Apple Day

Our Apple Day event on Saturday 31st October was a wonderful success! More information and photos to come here soon!

--- For more info see our flier for the day, which you can download and view here.

Buy a share in the Transition Leicester Apple Press, and make your own apple juice! Learn more here.

If you’d like to help make the day even better, below are ideas of things you could bring to the event:

Bring homemade apple-based food for the café (talk to Zina for more info on this)

Bring a copy of your favourite apple poetry and prose passages and any apple-related children’s books you’d like to show people for the apple culture stall

Bring bags of your apples or apples you have found growing wild for:

  • tasting (there will be a competition to see which apple has the most popular flavour)
  • printing and playing games with
  • identification (you need to bring a few with their stems attached for this)
  • mapping (we are making a map of the various varieties which grow in Leicester, so make sure you remember where the tree was that you picked them from - you need to bring 3 of each variety with stem and leaves if possible)
  • pressing into juice (and bring containers to take some of the juice home).

For more information about Apple Day, to book into a workshop (listed below) or if you’d like to help, please contact Zina on 0116 253 1649 or zinazelter@yahoo.co.uk

10.00-11.00 Apple music improvisation. Come and experiment with voices, instruments and sound on a theme of apples. All ages welcome. No experience needed. Bring instruments if you want to.

11.00-11.30 Low input apple growing talk. A short talk about growing apples in a time of climate change and peak oil with a chance to ask questions afterwards.

11.45-12.45 Storytelling. Listen to a storyteller bringing magical, fantasical, mythological and English apple and tree stories to life.

12.30-1.30 Apple rounds. Learn apple rounds to sing in unison and harmony. You don’t need to be able to read music or sing well to enjoy making fabulous music with other people. Everyone welcome.

1.30 – 4.30 Apple Impression print workshop. Use discarded apples and natural colours to print your own stunning patterns. Make a picture to hang up or a cover for your recycled notepaper. Anyone can drop in and out at any point. Children especially welcome.

1.30-2.00 Low input apple growing talk. A short talk about growing apples in a time of climate change and peak oil with a chance to ask questions afterwards.

2.00-3.00 Starting where North, South, East and West meet, apples are for everything not just to eat. A writing workshop for children aged 8-12. Use play, listening, feeling and guessing to bring words to life. Parents needed to support children who find writing hard. 16 places.

2.30-3.30 Harvesting a crop of juicy words. Creative writing on a theme of apples for adults.

2.30-3.30 Biting the Apple. In this workshop for teenagers we will be looking at the symbolism of apples, playing collaborative automatic writing word games and coming up with individual takes on a crunchy theme.

4.00-5.00 Storytelling. More apple tree filled stories and worlds for you to enter with your storytelling guide.