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Tracings, blue prints and cyanotypes

The Extra Time teams examine some old blue prints at Leiston Long Shop and then create their own.

Double elephants and laundromats

Match of the Day

The children return to the Long Shop Museum, to match the workers with the players and create their own Extra Time football game

Extra Time wins in Leiston

The Extra Time team at Leiston Primary School listen to a story about creating a football pitch, recorded in 1985, and examine newspapers going back to the beginning of the last century. Then they take a glorious walk past the allotments to visit Leiston Long Shop Museum.

Football moves and factory spaces – Extra Time kicks off in Leiston

The opening session at Leiston Primary school gave us the opportunity to meet the children and find out why they wanted to take part in Extra Time. It also gave the children a chance to meet us, in particular Hatty our theatre-maker, who soon had the children being football pitches and making factories.

Making Fused Glass Tiles

“I loved this session, and I loved the way that everybody in the group threw themselves into it.”

Good news, but lots still to do.

Suffolk Artlink’s funding news

Extra Time to Celebrate

Our final celebration session with the children from Kessingland Primary School and residents at Manor Farm Care Home, in which we gallop through the amount and variety of work they’ve created together, and the children receive gold medals for being so completely brilliant.