Last week, Spiral Artist Jenny facilitated an engaging session inspired by Becky Beasley's exhibition at QUAD - Derby in collaboration with Mandy, Quad's Education Coordinator. Together, they guided young participants in crafting their own motorised mobiles, exploring, drawing, cutting, shape-making, and wire-twisting. The resulting movement and sounds were truly captivating.
Canvas were holding a Christmas Celebration for their Future Creatives group of young people.
They were a lively bunch who loved making the baubles with card, string, and foil and decorated with felt pens. They looked stunning.
The activity was all part of a fun day of workshops and a performance of Christmas Carol at the theatre.
Spiral Artists Jenny and Zoe had a fun time with the young people.
We made purses with denim offcuts, gaffer tape and bondawebbed fabric. They were fun to do, especially being in Loudon Lodge looking out at the community garden in the Arboretum in the sunshine. 😎
Jenny worked with young adults to create their own paper at the Museum of Making in March.
We used eggboxes torn into pieces and blended them to form a pulp, the eggboxes were all different colours, they added wools and threads and seeds.
We partnered with the charity 'Why Talking Fixes' to create a well dressing for the West Hallam Well Dressing Trail. The charity help young people to recognise suicidal thoughts and where to go for help. We worked with 3 secondary schools - Kirk Hallam, St John Houghton and Ormiston Academy, to make the well dressing while talking about how to combat feeling down, feeling like their is no hope and to talk to someone we trust, friends, teachers, family.
We took photos of the well dressing at the event and created postcards with support information on the reverse, these will be placed in care bags which are given out to young people by the charity.
The project was funded by Erewash Small Grant Scheme.
