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Posts with tag: Association for Suffolk Museums

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 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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Layers of history

The Extra Time adult team use old photographs of Leiston Works football teams to produce a beautiful series of cyanotypes.

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Two school girls, one in a purple and the other in a white T shirt have submerged sheets of A4 paper into shallow trays of water and are washing them as the picture emerges in the light sensitive blue paper Blog posts

Tracings, blue prints and cyanotypes

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

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A school girl with long dark hair and wearing dark-rimmed glasses points to a life-sized figure of a WWI munitionette propped up against a white-washed brick wall Blog posts

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

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A cut-out figure of a man wearing a bowler hat and long grey coat holding a timer in his hand Blog posts

Extra Time in Leiston

The Extra Time team visit Year 5 at Leiston Primary school to chat about the connection between Garretts Engineering and football in the town and make some football characters of their own.

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