Aunty Social x Lightpool 2024: Open craft workshop with guest artist Lucy Wright

Name: Aunty Social x Lightpool 2024: Open craft workshop with guest artist Lucy Wright
Start: 2024-10-05T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-05T12:30:00+01:00
Location: 28 Topping Street, FY1 3AQ Blackpool, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

28 Topping Street, FY1 3AQ Blackpool, United Kingdom | Blackpool, EN

Drop in for an open crafting session as we create a variety of upcycled sculptures that will form part of our installation for Lightpool Festival 2024.
At this session, we’ll be joined by artist Lucy Wright who will help us draw inspiration from the folklore of the Green Man and look at our relationship with nature and the natural environment. We’ll look at how we can give new life to discarded plastics.
Drop in – no ticket needed
Price: Free
All materials and equipment will be provided, but we welcome you to bring your own plastic waste/bottles/containers to work with. Please ensure all plastics are cleaned before bringing them to the workshop.
Age Range: All ages welcome
Children under 14 years must be accompanied by a parent/guardian for supervision. Supervising adults are not required to participate in the activity but we will have somewhere for them to hang out and a brew station.

About the project
Aunty Social will be presenting a light installation at this year’s Lightpool festival. Whilst learning about nature, sustainability and folklore and the symbology of The Green Man, we will explore how decisions can be made to protect and preserve the natural environment for the benefit of the human and non-human communities that hold these spaces and how folk practices can help to change attitudes and encourage caring and sustainable behavior towards nature. Through exploration of light art, traditional and contemporary crafting techniques and working with plastic waste, workshop attendees will imagine The Green Man’s realm, creating textures, masks, floral arrangements and foliage to create a collaborative final installation using plastic bottles, inspired by The Green Man and the folklore surrounding its history.

About the artist
Lucy is an artist based in Leeds, UK. Her work, which combines painting, making and performing, sits at the intersection of folklore and place, often using as source material the large personal archive of photographs and research she has gathered over nearly a decade of documenting female and queer-led folk customs.
Many of her projects reference and subvert traditional practices—both material and performed—to explore the contestations of gender and class in the archive, and recurrent themes in her works include female solitude, the relationships between the body and the landscape, and the consolations of non-anthropocentric sociabilities.
Much of Lucy’s work interrogates the problematic relationships between folk, nationalism and colonialism, the under-representation of women, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities in the existing canon of English folk arts, and the need for new, more inclusive traditions for our divided society.

Access
If you have additional access needs (e.g. large print, BSL interpreter, level access) please let us know by emailing (using the contact organiser button/link) or sending us an SMS text/WhatsApp message on 07957 602790.
GETTING HERE
Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station
Bus: No 6 or 18 to Topping St., No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings), No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd
Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park.