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 session·Free HAF eligible Free
Next date: Wednesday 30th Jul,
Funded by Suffolk County Council
Universal provision
A summary
Join us at Lowestoft Library for a variety of creative workshops this summer 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:
https://suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk/children-and-teens/the-blank-page-project
Library: Lowestoft Library, Clapham Road South, Lowestoft NR32 1DR
30 July
31 July
6 August
7 August
13 August
14 August
20 August
21 August
27 August
28 August
Workshop details:
Wednesday 30 July 2025 09:45- 15:30
Creative Theatre with Poppy Stevens
This is a writing workshop with a difference. No previous writing experience necessary. This workshop will equip you with the skills to harness your creativity and get started. This workshop is designed to take the fear out of writing and instead celebrate imagination, creativity and storytelling.
So, what can you expect from this workshop? Some drama games, some writing and a whole lot of fun. You'll create a piece of writing for performance, explore what makes a great script, and learn how to write for a character.
As someone with dyslexia Poppy understands the importance of creating non judgemental spaces for neurodivergent young people to express their ideas.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Thursday 31 July 2025 09:45- 15:30
Creative Recycling: old materials, new methods + making stuff with your mates with bitemarks (Emma Rogerson)
Brief talk on collaging, methods of collaging, and show the participants some examples of collage and facilitate a talk on their thoughts and perspectives of collage as a medium - what is it is and what it can do. I will guide them through a couple of short exercises writing creatively in response to collages that I bring in.
The participants will be invited to make their own collages out of material that I have brought - these will be recycled materials like newspapers, magazines, brochures from local businesses / services etc.....
I will then ask the participants to swap their collages with other participants (preferably someone they haven't spoken to much / yet). I will then invite the participants to write a creative response to the collage they have been given in whatever medium they would like - poetry, prose, stream of consciousness diary etc ..... linking in to the shorter exercise we did in the morning. This also explores and encourages the idea of recycling / reusing as a creative technique - something that could be really refreshing / accessible.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Wednesday 6 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Monoprint Workshop with Eleanor Rodwell
A full-day session exploring mark-making and the unique printmaking process of monotypes. In the morning, the group will focus on using still life and quick exercises to make experimental drawings. Eleanor Rodwell will then guide participants through developing these drawings into one-off paper and fabric prints. People will have the opportunity to incorporate found objects into their designs, and produce a series of prints in a variety of colours and on different surfaces.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Thursday 7 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Clay: Wordy Wrap Pot with Emma Jayne Robertson
Join ceramic artist, Emma Jayne Robertson, to make a wrap pot from clay covered in all sorts of textured prints.
You can include words, phrases and imagery inspired by your favourite story.
We will start by drawing out ideas and develop these into a final design. Then we will create!
You will roll out your clay and then spend time exploring all the fabrics, stamps, buttons, shells and more from Emma’s texture box.
She will then show you how to wrap it around a former and add a base to make it into a pot/vase.
Each participant will get to choose one colour for their pot/vase before they leave. This will be applied by The EJaRt Creative Team and wiped back to highlight the patterns on the surface before it has its final firing. The inside of the pot will be glazed and the outside left natural.
Items will be delivered back to the library for you to collect, after being glazed and fired.
Please Note: Delivery can take 4-6 weeks as your pot will need to dry out thoroughly and be fired twice in the kiln.
Please bring an apron or old shirt to protect your clothes. (We do have some disposable aprons if anyone forgets them on the day).
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Wednesday 13 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Songwriting with Aga Serugo Lugo
Come and join in the songwriting fun with experienced and talented Aga Serugo Lugo, a musician and artist from London. This workshop will allow students to listen to, write and create, sing and perform music of their choice.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Thursday 14 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
SFX Make Up with Lorna-Jane Garside
Join arts practitioner Lorna-Jane Garside for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library. Learn how to create your own cuts, bruises and gory special effects makeup looks! Participants will learn how to create the gory looks they've seen on stage and screen. You'll be making your own stage blood, creating latex prosthetics, and learning how to apply cuts and bruises. We'll build the weirdest and most creative story we can think of and design the special effects to go along with it!
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Wednesday 20 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Charlie's Community Song Factory with Charlie Law
Participants will write a song together in a group and record it in one day. The song will be professionally mixed and mastered and participants will receive an mp3 of the song. Charlie Law is a local singer-songwriter who has been featured on BBC Introducing and performed gigs with Ed Sheeran, Frank Turner and Turin Brakes.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Thursday 21 August 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, 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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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.
Wednesday 27 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Songwriting + Album Art Creation Workshop with Ben Brown and Catalina Carvajal
Join musician Ben Brown and visual artist Catalina Carvajal for this free creative workshop for 10-16 year olds! 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).
Please do not bring instruments along to this workshop.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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
Thursday 28 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Illustration with Joel Millerchip
Create an 8 page mini comic with illustrator Joel Millerchip. During the session you will learn about story narrative and sequential imagery and will get to take home your very own comic.
Joel Millerchip is an image maker in Suffolk with a second city heritage. Proud pen smith, ADHD thinker, creator visuals & workshops, and part of the education team at West Suffolk College. Joel works with bold, impactful illustrative styles that work perfectly in print.
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 erin.hamilton@suffolk.gov.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 Community 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.
Poppy Stevens
Lover of words, tea, cake and cows!
Poppy Stevens is a community arts practitioner, poet and performer. Her writing has been commissioned and published by The National Centre for Writing, The Young Norfolk Arts Trust, TOAST Poetry, BBC Radio Norfolk & Suffolk & Atrium poetry. Poppy works within the community delivering creative workshops to a diverse range of people. Her work with children spans from EYFS to Key Stage 4 both in schools, alternative provisions and community settings. Poppy runs a regular dyslexia inclusive writing club. These courses focus on taking the fear out of reading and writing and instead celebrate imagination, creativity and storytelling. As someone with dyslexia Poppy understands the importance of creating non judgemental spaces for neurodivergent young people to express their ideas.
Joel Millerchip
Illustrator and artist.
I’m Joel Millerchip, an artist, ADHD thinker, illustrator and tattooist-in-the-making. Born in Birmingham, blossoming in Suffolk. My distinctive illustrative style is perfect for bold, impactful designs that work perfectly in print, on a wall, on a screen or all over your left leg.
I also Lecture and support creative workshops with young people.
Aga Serugo-Lugo
Creative music workshop leader
Aga is a music workshop leader who specialises in community-centred narrative focused composition. For this reason he works with many opera organisations including the Royal Opera and Ballet, ENO, Snape Maltings and Streetwise Opera. Aga passionately believes that creativity and specifically music-making is for all.
Lulu & Sarah from AMPP Studio
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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Lowestoft resident born and bred.
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Learning aims
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To develop confidence in meeting and working with new peopleAim 2
To try something new and explore creativityAim 3
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Lowestoft Library, Clapham Road South, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 1DR
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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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