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What is your village made of?
SEPTEMBER 2020 - MARCH 2021

Create

Lose yourself in one of our regular creative activities

From photography to drawing, creative writing and printmaking, each activity invites you to explore and enjoy different aspects of your surroundings.
Our team of artists has produced a programme of different activities, and we’ll be posting a new one every 2 – 3 weeks.

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A hand holds an inked up Blutack with seed head and in front is the print made using it

Create #11: A Tactile Walk

Learn a simple printing technique to record textures and objects found on a village walk. As well as the step-by-step instructions below, and the Activity Guide that you can download,…

Purple foxgloves

Create #10: Your Own Lyrics

Challenge yourself to write a new verse for a well-known song. Based on what you see when you walk out of your home into your village or town, write some…

Connect this Christmas with Zoom

By way of wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a creatively peaceful New Year, Dean Parkin has produced a film full of colour, charm – and just a…

Create #9: Mobile Phone Photography

In my last Create activity, we looked at taking photos from unusual angles. In this one, we are going to explore how to edit your photos, using some of the…

Create #8: Coloured Days

In this activity, we’re going to write short poems all about the colours in your village. Think of all the different colours you would find in your village; for example,…

A row of brightly coloured leaves hanging from a line of string

Create #7: Autumn Leaf Washing Line

When I peg out my washing, I like to peg similar colours together; then I step back and look at the line as if it were a palette of different…

Create #6: These Are the Hands

Inspired by the brilliant poet and writer, Michael Rosen, and the series of poems he wrote celebrating the NHS, this activity gets us thinking about our hands and the stories…

Create#6 These are the Hands written by Ellen

One of our participants sent in a poem based on Arji’s activity. As the format also contains images, we thought we’d share it with you as a PDF document, so…

Create #5: Found Faces

Visual thinking, imagination and photography to reveal the hidden faces of the village. The eye loves order and looks for form in random patterns. The face is an image we…

Create #4: Off By Heart

Challenge yourself to learn a speech or poem off by heart. People often ask actors ‘How do you learn the lines?’ Well, there’s no magic elixir that makes it easier…

BBC spelt out in conkers and twigs on a gravel background

BBC Radio Suffolk goes conkers – Create # 1

When broadcaster Jon Wright asked for a creative challenge, little did we know what he’d come up with. Regular listeners to BBC Radio Suffolk will know that Lynn Whitehead has…

St. John’s Street, Bury – Create #2

Lynn Whitehead’s poem, in response to Dean’s Create #2. At 8 o’clock the bell rings The vicar stands the sign outside – Enter, and Rest it says The cold stone…

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