Build Your Own Land Yacht with Rachel Egan and 89th Scouts

Name: Build Your Own Land Yacht with Rachel Egan and 89th Scouts
Start: 2025-08-23T11:30:00+01:00
Location: Fenton Town Hall

Schedule

Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 11:30 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Fenton Town Hall | Stoke On Trent, EN

Build & Race Your Own Land Yacht!
A Drop-In Family Workshop with Rachel Egan
Saturday 23 August 2025
Drop in anytime between 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Fenton Town Hall
️Free activity – No booking required
Get ready for a hands-on, high-energy creative adventure! Join artist Rachel Egan for a family-friendly workshop where you’ll design, build, and race your very own land yacht—a playful mix of lino printing and wooden construction.
️ What You’ll Do
Assemble your yacht using pre-cut wooden shapes and dowels
Decorate your sail using a tabletop printing press with pre-made lino stamps inspired by the exhibition—or draw and colour your own!
Glue it all together with support and guidance from Rachel
Race your yacht across the floor using newspaper wafting or a gentle push!
Designed for All Ages
This workshop is perfect for families, kids, and creative adults alike. It’s adaptable for all abilities:
Extra support available for those who need it
Pre-printed sails and partially assembled yachts available
Great for groups—challenge your friends and family to a yacht race!
Why You’ll Love It
Fun, fast-paced, and full of creativity
Learn simple printing and building techniques
Take home your own custom-built land yacht
A great way to explore themes of movement, design, and play
No need to book—just drop in and join the fun!
Artist info;
Rachel Egan is a multidisciplinary artist and experienced creative facilitator with a passion for engaging communities through hands-on, accessible art-making. Over the past three years, she has delivered regular art sessions with the 89th Sea Scouts, working with 5–8-year-olds on a wide range of activities including printing, painting, woodworking, drawing, and clay.
Rachel has also brought her creative energy to festival settings, leading drop-in sessions in embellishing wooden animals, collage, drawing, and clay. Her community-focused practice includes a collaborative mosaic wall project created with a local community group and secondary school, transforming a shared space in a housing estate.
With experience working with both young people and adults facing mental health challenges, Rachel brings sensitivity and inclusivity to all her sessions. Her teaching experience spans diverse audiences, including a recent creative writing workshop delivered to a group of 40 doctors.
FREE EVENT.
Parking & access: lots of on street parking in the streets outside of the venue, also small P&D car park to the rear of Fenton Town Hall. The main entrance has steps, there is a side door with flat entrance accessed by a push button door, and access to a lift to the Ballroom.
Event date
23 August 2025
Event Time
11:30PM
Location
Fenton Town Hall