Date: Friday 12 August 2016.
Time: 11.30am for up to an hour.
Venue: Pirate’s Play Centre, 41 Rowley Drive, Sherwood, Nottingham, NG5 1GD.
Area: off the Hucknall Road about 2 miles north of the city centre, on the western side of Sherwood, towards Basford. Brown Line buses go nearby.
Age range: All welcome at taster. In future, possibility of multiple groups for different age ranges.
Price: This taster is FREE. Please email to book, as places are limited.
Price for the possible future sessions is not yet set, but could be about £6 per person.
Bookings and enquiries: Katy is the parent who’s putting this together. To make the email address, put “Katywwebb” in front of “hotmail.com” with the “at” sign in between. Please do still put your name down if you’re interested in later sessions but can’t get to the taster, so that Katy can assess the level of interest.
I am a home ed mum with 2 boys. We did a workshop with “beatfeet” African drumming which was amazing so I’m now trying to organise weekly classes.
Taster is free, but email to book a place, as space is limited.
From September a weekly advanced booking system will be in place, amount tbc, around £6pp.
I’m hoping to get enough interest to split into age groups of around 4-7, 8-11 and 11+.
BeatFeet homepage – this is who’ll be running the drumming session(s).
OpenStreetMap showing Pirate’s Play Centre.
Pirate’s Play Centre web site – the page with maps on.
Nearest bus stop coming from the north: “Leonard Avenue“.
Nearest bus stop coming from the south: “Perry Road” – but there’s not much in it. Leonard Avenue is nearly as close.
Both are on the Brown Line along Hucknall Road. There are frequent buses throughout the day; the 15, 16, 16C or 17 all go there. In town, these buses go from stops T1 and T2 on Milton Road just north of Trinity Square, opposite the Victoria Centre.
Alternatively, if you’re coming from out of town along the Yellow Line along Nottingham Road, your nearest bus stop is called “Haydn Road”. Or if you’re coming from out of town along the Purple or Lime lines, your nearest stop would be a different one called “Haydn Road”. Compared to getting a Brown Line bus, these options mean a bit more walking.
On the map, it looks as though if you’re walking up from the west (e.g. from a yellow line bus), you might be able to turn down some kind of footpath just before the Free School, to take a shortcut to Pirate’s. However, it has gates, so if they’re locked, maybe not. Updates welcome if you’ve been there!
Cars & parking: Note that vehicle access is only along Kelham Drive. There is usually plenty of parking at Pirate’s.