DERBY FESTE - something fishy

Family Craft Activity - create sea-themed masks and headgear
Quad Participation Space
Saturday 24 Sept 2011
11am til 4pm


Drop in to Quad's Participation Space to 
create sea-themed masks and headgear with Jenny and Maureen 
to join in the Sarruga parade from 8pm.


The activity is free and under 12's must be accompanied by an adult.


Hope to see you there.

Artworks at Wirksworth

We spent a busy 2 days up at the Wirksworth Festival being arty with Wirksworth's young creatives.

Animal Art ~ Monkey Masks, Crazy Crocodiles, Weaving Birds

Puppet Art ~ Pop-up Insect Puppets, Jumping Jack Horses, People Puppets

Musical Art ~ Groovy Guitars, Shiny Shakers, Twirling Drums

Flying Art ~ Whirling Windsocks

Everyone very busy creating

Very attractive monkey masks!

Woven Birds

Insect Pop Ups

Groovy Guitars

Pour the lentils in here Maureen!

Choosing smiley face stickers.

A big thank you to Headteacher Mrs Poyser

for allowing us to the school and for making us feel so welcome.

Exciting news!!

We are so so pleased to announce that we have now got a base here at the Silk Mill museum. Along with several other creatives ( who we have not met yet). We are to be part of an experimental enterprise and for the next few months will have a space for meetings, and workshop prep and who knows what else!!!!

    shall we be in this space.....

    or this space..... we decide, it's an experiment and it's so exciting!!!

Under the Sea at Quad

Spiral Arts delivered an 'Under the Sea' workshop at the Quad Arts and Media Centre in Derby
Woven fish, stretchy fish, mobile fish, spiral jellyfish...very fishy indeed!

Cultural Olympiad Banner for Landau Forte newslink

Read about the Brilliant Banners in the Landau Forte's Newsletter on the link below
scroll down to see the China Banner and the artists and students who took part.

http://www.landau-forte.org.uk/newslink/#/19/zoomed

Get Set One Year to Go event.

The banners we have been working on for the last three months, with 17 secondary schools in and around Derby, were showcased today on the market place in Derby at the "One Year to go " event

setting up in the market place

attaching the banners to the crowd barriers

 Oh no a flat battery minutes before all vehicles were supposed to be off the market place. No need to worry though as the cavalry were on hand- our stall neighbours from Derby Boxing Academy and a very keen member of the public. Thanks lads!

 We were running a flag and bunting work shop.

 

A hive of industry at the Silk Mill museum

For the last few weeks we have been busy as bees...

sewing...

                                                                           ironing...

 and photo transferring flags onto the corners of each banner, making sure we had the right flags on the right banners.

 Expert help from friends and family - thanks Kerrie and Ali

As you can see we were still able to do some light cat spotting. Nearly every day this little cat appeared in the museum courtyard.