Fun Palaces News and Blogs

Farnham Fun Palace Wants to Play!

Farnham Fun Palace are inviting everyone and anyone, Fun Palaces or not, to contribute to an artwork – simply post a painted envelope, coloured-in postcard, or designed parcel – anything you can fit in a…

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How to Make a Fun Palace 2 – Go For a Walk

Crystal Palace Fun Palace are going for a walk towards the Fun Palace they’re making in October. That is, they’re having a Fun Palace walk & talk (now) to make a Fun Palace (in October).…

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How to Make a Fun Palace 1 – Talk to the Neighbours

We think this might be a series of ‘how we’re doing’ reports, which will also be useful for those of you wondering what you might do yourselves. Here’s how the Farnham Fun Palace people are…

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a message from the Albany …

Why we’re proud to be the home of Fun Palaces Today we’re pleased to announce that we are the recipients of an Arts Council Exceptional Award, to bring to life the national Fun Palaces project,…

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Fun Palaces ACE Award Press Release

On the weekend of 4 & 5 October 2014, in arts centres and museums, marquees and school halls, parks and high streets, something remarkable will occur: a vast communal celebration of arts, culture and sciences…

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Ask The Kids – especially for schools

We’ve been speaking to some schools about their involvement in Fun Palaces, and this week had a great meeting with all the teachers of Old Bexley CE Primary School, it was brilliant to see the…

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Showing You Theirs …

We thought it might help encourage some of you who want to make a Fun Palace but are a little unsure as to how or what or where (hey, at least we have the when…

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January Newsletter

This newsletter went out to our mailing list on January 6th 2014. If you’re not yet on our mailing list, you can sign up here. Dear Fun Palaceer, Welcome to the year of the Fun…

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Fun Palaces in the Guardian

This is what Stella wrote about Fun Palaces for Lyn Gardner’s Guardian blog, originally posted on 18 September 2013. In January, at Improbable’s annual Devoted and Disgruntled Open Space event, I called a session: “Who…

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Fun Palaces Illustration

Illustrator Emily Medley has brought the Fun Palaces vision to life in this beautiful illustration. Parts of it are used all over the website, telling hundreds of tiny stories, all of them the kinds of…

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Fun Palaces at Shift Happens

This is the text of a talk given by Stella Duffy at the Shift Happens conference in July 2013, reposted from Stella’s blog. I was delighted to be asked to present Fun Palaces to Shift…

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