Home Ed: Friday Craft Club

Over the next 3 weeks, Sam will be looking at folklore, sustainability, and creating beautiful flowers from household plastics. By drawing inspiration from the folklore of the green man and our relationship with nature and our environment, we will be learning how we can give new life to discarded plastics whilst creating a collaborative installation to be exhibited at Lightpool 2024 in October.

Price:

£4.00 per child

Free Chaperone tickets available at checkout.

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:

6 - 12 years old

Children 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.

Dates

Friday 13th September 11am-1pm

Friday 20th September 11am-1pm

Friday 27th September 11am-1pm

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.

Important physical access info:

Please note that this session is upstairs. We are in the process of installing a lift, however due to unforeseen delays this is now due to be completed later in the year. The event space is up a single flight of 14 steps then you go around the corner and there are two small steps. Once you’re upstairs there’s a loo. You shouldn’t need to come downstairs for anything until the end of the activity.

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.

• 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.

Host or Publisher Aunty Social