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New Events leaflet
16/02/10 20:11
Winter Blog 2009
19/11/09 18:04
News and Events at CANNON HILL PEOPLES PARK Birmingham B13 2RD
from Park Friends and Partners Nov 09
from Park Friends and Partners Nov 09
*** Sat 12th Dec: WINTER LANTERN FESTIVAL & SKY WATCH 2pm – 6pm***
with the Midlands Arts Centre’s new facilities reopening in Spring 2010, and other development planned for the area, Park Friends have been involved with the City in a Cannon Hill Park Improvement Plan. On our website Discovery pages we have a Map showing the Park Heritage features, most in need of TLC, but we are also looking at amplifying the Plan with a vision of the Peoples Park for the Future.
And finally.......
Thanks to all who helped over this year with seasonal tasks caring for the park woodland, pools and riverbanks, gardens and fields.
Thanks to Woodland Trust and Environment Agency for help with community activities & resources, and to OPAL West Midlands for support in seeing how much we’ve got (see links below for more information)!
Links: www.cannonhillpeoplespark.net
www.birminghamheritage.org.uk/cannonhill.html
OPAL Open Air Nature Labs (WM), and Park Friends extended Learning family activities:
www.opalwestmidlands.org and national partners: www.opalexplorenature.org
Summer Solar Festival 2009 - a day in pictures
24/06/09 19:42
For our Solar Festival 2009 Birmingham Astronomer John Dee recreated William Herschel's experiment for the Lunar Society in 1800 with thermometers to show Infrared Radiation, and also the range of instruments used by the new scientists in homes such as Boulton's Soho House.
And the Shango Science Club of teenagers showed the plates they created specially for our solar picnic, revealing the summer triangle of stars and constellations most prominent in the sky from June to September.
Whilst others were happy to taste the range of Planets Suite Pancakes created by Cyrdric.
The Cannon Hill Camera Obscura, made by Tim Holgate's Pinhole Solutions, was very popular again....
...but what is that Green Planet floating over the Lake?
Most eyes were on the Sun all day using four Solar Telescopes, and other pieces of the Bham Astronomy Roadshow which will be at Sutton Park in August and back in Cannon Hill for our Winter Lanterns Festival on 12 December.
Further astronomical events in ITA 2009 are on www.birmingham-astronomy.co.uk and there is more photo fun from a shoe box to Camera Obscura at www.pinholesolutions.co.uk/pinhole_factory.html
And the Shango Science Club of teenagers showed the plates they created specially for our solar picnic, revealing the summer triangle of stars and constellations most prominent in the sky from June to September.
Whilst others were happy to taste the range of Planets Suite Pancakes created by Cyrdric.
The Cannon Hill Camera Obscura, made by Tim Holgate's Pinhole Solutions, was very popular again....
...but what is that Green Planet floating over the Lake?
Most eyes were on the Sun all day using four Solar Telescopes, and other pieces of the Bham Astronomy Roadshow which will be at Sutton Park in August and back in Cannon Hill for our Winter Lanterns Festival on 12 December.
Further astronomical events in ITA 2009 are on www.birmingham-astronomy.co.uk and there is more photo fun from a shoe box to Camera Obscura at www.pinholesolutions.co.uk/pinhole_factory.html