We are co-hosting two LGBTQI+ community days, one on Wednesday 18 May and one on Saturday 11 June. Open to all LGBTQI + people. Friends and family welcome.
• Tut Bull will be sharing their bushcraft skills with a chance to build a shelter together, make a tripod and fire, and learn how to purify water
• Do some gardening with Lya Vollering, our host, who lives at the Walled Garden
• Get drawing in our creative area (indoors if chilly or wet)
• Relax in this beautiful space, being quiet with the birds, taking gentle stroll to the lake or hanging out
It is free to attend. Please book here for 18 May. If you would like to book for 11 June, please follow this link.
Accessibility
The event on Saturday 11 June will include BSL interpreting.
We are offering a variety of activities so there is something for everyone whatever your accessibility needs are. There is a concrete path around part of the walled garden and a gravel path around the other part. The indoor kitchen/dining room and accessible toilets are reachable by the concrete path.
Please contact Scarlet scarlet@northpenninesaonb.org.uk if you have any questions around your access needs.
Food
Lya will make us a vegan soup and Scarlet will bring bread. Please bring any other food you would like to eat or share. Tea and coffee will be available throughout the day.
Transport
If you are driving and are able to offer lifts please email Scarlet@northpenninesaonb.org.uk
If you need a lift please email scarlet@northpenninesaonb.org.uk
Public Transport from Newcastle:
Pick up from Riding Mill station at 10.30 for people arriving from Newcastle direction on the train (9.37 from Newcastle).
Public Transport from County Durham
Pick up from Consett bus station at 10.10 for people arriving on bus (X5 9.22 from Durham)
Please email scarlet@northpenninesaonb.org.uk if you would like to be picked up from either Riding Mill or Consett.
About the Walled Garden
The Walled Garden is a luscious large walled garden in the grounds of Minsteracres Retreat Centre, full of many plants, a living room in a polytunnel and many other corners to discover. It is within Minsteracres Retreat Centre which is near Slaley Hall. Postcode is DH8 9RT
About Us
TuT Bull
Hi, I’m TuT Bull, A wilderness artist & bushcrafter. I spend my time creating works of art using natural materials and going on adventures in the most beautiful northern England.
Surrounded by pristine shorelines, vast woodlands and roaming hillsides inspiration is all around me.
I became a bushcrafter at the age of 5 when my father a British army chef began teaching me survival and bushcraft skills.Later in my life I became seriously ill and while recovering I returned to my wilderness ways and the skills my father had taught me.
I believe nature is a powerful healer, not only for the body, but our souls and minds too.
Bushlore keeps traditional skills alive with the hope of inspiring people to reconnect with our natural world. So please come along on my Bushlore adventure and be inspired.
Lya Vollering
I am a gartist, that is a gardener and an artist. I am interested in how we link social justice with environmental justice. Above all, how do we create alternative ways of living that are sustainable socially, financially, spiritually, emotionally, mentally.. for all living creature? And how do we do that in a way that does justice to the enormous rich diversity of this world? I live in the walled garden and love to welcome people to share the space with all the other beings here.
Scarlet Hall
Hi, I am a genderqueer person who is working at the North Pennines AONB Partnership to support collective learning around how to make the organisation, our work and the wider North Pennines more welcoming and accessible to a greater diversity of people.
This event is a collaboration between TuT Bull, the North Pennines AONB Partnership, LGBT+ Northern Social Group, and The Walled Garden at Minsteracres.
