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Listening to each other and understanding and working towards peace Blog posts

Taking some Extra Time to volunteer

We took along the Extra Time football banner and story boxes to a volunteer event in Halesworth, to explore how it might be used by support staff and carers in the community.

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A plaster shield, with 9 individual discs each bearing a different face and the letters GFC Blog posts

How we work with heritage

We’re delighted to share a short video illustrating how we work with heritage to inspire creativity, nurture confidence and foster connections between people and the places they live.

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A slab of clay, marked in a circle with the word PEACE under the image of a flower and a bird Blog posts

Extra Time at the Heritage Open Days

As part of the national Heritage Open Days festival, Extra Time visited the Leiston Long Shop Museum, to exhibit participants’ work and make clay medals and the Heritage Skills Market at the Triangle in Lowestoft, to do a bit of giant knitting and table top weaving.

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A graphite drawing of a figure with arms in air and clock face. Photo of footballer beside. R Garrett & Sons Leiston Works Suffolk England Blog posts

Watercolours and floor drawings

Our final session with the Extra Time participants in Leiston, as Jo invites us to use all our senses to draw, paint – and create life-sized football characters.

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A stack of old, worn leather covered books with marbled pages Blog posts

Brandy casks and books that smell of church

Artists Kate Munro, Caitlin Howells and Shelly O’Brien join Amanda and Candida and go exploring at The Hold, home to Suffolk Archives in Ipswich.

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Large banner and willow ball on beach with adults and children looking on Blog posts

Hot sand and molten metal, Extra Time has it all

From the dark red sand used in the wooden mould boxes at the Long Shop to the red hot sand on the beach at First Light, Extra Time celebrates Suffolk’s grassroot footballing heritage.

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A child's hand, with a football transfer on it, carefully shapes a bit of clay onto the slab Blog posts

Machine parts and moulds

Today’s sessions were all about model making and creating moulds, both in plaster, using the clay discs created by the children last week, and new moulds for casting at the next session.

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A monochrome photo of a football team and a clay disc with figure of footballer with arms crossed. A pair of hands bottom left corner fashions clay to add detail and a white stick and small metal shell shape lie to one side Blog posts

Production lines and football sides – it’s all team work

Sculptor Ellie Rodwell and the Extra Time players explore the notion of teamwork, as experienced on production lines and in football teams.

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