Cromer Carnival Open Air Open Mic | 13th August

AUGUST 13th | Midday to 4
North Lodge Park, Cromer
Part picnic; part carnival; part DIY music. All afternoon fun.

ROCK THE LOBSTER will be in North Lodge Park, Cromer, giving performers a chance to, well, perform. The day is to enable local performers gain experience, improve their skills and, perhaps most importantly, enjoy themselves! There will be 15 minute sessions across the afternoon giving amateur performers a chance to demonstrate their talents and to give novices of all ages an opportunity to shine.

Full details and booking at coastarts.co.uk

Dance Doctor Dance

Dance Night with the dancer and psychologist Peter Lovatt, aka Dr Dance.

Sunday 31 July 19:00-21:00 | North Lodge Park, Cromer | Free

Dance Doctor DanceDo you want to know how swing frees up memory and tango triggers creativity? Are you burning to learn how barn dancing boosts puzzle-solving powers, ballroom hormones influence social identity and hardcore rave relates to intimate attraction? Have you ever wondered why tango is tricky or the macarena feels easy? Why improvisation is awkward and dancing with friends, funny?

In this special night in North Lodge Park, Cromer, Dr Peter Lovatt will teach us the basic moves for a range of dances to get us dancing, while sharing what he knows from his research into how different moves affect our bodily chemistry creativity and emotions. It’s dancing but not what you expect.

Whether you’re a total dance novice who’s never been near a tea dance or an experienced Latin mover you’ll learn new moves and discover the surprising science behind them.

Join us for a fun and enlightening dance night. Part dance; part information. All fun. All free.

Suitable for all the family. Even reluctant dancers will soon be moving like never before.

Note: the café will be closed so please bring your own picnic / refreshments

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

With thanks to Coast Arts and Arts North Norfolk for a wonderful afternoon in North Lodge Park.

♫ Picnic time for teddy bears, the little teddy bears had lovely time, we watched them, caught them unawares and saw them picnic on their holiday in Cromer. ♫

The sun shone on Saturday 23rd July when Arts North Norfolk and Coast Arts brought Goldilocks and the Three Bears to North Lodge Park in Cromer, and, with their teddy bears, families brought their picnics to enjoy the show.

With music and lyrics by the famed award-winning West-End musical theatre song writing duo (including Mary Poppins) George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a show full of fun, sing-along songs, lots of dancing and action, and also reminds children of environmental issues and not to fiddle with the belongings of others, lest there be consequences to bear.

Over 30 teddy bears entered the best dressed teddy bear competition, with the winner being given a small tree to start a new wood!

Open Air Theatre

Coast Arts have teamed up with Arts North Norfolk and Friends of North Lodge Park to bring

Free OPEN AIR THEATRE to Cromer.

Stiles and Drewe’s

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Saturday 23 July, 1pm at North Lodge Park, Cromer

Open Air Theatre | Teddy Bears’ Picnic | Activities

Open Air Theatre Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Open Air Theatre

Goldilocks, on a trip into the forest, ventures into a seemingly uninhabited house. In the process of making herself feel at home, she turns the place into a gigantic mess! Little does she know that the house belongs to a family of three bears, who will not be too pleased to witness her handiwork.
With music and lyrics by the famed award-winning West-End musical theatre song writing duo (including Mary Poppins) George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Goldilocks and the Three Bears reminds children not to fiddle with the belongings of others, lest there be consequences to bear.

This production is directed by Arts North Norfolk’s own Joseph Ballard and will feature some familiar faces as the well-known characters. Bring along your teddy bear for the Best Dressed Bear Competition – and don’t forget your picnics, blankets and chairs!
Music by George Stiles
Book and Lyrics by Anthony Drewe
This production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd.
Running time: 1 hour

Suitable for all ages, families and children. It is an energetic musical with catchy songs.
This production, which received fantastic reviews when it premiered at Easter at the Atrium Theatre, is presented by Arts North Norfolk in partnership with Coast Arts and Friends of North Lodge Park.

There will be facepainting, teddy bear competitions, and other activities so come and relax for the afternoon.

Bring a teddy bear, picnic, blanket and chairs!

Queen, garden party, cafe, and more

garden party for the Queen's Birthday

Garden Party | June 12th | from midday.

YOU are invited to join us to CELEBRATE the Queen’s 90th.

garden party North Lodge ParkAlong with millions of people in towns across the country, Cromer will come together on June 12th to celebrate.

Community groups from across Cromer, including the Friends of North Lodge Park and Cromer Parish Church, are coming together on 12th June to hold a picnic in North Lodge Park, on the same day that organisations across the country are planning events to mark the 90th birthday of the monarch.

Everyone is invited to bring their picnics to the Park from midday.

In the park there will be

  • children’s arts and craft activities
  • face painting
  • balloon modelling
  • bikes and trikes to ride
  • music and dancing
  • lots of community stalls and games

and, of course, flags and fun.

For some extra family fun we’re running some fancy dress competitions (under 5’s, 6 to 12, and teens) – use your imagination!

gardening in North Lodge ParkGardening in the Park

Time to join the gardeners

The gardening volunteers have been working hard in the areas of the Park around the cafe, especially the Rose Garden – it looks really good!  As the number of volunteers increases they need more tools to work with; please can you all look in your sheds (or where-ever you keep your garden implements) to see if you have any spare useable tools (especially spades, forks and hoes).

Talking of sheds, we’re applied for planning permission to put a shed, discretely, in the Park to store the tools – once planning permission is obtained we’ll need to source a shed and put it up – watch this space!

Don’t be shy if you want to help out in the garden, come and join the team – more information from Tracy: gardening@northlodgepark.org.uk.  (Does anyone have a trailer we could borrow to help with transportation?)

Cafe in the Parkbilly connolly and tea coseys

Through the winter and spring the cafe in the Park has been a joy.  The volunteers have been amazing and we’ve met some wonderful people.

Now the summer approacheth we need to continue with the success you should all be proud to be part of – but we will need more help in the summer to cover when regular volunteers take holidays and to help during peak times.  If you like the cafe you will like helping – why not come and give it a go?  And don’t forget the more customers we have over the summer the more cakes we’ll need – if baking is your forte, please think about baking for the cafe.

Emma (cafe@northlodgepark.org.uk) is running the cafe for us over the summer – she’s looking forward to hearing from you.

planning application

As referred to above we have submitted a planning application PF/16/0552 to move (rebuild may be a better description) the wooden bandstand from the concrete area to create an events area on the old croquet lawn, and to erect a shed for the gardeners tools; this is needed because the Park surrounds North Lodge which is a grade II listed building.

Please keep sending us your comments and thoughts – the more we know about what you want in the Park the better able we are to align our priorities with yours.

Hope to see you soon

Barry Meadows
(of many hats)

The Blue Danube

The cafe in North Lodge Park, when it was located in what is now the pre-school, used to be called the Blue Danube. Do you remember it?