Print shop poetry – aug 4th

Following a stint at Camp Bestival, Belle Benfield brought her wonderful handmade stamps to Treloan – and with Mac’s poetry input they ran a print session for campers at the project van. More pics here and here

 

Laura

Hannah

The Living Room – drawing session

This hugely popular session lasted for hours, the children that came were still drawing at their tent at 9pm in the evening, they were so inspired! more pics of the Living Room events here

 

The Living Room – bookbinding sessions

The Living Room was a great success with people dropping in and out to peruse Chris’s handmade sketchbooks and have a chat, tea and yummy cakes made by Liv. Emma, Liv and Chris worked non stop teaching us all how to make books and opening the space up for an added informal drawing session on the saturday (more on that in the next post). Mary Alice as always, took some great shots that you can see here and theres some more on the caravanserai flickr album

 

 

 

this ones made by Roz – she’s a stylist, can you tell?

and thanks to Mark Hudson for these pics below of the making process

The Living Room – thanks Chris

It was very exciting to make a book, think I may have found my oeuvre! great to get hands on after months of PhD thesis writing. I’ve never made a properly bound book before and loved doing it, so thought I’d show it off – especially as I seem to have lost it, can’t find it anywhere. If you see it – please get in touch

 pics by Mary Alice

ah well, got the cover wrong, the bird was s’posed to be on the front – tricky business, so I just wrote all over the front to make it look better. The inside pages are from the guidebook, Kens bird drawings (p.51) and a photo of Breakneck beach (p.57).

17.7.2010 – ‘a sense of place’ writing workshop

July 17th, 2010

course outline..

kids workshop with Ken Barrett, artist-in-residence

pics by Mary Alice Pollard

workshop with ‘writer in residence’ Cat Holman. July 2009

I decided that my aim for the workshops would be simply to encourage people to write, and so I planned the session accordingly. I found some lovely words on the subject by William Carlos Williams, and read these out at the start of the workshop: “Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it…”

A total of five people attended the workshop; a great number for the project van, with enough space for everyone to sit and write in their own space..

Cat, Sophie and Briar

Debbie, Rachel and Cat

for more information on the workshop see Cats blog, and here’s the poem that Debs wrote – “Words” 

read at the wednesday Fireside Session on July 15th.