Open Weekend 2025

Open Weekend 2025: Where Stories and Nature Come to Life Open Weekend is back for 2025 – join in the fifth year of our vibrant, Bucks-wide event full of creative activities to try out and have a go! Every tree has a tale. Every landscape holds a legend. Every moment spent in nature is a… Continue reading Open Weekend 2025: Thursday 28th – Sunday 31st August 2025

Spark your imagination with a walk around Great Missenden. Discover locations that inspired Roald Dahl and start to create a story. Get out and about with our Sketch for Stories Activity Pack. You’ll discover locations that inspired Roald Dahl’s own stories as well as starting to create your own story ideas. We’ll encourage you to… Continue reading Sketch for Stories

Step into a world of myth and imagination with Waddesdon Wisdom & Wonder, a self-guided storytelling trail that brings the gardens and woodlands of Waddesdon to life in a completely new way. Follow a ten-stop nature trail through the grounds and encounter a series of original short stories and soliloquies, specially written for this event.… Continue reading Waddesdon Wisdom and Wonder

Working with Buckinghamshire based artist, Harsha Basu, this is an exciting opportunity to find out more about Rangoli, its history and importance in South Asian heritage and discover the traditional techniques used by creating your own design. Free Event. Booking required; either in person at Wycombe Library or online at www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/libraries

Join the Chiltern Rangers at Kingsmead, taking inspiration from local wildlife to make and decorate a bird box or plant a pollinator pot to help the bees & butterflies. Find out about what the Rangers do and get stuck in with various conservation activities including a river clean up to help the local community and… Continue reading Kingsmead Family Ranger Day

From 2 August to the 31st, explore The Longest Yarn 2: Britain at War—a spectacular 60-metre knitted and crocheted tapestry marking 80 years since Victory in Europe (VE) Day. Each three-dimensional panel, lovingly stitched by talented volunteer makers, weaves stories of courage, resolve, and everyday life on the British home front during World War II.… Continue reading The Longest Yarn 2

Join local artist Caroline Masom, as she conducts 2 one hour drawing workshops on both Thursday and Friday mornings where participants can learn how to capture trees. Caroline is constantly inspired by nearby Burnham Beeches, 'Every time I walk into the Beeches, something is different' she says, 'The light is always changing, trees and undergrowth… Continue reading Every Tree Has A Tale: Drawing Workshop

Join others over at Amersham Museum at the launch of a new children’s picture book, inspired by Amersham’s Charter Fair! Hear Mary Hamilton read the book, & buy your own copy (£10per book) along with the opportunity to make and take home some craft inspired by this brand new story!

Join us for snake stories and snake sculptures at Milton’s Cottage, and help create a serpentine ceramic installation for our garden. Milton’s “infernal serpent” plays a central role in Paradise Lost, and we’re celebrating all things serpentine during the Lunar Year of the Snake. From Quetzalcoatl to Kaa, Vasuki to the Incredibly Deadly Viper, join… Continue reading Snake Stories at Milton’s Cottage

Explore your connection to nature through drawing, collage, simple journaling, and mindful observation — then make a zine to take home. Using A3 paper, coloured pens, pencils, watercolours, natural textures, and cut-out collage elements, we'll guide participants to create their own illustrated story inspired by animals, trees, weather, or magical woodland creatures. This calm and… Continue reading Art Workshop: My Tiny Wild Story – Create Your Own Nature Zine

Explore themes of storytelling and nature, take inspiration from a Surrealist artist and learn a new technique to express your creativity. This workshop looks at the unique and captivating art of needle felting – a medium that many people have never experienced before. In this workshop, participants will explore themes of storytelling and nature. We'll… Continue reading Art Workshop: Explore the Amazing Art of Needle Felting

Join artist Harsha Basu at Wendover Community library for a folk art workshop where we will make our own natural colours, paint a beautiful Madhubani Art motif and listen to an inspiring story from the foothills of Himalayas. Explore Madhubani art in more detail; characterised by its vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and depictions of nature,… Continue reading Madhubani Art – A Celebration of Nature

Discover the natural poetry of the Swahili language as you join artist and storyteller Adam Cheyo in an interactive workshop showing the journey that has led to the merge of cultures we see today. Through poetry you will find out how people crossed the Indian Ocean from Africa to Asia for trade on the iconic… Continue reading Swahili Culture and Heritage: Poetry

Join the Sing Your Pain Away singers for a joyful, two-hour workshop celebrating the beauty of the natural world through song. This relaxed and uplifting session is open to adults of all ages and welcomes everyone – no singing experience needed. Participants will learn and sing a selection of inspiring songs themed around nature, including… Continue reading Sing Your Pain Away: Songs of Nature

Community Youth Ventures presents Woven Stories, a workshop for adults offering the chance to create your own Dreamcatcher. Using upcycled CDs and other recycled materials this event merges crafting and musical storytelling giving participants the chance to take their creations home with them. Free - booking required here Ages 16+