January Projects

We had a good start to the new year continuing to work with Harold Court Sheltered Scheme and Madeley Youth Group.
We created identity rings, printed bags and no-sew bags.

Foil Decorations @ Madeley

We created a wonderful christmas tree for the Madeley Youth Centre, covered with shiny decorations using foil, string and marker pens.

St Thomas Church - Schools Project

We are working with St Thomas Church in Derby to create school art and activity packages. We have been concentrating on the beautiful mosaics and stain-glass windows in the church and basing activities on these elements.
In the new year we will be meeting with teachers from local schools to show them our ideas for their classes to use when they visit the church.
Here are some of our prototypes for mosaic activities.

Christmas cards @ Harold Court

We made some festive greetings cards with the lovely ladies at Harold Court, using decorative wrapping paper.

LUMINATE Lantern & Light Festival

A wonderful Luminate festival at the start of November, over 200 people came along, the weather was dry, a bit chilly but perfect for a lantern procession. 

We were accompanied by violinist, Helen Hitchcock, together with Chip Off The Old Morris team, musicians and dances, and Mick McNaught providing guitar and hurdy-gurdy music in the Orangery.
The Friends of Derby Arboretum helped organise the event, supervising the sculptures, making and serving the hot soup and taking photos. Well done to everyone for a great community event.

We invited artists to create light sculptures for around the park as well as having 100 lanterns to carry in the procession. 

Patrick and Ria Ashcroft, Green Man and Ice Queen

Lantern Making in half term

We had a busy half term week working with Madeley Youth Group, the ladies at Goldsquad and 2 days of open workshops making lanterns for the LUMINATE lantern festival in the Derby Arboretum.
The week finished at the Derby Mini Makers Faire at Derby Silk Mill Museum. We worked with 130 children to create the LUMINATE banner, phew!!

Particle Project - Middle Street Banner

Middle Street had an open day, where we created a canvas banner for the centre with visitors and participants. The banner pictures activities that take place at the centre such as gardening, yoga, painting, drumming, music and of course cups of tea!!