Lowestoft Library The Blank Page Project

A series of creative workshops for teens

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Location address: Lowestoft Library, Lowestoft
Chosen age group:

Ages: 10 - 16 years

Available tickets:
Paid non HAF child £15 per sessionFree HAF eligible Free
Next date: Wednesday 9th Apr,
Funded by Suffolk County Council
Universal holiday club
A summary
Join us at Lowestoft Library for a variety of creative workshops this easter holidays for 10-16 year olds! Workshops are 9:45am - 3:30pm and include lunch, drinks and snacks. Free places are available for those eligible for benefit related free school meals. Unsure if you’re eligible? For guidance visit www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals. For more information on each workshop and our brilliant artists, please visit our website: www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/blank-page Library: Lowestoft Library, Clapham Road South, Lowestoft NR32 1DR Wed 09 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Future Animators: 2D Stop Frame Animation Workshop with Lulu Horsfield Thur 10 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Write a song and design the album art in one day with Ben Brown and Catalina Carvajal Tue 15 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Make a Nature Journal with Hazel Garrity Wed 16 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Digital Billboard Workshop with Michelle Brace Workshop details: Wed 09 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Future Animators: 2D Stop Frame Animation Workshop with Lulu Horsfield Join artist Lulu Horsfield for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library and learn how to create your own 2D stop frame animation. This one day workshop will introduce future animators to 2D stop frame animation using their own ideas, artwork and storytelling skills. We will encourage participants to tell their own stories through moving image, by exploring 2D methods of animation using iPad technology. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own artwork in different ways and learn how to work with stop frame animation techniques to make their own short film. For those who have attended this workshop previously at Felixstowe Library, there will be new ideas and starting points. If your booking is made within 72 hours of the workshop, we may not be able to accommodate specific dietary requirements. Please get in touch with the library location for the workshop to discuss options. Please note that whilst we welcome all young people, our staff are not specifically SEND trained. This workshop is for 10-16 year olds only. If you feel your child requires additional support in the form of adult attendance in order to access this workshop, contact us by emailing katie.puls@suffolklibraries.co.uk. Free places are available for those eligible for benefit related free school meals. Unsure if you’re eligible? For guidance visit www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals. Thur 10 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Write a song and design the album art in one day with Ben Brown and Catalina Carvajal Join musician Ben Brown and visual artist Catalina Carvajal for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library. Explore your innate creativity to spontaneously create exciting and unique works or audio and visual art. Participants will go on a creative journey, writing and recording a song with Ben and creating the cover art with Catalina. In this workshop we will explore songwriting; rhythm, rhyming and harmony as well as visual arts. Together we will write a song by brainstorming ideas and using a variety of creative techniques and games. - Once created, we will then record the song in the space! We will also cocreate a piece of cover art to accompany the track. The completed tracks will be uploaded to Bandcamp as part of the Blank Page EP which will be downloadable for free (individual participants will not be named). If your booking is made within 72 hours of the workshop, we may not be able to accommodate specific dietary requirements. Please get in touch with the library location for the workshop to discuss options. Please note that whilst we welcome all young people, our staff are not specifically SEND trained. This workshop is for 10-16 year olds only. If you feel your child requires additional support in the form of adult attendance in order to access this workshop, contact us by emailing katie.puls@suffolklibraries.co.uk. Free places are available for those eligible for benefit related free school meals. Unsure if you’re eligible? For guidance visit www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals. Tue 15 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Make a Nature Journal with Hazel Garrity Join bookbinding extraordinaire Hazel Garrity for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library. Learn how to create your very own nature journal using traditional bookbinding tools and techniques. Keeping a nature journal is a great way to slow down, look around and connect with the world outside. Through simple step-by-step demonstrations in a relaxed atmosphere, you will learn some of the key processes for bookmaking. Then you will be able to make free choices about layout, design and content for your own hand bound notebook. You will take home a carefully crafted and personalised journal which you can continue to fill with observations, ideas and images in the months to come. There may be opportunities for some fresh air and inspiration outside the library, too. If your booking is made within 72 hours of the workshop, we may not be able to accommodate specific dietary requirements. Please get in touch with the library location for the workshop to discuss options. Please note that whilst we welcome all young people, our staff are not specifically SEND trained. This workshop is for 10-16 year olds only. If you feel your child requires