As this is my second post for June, I don’t feel too apologetic about it being a fairly short one!
The main update is the PlaceMaking and This Place Is workshops that I ran this weekend at the Magpie Thunder Bureau Pop Up as part of the Barnaby Festival. In the morning, we took the PlaceMaking boards on to the streets of Macclesfield and gathered some thoughts on local perspectives, especially in light of the recent approval of some major town centre redevelopments. This took a slightly new approach to previous sessions and rather than working as part of an existing workshop group, we approached Saturday shoppers and arts trail visitors. We got some interesting conversations going too, once we had persuaded people that we weren't trying to sell them anything!
In the afternoon, I ran a This Place Is demo session back at the Pop Up Shop and rather than asking people to complete the booklets there and then, they have been made available to take away and return. You can still collect a booklet from the shop between now and June 30th (that's at 2 Church Mews, Churchill Way, Macclesfield, SK11 6AY) and can then either drop the completed work back into the shop or post them to me using the address on the project page.
I also now have four paintings on display at Nexus Art Café as part of their Happiness exhibition and they will be up until August 11th. If you drop in for a coffee you won’t be able to miss them; they are smack bang in front of you as you come down the stairs!
This is probably my last update for a while as I am off on a globetrotting jaunt this summer; I’ll be back in time for the UK PlaceMaking exhibition at the Chinese Arts Centre in September though and who knows what additional inspirations I shall encounter over the summer months?! No doubt the time will fly and you’ll be reading all about it soon enough!
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