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Fun Palaces Co-Director – applications now open!

Thank you for your interest in Fun Palaces and this opportunity to work with the Fun Palaces team. As you may know, Stella and Sarah-Jane, our founding directors, are stepping aside over the next few…

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Fun Palaces is growing – and changing.

Stella and Sarah-Jane are stepping aside. We are sad and excited to announce that co-founders and co-directors Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings are leaving Fun Palaces; Stella at the end of January, Sarah-Jane in late…

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Sickbabe Workshop

Making friends with failure. As part of our 2020 Artist Commissions, Suriya Aisha created two workshops for SickBabes – (women and non binary people who identify as being sick or disabled) to be together and…

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Digital & Social Media tips for Fun Palaces Online

Some guides to help you get started with your digital Fun Palace … A useful guide from the Crafts Council on how to livestream craft activities: There are great toolkits from Make Music Day, with…

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Micro-grants for Coventry Fun Palaces

Flash Fund for Fun Palaces Makers in Coventry & Warwickshire Coventry City of Culture Trust is supporting local co-created activity throughout the city and wider county by offering Micro-Grants of up to £200 to residents who…

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View From Our Street, Sue Fraser

Highland-based textile artist Sue Fraser collaborated with her neighbours to create a design for an artwork which would represent them, their street and their Fun Palace. Sue’s felted wall hanging depicts views from her street…

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Update – making REALLY Tiny Fun Palaces

Yes, it is very confusing right now.Different rules for different nations, for boroughs and towns within those nations.Different suggestions for people depending on age, health, other needs. Here’s something that’s not confusing – Fun Palaces’…

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Carpark Opera, Sani Muliaumaseali’i

Sani says:For my Tiny Revolution I have produced a promo video for CARPARK Opera & Cabaret. The promo was made at home, performed LIVE, and used whatever materials and resources that were available. The material…

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A Manifesto of Tiny Commitments

by Degna Stone I will wake every day to early morning light,make time for the things that bring me joy, walking next to rivers, listening to The Beatles,writing shopping lists in shimmering inks. I will…

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A-Z Alphabet in the Street, David Ellington

For 1000 Tiny Fun Palaces, David Ellington has created A-Z Alphabet in the street, a video giving an insight of what looks like to sign alphabetically, using BSL (British Sign language) as visual communication in…

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Hidden Barriers around mental health inclusivity

Here’s a guest blog from Catherine West of Significant Seams and the Quarantine Quilt project about the value of including everyone in creative acts – and how creativity can enable us all to contribute to…

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#TinyRevolutions – the shielder’s perspective

Fun Palaces knows that shielders have a great deal to share, including from isolation and in lockdown. Here’s some great ideas from Charmain Jones of the Rural Community Network in Northern Ireland. My name is…

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(not a) #TinyRevolution – SlungLow in lockdown

Fun Palaces has long admired the work of theatre company SlungLow. The community consciousness, the inclusion in creativity, the fireworks and smoke, the shouting. We are particularly excited and moved by the work SlungLow have…

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Challenging what is ‘normal’ – museums without walls

A new blog from Celine Elliott, one of our ambassadors in Cornwall, who works with our partner organisation Cornwall Museums Partnership. It’s been a tough time for optimists. Even for a pathologically positive person like…

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Creative Future – Stop! Look! Listen!

Today we’re sharing a very timely blog from Fun Palaces Maker Lorena Hodgson of Wisbech Radicals Fun Palace. Lorena says of herself: I see myself as a maker. Also a curator, producer and educator. I…

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From Tiny Revolution to Community Celebration

Penybontfawr Community Bunting From Bethan Page, our Fun Palaces Ambassador in North Wales, hosted by our partner organisation National Trust Wales I started making flour-bag buntings as part of my role as Fun Palaces Ambassador…

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Connecting in the Strangest of Times

As well as being our Fun Palaces Ambassador in Northern Ireland, based with Big Telly Theatre, Siobhan Kearney is also an executive and life coach, specialising in mental health and wellbeing. Siobhan shares her thoughts…

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Pom-poms, anxiety and #TinyRevolutions

#tinyrevolutions come in many shapes and sizes – but can be fluffy too! You can make connections with the people and places around you in many ways, and it can not only bring delight to them, but solace to those making them. The feeling of making something can somehow make a real difference too.

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Our Lockdown Family Fun Palace

By Bev, Indi and Lachie Bev is Fun Palaces’ Ambassador in Sheffield, working with Sheffield Theatres. She and her sons made a family mini Fun Palace. Here’s what they did, in case you want to…

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Illustration of a large group of people huddled together, smiling and embracing under red bunting and a Fun Palaces banner.

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Fun Palaces Launch 2020

A message from the Fun Palaces core team about our launch on Tuesday 17th March. We have just taken the sad decision not to travel to join our friends at Eden Court in  Inverness for…

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