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Graffiti Cross stitch Ibbison Community center Blackpool Dec 2015

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Funded by Friends of Muir Housing we will be working with families from the Revoe / Central Drive area on Monday 14th  December 6pm – 8pm.

The participants will start an outline of the letters and take the kits home to finish in their own time.

In preparation for the workshop we made up cross stitch packs with Mr Dee’s graffiti designs.

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Cross stitch kits designed and prepared ready for the workshop in December.

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‘YOLO’ stitched by Boz

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Thanks to Lee Hodgkiss for persuading Kim to work on the other design.

‘LOL’ stitched by Kim

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Very tidy and well stitched. Thank you Kim

One of our participants Emma has taken home a cross stitch kit and is busy getting stuck in. Thank you so much for coming along.

Keep up the excellent work 🙂

Here is Tina’s amazing cross stitch. Fantastic !!

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Bike workshop with 4Techmoto and Headstart Blackpool October 2015

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The bikes had been fixed and rebuilt the day before we arrived then they had to be dismantled and masked ready for re-spraying

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Now to  spray the frames

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Then put them back together

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Then ride them home with new custom paint jobs, lights and helmets.

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Good day 🙂

Screen printing at Ibbison Community Centre with Squirrel and Tiffin

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Linzi Cason from Squirrel and Tiffin our screen printing tutor at today’s workshop.

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Screens ready to print

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Printing with the ink

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 Pulling the ink across the screen    

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Big thank you to everyone who participated today and Linzi for a lovely workshop


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Graffiti workshop in Preesall June 3rd 2015

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory themed graffiti piece on a school wall in Preesall today.

Super design and great work done by the ;Maple Crew’

Thank you all for a lovely morning.

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The finished piece. Fantastic

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Printing and bookmaking workshop at Shabby2Chic December 2014

This week in our workshop with young people at Shabby2Chic we added prints to handmade books

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Printing block carved out of rubber and coloured with Posca pen

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Prints signed by the artist

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Adding prints to the handmade books

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Carved printing block coloured using Posca pens

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Next week we will be adding the handmade book covers.

 

Fantasy Plant Shop Puppet making at the Monday Club

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Fantasy Plant Shop puppet making workshop

Using a Fantasy Plant Design by Boz as a starting point The young people made a number of sock puppets ready for the screening of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at the Last Monday Club in October

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Foxy fox glove and yet to be named friends

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Photos by Boz Phillips

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paper eating plant sock by Boz Phillips

Go-Kart workshops with young people at 4Techmoto Blackpool August 2014

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We were really exited to be asked to work with this group of amazing young people while they built go karts with Phill and Graham  at    4Techmotohttp://www.4techmoto.co.uk/

With Phill and Grahams skill at Blackpool t4Techmoto two teams built 2 go-karts for racing after two days build and a final day ‘fettling’ and painting up the

Boz worked with the two teams while they built the machines ready for racing on day three. while Mr Dee helped design and paint the custom graffiti on the finished karts.

Phill working on Team Smiles classic go kart design

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Quick check to make sure everything is working

before taking off the wheels ready for graffiti custom job

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Team Smile with Mr Dee

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Practising the painting

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Team Oblivion with Graham

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A few test runs before the races later in the day

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Loading the karts in to the trailer

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Arriving at the Palatine race track

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Then up to the line for the first of three races

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Even Sally the dog got in on the act with Phill

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Fantastic day with the two teams and all the people involved

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Balloon signs at Club2Go workshop Grange Park Blackpool

We love working with Club2Go. Fantastic and dedicated people who offer activities to young people in areas where there is little or no access to arts and sports during the holidays.

The young participants love the Posca pens that were kindly donated to us by POSCA earlier this year

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Continue reading Balloon signs at Club2Go workshop Grange Park Blackpool

Shabby2chic upcycle workshop

 

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We work with Shabby2Chic because they support people in our community to achieve their aims of finding skills and employment. Through Sandra’s dedication to recycling and supporting the people most in need in the community to make Blackpool a better place to live and work.

We recently worked with Sandra on workshops with young people who produced the following ‘Shabby chic’ items. We could not post until now as one item was made for a wedding present.

Finished pieces

Before during  and after images

 

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Recycled cardboard armor with YMCA group

In 2013 we were asked to facilitate two short workshops with young people engaged in National Citizens Service activities with the YMCA  in the fantastic setting of Rossall School Fleetwood, during the summer break.

We created cardboard knights armor for the participants to add their own team designs to.

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