Teens and Tots at Y.E.S Colchester

I had a really enjoyable morning running a Tribal Quilt book making workshop with the Teens and Tots group at the Youth Enquiry Service in Colchester yesterday. Great to have the young mothers and a whole group of children taking part - and making some family books too :-)

Thanks to Fiona, Angie for making me very welcome and and to all the participants for taking part in the Tribal Quilt workshop.

Here are a couple of pictures from the session...

 

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.