Workshop at the Regents Canal Festival

Had a wonderful day with lots of lovely people taking part in our rubbish costume workshop at the Regents Canal Festival.

Wonderful White Barn Knitters Come up Trumps

BIG THANKS to the White Barn Knitters who came up trumps again and collected lots of bas and bottles for our event on Sunday. If you are coming along on Sunday and want to bring your own junk we need cut up milk bottles, Carrier bags cut up like this, cardboard and newspaper.

Work Experience Bod

Had a great day today preping for the festival with our fantasic work experience young person, Amy. Was good to offer a real life experience to Amy who seems just as excited about the festival as we are. We are hoping for sun next Sunday as have promised Amy some lovely pictures for her Princes Trust folder.  Have a look at some of the things Amy helped us make, she is the chief goggle and butterfly maker and also updated the blog. Next week she is helping us with Art Boot Camp and prep for our performance at Hazard, Manchester on the 21st July.

Demo's for our Regents Canal Festival Workshop

Goggles made out of bottle tops, metal wire and tape.

Butterfly necklace.

Simon looking very impressed with his new wig.

Mask number 1.

Please ensure to follow instructions on top.

Leaf necklace made from bottle tops, milk bottles & metal wire.

Inspiration

As the festival is based around the Venice festivals we are looking across the seas to Sunny venice for our inspiration. Here are few of the pics we have been looking at. If you have any more venice pics feel free to send them to bethbarlow@bethbarlow.com and we will add them to the blog and our inspiration.

Materials

We will keep posting pics of the materials we will be using as part of the workshops. If you can think of anything creative you might do with them on the day feel free to leave a comment. If you want to start collecting some of your own materials you can and then bring it along  and create a small wonder on the 15th July between 3-6pm.

 

 

 

1 Plastic milk bottles and containers. 

2 Carrier bags of all colours

3 Old Carboard

Planning

 Early Days Planning

Our Creative fingers are itching and we have asked the ladies at my knitting group to star collecting milk bottles. My knitting ladies love to collect things for my mad cap ideas and always come up with the goods. We will be working over the next few weeks to craft them into wonderful demo models which visitors to the workshop can take inspiration from. Here's a picture of me doing all the boring bits (flattening some plastic) so that people can just get on a be creative on the day.

 Artist Simon Kennedy, International man of mystery and milk bottle cutter.

 Chop Chop Chop, lots of bags to cut up to make into yarn.

  Simon & Beth making masks and weaving for the Regents Canal Festival Workshop.

One of our work experience guys creating a butterfly demo.

Beth weaving a wig out of carrier bags.