The Woodland Games

17/09/2024

🌱📯Woodland Games 2024 Audience and Participant Feedback Form!📯🌳

If you were part of this years Woodland Games either as part of the audience, or in a team, then we'd really appreciate your feelings and feedback of the day.
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We don't ask for personal details and all questions are optional. Your feedback will help us with future funding opportunities to make the Woodland Games a more effective and fun annual art project.

Follow the link below to be taken to the project website where you will find the feedback form.
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Best wishes,
Hipkiss & Graney

As the third Stirchley Woodland Games finishes for another Summer we would like to thank everyone who helped make it such a special event: from the teams and the audience, to our volunteer studio team and all the organisations that joined us to make it such a weird and wonderful day.

29/08/2024

Thanks to the Co-Op for being part of this years Stirchley Woodland Games 2024!

This year marks the third year Co-op has supported Stirchley's Woodland Games and has seen it grow from a small community arts project to an annual arts and ecology festival!

Check out their write up via the link below!

On Saturday 17 August the second Woodland Eco Games took place in Stirchley, Birmingham at Hazelwell Park. The annual event in the brainchild of local art event expert and planners Hipkiss and Graney. The event designed to promote eco art alongside a range of fun wacky games most certainly bought

29/08/2024

Woodland Games 2024 Teams stand together for their portraits...

Stirchley, Hazelwell Park, August 17th 2024.

19/08/2024

🥁🎺STIRCHLEY!🎺🥁

Another amazing year has concluded for the Stirchley Woodland Games!

Well done to all the great teams who signed up, all the local ecological and environmental management groups, all the artists, musicians and makers, and all the local businesses too that helped out and made the day as incredible as it was...
.. and lastly a huge thank you to residents, workers and friends of Stirchley who came along as our audience, cheering on our brave teams and celebrating our beautiful, crucial green spaces. You made the day.

We can't wait to see you all again next year! So start getting your teams together now!

🌱🌲🍄The Woodland Games Studio🍄🌳🌿
Hipkiss & Graney

📸Incredible footage by Cove

19/08/2024

The Stirchley WOODLAND GAMES 2024 Opening Procession was incredible!

Thanks to all our volunteer banner carriers, and trebuchet guards being involved, thanks to Kate Thompson for coordinating and leading so carefully and brilliantly, Leicester Taiko for their incredible performance as part of the procession, thanks to for letting us to use their premises as the procession launch point, and a special thanks to Christopher Cove for doing such an awesome job capturing this footage.

18/07/2024

Welcome to the Woodland Games 2024! Saturday 17th August! 2-7pm, Hazelwell Park, Stirchley!

Stirchley’s ecological answer to the Olympics... Fully solar powered sports, workshops and music.
This year we have six brave teams who are all playing for glory, honour and your applause!

With new ecological themed games and some old favourites, this year we’ll be playing...

Bladerunners!
Command + Conker!
Nutrient Cycling AKA Hero Balls!

With refreshments from and .brum live music from House Band, Yokitsune Taiko Ensemble, and PLUS artist installations and workshops from and - This is going to be Stirchley’s biggest Woodland Games yet!

AFTERPARTY… 7-11pm

With the games and medal ceremonies finishing at 7pm our audience is invited to for our closing concert where we are incredibly honoured to present PLUS DJ sets from and more!

09/05/2024

🎺🎺SOUND THE WEIRDO HORN!!!! 🎺🎺
🌲🌳The Stirchley Woodland Games is back!🌳🌲

Another year of free nature-themed art workshops, costume-making, live music and of course BIG games! This year the festival is from Saturday 10th-17th August!

The Woodland Games 2024 Teams Sign Up is now officially open!

To sign your team up go to our website www.hipkissandgraney.com/woodland-games and find out all the details.

Your Woodland Games team can be your friends, family members, neighbourhood WhatsApp group, work colleagues-anyone! Watch the video below to see footage from the last few years of Woodland Games team workshops!

10/01/2024

Woodland Games 2023 Grand Procession and Opening Ceremony!