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Make Do and Friends Connect in Laxfield

November 17, 2020 by Candida Wingate

The artist, Caitlin, standing outside Laxfield Church, behind a table set out with clay moulds

Inspired by an exhibit in their local museum, we invited residents in Laxfield to share with us some of the treasures they have stashed in their sheds – and the results were both fascinating and bizarre. Participants gathered outside the church and, using what looked suspiciously like sponge cake moulds, made impressions of their individual […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Laxfield Museum, Older People, Plaques, Visual Art

Make, Do & Friends Connect in Risby

September 24, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Photographer Gillian Allard visited Risby today, for the first Connect session with local residents. After sharing a few top tips for taking photographs, Gillian walked round the village with the groups, as they took images of locations that connect them to their community. The church, the huge elm tree, the duck pond and several other […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bury St Edmunds, Older People, Photography

Special Delivery to Abbots Green Academy

September 24, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Special Delivery stamped in red on a white background

What a joy to start our brand new intergenerational project, Special Delivery, yesterday, and to meet the children from Abbots Green Academy in Bury St Edmunds. Their reasons for wanting to take part in the project were many and varied, from a desire to work with artists to a keen interest in local history and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Bury St Edmunds, Older People, School, story telling, Suffolk Record Office, Young People

New Make, Do & Friends online activities

April 17, 2020 by Suffolk Artlink

What is your village made of? Make, Do & Friends blog

We are delighted to announce the launch of the brand new blog site for Make, Do and Friends, our programme of creative social events for adults (55+) in villages and towns in Mid Suffolk and Babergh. As the artists can’t come out to see you all in person, they have been busy devising ways to […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Beyton, creative activities, Dean Parkin, Older People, Poetry, Reminiscence, Wingfield and Syleham

Lift up your voice …

March 18, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Whether it’s from a balcony or a bathroom – lift up your voice and lift up your spirits in song. By way of a little encouragement, here’s a snippet from the Make, Do & Friends natural voice choir in Westhorpe, demonstrating just how glorious it is when we sing … as you can just hear […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Make Do & Friends, Music, Natural Voice Choir, Older People, virtual choir, Westhorpe Village Hall

Celebrating creatively at Wingfield Barns

March 5, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Two women, each with a tray of water and paper pulp in front of them, as they make handcrafted paper

The rain stopped raining, the wind stopped blowing and the sun came out and shone on our Creative Celebration at Wingfield Barns this Wednesday, 4th March. By midday, adults and school children alike were hand-crafting paper, creating animations, producing beautiful poetry and even blowing paint bubbles, all in the name of celebrating what they love […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: DanceEast, Older People, Poetry, School, Visual Art, Wingfield Barns, Young People

Make, Do & Friends visit Beyton

February 26, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A pen and ink map, showing the names of fields in Beyton

It was lovely to meet so many people at Beyton today and hear some of their wonderful stories about the village. From recollections of being taken from the infant school, complete with chair, to sit and witness the blowing up the last remaining pill box in the village, to a beautifully drawn map of all […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Beyton, Bury St Edmunds, Do & Friends, Make, Older People, Reminiscence, Storytelling, Visual Art

Behind the Scenes of Lowestoft Folk

October 15, 2019 by Suffolk Artlink

Cabnet of Curiosities with drawers open and contants showing

As our intergenerational project, Lowestoft Folk, comes to an end, we thought you’d enjoy a film sharing a little bit of what went on as we brought young and old together to creatively explore their shared heritage. In the words of resident, Les: “It’s all part of life and the richness of it and that’s […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Older People, Young People

Lowestoft Folk – and heritage open days

September 23, 2019 by Candida Wingate

A silver darling, made out of tissue paper and decorated with coloured pens

What an amazing week of Lowestoft Folk fun. First, story teller Lynn and artist Kate went to Elm Tree Primary School, where they worked in the specialist deaf and speech and language units. The children really enjoyed the story and all joined in with making their very own boats-in-bottles and silver darlings. On Saturday, as […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Elm Tree Primary School Lowestoft, Heritage Open Days, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Lowestoft Museum, Music, Older People, Oulton Broad Primary School, Pakefield Primary School, Reminiscence, Roman Hill Primary School, Tide and Time Museum, Visual Art, Waveney Deaf Children's Society, Young People

Celebrating Lowestoft Folk

September 9, 2019 by Candida Wingate

Last Friday, we held our final celebration event for Lowestoft Folk – and what a celebration it was. We started with a short film of some of the things the participants have done over the last three months, including the songs they’ve written, the work they’ve made and one or two comments about how they […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Older People, Pakefield Primary School, Young People

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