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A full programme of events is running at
the new Moorland
Discovery Centre (MDC) this year:
Various dates throughout the year. Digital
Photography Workshop Adults booking only £55.00 10.00 - 16.00
MDC build photographic skills, knowledge of digital photography
and photo editing, make the most of your digital camera (compact
or SLR). To book or to find out more about these short courses contact:
jan slack 07970 427381 www.goingdigital.co.uk
27/07/08 Brilliant Bogs and Boggarts! drop in for free or £1
to do activities 10.00 - 15.00 MDC Celebrate International Bog Day
with activities to find out more about bogs and the creatures that
live in them
07/08/08 Down by the Pond £1.00 13.30 - 15.30 Longshaw Pond
Pond dipping and bug hunting down by the pond. Equipment provided
but bring your own net of you have one as numbers are limited!
14/08/08 Summer fun £1.00 13.30 - 15.30 MDC fun and games
in and out of the Moorland Discovery Centre
21/08/08 Down by the Pond £1.00 13.30 - 15.30 Longshaw Pond
Pond dipping and bug hunting down by the pond. Equipment provided
but bring your own net of you have one as numbers are limited!
28/08/08 Summer fun £1.00 13.30 - 15.30 MDC fun and games
in and out of the Moorland Discovery Centre
12/10/08 Fungi for Families Booking only £3.00 10.00 - 13.00
MDC A short walk, discovering Longshaw fungi along the way and finishing
with some hands - on activities. Booking essential. Children £3,
accompanying adults free. Meet at the new Moorland Discovery Centre,
by the Woodcroft car park.
28/10/08 Autumn Fun Booking only £5.00 10.00 - 13.00 MDC Arts
and crafts activities for half -term week, suitable for children
up to 11 years old. A walk will be included so please wear appropriate
outdoor clothing. Meet at the new Moorland Discovery Centre by the
Woodcroft car park. Lunch is included at the Visitor Centre
29/10/08 Fungi for Families Booking only £3.00 10.00 - 13.00
MDC A short walk, discovering Longshaw fungi along the way and finishing
with some hands - on activities. Booking essential. Children £3,
accompanying adults free. Meet at the new Moorland Discovery Centre,
by the Woodcroft car park.
31/10/08 Halloween masks and Lanterns Booking only £5 /child
16.00 - 19.00 Woodcroft car park Come and make your own spooky mask
and a lantern to guide you on our twilight woodland procession,
finishing at the Visitor Centre for warming refreshments. Meet at
the new Moorland Discovery Centre by the Woodcroft car park. £5
per child. Accompanying adults free. Refreshments for adults will
be £3. Please book.
11/11/08 Remembering the War Years Booking Only £5.00 14.00
- 16.00 MDC Longshaw Lodge was home to many wounded soldiers during
the First World War. Our local history expert shares her research
and the memorabilia from this important time in Longshaw's history
with a presentation in the new moorland Discovery Centre, followed
by a delicious cream tea.
06/12/08-07/12/08 Christmas Weekends at Longshaw £1 to make
decorations 10.30 - 16.00 Visitor Centre + MDC Fun and simple decorations
to make, festive music, a chance for some Christmas shopping and
a warming meal from our prize-winning tea room menu.
13/12/08-14/12/08 Christmas Weekends at Longshaw £1 to make
decorations 10.30 - 16.00 Visitor Centre + MDC Fun and simple decorations
to make, festive music, a chance for some Christmas shopping and
a warming meal from our prize-winning tea room menu.
Have you thought about trying you hand at textile art but not know
how to get started?
Well in the autumn at the Moorland Discovery
Centre we will be hosting a short course run by a local women’s
group Art Through Textiles. This six week course will look at a
different technique each week to give you a taster of different
skills. The project will culminate in producing a joint work which
will form part of a display at the Moorland Discovery Centre.
The textile work will take it’s inspiration
from Longshaw and the surrounding moorland environment. As well
as running this wonderful introductory course Art Through Textiles
will also be using the same theme for its members to produce a professional
exhibit of textile work. The exhibit will be displayed in the local
area and in Sheffield in the New Year.
If you are interested in more information
about this course then please contact
the team at the Moorland Discovery Centre.
A touring art exhibition aims to bring alive for residents and visitors
the importance of high profile scientific research taking place
in the uplands of the Peak District National Park.
The ‘Science
Meets the Eye!' exhibition will showcase entries from the competition
which took place as part of the Moors for the Future 2007
research conference to promote science to a wider audience.
The exhibition will go to several Peak
District National Park visitor centres and other venues during 2008.
Postcards that accompany the exhibition will be on sale at the centres.
During 2005 over eighty moorland themed
events culminated in a Moorland Festival (10-25 September) to
celebrate this beautiful and important habitat. Below are
some pictures from the Family Fun Days held as part of the festival.
 
During 2005 we ran an art competition for amateur artists to produce
moorland inspired artwork. The overall winner was Tom Jolley (aged
13) from Bamford, Derwent Valley. His entry was a photograph entitled
"Gathering Sheep for Shearing" (below left). Both Tom
and two other winners; Heather Clare (snow on the moors, below right)
and Jacqueline Fantom (poem entitled The
First Curlew of Spring) won a pair
of tickets each on our last event of the year - `the moorland experience`
- a helicopter flight with Pennine Helicopters to a restoration
site where they were met by Chris Dean, Project Manager, who gave
them a tour of the work undertaken by the Moors for the Future partnership.
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Please consider travelling by public
transport to our events where possible. See www.traveline.org.uk
to plan your journey. Car sharing is
a more environmentally friendly approach
to car use. www.liftshare.com/
is an online journey matching service that finds you travelling
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