Who would think we could go from this … … to this? or from this … to this …? Photographs of the participants were printed onto sheets of acetate and then used as a template to draw round and decorate. These drawings, complete with embellishments of colourful lighting gels, phrases, names and, of course, the […]
Visual Art
Make Do and Friends Connect in Laxfield
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 […]
Cold tea and poetry
They’ve arrived. The children received their letters, which they read before the session, as there was so much to get through, we weren’t sure we’d fit it all in. First, it was finishing off the envelopes, after which children had to snip up the postcard pictures they’d drawn of themselves and put them inside. To […]
Celebrating creatively at Wingfield Barns
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 […]
Make, Do & Friends visit 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 […]
Lowestoft Folk – and heritage open days
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 […]
Lowestoft Folk goes out and about
Last week, Lowestoft Folk was at Lowestoft Museum in the morning, working with their wonderful Cabinet of Curiosity and making tiny figures inspired by their collections, followed by a quick dash across town and an exhilarating double session at the Maritime Museum – where the glorious Lowestoft Folk Sea Chest was unveiled for the first […]
Lowestoft Folk summer activities
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 […]
Lowestoft Folk; the final session
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 […]
Sticky moments and marvellous music
The group has been busy stitching textile pictures of seascapes and this week their task was to make a circular frame for their pictures, like the ones the children had seen at the Maritime Museum; this is how they did it. Everyone was given a sheet of grease proof paper plus an assortment of crayons […]