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#TinyRevolutions – Sharing Joy

At Fun Palaces we are very aware that while there has been amazing community connection and generous caring during the Covid crisis, for many people these glimmers of hope and connection are part of a…

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#TinyRevolutions – Make a Shrine

This week our Tiny Revolutions are prompts from Contact Manchester’s A Week’s Notice project. Shrine by Tammy Reynolds Make a shrine. This could involve candles, incense, flowers, grass, onions, eggs, objects. Anything. It can be…

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#TinyRevolutions – walking better for better health

Fun Palaces Maker Robin Lansman D.O., Osteopath from Body Backup Healthcare ran a walking workshop at the Maida Vale Library Fun Palace in 2019, he shares some ideas for walking well … Do you remember…

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#TinyRevolutions – Dress How You Feel

This week our Tiny Revolutions are prompts from Contact Manchester’s A Week’s Notice project. Dress How You Feel by Ali Wilson How are you feeling today? Tired? Joyful? Quiet? Confused? All of the above? Put…

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#TinyRevolutions – #lowspoonmeals

This week our Tiny Revolutions are prompts from Contact Manchester’s A Week’s Notice project. Here’s Suriya Aisha’s prompt – #lowspoonmeals Spoon theory is a disability metaphor – daily activities all require a number of ‘spoons’…

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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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#TinyRevolutions – Rewilding

Veteran Fun Palaces Makers Farnham Fun Palace shared these images of their latest Tiny Revolution – rewilding of a wilder kind. They say: Inspired by XR Farnham who invited the community to help grow the…

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#TinyRevolutions – Tree of Life

Fun Palaces Makers St Margaret’s House share this lovely Tiny Revolution they’ve been working on with their own local community. St Margaret’s mission is to promote positive social change by creating opportunities for people to…

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#TinyRevolutions – Little Box of Friendship

Here’s a Tiny Revolution in progress from Footprints Theatre Company. This is what they say about their idea – and see below for how to create your own Little Box of Friendship. Sending virtual hugs…

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#TinyRevolutions – The Fairy Doors of Leith

The Edinburgh Tool Library is a sharing resource for craft, garden and DIY equipment.  By sharing, we are all richer.  The library works like a regular book library, but we loan out tools rather than…

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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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#TinyRevolutions – A Tad Bigger!

Another instalment in our great spawn-tadpole-frog Tiny Revolution from the Highlands. Our nature-connecting ambassador Alis Ballance updates us … Life is tough, and it’s not just we as humans who face deadly threats. Frogspawn don’t…

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