additional support in the form of adult attendance in order to access this workshop, contact us by emailing katie.puls@suffolklibraries.co.uk. Free places are available for those eligible for benefit related free school meals. Unsure if you’re eligible? For guidance visit www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals. Wed 16 April 2025 09:45 - 15:30 Digital Billboard Workshop with Michelle Brace Join digital artist Michelle Brace for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library. Create your own digital billboard using text, collage materials and visual mixing techniques! Through a hands-on process of building up a colourful collage using images, text, acrylic markers and collage papers you will create a design for your billboard that can be re-mixed and added to in Procreate on the iPad (supplied for use in the workshop). Your digital design will be uploaded into a mock-up app so that you can see your work displayed, in its full creative glory, in its street location (think bus stop display or large-scale advertising hoarding). You can expect to come away from the day with skills in digital mixing, editing and an experience of working with layers and layer masks but, if you prefer just to collage, that is awesome too. You will still be able to create your own digital billboard! The session will include a playful exploration of words and text so that, if you like, you can get your message out there along with your awesome creativity via your billboard. Your digital designs will be shared digitally after the workshop and an A4 printed copy of your digital billboard will be given to you to take home. If your booking is made within 72 hours of the workshop, we may not be able to accommodate specific dietary requirements. Please get in touch with the library location for the workshop to discuss options. Please note that whilst we welcome all young people, our staff are not specifically SEND trained. This workshop is for 10-16 year olds only. If you feel your child requires additional support in the form of adult attendance in order to access this workshop, contact us by emailing katie.puls@suffolklibraries.co.uk. Free places are available for those eligible for benefit related free school meals. Unsure if you’re eligible? For guidance visit www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals.
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About your mentors
Suffolk Libraries
Where I belong.
We’re the independent charity that runs Suffolk’s library service. We nurture children’s literacy, support vulnerable people and promote wellbeing across Suffolk.
Hazel Garrity
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My chief enthusiasms have always been words, books and making things so bookbinding combines these elements perfectly. It's also accessible and fun. As a secondary school English teacher, I worked with young people to give them the confidence to be creative with language. Now I want to explore the possibilities offered by combining words with the craft of constructing books in different forms and expressing ideas in new ways. As a member of the Society of Bookbinders, I have been lucky enough to attend workshops with some expert professionals in this area and, although I'm not an expert myself, I know how satisfying it can be to create something unique and personal, using simple materials with traditional tools and skills. Far from dry and dusty, this is a fascinating world offering endless possibilities for self-expression.
Michelle Brace
Digital & mixed media artist
I describe my work as digital mixed media. I use all kinds of things as visual source material including moving image, natural materials, collage, mark making, text and photographic textures to build colourful visual compositions. I've recently been collaborating with dancers, musicians and other visual artists to make studio based work and work for live performance and projection. I often work with communities producing and facilitating projects and have a current emphasis on developing my creative practice to support mental health and well-being.
Lulu from Rock Paper Scissors
Creative Director
Hello! I’m Lulu and I am the Creative Director at Rock Paper Scissors. I love teaching and tutoring all ages in Art & Design and have worked as a designer and illustrator across Fashion, Textiles, Editorial Design, Music and Film. I am really looking forward to creating with you!
Creative Powerhouse
Exciting & engaging arts for all!
Ben is a songwriter and community musician from Manningtree in East Anglia. Catalina is a visual artist from Bogotá in Colombia.
Jasmine
Library and Information Advisor
Walker of dogs, reader of books, part time geek. I will be assisting on the mural and photography workshops.
Lowestoft Library Staff
Where I belong
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Assistant Manager at Lowestoft Library.
Lowestoft resident born and bred.
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Jo Wilde
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Learning aims
Aim 1
To develop confidence in meeting and working with new people
Aim 2
To try something new and explore creativity
Aim 3
To learn about what Suffolk Libraries can offer
Pricing information
Ticket namePaid non HAF child
Price£15
Ticket nameFree HAF eligible
Price£0
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Where we'll be
Lowestoft Library, Clapham Road South, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 1DR
WHAT’S PROVIDED
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Meals
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Safety
Enhanced DBS
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First Aid Training
First Aid Kit
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Cancellation Policy
Free bookings do not require refunds but as places are limited, please cancel if you cannot attend so that your place can be offered to someone else.

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