Past Present Future - Erewash Museum - Shine Bright Night

We are getting ready for a Shine Bright Night Lantern Event in February next year. We have already made lanterns with the YMCA Ilkeston group and we will work with many more groups in the next couple of months, creating wonderful lanterns for the event.  

This is part of the Past Present Future Project funded by ACE. 

Tepees @ Derby Univeristy

We worked with 3 groups of Early Years Students and a group of students visiting from Athens over 3 days.
We created 4 tepees using bamboo,willow, recycled plastics and fabrics.The tepees are sited at the top of the driveway to the university.
It was very enjoyable to work with all the students.

Starmakers @ Goldsquad

We created a range of decorative stars using felt, fabric and willow with the Goldsquad ladies at Quad.

Its Celebration Time

Erewash Museum in Ilkeston saw a great number of Chinese lanterns and dragon puppets.

We had a great day creating and a great procession through Bath Street in Ilkeston for a Chinese New Year Celebration on the Market Place. Ribbon Dancing, Mask Dancing and Poetry.

Here are some of the lanterns created in the day.

Creative House Workshops

The next Creative House workshop is

THURSDAY 23 FEB 1pm-3pm - MOSAIC MIRRORS

Come along and create a mirror fit to seen in!
Paint, print, collage onto a deep wooden frame mirror.
Embellish with buttons, shells, glass nuggets and other 'treasures'.

£10 per person includes, all materials, techniques, chat and refreshments.

Here are some photos from our last 2 Creative House sessions

Shibori dyed fabric 

Papermaking - with fleece

Papermaking - with feathers and leaves

To see more photos visit our Arts and Wellbeing Page

Its lantern time again...

Here are some photos from our lantern projects.
We are looking forward to working on this years Erewash Festival of Lights projects -
Christmas Lights Switch On at Ilkeston on Friday 26 Nov 6pm
and at Long Eaton on Friday 3 Dec 6pm.
Hope to see you there.

 Ilkeston School Workshops



Ilkeston Christmas Lights Switch On 2009

Kensington Primary School

Redhill Primary School

Wire & Tissue Lanterns with Artery Group

Erewash Festival Of Light Oct 09 - Feb 10

We had a busy time working with 4 schools for 4 festivals and created a rangoli/well dressing and over 100 willow and tissue lanterns. We worked with :-

Grange Primary School - Rangoli Design combined with a traditional Well Dressing for Diwali

Kensington Primary - Globe Lanterns for Chinese New Year

Ilkeston School - Star and Icicle Lanterns for Ilkeston Christmas Light Switch On

Sawley Junior School - Cone-shaped Lanterns for the Winter Solstice

First things first

It's been a while since we last blogged. Where did those months go????? We have been busy, so much to say, but first things first......
Thanks to Lucy's dad for sorting us out a website

Wirksworth Festival - we were there, on the trail with.......tepees. Many thanks to the primary schools at Brassington, Bonsall, Carrsington & Hopton and Kirk Ireton for letting us come and work with you on your first day/s of the new school year.
Also thanks to Wirksworth Cof E Infant school for letting us use their grounds at short notice  - a safer option than the skate park we thought. We were sorry that we had to take the tepees away after the weekend........but they had been promised to the other schools.

Each tepee represented a different aspect of the environment  - up in the air, under the ground, deep in the ocean and in the rainforest. We asked the children to think about what it would be like to live in these different environments, what they might, see, do or hear.
We had some amazing suggestions such as "cloud hopping" "sky surfing" "going to school on a dolphin" and living in a treehouse with a slide to get down"