Met the Youth Council today to talk about the 'Headless Ghost Tour.' We had a chat and are meeting next week at Nevendon Bushes. I will be talking to the friends of Nevendon Bushes to make sure we definitely have their permission, they will probably give us some ground rules we will have to go by.
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Monday, 30 July 2007
The Puppet Family Workshop - So many people in one little gazebo!
This went really well, my only regret is not getting someone to take a photo of Nick and myself doing the Puppet show, Nick wrote the script - let's say it was a combination of Posh and Becks and a water pistol.
As you see we had the full quota of children - we even had to turn some away asking them to come back next week. It was completely different at first, we had one Mum and son turn up as they had booked and everybody else seemed to be in ignorance of us, sitting there eating their picnic or pushing their children on the swing. Many had come to go on the big inflatables,
I said to Nick " What if no-one wants to join in, what do we do?"
My daughter Claire had the bright idea of giving out leaflets and telling them about the Puppet show, this worked, suddenly we had loads of interest - well done Claire!
Nick has sort of made this into a mini-career since I first wrote about the event on here, last week he did four Puppet workshops in two local schools, and he really enjoyed them.
I promise I'll get photo's of the Puppet show next week, so if you missed out this time try to get down to Northlands Park at 1.00 next Monday.
Click on pictures to enlarge.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
I've been busy.....
www.myspace.com/herron23h I've just changed my myspace so that I can add friends - it took ages and it's 2.54 in the morning but I got fed up of having an uneffective myspace. I made another one I had into a good clone of the old one - a new and improved version I'd say.
I did add a slideshow of lot's of tree huggers to the old one. I will have to do that another day to the new one - I'm (yawn) too tired!
Yeah I'm afraid I'm a bit of an insomniac!
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Nick's Puppet Family Workshop's coming up next
Next Monday we have Nicks 'Puppet Family Workshop' Stage 1.
He has been working on the puppet theatre, when I met him yesterday he was a bit paint- splattered.
This laid back guy has it all in control, at the moment he is a LSA and school Librarian but he is going on to do teacher training in September, I wouldn't be surprised if he is headmaster in a few years time.
He said his first love is teaching and his second love is art. Having recently done a lot of work in his school with puppetry he wanted to share this with a wider audience.
I think himself and the kids got a lot out of the lessons, he is quoted as saying "I have not come across as better way of combining pure fun and education as puppetry."
Looking forward to the workshops Nick.
Looking forward to the workshops Nick.
Sunday, 22 July 2007
The Hippie Art.....
Shannon's 'Peace to the World' picture
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At every event I worry a bit but I needn't have worried at all with Lisa, the true professional that she is she had everything sorted out.
She had done her homework to the tiniest detail, she had pictures of all sorts of hippie art so that we could take our choice and get on with it. She also had little peace signs ready to colour in which we then cut out and made our own cord with Lisa's instructions and wore it as peace necklaces. Finally when she gathered a large amount of the pictures she made them into sculptures that would blow around in the wind. We did three in the end. We even had some guitar music.
Quite a few people joined us as you can see, but if they didn't join us they were interested in the other events and took away ArtCafe Menu's.
I've added the pictures to the 'Children's Gallery.'
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