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Posts with tag: Older People

An imprinted and marked metal clay disc in the palm of a hand Blog posts

Being part of something bigger

Our final Coins and Crosses session; between unveiling the metal clay pendants, applying gold leaf to the bowls and creating the I am From poems with De Lucy House residents, it was a joyfully busy – and emotional – day.

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It's brought us all together Blog posts

Alchemy

The clay bowls have dried, and this week in Coins and Crosses we transform them from base clay utensils to shimmering gold vessels.

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Leaves pressed into a wet clay bowl with a hand holding an ear of corn using it to decorate the rim of the bowl Blog posts

Bowlfuls of meaning

Coins and Crosses week 3 sees us exploring Anglo-Saxon beliefs and creating large clay bowls inlaid with aromatic leaves and wild flowers.

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Seed heads stuck in a blob of blue plasticine. Harvest Time by Jo Blog posts

Making their mark

The second week of Coins and Crosses sessions finds us using plasticine and metal clay to recreate small pendants inspired by the amazing jewellery discovered with the Winfarthing Lady

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Passion = hwyl. Leave they frogs be. Broadmoor alarm Monday 10am. Getting on the same wavelength. Listening to music keeps my husband alive. 7. Chicken roundabout. I cannot stand the sound of a lone piper. My dad took me to my first match at 11 in Norwich. Welsh National Anthem sung by a choir or a crowd Blog posts

Extra Time – for the last time – at Britten Court

Shelly and Candida revisit Britten Court, this time with the Extra Time banner and story box, for a football-inspired chat with the residents. The conversation may have started with football, but by the end we had covered everything from the etiquette for entering a house to the optimum time to attempt a break out from Broadmoor.

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A monotone photograph of a women's football team, circa 1925, with three rows of women in football kit flanked on either side by a man, one in a dark waistcoat and the other with a towel over his shoulder Blog posts

Extra Time performs at the Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft

Candida and poet Dean Parking take the Extra Time Footballing Story Box along to the Memory Cafe at the Seagull Theatre and meet up with champion bowlers, magnum-winning marathon runners and a gold tap dancer.

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Portman Road to the Dell, by way of Broadlands Blog posts

Portman Road to the Dell, by way of Broadlands

The Extra Time Footballing Story box gets put through its paces at not one, not two but three different fixtures – and wins every time.

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Frank's mum knitted socks from scrap wool for welly boots Blog posts

Fish knives, knitted socks – and the sound of children playing

Residents at Harleston House in Lowestoft listen to some Extra Time stories, and share a few of their own.

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