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A woman in a yellow and white striped jersey smiles to the camera whilst holding aloft a cardboard Olympic Torch with yellow, orange and red paper 'flames' Blog posts

Extra Time and the Olympic Torch

When we learnt that Beech House is organising a procession through Halesworth to mark the Olympic Games, we were only too happy to help them make a torch for the event.

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Celebration Time Blog posts

Celebration Time

The Super Sewter Dudes visit the Beech House Bakers for the last session and celebrate all the wonderful work they have created together over the past three months.

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A group of school children stand behind a tower (podium) of cardboard boxes on which stand a variety of cardboard trophies Blog posts

A Triumph of Trophies

The penultimate session, and Beech House residents and the team from Edgar Sewter primary school get together to finish off the trophies and find out what people have enjoyed about taking part in Extra Time.

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Laura holding her a dramatic landscape, horizontal bands of bright colours. Blog posts

Brave Art summer sessions in Lowestoft

Artist Johann Don-Daniel led the first session of our summer 2024 programme for learning disabled artists.

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Charlotte Jolly and a child are sitting on rugs on the floor. They are building a tower from coloured,stackable, plastic cylinders. Blog posts

Little Beats sessions at Riverside Family Hub, Lowestoft.

Musician Charlotte Jolly and author Kayleen Shani working with families at Riverside Family Hub, Lowestoft.

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Three cardboard panels covered with cut out self portraits and words Extra Time Supporters Club Blog posts

Extra Time at First Light Festival

The Extra Time team was thrilled to spend Saturday afternoon at the First Light Festival, inviting families to join our Supporters Club, award themselves a personalised medal, and fashion football players inspired by the Archive All-Stars

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Close up of trophies on cardboard box stands with children behind Blog posts

Hacksaws and toilet rolls

The residents at Beech House spent a happy morning cutting up cardboard tubes and fashioning a series of trophies, after which the children spent the afternoon decorating them with art work created over the last ten weeks.

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This photograph shows people in a workshop working in pairs to explore movement. Each pair has a pole which is held between them by each person pressing the palm of one hand against either end of the pole. You can see that the pairs are trying different movements while keeping the pole from falling by maintaining an even pressure on each end of the pole. The participants are concentrating and laughing a lot too. News

push, yield, shape & respond

“I really enjoyed the mirroring movement activity, it felt like Tai Chi with lots of concentration and flow. I haven’t done anything like this before and I really enjoyed it.”

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