The Great Big Green Week Family Trail

(October 1st)

GIVE: Foundation House, Masons Road

10am-4.30pm

A chance to meet the Repair Café volunteers who use their skills to repair household items, extending the item's life, saving the planet and saving money.

There is also chance to find out more about the groups based at Foundation House and take part in activities including woodturning demonstrations, games, crafts, planting, and more.

CONNECT: Cabinet of Compassion

10am - 4.30pm

Exploring the themes of kindness and compassion by taking notice and connecting, including how we can take action together and motivate each other to be kinder to our world.

TAKE NOTICE: Dell Forest Garden, Southern Lane

10am - 4.30pm

Take notice and be inspired by creativity and the landscape, being kind to ourselves to be kind to our environment. Join in for some bulb planting and create eco-friendly badges to remind us that kindness is a superpower.

KEEP LEARNING: Stratford Library, Henley Street

The Forest of Arden

10am – 4.30pm

Come and help create the Forest of Arden inside the library using a range of creative skills.

Miniature Fairy Gardens

10am – 4.30pm

Inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, create your own miniature fairy garden to take home. Design a fairy door and craft a magical setting using a range of natural materials.

Shakespeare for All

10.15am – 2pm

Join in for a reading of Antony and Cleopatra. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to take part. Some copies of the Complete Works are available to use, or feel free to bring your own.

Environmental Shakespeare

3 - 4pm

Come and explore how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood nature. In this practical workshop there will be colouring, quizzes and a chance to get to know your pottage from your porridge.

GET ACTIVE: Outside Stratford Library, Henley Street

10am - 4.30pm

Put your best foot forward for some Tudor music and dance sessions on Henley Street. Discover musical instruments from the time and learn to jig Tudor-style!

A spokesperson for the Royal Shakespeare Company said: "By working with Foundation House, Warwickshire Libraries and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust alongside many other organisations in the town, we hope to show the many ways we can all make small changes that can make a big difference to our environment.

"Through our activity at Bell Court and in the Dell Forest Garden we hope everyone taking part will also take a moment to consider how to look after their own well-being as well as taking care of the environment."

Rich Jones, Centre Manager of Bell Court, said: "The Great Big Green Week is an important occasion, and we are proud to play a part. We look forward to welcoming the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'Cabinet of Compassion' to Bell Court on Saturday and hope that it starts a conversation around how we can come together as a community to take action on climate change."