget it - there will be food available so no one will go hungry.

For the four legged park visitors, there is the dog show – anyone can bring their canine friend to enter. Classes include the dog that looks most like its owner and the waggiest tail. This year’s sponsor – Companion Care Vets of Oldbury has taken special charge of helping with the dog show, so there will be excellent prizes along with special categories for their customers.

Viv Cole, Trust Manager explained to welovebearwood that “We are really looking forward to this year’s event. Many thanks to Bearwood Promoters for organising the music, Companion Care Vets, Oldbury for sponsoring the whole event for the third year. Then with the all Warley Woods volunteers and supporter, we have a really strong community team working together to
create a great event for everyone to enjoy.”

Summer Samba Sounds

The next afternoon of acoustic music at the Samba Lounge has just been added to our What's on in Bearwood calendar for this coming Sunday.  

Entry is FREE (yep Bearwood there's our favourite word again!)  and the music kicks off at 2pm.

Esther Turner's definitely one to watch for the future and we just love this video of her busking in Birmingham city centre.

P.S.  If you are holding an event in Bearwood and would like our help spreading the word, please send the details to us at welovebearwood@googlemail.com and pop the words EVENT REQUESTS in the subject header.  

Thimblemill Library July 2014 Calendar

No...seriously...it can't be 1st July today!  How did that happen?  Before we know it will be Christmas, aaarrrggghhh!

As we like to say Keep Calm and Carry on and thank goodness for Thimblemill Library to help us to do so. 

This month's events are looking....BIG!

On Saturday 12 July Our Big Gig returns to Thimblemill Library and if you went to last year's event you'll know it's a day definitely not to be missed. 

Up and down the nation communities will be coming together through their love of music and from 4.30pm - 9.30pm there will be singer songwriters Kim and Joe, Alex Lanyon and Amelia to name just a few performing alongside ukulele bands, music workshops and children's stories set to music by Nicola McAteer.  

You won't go hungry either as Bearwood Pantry will be selling lots of yummy local food delights.

Thimblemill Library give it to us large again on Saturday 19th July when blues and jazz legend and The Silvershine Jazz Club regular the very statuesque Steve Ajao brings his Blues Giants to Thimblemill Library.  The jazz night starts at 7pm and it's FREE (our favourite word...yeah!).  Here's Steve Ajao in action...sax-tastic!

There's plenty for the kids too and one of the highlights has to be the Haka Day Out workshop. You'll be able to learn the traditional Maori dance and then join the free coach trip to Birmingham Hippodrome to perform on the big stage.

We guess you could say that this month at Thimblemill Library size does matter!