** Update – the workshops and parade were a great success! Thanks to all who came along and especially to Simone Chalkley for organising and Lynne Martin from Elitian Printers for her amazing crocheted flowers and leaves. **
** The Cooperative membership community fund for Cambridge & East Anglia generously supported the PACT/Norfolk Summer Event carnival parade. **
** Photos of the workshops are in a gallery below. **
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- Crochet flowers by Lynne Martin of Elitian Printers
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- Crochet leaves by Lynne Martin of Elitian Printers
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- Lynne in action, crocheting another of hundreds of flowers
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- Origima flowers
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- Origami tulip
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- An array of origami creatures and flowers created by pupils at St. Matthew’s Primary School
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- Origami butterfly
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- The first carnival costume workshop at the Man on the Moon kicks off
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- What’s it going to be?
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- The garages where we stored our creations-in-the-making
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- The personification of the area, Peter S. Field
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- Peter S. Field relaxing
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- Is it a fox? It is a bear? Is it a deer?
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- Creating a tree!
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- You can do amazing things with willow and chicken wire
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- The beginnings of a beautiful butterfly
We are holding a Carnival parade at the end of this years’ PACT/Norfolk Street Summer Event on 22nd June – great fun for children and adults alike! The theme is the Millennium Garden, created by PACT and the City Council in 2002: think flowers, trees, insects, birds and the lovely mosaics.
Simone is holding workshops to make carnival costumes (and she is already enthusiastically knitting bunting with plarn): the workshops will be in the Man on the Moon community room on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons for the two weeks before the Summer Event. A flyer for the workshops is here. The dates and times are:
- Sat 8th & 15th June from 1.30-4.30 pm
- Sun 9th & 16th June from 1.30-5.00 pm
The workshops will cost £3 per person or £5 per family of four; this will cover the cost of one or all of the sessions, including the cost of materials and equipment. Materials will be provided. All ages are welcome, though under 16s must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Spaces are limited, so book early! You can turn up on the day but there is no guarantee that there will be a place if you haven’t booked.
To book, please email carnivalworkshop-bookings@outlook.com
For the Summer Event parade on the day, the road will be closed to traffic. Meet at 4:15pm by the Millennium Garden on Norfolk St and the parade starts at 4:45pm. Don’t worry if you are unable to attend the workshops as you are very welcome to join the carnival parade on the day!
