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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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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 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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School children dressed in black leggings and blue tops hold their arms up in the air. Behind them is an adult in an orange top, with her mouth open and her tongue out. There's a row of large windows behind them and they appear to be in a hall of some sort Blog posts

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.

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A school girl in a dark top, her hair swept away from her face, and holding a cardboard football figure in her hands on the table A Trawler Boy looks across the table towards another person Blog posts

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.

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Limbering up for the final match

The Manor Farm Corncrakes polish off the medals and prep their pictures whilst the children continue to sew their archive drawings whilst telling Dean all about heritage football.

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