Fun Palaces News and Blogs

#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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#TinyRevolutions – Kitchen Creatures

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…

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#TinyRevolutions – Drama Challenges

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…

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#TinyRevolutions – Masker-Aid

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…

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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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