HuG – Moorlands Green Arts Festival

HuG, Moorlands Climate Action’s Green Arts Festival, returns to the Foxlowe for a sixth year on Saturday 27 June, this time celebrating water – rivers and stream, springs, ponds and lakes. 

MCA is a partner in the Nature in Your Neighbourhood project, along with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, Keele University, OUTSIDE Arts and SMDC.

As ever there will be a wide range of stalls showcasing a variety of arts and crafts using different materials, all produced with an environmental ethos.

We’ll be entertained by local storyteller extraordinaire, Gordon MacLennan aka Creeping Toad, as well as Leek Rock Choir and Leek Morris and festival favourites, the Leek U3A African drummers.

New stallholders include Wheatcroft Willow – basket maker Rachel Evans – and the Staffordshire Makers Collective.  Joining us again will be Moral Fibres – preloved textiles and notions – and Projects from Pallets.

On the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust stall you’ll be able to look into their aquarium and take a peek at pond life while Leek Books will have books of a watery nature for all ages to add to your collection.  Perhaps our plant stall will have marginal plants for your own pond.

Local nature and environmental groups such as Swifts of Leek and Friends of the Earth will also be there.

We’re hoping for good weather yet again, though perhaps not as hot as last year!  Do come along and join in the fun.