Playing with Padlet
In February, Jacqui and Lynn ran a Talking Trees Connect intervention – using Zoom as a virtual car park for everyone to meet, and Padlet as the gallery space to…
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Create #20: Writing a List Poem
There are many different ways to tell a story. Simon Armitage is an amazing storyteller, often finding new and exciting ways to tell a story in his poems. Look at the…
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Create#19: A Village Harvest
Rethinking the vegetable print; a simple printing technique using fruit and vegetables from the garden or left over from the weekly shop. I really enjoy looking closely at things; for…
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Find what connects people in your village.
Buddy Up with Mr Bibbles
When Dean phoned Wendy, for a Buddy Up creative chat, she shared with him a true and moving story, about a pigeon she raised. THE BALLAD OF TINKERBELLE BIBBLES He…
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Inspired by the Moors
Originally, we had hoped that Caitlin would be able to visit Eye in person and work face-to-face with residents, as part of her Connect intervention. Instead, we had an intervention…
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Remote poetry in Stradbroke
Poet Arji Manuelpillai has been running a remote poetry residency in Stradbroke, inviting local residents to select an image from the Stradbroke Village Archive and then creating a poem in…
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Meet up with others in our creative Zoom sessions.
A show reel to celebrate all that is Make, Do & Friends
After just over two years of visiting village halls, village greens and more recently laptop screens, iPad’s and the like, we bid a fond farewell with this round up of…
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Moving Words
Not so much a Zoom session, more a virtual Dance Hall, in which choreographer Tim Casson and poet Dean Parkin partnered up to combine words and movement in surprising new…
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Buddying Up with Make, Do & Friends
We are delighted to be working with the Buddy Up scheme, managed by Community Action Suffolk, and we are now offering relaxed, informal creative chats to volunteers and their buddies…
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