SOS Weymouth - Spirit of the Sea on facebook

If you're a facebooker please join this group, it may well help get me a job, then I'll buy you a pint..

Spirit of the Sea will be awesome and it will be building every year in the run up to the Olympics, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Moving Tides will hopefully become a much enhanced Carnival., this year it's Armada down the Esplanada

If you want to know more about local art opportunities or just taking part please email me.


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Carnival workshop a great success

A glorious weekend saw a good turn out for a fantastic workshop. Ali and Tony from Kinetika were great sources of knowledge and Ali gave us a fascinating history of carnival, followed by a brainstorming session for a range of projects, including Spirit of the Sea.

On the 2nd day Tony demonstrated lightweight backpack manufacture and explained the range of techniques for attaching wings/puppets etc plus explaining the many detailed techniques learnt over the decades and passed among carnival engineers. Ali ran a batik workshop to provide skins for the backpack creations with some beautiful results.

Attendees included Sarah from EmeraldAnt (Spirit of the Sea - moving tides), Jenny Stiling of Weymouth Community Volunteers, Gary Jones of SWANK, several representatives from Bridport TLC, Irene Archibold of Dorchester Arts Center, and Ana and Margaret from Weymouth and Portland fairtrade. Plus of course several members from Weymouth college.


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Kinetika carnival workshops this weekend

spaces still available on these free workshops at Weymouth college.

All
you have to do is e-mail alan_rogers@weymouth.ac.uk
with “KINETIKA MAY WORKHOP” as the subject line.

Hope to see you there

Armada Down the Esplanada

check out the plans for the Spirit of the Sea procession over at EmeraldAnt


EmeraldAnt
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