Recording session for the Curveball Club

Some of the Dice group are now helping to put together a special music track to be played at the upcoming club night for adults with learning difficulties. Mark worked with the drum machine to programme some suitable rhythms, while Pam added some great vocals! We were also joined by Art House director, Bik, who kindly added some Didj for us. The dance track 'You can party' will be unveiled at the event on december the 9th!

Scrap Workshop at Eastleigh College

Last week we visted Eastleigh College, to work with their Skills for Working Life students. After meeting the group and explaining how the Scrapstore works, the students were able to rummage in several large crates of assorted scrap as part of
a Scrap Challenge model making afternoon.

This included bottle tops, plastic buttons, old foam, cardboard tubes and a whole range of unidentifiable bits and pieces. The Students thoroughly enjoyed the activity, each creating their own unique sculpture. Creations included robots, rabbits, cats, phones, and even a camera!

The whole session was recorded by the College's marketing department and is currently featured on their website with the following quote,
"Enrichment activities such as this allow students to develop their creativity, communication and confidence"

The group were also very interested in the upcoming learning disability club night that we are putting on at Eastleigh Football Club. We have already arranged a return visit on November 11th so the group can help design artwork for the event, and choose music for it.

Bishop’s Sutton: there be dragons!

Bishop’s Sutton: there be dragons!

Village’s first Scrapstore Art Workshop

creates figures, fantasies – and fun

Dragons roared and rockets were launched, birds flew and robots strutted, where previously there had just been a bewildering array of materials. Yes, everybody had great fun at Bishop’s Sutton’s first Art Workshop, organised by Southampton Scrapstore.

Led by Scrapstore’s Stuart Jebbitt and local artist, Melissa Simm, the Workshop saw children and their parents make some wonderful monsters, men and machines from the plentiful, high-quality ‘scrap’ provided.

Following this success, Scrapstore is planning to hold further Workshops on October 18 and November 1. They run from 3 to 4:30pm in Bishop’s Sutton Village Hall; they are free, and all materials, paints, glues, etc. are provided; just bring along yourselves and your imagination.

To book a place, or for any queries, please contact Stuart on stuartjebbitt@hotmail.com or 07766 096148.

Eastleigh Carnival 2009

Another sunny(ish) afternoon in Eastleigh and this years carnival procession lined up on Grantham Green ready for the off, despite worries earlier in the year of it not going ahead. Following a plea for help by the Local paper, the CB project helped out by putting on a number of costume making workshops and supporting two of our community groups to taking part once again.

DICE (Drop in Centre Eastleigh) (pictured), and the Mini Millbrook Project paraded together, on what was a great afternoon, with MM winning a 1st prize once again!

Tshirt designs at South Wonston

We had another very sucessful morning at South Wonston Village hall in rural Winchester. at the request of the Parish Council and Parents, we have put on 2 summer workshops for parents and kids together.
Both have been fully booked out and our sessions have proved popular enough, that our artist has now been asked by the members to take over the group as an independent art club from September! This is great news for a rural village where there is very little provision for activities that families can do together.

Scrapstore at the Mela

Scrapstore artist, Vicki Hodgson and volunteer Alice Rawles, created a wishing tree at the New Forest Mela, the first ever event of its kind for the forest. The event was organised by Forest Bus, with whom we had previously collaborated with on a project involving traveller families, many of who were attending the festival.

Initially the stall was only planned for the morning, but was so popular that they ended up having to stay open for the whole day!

African Culture and Music at Middle Wallop

Over the Summer artist and musician, Kris Bediiako, has been running a series of workshops with young people and volunteers living at the Middle Wallop RAF Station. His sessions, based around his childhood in Ghana, and how African society embraces the community, is helping to bond the group, through art, music, drumming, song and dance. Kris has been a great success and he is now in discussion with the group about a possible exchange visit with young people in Ghana.