We are incredibly lucky to have such exciting places around our school and we try to visit as many things in our local community as we possibly can.
There are a couple of things on that you may find interesting:
Rowntrees park
The Rowntrees Park annual party is on Sunday 17th July.
From Monday 27th June there will be a beautiful textile installation of Fantastic Fish. They will be installed in two spots: on the tennis court fence by the café and hung under the nearby arbour
The fish have been made using Yarn Bombing. YARN-BOMBING is perhaps best described as graffiti – but with knitting needles instead of spray cans.
York textile artist and jeweller Sally Stone is an advocate of the art form and one of the forces behind a current project which is, excuse the pun, going swimmingly.
Fantasy Fish is her latest yarn-bombing venture, conducted alongside fellow artist Deborah New and scores of crafty volunteers.
The idea is to knit, stitch or crochet shoals of fish which will be displayed in Rowntree Park later this summer. At the end of the project, they will be sold to raise funds to help victims of the York floods.
York Cemetery
- Garden Walk and honey bee talk-Sunday 12th June at 2pm.
- The Cemetery Stroll around the Victorian section- Sunday 19th June at 2pm.
- Finnish choir-Concert in the Chapel (Tickets £8) Sunday 3rd July 2pm.
The Cemetery are also looking for volunteers to help with the grounds. Who wouldn’t want to volunteer in a place with this description;
“Imagine 24 acres of park, full of long grasses, wild flowers and canopies of trees, criss-crossed with paths leading to hidden herb gardens, shady glades and open mini meadows. In the summer, butterflies and bees fill the sky, while the scent of summer flowers and herbs linger in the air. Inside this labyrinth of lush loveliness you’ll find the graves of many of the city’s great, good and much-missed.”
York Press June 2016
Find out more about volunteering online at yorkcemetery.org.uk or email yorkcemeteryvolunteers@gmail.com
