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Creative Festival Workshops

3/6/2015

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In the summer of 2014 I worked at several music and arts festivals including Eden Festival, Bearded Theory Festival, Ravenstonedale Festival and Lancaster Music Festival running creative workshops aimed at children but open to all ages.
For the workshops I ran for the Melodrome stage I created a mask template that fitted in with the intricate, decorative green man theme on the sides of the stage and these could then be cut out, coloured in and adorned with ribbons and lots of glitter. The masks where also good merchandising and advertising for the stage at the festivals.
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At Ravenstonedale festival set in the beautiful lake district, I helped run the childrens area. We ran workshops using willow to make dream-catchers, crowns and shooting stars.
Another popular workshop I offered was henna workshops. I provided many tubes of henna, examples of designs to inspire, and created a chilled out space for festival goers of all ages to try out using the henna to give themselves or their friends a henna tattoo. This proved to be a very relaxing workshop and it was a nice thing for people to do while they listened to bands playing in the background.
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SHAKE! sending ripples

12/11/2014

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In February this year I went to London to participate and engage in 5 days of dynamic workshops (Poetry writing & performance, Film Making, music) hosted by SHAKE!
SHAKE! is a project that brings together young people, artists & campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice.
I got to experience working in media that I don't normally work in with very inspiring people. 
I worked with the film group, facilitted by Nuwave pictures, filming around London and we collaborated with the poetry group to put together a short film. 
I went back to London in the summer to help edit the film, picking up skills in Final cut Pro where I pieced together parts of the scenes that we shot, I also had my voice recorded reading sections of the poem to be included in the video! enjoy below:
In June I was invited to be one of the co-hosts at the SHAKE! showcase, it was an honour to introduce so many of the talented people I met to the stage, and introduce and talk about the film that we produced together.
SHAKE! have featured a blog post about me on their site which was also a great confidence boost as speaking on stage isn't something I would normally volunteer for so this was a big step for me and I really enjoyed the evening!
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First Post!

9/19/2011

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This is my new improved website! Now i have changed location you can expect to see a lot more blog updates on what I'm up to! also an account of the last few months since finishing uni is coming soon! stay tuned
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