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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
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 Creation Station for a fun range arts and crafts activities for children with a Stories and Nature theme. This is will take place at The Walled Garden in West… Continue reading Arts and Crafts with The Creation Station
Join freelance storyteller Anna Walker for a magical day of stories with a Heroes & Villains inspired "Choose Your Own Adventure" themed trail. Take part in book-making, story-telling, face-painting and character-creation activities and get the creative juices flowing with your own mini tales or comic strips with unique characters and storylines inspired by site-specific stories… Continue reading Family Fun Day: Heroes & Villians!
A weekend of cream teas and tours up the church tower to see Burnham and its environs in all it's glory, and imagine the Burnham of old.. St. Peter's in Burnham will be opening it's doors to all for tours up the church tower; giving people the chance to experience the incredible views of Burnham… Continue reading Tower Tours and Cream Teas
Community Youth Ventures presents "Woven Stories: Upcycled Dream Catcher Workshop" Join them at Amersham Youth Centre as they upcycle and create dream catchers that reflect stories inspired from CDs. Combine colours, textures and personal elements. Ages 7+ Free Event, bookable by Eventbrite
This summer, we’re celebrating our fifth anniversary with a dazzling collision of Baroque opera and contemporary circus. Join us for Le Carnaval de Venise (1699), a joyful, fast-paced and theatrical reimagining of Campra’s vibrant opera, performed in-the-round under our iconic circus tent in the grounds of The Vache – or as we’re calling it this… Continue reading Le Carnaval de Venise: A Circus-Opera
Join Bucks Culture, National Paralympic Heritage Trust, Shape Arts and the Rothschild Foundation to celebrate access and inclusion work going on in the county’s cultural sector, while also exploring current challenges and discussing next steps. This event will take place at the Brunel Engine Shed, High Wycombe (opposite High Wycombe Train Station). As part of… Continue reading Disability Access Summit x Shape Open 2025
This year, in the absence of a Conference, we are hosting an in-person event at Waddesdon Vilage Hall to inform and identify direction, and discuss contemporary themes and challenges for the cultural sector, named the "Nonference". The Nonference aims to deliver an interactive and engaging session led by expert speakers to explore a sector in… Continue reading Non-ference – Navigating Change
As the nights draw in and the year nears its end, many of us in the cultural and creative sector feel the pace quicken. November often brings one of the busiest stretches in our calendars — with projects to wrap up, events to deliver, and festive visitors to welcome. In response to requests from across… Continue reading Overwhelm: Manage Stress, Relieve Anxiety: Emotional Freedom Techniques
Festive Networking at Discover Bucks Museum Monday 9 December, 1:00pm–3:30pmDiscover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury Join us for our end-of-year Festive Networking event — an afternoon designed to bring together creative individuals,… Continue reading Festive Networking
International Women's Day 2026 theme is 'Give To Gain' When we give, we gain. Together, let's help forge gender equality through abundant giving. The IWD 2026 Give To Gain Campaign encourages a… Continue reading International Women’s Day 2026: ‘Give To Gain’
Open Weekends 2026 This year sees us roll out Open Weekend across 3 (long) weekends to help promote creativity and culture in Bucks even further...and our theme this year is...… Continue reading Open Weekend(s) 2026
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