The Eloquent Fold For Transported in Long Sutton

The Eloquent Fold had a marvellous time during our three Tuesdays in Long Sutton Library, a great community resource which has both a sense of space and light combined with quite corners for reading, creativity  and contemplation.

 Each session was a joy as everyone made us feel so welcome.

 

We worked with a wide range of ages

 and managed to attract a few more regular participants,

Photo 'electricegg.co.uk'

all of whom had a wide variety of wonderful 

 experiences which they were happy to share with us

After a busy morning creating birds and words 

for our Long Sutton Flock of Words

we continued our tradition of serving tea and cakes in / on vintage china

 ( I always new my passion for cups and saucers would come in handy!)

On our final day our project was documented by Electric Egg 

who did their best to put us at ease whilst recording

 our impressions of the project for Transported

I have a feeling that I might be the voice over part of the video as I managed to stick tissue paper to my face for half of the interview! However the delightful crew were very patient and hopefully captured some of our energy and enthusiasm for our work and for the community members we have the pleasure to meet!

Photo 'electricegg.co.uk'

To see  more images from the session please follow this link

To see all the birds for Long Sutton Flock please follow this link

To see all the Long Sutton story prints please follow this link

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.

Flock of Words - Session 2 - Spalding Library

The Eloquent Fold were back in Spalding Library for Transported on June 5th gathering more stories of near and far.

We were delighted to meet Carolina who told us she had only been in Spalding seven days. I told her my name, Carole and that I was named after my Great Grandmother whose name was Caroline which everyone shortened to Carrie. This small exchange was a great ice-breaker and linked different places and languages as we imagined our migrating birds flying between continents and time zones.

Carolina also told us that a favourite cake from Spain was an almond cake

which she might make and bring to the next session if she is free.

Phiona and I were also delighted to welcome back two people who had been part of our engagement activities in two different venues during Transported Phase 1. 

We learnt about Polish food and Spalding landmarks whilst baby Arnica snoozed contentedly.

We found out what had drawn people to the area.

After such a busy, creative morning we were glad to stop for tea!

Lovely to finally be using the tea set I chose for my 18th birthday!

This stencil was inspired by the Yellowbelly History book shared with us by one of the Librarians. We discovered that a yellowbelly (or yeller belly) is a person from Lincolnshire, England and you can read some of the explanations why here. The stencil is being applied to fabric book bags which will become part of of Flock of Words piece for the library. As you can see he's holding tulips and is wearing a yellow waistcoat!

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

We would love you to join us in Spalding Library on the 12th of June between 10.00am and 12.30pm. If you can't join us you can send us your words and we'll add them to a bird or a print for you.

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.