Gloucester Civic Trust News

Discover Gloucester with Audio Trails

You can now discover Gloucester at your own pace with a new series of audio trails.  Developed by Gloucester Civic Trust, the trails are available from St Michaels Tower or Gloucester Tourist Information Centre or can they can be downloaded online from this site.

Trails start at St Michael’s Tower. At each point on the walk, you will be given details about buildings or views.

Downloaded audio trails include all the audio tracks in MP3 format together with a printable PDF map.  If you hire them from St Michaels Tower or Gloucester Tourist Information Centre, you will borrow a audio trail handset and receive a leafelt describing the route.

Gloucester Civic Trust Art Classes 2010

 

March

Sat 20th

Portraits

April

Sat 10th

Beatrix Potter Illustrations

 

Mon 26th

Gloucester City Museum Still-life

May

Sat 8th

Morris Dancers

 

Fri 14th

Medieval Illumination

June

Thur 10th

Rare Breeds

 

Sat 19th

Gloucester Architecture

July

Sat 3rd  

Canal Art

 

Fri 9th

Farmer’s Market Produce

 

Classes will take place in St Michael’s Tower, the City Museum, the Docks and out and about our Gate Streets.

 

Additional Theme Ideas:

Seagulls and Birds

Cathedral

Butterflies

The Docks

Gloucestershire landscapes

 

Most of the Classes are free.

 

To register your place please contact Trudi Ochiltree on 05602 952638.

St Michael’s Tower artist for 2010

Gloucester Civic Trust  is pleased to announce that Trudi Ochiltree will be their St Michael’s Tower artist for 2010.

 

Trudi is a local artist and brings with her much skill and talent to St Michael’s Tower.

 

Trudi will be offering workshops for adults and children from March.

 

You can view some of Trudi’s work on www.trudiart.co.uk

 

Most of the workshops are free, as they are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

 

If you would like to register your interest in attending the workshops, please either call in to St Michael’sTower on The Cross from 17th February or visit

www.gloucestercivictrust.org and leave a message on our enquiry form.