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Not quite the last post for Special Delivery

December 2, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A collection of brown envelopes, pens and paper, plus a copy of a hand-written letter

In the last three months, we have listened to brand new stories, created poems and self portraits, drawn to music, made unique envelopes, aged paper in trays of cold tea and crafted greetings cards decorated with images of ‘small things’ – all inspired by the Dunkirk Letters. The children have shared that work with the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Dunkirk Letters, Poetry, Reminiscence, School, story telling, Suffolk Record Office, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

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

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

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

Lowestoft Folk summer activities

July 29, 2019 by Candida Wingate

A collection of scallop shells that are decorated with brightly coloured pictures of ships

Our regular sessions may have finished, but we’ve got a really exciting programme of FREE storytelling and creative activity sessions happening in Lowestoft this summer. No booking is required – all the creative activities run on a ‘drop-in’ basis and are limited only by the number of chairs we can get round the table. Stories […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: creative activities, Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Library, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Lowestoft Museum, Music, Reminiscence, Storytelling, Visual Art, Young People

Lowestoft Folk; the final session

July 17, 2019 by Candida Wingate

A man is photographed through a brightly coloured ring

Friday was the final regular session in our Lowestoft Folk programme – and it was such fun, all the artists cried. First off, Lynn got everyone thinking about what the project meant to them, the things they had done and what were their favourite bits. Then they had to come up with a really short […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Lowestoft Museum, Music, Older People, Reminiscence, School, Visual Art, Young People

Embroidered boats and singing circles

July 8, 2019 by Candida Wingate

Our penultimate session – and it was all hands on deck to finish off the embroidered boats, securing them in their circular frames and writing messages on the back; one pair went so far as to write a short-long poem, the last verse of which goes: – But I know the ship will Come back […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Music, Older People, Reminiscence, Young People

Tote bags and stitched pictures

June 19, 2019 by Candida Wingate

A decorated canvas tote bag, the top half a vivid blue with the words Lowestoft Folk and the bottom half a sunrise of brilliant oranges and yellows

This week, there was great excitement as the residents ripped the masking tape and letters off their bags, to reveal the beautiful patterns underneath; they all declared they were very pleased with the result and the children were well impressed. Whilst at the Maritime Museum the previous week, the children drew some of the folk […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Older People, Reminiscence, School, Visual Art, Young People

Pickled Queenies and Molgoggers

June 19, 2019 by Candida Wingate

The image shows a pair of hands, obviously of an elderly person, delicately placing a sticky-backed letter on to a bag as she spells out the word Lowestoft

On 7th June, the children went off for a trip to the Maritime Museum, where Kate and Lynn sent them off to draw items of folk art and collect weird and wonderful sounding words.   Back at Hildesley, Caitlin helped the residents make their very own tote bags – something they had always wanted to […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lowestoft, Lowestoft Folk, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Older People, Reminiscence, Visual Art, Young People

Ships – and messages – in a bottle

May 28, 2019 by Candida Wingate

A colourful drawing of a boat, with 2 purple masts and blue sails

Last Friday at Hildesley Court, the Lowestoft Folk worked with artist Kate Munro, to create their very own message – and ship – in a bottle. First, everyone thought about what sort of message they would like to write – messages of hope, encouragement and best wishes for the future. Working in pairs, everyone then […]

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

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