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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here’s a Tiny Revolution from Rhian Williams in Penybontfawr, Wales. These playful creatures are very adaptable, and don’t mind being made with any scrap materials from around the home. If you don’t have a large…
Emma Rucastle is passionate about the power of creativity to bring us together and the importance of play to our mental health. She is currently posting fun drama challenges three times a week from ELART…
Another Tiny Revolution from the Highlands. One of our two Fun Palaces Ambassadors in Scotland, Alis Ballance says … I got the mask-making idea from a friend, Kristiana Gotzsche-Robertson, who has been making masks for…
From our Northern Ireland Ambassador Siobhan Kearney, a tiny revolution about staying in touch when actual contact is not possible … Portglenone Paddlers was set up in 2018 in response to an increasing demand from…
Art Refuge uses art and art therapy to support the mental health and well-being of people displaced due to conflict, persecution and poverty, both in the UK and internationally. Now they are offering art as a thread…
Dance Centred are an artist-led dance company based in Cornwall, passionate about delivering high quality, imaginative dance projects in which everyone can explore the potential of their bodies and ideas through dance, whatever their age and experience.…
Stella and Yasmin live in sunny south London and like to grow things and encourage others to have a go too. Here’s what they did to encourage their local community to join in caring for…
Here’s another beautiful Tiny Revolution from Clare Taylor of Bus and Bird Arts – she shared with us her seed papers idea couple of weeks ago. Clare says … Creating a nature rainbow is a…
Collecting frogspawn and connecting with nature’s ongoing cycle, even as our cycle feels very different to usual.
Paul Simpson in Hampshire got in touch on twitter to tell us about his pompom making and sharing in his community – he started making pompoms to help with anxiety (more in a longer blog…
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…
