Flock of Words - Transported - Crowland Library - Session 1

The Eloquent Fold had a wonderful morning in Crowland Library working with the public, creating the second Flock of Words for Transported Open Book project. 

It is a very welcoming library, buzzing with community activity and we had a lovely time sharing stories, some inspired by old maps. It has been fascinating to discover more about how people have come to live in the area and the journeys and places that connect us. 

We have plenty more book board birds to embellish and are looking for more stories, particularly from the Crowland Jackdaws.

Carolina stencilling designs on fabric 

for Crowland Book Snuggles

The Spalding Yellow Belly Book Snuggles

now have buttons on their vests and labels

The Eloquent Fold - Phiona Richards and I will be back at Crowland Library on the 25th June between 10.00 am and 12.30 pm for more comuunity creativity, Cake and Conversation! Please do come and join us! The activities are fun, free and open to all.

In the linked Flickr sets you can see all the Spalding Library birds and words.

and photographs from Crowland Day 1 here 

You can also follow us as we tweet during our workshops 

@Digifem

@RareNotions

@TransportedArt

and I will be adding images to my Flickr page and to my Instagram feed if you'd like to see what we've been doing during our workshops. 

For more information contact 

Rosie Lesurf-Olner, 

Arts Engagement Worker, 

Transported 

07747 271820  

TransportedRosie@litc.org.uk

Transported is a strategic, community-focused programme which aims to get more people in Boston Borough and South Holland enjoying and participating in arts activities, funded by Creative People and Places from Arts Council England.  For more information visit www.transportedart.com.

Sewing the Seeds

Phiona Richards and I took this activity to two venues Spalding Library and Crowland Garden Centre. We were originally due to work on a stall in Spalding Market but on the day of our visit the weather took a massive turn for the worse, wind, rain, leaden skies. 

Before we set out we made frantic calls to Nicola our Transported Art Coordinator to see what could be done. Thankfully Spalding Library were delighted to offer us a space in the entrance so there would be no escaping us!

Participants were invited create seed packets and flowers

 from maps / recycled papers, personal memorabilia, local ephemera,

found papers and were able to choose how much layering and complexity would be involved in their design.

The a seed packets were filled with bee friendly British wild flower seeds which they could take away and plant. The planting aspect is both a symbolic and practical transformative activity. Through this activity we hope to show people that they have the power to transform lives and neglected spaces. 

We were situated in the Restaurant at Crowland Garden Centre and were further challenged as the venue had been cut off from the main traffic by the relatively new by-pass. It's hard to bounce up to people and interupt their lunch and their social time but by taking a basket of seed packets to the tables we were able to overcome many barriers and met some wonderful people. 

You can set Flickr sets from this activity here and here