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#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.
Nucleus Arts in Kent are veteran Fun Palaces Makers and co-create with their local community bringing people together with arts and crafts. Here’s their step-by-step guide to making your own Quaranzine … Step one: Fold…
Lorena Hodgson from Wisbech Radicals Fun Palace shared this birdsong recording with us. I recorded it in my garden, Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire border, where we’re lucky enough to be on the edge of fields, and we have…
A Tiny Revolution from our ambassador in North Wales, Bethan Page. You will need: An empty flour bag or other patterned paper A similar sized piece of paper with plain or light colours to use…
Another #TinyRevolutions from Fun Palaces ambassador Alis in the Highlands – enjoy the blustery wind that is part of her film! Join Alis in listening to the heartbeat of trees (or people, dogs, cats …)…
Clare Taylor (Curious Clare) is an Artist Educator based in the East Midlands. In 2016 she founded and now runs Bus and Bird Arts, a participatory arts organisation creatively connecting communities. Clare is passionate about…
Eddie McClenaghan wrote this Tiny Revolutions poem for us. Tiny Revolutions The wind in your whisper breezes into gale force greatness when you let it breathe. A tiny soft-spoken revolution, indeed. Rage against the quarantine…
Lucy Spielberg (Lucy Lost-It) in Bristol sent us her own Tiny Revolutions connection. Lucy says: “I’m a children’s entertainer based in Bristol. Although our street is no longer busy with cars, we get lots of…
Adventures in sound during self-isolation I’ve just spent a period of time self-isolating in my tiny flat close to Waterloo, South London. It’s been a humbling experience where I have reflected a lot about people…
Miriam Storey from Greenwich Libraries – and Eltham Library Fun Palace Maker – shared this yesterday; a fantastic #TinyRevolutions combining art, craft and poetry AND a great tool for social connection OFFline and social distancing…
We welcome suggestions of #TinyRevolutions from Fun Palaces Makers and anyone else finding new ways to connect in their community, especially with those who are OFFline. Vegetable Entertainer (yes, it’s a thing) and Fun Palaces…
Just in case you’ve run out of things to bake, cook, eat, watch, here’s something to connect craft and creativity from Fun Palaces NI, thanks to Kelli Johnston from Let’s Craft NI
From our ambassador in Northern Ireland at Big Telly Theatre, Siobhan Kearney. When all is changing around us, the trees remain a constant. I was brought up on a small rural farm outside a small…
Lots of children (and maybe some adults?) in the UK are putting up rainbows in their windows and some are adding bears – to say they are safe, to link with others, to make a…
People all across the UK joined in the thanks to carers and the NHS with #clapforNHS and #clapforcarers on Thursday night. We have also been leaving messages of support for those on their way to…
More from our Ambassador Alis Ballance in the Highlands. This is a hazel tree in our garden at Torran, up in the hills above Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness. The hazel is a tree I feel…
Great ideas from our Ambassador in Sheffield, Beverley Nunn. Games and creative things to do for all ages, at safe distances, to connect with neighbours OFFline.
Hello, I’m Bethan Page, and I’m the Fun Palaces Ambassador for North Wales, working with the National Trust. We’re trying to make ‘Tiny Revolutions’ of connections between people, and with me being bilingual and based…
Make your front window or flat balcony a gallery – if you’re home-schooling put your kids’ paintings up in the window, facing out for those on their way to vital work to see. Artist &…
