Colchester Gateway Club

I have never run a workshop alongside a disco in full swing - but last night was a first and a great evening at the Colchester Gateway Club.

My second workshop at the Club and I was really please that last week's participants joined in again to complete their books - along with several newbies.

This week I grabbed a cuppa before the workshop began and lucky I did so because, as last week, it was busy, busy from start to finish.  The dance floor held a certain magnetism - but the participants went happily back and forth between book making and boogie-ing :-)

Thanks to Eileen for such valuable help on both evenings - and to Mandy and Rita for inviting me to run my workshop at the Club evening events.  Thanks also to my friendly, welcoming and totally positive participants :-)

The Tribal Quilt is growing...

Greenstead Community Centre: Golden Threads workshop

I had a really great afternoon running my book making workshop at the Greenstead Community Centre yesterday.
Many thanks to Toni, Nadine, Catherine and Justina and to all my welcoming workshop participants :-) for your books and for sharing your inspiring tales with me.

Here are some great pictures from the workshop session:

 

Colchester

 

To further tie the community ties that link us, one and all, in the Tribal Quilt Project 2012, the logo reflects the colours of Colchester's coat of arms:

Book Making Instructions

Here is a PDF version of the instructions for you to download and use.

Time to create!!!

I look forward to receiving your artists' books :-) (before 1st June 2012).

Join in!

Tribal Quilt Project 2012

Dear Participant,

A warm welcome and it is great to have you on board the project!

As you may already know, The Tribal Quilt Project 2012 is a creative project inspired by and designed to link to the Cultural Olympiad 2012.

Tribal Quilt will bring together artist’s books made by people far and wide. 

The books will be displayed as a collaborative piece in a quilt-like form and Tribal Quilt will become a local treasure to be displayed and archived for future researchers and historians to view and learn about the community of Colchester and further afield, at the time of the Olympic Games 2012.

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Join in the project and follow these three simple steps:

1    Think about the theme JOURNEY and brainstorm ideas   
2    Follow the instructions here and make your own artist’s book
3    Send your book or drop it in to Fifteen Queen Street, Colchester

Thank you for joining in.  Great to have you on board!

How join in the project

Make your own artist's book on the theme of JOURNEY (instructions here) and send it in or drop it in to:

Fifteen Queen Street

15 Queen Street

Colchester, Essex CO1 2PH

01206 562888

Many thanks to Fifteen Queen Street who have very kindly offered to receive all artists' books on behalf of the Tribal Quilt Project 2012.

JOURNEY

The content of each artist's book is inspired by the theme JOURNEY.

The theme is inspired by the journey of the Torch Relay 2012 and the two giant athletes Marina Mightier and Boreas Zephyr who will be arriving in Essex on 18th and 22nd May 2012 respectively.

The theme JOURNEY is totally open to your interpretation so click here to find out how to make your own Tribal Quilt Project book here and join in the community.

Participating Groups

The Tribal Quilt Project workshops are being held at community and charity based organisations in Colchester, Essex.

We are pleased to have the following groups on board the project so far...

Colchester Gateway Club

Colchester Youth Enquiry Service

Greenstead Community Centre

The workshops are underway!

You can join in the Tribal Quilt project too.  Click here for details.

Join in the community!

Welcome to the Tribal Quilt Project 2012

Tribal Quilt is a project devised by book artist and illustrator Mary Pullen to promote a sense of community and belonging amongst participant individuals and establish positive links between local groups in the town of Colchester, Essex.

The project has been inspired by, and devised to be part of, the Cultural Olympiad 2012 and to fulfill the following aims:

• to devise a new piece of work to showcase
• to devise participatory activities

and to fulfill the following themes:

Tribe (specifically included in the title of the project)
Treasure
Access and Inclusion
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Workshops are being held at a number of Colchester based charity and community organisations participating in the project.

Larger scale community workshops will be held in June and July 2012.

A bookbinding and book arts workshop will be held with Colchester based artists from different artistic disciplines.

Workshop participants will learn traditional book making skills to create an Artist’s Book which will be a unique ‘treasure’.

Read on and join in....