Polish Group at the Swaythling Christmas Tree Exhibition

The Christmas tree representing the Polish Arts Group went up on Saturday (8th Dec). The decorations were made by the group using materials from the Southampton Scrapstore.

The Exhibition is now open until the 22nd December at St Alban's Church, Tulip Road in Swaythling between 5-7 pm every day and admission is FREE.

Many Thanks to Agnieska and Family who put up the decorations.

St Nicholas Procession At Pilands - Thurs 6th Dec

We had a great time last night getting spruced up to parade around the Pilands Wood estate!

Much fun was had by all! A special thanks goes to Jane, Phil and the team at Pilands Wood Community Centre and also to Mary and Bethan of the Greyladyes Art Foundation, whose help was invaluable. Enjoy the Pictures!

Mini Millbrook Group - Fabulous double buggy Sleigh

Snagging Workshop - last minute repairs before the big Carnival!

Look what a fabulous sleigh Mandy Bishop has designed for her two children to ride on Friday night in the Queen Victoria Christmas Carnival! - dripping with icicles and baubles, it's just gorgeous and specially designed for a double buggy.

It was a very industrious session - you can see the mums all sat round sewing snow trimming to the kids santa capes - it really was just like victorian times. The only thing that was missing was a large fireplace and a chimney sweep!

Pilands St Nicholas Procession this thursday!

Don't forget it's the Pilands Wood Community,
St Nicholas Procession this Thursday evening (6/12/07). The fun starts at 4pm (if you'd like to make a lantern or a crown) or at 6.30pm if you want to come along and watch.

The Carnival Arts group has been making all sorts of goodies for the big day. So come along and join in the fun. The group will start on new projects in 2008, so it's not too late to get involved!

Polish Arts Group - Christmas Meet at Spice Arts Studios

Polska Grupa Artystyczna i EU Welcome

Zaprasza wszystkich na swiateczny poczestunek w

The Spice Art Gallery

16 Manor Farm Road
Bitterne Park
Southampton
SO18 1NP

Spotkanie rozpocznie sie 17 grudnia o 19.15.
Przyjdz i obejrzyj dziela sztuki wspolczesnej,
sprobuj lampki wina i tradycyjnych angielskich
babeczek z bakaliowym nadzieniem!

Kazdy jest mile widziany!

Na wszystkie pytania w sprawie spotkania odpowie:
Stuart Jebbitt – Polska Grupa Artystyczna
stuartjebbitt@hotmail.com

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Dave Adcock – EU Welcome
euwelcome@yahoo.co.uk Tel. 07786392886

Pilands Carnival Group

We had a great time last week at the Carnival Arts Group at Pilands Wood Community Centre.

A production line of Drums and Angel wings were created,

while the sleighs were test driven around the hall by the younger members!

We are now gearing up for the St

Nicholas Procession on Dec 6th!

Which should prove to be a great evening!

Mini Millbrook Open Workshop - 22nd November 2007

Mini Millbrook Group have another Open Workshop to finish off carnival costumes

After their 5 day half term workshop, the Mini Millbrook had built its sleighs but the performers' costumes still needed work. So they organised another open workshop, this time at Footsteps Community Centre to make sure everyone was 'kitted out'.

They then invited members of the public who'd been to the half term workshop to come along and finish off their costumes.

Above - Heidi, Estelle and Alison got very serious making their Mummy Santa belts - Alison had brought in some lush black sparkly material from an old dress she had, and Gold buckles were made out of gold card and the final touch was some rock sequins to make the razzle dazzle.

Philippa and Mandy (right) had practised making the belts the week before so that could show people what to do. Philippa was particulary proud of her red pantaloons and wore them for the whole morning (see right).

Meanwhile red capes were made by Gail and Micheala - who tried out their sewing machine skills, with a little help from the resident expert Kerry. Here's Micheala adding fur trim to her cape..not bad for a beginner Micheala!